 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies .(April 2022) |
Kacy Duke is an American celebrity fitness instructor, life coach, and spokesmodel.
| The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies .(April 2022) |
Kacy Duke is an American celebrity fitness instructor, life coach, and spokesmodel.
Duke runs a personal training business called The Art of the Graceful Gangster. [1] [2] She also runs a business called Age Defying Physique. [3]
Duke has trained celebrities including Denzel Washington, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Moore, P.Diddy, Iman, Josh Brolin, Maxwell, Rachel Weisz, Kiefer Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz, Bebe Rexha, Kate Beckinsale, Bruce Willis, and Gwen Stefani. [4] [2] [5]
She was the founding Group Fitness Director at Equinox, a luxury fitness club. [4] [5] She developed fitness programs for Equinox and for corporations in North America, Europe, and Japan. [5] She was a spokesperson for Dove Deodorant, Kellogg's, and Nike as well as a spokesperson and advisory board member of Simple Skincare. [5] [6] She has appeared on CBS Morning News , The Rachael Ray Show , Good Housekeeping TV , The Today Show , and Good Morning America . [4] [5] [7]
Along with Darlene Williams, Duke co-hosts the podcast Real Ass Women, where she interviews successful business women. [4] [6]
Duke became affiliated with Anna Sorokin, a Russian con artist posing as a German heiress using the name "Anna Delvey", when she was hired to be Sorokin's personal trainer and life coach. [4] [6] Sorokin, who had found Duke online, paid Duke $4,500 in cash for a package of sessions. [4] [6] [8] Duke accompanied Sorokin and Rachel DeLoache Williams on a trip to La Mamounia in Marrakech in May 2017. [4] [2] She was sick for the majority of the vacation, and booked a flight back to the United States with Williams' help. [4] [2] After Duke left Morocco, Sorokin pressured Williams to pay for the $62,000 trip when her credit card was declined. [4] After Sorokin started experiencing financial trouble and was kicked out of the hotel she had been residing at, Duke let her stay at her apartment. [4] [6] In August 2017, Duke attempted to stage an intervention for Sorokin at the Frying Pan Bar in Manhattan. [4] [2] A day after the attempted intervention, Duke and Williams became aware of an ongoing criminal investigation against Sorokin. [4] [9]
Duke lives in Hudson Yards in New York City. [6]
She is portrayed by Laverne Cox in the 2022 Netflix drama series Inventing Anna . [2] [10] [11] She was a consultant for the series. [2]
Laverne & Shirley is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. A spin-off of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From the sixth season onwards, the series' setting changed to mid-1960s Burbank, California. Michael McKean and David Lander co-starred as their friends and neighbors Lenny Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman, respectively; along with Eddie Mekka as Carmine Ragusa, Phil Foster as Laverne's father Frank DeFazio, and Betty Garrett as the girls' landlady Edna Babish.
Carole Penny Marshall was an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.
Sara Joanne Cox is an English broadcaster. She presented Radio 1 Breakfast on BBC Radio 1 from 3 April 2000 until 19 December 2003. Since January 2019, she hosts the BBC Radio 2 drivetime show, Monday to Friday.
Wendy Williams Hunter is an American former broadcaster, media personality, and writer. From 2008 to 2021, she hosted the nationally syndicated television talk show The Wendy Williams Show.
Lauren Cecilia Fisher, known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is an English radio DJ, model, television presenter, author and singer. She was the lead singer and additional guitarist in the alternative rock band Kenickie. The group's album At The Club reached the top 10, although her greatest chart success came when she performed vocals on Mint Royale's single "Don't Falter". Laverne has presented numerous television programmes, including 10 O'Clock Live for Channel 4, and The Culture Show and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. She has also written a published novel entitled Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits. She presents the breakfast show on BBC Radio 6 Music, and in 2018 became the host of the long-running radio show Desert Island Discs.
Cynthia Jane Williams was an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcoms Happy Days (1975–1979), and Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982). She also appeared in American Graffiti (1973), The Conversation (1974), Mr. Ricco (1975), and More American Graffiti (1979).
Trishelle Cannatella is an American reality television contestant, Playboy model, and actress, known for her appearances on the MTV reality television series The Real World: Las Vegas, and the Real World spinoff show The Challenge. She has also appeared on other reality shows such as The Surreal Life, Kill Reality, Punk'd and Fear Factor. She has also made appearances in TV ads and music videos, posed nude in Playboy magazine, appeared in the horror film The Scorned, and competed successfully in celebrity poker tournaments.
Michelle Bridges is an Australian personal trainer, author and television personality. From 2007 to 2015, she was a trainer on the Australian version of The Biggest Loser, making her first appearance in the second season.
The Wendy Williams Show is an American syndicated talk show created and hosted by Wendy Williams, and produced by Wendy Williams Productions, along with Perler Productions. The show was distributed by Debmar-Mercury and aired nationally, with Fox's owned-and-operated stations serving as its primary affiliate base. The talk show first aired on July 14, 2008, in select major U.S. markets and later expanded nationwide on July 13, 2009, due to loyal viewership which proved highly profitable. It aired its final episode on June 17, 2022, with reruns continuing on most TV stations until September 9.
Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, making her the first trans woman to win the award. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on U.S. broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS's Doubt.
Larsa Marie Pippen is an American reality television personality. She is an original cast member on Bravo's reality series The Real Housewives of Miami, appearing since its premiere in 2011, and rejoining in 2021. She is the ex-wife of former NBA player Scottie Pippen.
Charlotte Letitia Crosby is an English television personality, known for appearing in the MTV reality series Geordie Shore and winning the twelfth series of Celebrity Big Brother. In 2017, she began presenting Just Tattoo of Us, and in 2018, Crosby began starring in her own reality series, The Charlotte Show.
Kacy Esther Catanzaro is an American professional wrestler and a former gymnast and obstacle racer. She is currently signed with WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Katana Chance. Alongside Kayden Carter, she is a one-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion, holding the record for the longest reign in the title's history, and a one-time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion. Carter and Chance are also the first women's tag team to have won the WWE and NXT Women's Tag Team Championships.
Reginald Lamar Cox, known professionally as M Lamar, is an American composer, performer, and artist. He is an operatic countertenor and pianist whose work incorporates film, sculpture, installation, and performance.
Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy heiress to access upper-class New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017.
Jessica Pressler is an American journalist and contributing editor at New York magazine. Her 2015 article "The Hustlers at Scores", was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and was later made into a feature film called Hustlers in 2019. She also wrote a story about Anna Sorokin that was later developed into the mini-series Inventing Anna released by Netflix in 2022.
Inventing Anna is an American drama television miniseries created by Shonda Rhimes, inspired by the story of Anna Sorokin and the article in New York titled "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People" by Jessica Pressler. It was produced by Shondaland. Netflix released the miniseries on February 11, 2022.
Rachel DeLoache Williams is an American writer, photographer, and editor. She worked as a photo editor and producer for Vanity Fair from 2010 until 2019. Williams is known for being the former friend of Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be a German heiress and was accused of conning Williams out of $62,000.
Alexis Floyd is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Neff in the Netflix series Inventing Anna and Simone on Grey's Anatomy.