Paula Abdul's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) So You Think You Can Dance (AU) Paula Abdul… The Friday Night Project (UK) Paula Abdul Live to Dance Paula Abdul VH1 Divas Paula Abdul… Hey Paula Paula Abdul Good Day Live Paula Abdul Guest Co-Ho… Hollywood Residential Paula Abdul The Wayne Brady Show (2001) Paula Abdul

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Paula Abdul grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. She began taking dance lessons when she was eight. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was senior class president and head cheerleader. After graduating in 1980, she started college at Cal State-Northridge, majoring in TV and radio. After joining the L.A. Lakers cheerleaders, she became head cheerleader/choreographer after only a few months, eventually dropping out of college to dance and choreograph full-time. She was recruited by 'The Jacksons' to choreograph their 1984 "Torture" video, the first in a long list of videos and movies she would choreograph. She branched out into singing with her first CD, "Forever Your Girl", which had lackluster sales until the single "Straight Up" exploded onto the charts in December 1988 and she has been a popular singer/dancer ever since, enhanced by her stint as a judge on the hit series American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (2002).


TRIVIA:

• Has an older sister named Wendy
• Ranked #85 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
• She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
• 3/24/05: A Los Angeles court sentenced her to two years probation and ordered her to pay $1100 after she pleaded no contest to an involvement in a hit-and-run incident in December of 2004.
• Former L.A. Lakers cheerleader.
• Has a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
• In a guest appearance on _"The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" (1999)_ (qv) on 18 May 2004, she remarked that she is no longer a vegetarian.
• Former sister-in-law of 'Ramon Estevez' (qv) and 'Charlie Sheen (I)' (qv)