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American television personality Carson 'The Tool' Daly was born on June 22, 1973, in Santa Monica, California. Carson is a graduate of Santa Monica High School and received a golf scholarship to Loyola Marymount University, but dropped out after one year. He began his career with an internship at Palm Springs radio station KCMJ FM under the alias 'Kid Carson.' In 1997, Carson first appeared on MTV as a VJ, and a year later he became the host of "Total Request Live." In 2002 he began hosting his own talk show on NBC called "Last Call with Carson Daly." A year after that he retired from "TRL" to pursue other goals, one of which is being the executive producer of his own company, Carson Daly Productions. Carson once was a golf caddy for O. J. Simpson and has been romantically linked to Jennifer Love Hewitt, Willa Ford and Christina Aguilera. He once was engaged to Tara Reid.

Few celebrities claim a broader omnipresence in the media than former MTV veejay and all-around heartthrob Carson Daly. This quintessential Southern California native shot to fame in the late '90s, initially as the host of the MTV channel's Total Request Live -- a long-running showcase for the most requested music videos of the day, voted on by viewers. In time (around January 2002), Daly left the program and received an offer from NBC to host one of that network's late-late-night talk spots, Last Call with Carson Daly, which premiered to -- and sustained -- excellent ratings, particularly given the limited viewership at that hour and competition from the likes of Craig Kilborn and others. Off-camera, Daly has been romantically linked with Tara Reid (to whom he was engaged for a time) and Jennifer Love Hewitt. In addition to the said television gigs, Daly's resumé sports appearances in such features as the 2001 Josie and the Pussycats (opposite Reid), It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002), and Windy City Heat (2003). Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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