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December 2004 Reality TV Newsletter
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Reality Television - Happy Holidays! Survivor has finally ended & a new one is on the way. Laguna Beach & The Bachelor also ended. Both are coming back though. The Bachelorette with Jen Scheft begins January 10th. I don’t have a date yet for Laguna. American Idol returns January 18th. Some other reality shows in January are Who's Your Daddy? January 3rd, Road to Stardom – January 5th. Surreal Life – January 9th. Growing up Gotti – January 10th. The Osbournes - January 17th. The Apprentice - January 20th. Simple Life – January 26th. Newlyweds - January 26th. I am always looking for volunteer writers for my site. If you enjoy reality shows, or ripping them apart, I would love to have you. If you are interested you can email me.
Reality TV Calendar 12/29/04 News Rumors and Rants MSNBC 12/28/04 Ask the Experts: Top 10 reality questions Digital Spy 12/27/04 More reality TV than ever in 2005 USA Today 12/27/04 The good, the bad and the 'Swan' ugly
Survivor Vanuatu - Chad continued his sneaky ways & told Amy’s clan that Scout & Twila had jumped ship & were with the guys at one point. At the Reward Challenge, they each got to talk to a loved one via a computer. The reward for this challenge would be a one-hour chat. It was no surprise that their loved ones were really there & after Eliza won the trivia challenge, her Mom ran to Eliza. She would stay the night. The others got to see their loved one & give them a hug before they left. But they weren’t gone for long. They were back for the Immunity Challenge. This was one of those blind person challenges. The loved one was blindfolded while the Survivor directed them where they needed to go to collect puzzle pieces. Once they had all the pieces both would assemble it. Chris knew his ass was on the line but it was Queen Amy who won with her girlfriend. The women decided to take out Eliza instead of Chris. Chris learned from Twila he would be safe but that there was also a way to shake up the game. & shake up they did. Twila, Scout, Eliza & Chris voted together & took out Leeann! You should have heard the cheers at my Mom’s house on Thanksgiving! Well maybe you don’t. I am sure there were cheers at your home as well. Leann was completely shocked. She had just got done telling Jeff she had nothing to worry about. Amy was pissed. That was so awesome. 12/2: Ami was so pissed about Leann getting the boot. She got all sanctimonious about it since Twila swore on her son. The Reward Challenge was a race in the water to collect 3 flags. The person who finished 1st would win a Pontiac G6 & get to spend the night away & have food, take a shower & sleep in a bed. The 2nd & 3rd place would also get to go. Ami took an early lead but in the end, Eliza won her 3rd Reward in a row. Ami took 2nd. Julie tried to get Chris to give her 3rd but he finished before her anyway. While away, Ami worked Eliza hard. She said that she has been the one to save her a million times. Ami got higher & higher on her horse. Immunity was a shuffle board game. Chris won. Ami resumed working on Eliza. But at the end Eliza voted Ami out & Ami became the 12th person eliminated. I am thrilled. Ami makes my skin crawl & I am happy she is gone. 12/9: I missed the 1st 5 minutes. I think it was just Julie & Eliza all b!tchy about Twila swearing on her son. Reward had 4 parts & each one someone was eliminated. First one had them crawling under a thing in mud. Scout was eliminated. Summary continued here.
McKinney Courier Gazette 12/28/04 'Survivor' shares wisdom, battles evil Reality Reel 12/24/04 Survivor: Vanuatu Finale, Chris Is The Sole Survivor CBS2 12/22/04 A Look Back At Survivor: Vanuatu Reality News Online 12/21/04 Survivor: Vanuatu's Finale and Reunion - Redemption All the Way Around
$25 Million Dollar Hoax - The finale had me in tears. 1st the family had an intervention cuz they didn’t want her to buy the house. Then they all had to go to the Big Spin where she won $25 million. Then she ripped the check up & told them that it was all a hoax. Her family were all extremely accepting & supportive. They were rewarded with the things they asked for when they first thought she was rich. Mom got a new kitchen. The 2 musicians got a Gibson guitar & bass. 2 guys got computers. The girlfriend got a year with a vocal coach & her boyfriend got a stereo to listen to her. They all got a trip to Mexico. The oldest brother got $10,000 at Van Dutch. & Dad got a check for $200,000. She had thought she did this just for her family but they rewarded her as well. She got her student loans paid off, a trip to Jamaica & a Lexus convertible.
