Tanya Memme

Ask the sassy, quick-witted host of A&E's Emmy Nominated “Sell This House” how to win the title of Miss World Canada and become a rising star on TV, and she'll answer with buckets of passion, insight and determination. Memme, who originates from Canada began performing on stage as a ballet dancer at the tender age of 7.
The daughter of a family owned award-winning housing company called "Mountain View Homes,” renowned for custom homes and commercial developments in Ontario, Canada, Tanya was the perfect choice to host “Sell This House” on A&E which is now in its sixth season! Using real-life experiences, Tanya gives expert advice on how to stage your house on a budget and sell it faster, especially in a tough real estate market.

Memme can also be seen hosting segments for “Hollywood 411” on the TV GUIDE network, as well as “Entertainment Tonight Canada,” the highest rated entertainment news program in Canada, airing nightly on national TV. Along with “Sell This House” and “ET Canada”, she is the spokesperson for Direct Buy and Renuzit Triscents (the new fragrance line for the Dial Corporation) www.renuzit.com, as well as World Vision Canada, (one of the largest non profit organizations to help aid world hunger and educate people on the severity of Human Trafficking). She will be visiting Cambodia this year to shoot a World Vision special with Alex Trebek.

She is well-known in Los Angeles as the former host of CBS-2’s "9 On the Town” and ABC-7’s “Eye on LA.” Nationally, she appeared in the living room of 12 million viewers as the face of “DirecTV” and she was the host of three seasons of TLC’s “Robotica”. She was a sports reporter for KCBS' Fan Cam and an entertainment reporter for both Warner Bros./Telepictures and CBS. As a well trained actor, singer and dancer, she has also starred in roles on The Practice, JAG, CSI Miami, Saturday Night Live with Sylvester Stallone, various independent films and she just finished shooting her first lead-role in a feature film, starring Corey Feldman in the movie “Terror Inside”. Memme has just released her first CD entitled "GEMINI" which is available on itunes and on her website.

At age fifteen Tanya left rural Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada, a strong Italian Catholic background and a childhood where she grew up on a 200-acre sod farm to further her career. Under the expert tuition of her mentor Shirley Yeszman, Tanya had already demonstrated a strong passion for dance and set her sights on training hard and becoming a performer. She has judged and taught many young dancers in Canada since then. Also trained, taught and guided by the efforts of Geoffrey Chapman (Geoffrey Chapman Complete Success Models), she began competing in local beauty pageants. By 1994, she was crowned Miss World Canada. A roller-coaster sequence of events ensued that Tanya now looks back on as “the best and worst experience” all rolled into one. Five months into her reign, after competing in the Miss World Pageant in Sun City, South Africa, Tanya made the shocking decision to give back her crown. She then decided to move to New York City and attended the prestigious American Musical & Dramatic Academy.

Did you know that Tanya's mother is a successful artist with collectors in both the United States and Canada?

View her recent work at BeverleyBarber.com. Aside from her busy schedule, Tanya loves to nourish one of her life’s purposes by giving empowering motivational speeches to parents and teens. Memme expresses her key life philosophies by which she lives, creating abundance, success and happiness. At the same time has a sassy and open book manner, showing her own vulnerabilities, shares her ups and downs and embarrassing moments, stressing the importance of integrity, positive thinking and healthy living. She has a strong interest in the state of the environment, current affairs, psychology and spirituality and health. She also has a passion for people’s life stories and is interested in hearing stories about the underdog: how they came from nothing and overcame the impossible. To further her message she will be writing her fist book this year spearheaded by the Trident Group in NYC.

A keen traveler who loves to discover what the world has to offer, Tanya has a distinct athletic daredevil side to her. From dirt biking and helicopter skiing to stunt car driving, she has an innate interest for living on the edge. Tanya has also cycled in a 420-mile bike ride from Montreal, Quebec to Portland, Maine to raise funds for AIDS and every year tries to do something to challenge herself physically!