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At Nick Lachey's high school, kids studied Carmen Electra. |
I play a character named Leslie St. Clair and basically his role in the whole scheme of the show is that he's a ghostwriter for Alyssa Milano's character at the newspaper. She's taking a sabbatical and Leslie comes in and writes for her and then they have kind of this underlying romantic tension going on. It's a pretty good part. Are you going to be recurring or doing a multi-episode arc? Right now it's a six-episode arc and then I think we'll probably just take it from there. If we do six and they're happy with me and I'm enjoying it, then maybe we'll go further with it. 8. What gives you more pleasure, singing (he's a former member of 98 Degrees) or acting? I think singing is much more comfortable and natural for me. I've done it a lot more. At the same time, acting's exciting because it's all brand new. That's a tough question because they're so completely different. I think the rush of being on stage live, and singing is hard to replace. 9. On "Newlyweds" you play a lot of golf. What's your handicap? Thankfully I've never calculated it because it's embarrassing. I'm a horrible golfer. My only solace is that I've never taken a lesson. I'm just assuming that once I take lessons I'll actually improve. Right now I'm in it for the beer and the camaraderie. You also did some surfing on the show. How exciting, scary or challenging was that for you? I'm not a big water guy. I'm not big on the ocean. So that whole experience was pretty wild for me. But the first time I went out I got up on the board. From what I understand those were like world-class waves in Fiji. We were with the best surfers in the world and the best water safety guys in the world helping us out. 10. It has been widely reported that you want to be mayor of Cincinnati. Is that really true? (Laughs) It's funny because I'm in Cincinnati now visiting Skyline Chili! You know, what it really comes down to is my desire to see things change for the better in this city. We've had some hard times here lately and it really just comes down to me wishing that I could make a difference and positively impact the future of the city. There might be better ways for me to help do that than run for mayor. I'm not sure I know enough about politics to run a city. Speaking of Cincinnati, you went to high school with Carmen Electra. What do you remember about her? I did not know her well. She was a couple ... well, I don't want to reveal her age, but she's a little older than me. It was one of those things where I'm sure she was dating older guys and I was just a little kid. But, she was good looking even then. Miki Turner covers the good life in LA. She can be reached at dmiki@aol.com.