Mis,

Apparently nobody else was thrilled by the information that you appeared on Singled Out, but I am!! Please do me a favor and tell us all about the experience. You see, in my early days of college (I have since graduated, both from college and from my MTV addiction), I used to think it would be so funny to go on Singled Out with some guy friend and somehow end up as the final contestants together and pretend we didn't know each other, and get lots of cool prizes, etc...

What happened when you were on the show? What were the guys like? Did you meet Jenny McCarthy? (She's funny. The guy on the show, forget his name, seemed lame.) What prizes did you get? Etc.

Incidentally, how do you feel about having a whole question directed at you? HA!!!! I hope nobody ever does this to me. I'd be embarrassed.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Answers

Clementine....my face is red.

I just saw this question, I am embarrassed. I am also out of time for today. So my fifteen minutes of hooch fame story will have to wait until tomorrow. Do you think you can hold off until then?

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

I guess I'll have to!! :)

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Ok, Mis...it's May 11th now - SPILL THE DETAILS PLEASE! I'm very curious myself. I may have seen you, because I caught probably 5 or 6 of the episodes before I gave up on it.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2000

Please, we must know all about this. Was it a Jenny McCarthy episode or a Camen Electra episode

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2000

Yeah, because if it was a Carmen Electra episode, we can all start bitching about how she's annoying and tried to just be a clone of Jenny McC, and failed miserably, etc.

Anyway, TELL US! NOW! :D

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2000

I'm sorry. I took a little beach vacation. I am writing out the details right now. It was a Jenny episode.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2000

OK.

I was at a bar in California, drunk and dancing. This lady approached me and asked if I wanted to be on Singled Out. I said no. Then I told her that I would, but only if I could be in the chair not the crowd. She said I would be "perfect". Hmmmm. I said no. After I walked off, my best friend Brady gave her my name and number. I forgot all about it and a week later, some guy name Holden, from MTV, leaves a message on my machine. I called him back and we spoke for about ten minutes. I developed an immediate crush on him. He asks if he can set up an interview time for me. I told him I wasn't sure. (here is where he got me)......he said, "come on, I promise you won't hate it, and you will get to spend a whole day with me".....wink....wink.... flirt....flirt.......obviously he was the perfect person to make the phone calls, to get the girls to come to the interview. So I drove in to LA. We interviewed with people and did some fake runs to see if we had what it took to be on the show. Out of about thirty people, they picked ten. After we were picked, we had to fill out a little questionaire which was basically an outline of the show we would be doing. So I circled my answers about height, and nose size, hair and package. The guy I interviewed with said to me, "Oh! You have a little lisp!!! How adorable!". Excuse me? I do not! But I have been self conscious about that ever since.

So, the show.....I got to wear whatever I wanted and I am embarrassed to say I wore a bright orange dress with huge white platform shoes,....*sob*....don't ask me why, it was a different time. Of course, the staff loved my outfit.

I started to freak when we went to the room to start going over the outline of the show. The truth about Singled Out is that you do make your own choices and none of the lines were scripted. But they do give you the order in which you can make your choices. This is the "make you or break you" ho factor. Out of the six choices I had to pick from (nose, hair, height, age, weight and package), they made me choose package first. Instant ho. And when I chose package, even though they made me, Chris Hardwick still looked at me like I was the biggest ho for choosing that first. I made some Christmas reference about liking gifts, and he said "ho, ho, ho!" I almost died.

Jenny McCarthy is prettier in person than she was on the show. In real life she is absolutely stunning. Perfect. It is disgusting. Every guy I know wanted to know about Jenny. And I didn't have to lie. She was very sexy. Hell, I would go to bed with her. All the guys in the crowd just kind of stared at her with goofy smiles on their faces. She is very funny and a lot calmer. She was also very obviously the queen. We were watching them tape shows while we were waiting for our turn. Jenny kept messing up this one line. She was getting really irritated and she kept saying "fuck". One of the boys in our dressing room, said, "Jenny just said fuck". And Holden said, "She's Jenny, she can do and say whatever she wants". But she was very nice and friendly. During one of the breaks she came and sat next to me on the "loveseat". She sat really close to me and leaned back and told me, "you got so lucky!". I asked her what she meant. She said, "no one told you? Well, I don't want to be mean, you'll see when the show airs". What she meant was, I almost ended up with a Drew Carey look alike who sweated, and could not complete a sentence. I think Drew Carey is sexy, but this poor boy was scary. Instead I ended up with the boy I gave the golden ticket to.

Chris Hardwick was scary looking in person. He was also a little cocky and wore too much makeup, even for the stage lighting. I still think about his scary drawn on eyebrows.

Luis is the name of the boy who ended up winning, he was cute and Italian, and sweet as sugar. He was leaving to joint the army two days after we taped the show. We won a trip to Sunset Ranch in Hollywood to go horseback riding and eat at a Mexican restaurant on the top of the hill. We never went. He wrote me a letter and sent me his official army photo. I still have it somewhere.

You can't hear anything because the crowd is so loud. So most of the time when you are narrowing it down to three people, you really have no idea what some of the guys were saying.

I received a grip of stuff for being on the show. Shoes, sunglasses, a backpack, perfume, about five hundred dollars worth. I returned some of it and got things I really wanted.

I didn't really tell anyone I was going to be on the show. One of my best friends, Katie (who was also on MTV, she did the fan show (what's it called, what's it called?) she interviewed Dave Navarro) anyway, Katie figured out that my show was going to be on right after the MTV movie awards. So pretty much everyone I knew saw it and I got shit about it for two years afterwards (damn reruns).

I had broken up with my boyfriend about two months before, and when I went on the show I made some remark about him being younger and I would never do that again. It was immature I know, but I heard he watched it with all of his friends and they teased the hell out of him for it. So that was nice.

I saw my dad after the show aired and he said, "you look so skinny! you looked kind of fat on TV". Gee, thanks dad.

I loaned my tape to a friend of mine a few years ago and I never got it back. So I don't even have a copy to show people.

And that is my exciting Singled Out story. Not worth the wait, I know.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2000

Thank you so much for posting, Mis! It's a cool story. I wish I had gotten a chance to be on Singled Out. :) No, really! I do!

-- Anonymous, May 17, 2000