"What Is Your Least Favorite Word?" "Bitch Betta Have My Money."

This can't be true, can it?

James Lipton, the host of U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors' Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France.

The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood's biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers.

He says, "This was when I was very very young, living in Paris, penniless, unable to get any kind of working permit... I had a friend who worked in what is called the Milieu, which is that world and she suggested to me one night, `Look, you'll be my mec... We would translate it perhaps... as pimp.

"We were earning our living together, this young woman and I, we made a rather good living, I must say."

I stopped watching Lipton when he ran out of actors and decided to interview noted thespian Billy Joel, but I think I'll have to start again. At least when the comedians go on. How could you NOT bring up that he was a French pimp?

By the way, if I'm a young American looking for action in Paris, the last person I'm going to go to for help in trying to get my rocks off is James Lipton, whose face and voice just screams "will cut you up in an alley and dump you in the Seine."