Early life

She was born in St. Louis to Mark and Mary Paffrath. She has six siblings: Christy, Mark, Steven, Stacey, Matt and Brittany and she is the middle child. Her grandfather, Herman Paffrath, was also an actor. Her family used to put on plays and newscasts at family parties. Her mom enrolled her in ballet, tap and jazz class when she was just 3-years-old. At 9, she entered gymnastics and won many awards and medals in competitions. While at school, she used to experiment with theatre and performed in various plays. She is known to have a curious nature and extraordinary creativity. She decided to pursue a career in journalism and attended Missouri School of Journalism where she completed an internship at Entertainment Tonight in Los Angeles alongside TV veterans Mark Steines and Mary Hart under the leadership of Linda Bell Blue. After earning a degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2005, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams.

Career

Hosting

In early 2006, she moved to Los Angeles after earning a degree in Broadcast journalism. Immediately, she got on-air reporting jobs for two shows, "Created by U" and "In the Mix", both on Direct-TV (2006-2007). In early 2007, she was given the opportunity to host her own pop culture news show, Broadcaster News on broadcaster.com. There has been an exponential growth in her career since then. She has served as the longtime host of E! News Now, a red carpet correspondent for TV Guide’s Hollywood 411, series regular on MSN's The Big Debate, and guest host on both G4’s Attack of the Show! and Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit.

But it was a little show called Jersey Shore (TV series) that put her on the map. She held court with the guidos and guidettes of Seaside Heights as the host of MTV’s Jersey Shore: After Hours and Jersey Shore: Reunion in fourth, fifth and sixth seasons. Then, she appeared on The Girl Spot on BiteSize TV as well as a red carpet correspondent for Yahoo! Movies. She also hosted in Top Story! Weekly on Improv Olympics. She also hosted in the popular reality series Dating Naked on VH1 which fetched her immense recognition. She hosted both the first and second seasons of the show. Recently,she hosted the 2015 Mid-America Emmy Awards.

Acting

She also nabbed roles in film, commercials and music videos. After working in movies, "Moonlight on Ivy" (2006), "Fly Kidz" (2006) and "Dinner at Eight" (2007), she played the lead in "Huntsville" (2007). She also appeared in Paramore's number one hit Misery Business and Whitestarr's "Sunshine Girl".

She is a budding standup comedian and appeared in some guest-starring roles in Sitcoms. She acted in the American sitcom Hot in Cleveland,Sullivan & Son and 2 Broke Girls. She was also seen in the CBS pilot, Oh Fuck, It's You, directed by James Burrows. In 2014, she appeared in the American film The Purge: Anarchy.

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Other Works

She wrote, directed, and produced Boner Killers Comedy Series with her friend Rebecca Zamolo.

Personal life

She is married to Drew Seeley who is also an actor and singer. They married on 28 April 2013.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Dinner at Eight	Molly-Sue	Short Film
2007	Hauntsville	Tammy
2008	Shadow on the Wall		Short Film
2009	Fired Up!	3rd Row Brunette	Uncredited
2009	Fun with War Crimes	Nurse	Short Film
2009	The Pit and the Pendulum	Gemma
2009	Deep in the Valley	Sorority Girl	Uncredited
2012	Stockholm	Qara	Short Film
2014	Dumbbells	Female Cop
2014	The Purge: Anarchy	TV Newscaster
2015	Freshwater	Kim Whitley
2016	Do Over	Angela Weiss
2016	The Thinning	Wendy Banks	Filming

Television

Year	TV Show	Role	Channel
2009	Attack of the Show!	Herself	G4 (TV channel)
	Evil Bong II: King Bong	Velicity
	I Kissed a Vampire	Luna Dark
2010	The Defenders	Field Reporter	CBS
	The Daily 10	Correspondent	E! News
2011	Hollywood 411	Correspondent	TV Guide
	The Daily Habit	Guest Host	Fuel TV
	Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong	Velicity
2011-2012	Jersey Shore (TV series)	Host	MTV
2012	Oh Fuck, It's You	Mia	CBS
	War Bride	Nicole
	Husband & Wife	The Wife
	Hot in Cleveland	LA Actress	TV Land
2013	BK Comedy Series	Writer,Director,Producer
	Sullivan & Son	Kathy	TBS
	Hollywood Minute		BiteSize TV
	2 Broke Girls	York	CBS
2014	The Breaks	Vanessa
2014-2015	Dating Naked	Host	VH1

[ Source: Wikipedia ]