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America's sweetheart, happily-married mother of two Ricki Lake is spending a nice relaxing day with twenty-one half-naked guys from all over the world. And the beam on her face says that she has no problem with that at all. "Spending the day with 21 half-naked men doesn't suck," she laughs, "and I'm the one getting paid. Isn't that cool?" All this hard graft (ahem) is in the name of "Ricki's Search For The World's Sexiest Man", an artistic celebration of global male physicality or (if we're rather more honest) a chance for a hormonally-unstable female audience to ogle a bunch of Chippendale-types, all oiled-up and ready to do pretty much whatever Ricki asks of them. And a few things she didn't ask them to, as well: "Which was the guy who felt me up?!" she asks afterwards. "Did you see that? I think it was the Dutch guy…" Indeed, Mr Holland had (accidentally?) slung his arm round Ricki's shoulder and copped himself a healthy feel of the Lake bosom into the bargain. "I can't say that kind of thing happens a lot," giggles Ricki, "but well, if it had to happen, I'm glad it was someone who looked like him. What's he saying about it? Did he say it felt good?" Mr Holland is, for the record, being gallantly tight-lipped about his indiscretion. But that's a very big smile on his face… So with a selection of the finest men the world has to offer, does Ricki have her eye on any of them in particular? "I loved Max from Israel," she exclaims immediately. Er, Max? With the hair down to his bum? "I don't like long hair on a man to be honest," she concedes, "but did you see his back? Most guys have pimply backs or hairy backs, but his was just perfect. Oh and one of the big black bald guys was nice too - I go for that look. Then there was Mr Puerto Rico… he looked good until he came on in that red shirt. What was he thinking of with that? Oh and the guy from Brazil had a Johnny Depp thing going on, didn't he?" Backstage, Mr Brazil had a bit more than that going on, to be honest, and was last seen lurking forlornly around one of the programme researchers, all doe-eyed and 'available'."Oh my God, he's pulled?" shrieks Ricki on hearing about this. "God, the guy barely speaks english! Mind you, the women here are pretty shameless. And I guess you can include me in that list." Well indeed. After a day of ogling and being felt up, you can't help wondering what Ricki will be telling her husband Rob when she gets home from work tonight. "You know what," she winks, "I won't even bother telling him - we've been married for eight years now, he takes it all with a grain of salt. He knows how I flirt, he knows about the sexual innuendo I use. On the first series of the show, before I knew my husband, I tell you, I would have gone home with one of these guys. Well, I certainly would have tried! These days, though, I'm just a boring old mum." You can observe Ricki's dedication to her job when LivingTV go behind the scenes at the hunk-fest this Sunday at 6.10pm in Ricki Lake - Access All Areas, and the one thing that you can't help noticing is that she really does have fun with it. "Yes I know we're exploiting these half-naked men and yes, it's totally gratuitous," she grins, "but we do have to give the audience what they want. And women are constantly being made aware of their bodies, so why not let the guys have their turn? Let's face it, I'm so lucky to have this job, and I do have a great time." | ||
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