Wipeout
Tuesday 8:00 PM on ABC
Cast & Crew
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Vanessa Minnillo
Co-Host
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, at Clark Air Force Base in Pampanga, Philippines. Her father, Vince Minnillo, was an Air Force Aircrew Member (now retired) of Irish and Italian extraction, and her mother, Helen Berecero, a Filipina he met while based in the Philippines. She and her family, which includes a two-years older brother, Vincent, lived in California, Nevada, Florida, Germany, and Japan before settling down in Charleston, South Carolina. Vanessa attended seven different schools during this time, and participated in cheerleading and volunteer work for numerous different local charities. After her parents' divorce in 1986, Helen was awarded custody of both children and Vanessa only saw her father on weekends. When her mother remarried, the family moved to Turkey, where her new step-father, a U.S. Airforce Serviceman, was assigned. They were forced to evacuate when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to the Gulf War of 1991, and Helen brought the kids back to the United States, leaving them with their father until she could get back on her feet. That would be the last Vanessa would see of her mother, who never returned. Instead, she began a new life, along with her brother, living with father Vince and his new wife, Donna, whom she now calls her "best friend." With her life more settled, Vanessa began to turn her attention to the Miss South Carolina beauty pageant in 1996. She had loved cheerleading since a young child, and was very keen on performing in front of an audience. With her unaffected style and natural ebullience, she easily won over the judges, sweeping all the categories before winning the crown. Two years later, on August 17, 1998, she competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant. Though it was pre-empted by CBS's live coverage of a speech by President Bill Clinton regarding the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, in the end, she wooed the Miss Teen USA judges just like she had the Miss South Carolina judges two years earlier. It was her second pageant, and her second victory. In the three years since handing over her Miss Teen USA crown, Miss Minnillo has concentrated on college, acting, and modeling. She has a promising future, and was recently one of the finalists in E!'s competition to find a replacement for Brooke Burke as hostess for the show 'Wild On.' Though the job ultimately went to Cindy Taylor, Vanessa made a big impression with 'Wild On' fans across the world, and hopes to continue working in television for some time to come. Besides being a TRL co-host ('03-present) and ET correspondent ('05-present), Vanessa enjoys residing to her New York City home were she spends time with her family and friends as well as her pets, four dogs, Dalmatians- LeeLa and her daughter, Evie and son, Mason as well as her German Hunting Terrier, Ryder. This is an original biography created by: Brittney Bing (all rights reserved, copying is strictly prohibited without permission)moreless -
John Anderson (V)
Host
John Anderson, born in 1965, is a sports journalist from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He is the host of sprtscenter since 1999. Anderson got his journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. -
John Henson
Host
John Henson started acting when he was eight years old. He also tried singing and dancing before he spotted his true passion for comedy. It was at Boston University that he began performing improvisational comedy. He loved the adrenaline rush it gave him so he quit school at the age of 20 to do stand-up full time. He has hosted shows such as "Talk Soup", "Watch this", and many others He also had his own show, "The John Henson Project" which was a classic on spike TV. He is currently married to Corie Hirschtick and is doing stand-up comedy as well as hosting and producing TV shows.moreless -
Jill Wagner
Host
Jill was born and raised in North Carolina by her father, an ex-marine. After graduating from Ledford Senior High School in Wallburg, NC, she enrolled in North Carolina State University. She graduated with honors in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in business management. She is an avid gun enthusast and has a number of guns in her collection. Among the guns Jill owns, a Kimber Raptor .45, a Colt .45 and a Ladysmith. Jill got her start in television as a cast member on the MTV series Punk'd in 2003 which lead to a starring role on the short lived television show Blade: The Series in 2006. Jill's passion has always been music, she says she doesn't even own a TV, and hopes to record an album someday. Jill lives in Los Angeles, CA.moreless -
J. Rupert Thompson
Director
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Christopher Poole
Senior Producer
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Daniel J. Blau
Producer
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Brad Carr
Producer
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Jesse Kerns
Producer
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Matt Kunitz
Executive Producer
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Scott Larsen
n/a
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Matt Kunitz
n/a
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Trice Barto
Co-Executive Producer
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J. Rupert Thompson
Co-Executive Producer
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Shye Sutherland
Co-Executive Producer
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Kevin Wehrenberg
Co-Executive Producer
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Matt Kaye
Production Coordinator
Matthew Kaye worked as a social studies teacher at Benjamin Cardozo High School in Queens, New York while becoming a wrestler. Kaye made his first appearance in World Wrestling Entertainment during a commercial for its WWE King of the Ring pay-per-view in 2002. Kaye played a person who, while auditioning for the King of the Ring tournament, tried to climb the ropes but fell off. Kaye resigned from his teaching job after the school discovered he was constantly calling in sick due to his wrestling bookings. He had gone on a wrestling tour for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX in Japan, and wrestled WWE Superstar Kurt Angle as Matt Martel in an invitational match on the February 24, 2005 edition of WWE SmackDown! in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using sick days to excuse his absence. After recognizing Kaye, someone reported him to the school board and it was discovered that he had been in Japan when he claimed to be sick (the one who reported Kaye is unknown). In a statement, Kaye said he didn't realize sick days and personal days "were two entirely different