Gretchen Massey
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Gretchen Wynnifer Massey (born 1969 in Dallas, Texas) is a Los Angeles-based radio host and performer.
Massey has a history in entertainment of being an actor, comedian and also as a talk show host. In the past, she was lead host of the nationally syndicated radio talk show "Radio Girls" and was on 97.1 KLSK FM talk radio station in Los Angeles, as co-host of "Lauren & Gretchen Uncut." Massey had a love of the theatre and performing from an early age, and attended Dallas's Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. This love evolved into a long journey of writing and performing through many cities with various theater companies, improvisational theatre groups and then as a stand-up comedian later in her life.
[edit] Big Brother
Currently the host of the CBS Big Brother show House Calls: The Big Brother Talk Show that is broadcast daily on the Internet, when Big Brother USA is in season. House Calls dishes the dirt and analyzes the goings-on taking place in the Big Brother USA house and game. This is her third season doing the show.
[edit] Gretchen and The Lukes
She is married to standup comic Mike Lukas (of The Straight Dope fame), her "Gretchen and The Lukes" co-host. Airing on the Los Angeles station KLSX 97.1 Free FM Fridays from 11pm-1am and on San Francisco-based 106.9 Free FM Sundays from 9pm-11pm. Although Gretchen and Lukas do acknowledge being married on air, they are pretending that they are not married to each other for the show, which runs contrary to some Mike Lukas interviews published before the show's debut, mentioning specifically that he just married his longtime girlfriend in her hometown of Dallas, and in addition, Mike Lukas's old personal homepage (miKeluKas.com -- offline as of late December 2005) identified Gretchen (in name and photos) as his longtime love.
