MTV's dreamy Yago sells a screenplay

October 19th, 2006

Is there anyone more adorably relevant than Gideon Yago? The MTV News correspondent has been responsible for delivering hard news in the hippest way possible, which is not an easy task when your audience has turned in to watch shows like My Super Sweet 16 and The Real World 17: Take It Off, Bitch!. Now, the ambitious (and again-- really, really cute) Yago has sold a script for a movie called Underdog, inspired in large part by his experiences talking to young soldiers in Iraq. Picked up by Focus Features, the film centers on best friends who return home—one as a hero, the other in disgrace—and the mother of another soldier who died in the conflict.

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