Meet The Host: Michelle Hinn

Editors Correction: Due to an altercation in Early February, Michelle is the only remaining host who said this about the incident: "Go be a judge, then, Richard since all you do is judge, judge, judge...why do you have to be so judgmental?"

Michelle Hinn, without saying, is the Game Industry's Media Darling (Diva?). People have to walk quickly to catch up with Hinn and the constant entourage she travels with at all times. But once the cameras are off...who is this Donkey-Kong-Flameball-Haired woman really?

Known in the tabloids as Drew Barrymore's BFF throughout her childhood and adolescent years, Michelle was headed towards a terrible fate -- would she become another tragic E! True Hollywood Story? During those painful teenage years, it was often said of the, then 13 year-old punk rock musician/pastry chef: "She takes her whiskey, like she takes her life...on the rocks." But in the end, it was her friendship with Drew that got her through the savage, dark media storm and back onto firm, solid (quick?) sand.

Although she remains close to Barrymore in her heart, the two have never been able to work through all of their demons and to this day carry with them two questions: "Who was Yar?" and "Why did he want revenge?" Hinn had this to say the day they both realized that they could never meet in person again. After being caught, yet again, with a GameBoy, she went back into gamer rehab only to be confronted with the news that her beloved Pac-Man was deceased.

"You'll never possibly understand what we saw that day, on the screen. I felt like I had lost all hope for humanity -- what good could life hold after this?" After 2 years of intensive counseling, she finally, victoriously, put another quarter in that Pac-Man machine and accepted that even if Pac-Man died again, his spirit would live on in sequels, in bizarre "retro" game collections, and that he would live again when children, reliving the 80s that they were born long after, would keep his legend alive.