Melyssa Ford

Melyssa Savannah Ford (born November 7, 1976) is a Canadian media personality, actress, and former video vixen. Since 2023, she has cohosted The Joe Budden Podcast alongside broadcaster and former rapper Joe Budden. She attended York University and studied in the field of forensic psychology.

In the late 1990s, music video director Little X discovered Ford, who was in her early 20s, while she was working as a bartender at a Toronto nightclub and helped launch her modelling career. She has appeared in music videos, men's magazines, television programs and films. Ford was an on-air personality for Sirius Satellite Radio's Hot Jamz channel. She sells a line of calendars and a DVD.

In a 2008 CNN interview, Ford explained that when making music videos she often asked herself whether she was "perpetuating a negative stereotype" about black women. When she was asked whether music videos, overall, are "demeaning to women", Ford replied, "Yes, I definitely have to say that".

From June 2014 to January 2015, Ford participated in the Bravo Network television series Blood, Sweat & Heels, documenting her social life against the background of her struggles of becoming a realtor in New York.

In 2016, Ford became a co-host of Hollywood Unlocked, a Los Angeles-based hip-hop and pop culture radio show. In June 2018, Ford was seriously injured in a car crash involving an 18-wheeler truck. She suffered a skull fracture and concussion. Ford returned to the show in April 2019 following her accident. On August 24, 2020, Ford announced she would no longer be co-hosting Hollywood Unlocked. In November 2019, Ford launched a podcast on YouTube called I'm Here for the Food[10]. The podcast featured a host of guests and covered a range of topics, including colourism, human trafficking, and forgiveness. The podcast last aired in November 2020.

After several years in Los Angeles, Ford moved back to the New York Metropolitan area in 2023, becoming a co-host on The Joe Budden Podcast.

Ford is of mixed-race. Her father has roots in Barbados and her mother is of Norwegian and Russian descent.[11]