98 Degrees of Separation

One of the Ten took a flight back from Cincinnati to New York yesterday, and made some new friends. This is his story, as he relayed it in a call to Ten AM World Headquarters this morning.

(The member in question, above, is the littlest of the Ten, a man who stands only 5’ 3” tall. When we first started this collaborative, we were originally going to call ourselves the Nine and a Half Angry Men, until he threatened to walk out in protest. By the time he managed to climb down from his chair, the motion was defeated by a 6-4 margin and thus we became known as the Ten Angry Men)

Anyway, here’s what he had to say:

“I see this smoking hot girl get on the plane. She starts walking down the aisle toward me, and I’m hoping she sits next to me. Behind her comes this guy; he looks kind of familiar. Then I know he must be somebody, because behind him comes this 6 ft 5, 350 pound bodyguard. The bodyguard can barely fit on the plane, he's so big. Anyway, turns out the guy's Nick Lachey, and he sits next to me for the flight. "

"We start talking, and I tell him: ‘You know, I don’t watch any of that reality TV. But I just wanted to say one thing- I watched an episode of your show, where it took you and your brother 30 hours to plant some sod. It was the funniest fucking thing I’d ever seen. I became a huge fan at that moment.”

“What was he like?” we asked him.

“He was a really cool guy. He spent the weekend in Cincinatti, and was headed to LA tonight, then to London to start a tour. He was with some dark haired girl. She was dark skinned, not Italian, but maybe Phillipino…"

“That was Vanessa Minillo” we inform him. “She’s famous too.”

“Holy shit. She was smoking hot.”

“Yeah, she’s on MTV.”

“She was absolutely smoking. Cool girl, tho. Smelled good, too.”