Women love Jaime's character on Earl

Though she can't relate to her character's underhanded ways, My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly does share some her character's more likable traits. "The tough, go-get-'em strong girl," she says. "The scheming and all this is not me. And Pressly has also been pleasantly surprised that her TV alter ego Joy has an unexpectedly large fan club. "Women come up to me all the time and say they live vicariously through the character because she says things that every woman wishes they could say, but it's completely uncouth and wrong," Pressly told us at a Crown Royal/NASCAR press event in Richmond, Va. "We all wish we could do that from time to time." [People]