Introduction
Scheana Marie Shay (née Jancan, born May 7, 1984) is an American television personality, actress, podcast host and singer. She currently stars on the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules.
Early life and education
Shay graduated with the class of 2002 from Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California. In 2006, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Azusa Pacific University.
Career
She began her acting career with guest appearances on television shows Greek, Jonas, Victorious and 90210. In 2012, she portrayed Angel Tomlin on three episodes of anthology television series Femme Fatales.
In 2013, she became a regular cast member of reality television series Vanderpump Rules, a spin-off of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The series follows the lives of SUR and TomTom servers in West Hollywood, California. During her time on Vanderpump Rules, Shay has released several dance-pop singles, most notably Good as Gold.
In 2018, Shay relocated to Las Vegas for several months and starred in a stage show called Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man at Anthony Cools Theater at Paris Las Vegas. She replaced Kendra Wilkinson in the role of Robyn.
She hosts a weekly podcast titled Scheananigans with Scheana Shay.
Personal life
She was part of a lawsuit against Hooters where she was secretly filmed while undressing in 2004.
Shay had an affair with actor Eddie Cibrian in 2006, while he was married to Brandi Glanville. She married Michael Shay on July 27, 2014, at Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, California. The couple announced their separation in November 2016 and finalized their divorce in April 2017.
After Scheana's divorce, and a couple other relationships, she decided to go through with freezing her eggs. The process has been hard for Scheana, who noted that she has 17 tattoos, including a tattoo that states "It's all happening," inspired by the film Almost Famous, and gets Botox every three months. For the month and a half before her egg retrieval procedure, Scheana said she stopped drinking hard liquor, smoking weed, and having sex. In 2018, she had the egg-retrieval procedure and successfully harvested 12 eggs. And in 2019, Scheana is in the process of freezing her eggs once again less than a year after undergoing the procedure for the first time.
She also has a cat called Penny Lane, named after Kate Hudson's character in Almost Famous.