Her Total Request: Talk!

MTV's Susie Castillo will chat up the stars at the Video Music Awards

BY BREANNE L. HELDMAN

Susie Castillo, of MTV's 'Total Request Live.' In the world of music television, there's dealing with fans totally requesting something live on the air - and then there's dealing with celebrity antics behind the scenes of this Thursday's Video Music Awards, broadcast live on MTV from Radio City Music Hall. Susie Castillo ought to be able to handle it. The hot, 26-year-old host of the network's popular countdown show, "Total Request Live," will be stationed backstage for a simultaneous online version of the show, "Overdrive," beginning at 8 p.m. on MTV.com, doing on-the-spot, streaming live interviews. As the 22nd annual awards show - this year hosted by Jack Black - returns to New York after a few years in Miami, Castillo's ready for anything. "It's going to be everything that happens behind the scenes," she says. "It's totally live! You really never know what's going to happen. The artists have all been warned. Quite literally, I could be in the hallway talking about what's been going on, and Beyoncé might be heading to the bathroom and I might stop her and ask her some questions!" But the quick-thinking Castillo knows that ad-libbing is part of the fun. In fact, the bilingual Puerto Rican and Dominican Massachusetts native - who won the Miss USA crown in 2003 - claims acting as her first love. After guest roles on TV sitcoms like "Half & Half" and "My Wife and Kids," she recently filmed her first movie part - as a reporter - in Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of the cartoon favorite "Underdog." More at the Source

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