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  • Rebecca Romijn to Appear in Two New TV Series

    The proverbial cup of 41-year old actress and fashion model Rebecca Romijn runneth over lately … as far as television series go.

    Romijn, who played a very blue Mystique in the X-Men films, is set to host Skin Wars, a new skin painting competition show on Game Show Network.

    The show highlights contestants who perform challenges containing body paint. At the end of each episode, one contestant is eliminated.

    Along with Romijn, other hosts include RuPaul and body painting icons Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina.

    But Skin Wars isn’t the only series that Romijn is busying herself with, as she’s still working on filming the first season of TNT’s The Librarians.

    The Librarians, a spinoff of three “Librarian” TNT TV-movies, has been filming in the Portland area since March. It stars Noah Wyle (Falling Skies) who plays Flynn Carsen, a librarian turned adventurer who discovers the library where he works is actually an ancient repository of historical and magical artifacts.

    Romijn plays Eve Baird, a counter-terrorism agent whose job it is to protect Carsen, the team, and the secrets and objects of the library.

    “There’s a lot of running around,” Romijn said of the upcoming show.

    Other stars in the show include John Larroquette and Christian Kane, who co-starred as tough guy Eliot Spencer in TNT’s 2008-2012 series Leverage.

    Executive producer and showrunner John Rogers recently explained a little bit about the show to a group of journalists.

    Carsen, Wyle’s character, has “always been a solo hero,” Rogers said, “and we have this great, giant magical library and we have all these fun adventures. I created ‘Leverage’ with Chris Downey and Dean Devlin and I’ve always liked team shows. I like shows where there’s a bunch of people working together, building a family, playing off each other’s problems and issues, and that drives the personal drama along with the external drama. And also, I’m a big conspiracy freak. I love legends. I love conspiracies, I love stories, I love weird science stories, lost cities, bizarre organizations.”

    Romijn spoke of the production crew, many of the same who worked in Leverage, by saying “They’re already a well-oiled machine.”

    The Librarians debuts on TNT in December. Skin Wars can be seen on GSN starting on August 6.

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  • Rebecca Romijn to Host ‘Skin Wars’

    Rebecca Romijn to Host ‘Skin Wars’

    Rebeccca Romijn will soon be back on TV as the host of a new skin painting competition show. Called Skin Wars, artists will compete as body painters for the ultimate prize. Game Show Network announced the list of contestants who will compete in the 8-series hour-long competition show that aims to ‘find the most talented and versatile body painters in the country.’

    The contestants for this inaugural season of Skin Wars include paramedic and firefighter Alan Anderson from Denver, former college track star Angela Roberts from Louisiana, face and body painting workshop owner Dutch Bihary from Seattle, air box master Felle from Detroit, graffiti artist and body painting instructor Gear Boxxx from Las Vegas (yes, that is x times 3), hypnotherapist, reverend, and spiritual body painter Mythica Von Griffyn from Denver, classical and technical painter Natalie Fletcher from Oregon, artist and roller derby queen Nicole Hays from Florida, body painter and former wrestler Sean Avram from Vermont, and body painter of nudes, Shannon Holt from Orlando. It sounds like in addition to lots of talent, this list is probably comprised of a cast of diverse characters, too.

    In addition to Rebecca Romijn as host, judges on Skin Wars will include entertainer Ru Paul as well a body painting icons Craig Tracy and Robin Slonina.

    So what does the winner of Skin Wars receive–in addition to keeping company with the lovely Rebecca Romijn? He or she will receive $100,000 in cash and a one-year supply of paint, as well as the honor of being the featured guest artist at IMATS, which is the premiere body painting trade show held in New York City each year.

    Rebecca Romijn is a former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and she was married to Full House actor John Stamos. She has been happily married to actor Jerry O’Connell since 2007. The couple has two little girls.

    This will be the first regular TV appearance for the actress since back in September of 2013, when she played a private investigator in TNT’s King & Maxwell. What do you think about this new show? Will you tune in to see artists compete by painting on bodies? Or might you tune in simply to see Rebecca Romijn?

    Skin Wars premieres on August 6th at 9:00 P.M. on GSN.

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