Thinly spread

Good news, nerds! "Battlestar Galactica" vixen Tricia Helfer will appear in next month's Playboy, which is apparently still being published despite the ease of finding naked pictures of anyone that appears in it through many Internet souces. Here's their oh-so clever text about the pix:

"Tricia Helfer -- On Battlestar Galactica she's known as Number Six, but we can't think of her as anything less than a 10. The leggy former top fashion model makes love to our camera in quite the spread."

Prepare your Google image searches!

I've recently heard people saying that Helfer looks like David Bowie. If you're a female that's going to be compared to any male, I guess Bowie is a good one, but come on - she looks a man...if he were a woman.

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Not exactly the three characters you'd expect to be on the cover of a "Battlestar Galatica" issue of Entertainment Weekly, right? It seemed like one of those multiple cover dealios, and there'd maybe be one with Adama, Apollo and Starbuck. Nope. I can understand why they wanted to put Tricia Helfer on there (boobs), but I don't think anyone could have predicted Mary McDonnell to be on the cover of EW in the year 2006 (until they release "Passion Fish 2," that is).

Good article, even though the constant repitition of "This isn't your typical crappy science fiction! No really! It isn't!" sounds kind of insecure after a while.