So at this moment you don't know for sure? 

"I can't say. Unless it's 100% definite I'm not gonna say anything." 

JV jokes that he's gonna cut the tape off to get the scoop from her and then roll tape again. 

"No you're not!" Leyla said laughing. 

How would you rate your experience with WWE so far? 

"The best ever. The best experience of my life so far. I've never experienced anything, anything as close, as amazing as this. I feel like I'm gonna cry here but, it's just been amazing. Every week, something new. Different cities, fans, the whole WWE family, it's just something else. It's such a great, wonderful... people just working together. Honestly I love, I love everybody that was apart of this competition. There was nothing negative I can really say, at all. I'm asked, what was the worst experience you had? There was none. There was no bad experience, aside from obviously losing, I just had an amazing time." 

JV said with the traveling she'll be able to see the world, and they're even in Toronto every three months. 

"Oh my God, that's the best part. I was dying when I first saw the schedule of all the cities we'd be visiting, I'm like, I just hope, I hope and pray that I make it so that I can go to Montreal because I'm dying to go back to Canada since I've been out here. And all my friends from Toronto actually came down... all my friends are back in Toronto. I had a group of 20 friends come down, it was great." 

Before you started with WWE did you have any kind of stereotypes about what the business would be like? 

"No. It all happened so quick when I went into the audition. The very next week we had our very first show. So it just happened really quick, I really wasn't told much about it. I didn't get any feedback really or any comments. The only thing from my friends in Canada was, "Be careful, you're gonna get beat up," that was the only thing. They were worried I was gonna hurt myself or break a nail." 

Wrestling fans are negatively stereotyped, so you didn't go in thinking these fans would be trying to grab you or make comments? 

"No, I wasn't really thinking about that, I was just thinking about winning. I had my game face on." 

Christy Hemme got the contract last year and then she got a Playboy deal. Ashley Massaro has also worked with Playboy under a different name in the past. If Playboy contacted you, do you think you'd pose for them? 

"I think I answered this in another interview and I said the same thing. I never say never. At this point in my life I don't think that I would. But who knows, in the future anything could happen. But right now I don't think I would." 

Did you see SummerSlam? 

"Yes I did. I watched it with five of my friends, and they're hardcore wrestling fans, I learned so much!" she said.  

What'd you think of the matches? 

"I can't believe Hulk Hogan was that bloody! He is a trooper man. Chair to the face, he took it all."

JV asked if she knows where the blood comes from. 

"No I don't," Leyla said. 

JV said she has stuff to learn! 

"I do! I thought I was learning," Leyla laughed. JV told her to do a Google search on "blading" and she said she knows what that is. 

Christy did an interview with The Sun in the UK when she was over there promoting SummerSlam, and she indicated that she thought this year's Diva Search was more lackluster than last year. This is a quote from her: "I think we had more of a dynamic between each other last year and that made it more interesting... We kind of lost that in this year's Diva Search, as they all decided to be friends… and that's never fun!" She also said, "...with last year's contest there were stronger and very distinct personalities." What are your thoughts on all that? 

"My feedback from this was, a lot of the fans, the fans themselves would tell us, "You guys are so much better than last year. You guys are so much nicer," and we just felt more love. That's what they were telling us. They just thought that we were better than last year's girls... I guess ya they did expect that we were gonna get all catty with each other, and that would probably have made for a better show. But again knowing that, I always tried to stand out the best way that I could, and always tried to get more creative every week. That was my deal. It was a competition so I wasn't trying to necessarily get along with everybody, but we couldn't help that we did." 

Along those same lines of getting along with everybody, it seemed that after the first couple of weeks, it was a big love-in a lot of the time and everybody got along. On the July 18 episode of Raw, you had to talk about who you would eliminate if you had to eliminate somebody. At the time there were seven of you left. From those seven, Ashley said Cameron, and Cameron said Ashley. Simona said Summer, and Summer said Simona. Elisabeth said Kristal, and Kristal said Elisabeth. So was that set up? Did WWE tell you guys to create these rivalries in order to create interest? 

