Sherri Shepherd

From 2007 to 2014, Shepherd was a co-host on The View, for which she received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations, winning one in 2009. In 2009, she starred in a sitcom of her own on Lifetime, Sherri, which was cancelled after one season, and also published the novel Permission Slips: Every Woman\'s Guide to Giving Herself a Break. Shepherd also hosts Nickelodeon\'s NickMom Night Out special, and has appeared on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein\'s musical production of Cinderella. In 2012, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on the fourteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.\n', ' Shepherd was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of LaVerne (d. 1991) and Lawrence A. Shepherd (born c. 1947), a church deacon. She is the eldest of three sisters.\n', ' As of 2015, a project includes a line of wigs and hair add-ins.\n', '