Angelica Nwandu
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Angelica Nwandu | |
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 Nwandu in 2020 | |
| Born | May 10, 1989 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Media personality |
| Years active | 2014–present |
Angelica Nwandu (born May 10, 1989)[1][2] is an American media personality. She the founder of the Shade Room, an Instagram-based media company focused on celebrity gossip. Nwandu was dubbed "The Oprah of [her] generation" by Refinery29[3] and a "celebrity culture savant" by Complex. Time magazine named TSR in the 30 most influential on the internet in 2016. The New York Times called the Shade Room "Instagram's TMZ".[4]
Angelica Nwandu was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to Nigerian parents.[5][6] In a November 2025 interview with Proximity Media, she revealed that her father murdered her mother when she was six years old. Subsequently, Nwandu grew up in foster care.[7] She graduated from Loyola Marymount University.[8]