Brittny Gastineau
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Brittny Gastineau (born 11 November 1982) is an American model, socialite, and reality television personality. She is the daughter of former New York Jets defensive end football player Mark Gastineau, and Lisa Gastineau, with whom she starred on E!'s reality TV show Gastineau Girls. Brittny also starred in another E! reality series, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive.
Her parents were divorced after Mark announced his engagement to actress Brigitte Nielsen, even though he was still married to Lisa and the pair had not yet separated. Brittny has not seen her father since the age of seven. During the divorce, Brittny lived with her grandparents in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. After graduating high school, she returned to Tuscaloosa to attend the University of Alabama, following in the footsteps of her parents. She intended to study event planning, but dropped out after just three semesters, and moved back to Manhattan in her mother's New York's Upper East Side penthouse.
Brittny is currently pursuing a career in acting and modeling. She has been told she would need to lose weight to be more valuable as a model. As seen on the show, she has also demonstrated a lack of motivation and drive. Despite this, she has received some work, such as a photo spread in Stuff magazine that she attained weeks after she began to pursue modeling. During an interview conducted with the magazine, Brittny expressed her desire to film a reality television show with her mother Lisa. Networks immediateley began a bidding war, eventually won by the E! Network. "Gastineau Girls" went into production shortly thereafter.
The show became a ratings giant for the network, drawing an impressive 4.5 million viewers for its premiere, trumping the channel's previous record set by The Anna Nicole Show. The program developed a cult following, drawing nearly 2 million viewers a week.[citation needed]
Following the success of the show, opportunities for Brittny increased. She walked runways for Anne Bowen and Anna Sui during NYC fashion week, and signed an endorsement deal with L'Oreal Paris, which led to a European advertising campaign. She also became the face of high end casual wear designer Ed Hardy. She appeared on the cover of Stepping Out, Hamptons and Lucire magazines. In 2005, she appeared on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list, ranking at number 60.[1]
Following the success of Gastineau Girls, Brittny signed onto another E! Network reality show, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive. Produced by Joe Simpson (father of Jessica & Ashlee Simpson), cameras followed the privileged children of celebrities working on a Colorado cattle ranch. The show wasn't as successful as Gastineau Girls, but it did keep Brittny's name and image in the public eye.
The second season of "Gastineau Girls", which proved to be even more popular than the first. Brittny became the spokesperson for AOL, and became the first celebrity to create a podcast for iTunes. Again teaming with her mother Lisa, the ladies were offered opportunities to write articles for OK! magazine, and also landed a book deal.
Brittny appeared as a guest host on The View. She appeared as one of the 12 "strangers" on NBC's game show Identity on December 19, 2006.
Today, Brittny lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, record producer Richard Voll. She is currently signed to the Elite Modeling Agency where she is a celebrity model and actress.
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- ^ FreeJose.com. Maxim Magazine Hot 100 Women of 2005. Retrieved on February 9, 2007.
