Fox's Favorite Bad Girl: Amanda Righetti

Unlike most up-and-coming actresses, Amanda Righetti is bypassing Hollywood right now, despite the fact that she's got a new show, Reunion, premiering on Fox in September. Instead, she's splitting her time between Vancouver, where the show is filmed, and Hawaii, where her last Fox show, North Shore, was shot on location. The trappings of stardom in the show business capital, it seems, are a distraction she doesn't need.

"When you're on location it gives you more of an opportunity to focus because you're there to work," she explains, "unlike when you're living in L.A. and have other things going on."

Righetti, who is in her early 20s, got used to far-flung locations early in her career, after she struck out from her crowded family home in Las Vegas ‑- she was the youngest of eight ‑- at the age of 14. She started out modeling in Tokyo and then ended up in Los Angeles, never actually finishing high school. "There were scary moments," she says of being on her own so young. "There were no shortage of mean girls, and having to deal with the dog-eat-dog world and how men treat you, I had to take the responsibility of growing up fast. But I wouldn't give it back for the world," she affirms. "It very much prepared me for who I am today."