Teresa Strasser

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Teresa Strasser (born June 8, 1970[1]) is a writer and TV personality known for hosting the first season of the home makeover show While You Were Out on TLC. She is currently a co-host for The Adam Carolla Show.

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[edit] Early life and career

Strasser grew up in San Francisco, California with her father and stepmother. She attended Lick-Wilmerding High School on a low-income scholarship.[2] Her relationship with her stepmother was not good, and Strasser said her stepmother would tell her not to wear a seatbelt and only speak about her in the third-person.[3]. According to Strasser, her stepmother also lied and said she was adopted[4]. Strasser won an award for best news feature from the Los Angeles press club for an article about her stepmother’s cruelty, “The Evil Stepmother Dies.”[5]

Strasser began writing for Win Ben Stein's Money in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy Award, and also had several small film roles and writing jobs.

[edit] While You Were Out

In 2002, Strasser hosted fifty episodes of While You Were Out when former host Anna Bocci left the show. Strasser had previously served as a writer for the show. Strasser did not consider herself handy, but compensated with her dark sense of humor and empathy, as she cried after several renovations. Strasser left the show after one season.

[edit] The Adam Carolla Show

Strasser replaced Rachel Perry on The Adam Carolla Show on May 8, 2006 as the news anchor for the radio program[6] She had previously served as a fill-in before Perry officially left the show.

[edit] Teresa’s Ex-Files

A segment on the show in September 2006 focused on Strasser’s past relationships. Her past boyfriends, such as Jimmy Kimmel Live writer and The Sarah Silverman Show actor Steve Agee and a marketing executive named Brandon, discussed why their relationship failed. Normally, the skit is embarrassing for Strasser and her ex, such as when she claimed Agee cried after sex[7] [8]. The segment first debuted September 6, 2006 with writer Greg Lee, whom Strasser dated for eight months[9].

During the segment with Agee, Strasser also admitted that she had once been the victim of a sexual pervert. She said a man stripped and masturbated in her apartment after she had invited him in, mistakenly thinking one of her friends had bought her a Strip-o-gram.[10]

Strasser is also known to have dated former American Idol host Brian Dunkleman.

[edit] Other television work

After leaving While You Were Out, Strasser hosted Lovers Lounge, a dating game show on the Game Show Network in 2000. She was also a feature story reporter for several episodes of Good Day New York in 2004. Strasser worked as a “love coach” along with Shop 'Til You Drop host JD Roberto on the 2006 ABC series How to Get the Guy until its cancellation[11]. In October 2006, she replaced Debra Wilson as the co-host of the TV Guide Channel show TV Watercooler. She frequently appears on VH1 and E!'s various "list" shows. She also guest starred on Alicia Silverstone led dramedy Miss Match. Strasser served a brief stint as a correspondent on the entertainment and gossip news show TMZ on TV which premiered in September 2007. She recently revealed that, due to a time conflict that required her to choose between TMZ and the Adam Carolla Show, she would no longer work on the former.

[edit] Writing career

Strasser has worked regularly as a freelance columnist for The Los Angeles Times and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and won an award on June 24, 2006 for columnist of the year from the Los Angeles Press Club.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Teresa Strasser at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ The Adam Carolla Show, 15-Apr 2008
  3. ^ Adam With Frank Vincent, Ron Jeremy, Ted Nugent, Jonny Delinquent « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  4. ^ The Evil Stepmother Dies
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  6. ^ 2006 May 08 « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  7. ^ Adam with Mike Birbiglia, Steve Agee, Brian Posehn, and Danny’s Junk - February 21, 2007 « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  8. ^ ADAM WITH RICH EISEN, DAVE’S MOM AND ADAM’S DAD « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  9. ^ ADAM WITH PEREZ HILTON, WOLFGANG PUCK AND WILLIE NELSON « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  10. ^ ADAM WITH RICH EISEN, DAVE’S MOM AND ADAM’S DAD « The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog
  11. ^ the futon critic - the web's best primetime television resource

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