- Jay McCarroll
Jay McCarroll (born 1974) is a fashion designer who gained fame in 2005, when he won during the debut season of the competitive reality show "Project Runway". McCarroll, an openly gay Lehman, Pennsylvania native, is known for his fondness of cowboy hats, which he wears often. According to McCarroll, his first work as a designer was when his sisters were on a school team and he sewed a flag for them.
- Chloe Dao
Chloe Dao (born June 15, 1972 in Pakse, Laos), is an American fashion designer of Vietnamese ancestry who lives and works in Houston, Texas. She was the winner of the second season of the reality show "Project Runway" with a collection of women's evening wear. Many of the pieces in her finale collection featured billowing, voluminous sleeves, removable shrugs and strong brocade prints.
- Yoanna House
Yoanna House (born April 9, 1980 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American fashion model and television personality. She was the winner of Cycle 2 of "America's Next Top Model" in 2004 and is currently the host of "The Look for Less" on the Style Network.
- Nicole Linkletter
Nicole Linkletter (born February 27, 1986) is the winner of Cycle 5 of the CW reality TV series "America's Next Top Model". Her prizes as winner were a contract with Ford Models, a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, a fashion spread in "ELLE" magazine, and the cover of ELLEgirl magazine.. She is one of the more successful winners to come out of America's Next Top Model.
- Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born April 3 1985 in Islington, London) is an English Ivor Novello award winning singer and songwriter, who was the winner of the third series of the "The X Factor". Her debut single, "A Moment like This" was released on 20 December 2006. The single was also available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December and broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty thousand times in thirty minutes.
- Richard Hatch
Richard Hatch (born April 8, 1961) is the winner of the first American "Survivor" series, which aired in 2000 and was set in Borneo. He is currently incarcerated for tax evasion. Prior to his "Survivor" appearance, Hatch was a corporate trainer from Newport, Rhode Island. He spent five years in the US Army, is a licensed real estate agent, and has also worked as a car salesman and a bartender.
- Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American pop country music singer who won the fourth season of "American Idol". She has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist. Her debut album, "Some Hearts", was certified 6x platinum, and is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history.
- Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty is a four-time Filmfare Award-nominated Indian film actress and Supermodel. Since making her debut in the film "Baazigar" (1993), she has appeared in nearly 50 films, her first leading role being in 1994 in "Aag". She resides at the centre of the Hindi-language film industry in Mumbai, India. Her younger sister Shamita Shetty is also a Bollywood film actress.
- Reichen Lehmkuhl
Reichen Lehmkuhl (born December 26, 1973 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) is a gay former reality show winner, male model, and actor. He is arguably best known for winning season four of the reality game show "The Amazing Race", and for his relationship with 'N Sync member Lance Bass.
- Taylor Hicks
Taylor Reuben Hicks (born October 7, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Hicks got his start as a professional musician in his late teens and performed around the Southeastern United States for well over the span of a decade, during which he also released two independent albums. He rose to prominence in the year 2006 as the winner of the fifth season of "American Idol". Upon winning the music competition, he was signed to Arista Records, …
- Ruben Studdard
Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American pop/R&B/gospel singer who rose to fame as winner of the second season of the "American Idol" television program.
- Jordin Sparks
Jordin Brianna Sparks (born on December 22, 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer. On May 23, 2007, she was declared the winner of the sixth season of the reality television show "American Idol". At 17, this makes her the youngest winner in "American Idol" history. In addition, she is the only winner who is from the Southwestern United States, rather than the Southern United States
- Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30 1984), or simply Fantasia, is a Grammy nominated, award-winning, American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series "American Idol" in 2004. Her first album, "Free Yourself", was a commercial success, earning her three Grammy nominations and selling over 2.1 million copies.
- Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward (born 16 October 1984 in Clayton, Manchester) is an English pop singer of Irish descent who rose to prominence in the UK and Ireland after becoming the winner of the 2005 series of the talent show "The X Factor".
- Ilan Hall
Ilan D. Hall is an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series "Top Chef," ahead of Marcel Vigneron. Hall's hometown is Great Neck, New York, USA. As a child, he attended Elizabeth Miller (E.M) Baker elementary school and Temple Israel Hebrew school, a conservative Jewish temple. Now as of 2007, Ilan resides and works in New York City. Ilan’s parents were both immigrants: his father from Scotland, …
- J.D. Fortune
J.D. Fortune is the stage name of Jason Dean Fortune (born September 1, 1973 in Mississauga, Ontario), a Canadian rock singer, winner of the 2005 CBS reality television series "Rock Star: INXS", and the current singer of rock band INXS for their latest album "Switch". He was born in Mississauga, Ontario, and raised in Salt Springs, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- Lee Mead
Lee Stephen Mead is a British musical theatre actor, best known for winning the lead role in the 2007 London revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" by competing in the BBC reality talent show "Any Dream Will Do!". Aged eight, he went to see "Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with his other gran,” Mead’s grandmother Lilian Horning, 77, …
- Jeffrey Sebelia
Jeffrey Sebelia (born May 30, 1970) is an American fashion designer and founder of the clothing label Cosa Nostra, which he heads from a loft on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. He is the winner of Season 3 of the reality show "Project Runway".
