Local woman's TV career revs up on 'Monster Trux'

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By ERIC DEGGANS

© St. Petersburg Times, published February 29, 2000

As you're wading through the morass of testosterone, mud and high-octane vehicles that power UPN's special Monster Trux 2000: The New Thrillennium tonight, keep an eye open for St. Petersburg resident Camilla Noble.

The 20-year-old model makes her network TV debut as Dusty, girlfriend/cheerleader for good guy Dan Runte, one of the drivers at the center of UPN's WWF-style homage to big trucks and the men who steer them.

Developed by Howard Stern sidekick Fred Norris and starring Playboy model Jennifer Goodwin, Monster Trux 2000 brings the rivalries and back stabbing of the macho cartoon WWF Smackdown! to the world of monster trucks. It airs at 9 p.m. on WTOG-Ch. 44.

"Like wrestling, you're supposed to wonder, is it real or is it fake?" says Noble, who taped the hourlong special over four days in February at the 50-acre Mesa Park course in Fellsmere. Of course, if UPN's mostly male audience warms to vehicles named Bigfoot, Scorpion, Dr. Bones, Monster Patrol and Boogie Van, this WWF workout on wheels can be spun into a weekly event. And if Monster Trux 2000 becomes a series, Noble hopes to jump back into Dusty's shoes as well.

-- Material from Times Wires was used in this story.