Michele Merkin

Michele Merkin

Michele Merkin is a model,actress, and, television host who currently hosts both Foody Call for Style Network as well as The Next Best Thing on ABC.

Born in San Francisco of Swedish descent, Michele Merkin attended boarding school in England before studying medicine at UCLA. While there she was offered the chance to model in Europe for such magazines as Elle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. She has hosted E! News Daily, NBC's For Love or Money and VH1's Red Eye.

Success in that arena led her to do more than 75 commercials, ranging from soft drinks and hair care to finance and electronics. She would fulfill her hosting ambitions on such programs as The Movie Fan Show, The Love Report for Studios USA, Close-up Hollywood, Buy TV, Movie Watch and Attack of the Show!.

She has also been seen as the popular Nintendo Game Show character "Joanna Dark" in “Perfect Dark”.

Stuff USA March 2001