I'm just wondering whatever happened to Ananda Lewis?

[andzigallery]

She was a MTV veejay in the late 1990s.  Then she had a talk-show for a little while.  Whatever happened to her?  I'm just wondering....  Because, it is like, she fell off the face of the earth.

[mc1962]

She was a MTV veejay in the late 1990s.  Then she had a talk-show for a little while.  Whatever happened to her?  I'm just wondering....  Because, it is like, she fell off the face of the earth.

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here is what i found out about her:

In 2000 People included Lewis on its list of the world's "50 Most Beautiful People."[3] In 2001, Lewis decided to leave MTV in order to start her own talk show.[3] The Ananda Lewis Show debuted on September 10, 2001, after much advance press in which Lewis was compared to Oprah Winfrey, the wildly popular talk-show host long considered to be one of the most powerful women of African American descent in television.[3] Lewis continued to do special presentations for MTV after her show had begun.[3] Lewis's series, which was syndicated by King World Productions, targeted women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four by addressing such issues as domestic violence and breast cancer; it was billed as an alternative to the sensationalism and provocative offerings of Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake, whose talk shows were then dominating daytime ratings.[3] Lewis's show aired on some WB and NBC stations before the Ananda Lewis Show was canceled after one season.[3][5] Her show premiered the day before the September 11 attacks, and it aired for only one year.[6] Lewis then worked briefly for BET. Her show's producers stated: "We started on a Monday and then there was the World Trade Center bombing the next day, and everything has become a mess since then," Roger King, the chairman and CEO of King World Productions and CBS Enterprises.[3]

In 2004 Lewis became the chief correspondent on celebrity subjects for the nationally syndicated, nightly entertainment program The Insider, a spin-off of the popular Entertainment Tonight.[3] In the spring of 2005, she has interviewed the heiress and performer Paris Hilton, Don Cheadle and Ryan Phillippe (two of the stars of Paul Haggis's ensemble film Crash), and actress Dyan Cannon.[3] Lewis herself has made guest appearances on several sitcoms.[3]

In 2004 Ms. Lewis also appeared on the ABC network's reality show called Celebrity Mole: Yucatan. This reality series won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced Television.[7]

An avid animal lover, Lewis has served as co-host of the A&E television-network show America's Top Dog and as a spokesperson for the Humane Society.[3] She has been known to frequently introduce her two pet chihuahuas to interviewers.[3] She has also been a spokesperson for Reading Is Fundamental, a nonprofit literacy group.