Former local beauty looks for her geek on TV show

By GINA KINSLOW
Glasgow Daily Times

GLASGOW March 07, 2008 03:23 pm

— A former Cave City resident will appear on the CW’s newest season of “Beauties vs. Geeks” next week.
Leticia Cline, 29, of Orlando, Fla., will appear on the show when the new season begins Tuesday night.
“Beauties vs. Geeks” is a reality show where a group of nine geeks and nine beauties are brought into a mansion to compete. As part of their first challenge, the beauties undergo make-unders and are asked to use their new looks to get numbers from guys at a bar. The geeks, on the other hand, are in for quizzes in another room. The challenges will test intellect and social skills to give contestants a chance at winning $250,000, according to the show’s Web site.
Cline was contacted about auditioning for the show in Orlando via her MySpace.com account.
She went for the audition, during which a 10-minute video was made. Next, she interviewed with Ashton Kutcher, one of the show’s producers, five times. Then she was sequestered in a hotel in L.A. for a week before finding out she had been selected for the show. Filming began in early January.
Cline was excited to learn she had been picked to be on the show, but she said she was also a little nervous.
“I really hadn’t watched the show before, but I like it because it is a self-help show,” she said. “The beauties help the geeks and the geeks help the beauties in a way.”
Cline couldn’t give away any details about the show, but she did say she didn’t consider herself to be a geek or a beauty coming into the show.
Her parents, David and Debbie Passmore, were thrilled to learn their daughter would be on the show.
“(My mom) was definitely excited and thought it was a good thing for me,” Cline said, adding her parents were also a little nervous because it is reality TV and a person’s entire life is put on display for everyone to see.
When she’s not appearing on reality TV shows, Cline works as an action sports announcer for “Extreme Sports.”
Catch the first episode of the new season featuring Cline on Tuesday, March 11 at 8 p.m. CDT on the CW (Channel 12 on Glasgow Electric Plant Board’s cable television line-up and Channel 31 on South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative’s expanded digital basic television line-up).
For more information about the show, visit www.cwtv.com/shows/ beauty-and-the-geek-5/.

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