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Twenty-year-old Days of Our Lives star Jensen Ackles savors life's sweeter moments
FAVORITE GOSSIP ABOUT HIMSELF:
There has been this big ordeal about my
not wanting to do sex scenes on the show. I think it was in [a tabloid], and then it was
in a soap magazine. I'm not sure where they came up with that. If it's part of the job and
if my character [Eric Brady] has to do it, then I'd do it. I think [they reported] that
I'd told the producers I didn't want to have any sex scenes, or that my parents had called
them [to say they were against it]. My parents would never do that!
FAVORITE NEW PASTIME: Body-boarding. My buddies and I have
been going down to [Southern California's] Manhattan Beach and catching the waves--and
getting pinned to the bottom of the ocean floor. We're pretty big amateurs, but we're
coming around. I actually was able to stand up on the board, but that didn't last very
long.
FAVORITE JUNK FOOD:
Gummi Bears all the way! I am ahuge
fan. Lisa [Rideg, my girlfriend of one year] buys me Gummi Bears all the time, and I can
never say no. I would just eat them constantly if they were around me.
FAVORITE SOAP: Coast--because
it opens my eyes. It looks cool with the blue and white stripes. It's not just a plain old
white bar. It keeps me clean.
FAVORITE SOAP-OPERA
SLIPUP: Last week, I was
supposed to kick a door
open, and my foot went right through it! I cut my leg up, but it was funny. They told me
to kick it hard, so I did. The middle panel of the door went flying out, but the door
stayed closed.
FAVORITE PERSONAL APPEARANCE:
Walt Disney World. My family wanted to
go there, so Disney brought me in and I was in a parade. They had this entire band on Main
Street blowing their horns and playing their drums [just for me]. I rode in the car with
Minnie Mouse, but she didn't say anything to me, because she's not supposed to talk. I
tried to ask her questions, but she wouldn't answer--she just kept hugging and kissing me.
-taken from the Dec. 1998/Jan. 1999 issue of Teen People