Pop singer/actress Vitamin C, who already has a Mattel doll made in her likeness and an eponymous Tommy Hilfiger lipstick in her chosen shade of orange has now been made into a video game character for EA Sports' Triple Play.

"It's an odd connection but I'm a baseball fan and EA Sports has a baseball game," she says. "I have a song in that and I'm going to appear as a player in the New York Yankees."

While she jokes that her doll was fashioned into a better-looking version of herself ("I had some improvements," she chuckles), she hasn't seen the final rendering of her animated self. "It's not completed yet, but I think I'm gonna sing and dance, then I'm also going to bat," she says, laughing. "I was afraid it was going to be like fourth grade all over again. No one will pick me for their team."

Vitamin C didn't record a new tune for the game, instead EA Sports will be using her cover of "I Know What Boys Like," which appears on her new album, More.

KAREN BLISS
(March 9, 2001)