RealityShack 12/3/04 Interview With Guy Sanford of The $25 Million Dollar Hoax Fans Of Reality TV 11/24/04 Episode 3 Recap - What a Brief, Mildly Unsettling Trip It's Been Reality TV Calendar 11/23/04 The Luckiest Man In The World: Finale Recap
Amazing Race - The teams traveled to Norway. Lena & Kristy got a local boy to get in their car & help them get to their next destination. Once at the ski jump The Teams got a Road Block. They threw in a new twist this year so no one can do all of them. You can only do 6 Road Blocks the whole trip. They had to ride a zip line down a ski jump 1,000 feet. They had to go to a village next & there they found out they would have to stay the night. The next morning all teams had to divide into 2 teams to row a Viking boat to a marked dock. Lori & Bolo, Adam & Rebecca, Hayden & Rebecca, Kris & Jon and Lena & Kristy were on the first boat & Gus & Hera, Jonathon & Victoria, Meredith & Maria, Freddy & Kendra and Don & Mary Jean were on the other. The 1st boat kicked ass & got to the dock first. They had to drive to a bridge for their next clue. Freddy & Kendra lost their clue & took a 2nd from the box. When they got to the bridge they found a Detour. Teams would have to pick between roller skiing down a mountain or a series of Viking games. Most teams chose endurance while Jonathon & Victoria and Gus & Hera chose accuracy. Kris & Jon finished the leg in 1st place. Meredith & Maria were last & were eliminated. They had to travel by train to Sweden. All teams were equalized waiting for the station to open. They then had to go to an ice bar & slide a shot glass across the table to a target to get their next clue. They then had to go to the largest Ikea store. There they encounter a Detour. They have to do something an Ikea employee would do. Count dishes or build a desk. Once they got that clue they had to ride a tandem bike to their next clue. Of course Jonathon spent the time building the desk yelling at Victoria. While on the bike ride, they come across the 1st of 3 Yields & then a Roadblock where they have to unfold hay bales to find the next clue. Then they have to get back to Stockholm to the Pit Stop on a ship. The wrestlers & the grandparents both first counted & couldn’t get the right number. They were the last 2 teams & then both switched to build the desk. They both finally completed it. Lena struggled with the hay bales & the last 2 teams caught up with her. & passed her. Lena worked into the night & Phil came to them & said the last team checked in 2 hours ago & they had been there 8 hours. He told them they were eliminated. Summary continued here.
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The Trades 12/22/04 The Amazing Race - Episode 6.6 Fans Of Reality TV 12/22/04 Well That Was Unexpected
America's Next Top Model - They are still in Japan & Ann is still pissed at Eva for saying she hoped Norelle was eliminated. They got to watch Tyra at a photo shoot & Tyra coached them the whole time. Then the girls had to pose in the kimono with a cellphone. Norelle & Ann both sucked again. They all had to learn how to do a tea ceremony. So much to learn. I know I couldn’t remember all that. Norelle had the most trouble with this. YaYa was the best as usual & won a trip to a hot spring. She brought Amanda with her. Norelle & Ann were the last 2 girls to be called during the elimination ceremony & Norelle was cut. She is determined to make it as a model any way. Summary continued here.
Stars and Stripes 12/27/04 Okinawa Marine’s sister is ‘America’s Next Top Model’ TV Guide 12/23/04 Top Model's Yaya Stays Strong RealityShack 12/22/04 Interview With Amanda Swafford of America’s Next Top Model 3 Orwellproject 12/22/04 Amanda From America’s Top Model Talks With Orwellproject TV Guide 12/22/04 Top Model's Amanda Faces Gossip
The Apprentice - Their next task was to make a new bottle for Pepsi’s new product, The Edge. Kelly was PM for Apex & Andy for Mosaic. Apex had one extra person so had to send someone to Mosaic. Kelly chose Jen. Apex came up with a bottle that said EDGE vertically with the E’s attaching at the E’s in Pepsi. Think crossword puzzle. & there was a hole in the middle of it & you could use the slogan “Check the box” to put contests in it or whatever. Mosaic made their bottle look like a globe on the top & bottom & their contest would have you collect caps to get a whole continent & then you would win a trip there. Jen worked her magic on another guy & Andy would listen to her & dismiss Sandy. Both teams were judged by Pepsi employees & Apex won easily. Andy put the blame on Sandy as Jen once again was getting credit for other people’s work. Trump couldn’t let the blonde go again & Andy was fired. Apex’s reward was driving Lamborghinis. Summary continued here.