"No not at all. That was all real. The only thing I could probably say about that, and if you notice, I was the only one that none of the other girls voted off, did you notice that? If there was anything going on, it was probably between the girls, and I was obviously out of it. It worked out the best for me, because you know what, I stuck to the rules and I played it the way I played it. I was competing, and they probably didn't tell me that they were gonna do that, but it sure seemed like they planned it. WWE had nothing to do with that, that was probably with the girls." 

So the girls probably just decided to do that to create more interest. 

"Or just to avoid really talking smack about each other and hurting each other's feelings. I didn't care. I went out there and I said the truth of who I really thought should be voted out, that was the instruction. Go out there and say who does not deserve to win this competition. I said Simona and I was right, and she went home." 

What did you think of Christy Hemme? 

"She's great, she's like a ball of energy. She's amazing. She definitely deserved it last year." 

I'm sure she was the perfect person to give you advice on it. 

"Oh yeah. She is literally a ball of energy, you cannot stop it. That's exactly, that's Christy right there. What you see on TV that's her, even behind the scenes. She was great, she definitely gave us our little pep-talks and really tried to give us confidence to go out there and show ourselves." 

What about Jonathan Coachman? I've heard he's got a bit of a rep for being a ladies man. What'd you think about him and did he try to put the moves on you guys? 

"The only thing I can say about Coach is that he was mean! Every week he would come behind me (when announcing the elimination) and give me a heart attack. And all my friends and family. He would come right behind me for the longest time and just stand there." 

JV suggested that maybe Coach was doing that for a reason. 

"I think he thought I was too confident," Leyla said. "But he's a great guy, hilarious." 

I heard that John Cena was really chummy with the girls, more so than some of the other wrestlers, and I heard Kristal had a big crush on him. Did anybody hook up with John? 

"Not at all. John is a great entertainer, he is a superstar. He was just trying to be sweet to us and nice. It never went beyond that. He's just a really nice guy. If the other girls took it the wrong way, then that's their problem." 

JV said that Alexis mentioned in her column that she took a liking to Romeo of The Heart Throbs... 

"I think maybe Alexis had a totally different mission when she came into the competition," Leyla said laughing. "It wasn't mine." 

Because of the WWE thing, people started to recognize you from a commercial for 1-800-YES-GIRL. There were screenshots from the commercial on the Internet everywhere. When was that done? 

"That was very early on in my career. That was one of the first commercials I did. That was probably, I would say, two years ago." 

Have you gotten any kind of feedback about that?  

"No but people did try to blow it up like I was on some porn site or I was showing my boobs or getting naked, which I thought was hilarious. I'm an actress so if you give me a script... something that says you've gotta play a hooker or you've gotta play the girl next door or you've gotta play a grocery worker, I'm an actress, I'm gonna bring that to the character. This character called for a sexy little girl on a phone line so that was that. I wasn't spreading myself in a magazine or anything. I guess that was the only thing they had on me so they wanted to blow that up." 

You were on "Minding the Store" with Pauly Shore on TBS. You had roles in "Glitter" with Mariah Carey and "Angel Eyes" with Jennifer Lopez. What was it like working with those people? 

Leyla said the feature films were pretty small parts and were shot in Toronto. "But Pauly Shore, he's hilarious. I had a great time working with him. That whole scene that we did was totally improv, there was no script or anything, we just went with it. We just fed off each other's energy, it was great. It was basically me talking smack to him because he ditched me on our date, and just giving him shit for it." 

JV joked that Pauly Shore must be her perfect type. 

Leyla laughed. "He is, he's exactly what I'm looking for," she said. 

You filmed a pilot for a TV show called "Hollywood PI", what's that about? 

"That's the latest and I don't know if I can talk too much about it because it's still being viewed and considered so I probably shouldn't talk about that." Leyla said it's with a network, and she's one of the stars. 

JV asked what she would do if the network decided to pick up the pilot, and WWE offered her a full-time contract. 

"Oh, it's WWE all the way, not even a question in my mind. I say my heart is in one thing and that's it. My whole focus is on WWE." 

JV said the one knock on other Diva Search girls is that they looked at WWE as a TV career and only wanted to work on Mondays and then go home, but Leyla wants to do it full-time which is great. 

"You know why, because if I'm not 100%, if my focus is not 100% on any project, it's gonna be half-ass and you're gonna see it. I would never do anything unless I have 100% of myself in it. And so that's why if I'm given this opportunity, I'm gonna give it my all." 

