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" Canadian starlet (and Degrassi alum!) Stacey Farber stars in the new CW show 18 to Life, that airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. This half-hour family sitcom delivers big laughs and a super-sweet love story. Stacey admits that her character, Jessie, an 18-year-old newlywed is a far cry from the dark and twisty Ellie Nash. (&amp;quot;My character is bubbly and very funny with a sarcastic sense of humor,&amp;quot; she explains.) CG caught up with Stacey - she&amp;#039;s currently in Montreal, Canada taping the second season - to discuss this new role, her Degrassi roots and what she was like at age 18. CosmoGirl: Tell us, in your own words, what 18 to Life is all about. Stacey Farber: It&amp;#039;s about two 18-year-olds who get married on a dare. They&amp;#039;re neighbors and his parents are Jewish while hers are hippies - so they don&amp;#039;t get along. But when the kids get married, the parents are forced to become one big family. And that&amp;#039;s what makes it funny! CG: Sounds good! Why do you think teen girls will love it? SF: They are really going to like it because Michael Seater is on it. He was Derek on Life with Derek and he looks super hot now because he&amp;#039;s been working out! And it&amp;#039;s really original; the scripts are hilarious. I think the characters are different from the ones that we typically see on the CW. So many shows that are made for young people to watch today are just about rich kids getting into trouble! CG: It sounds totally different than your character, Ellie, on Degrassi! Do you think Degrassi was good training for the role of Jessie? SF: I think that Degrassi really challenged its actors. I was on it for seven years and it was one of my first jobs. I can&amp;#039;t even watch the early episodes - they&amp;#039;re so embarrassing! But I really do think I grew as an actor and learned a lot over the seven years. Ellie was a character with incredible story lines. So much happened! It was such great training. After Degrassi, I felt very comfortable and confident on-set and I think that&amp;#039;s true for [Degrassi alums and CW stars] Shenae [Grimes] and Nina [Dobrev] as well. CG: So you play an 18-year-old who decides to take on the responsibility of marriage. What were you like at age 18? SF: When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn&amp;#039;t happy there. I didn&amp;#039;t have any friends in New York City but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative. I couldn&amp;#039;t believe how well I got along with most people that I met there. CG: If you had come home at 18 and told your parents that you were getting married, what would they have said? SF: They would&amp;#039;ve grounded me and it wouldn&amp;#039;t have been an option! [Laughs] I did have a boyfriend when I was 18 but oh my god, I couldn&amp;#039;t even image if we got married. I can&amp;#039;t even picture myself getting married anytime soon and I&amp;#039;m turning 23! CG: Since this TV show is really about finding your first love, we have to ask, do you remember when that happened to you? SF: Yeah, it would have been the boyfriend that I had when I was 18. CG: Aww, so you&amp;#039;re a romantic at heart, just like Jessie? SF: I&amp;#039;m definitely romantic. My boyfriend now is really sweet. In fact, this year on Valentine&amp;#039;s Day, he surprised me with a red velvet cupcake and coffee from Starbucks. And then we went to flea market and he bought me a vintage ring. CG: That&amp;#039;s so sweet! But back to the show! Do you have a favorite episode that you&amp;#039;re really excited for everyone to see?  SF: Well there&amp;#039;s one that we&amp;#039;re filming now that will be in season two. That means that it won&amp;#039;t be airing this summer. But, Tom and Jessie get the same job and end up working at the same place. It&amp;#039;s so funny, so I&amp;#039;m excited to film that. CG: What about other TV shows, what would you say is your TV guilty pleasure?  SF: Sex and the City! Any time it&amp;#039;s on, I&amp;#039;m watching it. I tape reruns at my parents&amp;#039; house with their DVR. In fact there&amp;#039;s a salon [in Montreal] where they screen different Sex and the City episodes and moves on, like, four different flat screens. Oh my god, that&amp;#039;s amazing. Did you watch 18 to Life last night? Tell us what you thought in the comments section below - and be sure to read CG&amp;#039;s interview with Stacy&amp;#039;s co-star Michael Seater! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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