Golf Online 12/28/04 The Donald's Right-hand Woman Extra 12/27/04 Trump's Wedding Spectacular Reality TV Calendar 12/27/04 Official Cast Photos, Bios, Team Names, and More Seattle PI 12/27/04 New 'Apprentice' to include 2 contestants from Seattle area Reality TV World 12/26/04 NBC announces identities of 'The Apprentice 3' contestants BBC 12/24/04 Trump revamps his Apprentice show
The Bachelor - Blech! After taking Tanya & Mary to his hometown to meet his friends & then having their parents meet his, Byron chose Mary. I have never liked that woman. To me she seems like a desperate wannabe housewife. I think she is going to have a problem with him traveling a lot cuz she seems very co-dependant. He did propose & IF they get married, I see her getting pregnant right away. I never saw her as in love with either Bob or Byron. She just really wants to get married & thinks she is in love with any guy that pays attention to her. But what do I know? I just see an edited TV show. There has only been one bachelor to ever pick the girl I liked & she is the new bachelorette starting January 10. Jen Scheft takes the show to New York & she was apart of the audition process so her original 25 guys are all men she handpicked. Should be interesting. The show is moving to Monday nights so J.J. Abrams can own Wednesdays on ABC with ‘Lost’ & ‘Alias’.
Star-News 12/22/04 Velvick lands a big one BassFan.com 12/10/04 Velvick Wants Downtime As Life In Florida Begins Sign on San Diego 12/3/04 'The Bachelor' star Firestone invests in Gaslamp restaurant PJ Star 12/1/04 TV's bachelor didn't marry after show
Battle of the Sexes 2 - The girls team continued their battle with each other. Rachel, Coral & Veronica think since they are the veterans, they are the only ones that deserve to be there. The newbies are sick of them. The challenge was “Fear Factor” style. One person would have to lie in a clear coffin & have I think honey poured on them & then be covered in the normal FF bugs. Then the teams would have to eat the bugs off them & then spit them out into a container through a tube. They can’t touch the tube or it’s a 1-minute penalty. The team that fills theirs to the line first won a bed. Rachel tried to get Katie to be a leader & would say things like she wanted Katie to give her all even though she is going home tonight. Katie thought, eff that, & backed down as leader & Rachel had to do it. & of course the girls lost again. & I was so happy that Rachel got kicked out. Coral & Veronica whine that they won’t win w/out Rachel. Ummm, excuse me? You haven’t won WITH her so what fricking difference does it make? The guys finally kicked out the Miz cuz of his prior DQs. Veronica & Coral continued whining about Rachel getting the boot. Chris left to go get married in Texas & then returned the next day. Summary continued here.
MediaFiends.com 12/28/04 - 12.27.04 BOTS Reality TV Calendar 12/21/04 The Shredder: Episode 10 Recap MediaFiends.com 12/21/04 - 12/20/04 BOTS
The Biggest Loser - These poor people are so tortured! Their next task was to build a tower of food… using their mouths. Red team won so they got to go to CompUSA & each spend $5,000. & they also got to see a video message from their loved ones. Dave continued to use his “injury” as a reason not to work out with his team. He thought he had the girls in his corner so he was safe. Blue team ended up winning their second weigh-in in a row & Red voted Dave out. The next challenge had them do a lifeguard obstacle course on the beach. The winner would get a makeover & get to pick who would sit out from the Blue Crew for the next weigh-in. Kelly Mac was drawn at random to sit out of the challenge. So it was a no-brainer that they would lose cuz Mo doesn’t really try. When the Red Team came back from the salon, Kelly compared one hairdo to “The Rachel”. The Red Team was sick of Kelly’s negative attitude so they went to Gary & convinced him to make it a tie & they would guarantee a girl would go home. So Gary took the deal & forced the tie & Red sent home Kelly Mac. Summary continued here.