Questions from the Readers of JimmyVan.com 

From Blitz: If WWE ever did sign you, would you be willing to wrestle? 

"Absolutely. I can't say that I'm a tough chick but you know what if I get trained and they can make me tough, yes absolutely I would love to wrestle." 

JV asked if she's taken bumps at all. 

"No I haven't. Ashley was the one that took the initiative and she went out and started to learn wrestling. But no I haven't been given that opportunity." 

Have you thought about injuries? 

"Of course it hurts but with anything like that, no risk, no glory." 

From TooCool: Was there any particular wrestler backstage who tried to help out/give pointers? 

"TooCool, I like your name," Leyla said. "Nobody really tried to give us any special help to win this. Everybody was the same, just be yourself... and just bring it. But nobody in particular." 

From BackLash: What was the hardest part of the Diva search? 

"Probably seeing the other girls go only because we started to bond, and I know that everyone probably hates that but we started to bond and we didn't like to see anybody go." 

From italianrockstar: Ask her why she lied about giving fans that made signs for her a kiss. I made a sign for her, and was in the front row at Cleveland... and she just waved at me. And I'm a freakin' good looking dude. 

"The deal was, that I would kiss anyone who held up a sign for me *after* the show, not during," Leyla explained. "It was after the show. If you were waiting outside the arena or by my hotel where a lot of the fans were, I definitely gave a lot of autographs and kisses and pictures, and they're all on my website, I post all of them up. I asked my fans to send in the pictures that they took with me and I post them in my gallery." 

JV asked Leyla if she wanted to say something to "italianrockstar". 

"Mr. italianrockstar, even though you're probably gorgeous, you should have waited until the end of the show and I definitely would have given you one big fat juicy kiss!" 

From Madd Mick: Do you think you would have won if you had given out her phone number like Ashley did? 

"I think I would have had a lot more votes if I had've had a website like Ashley... she was the only one at the time that had a website, so that definitely, definitely helped her. I'm telling you, just from my site being opened for three or four days, I've already gotten so many hits, so I can only imagine how many Ashley had." 

What did you think of Ashley's idea to give out her number? 

"I think it was clever. I think it definitely helped, and her phone bill is probably crazy but you know what, she got 250k to pay for it! I don't feel sorry for her!" 

If you could have done anything differently to sway more votes, what would you have done aside from the website? 

"I don't know if I could have done anything else. I think I really did everything I possibly could to get the fans to side with me. They either liked me or didn't like me at the end of it, that's what it came out to." 

From Deadly D: If you could manage any WWE wrestler, who would it be and why? 

"That's a good question. Maybe Carlito because I like his Cabana and I wanna wear my bikini and hang out in his Cabana!" 

What do you think of his fro? 

"Awesome! Ya we both have the hair don't we? We both have the big poofy hair." 

JV said people probably look at her and look at him and get two different ideas in their head. 

"People love my hair huh?" Leyla said. 

JV said that's one of her big assets. He said a while back Molly Holly lost a match and got her head shaved, and Leyla shouldn't do that. 

"I probably shouldn't talk too much about my hair that I'm attached to it, because now they're gonna make me do something like that." JV asked her if she knows what "rib" means and said the hair thing could be an example of a rib. Leyla didn't know the term. 

Word Association 

Ashley 

"The winner." 

Kristal 

"Tight body." 

Elisabeth 

"Very athletic, and nice." 

Alexis 

"Long gone." 

Christy Hemme 

"A fireball." 

Jonathan Coachman 

"A great host." 

Bret Hart 

"My favorite wrestler of all time." 

Shawn Michaels 

"Got what he deserved at SummerSlam." 

Earl Hebner 

"Got his karma from a Canadian girl." 

John Cena 

"A great entertainer." 

Stephanie McMahon 

"One classy lady." 

The Big Show 

"A great guy." 

Shane McMahon 

"Talented." 

Hulk Hogan 

"A legend. And the sweetest person, in person." 

Did you have a chance to meet his kids? 

"I did, they were filming his reality show, I think it was in Pittsburgh. I think I'm gonna be on that actually." 

Vince McMahon