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Layla Kayleigh is a British-American television personality. She used to host ''The Feed'' segment of G4's ''
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'' and co-hosted
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'' where she was the backstage correspondent. She also hosted the MTV reunion shows such as ''
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'' and ''
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''. She has been featured in several magazines including ''
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'' magazine to promote her projects and the shows she was hosting. Layla was voted as one of the most beautiful women in the world by Askmen.com and their readers.


Early life

Kayleigh lived in west London. Her birth name is Zara, but she urged her parents to call her by her middle name Layla after the
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song. When Kayleigh was 12, her single mother travelled to America in a bid to get US citizenship for them, but Layla Kayleigh opted to stay behind. She "never told a soul" about being alone for fear that social services would come for her. Layla attended St.Marylebone school for girls, a Christian school based in Bakers Street. Layla skipped two grades in the English school system and graduated younger than her classmates . She majored in psychology with a minor in English literature and graduated with honours. She also attended
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for drama and dance. On 11 September 2008, Kayleigh became a naturalised United States citizen.


Television career

In addition to once hosting
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in Britain and ABC's football halftime show, Kayleigh was once a correspondent for
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's ''
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'' but was fired after doing an interview and photoshoot with ''
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''. She has appeared on the MTV show ''
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''. She was the main host of " The Feed" segment of ''
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'' on G4, as well as shortened versions of "The Feed" during the network's commercial breaks. Kayleigh has been on ''
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'' on
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, and also reporting on all the entertainment/sports news on ''The Insider''. Kayleigh was also a guest on the
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show ''
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''. Kayleigh also served as hostess for Season VI of the
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, which was broadcast by
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in 2008. Kayleigh is a co-host on ''
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'' on MTV as their on the road correspondent looking for talent in the different cities. The show, which features
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as host premiered on 26 January 2008 with a live casting special and began its first season on 7 February 2008 with Kayleigh as backstage correspondent interviewing the bottom two crews.
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of ''America's Best Dance Crew'' started on 19 June on
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. Season 3 of ''America's Best Dance Crew'' premiered on 15 January 2009 on MTV. On 16 March 2009, episode of ''Attack of the Show!'', Kayleigh announced that she would be leaving G4 due to her pregnancy and going on an indefinite hiatus to be a stay at home mother. On 7 and 27 May 2010, Kayleigh appeared as a member of the Great American Panel on ''
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''. She was a correspondent for the
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. In April 2012 Layla began hosting MTV special reunion shows, ''
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'' and ''
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'' interviewing the cast, and speaking about the episodes that had been aired. She was listed 33rd and 88th on AskMen.com's top 99 women in 2008 and 2011 edition, respectively. She recently appeared in lingerie for a
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. In 2014 Kayleigh became a weekly correspondent on
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'' discussing pop culture and current events from around the world as part of a round table discussion. The show was cancelled in August 2015. Kayleigh married actor Chris Warren on 23 May 2019.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kayleigh, Layla 1986 births Living people American television personalities American women television personalities British emigrants to the United States Television personalities from London