Ananda Lewis

Ananda Lewis born March 21 1973 was an American television host carpenter former model and social activist She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001 when she left the network to host her own broadcast syndicated television talk show The Ananda Lewis Show She was a correspondent for The Insider from 2004 to 2005 She then became a carpenter and later hosted the 2019 revival of While You Were Out on TLC She also hosted the true crime series Shattered Hearts While a student at Howard University in 1993 she was featured prominently in the hit RB video by fellow HU alumni Shai Baby Im Yours filmed on campus She portrayed the love interest of vocalist Carl Groove Martin She was considering attending graduate school to pursue a masters degree in education when she learned that auditions were going to be held for the job of onscreen host of BETs Teen Summit For three seasons she discussed serious issues affecting teenagers for a television audience of several million The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP presented Lewis with an Image Award for her work on Black Entertainment Television BET Soon afterward the cable network MTV offered her a position as a program host and video jockey which she accepted She hosted and VJed a variety of shows including Total Request Live a daily top ten videocountdown show and Hot Zone which offered both music videos and her interviews of musicians and others MTV also called upon her to host other topical programs including two MTV forums on violence in schools which aired after the Columbine High School massacre and several memorial tributes for the singer Aaliyah who died in a plane crash in 2001 In 2001 she earned another NAACP Image Award for her hosting of the MTV special True Life I Am Driving While Black In 2000 People included Lewis on its list of the worlds 50 Most Beautiful People In 2001 she decided to leave MTV in order to start her own talk show The Ananda Lewis Show which was canceled after one season In 2004 she became the chief correspondent on celebrity subjects for the nationally syndicated nightly entertainment program The Insider a spinoff of the popular  Entertainment Tonight In the same year she also appeared on the ABC networks reality show called Celebrity Mole Yucatán She has also made guest appearances on several sitcoms An avid animal lover she has served as cohost of the AEs show Americas Top Dog and as a spokesperson for the Humane Society From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia