I Love the 2000s: Real-life people of 2005
To honor the Now Millennium: 2004–2005 release in the UK on 1 March 2024, VH1 has compiled you the real life people of 2005 who are presented in every segment of the I Love the 2000s series.
Resulting segment list
• Bushism of 2005: April 14, 2005 (Washington, D.C.) – "I'm gonna spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issues. It’s the mother in me."
• Time Capsule of 2005: A dead bird from the H5N1 outbreak, the bicycle seat from Lance Armstrong's final Tour de France race, and Dwight Schrute's bobblehead
• Sisqó's Hotties I Wanted to See in a Thong: Eva Mendes, Eva Longoria, and Heidi Klum
• How Gay Was It in 2005?: MTV Networks launches Logo TV, the first cable channel for LGBT people. (Gaydar – 5)
• Then and Now 2005: Patrick Dempsey (Now: 2005 – "Grey's Anatomy" / Then: "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987)) and Kirstie Alley (Now: 2005 – "Fat Actress" / Then: 1980s – "Cheers" (1987))
• Playlist of 2005: "Gold Digger" by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, "Beverly Hills" by Weezer, and "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson
• Liar of 2005: Rafael Palmeiro
• George Takei’s Oh My! Moment of 2005: The word “Brangelina” entered the world’s lexicon.
• Hotties of 2005: Eva Longoria, Natalie Portman, and Jessica Biel
• The Year in Spears: "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic" premieres on the UPN to negative reviews, but also Britney’s first child Sean Preston is born.
• Anti-Hero of 2005: Tommy Gavin
• Guilty Pleasures of 2005: The Pussycat Dolls, "Dancing with the Stars", and the Enormous Omelet Sandwich
Now Millennium: 2004–2005
2.1. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (10)
3.1. Coldplay - Speed of Sound (8)
3.18. Usher - Caught Up (8)
3.19. Amerie - 1 Thing (8)
3.20. Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk with My Heart (3)
3.21. Akon - Lonely (4)
4.5. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (2)
4.7. Gavin DeGraw - I Don't Want to Be (10)
4.9. The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (2)
4.11. 50 Cent featuring Olivia - Candy Shop (1) ★
4.13. Mario - Let Me Love You (1) ★
4.14. John Legend - Ordinary People (24)
Resulting segment list
• Bushism of 2005: April 14, 2005 (Washington, D.C.) – "I'm gonna spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issues. It’s the mother in me."
• Time Capsule of 2005: A dead bird from the H5N1 outbreak, the bicycle seat from Lance Armstrong's final Tour de France race, and Dwight Schrute's bobblehead
• Sisqó's Hotties I Wanted to See in a Thong: Eva Mendes, Eva Longoria, and Heidi Klum
• How Gay Was It in 2005?: MTV Networks launches Logo TV, the first cable channel for LGBT people. (Gaydar – 5)
• Then and Now 2005: Patrick Dempsey (Now: 2005 – "Grey's Anatomy" / Then: "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987)) and Kirstie Alley (Now: 2005 – "Fat Actress" / Then: 1980s – "Cheers" (1987))
• Playlist of 2005: "Gold Digger" by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, "Beverly Hills" by Weezer, and "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson
• Liar of 2005: Rafael Palmeiro
• George Takei’s Oh My! Moment of 2005: The word “Brangelina” entered the world’s lexicon.
• Hotties of 2005: Eva Longoria, Natalie Portman, and Jessica Biel
• The Year in Spears: "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic" premieres on the UPN to negative reviews, but also Britney’s first child Sean Preston is born.
• Anti-Hero of 2005: Tommy Gavin
• Guilty Pleasures of 2005: The Pussycat Dolls, "Dancing with the Stars", and the Enormous Omelet Sandwich
Now Millennium: 2004–2005
2.1. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (10)
3.1. Coldplay - Speed of Sound (8)
3.18. Usher - Caught Up (8)
3.19. Amerie - 1 Thing (8)
3.20. Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk with My Heart (3)
3.21. Akon - Lonely (4)
4.5. Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (2)
4.7. Gavin DeGraw - I Don't Want to Be (10)
4.9. The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (2)
4.11. 50 Cent featuring Olivia - Candy Shop (1) ★
4.13. Mario - Let Me Love You (1) ★
4.14. John Legend - Ordinary People (24)
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Eva Mendes is an American actress, model and businesswoman. She began acting in the late 1990s. After a series of roles in B movies such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998) and Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), she made a career-changing appearance in Training Day (2001). Since then, Mendes has co-starred in films such as All About the Benjamins (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Ghost Rider (2007), We Own the Night (2007), Stuck on You (2003), Hitch (2005), opposite Will Smith. and The Other Guys (2010). She has appeared in several music videos for artists like Will Smith. Mendes has been a model and ambassador for Cocio chocolate milk, Magnum ice cream, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Thierry Mugler perfume, Reebok, Campari apéritif, Pantene shampoo, Morgan, and Peek & Cloppenburg. She designs a fashion collection for New York & Company and is also the creative director of CIRCA Beauty, a makeup line sold at Walgreens.
