Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery (stage name "Kennedy", born September 8, 1972 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American political satirist and former MTV VJ; she was the host of MTV's now-defunct daily late-night alternative rock program "Alternative Nation" throughout much of the '90s.
Montgomery is an Eastern Orthodox Christian, and first came into the public eye in 1991 as an intern at Los Angeles radio station KROQ, where she was known on the air as "The Virgin Kennedy."
Montgomery was raised in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a city just outside of Portland. Her political beliefs are largely Republican, although she has admitted to being a libertarian with a small "l" and supports issues such as same-sex marriage.
She is married to former professional snowboarder Dave Lee and has a daughter named Pele.
Montgomery appeared as a panelist on the 1998 revival of Hollywood Squares (dubbed H²).
Starting June 3, 2002, Montgomery hosted Game Show Network's original program Friend or Foe?. It went into reruns after a few seasons and then was pulled off. Nude photos of the former VJ have circulated online. [1]
As of September 23, 2005, Kennedy appears as an occasional panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever and MSNBC's Scarborough Country. In October 2005, she became host of the Fox Reality Channel's Reality Remix.
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- Her trademark is horn rimmed glasses.
- Voted Most Hated MTV VJ in a 1990s Rolling Stone readers poll.
- Has a pink Republican elephant tattooed on her upper left thigh, and the logo of the band Rocket From the Crypt tattooed on her ankle..
- Has taken much criticism from liberals in Hollywood for being a conservative Republican (although she has often said she has a strong libertarian streak).
- She was a DJ on the radio station KROQ-FM, in Los Angeles, at age 19.
- Daughter, Pele Velentina, born 1 July 2005.
- Graduated from University of California Los Angeles with a degree in philosophy in 2005.
- Was the inspiration for a character on the sitcom "Murphy Brown". McGovern, a young reporter brought in to the fictional FYI news network for her "youth appeal", was a former MTV VJ who, like Kennedy, was known by a name that could also be a surname of a '60s Democratic politician, and also held political viewpoints that were considered conservative.
- When Simon Le Bon was substitute host for "Alternative Nation" in 1995, one of the last things he did on the air was an impersonation of Kennedy. He donned a pair of wild pajamas (sometimes Kennedy would host with pajamas on) and a curly wig put up into ponytails, and put on a pair of eyeglasses similar in style to Kennedy's trademark frames, and mimicked Kennedy's laconic, easygoing manner.
