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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Episode: Vanessa Williams - ‘It would be hard to be married to me!’
Description: As a recording artist, Vanessa Williams has earned 13 Grammy nominations and racked up over 212 million digital streams over the course of her eight albums. Her most popular hit, Save The Best For Last, was Number 1 for five weeks in 1992.
She is also a highly successful stage and screen actor, appearing in Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. She is currently starring on the West End stage as Miranda Priestly in the musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada.
It’s all a long way from her historic crowning as the first African-American Miss America in 1983 - sh...