Reality News Online 12/22/04 The Biggest Loser, Episode 9: A Look Back TV Guide 12/20/04 Biggest Loser Backlash Plain Dealer 12/19/04 Casting call for big losers draws hundreds Fans of Reality TV 12/17/04 The Two Faces of Steve TVRules 12/16/04 Biggest Loser: Look Back Special 12/21/04 Preview SheKnows 12/16/04 Episode 8: Reflections
High School Reunion - 12/7: I love this show. So much drama. Of course everyone on it comes to the reunion with some kind of baggage. Gianni had this psycho girlfriend Jaime. She picks up right where she left off & when Gianni talks to his HS crush Loretta “the Dream Girl” she takes it as her trying to steal her man. Another HS couple, Nikol & Jim, were broken up by this bitch Jen that gets off on stealing men. Carin was fat & lost over 100 pounds with gastric bypass & is there to show off the new body. Nikol & Nikki “head cheerleader” were roommates & got the 1st hallpasses. Back in HS Nikki’s boyfriend constantly cheated on her. Nikki asked Brien “the rebel” & Nikol asked Jim & he accepted. Jen told Nikol that she only dated Jim for 2 months & that he is upset it didn’t last longer. Everyone was going to the beach & this made Carin uncomfortable due to being overweight in the past. John “the loudmouth” gave her a pep talk. Summary continued here.
Reality News Online 12/23/04 High School Reunion 3, Episode 3: Mystery Meet Fans of Reality TV 12/22/04 Still Crazy After All These Years Reality TV Calendar 12/22/04 Party Crashing and Cross Dressing: Episode 3 Recap MediaFiends.com 12/21/04 - 12/21/04 HS Reunion Fans Of Reality TV 12/16/04 Recap Pathetique, or 16 Ghastly Legends. MediaFiends.com 12/15/04 - 12/14/04 HS Reunion
Laguna Beach - Damn! I think when I graduated from High School I got a party. These kids got anything from a car to a computer or stereo. & didn’t you have to sit in alphabetical order for graduation? Lauren did the seating so she got to sit with all her friends. Stephen & Kristin say they aren’t going to stay together when he goes off to college. They’ll just hook up whenever he is in town. Summer has begun. Stephen spent most of his time with Kristin. They have agreed to break up when he goes to college cuz they think people are fooling themselves if they think a long-distance relationship will work. LC is still pining for Stephen. I think she is just waiting for college since she & Stephen will be together there. Trey was the 1st one to leave for college. He is going to New York. 12/7: Well I guess this show is doing fairly well. It was commercial free for the finale. It wasn’t any longer though than the typical 22 minutes as the TRL crew were also live in Times Square where they showed us the audition tapes. The finale was also being shown on the big screen on the street. I don’t get this love triangle between LC, Stephen & Kristin. We find out from the audition tapes that things came to a head & Stephen was told to pick between them & he went with the skank Kristin. So why does LC still want this guy? I don’t get it. Stephen turns his keys in at his work & his boss tells him he has a job there whenever he wants. The kids all meet on the beach for some fun & Kristin is her normal bitchy self & tries to throw a football at LC’s back. She comes nowhere near her. Kristin starts this story that she & Stephen went to Tiffany’s for rings & they are going to get married. She stops the story to stuff her face w/ a S’more for a picture & we see LC throw a marshmallow but I don’t know if she was throwing it at Kristin or not. Stephen & Kristin leave the party 1st & then when the girls leave they leave the fire burning. Kristin badmouths LC to Stephen while she helps him pack. She is really jealous that LC is going to college w/ Stephen. Kristin & Stephen cuddle on the beach. They reminisce about their relationship. & they talk about their future. They don’t want the other to date in their absence. Stephen said they will have an “open relationship”. Kristin asked if he is going to hang out w/ LC. He said he doesn’t know. They tell each other they love each other. Kristin tells Talan that she will have an open relationship with Stephen but doesn’t think she will go w/ anyone else. The brunette Senior girls get some airtime. They just talk about going off to college & say their goodbyes. & then the blondes say their goodbyes as LC is packing. Lo makes fun of LC’s fake designer purse. The next day LC hugs her Mom goodbye & they cry. Her parents take her to the Airport. They have a tearful goodbye. Even Dad cries. The parents