Get the latest gossip

Ananda Lewis, Celebrated MTV VJ, Dead at 52

Ananda Lewis, a former MTV veejay during the late Nineties and who shared her breast cancer journey with fans, died on Wednesday at the age of 52.

Ananda Lewis, a former MTV veejay during the late Nineties and who shared her breast cancer journey with fans, died on Wednesday at the age of 52. During a discussion with CNN’s correspondents Stephanie Elam and Sarah Sidner, who was also diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024, Lewis opened up about her treatment path. If you were working with her, you knew you’d be having fun, and you’d want to step your game up to match her effortless charisma,” he wrote in an Instagram post alongside a photo of Lewis and the song “Someday We’ll Know” by the New Radicals.

Get the Android app