And this just in... LOVE-CRAZED GIRLS ATTACK MTV ANCHOR CARSON DALY!
Last summer on location in New Jersey, Daly, 25, had to change hotel rooms
regularly to avoid the young women gathered outside chanting his name. And when he
leaves MTV's Manhattan headquarters after taping his daily music-and-interview show
Total Request Live, he often has to dodge frenzied fans. What's all the shrieking about?
"His eyes are incrediblely truthful-you can get lost in them," says his girlfriend of eight
months, Party Of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt. "And he's down-to-earth. He's a double
threat." Adds Tom Cunningham, and MTV vice president: "He's today's version of
sexy-he doesn't have to take his shirt off."
As if! At Santa Monica High School-where he was devoted to golf, not dating- Daly, 6'
2", recalls, "I was the one girls would sit down with and say, 'Carson, you're a great
listener... like an older brother.' It was a dry four years." But when he came to MTV in
1997-after briefly studying for the priesthood and working as a radio deejay- Daly
discovered girls who wanted to do more than talk. "Some of the actresses we had on
the show would ask me out," he says. Yet, when Hewitt appeared as a guest last
year, it was Daly who was smitten. "She was the most humble, soft-spoken, gracious,
unselfcentered person I'd ever met," he says. As for his own allure, he's not buying. "I
do not mentally feel sexy," he says. "I'm still waiting to fill out an application to work at
The Gap."
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