Ellen DeGeneres to play matchmaker for Ryan Seacrest – Eva Mendes?

In an interview to air Monday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the new bride, presses Ryan Seacrest, 33, on why he can’t seem to find love. Ryan said he has been “so busy” he hasn’t had time to look for love.

“Yes, but you’re going to wait too long and get in a rut being single,” said DeGeneres, who wed Portia de Rossi this past summer.

So Ellen then decides to fix up Ryan Seacrest after he lamented about his lackluster love life, according to excerpts of the show.

DeGeneres then held up photos of famous women — Pam Anderson, Britney Spears, Carrie Underwood, Eva Mendes and Jennifer Aniston — and asked Seacrest to pick one.

“They don’t know about this,” she says of the possible love interests she places before Seacrest, “but just as an idea of who would you choose out of these woman right here.”

“You have Eva,” points out Seacrest. “She’s gorgeous, and Jennifer is great, too.”

“You’re saying Eva Mendes, who you go to right away,” notes DeGeneres.

“Yeah, I kind of went there first,” says Seacrest. “I like Carrie, but then I kind of feel like she is part of Idol thing, so I don’t l know if that’s the right thing to do, to think about her in that way.”

Spears, he said, “is young and obviously there’s enough going on and that’s not for me.”

But Mendes, he went on, “is great.”

“Would you like me to set you up with her?” DeGeneres asked.

“Yeah,” said Seacrest.

To be continued?

For now, Seacrest has one famous lady in his life, Paris Hilton. On Friday, he announced that they will develop a new scripted series together. For months, Hilton, Paris Hilton Entertainment’s Jason Moore and Seacrest — who produces the hit E! series Keeping Up With the Kardashians, featuring Hilton’s friend Kim Kardashian — have been in talks about the project. Details on the new series are not yet available.

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