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Mandy Stadtmiller (born October 24, 1975) is an author and columnist for ''New York'' magazine, former editor-at-large of
xoJane ''xoJane'' (also known as ''xoJane.com'') was an American online magazine from 2011 to 2016 geared toward women and founded by Jane Pratt and co-published by Say Media. Pratt was the founding editor of '' Sassy'' and '' Jane'' magazines. In l ...
, "Girl Talk" columnist for ''Penthouse'' and host of the comedy podcast "News Whore." She is also known for her dating column in the ''
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'', called "About Last Night." Her TV appearances include ''
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'', ''
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'', ''20/20'', ''The Insider'', '' Dr. Drew On Call'', ''
Jane Velez-Mitchell Jane Velez-Mitchell is a television and social media journalist and author with specialties in vegan lifestyles, animal rights, addiction, and social justice. She is a New York Times bestselling author, former CNN Headline News (HLN) host, an ...
'', ''Uncommon Sense with Charlamagne Tha God'', ''
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,'' ''Red Eye'', ''
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'', '' The Artie Lange Show'', ''The Joy Behar Show'', ''
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TV'', ''Fuse TV'' and ''
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''. She has also written for ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Time Out'', ''
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'', ''The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel'', ''The Des Moines Register'', ''
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'' and
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. She is a contributor to HuffPost Live. Stadtmiller wrote about inspiring the Nina Howard character (played by
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) in '' The Newsroom'' after briefly dating
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and showed their correspondence about the development of the "Bad Mandy" character in ''
xoJane ''xoJane'' (also known as ''xoJane.com'') was an American online magazine from 2011 to 2016 geared toward women and founded by Jane Pratt and co-published by Say Media. Pratt was the founding editor of '' Sassy'' and '' Jane'' magazines. In l ...
''.


Early life

Stadtmiller was born in
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in 1975 to Patricia and Jerry Stadtmiller, a Marine and
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veteran. In a 2018 interview, Stadtmiller stated that multiple bullet wounds to the face received during combat in Vietnam left her father completely blind and suffering anger management issues related to an acquired brain injury. She attended The
University of San Diego High School Cathedral Catholic High School (CCHS) is a private coeducational Catholic college preparatory day school in San Diego, California, serving grades 9–12. It is operated by the Diocese of San Diego. In 1970, Cathedral Girls High School, a girl ...
in California. In 1997, she received a bachelor's degree in journalism from
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.


Career

In August 2006, Stadtmiller was groped and bitten by actor/comedian
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during an interview following his appearance on the
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Roast of
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. Dick said that Stadtmiller "slanted" the incident. In 2006, Stadtmiller won first place in New York's Funniest Reporter Show contest in the New York City Underground Comedy Festival. In October 2007, she became a semi-finalist in the search for New York's Funniest Stand-Up a contest run by the New York Comedy Festival. She performs stand-up comedy throughout New York City at various clubs and venues. According to her Twitter account, in February 2012, Stadtmiller quit the ''New York Post''. She is a frequent contributor to the gossip pages of Page Six. Stadtmiller was Editor-at-Large of Jane Pratt's site ''xoJane''. In September 2015, she wrote about continuing to have this role at the site but going freelance in a controversial piece called "How I Became a First-Person Human Trafficker" for ''New York''. For her work at xoJane, Stadtmiller was profiled twice in ''
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'', as well as on Flavorwire and The Rumpus. In 2014, she was named as one of the 25 "most shameless people on the Web" at SXSW, where she was featured on a panel with Jane Pratt,
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and
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for "Fearlessly Funny: The Women Changing Digital Humor." Largely known for her social media presence, Stadtmiller was the first verified Twitter user from the ''New York Post'', and frequently writes about using social media for networking, including how to boost one's
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score. Stadtmiller currently hosts a podcast on the RiotCast Network called ''News Whore''. ''News Whore'' debuted at #22 in comedy podcasts on iTunes and has consistently remained in the top 100 since its launch in July. In early 2015, Stadtmiller announced "The Mandy Project," a month-long quest to find the perfect Valentine's Day date in partnership with the online dating website Plenty of Fish. For a month, she chronicled going on a series of dates and testing out romantic cliches such as "Play hard to get," "Love like you've never been hurt" and "Everything happens for a reason." The next month she announced that she would be documenting her relationship in "real-time" in a Kindle singles series called "Dear TMI-ary", where she wrote about her new relationship with Pat Dixon. On 11 November 2015, she and Dixon married onstage in a comedy club, as part of Dixon's comedy show. Both the proposal and the wedding were broadcast on social media app Periscope, and tickets could be purchased to attend the joint wedding/comedy show. In 2016, she began the weekly "Unwifeable" column for ''New York'' magazine's The Cut, chronicling her unlikely and unfolding marriage to Pat Dixon despite being, in her eyes, "the most unwifeable woman in New York". Stadtmiller writes a Substack called "Rabbitholed," which she describes as "The craziest stories in the world you never knew with the analysis you need now."


List of ''News Whore'' episodes


Television appearances

* ''
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'' (2006) * ''Red Eye'' (2007) * Fuse TV's "10 Great Reasons" (2007) *
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’s "Rock Band Cometh" (2007) *''The Insider'' (2010) *''The Joy Behar Show'' (2010) *''Pepsi: The Flow'' (2011) *''20/20'' (2012) *'' Dr. Drew On Call'' (2012) *''Media Mayhem with Allison Hope Weiner'' (2013) *''
Jane Velez-Mitchell Jane Velez-Mitchell is a television and social media journalist and author with specialties in vegan lifestyles, animal rights, addiction, and social justice. She is a New York Times bestselling author, former CNN Headline News (HLN) host, an ...
'' (2013) *'' The Artie Lange Show'' (2014) *''
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'' (2014) *''
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'' (2014) *''
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'' (2014) *''
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'' (2014) *''
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Daily Share'' (2015)


Radio show appearances

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’s In Demand Channel (2006) * '' The Lazlow Show'' (2006) * '' Raw Dog Comedy'' (2007) * ''
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'' (2007, 2013, 2014) * Maxim Radio (2007) * WOR (2007) * The Jenny Hutt Show (2012, 2015) * The Jane Pratt Show (2012) *
The Alan Colmes Show ''The Alan Colmes Show'' was a nationally syndicated American radio show hosted by commentator Alan Colmes on Fox News Radio. The show aired on weeknights from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) from Fox's Manhattan studios. The prog ...
(2014, 2015) * My Wife Hates Me (2015) * The Jenny McCarthy Show (2015) * Emily McCombs "OverShare" (2015) * My Wife Hates Me (2016)


Notes


External links


"Unwifeable" column
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''News Whore'' podcast
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