File this story under the “only in LA” category. In an interview last week on NPR’s Fresh Air, Jenna Fischer revealed that after first moving to Los Angeles, she got cast in an international knock off of the Spice Girls, despite only being able to hold a note in the mid C range. Here’s Fischer describing the two week experience:

“All the rehearsals were in this guy’s penthouse. And I swear - I kept going to rehearsal. And I learned my song, and it was about a truck stop…and I noticed that none of the other girls were singing with me, but they did walk by in lingerie…and I’m like, ‘Huh, weird!’” - on being the sixth member of the International Spice Girls, which turned out to be a front for a call-girl service!”

The first clue to Fischer that something was up, was when the producer offered to also manage her acting career and said he needed to take naked pictures of her for auditions. She declined but didn’t fully figure out what was going on until the producer announced that the group’s first gig was going to be for a group of Japanese businessmen, and told her the other girls had found a great way to make some extra cash was providing hospitality afterwards.

Upon hearing this, Jenna high tailed it out and promptly changed all her phone numbers. While you’d think that’d be the end of her singing career, Fischer would go on years later to perform in the movie Walk Hard… with her voice dubbed.