Category — Crap reality TV shows

OK I know I have tried to take the moral higher ground on Toddlers And Tiaras and this year wrote a blog post on why I don’t write about this appalling show, however this article in the Daily Telegraph is jaw dropping.

And I don’t know which of the parts of the story I am the most gobsmacked about.

1. First Isabella Barrett was getting a fake tan.

2. Gossip paparazzi TMZ.com videoed her coming out of there, and interviewed her.

3.Isabella criticised 3 year old Paisley Dickey, the girl whose mother had dressed her up as the prostitute from Pretty Woman. Barrett claimed Dickey allegedly copied her spray tan lead, before she criticised her pageant wardrobe taste.

Barrett told TMZ.com: “Last time I was here, Paisley was trying to copy me … but MY mom doesn’t dress me up as a hooker.”

Unfortunately TMZ did not ask Isabella what a hooker actually was……

Blog posts like this must be why I am getting all those seedy Google ads on my page….

Anyway there is a one hour reality TV special called the Virgin Diaries, where all the cast were virgins until their wedding day.

However one couple went one step further and decided to have their first kiss on their wedding day and it was well….. actually you check it out and tell me you think.

Please Lifestyle You fast track this show to Australia.

There has been a little bit of discussion of My Kid Is A Star on Twitter due to the fact that Celebrity Apprentice contestant Max Markson was in the ill fated series.

@TrentyMc sent this in response to a twitter conversation on Dance Moms, a reality show that follows pushy dance mums.

Entertain yourselves with it whilst I work on my The X Factor Australia form guide – which of course will be completely wrong….

There have only been three stories in town this week, Tony Abbott becoming the new Federal Opposition leader, Nathan Rees being rolled from the NSW Premiership, and Tiger Woods being caught putting it about with an assortment of cocktail waitress, reality TV personas, and nightclub hostesses.

Why is it always the cocktail waitress? Seriously why did I go to uni when I could have just wiggled my ass and served a couple of mojito’s to make some fast bucks.  Then again your probably wondering why I went to Uni and now write a reality TV blog….

Anyway GO have been fabulously opportunistic and now actively promoting what would have been low rating schlocky reality show called Tool Academy which stars one of Tiger Wood’s paramours, Jaimee Grubbs.

Grubbs – who claims to have had an affair with Woods for two-and-a-half years – stars in the first season of Tool Academy, a reality show dedicated to taking the most arrogant, dishonest, thoughtless and unfaithful boyfriends and transforming them into husband material.

 Aside from Grubbs and her disinterested boyfriend Shawn, Tool Academy helps eight other frustrated women who are all dating complete “tools”, including Jenna, whose boyfriend Ryan is kind and caring – until he turns into his alter ego “Matsu-Flex”, a tattooed tool who feeds off the attention of other women and gets around clubs in nothing but underwear which he calls his “man panties”.

 Each week therapist Trina Dolenz uses her supreme powers to detect a truly incorrigible tool and eliminate one of the contestants. Upon elimination, the tool in question gets one shot at convincing his girlfriend that he is able to change before she decides on the spot whether or not to dump him for good.

In the end only one tool will remain and win a cash prize of $100,000 – and the title of “Mr Awesome”.

The show sounds totally trashy.

 The show will be on GO on Sunday night’s at 8.30pm.

David Cook American Idol Winner Apparently Has Proposed To Kimberly Caldwell.
Now this could be a load of bollocks as there is not much coverage of it. If it is true that these to American Idol contestants are engaged it would make them a reality TV couple in the league of Rob and Amber (from Survivor and The Amazing Race fame).

Source: here.

Simon Cowell To Build a 10 million pound house in Barbados.
Apparently he also wants mirrored panels in the house. I don’t think I really needed to know that.

The Sun has the full story.

New Reality TV Series Starring ’80′s Teen Idols Like Christopher Atkins.
TV Tonight has an article stating that on VH1 in the US has a new reality TV show starring former teen Idols called you guessed it Confessions of A Teenage Idol.

Christopher Atkins from that iconic but crap film Blue Lagoon is in it, and the series is directed by Chachi from Happy Days (Scott Baio.).

It is unknown whether this show will be coming to Australia. If it is does it is guaranteed every Gen X female will be watching it.

Project Runway Winner Christian Siriano Says Being On The Show Fastracked His Career By Five Years.
The Arizona Daily Star has an interview with Christian Siriano, who says that by winning Project Runway opened so many doors that it fastracked his career by five years. He also discusses his new maternity wear line.

If You Want To Experience American Idol Go To Disney Orlando.
If you sing a little karaoke you may want to consider this. There is now an American Idol attraction at Disney in Orlando, Florida.

Hopefuls will go through the audition process and perform in front of a live crowd, just like their favorite contestants on the TV show.

Wannabes will sing for a Disney’s Hollywood Studios producer for the chance to be cast in a theme-park show.

The person with the most votes will compete in an end-of-day Grand Finale show at Walt Disney World, and the winner of the Grand Finale show will receive a guaranteed reservation for a future regional stadium audition.

I think I will just stick to It’s A Small World After All ride.

Full story here.

Time For The American Idol Predictions For The Upcoming Season
Examiner.com has an amusing article outlining their top 10 predictions for American Idol 2008.
I particularly liked number 5 which is Randy Jackson will spend a lot of time pimping his new book, “Fat F–k,” inspired by the popular novel “Skinny Bitch” (foreword by Oprah Winfrey)

Australia’s Next Top Model Winner Alice Burdeau Has an 18 Page Spread in Elle UK.
Alice Burdeau shows she is still getting major modelling assignments OS with this spread in Elle UK. Go to Australia’s Next Top Model Blog to check out the pictures. They are sensational.

Former America’s Next Top Model Contestant Bianca Golden Has Had Assault Charges Dropped.
Last year Bianca Golden from ANTM Cycle 9 was is in a bitch slap with Nikki Blonsky from Hairspray at some Carribean Airport. They were both arrested at the time, but now the charges have been dropped. Full story on this unedifying incident here.

Jennifer Hudson To Perform At Barack Obama’s Inauguration.
Way to go girl. Full story here.

Kristy Lee-Cook Gets Dumped By Her Record Label And Is Blaming Carrie Underwood.
Kristy Lee-Cook, she who crucified The Beatles song 8 Days a Week has again been dumped by Arista. She blames a former Idol winner Carrie Underwood for getting all the record label’s attention. