Well, You Don’t Say: 9 Celebrities, Ballers, Authors And Vixens You Might Not Have Known Were Virgin Islanders
Lisa Canning
The former “Dancing With the Stars” co-host (it was way back when in season one), “Entertainment Tonight” correspondent and actress is another celebrity hailing from VI. Born and bred in St. Thomas, Canning got her start in radio and television as a teenager in the Virgin Islands. She worked at a station in St. Thomas, and in an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1991, she explained what her experience was like. “I was scared to death,” she says of her first few times on the air. “For a long time all I could say was the time and the temperature. Then I would script everything I said.” She has definitely come a looooooong way.
So, any U.S. Virgin Islanders out there?
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