Rebecca DiPietro (born April 14, 1979) is an American former
model
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and
WWE Diva
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, who is best known for her time as the backstage interviewer on
WWE
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's
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* The Alliance (professional wrestling) (originally the WCW/E ...
brand
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.
Career
Modeling
In 2001, DiPietro appeared in the pages of ''
Playboy
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K ...
''. She appeared again in 2004 as "Cyber Girl of the Week" for the first week of June, when WWE Divas
Torrie Wilson
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As a fitness competitor, Wilson won ...
and
Sable
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were on the cover. She has also appeared in the magazine ''
Maxim
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'' as well as ''
Stuff
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'', as a cover girl and model, won the USA title for
Miss Hawaiian Tropics International Pageant in 2005, and won the Miss MET-Rx Model Search contest in 2008.
World Wrestling Entertainment
DiPietro was spotted in a video from the WWE, but she did not make ''Top Eight'' until the 2006 WWE Diva Search. On the July 31, 2006 edition of ''
Raw
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'' she became the third contestant eliminated. Despite being eliminated from the contest, she was hired by WWE four days later.
After her hiring, she was assigned to developmental territory
Deep South Wrestling
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for training. She made her Deep South debut on September 3, 2006 in a backstage segment with
Matt Striker
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, and from there began appearing in more segments and
bikini contest
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s. In mid October 2006, DiPietro began making appearances at ECW brand
house show
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s, and eventually became the brand's television "backstage interviewer" on the October 17 episode of ''ECW on Sci Fi''.
She also made a
pay-per-view
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appearance at the November 2006
Cyber Sunday
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event, acting as a "
Lumberjill" for the
WWE Women's Championship
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match. On March 22, 2007, however, upon request, DiPietro was released from her World Wrestling Entertainment contract.
References
External links
Tropic Beauty profile
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1979 births
WWE Diva Search contestants
Living people
People from Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Miss Hawaiian Tropic delegates