La La Anthony
American television personality, actress, producer and former MTV VJ
La La Anthony (American television personality, actress, producer and former MTV VJ) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Dating standards, Divorce, Marriage and long-term partnership.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Dating standards
Anthony named lying as her dealbreaker in a future relationship.
“I won't tolerate lying like liars. I'm just like, no matter what it is, I respect you more if you're just honest”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 50:19
Anthony said being set up by friends is the best way to meet someone.
“that's the best way because I feel like my friend knows me, knows what I like”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 48:52
Anthony observed that as she has gotten older, mainly much younger men pursue her.
“when you get older, only younger guys want to date you. It's the wildest thing”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 25:54
Divorce
Anthony said the divorce changed her view of love, though she is trying to stay positive.
“Has your view of love changed? Yes, it has. And I hate to say that”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 41:48
Anthony said she would have divorced even outside the public eye because boundaries had been crossed.
“I do think I still would have came to the same conclusion because some boundaries were crossed that I just couldn't”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 40:15
Marriage and long-term partnership
Anthony advised that happiness should not depend solely on being in a relationship.
“So you just gotta figure out your happiness whether you're in a relationship or out and realize that the happiness shouldn't revolve only around the relationship”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 35:54
Anthony said moving to New York and its scrutiny marked the beginning of her marriage's decline.
“Now that I look back, that was kind of the start of the demise of the marriage”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 24:20
Total Request Live
Anthony said she came to see her role at MTV as a responsibility to bring her culture and music to the network.
“maybe I have a responsibility here to bring my culture, more my music, diversity to MTV”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 12:16
Anthony said being known as a Black MTV host made it hard to be taken seriously for acting roles.
“there's definitely not a lot of black MTV hosts. I was known as a black girl on MTV, so it was like the acting side didn't really want to give me that shot”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 11:21
Radio broadcasting careers
Anthony said her move to a Los Angeles radio job raised her salary from about $18,000 to $90,000 a year.
“i really was making 18 000 i went from making 18 000 to 90 000 i was like”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 7:08
Anthony recounted obtaining a fake ID to get a radio internship while underage.
“I live in the hood and I know how to get a fake ID. So I got a fake ID. And then I got the job as an intern”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 3:05
People pleasing
Anthony said she would tell her younger self that no one can please everybody and must find their own happiness.
“you have to realize that no matter what you do, you can't please everybody. You have to like. find your own happiness and please yourself”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 51:09
Online dating
Anthony said she is not on dating apps but knows they can work because her father married someone he met on one.
“my dad married the woman he met on a dating app. So I've seen where it can work”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 48:28
Social media and self-presentation
Anthony argued social media gives people too much access and she does not want to know everything about her partner via DMs.
“And I think we're getting to the point now where it's too much access. Everyone has something to say about everything”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 33:51
Infidelity
Anthony said she focused on her own crumbling relationship rather than other couples' cheating.
“I can't worry about what everybody else has going on. Like, I gotta work. I gotta save myself”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 31:54
Friendship
Anthony argued that a friendship should end when it no longer makes you feel good and causes stress.
“I think it's time to end a friendship when it's no longer making you feel good”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 20:38
Rikers Island
Anthony said she believes in second chances for incarcerated young men and in equipping them for reentry.
“So I'm all about second chances and also giving them the tools they need”
Call Her Daddy: La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF) (Oct 30, 2026) · Listen from 15:04
Appearances
La La Anthony: Life After Professional Athletes (FBF)Call Her Daddy · Oct 30, 2026 · 52 min
La La Anthony tells Alex Cooper about her rise from radio intern to MTV host, friendship, her NBA marriage and divorce, and dating today.
Often appears with
- Alex Cooper · 1 shared episode