Eleanor

Article written in Philadelphia Daily NewsPhiladelphia Daily News - Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - Page 41 has a photo of Eleanor and Andrew SOUTH PHILLY'S Eleanor Kerrigan is a tough cookie. The former professional wrestler now butts heads with Andrew "Dice" Clay. The comedian is her fiance, and the couple can now be seen Sunday nights on a new VH1 reality show, "Dice Undisputed." Kerrigan, 36, a St. Maria Goretti grad, grew up at 18th & Oregon in a house with nine brothers and sisters. She moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to work at the Comedy Store. For a while she was EZ Rider in the Women of Wrestling League. She and Dice, 49, met in 1993, and started dating in 2002. They were engaged in 2004 and haven't set wedding plans. Kerrigan says her family loves him. And why not? "He's just a sweet nice guy from Brooklyn," she says. Dice, who taped his 1989 special, "The Diceman Cometh," at the TLA, says that he always did great playing Clay Heery's Comedy Factory Outlet, since closed, and that he's always loved it in Philly. But he still prefers Brooklyn. "We're like 5-year-olds having arguments over what's better, Brooklyn or South Philly," Dice says. He calls himself "the Rocky Balboa of comedy," relating his current struggle to rebuild his career with the comeback of Rocky in "Rocky Balboa." Kerrigan, meanwhile, is trying her hand at standup. She was too shy to mention it to us, but when we spoke with Dice, he said she's got great presence and material.