Formerly Richard Johnson's right-hand at the New York Post's "Page Six", Froelich is the author of the bestselling 2009 novel, Mercury in Retrograde.

A Cincinnati native, Froelich attended Emory College, and although she began her journalism career covering interest rates for the Dow Jones Newswires and Institutional Investor, she got her big break as an editor for "Page Six" in the New York Post, where she worked for a decade. She bolstered her public profile as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider and as a guest on shows from Today to Real Time With Bill Maher and The View, but she made a name for herself in the publishing world with her bestselling debut novel Mercury in Retrograde. She's since published It! Nine Secrets of the Rich and Famous That'll Take You to the Top and Visit New York City: A Local's Guide to Fitting In, and she fills her days blogging for the Huffington Post and as a contributor to Playboy, the New York Observer, and the Daily Beast. Froelich's subjects have become markedly less frothy as of late: she won a Gold Medal Award from the North American Travel Journalists Association in 2012 for a piece about Baghdad. [Image via Getty]