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We know you think she’s cute as a button, spunky and has right amount of wit to match her Dancing With the Stars’ co-host Tom Bergeron. But Samantha Harris has a most impressive resume that keeps her own dance card very, very full.

A seasoned entertainment news journalist and two-time Emmy-nominee, Samantha Harris is a correspondent and substitute anchor on The Insider. She has covered President Barack Obama’s inauguration, the Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys and SAG Awards. Previously Samantha was a host and correspondent for E! News.

In 2009, Samantha filled in for Meredith Vieira to host Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and made her Wall Street debut by ‘Ringing the Bell’ to open trading at the New York Stock Exchange. She also made her Broadway debut in the summer of 2009 playing the iconic role of Roxie Hart in the Tony Award-winning musical Chicago.

Daytime viewers have enjoyed Samantha as a special correspondent on Good Morning America and as a guest co-host on The View. One of her greatest honors was hosting, alongside Regis Philbin, the official live red carpet pre-show for the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Samantha once served as the weekend co-host and as a full-time correspondent for Extra and launched the first-ever Las Vegas bureau for the show. Other hosting credits include Fox Network’s The Next Joe Millionaire, AMC Access, as well as myriad cable shows and pilots.

Hot off the North American tour of Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python, CBS cast Samantha as America’s sweetheart, Mary Ann, in its made-for-TV movie Surviving Gilligan’s Island. We’re wondering if this means she knows how to make a coconut cream pie! Other acting credits include the multi-award winning Reefer Madness!: The New “Hit” Musical, as well as multiple films and TV shows.

In addition to gracing the cover of Muscle & Fitness HERS magazine a record four times, Samantha has also been seen on the covers of USA Today magazine, FIRST, Fit Parent, YogaMom, Sun Country Airlines in-flight, Pilates Style and Pregnancy & Newborn (while pregnant with her daughter). She has been featured in many magazines, including SHAPE, People, Health, US Weekly, In Touch, Life & Style, FHM and SELF. As a fitness enthusiast, she loves dancing, cardio-sculpting, Bikram and traditional yoga, as well as hiking, but will also confess she’s a dessert fanatic.

Samantha is on the Entertainment Council of Feeding America and has previously supported the Revlon Run/Walk and What a Pair for cancer research, Operation Smile, P.S. Arts as well as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America.

Born and raised in Hopkins, MN by a rock concert promoter father and dancer, Samantha went on to graduate with honors from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, IL. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Michael, and their daughter, Josselyn.