Debbie Matenopoulos was born in Richmond, Virginia. If you were to look at her birth certificate,it would say that a baby girl was born with the name Thespina Matenopoulos on Friday the 13th at 3:13 am. The timing of her birth alone seems to be a good indication that there would be something special about this little girl.

Thespina was named after her grandmother who lived in Greece. Her parents immigrated to the United States years earlier with two small children. The name Thespina was Americanized to Debbie when she was a little girl. Along with Debbie her parents also Americanized their names. Debbie's mom went from Froso to Francis and her father went from Niko to Nick

Debbie realized that she wanted to be involved in the journalism/entertainment world as a little girl. She began the first step of realizing that dream by writing her own column in her high school newspaper. Then she got a job at as an assistant at a local recording studio/production facility. As fate would have it,this lead to the opportunity of doing voice-overs for radio.

Debbie attended the Virginia Commonwealth University. At VCU Debbie realized she wanted to go into broadcast journalism. She became involved with the colleges radio station WVCW. Debbie was both a disc jokey and a program director for WVCW. Debbie was able start her own radio program that involved issues for young people. At the same time Debbie also got involved with the syndicated broadcast company SupeRadio.

In 1994 Debbie decided and told her mother at their kitchen table that she wanted to apply for an internship with MTV. Debbie applied, interviewed and within a week was moving to New York City to begin her internship. While doing her internship Debbie decided to make NYC her home and began going to New York University. Her hardwork in the intern program landed Debbie a job as a production assistand for MTV. Eventually, Debbie became a story cordinator for MTV's "Unfiltered".

No one not even Debbie could have predicted what would happen to her next. During her senior year at NYU Debbie decided to interview for this show called The View. The View was a new talk show with Barbara Walters as one of the executive producers. Debbie didn't even believe she had a chance to get this first time ever in front of a camera gig but she did. For two years Debbie, sat at a table with veterans Meredith Vieira and Barbara Walters, comedian Joy Behar and TV attorney Star Jones.

Since The View Debbie has hosted her own series of streamline videos for rockcity.com. Also, she became a coorespondent for Celebrity Death Match . Now she also has made her home as a host for the TV Guide Channel. Inevitably this bio will become longer as this talented woman not only dreams about life, but also strives to make her dreams reality. May we all strive to make our dreams reality right along with Debbie.

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