Television
In spring 2002, Ali appeared in a boxing role for the music video "Deny" by Canadian hard rock band Default. The video gained airplay on music channels including MTV2 and MMUSA.
In 2004, Ali appeared on the George Lopez show, where she owned a gym.
In mid-2007, Ali was a participant in season four of the American version of the television show Dancing with the Stars; she had no previous dancing experience. She and her professional dancing partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, were widely praised by the judges, receiving the first "10" from judge Len Goodman for their rumba. They came in third place in the competition, losing to Apolo Anton Ohno (with Julianne Hough) and Joey Fatone (with Kym Johnson).
Ali hosted the revival of American Gladiators alongside Hulk Hogan. The show premiered in January 2008.
Ali and the cast of American Gladiators appeared on the NBC show Celebrity Family Feud.
Ali joined the CBS team as a contributing correspondent on The Early Show with her first appearance in early January 2008.
She hosted The N's Student Body, a reality show on The N.{{when?|Date=November 2012
Ali also appeared in a 2007 episode of Yo Gabba Gabba, titled "Train", in a brief dance number, and on Love That Girl, episode 3.4, "Fighting Shape".
In 2012, Ali was picked to co-host Everyday Health with Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca. The show airs on ABC Saturday mornings and profiles everyday people living with health issues, who aspire to not let their health keep them from helping others or doing extraordinary things.
Also in 2012, Ali appeared in a Kohl's commercial with a tag line, "I box to win; I shop to win.".
Laila was a contestant in the NBC celebrity reality competition series called Stars Earn Stripes.
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“There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials ... despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)
“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)