Candice Michelle Beckman-Ehrlich (born September 30, 1978 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), better known as Candice Michelle or just Candice is a model, actress, and a professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment under their RAW brand.

World Wrestling Entertainment

Diva Search and roster changes (2004-2005)

Candice Michelle came to WWE as a contestant in the Diva Search 2004. Although she wasn't one of the final ten contestants to make it to the televised event, WWE hired Candice anyway and placed her on the RAW brand under the gimmick of a makeup artist. Initially, Candice Michelle's role was limited. She was never given an angle on RAW and she rarely made television appearances unless to participate in one of the program's occasional lingerie pillow fights or bikini contests that were held between Christy Hemme, Maria Kanellis, Stacy Keibler, and herself.

On June 30 2005, at the end of the WWE Draft Lottery, Candice Michelle was traded to the SmackDown! brand, where she became involved in a feud between Torrie Wilson and Melina. Candice Michelle quickly became Jillian Hall and Melina's rival when she befriended Wilson. On July 24 2005, at The Great American Bash 2005, Candice Michelle served as the Special Guest Referee for the Bra and Panties match between Torrie Wilson and Melina. Melina was victorious, and after the match, Melina pushed Candice from behind. This resulted in both divas attacking Melina and removing her bottoms as well.

She was then moved to RAW in a trade along with Wilson, while Keibler and Hemme went to SmackDown!. From that point on, Candice and Wilson taunted Ashley Massaro (2005 WWE Diva Search Winner), bringing in Victoria to attack her as part of their "initiation" for the new Diva. This continued on until Trish Stratus returned from an injury to help Massaro retaliate against Candice and her two cohorts, who became known as the heel stable Ladies in Pink, and later known as Vince's Devils, a play on Charlie's Angels. Candice began a new gimmick where she acted like a princess and would go to the ring carrying a plastic wand and opening her jacket to the crowd while standing on the ring apron to reveal her risque' wrestling attire. Also during this time, Candice's had a shot at the WWE Women's Championship at Taboo Tuesday 2005, where she lost in a Fulfill Your Fantasy Battle Royal.

2006

She would appear at New Year's Revolution 2006 in the first ever Bra and Panties Gauntlet Match, but was elimated by Maria. After winning a Women's Battle Royal on RAW, Candice Michelle would get her first singles WWE Women's Championship match while a part of Vince's Devils, but lost to then-champion Trish Stratus on February 27 2006. After this match, Candice Michelle slapped Wilson, blaming her for the loss.

Vince's Devils later broke up when Torrie Wilson turned face when Candice Michelle and Victoria turned on her during Candice's Playboy cover unveiling. This lengthy feud between Candice Michelle and Wilson led to a match in which Playboy cover girl Candice Michelle would face off against the 2-time former cover girl (Wilson) at WrestleMania 22 in a Playboy Pillow Fight. Wilson won the match, but the feud continued on-and-off in backstage segments where Candice was Vince McMahon's "sex slave". In late 2006, they resolved the feud when they appeared in segments and matches together.

Candice also appeared in both of 2006's Saturday Night's Main Events on NBC. In the March 18 episode, she and Victoria lost to Trish Stratus and Mickie James in a tag team match. On the July 15 program, Candice was eliminated in the first round of a Divas' bikini bull riding competition, won by Michelle McCool.

On the July 17 edition of RAW, Candice was the Special Guest Referee during a tag team match between Trish Stratus and Torrie Wilson vs. Victoria and Mickie James. At one point, Mickie James got in Candice's face, but Candice retaliated by slapping her and tossing her out of the ring. Afterwards, Victoria tried to clothesline Candice, but she ducked, allowing Trish to hit the Stratusfaction gaining the victory for her and Torrie Wilson. This incident resulted in Candice turning face. The feud with Mickie and Victoria lasted a few weeks.

