Kitaen landed gig just before death

Tawny Kitaen was just about to launch her career as an online talk show host when she died earlier this month.

The model, actress and 1980s video vixen died on May 7, three months before her 60th birthday and 10 days after a Manic-TV appearance, which served as the pilot for a new show, Tawny's Tales.

The Bachelor Party star signed on to host the program and chat with famous friends, but died before the proposed first taping, which was set for Friday.

Manic-TV bosses were confident Kitaen's weekly show would be a huge hit and lure viewers to their YouTube channel, and they were hoping that one of her guests would be ex-husband and Whitesnake star David Coverdale.

In her final chat over Zoom, Kitaen opened up about her life on the road with Whitesnake and “posh” Coverdale and how they fell in love over a cup of tea. She also opened up about her “blessed” life.

Manic-TV director Jon Mais says, “Tawny was like rock chick royalty and yet remarkably a girl next door.”