Jenny McCarthy Biography
Jenny McCarthy has a
great personality. Her vivacious charisma, snappy banter, and amusing
facial expressions on MTV's Singled Out, a hyper-charged nineties
version of The Dating Game, made the should-be stupid game show somehow
bearable--nay, hypnotic. But McCarthy's show-business attributes extend
beyond mere personality--the twenty-three-year-old former Playboy
centerfold exhibits such profound perkiness that Hollywood producers
have ignored her meager résumé and inundated her with
proposals for game shows, talk shows, and sitcoms.
Just a few short years ago, in 1992, McCarthy was scrambling for funds
to finance her second year of nursing studies at Southern Illinois
University. She decided to quit school and embark on a modeling career,
only to be told she was too curvy. She realized that Playboy prefers
full-figured women over waifs, and hand-delivered photographs of herself
to the magazine's Chicago office. The editors liked what they saw and
paid McCarthy $20,000 to pose as Miss October 1993. A few months later,
she won the Playmate of the Year title and $100,000 in cash and prizes.
Now a certified babe, McCarthy moved from her native Chicago--where she
grew up with three sisters, a stay-at-home mom, and her father, a
steel-plant foreman--to Los Angeles in search of stardom.
Hollywood auditions proved difficult to come by, and it took incessant
badgering from Ray Manzella, McCarthy's forty-seven-year-old manager and
live-in boyfriend, to land an interview at MTV. The network's producer
liked what they saw and hired McCarthy to co-host Singled Out, which
debuted in the summer of 1995. Funny, telegenic, and able to manhandle
fifty testosterone-swollen contestants without incurring (or committing)
bodily harm, McCarthy was an immediate success. MTV was eager to retain
its hot property and coughed up a $500,000, one-year contract that
promotes McCarthy to full-fledged VJ and gives her carte blanche to
create a program of any format that best suits her talents. McCarthy
recently opted to bow out of her host responsibilities on Singled Out to
concentrate her attention on creating a new MTV sketch-variety series,
The Jenny McCarthy Show, which will be, in her words, "kind of like
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on acid." She is also developing
another sitcom for NBC, which positions McCarthy as an East Coaster who
inherits a Hollywood mansion and gets a job as a movie star's personal
assistant.
Playboy, too, was keen to further its relationship with McCarthy; it
offered $500,000 to snap more nude photos. When McCarthy demurred,
claiming that this was not the career path she was presently pursuing,
the magazine settled for rerunning old pics. Although she also declined
proposals from Fox and NBC, McCarthy is nonetheless venturing beyond
teen-oriented cable channels and gentlemen's magazines. She appeared as
"blonde nurse" in Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead
(1995) and, later, portrayed her first substantive screen character (a
neurotic movie star) in The Stupids (1996), opposite Tom Arnold. It
seems McCarthy is heeding and exceeding advice that her mother proffered
years ago: "Be like Vanna White."
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