Jennifer McCarthy Wahlberg is an American actress, model, activist, media personality, and author. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for
Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then had a television and film acting career, starting as a co-host on the MTV game show
Singled Out (1995â1997), then some eponymous sitcoms including
Jenny (1997â1998) and
Donnie Loves Jenny (2015â2016), as well as films, such as
BASEketball (1998),
Scream 3 (2000),
Dirty Love (2005),
John Tucker Must Die (2006), and
Santa Baby (2006). In 2013, she hosted her own television talk show
The Jenny McCarthy Show, and became a co-host of the ABC talk show
The View, appearing until 2014. Since 2019, McCarthy has been a judge on the Fox musical competition show
The Masked Singer.