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Kristen Bell melts down over meeting sloth
Published: 1/31/2012 1:39 PM
Last Modified: 1/31/2012 1:43 PM


Kristen Bell stars as Jeannie Van Der Hooven in "House of Lies," airing Sundays on Showtime, cable 350. JORDIN ALTHAUS/Showtime

A birthday surprise throws "House of Lies" star Kristen Bell into a complete panic attack and she shows it all on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

The actress said she is obsessed with sloths – those tree-dwelling animals who live in the jungles of Central and South America. But when her fiancé actor Dax Shepard told her he had arranged to have one of the animals come to their home, she went into hysterics, she told DeGeneres.

"So I'm sitting on my bed knowing that a sloth is here and I start to have a full-fledged panic attack. I don’t know how to compete with all this emotion," she said. Shepard comes in with a video camera and is surprised to find her crying hysterically in the bedroom.

"I’m so excited," she sobs on the video. "He’s coming for the party?"

"I didn’t know how to process that," she told DeGeneres of her reaction, according to toofab.com. "My entire life had been waiting for this moment when I would get to interact with a sloth."

The house was set up like a jungle habitat for the event and "she just hung out on the jungle gym for like three hours," said Bell. "Her name was Melon…"

"I mean I needed to be sedated clearly.”

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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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