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“hopes Priyanka Chopra will be Priyanka Kapoor soon,” to
which Priyanka laughingly replied, “No Kapoor!”
Asked about it later, Priyanka added a bit too emphatically, “There is no Kapoor coming into my life, please God!”
Priyanka said she was excited to be back in Florida—
her “favorite state in the whole U.S.”—though she spends
most of her time in the States in Miami and was on her
first visit to Tampa Bay. Calling herself a “total beach bum,”
she expressed dismay at the clouds that hung over Tampa
on Tuesday and hoped they’d lift so she could catch some
rays before heading to New York.
She also talked about her first experience with IIFA and
hosting as the reigning Miss World in 2001.
“The teleprompter froze,” she said. “And so did I.”
Then new to the industry, she said she was dumbstruck by all of the stars in the audience whom she didn’t
know were watching her get stage fright.
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And then breaking the ice
was Preity Zinta, “a really awesome chick,” Priyanka said. “She
said, ‘Oh, the teleprompter
froze. She’ll be all right.’ ”
“I was struck by this film
fraternity where we all have
each other’s backs,” Priyanka
said. It still took eight years
to overcome her stage fright
from hosting,