Jo Beth Taylor

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Jo Beth Taylor (born Joanne Guilfoyle on 29 May 1971) is an Australian actress.

She began a pop career in the early 1990s, releasing the single 99 Reasons in 1991. The song hit the Australian Top 40, peaking at #31. Her debut album was also titled "99 Reasons", but was not a chart success. "You Don't Own Me" was released as the 2nd single.

In 1993, her television career began when she hosted Australia's Funniest Home Videos until 1997. She then earned the role of co-host on Hey Hey It's Saturday following the departure of Ernie Carroll's Ozzie Ostrich (in a period in which the show also trialled Livinia Nixon and Penne Dennison as co-hosts).

During her time on Hey Hey It's Saturday she received criticism for wearing a see through top during the Logies. Pictures of her in the top were front page material for the magazines.

1993 also saw the release of the song "A Prayer For Jane". The lyrics of the song were about a friend of Taylor's who committed suicide. The song failed to make the Australian Top 50 charts, peaking at #95.

She returned to Channel 9, appearing on Funniest Home Videos and Hey Hey in mid-1999. She also appeared on In Melbourne Tonight singing I Want You Back.

Also in 1999, she joined the cast of the Australian stage production, "Happy Days: The Arena Mega Musical". She played Laura, a character created especially for the stage show, who was in cahoots with Jon Stevens' Frank (also an original character) to put the famous diner out of business. The music selected for the production was almost entirely from the sixties. Jo Beth's songs included "Stand By Me", "You Don't Own Me" and "Tell Him".

In 2000 she hosted Starstruck, an Australian Saturday night talent quest show, in what was her final television role. Later that year she married tennis player Thomas Muster in Austria, with whom she had one child. She divorced Muster in 2005 after her earlier sexcapades had come to light in Austrian paparazzi magazine "Das Booty".

She made a television appearance in 2005 on Australia Unites: Reach Out to Asia, a joint venture by the Seven, Nine, and Ten networks to raise money for the Boxing Day Tsunami.

In 2006 she moved to Queensland and joined Noosa's radio station Heat 96.1 FM morning crew with Jamie Dunn and Agro.