Speculation about her absence included demands for more money, a legal affair involving her husband, and a desire to spend time with her daughter. Despite the reports, Daniels did not enter the house on launch night. In 2018, there was wide speculation that Daniels would be a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother 22 in the United Kingdom.
She appeared as a model in artist Nika Nesgoda's 2002 photographic series Virgin, portraying the Virgin Mary. She appeared on Saturday Night Live as herself on May 5, 2018. She appears in the film Knocked Up (2007) as a lap dancer. She appears in the film The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), when the main character ( Steve Carell) watches her in the video Space Nuts: Episode 69-Unholy Union and then tries dreaming about her. Later in 2007, Daniels appeared in Maroon 5's music video for their song " Wake Up Call" as a pole dancer. In early 2007, she appeared in Dirt on the FX Network, where she played a stripper who helps to set up a basketball player played by Rick Fox. Mainstream appearances United Statesĭaniels appeared in an episode of Real Sex where she is seen participating in 2001 Miss Nude Great Plains Contest. Daniels was named to host the 2019 XBIZ Awards. She was given the key to the city of West Hollywood, California, on "Stormy Daniels Day", May 23, 2018. In 2018, Daniels toured strip clubs as part of a "Make America Horny Again" tour. Her directorial work that year earned fourteen AVN Award nominations including a nomination for Best Safe Sex Scene for her performance with Brendon Miller in François Clousot's First Crush. Daniels was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame on January 18, 2014, and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame on April 16, 2014. ĭaniels has appeared with performers such as Randy Spears, Julian and Brendon Miller, to whom she was married and who edited about half of her movies. In 2004, Daniels won the Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News, which was a surprise to Daniels, who had made a $500 bet with another actress that Jesse Jane would win. She chose her stage name Stormy Daniels to reflect her love of American rock band Mötley Crüe, whose bassist, Nikki Sixx, named his daughter Storm. She began stripping for money at the Gold Club in Baton Rouge and became a featured entertainer with Continental Theatrical Agency in September 2000. Careerĭaniels's first experience as a stripper occurred when she was 17 and visiting a friend at a strip club she was convinced to perform a "guest set". ĭaniels said she "came from an average, lower-income household… there days without electricity", and she has described herself as coming from a "really bad neighborhood." During high school, Daniels had a job answering phones at a riding stable. She graduated from Scotlandville Magnet High School in Baton Rouge in 1997 and considered becoming a journalist. Daniels' parents, Sheila and Bill Gregory, divorced about three or four years after she was born.