Carolina Sandoval Guzman, also known as ''La Venenosa'' ("the Venomous One"), was born on November 24, 1973, in

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. Sandoval is a TV presenter, journalist, broadcaster, writer,

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and actress.the last show they kicked out of Telemundo.

Career

Early career

Sandoval studied

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at the

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and theater at the University Institute of Theater in

. Her first television appearance was in the Venezuelan

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''Amor Mio'' (''My Love'') on the

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network. Sandoval's first position as an announcer was with speaker and humorist

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. Her first foray into print media was 15 years ago in

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magazines such as ''Venezuela Farandula'', ''Revista Ronda'' and ''Enquirer''. Sandoval has also worked at ''El National'' (''The National'') and ''El Globo de Caracas'' (''The Caracas Globe''), and was a correspondent for

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2000–2009

Sandoval has lived in

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since 2001, where she made her first appearance on American television on the entertainment show '' El Gordo y la Flaca'' and was a correspondent on

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's ''

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''. She appeared in '' TVyNovelas'' and ''Tvnotas'' magazines in the U.S. By the end of 2002, Sandoval was working with El Gordo Cadelago on a Radio Unica entertainment program. From 2001 through 2007, she was host and collaborator of ''Infraganti'', an entertainment show on the CaribeVisión network with Graciela Mori and Orlando Segura. At the beginning of 2009 Sandoval appeared on a radio segment, ''"Efectos Secundarios"'' ("Side Effects"), with Laura Duque and hosted by Jose Antonio Ponsetti. She appeared on ''

Escándalo TV Escándalo TV was a daily live Spanish-language talk show about celebrity news and gossip of interest to a Latino audience, shown on TeleFutura (now known as UniMás). It was hosted by Charytín Goyco, Marissa del Portillo and Felipe Viel. Occasi ...

'' in a segment ("El Lavadero") where La Tijera was one of the hosts. Sandoval appeared on the show until its cancellation in October 2011.''Carolina Sandoval celebró el aniversario de La Tijera''
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2010–present

On January 24, 2010, Sandoval participated in the Univisión special ''Unidos por Haiti'' (''United for Haiti'') with

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and Natalia Jiménez. The program was hosted by Don Francisco to collect funds for Haitian relief. On April 1 she was invited to co-host ''Escándalo TV'' on TeleFutura with Felipe Viel, Marisa Del Portillo and

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. On May 27, Sandoval was invited to co-host '' ¡Despierta América!''. On June 13 she hosted with Raul Gracia, Felipe Viel, Elizabeth Lopez and Carolina La O, ''Bienvenido el Mundial'' (''Welcome to the World Cup''), welcoming the

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. On June 28 in

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, Sandoval received an award for being the boldest host. On July 12, she was a host on the memorial special for

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. On July 14 Sandoval appeared on Univisión's ''

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'', where she spoke about her life and background. On September 24 she was invited to Mexico by journalist Shanik Berman to co-host her show, ''Shanik En Formula''. On November 1, Sandoval began a forum on Univision.com; later that month, she was named best co-host of 2010 by '' People en Español''. On December 5 she was invited by

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to a dinner in honor of Dominican President Leonel Fernández, and again appeared on ''Shanik En Formula''. In 2011, Sandoval was selected by ''People En Espanol'' for its list of 50 most beautiful people. On February 18 she was invited to the third edition of ''Nuestra Belleza Gay Latina'' ("Our Latina Gay Beauty") in

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, and on June 4 was interviewed with her daughter for Univisión's Saturday show ''Viva La Familia'' (''Live The Family''). Sandoval was part of a panel on TeleFutura's ''Famosos'' in 2010 and 2011. In its June edition, ''TVyNovelas'' featured an article about Sandoval at home. On July 23, she was invited to co-host ''Viva La Familia'' with Karen Martinez and Jeannette Kaplun; that same week, she again co-hosted ''Escándalo TV'' with Felipe Viel and Marisa Del Portillo. Sandoval also appeared in the play ''Monologando: porque hablar solo no es de Locos'' (''Monologue: Because Talking to Yourself Doesn't Make You Crazy''), produced in Miami by Venezuelan director and producer Manuel Mendoza. In 2011, Sandoval was named best co-host by ''People en Español'' for the second consecutive year. On November 23, she co-hosted ''¡Despierta América!'' with

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and

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. In December, Sandoval appeared on the cover of ''Gente Latina'' magazine and co-hosted '' Teletón Mexico'' on TeleFutura. She presented the awards during the finale of ''

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'' and hosted '' Tómbola'' from October 2011 to January 2012. Since 2013 Sandoval is in the panel of TV show ''Suelta la Sopa'' of Telemundo with descriptive segments that reveal the best kept secrets of favorite soap opera stars narrated in a docudrama style.

Personal life

In January 2011, Sandoval had surgery after being diagnosed with

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."Carolina Sandoval’s Poisonous Apple on Cover"
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External links

* Viva La Familia (Live The Family). yes Live technically is the translation to viva in Spanish viva has another translation is Hurray! or Hooray! in this case it will be ( Hurray for family's )

References

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