He will be a guest on Fox News Channel's ''Web M.D.'' on Aug. 26. He's also received an offer from ''Extra!'' to report on health, general news, and ''Survivor II.'' He's even taking a spot as a doctor on three episodes of ''The Guiding Light,'' which begin taping Aug. 28.
Kenniff, who'll be hitting the speaking circuit this fall at universities and med schools, is also shopping a 360 page novel called ''Skitzo,'' a sexually charged medical thriller about a pair of rival psychiatrists who team up for a controversial experiment. (One sample: ''A young woman approached him. She was perhaps twenty-one years old, and Jack had never seen her before at the reservoir track. She was wearing an inside-out Champion sweatshirt that did not even come close to concealing her large breasts. Jack was virtually mesmerized as he 'Baywatched' her breasts bounce a little to the left, then a little to the right.'')
''God forbid this is only a '15 minutes' thing for me,'' Kenniff tells EW.com. ''I want to enjoy it and get everything I can from it.'' Although he couldn't be happier being on what he calls ''the biggest, most talked about entertainment sensation of the decade,'' Kenniff also knows there's a downside: ''Everybody I know since before high school has called me. Now I have a $700 phone bill.'' Perhaps that's because it's so easy to reach him. ''Why would you want an unlisted phone number?'' he asks. ''Until I reach Tom Cruise stature or something like that, I probably won't be unlisted.'' Perhaps he should just get one of those coconut phones.
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