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• She was a member of the Organization Emerson Independent video while in college.
• People and FHM magazines named her one of the 50 most influential women.
• She received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program in 2014 for her work on the show “Extra.”
• On Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, Maria was named “Cyber Vixen of the Year.”
• In 2010, she was also named the Madden NFL Pro-AM MVP.
• In 2003, she made a brief appearance in an episode of the show “Punk’d.”
• Maria was designated CES entertainment matters, Ambassador, in 2014 for her After buzz tv online entertainment network.
• Prior to working at Channel One, she was involved in the making of a short film in college called Land of the Merry Misfits, the negatives of which were stolen.
• It was later found and narrated by John Waters.
• It debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007.
• Before becoming a host and actor, she worked at Dunkin’ Donuts.
• Litsa, her mother, died of brain cancer earlier this year.