TORONTO - It's hard to imagine there could be anything that pop culture fanatics don't already know about openly bisexual Internet and TV personality Tila Tequila. The pint-sized entertainer was dubbed "the Madonna of MySpace" by Time magazine after netting nearly two million friends on the social networking site, where she posted her most intimate thoughts and pictures of herself in skimpy clothing. That led to her own saucy reality dating series, "A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila," in which she made out with men and women in various states of undress, showed viewers her vulnerable side (among other things) and gave MTV an instant ratings hit. Now, as a second instalment of her racy show gets off the ground (she failed to find love the first time around), Tequila says there's still more to reveal and she plans to divulge those details in a book due out in the fall. "My fans write me every day with questions so I figured instead of responding and sitting there taking hours, I'll just put all the answers in a book from all their questions," Tequila, whose real surname is Nguyen, said Monday in an interview at MTV Canada headquarters. The 26-year-old, who was born in Singapore but raised in Houston and has posed for Playboy.com, said she wants to start writing the book when she gets back home in Hollywood later this week. Fans of her show will likely look in it for clarification over what happened with Bobby Banhart, the male film student Tequila chose as a love match in the first instalment of the series. Banhart wrote on his MySpace page last December that Tequila never called him after cameras stopped filming, but Tequila said he broke up with her. Questions about the controversy were not allowed by a publicist during the interview. Tequila said she never feels that she has "to answer to anyone." "A lot of people, they get signed to a big company or whatever and they have lots of people working around them to create an image and telling them what to say, how to sound, and I don't do that," she said. "Like, this is all me. Nobody tells me what to do and I do what I like and if people don't like it, then too bad." Of course, Tequila also couldn't say much about "A Shot at Love 2 With Tila Tequila," which recently wrapped up filming and airs Tuesday nights on MTV Canada. She did say that this time around, she's more observant of the contestants' behaviour in the mansion, where they live together, party and compete in zany challenges to win Tequila's affection. "This time around, I just don't want to have people waste my time," said the four-foot-11 Tequila, who got her nickname from a near-fatal drinking incident that alerted her to her allergy to alcohol. The rapper-singer-model-blogger-actress, decked out in a tight Dolce & Gabbana denim dress and red heels, also spilled some details about the full-length album she wants to release once her book is finished. The CD would have a 1990s dance feel, she said, and - like the book - would be done independently and on her "own terms," she said. "No matter what, to me that is a success story because I make my own rules, I put it out myself, like, I do whatever I want," said Tequila, who has already independently released a few singles. Two of them - "Stripper Friends" and "I Love U" - have been the theme songs to her show. "Nobody tells me what to do or how to write my book or what I should say. It's always 100 per cent who I am, so that's a success story in itself."
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