{{short description|American model and sportscaster}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate | name=Lisa Dergan | image= | imagesize = 150px | caption = | issue=July 1998 | birth_name = | birth_place =Corpus Christi, Texas<ref name=julkingly /> | birth_date ={{birth date and age|mf=yes|1970|08|10}} | height={{height|ft=5|in=8.5}}<ref name=julkingly /> | preceded=Maria Luisa Gil | succeeded=Angela Little | website= https://archive.today/20130127213554/http://www.lisadergan.com/ }}
'''Lisa Dergan''' (born August 10, 1970)<ref name=julkingly>{{cite web|url=http://wekinglypigs.com/cgi-bin/nand/search/pmstat?browse=%3A%3ACONFIG%3A%3Amodelbrowse&key=dergan%2C+lisa&limit=0|title=Playmate data|accessdate=February 2, 2010}}</ref> is an American model, actress, media personality, and sportscaster. She was ''Playboy''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Playmate of the Month for July 1998.
Dergan has established a career beyond ''Playboy'', in particular in the world of sportscasting. Her big break came in 2001, when she was hired to work a weekend sports show alongside Jim Hill at KCBS in Los Angeles. She joined Fox Sports Net in 2002. She has interviewed subjects such as Tiger Woods, John Elway, and Chuck Liddell, and has reported from such events as the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the U.S. Open golf tournament.
She served as the co-host with Ken Ober on the USA Network game show ''Smush''. In 2003, she hosted the reality wedding competition ''Race to the Altar'', which featured wedding and lifestyle guru Colin Cowie.
She co-starred in the film ''The Arena'' with fellow Playmate Karen McDougal in 2001.
She was the St. Pauli Girl spokesmodel in 2003.<ref name=abcnews>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/WolfFiles/story?id=116460&page=1|title=Mascots Vie to Be No. 1 Ad Icon|website=ABC News |accessdate=February 2, 2010}}</ref> By appearing in the 1999 James Bond short story "Midsummer Night's Doom" by Raymond Benson (in which 007 visits the Playboy Mansion), Dergan has the distinction of being the first real person (rather than an actress playing a non-fictional character) ever to be awarded the status of Bond girl, as she has a relationship with Bond in the story.
==Personal life== In 2008, Dergan married baseball player Scott Podsednik.<ref name="pbnov08">{{cite journal|periodical=Playboy|publisher=Playboy|title=Playmate News|volume=55|date=November 2008|pages=143–144}}</ref> They divorced in the spring of 2017<ref>{{cite web|last1=ry |first1=Lar |url=https://www.southsidesox.com/2010/1/8/1241752/lisa-dergan-in-memoriam |title=Lisa Dergan: In Memoriam |website=South Side Sox |access-date=January 8, 2010 |date=January 8, 2010}}</ref>. She had previously dated film director Michael Bay.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/garden/at-home-with-michael-bay-a-slam-bang-master-with-a-house-of-om.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm | work=The New York Times | title=AT HOME WITH: Michael Bay; A Slam-Bang Master With a House of Om | date=July 17, 2003}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0220346|Lisa Dergan}}
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