consoled each other after LC left. Stephen is waiting for her at the Airport in SanFran. & that is how the show ended. It cut to the live studio for supposed “exciting” Laguna Beach news. I had already read that they were going to do another season & it would center around Kristin. Blech! I really don’t like that girl & think her Valley Girl-esque way of speaking very annoying. They showed a sneak peek of the next season. Kristin said it is her turn to rule the school. She thinks things will be easy w/ LC gone but she gets catty w/ new girls. & there is a new girl in school that the guys like more than her. Stephen said he still loves Kristin. LC tells Stephen she is going to leave SanFran. Kristin makes kisses Talan. Kristin was in the TRL studio. She said next season is her turn to tell what is going on. She said it was sad reliving the Stephen stuff. She said it was easy being in front of the camera & she didn’t mind it. She said next season is even better. The new girl stirs some stuff up. You will see a little bit of everyone, especially Talan. She said she is still talking to Stephen & he will be back at Xmas. A fan got to play a trivia game about the show. She had a chance to win a surfboard. Of course she won.
MTV 12/14/04 New Found Glory, Blink-182 Join 'Laguna Beach' Star To Benefit Troubled Teens TVRules 12/12/04 MTV Picks Up Second Season Of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County NY Daily News 12/12/04 Reality Bites Reality TV World 12/9/04 MTV orders a second 'Laguna Beach' season for Summer 2005 Zap2It 12/8/04 MTV Returns to 'Laguna Beach' MediaFiends.com 12/8/04 12/7/04 Laguna Beach Finale
My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss - I didn’t really pay attention to the next episode. I am in the middle of trying to buy a new house & sell mine so I am a bit frazzled right now. The task had them having to come up with a mascot for a poisonous chemical & try to sell it to kids. The girls lost & Whitney & Elli had to go to the boardroom & Elli was eliminated. The next week it was scheduled to be on but it wasn’t so maybe it was cancelled. 12/5: It’s back. The teams were reshuffled based on hotness. The task was to sell fake items at a Flea Market. Like reusable toilet paper & eco-friendly tampons. Femron sold the tampons by saying it boosts the libido. ConCad tried to pass of Whitney as Heather Simpson, Jessica Simpson’s older sister. Femron sold $653 & ConCad sold $439. So the supposed “pretty people” who whored out the 2 blondes won. The winners got a gourmet meal at the top of Chicago & the losers got a bad meal at the bottom of an Aqua Duct. They also had to come up w/ the boss’s new catchphrase to fire them with & a hand gesture to go with it. The losing Boss sent the 2 girls to the boardroom. N. Paul fired Tonia with her catchphrase “You’re dismissed”. I stopped watching after this episode. I just don't care for it. This is on Sundays at 8pm CST on FOX.
Fans of Reality TV 12/17/04 Having a (Paint)Ball! Wish You Were Smear! TVRules 12/16/04 My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss - Episode 5 Summary Reality TV World 12/15/04 My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss - Episode 5 summary Reality News Online 12/15/04 My Big, Fat, Obnoxious Boss, Episode 5: Thanks, I Appreciate That RealityShack 12/14/04 You Know What They Say About Paybacks - My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, Episode 5 Reality TV Calendar 12/13/04 This is FOX, Of Course There Is Sex: Episode 5 Recap TVRules 12/12/04 My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss: Episode Five 12/12/04 Preview NY Daily News 12/12/04 Reality Bites
Nanny 911 - 12/15: You know the saying you need a license to drive a car but any idiot can be a parent? That is what this show proves every week. The Mom is a former Nanny & I don’t know how she was at her job but she sucks as a parent. She has 2 kids that are a year apart, 3 & 4. & they still use pacifiers. The kids are violent & not only do they beat on each other but also their Mom. They don’t listen to Mom at all. The Dad is a marine & is very strict. So the Mom & Dad are total opposites in their child rearing. Nanny Stella noticed that Dad riles the kids up before he leaves for work & then Mom has to deal w/ them. This show confuses me cuz they show you the same stuff over & over. When the Nannies are in their cottage & looking at the footage of how bad the house is then I see the same stuff when the Nanny is in the house. Summary continued here.
