Aubrey O'Day Set To Debut On Broadway Amidst Rumors and Innuendo

Aubrey O'Day of the pop group Danity Kane will make her Broadway debut as Tracy Turnblad's stuck-up arch-enemy Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray starting July 18 at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre.

O'Day, seen on TV's "Making the Band 3," will play the show's resident princess opposite former "Making the Band" star Ashley Parker Angel as Link Larkin through Aug. 31.

The voluptuous blonde bombshell is hitting the stage in the middle of several controversies. She recently confirmed a relationship with pop sensation Jesse McCartney, but did not comment on rumored lesbian relationships. She did, however, go wild on NewsCorp's hyped-up broadband television show "The Heyman Hustle," produced and hosted by former WWE and ECW creative genius Paul Heyman, and proceeded to flirt openly with Heyman while talking about her "lopsided" 34C breasts, best friend and mentor Jenna Jameson, and then grabbing singer Adina Howard's breast on the VIP dance floor. "It was a wild night," commented New York paparazzo Michael Given, "and she was in rare form." That episode of the Hustle, the most watched ever of the program, is available at http://www.heymanhustle.com

The actress-singer was a child performer who appeared in musicals in regional theatres. She entered an MTV reality show contest, "Making the Band 3," succeeding in the formation of the platinum selling group, Danity Kane; the first female group in Billboard history to have both their debut and sophomore albums enter the main charts at No. 1.

Hairspray is based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters. It features a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, and a score by five-time Academy Award nominee Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

Hairspray is directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell; scenic design is by David Rockwell; costume design is by William Ivey Long; lighting design is by Kenneth Posner; and sound design is by Steve C. Kennedy.