Model/Host Katie Rost: “I’m Lady Luck!”

Show host Katie Rost missed her own “Celebrity Hook Up” Saturday night when event co-headliner Sugar Ray Leonard failed to show at their Monte Carlo themed benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at the Potomac Country Club.

Despite the disappointment, Rost, a model best known for dating Russell Simmons, may not end up needing the boxer– or Blackjack — to win an annual fundraising competition put on by the Society.

“I think my odds of winning are 100%,” she said, confident of her efforts to raise funds for the LLS “Woman of the Year” title.

But throwing her hat in the ring doesn’t mean she’s a ringer.  “I don’t really know how to play any of these games,” she claimed while doing more greeting and gabbing than gambling throughout the night.  “So I’m just blowing on the dice and letting somebody roll for me.  I’m lady luck!”

(Images: Top Kristen Lyle with Bobby Mitchell and Katie Rost.  Below: Allison Brooks joins the poker table.)

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