She's a most unlikely combination: a frequent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, and voted World's Sexiest Geek by WIRED Magazine readers, Marina holds two degrees in Philol ...read more
She's a most unlikely combination: a frequent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, and voted World's Sexiest Geek by WIRED Magazine readers, Marina holds two degrees in Philology from Nizhny Novgorod University. And she's an internet sensation: her video etymology lessons are collected on her HotForWords YouTube channel, which is one of the most popular video blogs in the world. Voted the Sexiest Geek of the Year by Wired.com, Marina Orlova, or HotForWords, as she is known, is the 21st most watched channel of all time on YouTube with 267 MILLION video views, adding 3.5 million views each week! That's ahead of National Geographic, Showtime and the BBC!Called the Sexiest Philologist in the World by New Yorker Magazine, Marina's popularity extends beyond the Internet. She's a regular on Fox's O'Reilly Factor as the show's word specialist, she has a weekly segment on G4 TV's Attack of the Show, she just wrote a book called Hot for Words that was published by HarperCollins, she was just named the latest Go Daddy girl and she was part of the Best Online Campaign of 2009... and all of this was accomplished while teaching people the origins of words!
