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Remember Jayde Nicole, the former sometimes-presence on now-defunct non-reality show The Hills—you know, she's the ex-Playboy playmate who is Brody Jenner's ex-girlfriend? Well, apparently she owns a modeling agency. It's called A Touch of Class. Nicole recently sat down with the folks at TooFab to dish on life after The Hills:
On her dating life now: "I'm dating a guy named Jesse Waits. We've been dating for a while now, about 7 months. He lives in Las Vegas and I'm there all the time. He runs all the Wynn and Encore properties." [Side note: His twin brother, Cy, is Paris Hilton's boyfriend.]· Q&A: Jayde Nicole [TooFab]On opening an L.A. modeling agency: "Originally I opened my modeling agency in Canada when I was 19, about 5 years ago. After I moved to L.A., I got too busy and it got too difficult to run and keep track of everything, so it kind of dispersed a little bit. I recently decided to open an L.A. division. A couple months ago I started casting girls, meeting with them, and now we have about 35 models. We did a big photo shoot last weekend."
On plans to expand beyond L.A.: "I definitely want to continue expanding, but anything I do, I like to do it the best. I want to make sure L.A. is up and running and going like clockwork before expanding. I want to open up a Las Vegas division and kind of go from there, maybe Miami, New York."