"I"d rather kiss another girl!" Shay Mitchell opens up to Bethenny about playing a lesbian on Pretty Little Liars

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Bobbie Whiteman

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She likes to keep her private life exactly that.

But Shay Mitchell has no such reticence when it comes to talking about the love affairs of her lesbian character Emily on Pretty Little Liars.

Talking on Bethenny Frankel’s chat show on Friday, she revealed she enjoyed the role: ‘It’s great, it’s amazing.  It’s a lot of fun, I have a lot of awesome co-stars I get to work with.’

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‘It’s fun!’ Shay Mitchell opened up about her role as lesbian Emily on ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars on Bethenny Frankel’s chat show Bethenny, filmed on Friday

And the 26-year-old Canadian said she isn’t phased when she’s asked to do a romantic scene. 

She told the host: ‘Everyone’s like, how does it feel to kiss

another girl?  I’m like, it feels normal, it’s fine, yeah.

‘Sometimes

I’d rather kiss another girl than I would some random guy I don’t know. They smell pretty, they have cute lip balm on.

‘Emily is quite the player on the show so it’s always fun.’

It’s all about the personal hygiene: The 26-year-old told Bethenny, ‘I’d rather kiss another girl than I would some random guy I don’t know.’

Pucker up: Shay as Emily plants a smacker on a female cast mate in an episode of Pretty Little Liars. The starlet said she didn’t mind kissing girls because ‘they smell pretty, they have cute lip balm on’

The ABC Family series follows the lives of four girls played by Shay, Troian Bellisario, Ashley Benson and Lucy Hale who are haunted by the mystery disappearance of their friend.

And Shay had no idea when she was cast four years ago that the show, based on Sara Shepard’s bestsellers, would become such a huge hit.

She said: ‘I knew there was a big

fan base with the books and everything, but no. With Twitter, it just is blowing up social media…but it’s great because we get to

connect to our fans and stuff like that.’ 

The brunette, who looked cute in a sleeveless little black dress with a sparkly collar, revealed the girls are good friends off screen.

Good friends off-screen: The Canadian beauty described her three co-stars as a sisterhood

‘You think that after four years of shooting that the girls would all be like cat fights, and that’s what a lot of people want to say but it’s like a sisterhood. We are so supportive of one another and it’s just really really fun.’

Shay has been dating boyfriend Ryan Silverstein for about six months, although they have been keeping their relationship private.

Ryan is a pal of Canadian rapper Drake and hangs with the star and his OVO crew.

Visit bethenny.com to find out when and where the show airs in your city

Plying her part: Shay as Emily in Pretty Little Liars, which has been on-air for four years

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"I"d rather kiss another girl!" Shay Mitchell opens up to Bethenny about playing a lesbian on Pretty Little Liars