Holly Montag (born October 15, 1983) is an American television personality, comedian, model, and aspiring actress. She is best known for being the sister of Heidi Montag, a main cast member on the MTV reality series The Hills, her recurring role on the series, and her appearance on I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Montag was born in Silver Spring, Maryland to Darlene Eggelhoff and Bill Montag, and became a sister when Heidi Montag was born on September 15, 1986. At the age of four, the family moved to Crested Butte, Colorado. She grew up interested in singing, sports, theater, and dance. In May 2002, Montag was awarded a full scholarship at the University of Colorado. While at the college, she attended their film studies as well as the production program. When not involved with academics, Holly found herself to be passionate for both stand-up and sketch comedy. Soon after receiving her bachelor of arts degree in critical film studies, Montag moved to Los Angeles in order to pursue her ambitions in television, writing, acting, and directing.^[1]

Career[link]

Television[link]

In 2009, Montag was a contestant on the reality series I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! as a replacement for her sister Heidi Montag and brother-in-law Spencer Pratt, with whom she has a contentious relationship.

Stage[link]

In 2008, Montag appeared in the small stage production of Fame in LA. She began pursuing a career as a comedian in early 2010.

References[link]

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Dan Levy
Dan Levy in August 2005.
Born	Daniel Levy (1981-03-19) March 19, 1981 (age 31) Stamford, Connecticut
Awards	"Funniest College Comedian in America" - HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival 2001

Dan Levy (born March 19, 1981) is a Los Angeles, California-based comedian.

Biography[link]

In 1993, Levy was a member of the "Half Pint Players", a teen-age improvisation group in Stamford, Connecticut.^[1]

While a student at Emerson College in Boston MA, Levy won the title of funniest college comedian in America at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO.^[2]

Since then Levy has appeared on the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and has made appearances on Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Comedy Central Presents:Dan Levy The Late Late Show and has hosted three shows on MTV, including Your Face or Mine, The Reality Show and Pretty Smart: Spring Break 08.

Levy co-starred in the feature film, My Sexiest Year, with Frankie Muniz and Harvey Keitel. He will also be featured in the SONY Screen Gems film Mardi Gras.^[2]

Levy starred and wrote the TV pilot "Below the Law" with Steve Basilone, which won "best comedy pilot" at the New York Television Festival September 16, 2008. "Below the Law", was also shown at the Montreal Just for laughs festival and will be shown again next month at the Austin Film Festival.

This summer Levy was in New York filming the IHaveToGoInAMinuteShow, a daily comedy show produced by CollegeHumor and directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson.^[3]

Levy produced, wrote, and starred in My Long Distance Relationship, a 10-part web series for Crackle. A new episode is posted online each week.^[4] The web series has recently been bought by MTV and Levy is executive producing the PILOT.

Dan is currently touring across college campuses around the country with CollegeHumor.^[5] He also appears frequently as a "roundtable" guest on Chelsea Lately.

He is married to writer and actress Rachel Specter.

External links[link]

• Dan's Site
• Official MySpace
• Dan's IMDB
• Dan in "Coffee Bean Guys" on YouTube
• Dan in "Almost Funny" on YouTube

Interviews[link]

• Interview from June 16, 2008 in Punchline Magazine
• Interview from August 8, 2004

Articles[link]

• Levy Versus Levy

References[link]

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Jessi Cruickshank
Cruickshank at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival
Born	Jessica Shaia "Jessi" Cruickshank (1982-07-17) July 17, 1982 (age 29) Calgary, Alberta

Jessica Shaia "Jessi" Cruickshank (born July 17, 1983 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian television personality. She is the former co-host of MTV Canada's program The After Show and its various incarnations including The Hills: The After Show and The City: Live After Show with co-host Dan Levy. Jessi is now living in Los Angeles, where she filmed a show "Hollywood Survival Guide," which aired on MTV. To accommodate her new life Jessi passed the California driving test on January 26, 2011.

Jessi has interviewed an array of high-profile people from the pop culture spectrum including the cast of The Hills and the movie Twilight, along with Adam Lambert, Taylor Lautner, Backstreet Boys, Ryan Reynolds, Bill Gates, Zac Efron, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Port, Lauren Conrad and Bradley Cooper. One of her Hollywood crushes is Brody Jenner, who she has openly expressed her love for on "The After Show."

