Trishelle Cannatella

Trishelle Cannatella was born and raised in Cut Off, Lousiana, back in 1979. She grew up as a baptist girl who was really attached to her mother. Her whole family used to go to church three to four times a week due to the fact that her mother was a very devout Christian. Tragedy struck Trishelle's family when her mother died from a brain tumor when she was only 14 years old. During her high school years she was pretty athletic, belonging to several teams. She graduated from South Lafourche High School, and went on to The University of Southern Mississippi, where she left her broadcast journalism major unfinnished. During her university years she was part of the Chi Omega sorority. As far as her career goes, she has been part of several reality shows, including The Real World. Back in 2002, as she was struggling to pay her student loans, she decided to audition for a show called Lost In The U.S that offered a $50,000 prize. Although she was not selected to be part of that project, she was invited to audition for The Real World: Las Vegas where she was selected and did pretty good. The show was not an easy experience for her as she thought that her role would be that of the typical homophobic and racist southern cast member. During the show Cannatella and her roommates had to work at clubs and at the hotel. She was encouraged to act out as much as possible in order to make the show more appealing for the audience, as a means to encourage them, they had access to large amounts of alcohol which was an issue for her as she knew that alcoholism was a sad part of her family. While she was part of the show there was a episode in which the cast members of The Real World Las Vegas had to face the cast members of Road Rules: Campus Crawl in a series of challenges. Cannatella appeared on the reunion show called Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas in which she got to meet her roommates and catch up on what they were doing after the show. She has also been part of other reality shows that include Kill Reality, Punk'd (a show hosted by Ashton Kutcher in which celebrities are pranked), Fear Factor in 2006, where she won the challenges along with her former boyfriend Mike Mizanin, the USA Network reality series called DR. Steve-O and Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. In terms of other professional work, she has appeared in the Playboy magazine, the Playboy Cyber Club and in a Playboy DVD. She also played for the New York Euphoria in Lingerie Bowl III.