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Joanna Krupa Has A Dirty Mouth


Sure, we might’ve moved on to Keeley Hazell and Vikki Blows, but Joanna Krupa was our original Wicked Chops girl. And after watching this video from NBC’s new The Superstars! show, she may regain the top spot in our ever-fickle heart.

Related: Joanna Krupa at the 2006 WSOP Photo Dump

Vid source: withleather.com

*Thanks to Kid Dynamite for the link.

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Leeann Tweeden is New Poker After Dark Host


Leeann Tweeden is new host on Poker After DarkModel/TV personality Leeann Tweeden has been tapped as the new host of the popular poker television show Poker After Dark. Tweeden will replace season 3 host Marianela Pereyra, who stepped in after a pregnant Shana Hiatt left the show a year ago. The super sweet, Argentinian-born Pereyra was a regular fixture at last year’s WSOP, where she did online video reports.

Tweeden, who first made a name for herself on FSN’s “The Best Damn Sports Show Period” and has done several Maxim, FHM and STUFF photo spreads, most recently replaced the once Peacock-blocked Shana Hiatt as the sideline reporter at this year’s NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Poker After Dark, which airs on NBC so late it’s early Monday thru Saturday, will be the third poker show Tweeden has hosted, with her first being the Poker Dome Challenge.

For more on Leeann Tweeden, check out her MySpace page here.

Watch RawVegas.tv’s interview with Leeann Tweeden here.

Press release announcing Leeann Tweeden as the new host, after the jump . . .

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Shana Hiatt’s Return to TV Just Days Away


Header_pokerShana Hiatt, who just a few months ago the World Poker Tour tried to Peacock-block‚Ñ¢ from returning to television, will debut her new NBC show, “Poker After Dark“, starring Shana Hiatt, in just 13 days (if you’re counting), which in calendar terms is January 2, 2007.

The hour-long show, starring Shana Hiatt, who by the way certainly should be considered a viable candidate for the OWCPG of 2007, along with the likes of our favorite lip-stickin’ hottie/druggie, Miss USA Tara Conner, will air at 2:05 a.m. ET/PT nightly, Monday ‚Äì Saturday, and will star Shana Hiatt. Set in various casinos in Las Vegas, and starring Shana Hiatt, “Poker After Dark” will feature Shana Hiatt as the host and pretty much every named pro battling it out weekly for a winner-takes-all $120,000 pot and post-tournament interview with Shana Hiatt.

While the details of the show and who’s playing has been reported over the past few months, an official press release Shanahiatt1from NBC was dropped today that confirmed details of the show and included a quote from Marc Graboff, President, NBC Universal Television, West Coast.

Loosely (very) paraphrasing what Graboff said about “Poker After Dark“:

“Hey all you Red Bull-soused online poker junkies up past 2am on a Monday, turn your frickin tube on because Shana’s back on TV and this time it’s network and that means new spreads in Maxim, Stuff and FHM are sure to come so if you want to thank us, then watch Poker After Dark, starring Shana Hiatt. Thanks.”

After the jump, his actual quote and the rest of the press release made pretty with photos of Shana from the “Poker After Dark” website.

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