Melissa Rivers
Melissa Rivers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Melissa Warburg Rosenberg January 20, 1968 |
| Occupation(s) | Television personality; host |
Melissa Joan Rivers (born January 20, 1968) is an American television host and the daughter of Joan Rivers.
Personal life
Rivers was born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg in Manhattan on January 20, 1968; the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg, who committed suicide in 1987. Melissa took on her mother's stage surname. She is of Russian-Jewish descent on her mother's side and German-Jewish on her father's side.
She attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air[1] and then The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a founding member of the Tabard Society, an off-campus secret society for women.
On December 12, 1999, she married horse breeder John Endicott. They have one child — a son, Edgar Cooper Endicott, born on December 1, 2000. Endicott and Rivers were divorced on June 19, 2003.
Career
As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, The Comeback and The L Word.
Teamed with her comedienne mother, Joan Rivers, Melissa hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network. In 2003, Melissa and Joan left her red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and 8 million.[2] Their contract was not renewed after it expired. Also in 2002 Rivers appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, in which she finished in second place. She and her mother played themselves in the television movie Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers story (1994). Melissa Rivers has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight.[citation needed]
Rivers raised $100,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation,[3] resulting from ABC's 2006 television show "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!", LIVE.[4]
On June 24, 2008, Rivers appeared on the NBC game show Celebrity Family Feud as part of the Rivers Family Team. She and her mother first battled against the Ice-T Family Team, then went on to compete against the Raven Symone Family Team. They won $50,000 for their charity, Guide Dogs For The Blind.
She appeared on the NBC reality television program Celebrity Apprentice playing for the Lili Claire Foundation. She was fired in the episode that aired April 26, 2009 after which she stormed out of the boardroom, verbally assaulted other teammates, yelled at the production crew, and refused the obligatory exit interview. Her mother was also a contestant on that season of The Apprentice, and threatened to quit the show after Melissa's firing, but remained and ultimately won the competition.[5]
Rivers raised $22,250 on a special celebrity edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" where all the celebrities played for Alzheimer's disease.
References
- ^ "Biography of Melissa Rivers". I am a Celebrity. ABC. Archived from the original on 28 June 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
- ^ http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20040625&slug=tvbriefs25
- ^ List of charity contributions
- ^ (archived at web.archive.org)
- ^ NBC Celebrity Apprentice 2 Press Release
External links
Template:I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here! (U.S. TV series) Template:I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! US Season 1
- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from New York City
- Actors from New York
- American people of British descent
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- Jewish actors
- I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! contestants
- Participants in American reality television series
- The Apprentice (U.S. TV series) contestants
- University of Pennsylvania alumni