Temperance Lance-Council has had an intriguing and varied life and career. She founded a club to defend Mike Tyson during his legal issues, ran marathons to protest apartheid while writing activist poems, and was offered jobs at Playboy and in Hollywood. She has appeared on television shows, been bullied in school, turned down marriage proposals, started a band, and acted since childhood, receiving standing ovations. She has experienced both successes and rejections throughout her life.

1. 22 INTRIGUING TRUTHS about temperance lance-council
1. She once had the international media at her door, when she founded the (once) world-famous MIKE TYSON
DEFENDER CLUB – which she started at the origin of Tyson’s legal woes
2. Ran the Los Angeles Marathon, clad only in a loin cloth to protest South African Apartheid, but began writing
African-activist poems during her freshman year at a Christian-type college (she was given a Bible her first day there)
located in the Blue Ridge Mountains
3. Did “artist” modeling while in college
4. Was a cheerleader in junior / high school & performed 2 yrs. in her high school concert choir (as a soprano)
5. In her 20s, was offered a job at the Playboy Mansion (she won’t say what kind)
6. Had a disastrous TV date, courtesy of an appearance on the popular, late 80’s show, The Love Connection
7. Was a member of Who’s Who, The Dean’s List & Phi Theta Kappa
8. Was so obsessively bullied in high school, that an older male, student offered to “bodyguard” her for a whole year
(she accepted the offer, but he turned stalker & was later arrested)
9. Appeared on Larry King Live (CNN) wearing bright, red, boxing gloves
10. Was recruited to star in her junior high school play, in addition to being recruited to star in a Daughters of the
American Revolution (DAR), college, theatrical production, where she helped pen her own monologue
11. Was a pageant contestant (she placed) & a homecoming queen
12. Once turned down $10,000 to go out on a single “date” with a once, famous Hollywood manager
13. Learned to count & make change at age 7, when her mom went to work & put her in full charge of her 3 younger
siblings, as well as the family’s in-home, soda pop business
14. Turned down marriage, after SHE proposed to a famed, NFL, All-Star, Super-Bowler
15. Formed & fronted her own band back in the 90s
16. Got her first starring role at age 7, where she received her first standing ovation & hence, caught the acting bug
17. (FOOLISHLY) Turned down a TV gig in New York after a boyfriend begged her to stay in LA to babysit his child
during a custody visit
18. Kissed The Price Is Right’s Bob Barker after she was the 1st contestant selected on one of the shows, but sold her
winnings right after the show
19. Wants to marry at least, one, old billionaire-geezer in Vegas on a whim
20. Appeared in the last music video ever made by the legendary Gladys Knight & The Pips ( Lovin' on Next to Nothin,”
MCA Records, 1988) before the group permanently disbanded
21. Was asked to appear on ABC’s 20/20 to promote her presidential candidacy, but was later cut from the show’s line-up
22. Suffered from anosmia for 10 yrs. & uses the validity of that illness to explain why she married her 1st husband.
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!