Gorgeous Vanessa Minnillo was best known as the host of MTV’s Total Request Live and her red carpet work as a reporter on “Entertainment Tonight,” but she was wowing people with her looks and ebullient personality long before then.Born Nov. 9, 1980 at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, Minnillo’s mother was a Philippino native who married Minnillo’s father, a USAF aircrew member, while he was stationed at Clark. The couple separated when the youngster was only six, with her mother gaining custody of her and her older adopted brother, Vince. The three then set about moving around the
