The former MTV News Unfiltered anchor did a tour on TRL before moving onto CNN and her role as a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. Her MTV fame led to roles as herself in 2002's Queen of the Damned, posthumously starring Aliyah, and 2001's Josie and the Pussycats.
The actor from Scary Movie 3, 4 and V first came to fame (on safe-for-work TV) as a TRL host and then as a member of the casts of the WB series Jack & Jill (with Sarah Paulson and Justin Kirk) and What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth as sisters.
In 2005 he teamed with Mickey Avalon on the first of several albums, and released his solo eponymous (for his alter ego) debut, Dirt Nasty, in 2007. Since then he's been a self-referential machine, churning out movies, TV shows and albums, as well as the podcast Nervous Rex.
The actress and veteran TV personality formerly known as Vanessa Minnillo hosted TRL from 2003 until 2007 (pausing to co-star in the 2006 video for future husband Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me") before moving on as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and host of Wipeout and True Beauty.
Over the years she's been on the big screen in Disaster Movie and on TV starring in the series Dads and Truth Be Told and in the Lifetime Movie A Twist of Christmas, as well as taking guest spots on How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Psych and Hawaii 5-0. She played the unfaithful publicist wife of "Jason Priestly" in the meta-reboot BH90210, made a splash co-hosting the breakout 2020 hit Love Is Blind on Netflix with Nick and is a star of NCIS: Hawai'i, premiering Sept. 20, 2021.
Vanessa married Nick in 2011 and they have three kids, sons Camden and Phoenix and daughter Brooklyn.
Born Benjamin Quddus Philippe, the Uptown Girls actor (he played "Party Guy") was a TRL host from 2001 to 2006 before moving on to host TV One Access and Nickelodeon's Dance on Sunset and appearing on CSI: Miami, Half & Half and Girlfriends. He is the founder of the social justice campaign Ally Now.
Pinfield began his MTV legacy in an episode of the first season of The Real World, conducting interviews, before becoming the host of 120 Minutes in 1995. He joined Columbia Records as an A&R executive in 2001 but was never far from the music television orbit, returning as host of 120 Minutes on MTV2 in 2011.
In 2016 he published All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life and has been a DJ on terrestrial and satellite radio.
The 2003 Miss USA winner cut her hosting teeth on MTV Spring Break: Cancun 2005, TRL, and Real World and The Challenge reunion specials while she also got into acting, appearing on House of Payne and in movies such as The Heartbreaker and More Than Stars. In 2010 she co-hosted the NBC reality series School Pride and, while in quarantine in 2020, she filmed a horror short called The Tribe.
Castillo has been married to Matthew Leslie since 2006.
He first joined MTV as a writer in 1988 and he logged time as a news anchor and VJ, starting with his time hosting Hangin' w/MTV in 1992. Norris made dozens of appearance on TRL between 1998 and 2006, was part of the pre-show at numerous VMAs ceremonies, and was a correspondent in The Real World 10th Anniversary Special.
He later cofounded the music website Noisevox and went to work for Fuse in 2013.
After appearing on America's Next Top Model, Stolz became a VJ for The Freshman on mtvU in 2006, which later transitioned into a role as an MTV News correspondent. Now, she's the Director of Equity Derivatives Sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.