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Let’s Talk About Sex: Scoop & Shanda (NY Post)
Sep 30th, 2008 by Viviane
. . . WORKING from bed was a dream of the Internet age, and Hot 97 deejay Fatman Scoop and his wife, Shanda Freeman, have achieved it. True, their bed is currently in an MTV studio, but they were happy to truck it in from their New Jersey home.
The network picked up the couple’s podcast, “Man and Wife” for a show of the same name that debuted last night.
From the comfort of their comforter, Scoop and Shanda discuss - and demonstrate - questions viewers e-mail them regarding everything from sex and relationships to darker issues such as sexual abuse and sexually transmitted diseases. While you no longer have to be 18 to benefit from the hosts’ abundant wit and wisdom, everything else from the podcast- the bed, Scoop’s boxers, Shanda’s impressive bosom - remains the same.
The original concept for a sex-info show from bed was presented to Scoop by producers Charlie Stettler and Alex Lasky in 2006. He’d tackle sex and relationships and other risqué topics that he couldn’t cover during his day job. It was going to be called “Pillow Talk.”
“I was accepting applications for women to host the show with me, until I realized one night in bed that the woman that’s in my face was the right woman for the job. And she’s my wife, so I don’t have to pay her!” says Scoop.
“It was a natural fit for me,” agrees Shanda. “I used to work in HIV/AIDS services, I was a phlebotomist for 15 years and I was a teenage mom, so I really have a lot of experience that people can relate to.” So much for “Pillow Talk.”
Safe sex is one of the couple’s pet topics, and they say that their own children “have learned about all of this before the rest of America.”
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