Adrienne Janic () sometimes credited simply as AJ, is an American actress and

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Career and life

She has primarily worked as a television host including as a co-host of

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's ''

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'', an automotive, reality-television

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. She was also a host of '' Hot Import Nights'' (2008), an automotive show on the

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. On 12 September 2015, it was announced that she and Mike Phillips of Autogeek will host a new

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TV show ''Competition Ready''. She has appeared in several films including appearing in a

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in the film '' National Lampoon's Cattle Call'' (2006). From 2004 to 2006, Janic was one of the Fantanas, a group of promotional models that was created to promote

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brand of

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s in the U.S. In 2009 she was a co-hostess, with Tinker Keck (as Ty 'Tinker' Keck), of an infomercial for the "AbRocket" Fat Blasting System. Janic is of Serbian and Mexican descent. She is married to

Bud Brutsman Bud W. Brutsman (born May 6, 1970) is a television show creator, executive producer, and the President of Brentwood Communications International. His best known productions include '' Overhaulin and ''Rides'' for the Learning Channel (TLC), an ...

, a video producer and

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Filmography

Film

Television

Appearances as self

References

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American film actresses American television actresses Television personalities from California American women television personalities American people of Serbian descent American actresses of Mexican descent Living people Actresses from Whittier, California 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-screen-actor-1970s-stub