"I was getting a manicure and a pedicure and I said, 'Guys, I have to cut this short,'" Phillips laughs.

It's less than three hours later and Phillips is chatting with reporters at a Television Critics Association press tour network party as the newest star of UPN's fall comedy "Love, Inc." She's replacing Shannen Doherty, who was recast almost immediately after the show was picked up this spring.