The following is a transcript of a report by anchor Sally Wiggin that first aired May 9, 2007, on WTAE Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m.

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Mention the name Howard Stern and it usually sets off a firestorm of discussion -- so imagine being engaged to one of the most controversial talk-show hosts in radio.

WTAE Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin talked one-on-one with that very woman, who just happens to be from Pittsburgh.

Beth Ostrosky, of Fox Chapel, is the 35-year-old beauty who captured Stern's heart.

Ostrosky is a Fox Chapel High School homecoming queen who went to the University of Pittsburgh to study to be a teacher, and then embarked on a successful modeling career in New York and Europe.

The couple met at a famous Manhattan dinner party.

"The first time we had eye contact, it was love at first sight for me," said Ostrosky. "I saw these angelic blue eyes gazing at me, and I was done. I knew that this was going to be a man that was going to be in my future."

"Then I realized, this is a guy who is single, recently out of a marriage, and I thought, he is out with friends, he doesn't need to spend time with me, so I was smart," said Ostrosky. "I said, 'Why don't you go and speak to those beautiful other women who are here?,' and he goes, 'No, I want to be with you.'"

Stern took her home, which was a half-block from his place, and then called her at 7 a.m. the next day.

"OK, granted I got home at 3 a.m.," said Ostrosky. "What is that, a matter of a few hours? I answer the phone, he said, 'Do you want to come over and watch a movie?,' and I am thinking, OK, tonight I will go over and watch a movie. And I said, 'What time should I come over?,' and he says, 'Right now.'"

Ever since then, Ostrosky said they haven't been apart.

"I love him -- seven-year anniversary on Mother's Day," said Ostrosky.

Her mother, Judy, is a former schoolteacher, whom Beth described as very beautiful, Catholic, conservative and proper.

"I wanted her to be the first to know, since she is always the one to know my good news," said Beth Ostrosky. "And I told her I met the man of my dreams and it is interesting, because he is famous, and she couldn't wait to hear."

"I ended up telling her who it was," said Beth Ostrosky. "She slammed the phone, and she didn't talk to me for two weeks."

So Stern and Ostrosky took action and flew her mother to New York.

"They really have a special bond, and my mother sees him for who he really is," said Ostrosky.

According to Ostrosky, her fiance is nothing but a big puppy dog.

"When we first met, I had never listened to his radio show, and I made the conscious decision if I listen to his radio show, I am going to get confused," said Ostrosky. "Because from what I hear and who this man is that I am falling in love with are two completely different people."

Ostrosky said she does listen when Stern interviews a big name, and she knows he talks about their personal life, to a point.

That point came because of her father, Bob, a former University of Pittsburgh football player and now-retired surgeon.

Bob Ostrosky was a Stern listener before his daughter met Stern.

"So my father came to me about something he (Stern) has said, and I didn't know he had talked about it, and I was really embarrassed," said Beth Ostrosky. "That was the point I told him it was coming into play with my personal life, where it was not a good thing, and he has been really great about it."

Some reports have said that, despite the engagement, the two weren't necessarily going to get married.

"Oh please," said Ostrosky. "He is the one asking me when are we going to do it. He is so into marrying me."

Ostrosky is candid about how doors have opened since the relationship began, but she has become a force in her own right. She has acted, is a correspondent with "Extra" and hosts "Casino Cinema" on Spike TV, and Barbara Walters, a friend of Stern's, asked her to guest-host "The View" on ABC.

Ostrosky was even asked to do "Dancing With the Stars," but declined because she didn't want to be gone from Stern for long.

"'Dancing With the Stars' -- I don't consider myself a star," said Ostrosky. "I was laughing. If I was on the show, what would my caption be? Beth Ostrosky, Howard Stern's girlfriend."

Ostrosky said her true passion is animals.

"I would love at the end of the day to have a program on Animal Planet," said Ostrosky. "I have been in talks with Animal Planet for over a year now, and we are trying to find the right thing."

And when it comes to Pittsburgh, Ostrosky said she is happy to admit that is where she's from.

"When people ask me where I come from, I say 'Pittsburgh' with such pride and with a big smile on my face, and it is such an honor to come home to Pittsburgh, because that is my heart and soul," said Ostrosky.

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