Michele Merkin

Career Modeling Merkin modeled for 15 years, living in Paris, Milan, New York and Los Angeles, appearing in such magazines as ELLE, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and in more than 60 commercials, most notably campaigns for Clairol and the Nintendo video game Perfect Dark. for the N64 cartridge; Merkin's hair was cut short and dyed black for the appearances. and 2007 (at #56).

Television Beginning in June 2005, Merkin co-hosted the cable television program Foody Call with Rossi Morreale, a reality television show which combined cooking and romance by teaching men to seduce women with food. It was the second highest rated show on the Style Network.

Concurrently, Merkin was a sideline reporter on the third season of Extreme Dodgeball which aired starting July 2005 on the Game Show Network.

In May 2007, she hosted the television series The Next Best Thing, which aired on American Broadcasting Company.

From 2008 to 2009 she co-hosted Party Monsters Cabo on E!, a reality television show in which participants compete to determine who is the best party event planner.

Merkin has also hosted individual episodes of E! News Daily, NBC's For Love or Money, VH1's Red Eye, The Movie Fan Show, The Love Report for Studios USA, Close-up Hollywood, Buy TV, Movie Watch and Attack of the Show!. They married in 2011.