Angelica Nwandu (born May 10, 1990)[1][2] is the founder of the Shade Room (TSR), an Instagram-based media company focused on celebrity gossip.

[4] Angelica Nwandu was born in 1989 in Los Angeles, California, to Nigerian parents.

[5] In 2016, Forbes named Nwandu to its 30 Under 30 list, saying she "revolutionized celebrity gossip" with the founding of the Shade Room.

[6] Cosmopolitan reports that the Shade Room's followers across platforms now total more than eight million people.

[7] TechCrunch named her to its list of "18 Female Founders Who Killed It in 2015"[8] and BuzzFeed says Nwandu is "figuring things out faster than everyone else.