Penthouse magazine's 2008 Pet of the Year Erica Ellyson is starring in NBC's primetime hit reality show "Momma's Boys." Ellyson is one of 32 women vying for the attention and love of three eligible bachelors whose moms move into the mansion to try to control their son's choices. Some of the women invited to the mansion are stereotypical "good girls" (nurses, teachers) and others, like Ellyson, have salacious pasts.
"Erica chooses to keep her adult modeling career a secret from the moms in the hopes of having a fair chance with them and the sons," reveals Executive Producer Andrew Glassman. "The moms will come to know her as the 'girl next door' first and foremost, and the question becomes what happens when her past catches up to her, and what will her potential mother-in-law do if and when she finds out."
"Momma's Boys" is a production of Ryan Seacrest Productions and Glassman Media. Glassman and Seacrest are the executive producers. Eliot Goldberg and Grant Julian serve as co-executive producers.
Erica Ellyson is an American model who was Penthouse Pet of the Month for January 2007 and Pet of the Year for 2008.
Penthouse, a men`s magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by Penthouse Media Group, Inc. formerly known as General Media, Inc.
Erica Ellyson was raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi. As of March 2008, she was living in San Diego,California, where she is working toward a bachelor degree in architecture at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design.
In March 2008, she was reported to be dating Boston Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz.
As of December 2008, she is one of the contestants on the NBC dating/reality show Momma`s boys.
