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When an interviewer told <font color=yellow>George Eads</font> (Nick Stokes) this week that some online fans love him so much that they'd like him to star in CSI: My Bedroom, Eads made it clear all this adoration isn't going to his head.
"Wow, another spinoff of the show? I expected it to be another city, but my bedroom!," Eads joked with <font color=yellow>Darla Atlas</font> at the Dallas News. "All that stuff's not real -- the sex symbol thing or fame. It generates the economy. But I'm flattered that women find me handsome or sexy or whatever. I don't really have a problem with it."
Eads admitted he still often has a hard time recognising he is now a star. "It hasn't really hit me, until a girl at the Burger King drive-through gives me my burger and goes, 'Hey, CSI!' Or somebody will be staring at me, so I go up and say, 'Do I know you?' 'No.' 'Then what are you staring at me for?' 'I just like you on the show.' Then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm so sorry.' I feel bad."
Besides sometimes feeling uncomfortable with his fame, Eads said he couldn't think of many other drawbacks to being on television's most popular show. "In the second year of the show, me and <font color=yellow>Billy Petersen</font> (who plays Gil Grissom) had been out there 15, 16 hours, and we were having to wait around a lot. I was kicking cans, getting in one of my little moods, and he goes, 'George, why don't you shut up, get in your brand-new car and drive to your new house?' So I can't really complain. And then there's the fact that I overslept and got canned."
Eads was referring to the controversy that erupted last Summer, when CBS fired him (see story), along with colleague <font color=yellow>Jorja Fox</font> (Sara Sidle), only to rehire him a week later (story). "I really couldn't believe it," Eads said. "Goddang it, it looks like I'm lying, but I was telling the truth. It's almost tragically comedic. When something like that happens, it just fuels me to work so hard, to get to the point where I'm not replaceable."
For more from Eads, including some information on other projects he's working on, read the full interview at the Dallas News. Thanks go out to Elyse's for this!<center></center>
"Wow, another spinoff of the show? I expected it to be another city, but my bedroom!," Eads joked with <font color=yellow>Darla Atlas</font> at the Dallas News. "All that stuff's not real -- the sex symbol thing or fame. It generates the economy. But I'm flattered that women find me handsome or sexy or whatever. I don't really have a problem with it."
Eads admitted he still often has a hard time recognising he is now a star. "It hasn't really hit me, until a girl at the Burger King drive-through gives me my burger and goes, 'Hey, CSI!' Or somebody will be staring at me, so I go up and say, 'Do I know you?' 'No.' 'Then what are you staring at me for?' 'I just like you on the show.' Then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm so sorry.' I feel bad."
Besides sometimes feeling uncomfortable with his fame, Eads said he couldn't think of many other drawbacks to being on television's most popular show. "In the second year of the show, me and <font color=yellow>Billy Petersen</font> (who plays Gil Grissom) had been out there 15, 16 hours, and we were having to wait around a lot. I was kicking cans, getting in one of my little moods, and he goes, 'George, why don't you shut up, get in your brand-new car and drive to your new house?' So I can't really complain. And then there's the fact that I overslept and got canned."
Eads was referring to the controversy that erupted last Summer, when CBS fired him (see story), along with colleague <font color=yellow>Jorja Fox</font> (Sara Sidle), only to rehire him a week later (story). "I really couldn't believe it," Eads said. "Goddang it, it looks like I'm lying, but I was telling the truth. It's almost tragically comedic. When something like that happens, it just fuels me to work so hard, to get to the point where I'm not replaceable."
For more from Eads, including some information on other projects he's working on, read the full interview at the Dallas News. Thanks go out to Elyse's for this!<center></center>