R News 12/26/04 Reality Show Seeks Local Talent Fans Of Reality TV 12/24/04 The Johnston Family: Johnston Family Vacation MediaFiends.com 12/23/04 - 12/22/04 Nanny 911 Fans Of Reality TV 12/16/04 The Lorimors: Two Disciplinarians with Kids Who Walk All Over Them
The Real Gilligan's Island - I TiVo’d the first 3 episodes & finally got around to watching them. I liked it. If you haven’t seen it, they cast real people for all the parts from the TV show. The people are supposedly real versions of the characters. But I did notice that one of the Millionaires, Mindy Stearn, is a reporter for KTLA & has been in a few movies. There are 2 teams & only 1 person will get the part. Oh & neither of the 2 Movie Stars are movie stars. Rachel Hunter is a model & “Stacey’s Mom” and Nicole Eggert is from ‘Baywatch’ & ‘Charles in Charge’. I think the only movies I have seen her in are really bad ones with her former boyfriend Corey Haim. So the show is like ‘Survivor’ in that they are put on an island in teams & have to compete in challenges that if you lose, someone goes home. The person isn’t voted off though. 1st a voodoo doll is revealed for which character’s are against each other. Then if your team loses the challenge the losing character is sent to the other side of the island. One of the Skippers was lost during the 1st challenge cuz he collapsed & had to go to the hospital. He could only return to the game long enough to say goodbye. The Professors were next. One team’s professor was openly gay & this infuriated the Millionaire Bitch on his team who is an Anti-Gay Republican. She & her husband were only worth 3 million yet they were the biggest assholes there. The other millionaires had 500 million & they are pretty cool. Yeah the husband is trying to buy luxuries like paying for a Mary Ann to give him a massage, but they are having fun & are nice to everyone. The gay Professor lost & his Bitch Millionaire was happy to see him go. The Mary Anns were next & of course the one who is flirting with the Gilligan on her team was the one to stay. & then it was the Millionaires turn in a ‘Fear Factor’-like challenge where they had to eat nasty stuff. Thank God The Stearns won. Now the nasty bitch is banished to the other side of the island. Summary continued here.
Reality TV World 12/27/04 The Real Gilligan's Island - Episode 7 summary Fans of Reality TV 12/24/04 Two Hours Of Crap And A Sudden Ending Reality News Online 12/24/04 The Real Gilligan's Island, Episodes 7 & 8: You're Sure to Get a Smile TVRules 12/22/04 The Real Gilligan's Island Winner Revealed MediaFiends.com 12/22/04 - Gilligan's Island Finale Reality TV Calendar 12/22/04 An Unbelievable End: The Finale Recap
Real World Philadelphia - Sarah cracks me up. MJ brings home a drunk girl for a one-night stand & she makes fun of this girl for being a slut. But then she has a one night stand with a gay guy & then wants to dump him for having a “confused penis”. After MJ does the drunk girl & sends her out into the night with no money & a cab ride back to New Jersey, he decides he has tested the waters enough & wants his girlfriend back. Sarah was desperate to do this guy but he is gay. That didn’t stop her. She did him anyway & then decided it didn’t feel right so ended it. Landon kissed another Soul employee which is against the rules. A boss talked to them all about it so he decided to end it. They had to do an Easter Seal walk & Shavonda is uncomfortable around people with special needs. She did it anyway & thinks she is getting past her fear. 12/7: This episode was about selfish people. Karamo is turned off by Dorian cuz he likes Pop music. I am not kidding. He doesn’t want to date him cuz he prefers Pop to Hip Hop. How superficial is that? Dorian comes over & Karamo is a total dick & pretends to have a headache. Dorian goes out with Landon & MJ instead. Karamo waits for them to go & then goes out with Willie. Dorian gets back to the house before Karamo & Karamo tries to play it off like he didn’t want to seem like an ass to Dorian’s friend. Dorian confronts Karamo a day or so later about his behavior & Karamo gets all pissy & leaves in a huff. Karamo decides he doesn’t want a relationship w/ anyone & just wants “companionship”. Sarah is the other brat this episode. Her Mom has cancer & Sarah developed an eating disorder cuz of it. Her sister calls to say that she is in town w/ their parents & they want to see her. Sarah throws a fit about how that isn’t right that they didn’t give her notice to prepare. Really what it is is that she doesn’t want to see her Mom after radiation cuz it makes her uncomfortable. So she says she has to work & can’t get out of it so she doesn’t have to see them. But later she does go out to eat with them. Her sister bluntly asked her at the table if she has been throwing up. Sarah said no & that she has been working out & walking everywhere. The show is off for 3 weeks & should be back around 12/28. MJ pisses off Shavonda & Sarah in the next episode & they show the cops coming to the house. We also got a sneak peek at the rest of the season & I think the cops are coming cuz of Willie but I am not sure. Melanie is pissing off all her roommates & she gets into a confrontation with Landon. They all go to Fiji & we see Shavonda kissing Landon. & I don’t know if it is cuz of Melanie or not but we see Landon walking in the house w/ a butcher knife in his back pocket & the voice-over said something about him threatening someone’s life. This is on Tuesdays at 9pm CST on MTV.