After Unforgiven 2006, Candice began a short feud with Lita, winning a match against her the next night on RAW. She lost a match against Lita the next week, after interference from Edge in the first round of the WWE Women's Championship tournament. She would later compete in the first ever Extreme Strip Poker segment on ECW on Sci-fi on October 10 representing RAW.

On November 27 2006 edition of RAW, during the Women's Battle Royal, Candice suffered a broken nose when Victoria nailed her in the face with a savate kick.^[1] She had surgery on November 30 to repair her deviated septum.

2007

Candice returned at New Year's Revolution 2007 on January 7 2007, when she went down to the ring with Maria to fight off Melina as she tried to interfere in the WWE Women's Championship match between champion Mickie James and Victoria. Candice made her in-ring return on January 22 when she and Mickie James defeated Victoria and Melina in a tag team match. Her next feud came when Melina claimed in her blogs that all Playboy cover models were not capable of fighting her in the ring. Candice took offense to this and challenged Melina to a Bra and Panties Match, which she lost. Candice resumed her feud with Melina weeks later when she teamed up with Mickie James, defeating Victoria and Melina in tag team matches. On May 21,2007 Candice Beat Melina in a non-title Match.^[2]

In wrestling

• Finishing and signature moves

• Spinning Wheel Kick
• Candylicious (Hanging figure four necklock)
• Sugar Rush (Forward Russian legsweep) (2005-2006)
• Go Daddy dance followed by an elbow drop
• Reverse splash from the second rope (2006)
• Satellite headscissors takedown
• Various kicks

• Wrestlers managed by Candice

• Torrie Wilson
• Victoria

• Theme Music

• Candice uses a WWE Productions theme, titled "All Eyes On Me".
• Her theme music was promoted as being "Holla", performed by Desiree Jackson on the track listing of WWE Wreckless Intent, however that theme music was allocated to Kelly Kelly.

Personal Life

Candice married Dr. Ken Gee Ehrlich, a West Los Angeles chiropractor on May 7, 2005.^[3]

Media

Throughout Candice's career, she has appeared in many television shows, magazine pictorials, fashion shows, and movies. Her film appearances include roles in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (uncredited as a dodgeball dancer), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, High Crimes, Province 77, and Horrorween.^[4] In television, she has appeared on Party of Five, The Man Show, Playboy TV's Totally Busted, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Monk. Her most notable appearance was her appearance on Hotel Erotica. She has also posed nude for Ivolt.com and Playboy Cyber Club prior to joining WWE. She posed for the cover and a celebrity spread in the April 2006 issue of Playboy. She has also appeared as an import model. She was featured on an issue of Import Tuner magazine. Also before she got her big break in WWE she was a foot fetish/bondage model for FM Concepts Inc under the name of Mackenzie Montgomery.^[5]

Go Daddy

Candice achieved a moment of notoriety in 2005 after appearing in a risqué TV commercial for GoDaddy.com that aired during Super Bowl XXXIX. Beckman played a woman petioning a broadcast censorship committee to appear in an advertisement who experiences a wardrobe malfunction. The ad was a parody of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy involving Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

From then on she was often referred to as Miss GoDaddy.com or the Go Daddy Girl by fans, and on WWE, where she does the "Go Daddy Dance" (twirling her arm around her body) as part of her gimmick. In the following year, she was featured in another Go Daddy commercial at the 2006 NFL playoffs (this time as a window washer, cleaning windows seductively with her breasts contained in a bikini top). She appeared in another Super Bowl Go Daddy commercial during Super Bowl XL, in a parody where she seduced an ABC executive in order to procure an ad slot for Go Daddy. She appeared in the Go Daddy commercial with the slogan "Everyone wants to work in marketing" for Super Bowl XLI in 2007, where Candice dances in a room while getting doused with champagne. To promote the 2007 commercial, she appeared on American Choppers, also promoting GoDaddy.com's new chopper.

References

External links

• Official site
• WWE Profile