OXYGEN MEDIA LAUNCHES "BAD GIRLS CLUB: AFTERPARTY" PREMIERING MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AFTER AN ORIGINAL "BAD GIRLS CLUB" WITH FAN FAVORITE TANISHA THOMAS AS HOST

"Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" Gives Fans an Even Deeper Viewing Experience With Commentary from Cast Members and Extended Clips

NEW YORK - February 3, 2011 - Answering the demands of its viewers, Oxygen Media is launching "Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" on Monday, February 7 at 10 pm ET/PT, giving fans an additional thirty minutes of programming with commentary from cast members and extended clips. Coming off of the recent OxygenLive: Obsessed success, Oxygen Media continues to innovate and create new ways for its viewers to have an even deeper viewing experience with Oxygen. "Bad Girls Club" is kicking of the next iteration of programming with the first ever "Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" with host Tanisha Thomas. When the episode is simply not enough, the "Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" will serve as the final tell all for the cast to speak directly to the viewers on what really went down during explosive episodes.

Joining Tanisha on the "Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" on February 7 will be season 6 "Bad Girl" Nikki with a special call in from one housemate and a surprise appearance by another. Additionally, on February 21 fans will be treated to the "Bad Girls Club: Afterparty" featuring Char, a surprise guest and a call in from one of the newest housemates.

Host Tanisha Thomas was introduced to television audiences in 2008 as a cast member in season two of Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club." With her bold personality, brash attitude and outrageous sense of humor, she quickly became the show's number-one fan favorite. Tanisha recently appeared on Oxygen as a special guest on the first season of "Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too" and can currently be seen hosting OxygenLive: Obsessed's "Bad Girls Club" edition, an enhanced version of Oxygen's award winning real time watercooler, OxygenLive.com.

She recently starred in "Celebrity Fit Club" along with Kevin Federline, Sebastian Bach and Kaycee Stroh. Tanisha has been featured on many television and radio programs, including "The Tyra Banks Show," "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," "The Soup," "The A-List Awards" and "Big Boy's Neighborhood." Tanisha is a native of Brooklyn, NY.

About Oxygen Media

Oxygen Media is a multiplatform lifestyle brand that delivers relevant and engaging content to young women who like to "live out loud." Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's media by changing how the world sees entertainment from a young woman's point of view. Through a vast array of unconventional and original content including "Bad Girls Club," "Hair Battle Spectacular," and "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," the growing cable network is the premiere destination to find unique and groundbreaking unscripted programming. A social media trendsetter, Oxygen is a leading force in engaging modern young women, wherever they are, with popular, award winning features online including www.OxygenLive.com, the real time social viewing party that is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad, as well as innovative tools shopOholic, makeOvermatic and tweetOverse. Oxygen is available in 76 million homes and online at www.oxygen.com, or on mobile devices at wap.oxygen.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/OxygenPR. Oxygen Media is a service of NBCUniversal.