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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 remained returned to Tuscaoosa to attend the University
of Alabama following in the footsteps of her famous 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 trying to pursue a
career in acting and modeling. She has been told she would need to lose
a little more 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 season
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.
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.
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.
That winter, the E! network premiered a
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 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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