[3] She was parodied on Saturday Night Live by Ana Gasteyer, Claire Danes, Cameron Diaz, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as being an uninformed ditz[3] and eventually invited to appear on SNL as a guest, where she played herself.
[citation needed] On September 29, 2004, she was hospitalized for an injury that was the result of a stunt she attempted for a segment of Good Day Live.
[citation needed] The segment was focused on firefighter training, in which she practiced a fall from a three-story building at a Los Angeles fire station.
[citation needed] Despite massive promotion, including a mall-tour featuring Matenopoulous and Arthel Neville, Good Day Live was canceled by its syndicators in March 2005.
[citation needed] While at E!, Debbie also hosted Fashion Police, Live from the Red Carpet, and the Style Network's Instant Beauty Pageant.
On July 5, 2003, Matenopoulos married Jay Faires, the president of Music at Lions Gate Entertainment and founder of Mammoth Records.
The pair separated in March 2008, and Faires filed for divorce on November 12, 2008, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, citing "irreconcilable differences.