As host of TV’s The Next Best Thing, which celebs are under-impersonated?
I’d like to see more impersonations of younger Hollywood. A lot of ours are old-school, like Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis. There are no Lindsay Lohans. Although one Paris Hilton impersonator got out of a limo and said, “That’s hot.” How realistic was she pantywise? I didn’t actually look under her miniskirt. Since we’re talking underwear, your mom was a Victoria’s Secret model… She was. She loved it. She’s from Sweden, and she modeled for 20 years. You modeled before doing TV. How did she feel about your joining the biz? She was supportive—she just wanted me to wait until I was 16 so I could drive my own sorry ass to castings. It was fantastic. I traveled the world for free, learning languages and cultures. I tried college, and it was a tough choice: study medicine and become a plastic surgeon so my mom can have free face-lifts, or travel the world without my mom and make lots of money. Any experiences you’d rather forget? A photographer once yelled at me, “Be sexy!” I was 1
