Layla Kayleigh (born January 26, 1984) is a British TV personality who hosts The Feed segment of G4's Attack of the Show! and co-hosts MTV's America's Best Dance Crew. She has modeled for Maxim Magazine and King Magazine. She can be heard on Maxim Radio as an additional personality every Tuesday on The Stretch Show. Kayleigh currently resides in Hollywood, California. She is of African, European and Middle Eastern background.[1]
Early life
Kayleigh was born in South London, England. Her birth name was Zara, but she urged her parents to call her Layla after the Derek and the Dominos song.[2] When Layla was 12, her single mother traveled to America in a bid to get U.S. citizenship for herself and Layla, and Layla opted to stay behind. She "never told a soul" about being alone, for fear that social services would come for her.[1]
Television career
In addition to once hosting MTV2 in Britain and ABC's football halftime show, Kayleigh was once a correspondent for Al Gore's Current TV, but was fired promptly after doing an interview and photoshoot with Maxim Magazine.[3] She has appeared on the MTV show Punk'd. She now hosts "The Feed" segment of Attack of the Show! on G4, as well as shortened versions of "The Feed" during the network's commercial breaks. Kayleigh has been on The Best Damn Sports Show Period on Fox Sports Net, reporting from the front lines of the crazy world sports, and also reporting on all the entertainment/sports news on the Vegas Insider. Layla was also a guest on the Fox News Channel show "Red Eye". Layla has started a video blog, with each entry posted onto her MySpace page and official website.
On May 23, 2007, the World Poker Tour announced that she would be their hostess for Season Six.[4] Kayleigh is featured on the cover of the July-August 2007 issue of Gambling.com, and the August issue of Bluff Magazine.
Kayleigh is a co-host on America's Best Dance Crew on MTV as their on the road correspondent looking for talent in the different cities.[5] The show, which features Mario Lopez as host premiered January 26, 2008 with a live casting special and began its first season on February 7, 2008 with Kayleigh as backstage correspondent. Season 2 of America's Best Dance Crew started on June 19 on MTV.
Movies
She played Madison in the romance/drama movie titled A Simple Promise, which came out on DVD on May 27, 2008.
Trivia
She is listed number 33 on AskMen.com's top 99 women 2008 edition.[6]
References
- ^ a b Anna David. "Fine Import". Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
- ^ Interview from Byte Me: 20 Hottest Women of the Web, E! Entertainment Channel, aired March 10, 2008. Attack of the Show, G4 Channel, aired August 1, 2008.
- ^ "Layla Kayleigh". Maxim. Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
- ^ BJ Nemeth (May 23, 2007). "And the New World Poker Tour Hostess is ... Layla Kayleigh". Retrieved on 2007-09-27.
- ^ Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew MTV.com. Accessed 2008-02-08.
- ^ AskMen.com
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