Teresa Strasser (b. June 8, 1970) is a writer and TV personality known for hosting the first season of the home makeover show While You Were Out on TLC. She is currently a co-host for The Adam Carolla Show and a correspondent for the entertainment news and gossip show TMZ on TV.
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Early Life and Career
Strasser grew up in San Francisco, California with her father and stepmother. Her relationship with her stepmother was not good, and Strasser said her stepmother would tell her not to wear a seatbelt and only speak about her in the third-person. [1] According to Strasser, her stepmother also lied and said she was adopted. [2] Strasser won an award for best news feature from the Los Angeles press club for an article about her stepmother’s cruelty, “The Evil Stepmother Dies.” [3] Strasser began writing for Win Ben Stein's Money in 1997, winning a Daytime Emmy Award, and also had several small film roles and writing jobs.
While You Were Out
In 2002, Strasser hosted fifty episodes of While You Were Out when former host Anna Bocci left the show. Strasser had previously served as a writer for the show. Strasser did not consider herself handy, but compensated with her dark sense of humor and empathy, as she cried after several renovations. Strasser left the show after one season.
The Adam Carolla Show
Strasser replaced Rachel Perry on The Adam Carolla Show on May 8, 2006 as the permanent news woman on the radio program. [4] She had previously served as a fill-in before Perry officially left the show.
Teresa’s Ex-Files
A segment on the show in September 2006 focused on Strasser’s past relationships. Her past boyfriends, such as Jimmy Kimmel Live writer and The Sarah Silverman Show actor Steve Agee and a marketing executive named Brandon, discussed why their relationship failed. Normally, the skit is embarrassing for Strasser and her ex, such as when she claimed Agee cried after sex (also known as "crymaxing"). [5] The segment first debuted September 6, 2006 with writer Greg Lee, whom Strasser dated for eight months. [6] During the segment with Agee, Strasser also admitted that she had once been the victim of a sexual pervert. She said a man stripped and masturbated in her apartment after she had invited him in, mistakenly thinking one of her friends had bought her a Strip-O-Gram. [7] With her help, Hollywood police arrested the man afterward.
In her days working as a journalist at a San Francisco newspaper, her boyfriend took her to lunch on the roof garden of the downtown skyscraper. One thing lead to another, and she found herself in the embarrassing situation of her skirt hiked up and the police telling her to take a good look around at who's watching. Men and women from adjacent high-rise buildings were oggling and applauding the couples' amorous impromptu exchange.
Other Television Work
After leaving While You Were Out, Strasser hosted Lovers Lounge, a dating game show on the Game Show Network in 2000. She was also a feature story reporter for several episodes of Good Day New York in 2004. Strasser worked as a “love coach” along with Shop 'Til You Drop host JD Roberto on the 2006 ABC series How to Get the Guy until its cancellation [8]. In October 2006, she replaced Debra Wilson as the co-host of the TV Guide Channel show TV Watercooler. She frequently appears on VH1 and E!'s various "list" shows. She also guest starred on Alicia Silverstone led dramedy Miss Match. Strasser recently signed on as a correspondent on the entertainment and gossip news show TMZ on TV which premiered in September 2007.
Writing Career
Strasser has worked regularly as a freelance columnist for The Los Angeles Times and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and won an award on June 24, 2006 for columnist of the year from the Los Angeles Press Club.
Trivia
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- Strasser was voted the second least annoying person of 2003 on AmIAnnoying.com. [9]
- Strasser lives in Koreatown [10]. On the August 24, 2006 edition of The Adam Carolla Show, it was revealed she has eighty-six sex offenders living in her neighborhood, according to a searchable Megan's Law database.
- She and Adam Carolla frequently joke about her age, as Carolla claims that she is 29 17/16 years old.
- Her favorite Rock song of all time is Back in Black by AC/DC, as stated on the "Music Monday" segment of The Adam Carolla Show, February 12, 2007.
- Strasser was originally offended, but now accepting of Carolla's attempts to name her 'V'
- Strasser revealed on a 2007 edition of The Adam Carolla Show that she once had sex on the roof of an office building in San Francisco. The erotic proceedings were interrupted by the police after complaints were received from occupants of a neighboring building.
- Carolla frequently jokes about a lesbian sexual encounter Strasser experienced on a train in Europe.