- Connie Fisher
Connie Fisher (born June 17,1983) is an actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: "I feel on top of the world, thanks very much. I won't let you down. Every night will be an opening night. Thanks for making my dreams come true." On 15 November 2006, she opened to good reviews in the part of Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" in the West End, …
- Steve Brookstein
Steve Desmond Brookstein (born 10 November 1968) is a British singer, probably best known as the first winner of the X Factor in December 2004, December 11, 2004, with two-thirds of the telephone votes. On 8 January 2005 his cover of "Against All Odds" reached number one in the UK singles chart, staying there for one week. His first album "Heart & Soul" debuted at the top of the UK album chart on 16 May 2005.
- Paul Potts
Paul Potts (born 1971 in Bristol, England), from Port Talbot in South Wales, is a singer who became the winner of the first series of ITV's "Britain's Got Talent", singing operatic arias and impressing the judges in all of his performances. At the time of his victory on "Britain's Got Talent", he had been working in The Carphone Warehouse, but following his win he has been signed by the show's judge Simon Cowell to record an album.
- Chip Arndt
Chip Arndt (born October 2, 1966, in West Hartford, Connecticut) became an international celebrity after he and Reichen Lehmkuhl won "The Amazing Race 4" in 2003. The team was the first out gay couple to win a TV reality competition. Since then, Arndt has become increasingly active in the movement for LGBT equality as well as raising money for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and other community charities.
- Adrianne Curry
Adrianne Marie Curry (born August 6, 1982 in Joliet, Illinois) is an American fashion model and reality television contestant. Curry is famous for winning the first season of "America's Next Top Model". She is married to Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady on "The Brady Bunch". She currently hosts an online radio show.
- Jennylyn Mercado
Jennylyn Mercado (born May 15, 1987) is a Filipina actress and singer. She became famous after winning in the first season of "StarStruck", a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines.
- Ethan Zohn
Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of "Survivor". Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show.
- David Sneddon
David Sneddon (born 15 September 1978, in Paisley, Scotland) is a British pop singer-songwriter. His sensitive soaring voice captured hearts and votes when he won the first BBC UK series of "Fame Academy" in 2002. David released his single 'Stop Living The Lie' which went straight to UK number one hit single selling over 250,000 copies, and making it the 12th highest selling single of the year. His debut album, "Seven Years - Ten Weeks", …
- Sarah Brice
Sarah Brice (born June 15, 1980, in Lafayette, Louisiana) was the winner of the seventh season of ABC reality television show, "The Bachelor", as she was the recipient of the "final rose" by bachelor Charlie O'Connell on May 16, 2005. She graduated with a degree in nursing from the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 2002.
- Alex Parks
Alexandra Rebecca Parks (born 26 July 1984, in Mount Hawke, Cornwall) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for winning "Fame Academy" in 2003, her subsequent singles, and the albums "Introduction" and "Honesty".
- Eva Pigford
Eva Marcelle Pigford (born October 30, 1984 in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American fashion model and actress. She was the winner of the third cycle of America's Next Top Model.
- Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Ann Tweedy, (born 30 June 1983) is an English singer and member of the girl group Girls Aloud. She is married to [[Ashley Cole]
- Asia Nitollano
Asia Nitollano (born in Mt. Vernon, New York on February 14, 1988) is an American singer and dancer, who won the television series "Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll" and became the newest and youngest member of the successful pop group Pussycat Dolls. She was also a dancer for the New York Knicks of the NBA. She sings the soprano line in the group along with Melody Thornton.
- Drew Lachey
Andrew "Drew" John Lachey (born August 8, 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer and actor, best known as a member of 98 Degrees the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars and the younger brother of Nick Lachey.
- Bill Rancic
William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, "The Apprentice". He is the first "Apprentice" winner.
- Kerry Katona
Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona (born September 6 1980 in Warrington, Cheshire, England) is an English television presenter, magazine columnist and former pop singer with girl band Atomic Kitten.
- Jennifer Ellison
Jennifer Ellison (born May 30, 1983) is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera "Brookside" until 2003, though since then her regular photoshoots in men's magazines have kept her in the public eye. She is renowned for having a large bust and has recently made cameo appearances in a few television shows.
- Suzanne Shaw
Suzanne Shaw (born Suzanne Croshaw on September 29 1981 in Bury, Greater Manchester, England) is an English actress, television personality and sometime singer most famous for winning the first series of the talent contest "Popstars" and so subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say.
- Will Kirby
William Terence Kirby (born January 2, 1973), is a physician and an American television personality. He was the winner of the American reality television show "Big Brother 2" and one of the final four contestants in "Big Brother 7:All-Stars". Kirby resides in Los Angeles where he practices dermatology. Apart from his medical practice and television appearances, Kirby's other business interests include investments in Mike Malin's Dolce Group, …
- Tessa Horst
Tessa Horst was the final rose recipient on the Spring 2007 series of the American television show, "The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman".
- Sarah Harding
Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer in the girl group Girls Aloud, and model. Harding grew up as a Catholic in Heald Green, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, and is the oldest member of Girls Aloud.
- Jenna Morasca
Jenna Morasca (born February 15, 1981 near Pittsburgh) was a reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of "Survivor: The Amazon".