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Maria Menounos is a correspondent on Access Hollywood and the host of Clash of the Choirs.

Fast Facts

1. Birth Date: June 8, 1978
2. Birth Place: Medford, MA
3. Graduated: Emerson College
4. Won Miss Massachusetts Teen USA in 1995
5. Height: 5'8"
6. Fluent in Greek

Career

In her teens, Maria Menounos participated in numerous beauty pageants and eventually placed 1st runner up in the 2000 Miss Massachusetts USA Pageant. During her senior year at Emerson College, Maria Menounos was hired as a correspondent for Channel One News. Upon gradation, Menounos was hired by Entertainment Tonight where she would remain until 2005. Later that year, she joined the crew of Access Hollywood.

Quotes

• "My favorite place to go is the zoo. Our set is right across from Jay Leno's. They had people from the San Diego Zoo there the other day, and I got to hold a sloth. He was the coolest thing in the world. I wanted him as a pet. And I got to hold a fox, and pet a porcupine! It was the size of my German shepherd. There was also a toucan. And I was in China last week, and I rode a camel, and played with monkeys!"¹

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