Hollywood beauty Evangeline Lilly loves working on hit TV show LOST because her co-stars have become like a family to her.
The Canadian actress, who plays striking Kate Austen on the show, is currently dating co-star Dominic Monaghan.
But she is also very close to the rest of the cast and greatly enjoys the bond they share as a group outside work.

Lilly says, “Each week we gather round someone’s house - the host will be the person whose episode is airing that night.
“The host provides the food and we all sit down to have dinner and watch the show. Then people hang around for drinks.
“When I hosted one of the parties I cooked for twenty-four hours. I made a slap-up six-course meal - I didn’t sleep!”

Evangeline Lilly models herself after Angelina Jolie and dreams of following in the campaigning actress’ footsteps.

The Lost beauty insists she shares Jolie’s passion for charitable causes and her love of children too.

Lilly, who is dating Lost co-star Dominic Monaghan, says, “She’s a phenomenal example to young women because she’s a successful career woman, a humanitarian and a mother too.

“The concept of acting in movies, being an international delegate for the UN, adopting children and being a mother is so much responsibility. I have a lot of respect for her.

“If I could take one item to a desert island with me it would be a child to keep me going. I’ve been working with children for the last 10 years in so many different places and I love it.

“It’s something that drives me. When I was a young girl I used to say I wanted between 12 and 20 kids. Children will always be a huge part of my life.”

LOST actress EVANGELINE LILLY refuses to subscribe to the Hollywood lifestyle, insisting she is too mean to spend her money on luxuries.
The Canadian star prefers second-hand clothes to designer fripperies, and lives modestly in a bid to keep her bank balance bulging. She says, “I love vintage and I love cheap. “I don’t have a nice house. I don’t have a nice car. I don’t like spending my money, so yeah, I am genuinely that cheap.”