Pioneer Press 12/8/04 Landon takes a break MediaFiends.com 12/8/04 12/7/04 Real World Reality TV World 12/6/04 The Real World: Philly - Episode 13 summary Television Without Pity 12/6/04 No Fraternization
The Rebel Billionaire - You knew the guys were losing the next challenge cuz the episode started out with the guys all cocky & sure they would win & the women were fighting with each other. Branson took them to his game reserve in Africa. Their challenge had them coming up with ides to better the lives of a village. They were given the choice of spending the night w/ the villagers to get a better grasp of what is needed or staying in the nice hotel. The women chose to stay at the hotel. The men all went to the village. But 3 of the women went as well, making their division wider. The men hung out with the villages while the women just observed. Almost everyone went back to the hotel for the night, a few guys stayed to build heir model. The next morning some of the guys thought all the women were gone so they started trashing the girls’ team. But Nicole was sitting on the floor behind the couch & listened to the whole thing. She then confronted them after Jermaine walked in & blew her cover. She was most pissed at Steve cuz he said the women cared more about winning than the villagers. She said that isn’t true. She then tells the women what happened & that united them & they came up with the better plans & won the challenge. Summary continued here.
Reality TV Calendar 12/27/04 Survival of the Hippest - My Theory of "Rebel"ution Reality TV World 12/26/04 The Rebel Billionaire - Episode 8 summary Reality News Online 12/23/04 The Rebel Billionaire, Final Six: One Stands Out, Three Behave Badly RealityShack 12/23/04 Over-Bimboed - Rebel Billionaire, Episode 7 Salt Lake Tribune 12/18/04 LoveSac bags success -Recent exposure a boon to company TVRules 12/16/04 Branson's Quest: Episode Eight 12/21/04 Preview RealityShack 12/16/04 The Brunette Bully Brigade - Rebel Billionaire, Episode 6 MediaFiends.com 12/16/04 - 12/14 Rebel Billionaire
The Swan - One woman was a cop & the other a widow. Her husband died of cancer. She had a bump on her nose & it turned out it was cancer. They got it all out & they resumed her facelift. But it wasn’t enough. The cop moves on to the pageant. Why do women with low self-esteem think the cure is going blond? I don’t get it. The next 2 women had different reasons for their low self-esteem. One had been abused mentally & physically by her Mother & her teeth were neglected so she lost them all by the time she was 25. The other was separated from her husband either cuz she was ashamed of her body or cuz he didn’t like her body. I am not sure which. While in The Program, she received divorce papers. But in the end she made it to the pageant & the other got new teeth & went back to her husband & kids. 12/6: Finally! The 2 women did not go porno-blonde in their transformation. Sylvia had a guy dump her when she lost their baby so she has trouble trusting men even though she has a good-looking boyfriend. She also feels inferior to her 2 pretty sisters. Marsha has little self-esteem cuz she has to shave her face every day. & just when they are doing their plastic surgery [which I fast forward through anyway] my local news breaks in cuz of a fire in Chicago. The show didn’t come back until the 2nd girl was seeing herself in the mirror for the 1st time. I guess Marsha had trouble working out in the gym & Sylvia’s boyfriend proposed to her over the phone. I think these transformations were some of the best cuz as I already said, they didn’t go blonde. & neither looked all freaky. They both looked natural. Marsha was chosen for the pageant. 12/13: Amy is a singer & was told once that she had a face for radio. She has let her teeth go & will need TEN root canals! YIKES! Dore has wanted kids her whole life & has been trying for 10 years. She got pregnant once & had a miscarriage at 12 weeks. Since then she has just let herself go. Amy looked good after her transformation but did look similar to prior Swans. She said her jaw implants hurt the most. Dore looked different & she didn’t go blonde. Amy was chosen to go to the pageant. I don’t watch the 2-hour pageant cuz I just don’t like it. But I can tell you that DeLisa won.
