# Lisa Dergan

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{{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](/source/Corpus_Christi%2C_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](/source/Maria_Luisa_Gil)
| succeeded=[Angela Little](/source/Angela_Little_(actress))
| 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](/source/Model_(person)), actress, [media personality](/source/celebrity), and [sportscaster](/source/sportscaster). She was ''[Playboy](/source/Playboy)''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [Playmate](/source/Playboy_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](/source/Jim_Hill_(American_football)) at KCBS in Los Angeles. She joined [Fox Sports Net](/source/Fox_Sports_Net) in 2002. She has interviewed subjects such as [Tiger Woods](/source/Tiger_Woods), [John Elway](/source/John_Elway), and [Chuck Liddell](/source/Chuck_Liddell), and has reported from such events as the [Super Bowl](/source/Super_Bowl), the [Kentucky Derby](/source/Kentucky_Derby), and the [U.S. Open](/source/U.S._Open_(golf)) golf tournament.

She served as the co-host with [Ken Ober](/source/Ken_Ober) on the [USA Network](/source/USA_Network) game show ''[Smush](/source/Smush)''. In 2003, she hosted the reality wedding competition ''[Race to the Altar](/source/Race_to_the_Altar)'', which featured wedding and lifestyle guru [Colin Cowie](/source/Colin_Cowie).

She co-starred in the film ''[The Arena](/source/The_Arena_(2001_film))'' with fellow Playmate [Karen McDougal](/source/Karen_McDougal) in 2001.

She was the [St. Pauli Girl](/source/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](/source/ABC_News_(United_States)) |accessdate=February 2, 2010}}</ref>
 
By appearing in the 1999 [James Bond](/source/James_Bond) short story "[Midsummer Night's Doom](/source/Midsummer_Night's_Doom)" by [Raymond Benson](/source/Raymond_Benson) (in which 007 visits the [Playboy Mansion](/source/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](/source/Bond_girl), as she has a relationship with Bond in the story.

==Personal life==
In 2008, Dergan married baseball player [Scott Podsednik](/source/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](/source/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}}

{{playmates of 1998}}

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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:1990s Playboy Playmates
Category:People from Corpus Christi, Texas
Category:San Diego State University alumni
Category:1970 births
Category:Living people
Category:American women sports commentators
Category:American golf commentators
Category:American horse racing announcers
Category:American sports commentators
Category:NFL announcers
Category:21st-century American women

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