Eva de la Caridad Méndez was born in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents Eva Pérez Suárez and Juan Carlos Méndez, and was raised by her mother in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake after her parents' divorce. Mendes grew up a Roman Catholic and at one time even considered becoming a Catholic nun. Her mother worked at Mann's Chinese Theatre and later for an aerospace company, and her father ran a meat distribution business. Mendes had one older brother, Juan Carlos Méndez, Jr. (1963-2016), who died from throat cancer. She has an older sister, Janet, and a younger paternal half-brother, Carlos Alberto "Carlo" Méndez. She attended Hoover High School in Glendale, and later studied marketing at California State University, Northridge, but left college to pursue acting under coach Ivana Chubbuck. Mendes began her acting career after a talent manager saw her photo in a friend's portfolio. Her first film appearance was in the direct-to-video Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998). Mendes was disappointed in her performance and she hired an acting coach. She then appeared in the films A Night at the Roxbury, My Brother the Pig, Urban Legends: Final Cut, and Exit Wounds. Mendes' breakthrough role came when she appeared in Antoine Fuqua's crime thriller Training Day (2001), playing the girlfriend of Denzel Washington's character. This then led to roles in All About the Benjamins (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) (which earned her a nomination at the Teen Choice Awards), Out of Time (2003), and Stuck on You (2003).
She was the female lead in the 2005 film Hitch, making her one of the first minority actors to play the lead in a hit romantic comedy. Mendes subsequently starred in The Wendell Baker Story (2005) with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson and Will Ferrell, with Luke Wilson directing, as well as Guilty Hearts (2002), Trust the Man (2005), Ghost Rider (2007), We Own the Night (2007), Live! (2007), and Cleaner (2007). In 2008, she was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for her performance in the all-female comedy film The Women. Mendes then appeared in The Spirit, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Other Guys (2010), Last Night (2010), Fast Five (2011), and a spoof short film for Funny or Die. In 2012, Mendes visited Sierra Leone and was featured in the PBS documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. In 2012, she starred in the crime drama film The Place Beyond the Pines, with Entertainment Weekly describing her performance as "quietly heartbreaking". The following year, she appeared in the HBO comedy film Clear History (2013). Mendes appeared in the Pet Shop Boys' music video for "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" in 1996, Aerosmith's music video for "Hole in My Soul" in 1997, and Will Smith's music video for "Miami" in 1998.
She also appeared in the music video for The Strokes' "The End Has No End" in 2004, and appeared nude in a print advertisement for Calvin Klein's Secret Obsession perfume, an ad which was banned in the United States. In December 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) used a nude photo of Mendes for their anti-fur campaign. She also modeled in a Morgan campaign. Mendes was a spokesmodel for the 2008 Campari calendar. In July 2008, she was announced as the international face of Australia's 30 Days of Fashion & Beauty event. She made guest appearances in that country at the month-long festival in September. Mendes has been a spokesperson for Calvin Klein, Magnum, and the chocolate milk brand Cocio. She also promoted Thierry Mugler's Angel fragrance, Reebok shoes, and Pantene shampoo. In 2011, Mendes appeared in a Peek & Cloppenburg clothing catalog. Mendes has a line of bed linens and dinnerware that is sold at Macy's. In 2010, Mendes sang on "Pimps Don't Cry," a song featured in The Other Guys, and performed a duet with CeeLo Green on "Pimps Don't Cry." In 2011, she recorded a version of "The Windmills of Your Mind."
Along with acting, Eva is employed by Revlon Cosmetics as an international spokeswoman. She joins such elite actresses and models as Julianne Moore, Halle Berry and Cindy Crawford, who appear in Revlon's television and print ads. She is also a passionate supporter and active participant in Revlon's fight against breast cancer. Eva's goals are to improve her acting skills by working with such contemporary directors as Steven Soderbergh, Spike Jonze, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Rodriguez, Carl Franklin, John Singleton, and Antoine Fuqua and learning from such renowned directors as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni.
She was the creative director of the makeup brand CIRCA Beauty, which launched exclusively at Walgreens in 2015.
