Leilene Ondrade

Biography: Leilene first exploded as a magazine superstar, gracing the pages of FHM, a host of Playboy titles, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Fit Models International, and countless others. She then became fantasy-fodder for an entire generation of American adolescents as a music video femme fatale, where she gyrated in heavy MTV rotation with the likes of Janet Jackson, Naughty by Nature, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, and more. Soon, Hollywood beckoned. Typecast as “the hot babe”, Leilene appeared in such films as: Detroit Rock City, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, National Lampoon’s Strip Poker (Fall, 2006), and almost blew basketball legend Dennis Rodman’s fragile mind to shreds in the made-for-TV biopic Bad As I Wanna Be. Making the leap from the silver screen to the small screen, Leilene then appeared on cable TV’s top-rated program, WWE’s Monday Night Raw on the USA Network in summer of 2005 as a wrestling “diva”. Her segments with sports-entertainment legends Jerry “TheLeilene first exploded as a magazine superstar, gracing the pages of FHM, a host of Playboy titles, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Fit Models International, and countless others. She then became fantasy-fodder for an entire generation of American adolescents as a music video femme fatale, where she gyrated in heavy MTV rotation with the likes of Janet Jackson, Naughty by Nature, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, and more. Soon, Hollywood beckoned. Typecast as “the hot babe”, Leilene appeared in such films as: Detroit Rock City, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, National Lampoon’s Strip Poker (Fall, 2006), and almost blew basketball legend Dennis Rodman’s fragile mind to shreds in the made-for-TV biopic Bad As I Wanna Be. Making the leap from the silver screen to the small screen, Leilene then appeared on cable TV’s top-rated program, WWE’s Monday Night Raw on the USA Network in summer of 2005 as a wrestling “diva”. Her segments with sports-entertainment legends Jerry “The King” Lawler and Sergeant Slaughter ranked in the Nielsen’s as the most-viewed on the entire Raw telecast, reaching over 4.6 million people. After leaving the WWE, she was quickly signed by the WWE’s chief rival, TNA, and appeared on TNA Pay-Per-Views and their flagship cable program TNA iMPACT! on Spike TV in 2006.

VH1, looking to launch their “Celebreality” lineup, immediately signed Leilene to star in their Bachelor parody, Flavor of Love, with hip-hop superstar Flavor Flav as the man looking for romance. Going by the moniker “Smiley”, Leilene appeared in seven of the show’s 10 episodes. Her exit from the program ranks among the most memorable in reality TV history when Flavor Flav admitted to falling in love with her, but cited Leilene’s feelings for her not-yet-divorced husband as an obstacle too great to overcome. Flavor of Love shocked the critics to become the most viewed program in VH1 history, drawing six-million spectators for just a single episode. She now lives in Costa Mesa, California with her three children.… Expand