About
Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981), best known as Tila Tequila, is an American model, entertainer, and singer residing in West Hollywood, California. She is best known for her appearances in Stuff, Maxim, Time, her role as host of the Fuse TV show Pants-Off Dance-Off and her position as the most popular person on MySpace as of April 2006. She was raised in Houston, Texas.
Early Years
Nguyen was born in Singapore, while her family was emigrating from Vietnam after the Vietnam War. A few years later, they moved again to the Houston, Texas neighborhood of Alief, where they lived in rundown housing for most of Nguyen’s childhood until they were admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple. The family left the community when Nguyen was eight.
As soon as she entered middle school, Nguyen developed a tomboy attitude and got in fights. Her behavior eventually got her sent to a boarding school for six months before being transferred to another school. As soon as she reached high school, she used her sister’s identification card to enter nightclubs, where she began experimenting with drugs and joined a gang. In an interview with Import Tuner, Nguyen said she had been searching for a sense of identity: “I was really confused then, ’cause at first I thought I was black, then I thought I was Hispanic and joined a cholo gang”. Later she made some friends outside the gang who briefly helped turn her life around, however her past caught up with her, and she fled to Queens, New York at the age of sixteen. She then began to focus on her studies and jobs.
Modeling and Acting
Nguyen’s career began at the age of eighteen when she was discovered at the Sharpstown Mall by a Playboy scout and was offered a chance to model nude for the magazine and did a test shoot, then eventually moved to Southern California and was featured as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the week on April 22, 2002, and soon thereafter she became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the Month.
Nguyen gained further popularity through the import racing scene. She has been featured on the cover of Import Tuner magazine, at car shows such as Hot Import Nights, and in the video game Street Racing Syndicate. In 2003, she was a contestant on VH1’s Surviving Nugent, a reality TV show where participants performed compromising tasks and stunts for rock star Ted Nugent. She was also the most frequent host on the first season of Fuse TV’s dance show, Pants-Off Dance-Off, on which a group of contestants strip to music videos.
Nguyen was featured on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Stuff magazine; in the interview, she claimed that her nickname “Tila Tequila” came about when she was in middle school after she had experimented with alcohol but then had a severe allergic reaction to it. She was later included in Stuff’s 100 Sexiest Women Online. She appeared on the August 2006 Maxim UK cover and was named #88 in their Hot 100 List.
Nguyen made an appearance as one of the 12 Strangers in the first game on the April 6, 2007 episode of NBC’s game show Identity. Her identity was that she has “over one million MySpace friends,” a number which, as of that date, stood at 1,771,920. On March 4, 2007 Nguyen made a cameo appearance on the show “War At Home”
Tila’s Hot Spot
In 2001 Nguyen started up her website entitled “Tila’s Hot Spot”. Originally it was a website featuring her information, quotes, blog, and pictorials including some content which required adult verification and a monthly payment fee to view. Later the site format was revamped by TAJ Designs Inc. to feature all ages content and information to promote her current career, business ventures, personal information, and a premium membership section including videos, non-nude picture galleries, blogs, and chat sessions.
During 2005 Nguyen launched Tilafashion.com, a site featuring her custom line of fashion clothes for men and women originally using the slogan “So hot you’ll just want to take it all off!” In 2006 Tila created a website entitled “Tila Zone” which features content to use on Myspace and other social networking websites including layouts, widgets, and clipart.
Music Career
Nguyen used modeling as a stepping stone for other ventures. At age twenty, she took interest in rock music and started looking for bands willing to have her join. She eventually assembled a band called Beyond Betty Jean, for which she was singer and songwriter. Following the breakup of Beyond Betty Jean, Nguyen started working in recording studios to sharpen her vocal skills and write music. Nguyen became the lead singer of a band called Jealousy, which has released songs over the Internet. Jealousy has appeared on MySpace Records’ inaugural compilation album, released through MySpace Records and Interscope.
A major turn in Nguyen’s music career occurred during the April 24, 2006 taping of MTV’s Total Request Live. In an interview with the TRL VJs, will.i.am announced that Nguyen was signed to the will.i.am music group, a record label under A&M Records. However, she is releasing her debut single and album without a label.
