Despina "Debbie" Matenopoulos (born December 13, 1974 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American television personality and actress. December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Nickname: Motto: Sic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Government  - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area  - City 62. ... Jay Faires (born 1963 in Huntsville, Tennessee) is president of Music at Lionsgate Entertainment. ... This article is about the talk show. ... Endsville, bassed out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Celebrity Deathmatch is a claymation parody television show that pits celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in a gruesome death of the celebrity who lost the match. ... Good Day L.A. is a television show aired on KTTV (Fox 11), the Fox Broadcasting Company-owned and operated station in Los Angeles, California. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Nickname: Motto: Sic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Government  - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area  - City 62. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Early Life

She was born in Richmond, Virginia, of Greek ancestry. Her birth name is Despina Matenopoulos, named after her grandmother. Despina was later Americanized to Debbie. Nickname: Motto: Sic Itur Ad Astra (Thus do we reach the stars) Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Government  - Mayor L. Douglas Wilder (I) Area  - City 62. ...

She attended Virginia Commonwealth University for one year before transferring to the Journalism Department at New York University. While at NYU she also worked at MTV as an intern. She quickly moved up the ranks, soon becoming story coordinator for UnFiltered. Virginia Commonwealth University, or VCU, is a large public American research university with its main campuses located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... For the MTV show, see UNfiltered. ...

TV Career

In 1997 after a chance meeting with Barbara Walters she became a co-host on Walters's new talk show The View. She was parodied on Saturday Night Live and then invited on as a guest. In 1999 she was abruptly fired from the show. On July 25, 2006, over seven years after her last appearance on The View, Debbie was invited back as a special guest co-host for a day. In 1999, she joined the TV Guide Channel. This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929- [2]) is an American journalist and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor. ... This article is about the talk show. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 91-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City that has been broadcast live by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1999. ... July 25 is the 206th day of the year (207th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The TV Guide Channel is a television channel that provides, on the bottom one third of the screen, a scrolling grid that lists television channels and the television programs and films currently showing on them. ...

Debbie has played Lisa Swayzak in the 2000 film Endsville and starred in the claymation show Celebrity Deathmatch as herself. This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... Endsville, bassed out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The term Claymation is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies; the more generic term is clay animation, but the portmanteau claymation has entered the English language as a genericized trademark. ... Celebrity Deathmatch is a claymation parody television show that pits celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in a gruesome death of the celebrity who lost the match. ...

In August 2004, Good Day Live brought in Matenopoulous (along with Arthel Neville) to co-host the nationally syndicated program. On September 29, 2004, she was hospitalized for an injury that was the result of a stunt she attempted for a segment of Good Day Live. The segment was focused on firefighter training, in which she practiced a fall from a three-story building at a Los Angeles fire station. She landed incorrectly on an airbag and was rushed to the hospital for a possible head injury. It was a closed head wound and she was temporarily blind. Despite massive promotion, including a mall-tour featuring Matenopoulous and Neville, Good Day Live was cancelled by its syndicators in March 2005. August 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: August 2004 in sports Deaths in August 2004 • 30 Fred Whipple • 26 Laura Branigan • 24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross • 18 Elmer Bernstein • 15 Amarsinh Chaudhary • 14 CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz • 13 Julia Child • 8... Good Day L.A. is a television show aired on KTTV (Fox 11), the Fox Broadcasting Company-owned and operated station in Los Angeles, California. ... Arthel Neville, born 20 October 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana is television personality. ... September 29 is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2004. ... ← - 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in March • 31 – Terri Schiavo • 30 – Mitch Hedberg • 29 – Johnnie Cochran • 27 – Wilfred Bigelow • 26 – Paul Hester • 26 – James Callaghan • 21 – Jeff Weise • 21 – Bobby Short • 19 – John De Lorean • 18 – Gary Bertini • 17 – George F...

In January 2006, Matenopoulos joined E!'s coverage of the Golden Globe Awards. In April 2006, she became one of the three hosts on E!'s weeknight celebrity gossip and pop culture series, The Daily 10. January 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses European nations of trying to complete the Holocaust by creating a Jewish camp Israel in the Middle East. ... E!: Entertainment Television is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... April 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Marcos Pontes, Brazils first astronaut, reaches the International Space Station. ...

Matenopoulos has also been a frequent contributor to VH1 specials, including I Love the 90s and I Love Toys. VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... I Love the 90s is a television mini-series originally produced by the BBC, and later for American audiences by VH1, in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1990s culture. ... I Love Toys was the eighth in VH1s series of I Love… nostalgia shows. ...

Personal life

On July 5, 2003, she married Jay Faires, the president of Music at Lions Gate Entertainment and founder of Mammoth Records. is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jay Faires (born 1963 in Huntsville, Tennessee) is president of Music at Lionsgate Entertainment. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Founded in 1989 in Carrboro, North Carolina, Mammoth Records was one of the premiere independent record labels of the 1990s. ...

External links

• Official site
• Debbie Matenopoulos at the Internet Movie Database
• Debbie Matenopoulos at TV.com

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