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Tila Nguyen
Birthday: 24 October 1981
Birth place: Singapore
Latest Celebs Central updates:
2006 - Week 43 - Wednesday: 229 pictures added.
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2007 - Week 12 - uploaded by duke3d: 4 pictures added.
2004 - Week 32 - uploaded by LaOsTh3r: 3 pictures added.
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Tila Nguyen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981 in Singapore), commonly known as Tila Tequila or simply Tila, is an American glamour model and singer. Residing in West Hollywood, California, she is best known for her appearances in automotive import magazines, her role as host of the Fuse TV show Pants-Off Dance-Off and her position as the most popular artist on MySpace as of April 2006. She is currently signed to A&M Records. Raised in Houston, Texas, she is of Vietnamese descent.
Early years
Nguyen was born in Singapore, where her family emigrated after the Vietnam War. A few years later they moved again to the Houston neighborhood of Alief, where they lived in rundown housing for most of Nguyen's childhood until they were admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple. The family left the community when Nguyen was eight.
As soon as she entered middle school, Nguyen developed a tomboy attitude and started getting in fights. Her behavior eventually got her sent to a boarding school for six months before she was transferred to another school. As she got older, she used her sister's identification card to enter nightclubs, where she began experimenting with drugs and joined a gang. In an interview with Import Tuner, Nguyen said she had been searching for a sense of identity: "I was really confused then, 'cause at first I thought I was black, then I thought I was Hispanic and joined a cholo gang." Later she made some friends outside the gang who briefly helped turn her life around, however her past caught up with her, and she fled to Queens, New York. When she returned to Texas she had a three-way relationship with two girlfriends, but eventually decided she could no longer handle her lifestyle. She began to focus on her studies and her jobs.
Modeling
Nguyen realized her life would get worse if she continued living in Texas, so she moved to Hollywood to pursue her career in entertainment. She claims her career began at the age of eighteen when she was spotted at a mall by a Playboy scout and was offered a chance to model nude for the magazine. She declined at first, but she was featured as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the week on April 22, 2002, and soon thereafter she became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the Month.
In 2005 some Internet porn sites began offering hardcore videos they claimed were of Nguyen; the model featured was actually Leanna Scott, who resembles her. Nguyen announced on her MySpace blog that it was not her in the video.
Nguyen gained further popularity through the import racing scene. She has been featured on the cover of Import Tuner magazine, at car shows such as Hot Import Nights, and in the video game Street Racing Syndicate. In 2003 she was a contestant on VH1's Surviving Nugent, a reality TV show where participants performed compromising tasks and stunts for rock star Ted Nugent. She was also the most frequent host on the first season of Fuse TV's dance show, Pants-Off Dance-Off, on which a motley group of contestants strip to music videos.
Nguyen was featured on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Stuff magazine; in the interview, she claimed that her nickname "Tila Tequila" comes from her tendency to blush when she drinks alcohol. She was later included in Stuff’s 100 Sexiest Women Online. She appeared on the August 2006 Maxim UK cover and was named #88 in their Hot 100 List.
Music career
Nguyen used modeling as a stepping stone for other career opportunities. At age twenty, she took interest in rock music and started looking for bands willing to have her join. Her Playboy past hurt her credibility, but she eventually assembled a band called Beyond Betty Jean, for which she was singer-songwriter. Following the break-up of Beyond Betty Jean, Nguyen started working in recording studios to sharpen her vocal skills and write music. Nguyen became the lead singer of a band called Jealousy, which has released songs over the Internet. Jealousy has appeared on MySpace Records' inaugural compilation album, released through MySpace Records/Interscope.
A major turn in Nguyen's music career occurred during the April 24, 2006 taping of MTV's Total Request Live. In an interview with the TRL VJs, will.i.am announced that Nguyen was signed to the will.i.am music group, a record label under A&M Records. This marks Tila's first contract with a major record label. |
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18 August 2008
"Ich war ihre lesbische Freundin!"Diese, 1981 auf den Phillipinen als Tila Nguyen geboren, schaffte es vom "Asian Cyber Girl" zum "Playboy Cyber Girl" und danach zum TV-Star: Die bekennende ...
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12 August 2008
Ngu?i m?u Tila Nguy?n có tình yêu m?i(Dân trí) - Ngu?i m?u Playboy g?c Vi?t Tila Nguy?n dang h?nh phúc bên b?n gái m?i - Courtenay Semel, b?n thân m?t th?i c?a “siêu qu?y” Lindsay Lohan. ...
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02 August 2008
La realidad detras de los reality shows... Tila Tequila: Quince hombres heterosexuales y 15 mujeres gay, compiten por el corazón de la bisexual Tila Tequila, cuyo verdadero nombre es Tila Nguyen. ...
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29 July 2008
Fikk smake egen myntDen biseksuelle sangeren og glamourmodellen (tidligere naken under sitt ekte navn Tila Nguyen) valgte den 25 år gamle New York-gutten Bobby Banhart, ...
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14 May 2008
TEQUILA TO PEN NEW BOOKThe Singapore-born bisexual star of VH1 dating show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, real name Tila Nguyen, will release Hooking Up With Tila Tequila in ...
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13 May 2008
A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila... put all the answers in a book from all their questions," Tila Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, said in an interview at MTV Canada headquarters. ...
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13 May 2008
Tila Tequila To Pen MemoirsThe book will be about Tila's reflections on her journey from being Tila Nguyen, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, to become an international sex ...
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12 May 2008
Scribner Signs Internet Celeb Tila TequilaThe house has acquired world rights to publish Tequila’s (real name: Tila Nguyen) first book, Hooking Up with Tila Tequila and plans a December 2008 release ...
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09 May 2008
Tila Tequila takes another Shot"People will end up going to the hospital, more hearts broken, more fighting, more emotional breakdowns," adds Tequila (born Tila Nguyen). ...
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22 April 2008
Tila Tequila's Taking a Second ShotIn case you've never heard of Tequila (and there are a few adults who haven't), here's a quick introduction: Born Tila Nguyen in Singapore to Vietnamese ...
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03 March 2008
MTV's Tappon joins 495... reality dating show where straight men and lesbian women compete for the affections of model Tila Nguyen, best known by her Tila Tequila stage name. ...
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03 February 2008
'A Shot at Love' DVD Coming in April... reality dating show where 16 straight males and 16 lesbian female contestants vie for the heart of Tila Tequila, also known as Tila Nguyen in real life. ...
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22 January 2008
Bisexual star in fighting talkby ANDREW WILLIAMS - Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Tila Tequila – real name Tila Nguyen – became an Internet celebrity when she clocked up more than 1million ...
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15 January 2008
TEQUILA SPLITS FROM REALITY TV BOYFRIENDThe Singapore-born Internet sensation - real name Tila Nguyen - chose to date Bobby Banhart in the final episode of her hit A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila ...
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04 January 2008
Tila TequilaTila, born Tila Nguyen, first hit fame at the tender age of 18 in a series of Playboy shoots. But it's the internet that has really made a sensation of this ...
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