“Lost” fanatics and grizzled Internet veterans are probably already aware of this, but Evangeline Lilly — who plays Kate Austen in “Lost” and Cheetara in my favorite dream — was the spokeswoman for a phone sex company called Live Links circa 2003. The video above is from The Steel Closet (no, it’s not about gay Pittsburghers), and there’s an even sexier commercial with her below the gallery.

Frankly, I’m getting all sorts of cheap thrills out of this, and I feel like an idiot for it. I mean, it’s not like she was a phone sex operator. THAT would have been hot. “Hey! I know your voice! You got me off over the phone in 2003!” Although, come to think of it, even that’s kind of disappointing. I think I’d prefer it if she just did some nude scenes. That would be a lot more gratifying — and cost me less per minute.

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