Kosmo's Biography(Photos) | ||||
Kosmo (aka Alvaro, if you play that way) won on the first season of VH1's reality TV show not cool to cry. Men cannot wear pink, men cannot show emotions. You have to be a man. The Pick-up Artist. And me, I've always been like - if I'm pissed off, I'm gonna tell it to your face. If I Age: 23 Occupation: Cameraman need to cry I'm gonna cry! Whatever I feel I have to vent out. And my whole life I was Alvaro is a self-professed dreamer who claims he needs to be drunk to meet women. He cannot holding everything in. talk to a female when he is totally sober and he generally freezes. He often finds himself How did you get on The Pick Up Artist? unable to think of anything to say to women most of the time. The only reason he has I hate to make my life sound like a fairy tale, but I went out with a couple of friends dated women in the past is due to the fact that they approached him. There other times and I said, “You know what? I can't go out with you guys anymore. Everytime we go out, where he has talked himself out of great situations with women because he got too you're all talking to girls and having a good time, and I'm in a corner. I want to talk to nervous and just couldn't stop talking. He cites specific insecurities that have held girls! I want to get over this fear. I don't want to drink 85 beers to build up the him back. Growing up, he was short, and he still sees himself that way (even though he's courage to talk to a girl.” The next day, I woke up to a random phone call. “We saw not). Alvaro often covers his mouth, stutters and bites his nails when he gets nervous your audition tape somewhere. We don't really know how we got it, but do you really have around the opposite sex. To make matters worse, Alvaro admits to being very picky when trouble picking up women?” Out of nowhere I got this phone call. That's how I got on the it comes to choosing a female. He spends his free time break-dancing and claims he could show. teach any of the guys in the house how to do so. Along with break-dancing, Alvaro loves What was your first impression of Mystery? boxing and can easily hit a punching bag, he just cannot seem to hit on an attractive On the first episode I called him fake. I didn't believe sh*t! I was like, ‘He's woman. Alvaro's mission is to ultimately overcome his insecurities to win the heart of fake, why is he wearing mascara, I don't like him. It doesn't work.' Even when he went into a woman he likes in Miami. the field I still didn't believe it. But he sat me down and talked to me the second Maybe you were wooed by his break-dancing moves, charmed by his tears or freaked out at episode and really changed my life with a couple words. I suffer from anxiety attacks his hyper tendencies. Maybe you just liked looking at his bod in a Speedo. Ladies liked – I did, not anymore – and he helped me work through that. I don't know if it was him enough to kiss close and bounce to new locations, and Mystery liked him so much that something he said or his energy, but I believed every word that came out of his he named him The Pick Up Artist. Yes, Kosmo is King! mouth and trusted him. He told me that we don't have that much time to live and life is In our first interview installment, Kosmo too short. We connected. After that talk, I changed completely. opens up about the moment Mystery changed his life, the way some fellow contestants talked What friends did you make from this to trees, and why his acting career doesn't necessarily make him a ladies man. Make sure experience? to make the jump to find out why he thinks Scott is like a... We're all good friends. Scott bothered me sometimes with some of his remarks. So I just Want to clear the air about your occupation? ignored him. I'll honestly never be able to relate to Scott, I honestly think Scott is a I'm not a computer programmer! I'm a film maker, I'm a camera operator, I break dance. robot. Like if we sprayed water on him, he would break down. I can't relate when people I'm an actor. That's what I do for a living. And so now they're saying that the whole show hide their emotions, which is what Scott and Pradeep did a lot – and Fred too. But I is fake. It's not, and I'm not. loved everyone. Joe D. was my number one guy. I'm going to go meet up with him in five So just because you're an actor doesn't mean you can't be uncomfortable around women. minutes. This guy's amazing. I'm helping him out, we're going to the gym. He's my best Actors are not perfect human beings. Actors also have problems picking up women. Leonardo friend. I'd never think that I'd be able to make friends with like, nerds. People that DiCaprio – one of the most handsome guys in Hollywood - came up to Mystery one night in a weren't in my social group. But, I never thought I'd be friends with people not like bar, and told him he had problems picking up women his whole life, and was never the guy me. to go up to girls. I have pictures all over my MySpace showing that I'm an actor. It's Did anyone not deserve to be there? something that I'm proud of, I'm not going to hide it. I think Fred shouldn't have been there. He mocked the thing the whole time. Either that You cried a lot on the show. Are you really or he just didn't get it. But I think he was a waste of space. Scott tried the hardest. that emotional? That poor kid would go talk to trees; he would practice 24/7. That kid tried as hard | ||||