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Karly Ryder, Jr.
Born Chelsea Karly Ryder
October 11, 1982 (1982-10-11) (age 41)
Terre Haute, Indiana
Occupation Talk show host, Singer, Actress, DJ
Years active 1995-present
Home town Indianapolis, Indiana
Parents Karly Ryder, Sr. (mother)
Relatives Genevieve Cox (cousin)

Chelsea Karly Ryder (born October 11, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 2000s who pioneered the "Internet trash TV" format on her program Karly's Show as well as the American, British, and Australian adaptations of Vote for the Girls.

Early Life

Karly Ryder, Jr.'s parents are also in talk show business; her mother, Karly (Cox) Ryder, is a popular Indianapolis news anchorwoman at ABC affiliate WHOO-FTV, and her father, Joseph Ryder, is a talk show host and dancer. Ryder did not use her legal first name (Chelsea) in her stage name. Her uncles included news anchormen Cole Cox and Jackson Cox, from whom she was estranged. Born into a life of luxury, she was raised next door to the Letterman compound in Speedway, Indiana. Ryder attended Marian University.

Career

She has been a program director and announcer at a radio station in Indianapolis since the late 1990s, and later worked in various markets around Indianapolis, including WBRI, WNOU, and WFMS. Like her mother, Ryder pursued a career in television news, freelancing at WEVI and WIND. She filed a few news reports.

In 2008, Ryder was a talk show host at WHBU-AM in Anderson, Indiana, where she employed her abrasive style. She was fired in 2010. She was replaced on WHBU by Clark Howard, who has held the time slot ever since via his national syndication. Ryder also had a stint on WINO-FLP in Fort Wayne where she unsuccessfully tried to get other on air personalities to submit to drug testing. Ryder's first effect on American culture came from her popular, yet short-lived, syndicated late 2000s television talk show, The Karly Ryder Jr. Show.

The Karly Ryder Jr. Show

In 2010, Ryder headed to Fort Wayne, where her highly controversial talk show The Karly Ryder Jr. Show was taped. Starting as a local program on Fort Wayne NBC affiliate WNDI-FTV in the fall of 2010, it expanded into national syndication in early 2011. The program featured screaming matches among Ryder, her guests, and audience members.

Because of the controversial format and content of the show, distributor X2 Broadcasting had problems selling the show to a number of stations and advertisers. Even Ryder's affiliates, many of which were NBC, Fox, and CW affiliates in small to medium markets, were so fearful of advertiser and viewer backlash that they would air one or even two local disclaimers during the broadcast.


The Journal Gazette wrote about her, "Suppose a maniac got hold of a talk show. Or need we suppose?" Kym Christian said, "I'm always amazed at what people will fall for. We see this every five or six years, an attempt at this, and I guess from that standpoint I don't quite understand why everybody's falling over backwards over the girl."


Vote for the Girls

The success of the show made Ryder a pop culture celebrity, leading to an announcement on June 23, 2014 that Karly Ryder, Jr. was confirmed as the eighth moderator of Vote for the Girls. A source said, "Karly is a done deal. She's a big radio personality and is not afraid to tell it like it is.". Karly Ryder, Jr. was later confirmed as a moderator on Vote for the Girls USA, of this she said, "I'm thrilled to be doing Vote for the Girls because as a fellow Hoosier, country music was the first place I saw success," she said. Ava Zinn added, "I am delighted that Karly Jr. has agreed to be a moderator on VFTG USA. She is a huge personality who will bring creativity to the site." Talking about the differences between the site and the competitors (VFTW and Vote Against the Producers), "I’ll never be a moderator for VFTW or VATP. VFTG is different and no comparison between the three. One, you have a site that have moderators that are all women who promote votes strictly for the female contestants and voting out the WGWG's to make the music stars. The other two sites you have Dave Della Terza and Lawrence Hedrick who have fetishes and completely addicted to WGWG's, and worse of all, those two sites are mostly male-dominated polling fans on who is the worst contestant.

Karly Ryder officially became the fifth moderator of VFTG, replacing Nermal Everman, on July 1, 2014.

Over the course of the 2013–14 and 2014-15 television seasons, Ryder's TV show and Vote for the Girls suffered a decline in viewership, resulting from many markets downgrading its time slot; even flagship station WNDI in Fort Wayne and WNBI in Ryder's hometown of Indianapolis moved Ryder's program from its original 3:00 PM slot to noon in the fall of 2013. Beginning in January 2014, the time slot immediately following Ryder's program had been home to the long-time NBC soap Days of our Lives. However, following Josh Kaufman's win on The Voice, Days of our Lives and The Karly Ryder Jr. Show series swapped time slots several weeks later in the fall of 2014, thus relegating Ryder to 1:00 PM in Fort Wayne (competing against The Chew on WMRI, The Young and the Restless on WTOR, Jerry Springer on WINO, and The People's Court on WXXC)

In late August 2014, she was involved in an incident in a Indianapolis International Airport restroom in which she claimed to have been attacked by fans of Josh Kaufman who painted a double Mars symbol on her chest and attempted to cut her hair and breasts.[1] Some inconsistencies in Ryder's account (e.g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Ryder had drawn it herself in a mirror), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence,[2] led many to suspect the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention. Around that time, fellow VFTG USA moderator Holly Everman had been arrested for second DUI

On November 12, 2014 after Mia Pffirman was not saved by Adam Levine, Ryder threw a pair of stiletto shoes across the set with the heels hitting two of Ava Zinn's daughters, Samantha in her left eye, and Tiffani in her right eye. Both Samantha and Tiffani were injured, and Zinn ejected Ryder off the set. Ryder was terminated two days later after the incident and Zinn pressed charges against Ryder, who was arrested for assault and attempted murder.

On January 20, 2015, Ryder was found guilty one count of felony assault and upon conviction, will serve three to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Controversies

In 2010, at WHBU radio, Ryder used the word "Faggirl" while telling a joke.[3] Her use of the word upset portions of the sizable LGBT community in Anderson, Indiana. One Indianapolis city councilwoman called for an apology and pressured the station for Ryder's resignation. Ryder refused to apologize and was forced to resign, with Clark Howard taking her place.

Ryder was sued for $30 million after bringing Clark Jones onto The Karly Ryder, Jr. Show and calling him a "pig," a "hooker," and a "tramp," claiming that he had venereal diseases, and banging her knee against his pelvis in 2012. In April 2013, she was arraigned on criminal charges for allegedly attacking a lesbian guest on her show, in a never-aired segment. Ryder punched a reporter during an interview for WEVI-FTV. In various interviews, she expressed remorse for some of the extreme theatrics of her show and on Vote for the Girls, saying she had taken things too far. She added that she has been a "bitch."

References

  1. "VFTG USA Moderators Takes Beatings: Holly Everman and Karly Ryder, Jr.". 25 August 2014. 
  2. "Ryder Attacked or Not?". August 25, 2014. 
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