She's leaving because she originally only had a year contract. But she was such an amazing addition to the potty-mouthed, frat-house brotherhood mentality on the show. It's a huge cliffhanger, one of the best ever. It's pretty fantastical how they shot it.

she said. ''I'm working as an actor, not as a waitress. I have a job I love, and we're doing really interesting things on the show.

[Thorne is excited the show's been picked up for another season but says she's sorry the lone female firefighter on the show, Diane Farr , won't be returning.] She's leaving because she originally only had a year contract. But she was such an amazing addition to the potty-mouthed, frat-house brotherhood mentality on the show. ... It's a huge cliffhanger, one of the best ever. It's pretty fantastical how they shot it.

no maternal instincts whatsoever.

[THE VIDEOLAND VIEW:] Rescue Me ... going to be nuts! When we got the first draft of the script, that was pretty wild, then they started working on it and it kept getting a little more risque, a little more scary and a little more crazy.

It's a big part of her lifestyle -- her sexuality and seeking that sexual life with Tommy, ... I look forward to it. It's stuff I've never done before. I've never played a sexpot before. It's kind of fun to engage in that kind of story line. Literally, all Denis and I do during those sex scenes is laugh our [butts] off.