Kristin Adams
Kristin Nicole Adams, née Holt, is a television personality, entertainment news correspondent, singer, and viral video creator. Adams first rose to public awareness on American Idol. Between 2005 and 2008, Kristin served as the second host of G4's Cheat!, a television show dedicated to video game cheats and strategies. In 2008, Cheat! segments were incorporated into G4's X-Play, where she was a correspondent and occasional host throughout the remainder of the series. She also substituted hosting roles for the network's other shows and specials, as needed. She hosted "Poker Night" on GSN and Nissan GT Academy on Speed. On January 1, 2010, Adams became the new co-host of the Character Fantasy film showcase on the USA Network.[1] In 2012 Adams was a co-host/correspondent on Real Music Live on NBC.[2]
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Born | Kristin Nicole Holt Plano, Texas, US |
Occupation | Television personality, youtube personality, entertainment news correspondent, singer, viral video creator |
Years active | 2002–present |
Career
Kristin and her husband, Danny, are currently full-time YouTubers and entertainers. They are best known for their lip-sync videos filmed in the front seat of their car in full costume. Their "Love Songs Of The Decades" lip-sync posted in 2016, has over 400 million combined views across multiple Facebook pages.
Adams (then still Kristin Holt) made it to the Top 30 finalists of season 1 of American Idol, and was eliminated in the first round of viewer voting. She auditioned in Dallas and her audition was memorable because, in her rush to embrace Paula after being told that she had made the Hollywood rounds, she fell and slipped under the judges table. She replaced Brian Dunkleman as co-host for the second season of American Idol, however, most of her footage from preliminary contestant auditions was edited out of the show by November 2002,[3] when her role was reduced to special correspondent.[4] She performed as the vocalist of the band, Stranger Days, from 2004 to 2007.[5]
Adams worked as a top 40 morning radio co-host in Dallas on KRBV, as the host of Hasbro's DVD game Shout About Television, and as a host on the Starz network. She worked with V-Cast on Verizon Wireless phones.[6] As an actress, she had brief appearances in two productions, as a reporter on a 2008 episode of the television series Dirty Sexy Money, and as a bartender in the 2009 film Rock Slyde.
In 2009 she appeared as fictional correspondent "Katie Comet" on the fictional news network, "Santa News Network" broadcasts on AT&T's "Santa Tracker" cable channel.
When the AT&T U-verse brand existed for its entire triple-play platform, Adams hosted "AT&T U-verse Buzz" for its TV customers.
She has worked for Samsung as a presenter for "Samsung Tomorrow TV", covering their products at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2014 and 2015.[7][8]
As of 2017, Adams was the presenter on GameStop TV, an in-store marketing feature for the GameStop chain of stores.
Personal life
She is a Texas Christian University graduate. While there, she became a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and made the 12-person Show Group team, which traveled the globe entertaining U.S. military troops on USO Tours.[9] She married Daniel Adams in 2008 and they have two children together, daughter Harper (b. 2010) and son Holt (b. 2013).[10]
References
- News at Archived October 8, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed December 1, 2009.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Secrets Revealed". VH1. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2007.
- Stranger Days- official website Archived March 7, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Resume at KristinHolt.net. Accessed September 7, 2007. Archived August 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Samsung Newsroom (January 7, 2015), Samsung Exhibition@CES 2015 : IoT Walkthrough, retrieved August 10, 2017
- "Kristin Adams Youtube – Samsung". YouTube. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
- John-Mark Day (March 6, 2002). More than just a Cowboys cheerleader. TCU Daily Skiff. Accessed May 10, 2007.
- http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/thefeed/72669/the-daily-feed-with-kristin-adams-110410.html%5B%5D