Ryan Seacrest has gotta be the hardest working man in showbiz.
There's his weekday morning radio show, hosting E! News Daily (and the weekend edition) and then there's that little gig he's got starting in January as host of the "American Idol" telecasts twice a week. Plus, he's producer of a reality series on E! and producing a scripted series for David Hasselhoff for the cable network.
So I had to know: does Ryan Seacrest ever have a day where he just wants to stay in bed?
"I stay in bed with my Blackberry," he told me at a recent event honoring Merv Griffin. "On the weekends, I
will try and take one of the days off but so many times I wake up on a weekend and think, 'Where did my Blackberry go?' and I'm shuffling through the sheets to find it...I enjoy it. ...The only thing I know how to do well is I know how to hustle. I literally get up when it's dark and it's dark when I get home. But c'mon, it's not like I'm digging ditches."
Seacrest says that, for fun, he loves to eat: "I can't stop eating. I love fattening, great food. Cheeses and carbohydrates. Everything we're not supposed to eat."
So now that more than a month has passed, how does Ryan feel about his performance as Emmy host?
"I was very happy about it. I actually quite enjoyed the freedom that I had, being able to walk around in that [theater-in-the] round. It was a fun night. It was actually nice to be finished afterward because I had to do the pre-show and the show. So I was slightly drained at the end of the day. It's funny, it's very much, mechanically, like running 'American Idol.' A big auditorium, live, don't know quite what's gonna happen. Fortunately I had a little practice."