Cooper Lawrence is an accomplished radio veteran who has been in radio for almost twenty years. Currently she can be heard as part of The Big Show with Scott & Todd on WPLJ in New York. Life has changed a bit for the morning team at WPLJ (95.5 FM) now that they are a part of the daily national Fox TV show "Dish Nation" airing 6PM on MY9 in New York Monday through Friday.
Cooper has been a part of Elvis Duran's Z Morning Zoo at Z100. She has also been on-air at Q104, WKTU, WBAB, WLIR and on WOR where she produced The Joan Rivers Show for the WOR Radio Network. Before joining WPLJ Cooper had been hosting her own nationally syndicated radio show aptly named The Cooper Lawrence Show reaching 2.8 million listeners.
On TV she was the co-host of the VH1 'Celebreality' show Confessions of a Teen Idol and spent two years as the relationship expert on The Tyra Banks Show. She has also been a guest on CNN Headline News's Showbiz Tonight, Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell, HLN’s Prime News, CBS’ The Early Show, The Today Show, CNN, The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hannity, Fox & Friends, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, ABC’s 20/20, Good Day New York, Dr. Drew, plus several VH1 and E! Entertainment specials.
She has written many articles for a wide variety of publications and has been featured in print for the New York Post, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, IN STYLE, SELF, Parenting, Perez Hilton, Popwrap, Cosmopolitan, Family Circle, OK! Magazine, US Weekly, Life & Style, Star Magazine, In Touch Weekly, Popeater, Fox411, The Huffington Post and the now defunct but dear to her heart CosmoGIRL! where she was also on the advisory board.
Her fifth and current book is The Cult of Celebrity: What our Fascination with the Stars Reveals About Us. Previous books include, The Cult of Perfection: Making Peace with Your Inner Overachiever; The Fixer Upper Man: Turn Mr. Maybe Into Mr. Right; Been There, Done That, Kept the Jewelry; and CosmoGIRL's All About Guys. Cooper’s sixth book is a novel to be published by Simon & Shuster, due out in January 2012 titled The Yoga Club.
Cooper has a master’s degree in developmental psychology and is working hard to finish her PhD.
She and her 96lb puppy, Marconi, work with Angel On A Leash http://www.angelonaleash.org/ and Delta Society http://www.deltasociety.org/