Marina Orlova

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Marina Orlova
Марина Орлова

Birthdate: December 10, 1980
Birthplace: Russia
Official Site: Hot for Words
YouTube Channel

Marina Orlova, known to millions of fans around the world as a sexy master of language, HotForWords, is a 28 year old Internet “sensation”. Hailing from Moscow, Marina has two degrees in philology which is the study of linguistics and origins of words.  Back in Russia Marina taught English and World Literature to high-schoolers. She came to the United States six years ago to improve her English skills and prepare for her Ph.D., but she ended up staying in the U.S. simply because of the warmer weather.

Two and a half years ago, Marina burst onto the YouTube scene.  Her initial goal was to reach more people with her language knowledge.  Instead of a classroom of 20 back in Russia, she now has a virtual class of 294,293 YouTube subscribers. In each video she takes word requests from YouTube users and discusses their meanings and origins.  Something that might, at first, seem boring, but when a buxom blonde with a Russian accent teaches you anything, it can be quite educational, thus proving, as her tag-line states, that “Intelligence is Sexy.”

Marina’s YouTube popularity has skyrocketed in the last few years. Today HotForWords:

    * has received 272,339,205 Total Video Views on YouTube,

    * is the 21st most watched channel of all time, and

    * receives an additional 3.5 million video views each week.

Called the “Sexiest philologist in the world” by New Yorker Magazine, Marina was voted the World’s #1 Sexiest Geek by Wired.com, she’s a regular on Fox Network’s O’Reilly Factor Show, she was voted the 5th hottest woman on the net by G4 TV, she’s been recommended by the New York Times Magazine, was named the new Go Daddy Girl, she was mentioned in Cosmopolitan as one of the top 3 channels on YouTube, and she was part of the Best Online Campaign of 2009! In addition, Marina just completed her book, published by HarperCollins, entitled “Hot for Words”, and she stars in a killer iPhone game called Attack of the Bikini Zombie Babes from Outer Space!

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