Marianne Curan

Marianne Curan (born May 12, 1961)

Career In the mid-1990s, she hosted some of the first live interactive game shows on Game Show Network, including Super Decades, Trivia Track, Prime Games and When Did That Happen?. Curan was a guest host on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee and, when Kathie Lee Gifford left the program in 2000 Curan was considered for the permanent co-host role that Kelly Ripa ultimately claimed. Later in its run, she hosted PAX TV's live daytime talk show Great Day America with Food Network personality Marc Summers. In 2002, Curan hosted Landscapers' Challenge for Home & Garden Television. She hosted interstitial segments with Jordan Murphy for USA Network's Before & After'noon Movies in 2003.

In December 2010, Curan starred in the one-woman show "A Kodachrome Christmas," written and directed by Seinfeld writing alum Pat Hazell. "A Kodachrome Christmas" played for three weeks in Austin, Texas at the Long Center for the Performing Arts and at Notre Dame University's DeBartolo Center.

Her writing has been published in "More" magazine online.

Personal life Curan married fellow television personality Bob Goen on March 20, 2004.