America’s Next TV Darling

Ugly Betty may have bit it, but my gal Becki Newton is rebounding quite nicely.

The actress has landed a starring role in Love Bites, and NBC hour-long romantic comedy pilot.

The potential series will follow three loosely connected stories of love, dating, and marriage each. Newton will play Annie, an infectiously bubbly hopeless romantic who also happens to be a virgin.

OMG: This…[signaling with all five fingers toward Peacock execs] has to happen!

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