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Actress Shana Hiatt arrives at the NBC/Universal Golden Globe After Party held at the Beverly Hilton on January 15, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California. Actress Shana Hiatt arrives at the 16th annual Environmental Media Awards held at Ebell Club of Los Angeles on November 18, 2006 in Los Angeles.
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Shana Hiatt
Hiatt hosting the World Poker Tour in 2005
Born
December 1975 (age 36)
Occupation
Model, presenter, and poker player
Spouse
Tommy Gunn (divorced) James Van Patten (divorced) Todd Garner (2005-present)
Shana Hiatt (born 17 December 1975) is a model and presenter who has appeared in several magazines.
Background
A former Army brat raised primarily in Tabernacle Township, New Jersey,[1] she is best known for hosting the first three seasons of World Poker Tour on The Travel Channel.
Poker
While Hiatt was a non-player prior to her job with the World Poker Tour, she is now an avid online poker player who occasionally plays in casinos.[2] She is formerly the host of Poker After Dark and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, both on NBC. Shana left the shows in 2008 due to pregnancy. She was replaced by Marianela Pereyra in Poker After Dark and by Leeann Tweeden in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.[3]
After leaving the World Poker Tour in 2005, Hiatt sued the producers in order to get a restraining order to prevent them from keeping her from working on a rival poker show on NBC, Poker After Dark. The WPT argued a non-compete clause was part of her contract, but Hiatt countered that she never signed it. The suit additionally revealed Hiatt left the WPT over a 'hostile working environment' involving her husband, movie producerTodd Garner whom she married in October 2005.[4] Hiatt was previously married to James Van Patten, brother of World Poker Tour co-host Vince Van Patten.
Modeling
Hiatt was Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA in 1995 having represented Beach Haven, New Jersey after winning the local Hawaiian Tropic pageant at Touché nightclub in 1994. After becoming Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA, Hiatt was the cover model and posed nude inside the pages of Playboy in their April 1995 The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic issue. She also was on the cover for the video of that photo shoot Playboy: The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic, Naked in Paradise .
Hiatt was a guest host of Wild On! featured on the E! network. She has also appeared in television shows and movies including Must Love Dogs and Grandma's Boy .
Notes
^Bodnar, Jason. 'Shawnee grad bets on childhood dream through poker series', Burlington County Times, November 18, 2004
^CardPlayer.com: Injunction Granted on Hiatt's Behalf
External links
Profile by Shirley Rosario
Shana Hiatt Photo Gallery
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Shana Hiatt Wiki
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Shana Hiatt was well known for her beauty and gorgeous personality long before she came into the world of poker. In 1995, Shana Hiatt was voted Miss Hawaiian Tropic USA, she also posed naked for Playboy magazine that same year.
Shana was first introduced to poker when she was presenting the World Poker tour. She fast became known as ‘The Goddess of Poker’. Shana was married to James Van Patten the brother of Vince Van Patten who was the co host of the WPT TV show, the marriage though unfortunately didn’t last and they were divorced.
Not giving up on love though Shana Hiatt re married in 2005 to movie producer Todd Garner. Later that year controversy struck when Hiatt left the WPT TV show and sued the producers of the show, she had to get a restraining order to stop the WPT from forbidding her to work or other poker shows like Poker After Dark. WPT said that Hiatt had signed a non competition clause in her original contract but Shana claimed she hadn’t.
She then signed with NBC and started as a hostess of the Poker After Dark show and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship until she was replaced in 2008 by Marianela Pereyra when she had to leave the show due to her pregnancy.
Shana may not have started off loving poker but nowadays she certainly does, presenting so many poker shows and seeing all the top poker players seems to have given her the poker bug, now Shana can often be found playing online poker and sometimes can even be spotted at live poker events.
Shana Hiatt is widely considered as the first poker babes in the world and with all her experience in presenting, hosting and playing poker we’re sure you can see why we picked her as one of PokerHarder UK’s faveourite poker babes.
Below is a fun video of some of Shana’s hosting highlights: