Call us sentimental, but we love an ugly-duckling story. Talk to Layla Kayleigh about beauty, sex appeal, fanboys and stuffing bikinis and inevitably she'll summon her unglamorous youth in London. "My mom shaved my head," she explains. "I looked like a boy. I had braces for four years. Guys would ask me out as a joke, like, 'Will you go out with me?' I'd say yes, and they'd say, 'Ha-ha, just kidding.'" The joke's on them now -- or would be, if they only knew what has become of the little girl they used to tease. A microphone slinger on three TV shows, Attack of the Show (on G4), America's Best Dance Crew (MTV) and World Poker Tour (GSN), Layla is adored by an American fan base but remains relatively anonymous back home. "They have no sense that I'm on TV," she says of the London blokes. "I'm still Layla from the block." Her youthful uncoolness establishes common ground with the gamers and geeks for whom Attack of the Show is a must-see, but she does offer genuine dorkiness. "I read The Economist, I watch Bill Maher on Friday nights, I like to bowl," she explains. "But I'm the unconventional nerd. My ideal date would be to go skydiving, but no dude will come with me."
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