Nguyen released her first single “I Love U” through iTunes on February 27, 2007 which made its way to the top of the ITunes charts in 24 hours. She shot a music video for the song, which is available for free after the song is downloaded. A preview for the video debuted on February 14, 2007 on her MySpace page. The video has also been released via mobile phones. On March 6, 2007, Tila’s video was the #1 most downloaded on Apple’s iTunes. On that same date, the single charted at #84 on iTunes. In March, 2007, Washington-based record label The Saturday Team released a CD called The Sex EP, by Tila Tequila. On July 27, 2007, Italian website MusicBlob revealed that The Saturday Team and distributor Icon Music Entertainment Services sued Tila over breaching her contract related to the album.
Upcoming Work
On March 26, 2007, Nguyen announced in her MySpace blog that she would be filming a reality show for VH1. Tila has previously worked with the network as a commentator on WebJunks’s 40 Greatest Internet Superstars. Filming started in May 2007, but the show was moved to VH1’s sister network MTV that summer. On September 6th, 2007 Nguyen posted to her blog informing fans that her new reality show will air October 9th, 2007 at 10pm Pacific Standard Time on MTV entitled “A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila“, and revealed that the program will be a bisexual-themed reality dating show where 16 straight males and 16 lesbian female contestants will compete for Tila’s love, the twist is the contestants will not be aware of Tila’s bisexuality until later on. The 10 episode series is produced by 495 Productions and MTV.
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hey tila hun how are you doing today will you like to come and down live with me and my family let me konw i love you babe so much
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I just want to say that I love your show.Also your are very beautiful and a very sexy woman.I just want to let you know that being who you are is not a phase.You are you and thats all that matters.I am to bisexual.Again you are one hot babe.I was wondering if you could sent me a signed autograph.
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Hey, dude I think you’re way cool and you’ve done real well for your self, people like to say bad things about you, but they don’t know who the hell you are. Neither do I. But I can respect someone who came from nothing and made themselves into someone! SO tell all those haters throughout your life to “suck on that bitch!”
my name is jordan I want to know if you would come to churchland highschool for prom next year and preform
my name is jordan I want to know if you would come to churchland highschool in portsmouth v.a for prom next year and preform
just to let you know prom is at the norfolk marriot
why is tela trying to find love on tv she will just get her heart broken she needs a real man not one of those bitches.
i love tela
hey tila, i have seen your show “A shot at love” on mtv! I am 20 jears old and bi-sexual,and i come from Hamburg (Germany) I Think you are a very beautiful and funny person. I Love your style and your lifestyle! I hope we can see us and speek together! bye bianca from germany! I Love you
P.S; My englisch is not good
tila, you are so beautiful and i think of you all the day! I am Bi-sexual too and i hope,we can see us and talk together and have fun but i live in germany! But when you will call me i give you my number! 0152/25736600 I hope you call me! I love you! Bye
girl is so hot she do guys an girls i would do anything 2 hook up with her
hey tila,jus wanted 2 say no surprise im a fan but, n-e-ways been wachtin ur show since it came out you should of pick dani but oh well new beginin well in my opioin u should pickkrista im still watin til u get rid of jay cant stand him have no idea y u like him he is such a jerk makin fun of bo when he the 1 who started the whole fight between chad n bo he likes 2 start shit but that ur taste
Well you like women and men maybe ILL be next in line love you lots baby love you lots bubba1956
Tila Tequila is a piece of trash. I just saw the reunion episode of Tila Tequila and she is one of the most ignorant people on the planet. She deserves any of the heart break she got on that show (even if it is fake) and deserves to lose all of her fame. SHe is useless!
Tila,
When are you coming to H-Town again? Let me know and we can go party!!!!
See Ya!
TILA why do you let people get you to open up and you u take a chance and they hurt you in the end i and the same thing happing to me, but i learn my lesson the second time and will never try it again so if you every need ome one to talk to im me.
Hey Tila, i am from Portugal and I am you fan. I hope you can see this messge , because i want to mett you personal.
I hope you can write me.
Take care, lov u
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