Sports talk with Carmen Electra: model, actress, dealer

 TSN: You dealt the first hand at last month's opening of the first official World Poker Tour room, at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. How'd you do?

ELECTRA: Fine, but I was nervous. My husband (musician Dave Navarro) is a great poker player, but I'm not really into it.

TSN: What kind of an athlete are you?

ELECTRA: I grew up a dancer. I studied gymnastics for a while--I loved gymnastics--but I went to a performing arts high school and we didn't even have gym class! I did have Russian ballet teachers, though, so it was pretty intense.TSN: Nick Lachey went to your high school. If you wanted to, couldn't you wrest the title of Most Famous Cincinnati Bearcats Fan from him in about 2 seconds? ELECTRA: I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't want to. It's cool the way he cheerleads. He has so much love for his team.

TSN: Are you a sports fan?

ELECTRA: Probably the only sport I really got into was basketball. I wonder why that is.

TSN: I think that was a Dennis Rodman reference.

ELECTRA: Of course it was.

TSN: You're the instructor in a line of strip aerobics DVDs. How would you sell that activity to our readers, an estimated 99.5 percent of whom are grotesquely overweight males?

ELECTRA: This workout is for women, OK? But I can say for all the men out there who want to give it as a gift to their wives or girlfriends--it'll spice up your love lives. Just imagine her getting into great shape and adding spice to the bedroom.