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Jenny McCarthy Risks Being 'Bad Girl'
newsday ^ | 5/23/05 | bridgette Byrne

Posted on 05/23/2005 1:50:20 PM PDT by pissant

LOS ANGELES -- Jenny McCarthy was risque even at age 6. Grinning broadly during a recent interview, she recounts how she cracked up the mothers waiting to pick up their kids at her kindergarten with a slightly off-color joke aimed at her teacher.

"I watched all these people laughing and I thought, 'Cool. Right on.'"

She's hoping the same type of raw irreverence will pay dividends in her new sitcom, "The Bad Girl's Guide," based on the best-selling series of books by Cameron Tuttle. It premieres Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. EDT on UPN.

McCarthy plays JJ, a low-level advertising executive who shares the joys and woes of modern life in the company of two girlfriends -- co-worker Holly (Marcelle Larice) and roommate Sarah (Christina Moore).

"Being a 'bad girl' isn't necessarily breaking the law, it's basically questioning the rules, testing out boundaries," says McCarthy.

The show is "a little bit edgy for network television," she says. In the premiere episode, JJ indulges in romantic fantasies about a man she's met in the elevator at work. There's some sexy language, but it's not as explicit as, say, HBO's retired "Sex and The City."

"This is 'Sex and The City in the Mall,'" McCarthy says. "This is where people can go out and get (the style) for $19.99. We definitely wanted a real girl perspective on it, not a fantasy world."

The Chicago-born McCarthy, 32, was Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1994, then went on to host "Singled Out" and "The Jenny McCarthy Show" on MTV. She also starred in "Jenny," an NBC sitcom that only aired for 10 episodes in 1997.

Married and the mother of a 3-year-old boy, she's authored the explicit books "Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth"

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


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To: pissant
she gives me the heebie jeebies

She might also give you something you need penicillin for.....

21 posted on 05/23/2005 2:15:08 PM PDT by freebilly (Go Santa Cruz Baseball! Win CCS!)
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To: ken5050

Thank you!


22 posted on 05/23/2005 2:15:24 PM PDT by najida (Free Republic's Own Crazy Cat Lady)
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To: najida

You need an ID and password....use upchuck6 and upchuck..


23 posted on 05/23/2005 2:16:18 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: ken5050

and you have to write and post a brief review of the article....(G)


24 posted on 05/23/2005 2:17:12 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: pissant
"Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold on to.
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall.

Jenny, I got your number.
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9
8-6-7-5-3-0-9, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9"

25 posted on 05/23/2005 2:17:33 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: pissant

"heebie jeebies" is that like herpes?


26 posted on 05/23/2005 2:17:34 PM PDT by ononymouse
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To: ononymouse

it prevents herpes! ;o)


27 posted on 05/23/2005 2:20:00 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: Enterprise

John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band?


28 posted on 05/23/2005 2:20:28 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: pissant

Who is she and why does she matter?


29 posted on 05/23/2005 2:20:32 PM PDT by skaterboy (Love you buttercup)
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To: skaterboy

She was asking about you, that's all...


30 posted on 05/23/2005 2:21:02 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: pissant

Tommy Tutone


31 posted on 05/23/2005 2:21:31 PM PDT by Enterprise (Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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To: Enterprise

same crap, different garbler!


32 posted on 05/23/2005 2:22:10 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: pissant

Only one thing ever came out of Chi-town worth a damn


33 posted on 05/23/2005 2:22:17 PM PDT by skaterboy (Love you buttercup)
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To: skaterboy

Tootsie Rolls?


34 posted on 05/23/2005 2:22:44 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: pissant

No wonder the Muslims hate us.


35 posted on 05/23/2005 2:24:33 PM PDT by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: My2Cents

I'll gladly take bimbo porn stars in America than someone telling me that Mohammed was correct. They can stay the hell out then.


36 posted on 05/23/2005 2:25:49 PM PDT by pissant (I've got a headache)
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To: najida
So I take it that the right one is Heebie and the left one is Jeebie?

If that's the case, who's the one on the bed ?

37 posted on 05/23/2005 2:28:41 PM PDT by tomkat (;-)
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To: tomkat
it would be jenny mccarthy. the one this article is about.
38 posted on 05/23/2005 3:11:26 PM PDT by Rushgrrl
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To: Rushgrrl
uhmmm, if the left one is heebie and the....
oh nevermind, (but thanks)

39 posted on 05/23/2005 3:29:19 PM PDT by tomkat (;-)
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To: ken5050

I have no ideah. So sorry.


40 posted on 05/23/2005 4:06:02 PM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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