Previously, Jessi was one of the original seven co-hosts of MTV's flagship series MTV Live, which is now hosted by fellow MTV hosts Daryn Jones, Nicole Holness, and Paul “The Intern” Lemieux.

Her mother is Joyce Resin, who once hosted a CBC show called Alive: The Picture of Health.^[1] Her older sister Amanda Grace works as a reporter and anchor for WHDH in Boston.^[2] She has a degree in English and Drama from the University of Toronto;^[3] she spent her first year of university at Herstmonceux Castle in England.^[4]

Her first television role was in a Christmas commercial for Shoppers Drug Mart. During her teen years, she had a small role in a made-for-TV movie called For Hope which was directed by Bob Saget.^[5] She later said, "I had three lines, and two of them didn’t make the final cut.” She was also a member of the same high school improv squad as Seth Rogen.

Before joining MTV, Jessi was a co-host on YTV for a show called Weird on Wheels along with Mackay Taggart (which she snagged after attending auditions with a friend).

Jessi played Kristin in The Rest of My Life, a TV movie concluding the 9th season of Degrassi: The Next Generation. The movie aired in Canada on MuchMusic on July 16, 2010, and in the United States on TeenNick it aired on July 19, 2010.

See also[link]

• The After Show

References[link]

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Heidi Montag
Montag attending the Girls Gone Wild Magazine second-issue party in Hollywood in June 2008.
Born	Heidi Blair Montag (1986-09-15) September 15, 1986 (age 25) Crested Butte, Colorado, United States[1]
Other names	Heidi Pratt (married name)
Occupation	Reality television personality, recording artist, fashion designer
Years active	2005–present
Television	The Hills (2006-2010) Famous Food (2011)
Spouse	Spencer Pratt (2009-present)
Relatives	Holly Montag (sister) Stephanie Pratt (sister in-law)

Heidi Blair Pratt (née Montag; born September 15, 1986) is an American media personality and singer. She came to prominence with her starring role on the MTV reality series The Hills from 2006 to 2010. In 2007, Montag began working on her debut album, Superficial, which was released in January 2010. She was featured in the second season of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! in 2009 and later appeared in VH1's reality series Famous Food during 2011.

In November 2008, Montag and The Hills cast member Spencer Pratt eloped to Mexico. The couple later married in the United States in April 2009. In July 2010, Montag filed for divorce after fifteen months of marriage to Pratt, but called off the divorce in September 2010.

Early life[link]

Montag was born in Crested Butte, Colorado on September 15, 1986.^[1] Her parents, Darlene and Tim Egelhoff, owned a restaurant in Crested Butte, although it was closed after twenty-one years of operation.^[2] Reality television personality Holly Montag is her older sister by three years.^[3] After graduating from high school, Montag moved to California where she enrolled at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.^[4]

Career[link]

[edit] 2005-2010: The Hills

During freshman orientation, Montag met Lauren Conrad, who at the time was a featured cast member on the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.^[5] After the two transferred to Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles,^[4] Conrad received her own spin-off series The Hills, which premiered on May 31, 2006.^[6] Montag eventually left the Fashion Institute in fall of 2005 when she was hired at Bolthouse Productions.^[7] According to Montag, she dropped out because she "did not find the school challenging."^[8] Within two years, she was promoted to event planner at Bolthouse.^[9]

Montag went on to star in all six seasons of The Hills, but last appeared on the series on the final season's fourth episode after her husband and fellow cast member, Spencer Pratt, had threatened to kill a series producer.^[10] He was due to return to the series after completing anger management training, although his behavior worsened which led to their being completely removed from the cast.^[11] Montag had also filed charges against The Hills creator Adam Divello, claiming sexual harassment.^[12]

[edit] 2007-2010: Superficial

In February 2007, Montag began working on an album with producer David Foster.^[13] In March 2009, Montag hired songwriter Cathy Dennis to work on her debut album.^[14] On the Billboard issue dated July 1, 2009, Montag's song "More Is More" debuted on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart at number fifty, becoming her first song to chart, despite not being released as a single.^[15] After five weeks on the chart, it peaked at number twenty-seven.^[16] On August 23, 2009, Montag performed "Body Language" during the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in the Bahamas.^[17] The performance received generally negative reviews from critics.^[18] Montag's debut album, Superficial, was digitally released on January 12, 2010.^[19] The album was self-funded and cost almost $2 million to record,^[20] and sold just over 1,000 copies in its first week of release.^[21] Montag released a video for "Superficial", the first and only single taken from the album.^[22]

