

Unconvinced by Manzella's bland assurances, McCarthy finally borrows a compact, ducks under the signing table and peers intently at her lip. She periodically queries him about her two cold sores. Today, she is smirking because she is making himĬarry her aqua purse.

In public, though, they keep their romance quiet, with McCarthy treating the self-consciously handsome Manzella like an older brother. Manzella also happens to be McCarthy's boyfriend. Of them all, McCarthy, with her goofy comic persona, may have the hippest and broadest commercial potential. His first success was Vanna White, the toothsome letter-turner on "Wheel of Fortune." He has since worked with Suzanne Somers, Pamela Anderson Lee, Kim Alexis and a bevy of former Mall openings, infomercials and shopping networks. For the past decade, he has made a living by turning all-American blondes with limited skills but big smiles into cash-cow celebrities, working the 1-800 world of Manzella hopes that McCarthy will be his ticket to the top rung of Hollywood. Last spring, she and Manzella had a cozy nightclub meeting with Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Steven Spielberg. Each week, corporations like Hewlett-Packard and Revlon seek her out for endorsements.
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Over the summer, she graced the covers of Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Young Miss and Playboy. With McCarthy as a host, "Singled Out" has become MTV's most popular program, broadcast twice a day. San Diego is the latest stop on a relentless campaign to turn McCarthy, who comes across as little more than a decal for sex, into a new sort of icon, a cross-marketed celebrity whose very appeal, unlike the icons of old, lies in her sheerĪvailability. "At a mall in Pennsylvania," he says, "Jenny drew more people than Hillary Clinton!" He is accompaning McCarthy on her cross-country tour. "And so far it's topped the charts." In black jeans and a black shirt, Manzella resembles Ted Danson, but with a better tan Out of the white poster, but she insisted it would sell," says Manzella, sitting at her side. There's innocent Jenny, the surfer girl campy Jenny, in a silver Barbarella takeoff, and Playmate Jenny, purring in a white bikini on fluffy white carpet. McCarthy also signs copies of her three new posters. In a wheelchair as McCarthy presses her cheek next to his for a photo. "He gave up Pamela Anderson for you," says the mother of a 9-year-old boy
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Each item is personalized each fan receives the full strength of her sunny personality. She approaches autographing with the zeal of a temperance worker. Surfin' Safari," which bears an embossed image of her buttocks. "How long did you wait? Eight-thirty!" McCarthy looks truly impressed as she signs the CD that Rob proffers, "Jenny McCarthy's "Nice to meet you, you cutie!" she gushes to a 12-year-old boy named Rob, the first in line. She totters on precariously high heels to the dais, where she sits between two huge cardboard cutouts of herself. Her spectacularly lush figure is shown off by tight white jeans and a flowery blue bikini top.

McCarthy has the blond, whole- some, slightly indistinct beauty of a prom queen, even though Of the Year and co-host of "Singled Out," MTV's campy dating-game show.Īt precisely 2 P.M., the 24-year-old McCarthy appears, guarded by imposing off-duty police officers Sam Goody employees and her manager, Ray Manzella, trail her. For several hours, hundreds of teen-age boys bearing CD's, posters, hats, shirts and copies of Playboy magazine have lined up, awaiting the arrival of Jenny McCarthy, 1994 Playmate Record emporium is hosting a different sort of convocation. N the dead of August in San Diego, not far from the convention center where the Republicans would soon convene to nominate Bob Dole, the mammoth Sam Goody's Jenny McCarthy / By Rachel Abramowitz The McCarthy Eraįorums: Should she have made the cut? Discuss Jenny McCarthy and other Women as Icons in the forums. Heroine Worship: Jenny McCarthy, The McCarthy Era
