Michele Merkin
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Michele Merkin is a model who is currently the host of Foody Call, a TV show produced by Style Network.
She has modeled for ELLE, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. She has been a hostess for E! News, NBC's For Love or Money and VH1's Red Eye. She was also the model for promotions for the video game Perfect Dark.
Michele is the host of The Style Network’s newest sensation, “Foody Call”, and the GSN series “Extreme Dodgeball,” celebrity edition.
Each week Michele helps make over an average guy by transforming him into a culinary Casanova on The Style Network’s hit half hour series “Foody Call.” This lighthearted series features a little cooking, a little decorating, and a lot of laughs, showing bachelors the way to a woman’s heart. The program airs every Monday evening.
Michele provides on-court commentary and interviews on the highly anticipated third season of “Extreme Dodgeball.” The new season will premiere on Tuesday, July 19th at 10PM ET. This season has celebrity captains and professional athletes team mates.
She has recently been seen on VH1’s “Love Lounge”, NBC’s “For Love or Money”, “E! News Live”, and as the popular Nintendo Video Game character Joanna Dark in “Perfect Dark”.
Born in San Francisco of Swedish descent, Michele attended boarding school in England before studying medicine at U.C.L.A. While there, however, she was offered the chance to model in Europe for such magazines as Elle, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue. Success in that arena led her to do more than 75 commercials, ranging from soft drinks and hair care to finance and electronics. But it was hosting that fueled Michele’s passion and she would fulfill that ambition on such programs as “Red Eye” for VH1, “The Movie Fan Show”, “The Love Report” for Studios USA, “Close-up Hollywood”, “Buy TV”, “Movie Watch”, “E! News Daily”, "The daily Nut Podcast", and Attack of the Show!