things." After the story broke out and was posted on news sites around the world Matt Striker made a second appearance in WWE on the July 11, 2005, edition of WWE Monday Night RAW in East Rutherford, New Jersey to face Kurt Angle once again. Kaye said his name was Matt Martel and that he was from New York but Kurt Angle recognized him as Matt Striker, and reminded the audience that Striker was the guy in the news who got fired from teaching for being a wrestler and that Angle had defeated him before when Striker said he was from Philadelphia. Calling Striker "a liar" Angle finally decided to give him a second chance. In the 3:00 minute time limit match Angle defeated Striker for a second time, but Angle only managed to make him tap out with 1 second left on the clock. WWE, impressed with Matthew's performance against Kurt Angle, signed him to a contract on July 12, 2005. On July 18, 2005 Striker made a third appearance for WWE in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, once again attempting to win the Olympic gold medal from Kurt Angle in his invitational. Striker this time said he was Matt Martel and that he was from Philadelphia. Once again exposing him to be a "Big Liar" Kurt Angle attacked and beat Striker/Martel for a third time, though Martel did manage to get Kurt Angle in his Happy Monkey chokehold and hold him in it for nearly two minutes. Matt Striker made his official signed debut on an episode of WWE Sunday Night HEAT airing August 7, 2005, where he defeated Johnny Parisi. On September 28, 2005, Striker appeared on WWE's Byte This! webcast show and did a less-than-flattering impression of Ultimate Warrior, including numerous references to steroids. He, Grisham and Droz had several jokes at Warrior's expense, resulting in an edited version to be released on WWE.com days later that takes a more light-hearted approach. This was due to Warrior releasing a paragraph-long statement, calling the host Todd Grisham a "queer," and frequent contributor Droz (who was left a paraplegic by a wrestling accident) a "cripple." On October 21, 2005, Matt Striker turned heel when he walked out on his tag team partner - then babyface Shelton Benjamin - in a match against Kerwin White and Nick Nemeth, only one week after Striker helped Benjamin fend off an attack from the pair. He would go on to release a promo on WWE.com referring to WWE as his school. Striker teamed with Kerwin White to defeat Val Venis and Shelton Benjamin on the WWE Taboo Tuesday 2005 pre-show HEAT, with Striker pinning Benjamin to obtain the victory. Striker's heel teacher gimmick had him hosting a segment called Matt Striker's Classroom on RAW, which was debuted on December 12, 2005, where he would insult the crowd about their family values and treat them as intellectual inferiors. The gimmick, which has been compared to that of Dean Douglas, often insinuates that many people in the arena are "smoking the pot" as one of the many insults. Shortly after, in a match that took place on December 18, 2005, Matt Striker faced Lance Cade at a house show. During the match, Striker had taken a slam from Cade that went awry, thus dislocating his shoulder and putting him out of action until January 23, 2006, when he continued his Classroom segments once again. Striker would continue to host his segment during WWE.com Unlimited for several weeks. On February 20, 2006, Striker announced that he was in the then-latest edition of GQ Magazine. Striker would later return to defeat Jobbers on HEAT. Striker would reappear on the RAW on April 17, 2006 for another Classroom segment. During this Striker claimed that "School is Cool". This brought out Carlito who took the teacher's apple and spat it in the face of Striker. Striker returned to RAW in-ring action on its April 24, 2006 where he teamed up with Chris Masters and then-WWE Intercontinental Champion Shelton Benjamin to face Carlito, "Mr. Money in the Bank" Rob Van Dam, and Charlie Haas in a six-man tag team match. Striker would end up on the losing end of the match when Rob Van Dam pinned Shelton Benjamin in the closing moments of the contest. During WWE Backlash 2006, Striker would begin to feud with the (kayfabe) mentally impaired Eugene, after Eugene made an appearance on Matt Striker's Classroom during the PPV. This feud would also involve a tweener Carlito, for a short while, who ended up attacking both Eugene and Striker after Eugene inadvertently caused Carlito to lose a match to Striker by Disqualification on the May 8, 2006 edition of RAW. The feud apparently ended when Eugene gained a mentor in Hacksaw Jim Duggan and finally was able to defeat Striker, after losing to him only two weeks before. After this match, Striker proceeded to smash Eugene's head on the steel ring steps. He fled to the back as Duggan approached him, however. Striker later defeated Duggan at a house show. Afterwards, Striker would end up back on the web-show HEAT, defeating jobbers. He made small appearances on RAW during June 2006, mainly on WWE Unlimited, but occasionally wrestling as well. During July 2006, Striker would appear on RAW, occasionally teaming with Rob Conway to lose to the debuting Highlanders tag team. During these tag matches Striker would abandon Conway. This resulted in a match between the two on HEAT, which Striker won. Striker's final match on RAW was on July 31, 2006, where he was defeated in quick fashion by John Cena. This match came as of a result of Striker insulting Cena during one of his Classroom segments a week prior, claiming that then-WWE Champion Edge was greater than Cena. At the end of August 2006, Striker would leave RAW to join WWE's revived ECW brand. Striker continued his Classroom segment on ECW, often only to be interrupted by The Sandman. However, during one such segment on September 5, 2006, Striker would make a controversial remark that alluded to the death of Australian wildlife expert Steve Irwin, who had been killed by a stingray 36 hours earlier. Due to the outrage caused by the remark, the incident was edited out of the Australian broadcast and WWE Chairman Vince McMahon released a public apology on WWE.comfollowing the incident: "We at WWE apologize for the remark alluding to the death of Steve Irwin which was made on ECW on Sci Fi Tuesday night. The remark was, in the least, disrespectful to Mr. Irwin's fans and family." Striker made his in-ring debut on the September 18, 2006 edition of ECW, teaming up with Mike Knox and Test to face Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, and The Sandman. Despite Striker eliminating Sandman from the match after pushing him from the ring apron onto the ring barrier, him, Knox, and Test lost the match by disqualification due to Test pushing the referee.moreless
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Disturbing But Funny, For The Child In You, Mind Bending Moves, Shock Value, Sight Gags Galore
