Marina Orlova
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Марина Орлова
Born Marina Orlova
10 December 1980 (age 29)
Arzamas Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Russian/American
Years active 2007-present
Known for Infotainment etymology
Internet information
Web alias(es) HotForWords
Web hosting service(s) YouTube
Signature phrase "Intelligence is Sexy"
Website
www.hotforwords.com
Marina Orlova (Russian: Марина Орлова) (born 10 December 1980) is a Russian philologist, etymologist, and author who has become an Internet celebrity, hosting one of the most popular channels on YouTube, HotForWords, and a corresponding website. She also hosts a bi-weekly radio show on Maxim Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio.Contents
Early life and education
Orlova was born in Arzamas (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1980. In an interview, she claimed to work at a shop for a year before applying to an international recruitment program; she was then sent to a small town near San Francisco and worked as a nanny for a working family with two children.
Orlova initially aspired to become a model. She went to two photoshoots, but did not succeed—she was told that at 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m), she was too short to be a model.
She has two degrees in philology and taught English and world literature to high school students in Moscow before moving to the United States to pursue further education.
Hot for Words website
The theme of Orlova's website and YouTube videos, which begin with the tagline "Intelligence is Sexy," is tracing the origins of English words. Some of her entries focus on everyday words such as "irony" and "OK," while others address lengthy and rarely used tongue-twisters such as "floccinaucinihilipilification" and "antidisestablishmentarianism." Some entries also address idioms, including "let the cat out of the bag," "dressed to the nines," and "three sheets to the wind," or new words like the verb "to google."
Orlova in January 2010
The channel became active in February 2007, at a time when, Orlova said, "everybody was uploading cleavage." Orlova has since been voted "World's #1 Sexiest Geek" in Wired Magazine's "Sexy Geek of the Year Contest" contest. G4 TV has listed Orlova among its "Hot Women of the Net" on several occasions, and Cosmopolitan Magazine has identified her as the "most subscribed to YouTube guru." Orlova appeared on the cover of the November 2009 issue of Mutineer Magazine, applying her trademark word explanations to common beverage words. Orlova has appeared on a number of Fox shows including on The O'Reilly Factor, and was profiled on "The Medium," an Internet feature of The New York Times Magazine. In June 2008, Orlova and radio personality Danny Bonaduce signed endorsement contracts with coComment.
The Moscow Times said "Marina exploits her blonde-bombshell looks to the maximum: She appears in her two-minute clips scantily clad, pouting and making doe eyes. This is surely the main factor in her success. However, while the number of scantily clad girls on the Internet is limitless, not all of them put so much intellectual effort into their success."
In an interview, Orlova explained how she got viewers interested in words: "How else could I attract them to words?" "Everyone knows that sex sells."
Personal life
Orlova rents an apartment in Beverly Hills. She has said that her work takes up all of her time, and that she sometimes sits at the computer 12 to 14 hours at a time and has little time left for socializing. She is currently single.
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