Eva has two children with her partner Ryan Gosling.Status: Hottie I Wanted to See in a Thong- Actress
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Eva Jacqueline Longoria was born on March 15, 1975 in Corpus Christi, Texas to Ella Eva Longoria (née Mireles), a special education teacher & Enrique Longoria Jr., a rancher. The youngest of four sisters who grew up in a Mexican-American family on a ranch near Corpus Christi, Longoria attended Texas A&M University-Kingsville, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology. After graduating from college, she entered a talent contest that brought her to Los Angeles, where she was spotted and subsequently signed by a theatrical agent. After landing roles on The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), General Hospital (1963) and co-starring on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), she auditioned for and won the role of Isabella Braña on the popular series, The Young and the Restless (1973). After Y&R, Eva became well known worldwide thanks to Desperate Housewives (2004), where she played a main character, Gabrielle Solis. She also has a contract with L'Oreal and has been named one of the most beautiful people. A passionate advocate of education, she founded The Eva Longoria Foundation which helps Latinas build better futures for themselves and their families through education and entrepreneurship and earned a Masters in Chicano Studies presenting her thesis on "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM Careers." Eva has also contributed writing to publications on the subject of education.Status: Hottie I Wanted to See in a Thong / Hottie- Producer
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Heidi Klum was born in Bergisch Gladbach, a small city near Cologne, Germany, in 1973. Her career as a top fashion model and swimsuit star began almost by accident when, on a lark, she submitted photos to a model competition hosted by Petra, a young woman's magazine. Klum won the competition, and signed with Metropolitan, the German modeling agency. After modeling in Europe for a few years to great success, she went to the United States to pursue modeling there, and met with more success, culminating in her relationship with Victoria's Secret. This brought her to the pinnacle of modeling and, in 1998, the coveted cover of Sports Illustrated's annual Swimsuit Issue, cementing her status as one of the world's top models. Along with that came lucrative marketing opportunities, including her own signature lines of sandals, jewelry, and perfume.
Like many other models, most notably Famke Janssen, Klum then sought to parlay her fame into a career in Hollywood. She has appeared frequently on TV in the US and in Germany, and has had several small parts in movies, including a cameo playing Swiss bombshell Ursula Andress in the Peter Sellers biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Klum is married to British singer Seal and, as of June 2005, was expecting a child with him -- she has a daughter, Leni, with a boyfriend from a previous relationship. While she is best known for her beauty and perfect figure (one of her nicknames being "The Body"), the tall and willowy Klum remains surprisingly down-to-earth for a supermodel - a middle-class Westphalian girl from a small city - and has an endearingly goofy, engaging sense of humor. She is famously close to her father, Gunther.Status: Hottie I Wanted to See in a Thong- Rafael Palmeiro was born on 24 September 1964 in Havana, Cuba. He is an actor, known for Little Big League (1994), Arli$$ (1996) and Chasing 7. He has been married to Lynne since 14 December 1985. They have two children.Status: Liar
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Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an American-born artist (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. Her parents are both of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Natalie's family left Israel for Washington, D.C., when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to this day. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard University. She was discovered by an agent in a pizza parlor at the age of 11. She was pushed towards a career in modeling but she decided that she would rather pursue a career in acting. She was featured in many live performances, but she made her powerful film debut in the movie Léon: The Professional (1994) (aka "Léon"). Following this role Natalie won roles in such films as Heat (1995), Beautiful Girls (1996), and Mars Attacks! (1996).
It was not until 1999 that Natalie received worldwide fame as Queen Amidala in the highly anticipated US$431 million-grossing prequel Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). She then she starred in two critically acclaimed comedy dramas, Anywhere But Here (1999) and Where the Heart Is (2000), followed by Closer (2004), for which she received an Oscar nomination. She reprised her role as Padme Amidala in the last two episodes of the Star Wars prequel trilogy: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). She received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Black Swan (2010).
She received a second nomination for Best Actress, for playing Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie (2016).Status: Hottie- Actress
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Jessica Biel, has become one of Hollywood's most sought-out actresses. She was born in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly (Conroe) and Jonathan Edward Biel, who is a business consultant and GM worker. Biel was raised in Boulder, Colorado. She is of Hungarian Jewish, Danish, English, and German descent.
As a child, Biel initially pursued a career as a vocalist, performing in musical theater. Beginning at age nine, she starred in such productions as "Annie," "The Sound of Music," and "Beauty and the Beast." Biel soon turned to modeling and commercial work by competing in The International Modeling and Talent Association's Annual Conference in 1994.
Her Film debut was in the Kid's Rock Opera It's a Digital World (1994) where she demonstrated her acting and singing abilities. Her television series acting debut, playing Mary Camden on the WB's #1-rated show, 7th Heaven (1996), helped her emerge as a breakout star. She terrified moviegoers with her portrayal of Erin, "Leatherface's" greatest nemesis to date, in New Line Cinema's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), a remake of the original. Having finished filming, Blade: Trinity (2004) in Vancouver with Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, and Kris Kristofferson, she the portrayed a jet-fighter pilot in Stealth (2005), starring Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepherd, for director Rob Cohen. Biel's film career began at age 14 when she played alongside Peter Fonda in his Golden Globe-winning performance in Ulee's Gold (1997). Her other film credits include I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998), Summer Catch (2001), Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction (2002), and Cellular (2004), which stars Chris Evans, Kim Basinger, and William H. Macy.
In her spare time, Biel is involved with charities such as Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and PETA. Her hobbies include ballet, soccer, running, yoga and hiking with her dog "East." She resides in Los Angeles.
In 2012, she married actor and singer Justin Timberlake. The two have a son.Status: Hottie- Actress
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The Pussycat Dolls is known for The Pussycat Dolls Feat. Snoop Dogg: Buttons (2006), The Pussycat Dolls: When I Grow Up (2008) and The House Bunny (2008).Status: Guilty Pleasures