Morning Brooke. We got a letter from a gay prisoner today: what’s the weirdest present you’ve ever been sent by a love-crazed fan?
I’ve been sent a huge diamond ring, with no proposal or anything. This time I didn’t even need to marry anyone to get my ring! No obligation, just a ring. Come to think of it, it was a better proposal than my ex-husband managed.
If you became a sex addict and slept with every man who cracked on to you, how often would you be getting laid?
Wow! You know, I really don’t get hit on that often. Even if I wanted to have sex with every man who hit on me, it would hardly ever happen.
What tipple should a man send over to impress you?
Well, I’m definitely a big red wine drinker. But Patron tequila’s my poison. It’s the tequila, a drink you can really sip and enjoy. It’s also evil.
Have you got any brilliant booze-induced tattoos?
I have two tattoos, and both are now cover-up jobs. The first was a little bunny – not a Playboy bunny – and the second was my ex-husband Garth’s name on my foot. Both are now beautiful “symbols”.
You went pretty much everywhere when you were presenting Wild On on cable telly. If you fell foul of some fruity kiss-and-tell story in the tabloids and had to disappear, where would you hide?
Belize. There’s a lot of really cool, unknown places and I think I could quite happily hole out there for a while. And the shopping’s great. But if I had to get away and hide, I’d go to St Barts. A few years ago I went topless on holiday in Ibiza and my dentist walked past. I don’t want that kind of thing happening again.
Having been everywhere, where do you think is the best spot in the world for sex?
Anywhere, if it’s with the right guy! I mean that. It’s definitely more about the man than the location.
If we were going to blow all our money on some wheels to impress you, what should we get?
You know, a car rarely turns my head these days. I used to love my Hummer, but I’m going to sell it.
Really? The Hummer? The one you, ahem, told us you’d shagged in last time we interviewed you?
Yeah, I’m so over that vehicle. I’m a little more tempted by a hybrid these days. I feel a little guilty about my gas-guzzling truck habit years back. I still have my Bentley, and I really love it.
But you can’t have sex in a Bentley. That’s just wrong!
Hmm, let me think. I think I have. There you go. I’ve definitely done it in the Bentley. So you see, I really don’t need that Hummer any more. Anyone want to buy it?
Yeah – us! So tell us why we should be glued to Rock Star?
This time we’ve got people like Slash, Moby and Macy Gray coming on as guest judges – there’s such an energy around it all. Anything that Tommy Lee’s involved in is going to be pretty damn hyper! Rather than trying to find a singer to slot into a pre-existing band, like we did with INXS last year, we’re really creating something new this time. Supernova is a new band made up of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, Metallica’s Jason Newsted, and Gilby Clarke of Guns N’Roses. The public and celebrity judges help pick a lead vocalist, and then the band will record their first album and do a world tour in early 2007.
Rock! Finally then, if you were our love-crazed fan, what would you send us?
I think I’d make you use your brains. Maybe some sort of treasure hunt. I was once sent a bouquet of flowers every half hour, and with each bunch came a word of a message. I could only piece it all together when my room was full of flowers. I think mind games are fun and challenging. I was really touched. We were already dating, so it was a lot of effort to go to! But it got results…
Original interview by Anna Hart in the October 2006 issue of FHM UK magazine