Claudia Jordan

**Claudia Angela Jordan** (born April 12, 1973) is an American television personality, reporter, actress, model and talk show host. She is best known for starring in the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

## Early Life

Jordan was born in Providence, Rhode Island.

She was a sprinter and earned all-state honours in track and field while in high school. She competed in three Junior Olympics and in college became an All-American sprinter the 400-meter relay.

She attended Baldwin Wallace University and Long Island University.

## Career

Jordan held the Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1990 title and represented Rhode Island at the Miss Teen USA 1990 pageant. In 1997, she won the Miss Rhode Island USA title, becoming the second African-American woman ever to hold that title. She competed at Miss USA 1997 where she placed in the top 10. She appeared in music videos for Backstreet Boys, Ginuwine, Fabolous, Charlie Wilson, Joe, Chico DeBarge, D'Angelo, Coolio, Master P, Ludacris and Kenny Lattimore. She has worked as a journalist at the Providence American newspaper and in production at the Boston television station WHDH-TV. She has appeared in national television commercials for Coors Light, Sears, Pepsi, Visa, Microsoft and Mountain Dew.

She appeared as a contestant on Dog Eat Dog. Prior to appearing on the show she was known as a former Barker's Beauty on the CBS game show The Price Is Right from 2001 to 2003. She appeared on Deal or no Deal holding Case #1 for all four seasons.

Jordan appeared on the second season of Celebrity Apprentice. In the series, celebrities raise money for a charity of their choice; she selected the NAPSAC Foundation as her charity. She was later asked to return to compete on the All-Star version of Celebrity Apprentice. She was then hired by Apprentice host Donald Trump to co-host the Miss Universe 2009 pageant from the Bahamas alongside Billy Bush.

She her first hosting job was for Fox Sports West as a red carpet correspondent for 54321 and also appeared on The Best Damn Sports Show Period. She then went on E! and The Style Network as the co-host of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life for two seasons. After that she was asked to join BET's late night sports show Ballers with John Salley, Guy Torry and Hugh Douglas.

Jordan was also a stand out on the satellite radio show The Foxxhole alongside Jamie Foxx, who then have her her own weekly show on Sirius/XM Radio on The Foxxhole, called "The Claudia Jordan Show". Jordan also co-hosted on "Reach Around Radio".

She was a co-host on Tameka Cottle's talk show Tiny's Tonight alongside Tamar Braxton and rapper Trina. the television pilot aired in December 2012 on VH1. Jordan also hosted the travel show for AT&T called The Summer of Adventure. She also often appeares as a contributor on CNN/HLN.

Next she went on to star in TV-One's The Next 15 and lead her own morning show in Dallas, The Morning Rus, which was the top rated R&B Morning show in Dallas. She now has own talk show on the Fox Soul Platform called Out Loud with Claudia Jordan.

### The Real Housewives of Atlanta

In 2014, Claudia joined the cast of the Bravo reality television series for the seventh season before returning as a 'guest' in Season 8 and 13.

#### **RHOA Taglines**

* Season 7 - "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm here to stay."

## Personal Life

Jordan has never been married and has no children.