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Josie Maran was born in Menlo Park, California. She attended Castilleja School, an all-girls’ school in Palo Alto, California. She is of Russian Jewish descent on her paternal side. Her first cover was Glamour in 1998.

Maran’s modeling career began at the age of 12; when an agent spotted her at a local barbecue restaurant, she began modeling part time. Johanna Selhorst graduated from the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, then began to pursue modeling more seriously. As those in the fashion industry consider her height of 5′7" to be too short for runway modeling, Maran works mainly in editorial modeling and advertising/image modeling.

Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998, and she was the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. After building a résumé of over 25 commercials and advertisements, including playing Howie D’s companion in the music video of Backstreet Boys hit Everybody, in which she was bitten on the neck by Count Dracula, Maran moved cross-country to join with Elite in New York City. In 1999, she landed a multi-year deal with Maybelline. Maran appeared in the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue for three consecutive years; from 2000 to 2002. Maran is also signed with London agency Storm Model Management, and 1/One Management in New York City.

Josie’s interest in the arts extends beyond film. When not in acting class, Josie is training herself in "dance classes… violin classes, speech classes, everything. I’m just trying to train myself in the arts, you know? Nobody else is gonna do it so I’m going to. I’m gonna take on the world". Her interest in music led her to play casually in two bands: Darling, with socialite Nicole Richie, and Hollywood 2000, where she sang and played violin.

In 2001, Maran appeared in an independent film, as title character Mallory in The Mallory Effect. In 2002, Maran appeared as Susan in Swatters. In 2004, she appeared in three films - as a French model in Little Black Book, as one of Dracula’s brides, Marishka, in Van Helsing, and briefly as a cigarette girl in The Aviator. Maran appeared in a short film "The Confession" alongside Wentworth Miller in 2005, and as Kira Hayden in The Gravedancers in 2006. Maran will not play Polly Hudson in The Final Season, scheduled for release in 2007. This role is now played by Rachael Leigh Cook.

In 2005, she was recruited by EA Games to appear as a main character in the street-racing computer and video game, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, which was released on November 17, 2005. She plays the game’s second lead Mia Townsend, who guides the lead character through the game. In June 2007, Josie Maran launched her own natural cosmetics product line, named Josie Maran Cosmetics. Beyond her business activities she commits herself to the protection and improvement of nature and the environment.

On August 29, 2007 ABC announced Josie will compete on Dancing with the Stars. Josie and dance partner Alec Mazo took part in a chat session held at JosieAndAlec.com. They were the first couple eliminated from the show on September 26, 2007. Later that same night, Maran appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and in reference to getting voted off first, said, "I should have cut my legs off".

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Ian Somerhalder was born December 8, 1978. He is an American actor, male fashion model and producer, probably most notable for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and as Paul Denton in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ The Rules of Attraction. His first major acting role was in The Rules of Attraction, Roger Avary’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name.

Ian Joseph Somerhalder television work includes appearances in shows such as Smallville, CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Now and Again, and The Big Easy, as well as producing Recess. His biggest role to date was as a main cast member for the first season of the American television series Lost as the character Boone Carlyle. Although his character was killed off in the first season, Somerhalder returned to play Boone Carlyle in flashbacks and dream sequences in the second and third season of Lost. In the second season he guest starred in the flashbacks of Boone’s stepsister, Shannon Rutherford, in the episode "Abandoned". In the third season, he guest starred in the episodes "Further Instructions" and "Expose".

In 2006 he starred in Pulse, a remake of the Japanese horror movie Kairo, with Kristen Bell and Christina Millian. The movie was neither a commercial nor a critical success, performing relatively well at the box office on its first week of release. DNA Models named their Top 10 Male Models. Somerhalder was among those in the list. Most recently, Somerhalder guest starred as Nick in HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me. He appeared fully nude in a sex scene with actress Michelle Borth.

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Aubrey O’Day was born on February 11, 1984. She is an American singer, actress, songwriter, and former member of the girl group Danity Kane. On the October 7, 2008 episode of Making the Band, O’Day was declared no longer a member of the group. Confirmation of O’Day’s departure was revealed in the show’s live October 14, 2008 episode. In addition to O’Day’s work with Danity Kane, she has posed for magazines such as Blender and Complex, as well as starred on Broadway.

Aubrey Morgan O’Day is currently working on her debut solo album with a different label, it is currently unknown who she is signed to as of November 2008. The album is slated for a 2009 release. Further utilizing her success, O’Day started her own clothing line called Heart on My Sleeve, which features t-shirts and accessories available only online.

She posed topless for men’s magazine Complex. The publication stated, "With All Due Respect to the other girls in Danity Kane, it’s easy to see why built his group around Aubrey O’Day. Simply put, Aubrey is that chick: the stunner who attracts paparazzi and Broadway producers alike, and the talent least likely to fall into post-reality-show abyss." The magazine also commented on the animosity O’Day receives from several outlets, such as blog sites, as well as from message board fans, who have come to despise O’Day due to the attention she attracts from the media and the current image she has crafted of herself." O’Day also makes a guest appearance on the reality show 50 Cent: The Money and the Power.

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Holly Valance was born 11 May, 1983. She is an Australian actress and ARIA nominated singer. Holly Rachel Vukadinović was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Roman Catholic high school in Melbourne.While modeling as a teen, she was discovered and cast in the long-running Australian soap Neighbours. Cast as Felicity "Flick" Scully in 1999, Valance left the series in 2002 to pursue a music career.

In 2006, Valance appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside American socialite Paris Hilton. The same year, she was in DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played Christie.

In 2007, she appeared in the TV series Shark and Moonlight. In 2008, she had a role in the film Taken alongside Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen, and appeared in an episode of the The CW series Valentine. In addition to film and television roles, Valance has also appeared in ads for Schwarzkopf hair care products and 1800 Reverse.
 

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Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Joan, a teacher and noted author of children’s books, and James Graham, a retired FBI agent. Graham has a younger sister, Aimee, who is also an actress and writer. The family, who are of Irish descent, followed a strict traditional Catholic upbringing; Graham has since estranged herself from the Catholic Church. Graham has practiced Hinduism and associated transcendental meditation since 1991. Graham graduated from the Agoura High School in California in 1989. In 1986, she appeared on a special "Teen Week" episode of the NBC-TV game show Scrabble.

Graham starred in the ABC-TV comedy series Emily’s Reasons Why Not, in 2006. However, ABC-TV announced that the show was canceled after its first airing on January 9, 2006. Because they print their covers weeks in advance, and they did not expect the quick cancellation, Life did a cover story on Graham two weeks later in their January 27, 2006 issue, and they referred to her as "TV’s sexiest star". Billboard ads also remained in place promoting the show weeks after the cancellation.

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