Hairspray Live! college sophomore Maddie Baillio, as her first professional role. In November 2016, it was announced that Ricki Lake and Marissa Jaret Winokur (who portrayed Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film and the Broadway version respectively) would make cameo appearances; Winokur and Lake appeared as employees of Mr. Pinky's boutique. Darren Criss served as an on-air host, hosting a half-hour "Countdown to Hairspray Live!" show on NBC with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, as well as behind-the-scenes reports throughout the live broadcast. Oreo, Reddi-wip, and Toyota broadcast live, themed commercials during "Hairspray Live!"; Oreo's ad featured the character of Corny Collins,
Ricki Ortiz because you're taking my best attributes away." Ortiz' "Street Fighter" character of choice had been Chun-Li since she first played the game at nine years old. In an interview with "ESPN", Ortiz stated that "[Chun-Li is] the one who makes the game fun for me," and that she had great difficulty switching to a different character when Chun-Li was nerfed in 2017. Assigned male at birth, Ricki Ortiz came out as a gay man in 2003, though she noted later that it "didn't feel right." Ortiz experienced a large amount of abuse from anonymous commenters online. In 2009, Ortiz discovered