Vanessa Williams Turns Down $600K Tell-All Book Offer
From nude sex scandals and pageant shame to cheating spouses, the nation’s first African-American Miss America has enjoyed a career with enough highs and lows to fill several tell-alls.
From nude sex scandals and pageant shame to cheating spouses, the nation’s first African-American Miss America has enjoyed a career with enough highs and lows to fill several tell-alls.
Vanessa Williams is the newest resident of television’s Wisteria Lane, but the Ugly Betty alum had to be coaxed into taking on a role on ABC’s award-winning dramedy Desperate Housewives because she was one of the drama’s worst critics.
Looks like Vanessa Williams’ bout with unemployment was a short one — The former Ugly Betty villain is leaving the Big Apple and headed to television’s Wisteria Lane!

Actress Vanessa L. Williams will get her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Syracuse University this Saturday. The forty-five year old Ugly Betty star, who left Syracuse after becoming Miss America in 1983 earned the remaining credits for her degree through industry experience and performances on stage and screen. Vanessa will also deliver the convocation address to graduates of Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Actress Vanessa Williams on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The last time “Ugly Betty” star Vanessa L. Williams was featured in a magazine in a nudie magazine, it cost her the Miss. America 1984 title. Read the rest of this entry »