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Morgan Webb Profile |
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Birth Date: October 5, 1978
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Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Birth Name: Morgan Webb
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
To the delight of computer wizards worldwide, Morgan Webb
was born October 5, 1978 just outside Toronto, but her
family soon moved to Los Angeles. At only 5 years of age,
the cute, outgoing Morgan starred in commercials for
McDonald's and other companies. Some may still remember her
reciting the Big Mac's ingredients to a patty cake game.
Her parents limited her TV time in an attempt to get her to
spend more time outdoors. Instead, young Morgan would spend
hours playing video games (first Atari, then moving on to
the original Nintendo). Hence her love for gaming stayed
strong. She excelled in Legend of Zelda and other
role-playing games, and would often practice secretly in
hopes of beating her older brother at it.
In junior high, Morgan began what would become a lifetime
obsession: fiddling with her hair color. She would
experiment dying it with different Kool-Aid colors, which
would inexplicably always result in a reddish hue. She is
rumored to have shaved it all off at one point.
Morgan went to the University of California at Berkeley,
where she got a degree in rhetoric with a minor in Italian.
She describes rhetoric as the study of the arguments of
philosophy, and as a way of studying philosophy with a more
real-world face.
She graduated during the dot-com craze and went to work for
Radio Riot Live, an Internet start-up that failed soon after
its inception. With her friend Cat Schwartz from the busted
company, she went to TechTV in 2001. She joined the program
Screen Savers, in which she was a co-producer. Her quirky
attitude and photogenic looks didn't go unnoticed, and they
soon put her before the camera where she dished out Windows
tips, of which she was a raging expert, three times a week.
She also hosted the show a few times.
In 2003, she moved up to co-host X-Play, TechTV's popular
video game show. Her chameleon-like hair and onscreen charm
gained her a fiercely loyal following. One fan was so
determined to get her attention that he hacked into
Madonna's official website and wrote, tucked within other
text, a marriage proposal to Morgan.
Why Madonna remains unclear, but it made Morgan an overnight
sensation. She jumped to the top of Yahoo!'s Buzz Index
movers list. That means that searches for her name in the
search engine soared faster than any other celebrity, at
2,000%, surpassing Gwen Stefani and Natalie Maines of the
Dixie Chicks.
Morgan Webb can still be seen on X-Play. She lives in a San
Francisco house with some friends, where she relaxes by
using Linux instead of Windows. She still hasn't officially
accepted the marriage proposal from her fan. |
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Other
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Attended University of California at Berkeley
She earned a minor in Italian in college.
She was number 39 in FHM's 2004 50 Most Eligible Women In
The World.
Was a Gerber baby.
Was voted "Miss Kissable" in her high school yearbook.
Her family moved to Los Angeles soon after she was born.
Attended elementary, middle, and high schools for
academically gifted students.
Got into playing video games as a kid because her parents
disapproved of television and refused to order cable.
Has an older brother and two older half-siblings.
She suffers from an astigmatism, so she requires glasses for
reading.
Her favorite soft drink is Diet Coke
Ranked as #73 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005"
special supplement. (2005) |
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