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Ryan Seacrest

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Ryan Seacrest - American: Not Idle.

To Britney and Paris, he's a shoulder to cry on. To Larry King, he's a friend. But to his on-screen sparring partner Simon Cowell, he's a 'little Chihuahua' - albeit one with plans to take over the world. Nicole Laporte meets Ryan Seacrest.


'We get in here in the fives,' Ryan Seacrest says, by way of explaining why, at eight o'clock on a Tuesday morning his faux hawk hairstyle is sculpted to Tintin-like perfection - despite the threatening presence of big, black headphones - and his hazel eyes are darting and alert. Seacrest, best known as the spritely, Simon Cowell-baiting host of American Idol - the US adaptation of Pop Idol - is referring to the hour he began work at his weekday radio show, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, on Los Angeles' KIIS-FM (which has been broadcast in Britain under the name The Entertainment Edge). The show, a potpourri of pop singles and celebrity dish, is one of a growing number of Seacrest's non-Idol duties that are making him one of the most unavoidable and unstoppable personality-cum-businessmen of the 21st century....

Publish date:
14 August 2008
Author:
Nicole Laporte
Source:
Daily Telegraph
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