In all her interviews, Esha Deol puts her best foot forward — measuring her words and skirting controversial queries with a smile or feigning complete ignorance. Must say she has managed to impress the press with her mature handling of some tough questions relating to her parents, her half brothers and, ahem, Aftab Shivdasani. Unlike her good friend Kareena Kapoor, Esha doesn`t shoot her mouth of.

But friends do tend to influence each other. The two sahelis were spotted at a swimming pool café in a hotel amid friends recently. It was then that Ms Deol was seen letting her hair down and making outrageous statements to a bunch of teenyboppers around. "Only hunks for me, please, when it comes to men," she giggled. Kareena, on her part, stood still for once and patted her on the back as if to say, "Good, keep it up."

Now we all know why mama Hema Malini has never encouraged Esha to be pally with Bebo!