The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone: MTV Host, Adrienne Bailon

By CC Staff

If it’s one thing we’ve learned here at CC, it’s that all people are fascinating (Yes, even your econ professor). Let’s face it – people love to glimpse into the lives of other people. Disagree? Then please explain why you’re currently looking at your friend’s brother’s girlfriend’s cousin’s photos on Facebook. Or reading about the latest Rihanna dramz in this weeks’ tabloids. Yeah we thought so.

Fact is we connect to others by learning about them. And everyone has something to share (even if it is a story about that time their pants split in the middle of class).

So to give you yet another reason to procrastinate, we started ‘The Five Questions We Ask Everyone’ (plus five for that special someone) because we know whether we’re schmoozing with an A- list celeb or your local bartender, you’ll be equally entertained.

You may remember Adrienne Bailon from her days belting it out for 3LW. Or, for you younger ladies, her time spent in the Cheetah Girls. For the rest of us, Adrienne is a sporadic (via cell phone) guest on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, as she is Rob Kardashian’s one and only. (I know; that show is so. good.)

Well, that is all grand, but Adrienne’s got a new project in the works and it’s a biggie: she’s hosting MTV’s New Afternoons, a giant afternoon block of shows to keep you entertained between class and… primetime TV. You know, those few hours when you are too tired to work and too lazy to get up and order dinner…

Adrienne is really excited about the new gig and we’re super excited to get to talk to her. Get to know this lovely lady, then get in front of the TV and watch her. What else do you have to do?

5 Questions We Ask Everyone

1.  What is the most hysterical or ridiculous college memory that you have?

I have never been to college, but my sister’s fiancé just graduated from Duke Law this year.  I went and took a tour of the school, and I remember being on campus dressed from head to toe in Duke gear.  I had on a Duke jacket, hat, and pin.  I went to the store where you can buy everything and I totally OD’d and walked around campus like a Duke Christmas tree.  It was always my dream to go to college and maybe is something that I will do in the future, but I just think the whole idea of college campus life seems like so much fun.

2.  What are the five things that you can’t live without?

My phone, my laptop, my mom, chapstick, and an eyelash curler.  I also love perfume; I even carry it in my purse.

3.  What is your motto or advice that you live by?

The motto or advice that I live by is that nothing is impossible.  I  think that if you really set your heart into something and you really believe in yourself you can make anything happen.

4.  What is your favorite song to belt out? 

“Girls Just Want To Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper.  It’s the one song that puts me in a good mood after I hear it.

5.  In ten years from now, where do you think you will be?

Hopefully in ten years I can be like Gloria Estefan and have both English and Spanish albums, as well as a family.  I admire Gloria Estefan because she is a family woman but at the same time has a career.

5 Questions Just For Adrienne

1.  What is it like growing up in the spotlight?

I feel like I had a really normal childhood and didn’t grow up in the spotlight.  I started doing 3LW when I was 16 and didn’t even start  doing the Cheetah Girls until I was 19.  I appreciate the fact that I  had a normal childhood, and by 16 I knew what was going on and I didn’t get jaded by the industry.  It was a lot better for me that I started later on in life, and I love that.

2.  Tell us about your new gig hosting New Afternoons?

I am thrilled about being the new host of New Afternoons on MTV.  I get to work in Times Square at the MTV Studios where TRL was (!), and it has been so much fun.  It’s a really cool show.  We get to host the entire afternoon where they play three shows, which are Parental Control,  Room Raiders and Sex… With Mom and Dad.  We also have celebrities that  stop by and hang out with us, watch the shows and promote their upcoming projects.

3.  Do you like the show Sex… With Mom and Dad?

It’s my favorite!  I think what I love so much about it is that it’s so taboo.  It’s something that I feel a lot of kids had wanted to do but have never gotten the opportunity to be open with their parents  about their experiences.  I’m also a huge fan of Dr. Drew.  I think it’s an educational show and is also really entertaining.

4.  Do you think that you will ever return to music?

Definitely! It is still my dream.

10.  What advice do you have for girls who want to break into the entertainment business?

Believe in yourself.  I think that if you believe in yourself, no one can stop you.  Confidence is also important.  Be a hard worker, and practice makes perfect.  The sky’s the limit.