Sherri Shepherd

At 57 years old, Sherri Shepherd has this physical status:

Career

Victoria Carlson's first television acting job was on the short lived sitcom Cleghorne!, which aired on The WB for one season in 1995. "It was the first job that I booked and I was still a legal secretary," she told Ebony in 2018. You can quit your job,'my agent told me.' I had the big break, but then it was cancelled. I lost my apartment, my car was repossessed, and I was homeless for a year. I slept on everyone's couch. It's very difficult to do in this industry. You can be working one day and not the next.

Shepherd went on to be known as Sheila Yarborough on Jamie Foxx's own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001 and for recurring roles in the late 1990s, When starring in the lead role of Ramona Platt from 2002 to 2006, she became well-known for her role in the show Less Than Perfect. Shepherd appeared on FOX's The War at Home from 2005 to 2009. Rhonda appeared in the IMAX rerelease version of Transformers in 2007. She appeared on NBC's sitcom 30 Rock from 2007 to 2013. She played Angie, the wife of character Tracy Jordan. She appeared in one season of Lifetime Television's Sherri, a sitcom about Shepherd's life in 2009. During the final season of How I Met Your Mother in 2013, she appeared as Daphne. Shepherd appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical production of Cinderella in the same year. Protest & Error: Shepherd portrayed Anne Flatch in NBC's mockumentary legal comedy film from 2017 to 2018. She will produce and appear in the comedy series pilot Black Don't Crack.

Shepherd has appeared on numerous television shows including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Rachael Ray, and To Tell the Truth. On June 20, 2008, she co-hosted the 35th Daytime Emmy Awards. Shepherd hosted Nickelodeon's NickMom Night Out special from 2013 to 2014, and Shepherd hosted the Best Ever Trivia Show on Game Show Network for 65 episodes, beginning on June 10, 2019. Since 2017, she has been appearing on Funny You Should Ask frequently.

Shepherd became a regular guest co-host on ABC's daytime talk show The View in 2006. In 2007, she made her debut in September as a permanent co-host. Shepherd has made numerous appearances on the show as a guest host and "lead contributor" since leaving The View in 2014.

Shepherd was mocked following the appearance of The View on Saturday in 2007. The show was often shot "live," with no or no editing. She said she did not "believe in evolution." "Itymoan times." "Is the world flat?" co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked. Shepherd replied, "I don't know" and quickly explained that she "never thought about it." Shepherd later referred to her address as a "brain fart" that had been brought on by nerves. Barbara Walters and Shepherd talked after the episode: Walters said, "Dear, the Earth is round," Shepherd responded with, "Barbara, I know that."

Following the broadcast of The View on December 4, 2007, Shepherd began to argue that Christians existed in classical Greece, not that the Greeks threw them to the lions, reminding Joy Behar's discussion of Epicurus. When confronted with this topic, she continued to say that "Jesus came first" (before Greeks and Romans) and that "I don't believe anything predated Christians" (before Greeks and Romans) and said, "The Jews," Behar replied.

Since admitting to not voting partly due to her upbringing as a strict Jehovah's Witness, Shepherd angered some. She was quoted as saying that she had no idea about the dates or something; she continued, "I've never voted for anything in my life." Sherri referred to Gospel singer Shirley Caesar as "the black Patti LaBelle" in January 2008. LaBelle, like Caesar, is black.

She caused controversies on The View in 2008 due to her "flippant" remarks regarding abortion. She later clarified her position, saying that her remarks weren't meant to be dismissive but rather to inspire other women who are dealing with guilt following abortions. She cited multiple abortions in her 20s, suffering from shame and guilt from those experiences and then returning to Christianity after converting to Christianity. Shepherd received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2009, alongside Behar, Goldberg, Walters, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Shepherd appeared as a celebrity contestant on ABC's Dancing with the Stars' fourteenth season in March 2012; her dance partner was Val Chmerkovskiy.

Shepherd appeared in Fox's second season as the "Penguin" in 2019.

Shepherd appeared on the syndicated daytime talk show The Wendy Williams Show from October 2021 to June 2022, as its namesake Wendy Williams had been on an indefinite absence from the program due to her medical disorders. Shepherd had been signed on to host Sherri, the show's distributor, on February 22, 2022, as a replacement for Wendy. On September 12, the series premiered on September 12.

Shepherd wrote the book Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break, which was released in October 2009. In addition, Shepherd has a co-author credit on Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes, which was released in 2013.

The Sherri Shepherd "Believe in Abilities" Fund, which is raised by Sherri, has been raised. YAI helps people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities lead to living, loving, working, and learning. YAI is a network of agencies with services that support thousands of people and their families.

Shepherd appeared on WWE SmackDown as the guest manager for pro wrestler MVP, who defeated Dolph Ziggler in a match defending the WWE World Championship in 2009. In 2011, Shepherd agreed to pay six months' rent and utilities of homeless former American Gladiators actor Debbie Clark (Storm). A project as of 2015 includes a line of wigs and hair extensions.

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