Ananda Lewis, former MTV video jockey and host of “Total Request Live,” “Hot Zone,” and “The Ananda Lewis Show,” died on Wednesday of breast cancer. She was 52. Her sister, Lakshmi Emory, reported her ...

MTV personality and former television talk show host Ananda Lewis, who hosted shows that included “Total Request Live” in the late ‘90s and BET’s “Teen Summit,” has died at the age of 52. The ...

Ananda Lewis, a TV personality and former MTV VJ and host on "Total Request Live," has died at the age of 52. Lewis suffered from breast cancer and did not have a double mastectomy as was suggested.

If you were too young (or maybe too old, no judgment) to remember Total Request Live, let me give you a primer, as someone who sat glued to the TV as a child to watch almost every episode in existence ...