06/11/2025
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Former BET/MTV host Ananda Lewis has passed away from Stage 4 Breast Cancer.
Former model and social activist. She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own broadcast syndicated television talk show, The Ananda Lewis Show.
She was a correspondent for The Insider from 2004 to 2005. She then became a carpenter. She hosted the 2019 revival of While You Were Out on TLC.
On October 1, 2020, Lewis announced to her Instagram followers that she has been battling stage 3 breast cancer for the last two years.
Lewis was born on March 21, 1973, in Los Angeles.She is of African American and Native American descent, specifically of the Creek and Blackfoot tribes.
While a student at Howard University in 1993, Lewis was featured prominently in the hit R&B video by fellow HU alumni Shai, "Baby, I'm Yours," filmed on campus. She portrayed the love interest of vocalist Carl "Groove" Martin.
Also in 1996 Teen Summit was nominated for a CableACE Award, and the next year the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented Lewis with an Image Award for her work on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
In 2001 Lewis earned another NAACP Image Award, for her hosting of the MTV special True Life: I Am Driving While Black.
In 2000, People included Lewis on its list of the world's "50 Most Beautiful People".
