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"FacebookPinterest\n\n As host of ABC's wet-and-wild summer reality-TV hit \"Wipeout,\" Jill Wagner has seen every fall, splat and spill imaginable, and she's not wincing. Turns out the actress/host from \"hicksville,\" North Carolina, (her word, not ours) who got her start as Ashton Kutcher's aide-de-camp on \"Punk'd,\" is quite the tough'n: Her Daddy's a Marine, she loves a Harley and she can shoot a gun better'n you while looking smoking hot in a bathing suit. Need we say more? With the new season of \"Wipeout\" returning Tuesday, June 22, we sat down with Miss Wagner to talk about Ashton, Aquasocks and the perfect guy.\n\n\"Wipeout\" is the greatest train wreck in the world.\n\n You said it!\n\nI can't even turn away from the commercials. What is that thing about watching someone slip on a banana peel?\n\n It will never get old. Watching people fall... I've got the best job in the world\u2014move over Vanna White! I get to go to work everyday and play around like a twelve-year-old kid.\n\nSo, do you do the course?\n\n Why would I want to?\n\nIs there a way to actually navigate it safely or is it hopeless?\n\n They don't call it 'Wipeout' for nothing. But! We have testers\u2014granted, they are Marines and live in the forest and eat, like, deer\u2014and they can go through the whole course without falling. But, you know what I think it is? I think it's all in the shoes. I think you have to wear surf shoes.\n\nLike AquaSocks!\n\n Yeah, the kind that grip. Water shoes. I don't know\u2014that's just my theory.\n\nIt looks like it's fun, but I don't know about taking a spill with millions of people watching.\n\n That's the thing. I would love to get drunk with my friends and do it\u2014that would be amazing\u2014but not for national television. I give a lot of credit to the people who do it. They have way bigger balls than I do.\n\nOr they are complete exhibitionists.\n\n Probably the latter.\n\nDo you miss getting in the mix like you did on \"Punk'd?\"\n\n The sketch performing? Yeah. I mean, I started out as an actress and this is my first hosting job and I wasn't really sure I could do it, but it turns out I am really good at talking to people. I love acting and I miss it and I'll get back to it but right now I am having a ball. This show is about the contestants and I try to draw them out in a way that is funny. Some of them are really shy and I have to make a complete ass out of myself to make that happen. But I don't mind because I do that on a daily basis.\n\n\"Punk'd\" was your first gig?\n\n Yeah. It was terrifying.\n\nIs Ashton really that happy-go-lucky in real life?\n\n He's really down to Earth and really smart\u2014extremely smart. He helped me so much with the improv. I hadn't done anything like that.\n\nAnd here you are punking A-list celebs.\n\n Well, the beauty of where I'm from\u2014this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina\u2014I didn't have a TV, I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons. I didn't know what Tommy Lee looked like. Seriously, it was great. When I did the red carpet episode Ashton had to have somebody point out who people were. Now, I'm like, \"Wow, how did I go up to Katie Holmes and do that?\" Well, that was pre-Tom Cruise. Now, you couldn't do that. She's like royalty.\n\nWait, clay pigeons?\n\n Yeah, I shoot. I shot with my dad a little bit when I was little. He was a Marine, so it wasn't like he would take me to the ballet. We would go to a shooting range. It was the only thing he knew to teach his little girl how to do.\n\nI'm not going paint-balling with you.\n\n Yeah, I'm a good shot.\n\nAre your boyfriends terrified to meet your dad?\n\n My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact if my boyfriend and I are in a fight my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me but it is tough love with me.\n\nSounds like the guy had better be pretty tough himself to keep up with you. Who is your perfect guy?\n\n He's somewhere between a biker (meaning a Harley-Davidson biker) and a stock broker. Somewhere in there is the sweet spot. I don't have a type. I've dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks\u2014from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don't have that I get bored."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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