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SINGER-SONGWRITER AND VOICEOVER, FILM AND TV ACTOR E.G. DAILYGOES "WILD" AS "TOMMY PICKLES" IN  NEW HIT RUGRATS ANIMATED FEATURE AND CONTRIBUTES  "CHANGING FACES" SONG TO SOUNDTRACK; RETURNS TO "SAY IT, SAY IT" DANCE ROOTS WITH UPCOMING ALBUM

 The "Power Puff Girl" / ChalkZone boy and 'Voice of Choice' for so many others  takes on reality TV as co-host and co-producer, and gets a hook-up on Star Dates.

There may or may not be a "king of all media," but E.G. Daily is definitely the queen. This multi-faceted talent is everywhere, though as the 'Voice of Choice' for tons of film and TV live action and animated characters (Babe II, Pig in the City, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), she's oftentimes heard and not seen. However, the blonde beauty is about to get some well-deserved facetime, too.

As a hugely successful voiceover, film and TV actor, Daily has once again taken her insanely popular "Tommy Pickles" Nickelodeon TV character to the big screen in Rugrats Go Wild! In addition, Daily's original composition, "Changing Faces," which she sings as herself, plays during the film's end credits, "right after the Aerosmith song," she says proudly. The hilarious animated feature is her third in the franchise, following up Rugrats and Rugrats In Paris.

"The song is about being tired of playing games, and being one face for one person and another face for someone else, depending on what people need to see you be" she explains, "so it's about wanting to stop games, go home and kick your shoes off and be who you are.

 "It fit the movie because they're on an island and all kinds of things are happening and at some point everybody wants to go home and be with their family and be what they are," she says.

"Changing Faces" is included on the Rugrats Go Wild! soundtrack (Hollywood Records), as well as on Daily's upcoming release. The song was produced by "the Italian guys," as she affectionately calls Rich Dickerson and Gigi Meroni (Scooby Doo), who also worked with the Voice of Choice on the rest of her album.

Daily will celebrate her 11th season as a mainstay with the Emmy-winning TV series in September, along with continuing to lend her versatile pipes to the Cartoon Network's animated show Power Puff Girls as "Buttercup" and Nickelodeon's ChalkZone as the lovable lead "Rudy Tabootie."

In relating his close encounter of the "Power Puff" kind at the Los Angeles premiere of Rugrats Go Wild!, Alec Baldwin (The Royal Tenenbaums, Pearl Harbor, the upcoming Cat in the Hat) said to David Letterman during a recent appearance on The Late Show, "You would have thought they were The Beatles, the way I treated the Power Puff Girls, because I've spent countless hours watching that show with my daughter."

Daily, too, had a "wild" time at the Rugrats premiere as a "Beatle" and a "Pickle," but she's also about to take over the music charts with an upcoming CD. Shrouded in mystery as production nears completion, all the singer-songwriter can really say about this follow up to the still-selling-strong 1999 release Tearing Down the Walls (available at www.egdaily.com and www.amazon.com) is that it's a return to her dance days of Wild Child and the international No. 1 dance hit, "Say It, Say It."

"The new album is very fresh and techno," she hints. "It's got some real strong dance things and pop, and it's a new-sounding record for me. Although 'Changing Faces' isn't dance, some of the tracks are hard dance, which I'm real happy about. "I developed a real base, and people kept waiting for another dance track," she recalls. "For awhile I did more meaningful, acoustic vibe music, which is where I felt like being, but now we've kicked back into really great dance-techno."

Her summer vacation is filled with dance as well as dog days, as Daily completes postproduction on a reality TV series about pets and their celebrities, that she is co-hosting and co-producing with celebrity pet photographer Chris Ameruoso. The team has been working on the pilot for the last year and a half, and has enough quality footage already for a season's worth of episodes featuring the likes of Jack Osbourne, Weird Al, Bo Derek, Slash, Lacey Chabert and many others.

"It's very funny, very pro-animal, and it's very at-home with people. Really cute," Daily promises. Daily had a reality check of her own on the E! Television program, Star Dates, where two lucky guys each had the rare opportunity to wine her, dine her and win her over (tentative airdate Sept. 9).

"It was absolutely the most hilarious thing I've done in a long time," she says. "On the second date, I laughed the entire day. They're going to have miles and miles of footage of me cracking up."

While Daily is the undisputed queen of all media, she insists, "Being a mom is my greatest production." Not a wrap, not even a "take-five," if the Energizer Bunny had a voice, Daily would be the one to power it.

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