NY Daily News 12/26/04 'Swan' sings own song NY Daily News 12/22/04 'Swan' dives back into real life Zap2It 12/21/04 Second 'Swan' Crown Delivered to DeLisa News Journal 12/21/04 LHS graduate's Swan' song ends on winning note Market Wire 12/21/04 The Swan" Becomes Next NutriSystem Spokeperson Reality TV Calendar 12/21/04 Delisa Styles Is The Swan: Pageant Recap RealityShack 12/21/04 Can I Have Some “Whine” With my Cheese? – The Swan, Season 2 Pageant
Trading Spouses - They traded a woman who ran a swamp tour in Louisiana with a vegan from California. The Vegan woman kept trying to change everyone she came into contact with. While the Cajun woman just tried to educate people about her culture. The vegan people were offended by her alligator heads. She tried to explain that the gators have to be killed due to overpopulation & she recycled them. They weren’t impressed. The vegan woman was really ignorant to the Cajun son & tried to be strict with him & completely change him. While her counterpart was just trying to blend in with the family. Wow. The Vegan is a total bitch. She just condemned the Cajuns every chance she got. She claimed she was smart & attempted to help ZZ w/ his homework yet she tried to tell him he was wrong in putting the plural for monkey as monkeys. She said it was monkies. She never once tried to experience another culture & spent her time trying to convert them. She made me sick. Her family was doing the same BS to the Cajun Mom. She was the opposite of her counterpart & respected the way the other lived & didn’t eat or cook meat in their home. Vegan bitch preached about loving animals yet she hit a dog that peed in the house & tried to rub its nose in it. After the Moms met, Vegan bitch tells the camera how awful Cajun Mom dressed while she was wearing some nasty crocheted shirt. This woman is just an awful human being all the way around. Summary continued here.
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Wife Swap - The men got their turn to swap. A hippie & a biker. The hippie lives in a commune & they rarely leave. The kids aren’t allowed to watch tv & they practice yoga regularly. The biker family is a blended family. He has 2 daughters & his live-in girlfriend has a daughter as well. He has his own bike shop & works a lot. He doesn’t take care of his yard & it looks like hell. His family eats dinner in front of the tv [as does mine]. The biker was not thrilled with the hippie life. He had to do the housecleaning as the wife takes a daily nap. But he followed their rules & I didn’t see him complaining much. The 2nd week he got to make his changes which included bringing a tv in the house. He also made the wife get a job in a biker bar & dressed her in leather. This seemed to free her & she felt sexy. I was really impressed with how easily the hippie wife dealt with the changes. The girls were taken from the commune to an amusement park & they all had a lot of fun. Over in the biker home, the hippie also seemed to adapt to the change w/out a lot of whining. But when it was his turn to change the rules the teenage girls weren’t so accepting. The girlfriend’s daughter was the biggest problem. She seemed most upset by having to ride her bike to school. Her Mom caved & drove her. She has always felt like she wasn’t family to the biker Dad & this experience made her miss him. Summary continued here.
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