2008-present: Other endeavors[link]

Montag was featured on the front cover of the February 2008 issue of Maxim.^[23][24] Montag debuted her fashion line, Heidiwood, at a fashion show at the Hollywood and Highland shopping center in Hollywood on April 11, 2008.^[25] In October 2008, it was confirmed that Anchor Blue, which had carried Montag’s line, would not be renewing her one-year contract, thus ending the line's run.^[26]

In November 2008, Montag and Pratt took part in scenes for an episode of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. The two appeared as themselves in an episode that premiered in January 2009.^[27] Montag, along with Pratt, also signed on to appear on the second season of the reality series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! in April 2009.^[28] In early June 2009, it was reported that the couple had quit the show,^[29] although they later returned.^[30] The couple ultimately withdrew from appearing on the series after Montag suffered from a gastric ulcer which caused her to be hospitalized.^[31] Her appearance on the show, as well as Pratt's, was criticized after the couple claimed they were subject to torture.^[32][33]

In June 2009, it was confirmed that Montag would pose for Playboy.^[34] She appeared on the cover of the September 2009 issue of the magazine.^[35] In November 2009, Montag and Pratt released their first book, How To Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture.^[36] In March 2010, Montag was cast in a cameo role in her first feature film, Just Go with It, which was released in February 2011.^[37][38] On April 10, 2010, Montag hosted the grand opening of the Liquid Pool in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[39]

In early 2011, Montag was confirmed to be one of seven celebrities to compete in the VH1 reality series, Famous Food, that premiered in the summer of 2011.^[40] Other cast members included Ashley Dupre, DJ Paul, Juicy J, Vincent Pastore, Danielle Staub, and Jake Pavelka.^[40] The cast members worked to open a Hollywood restaurant; the winner was given a partnership stake in the business.^[40] The series, which ran from July to September 2011, was won by DJ Paul.^[41] In October 2011, Montag announced that she is writing a memoir.^[42]

Personal life[link]

Montag in Las Vegas in December 2007

On March 3, 2008, Montag's stepbrother Eric O'Hara was killed in an accidental fall from an icy roof.^[43]

In 2006, she began dating Spencer Pratt. In May 2007, Montag and Pratt announced their engagement.^[44] On November 20, 2008, Montag and Pratt had a marriage ceremony in Mexico.^[45] No family members were present and the wedding ceremony lasted 15 minutes.^[46] Montag and Pratt married a second time on April 25, 2009 in Pasadena, California.^[47] On July 30, 2010, Montag filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences in the petition.^[48] However, the couple called off the divorce in September 2010.^[49] In November 2010, Montag and Pratt announced that the reason behind the couple's divorce was to help Montag's career.^[50] Later that November, Montag and Pratt renewed their wedding vows at a beachfront house in Carpinteria, California.^[51]

Plastic surgeries[link]

In April 2007, Montag had a breast augmentation and rhinoplasty. After much media speculation, Montag spoke to Us Weekly about her surgeries in September 2007.^[52] In January 2010, Montag revealed to People magazine that she had ten plastic surgery procedures in one day, performed by Dr. Frank Ryan on November 20, 2009. Among the procedures were brow-lifts, ear-pinnings, a chin reduction, as well as a second rhinoplasty and second breast augmentation. She revealed that she almost died from too much Demerol, reducing her breath rate to five breaths per minute, but said it was worth it.^[53]

In December 2010, Montag appeared on the cover of Life & Style magazine, revealing scars caused from her surgeries.^[54][55]

Filmography[link]

Published works[link]

• How To Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture (with Spencer Pratt) (2009)

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Extended plays[link]

Wherever I Am

1. "Your Love Found Me" – 3:52
2. "More Is More" – 3:06
3. "Party Is Wherever I Am" – 3:28
4. "Turn Ya Head" – 3:39
5. "Look How I'm Doing" – 3:39

Here She Is...

1. "No More" – 4:05
2. "Overdosin'" – 3:45
3. "Look How I'm Doing" – 3:29
4. "Turn Ya Head" – 3:39
5. "More Is More" – 3:06
6. "Blackout" – 3:31
7. "Your Love Found Me" – 3:52

Dreams Come True

1. "Your Love Found Me" – 3:53
2. "Party Is Wherever I Am" – 3:30
3. "No More" – 4:02
4. "Overdosin'" – 3:45

Singles[link]

Promotional singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

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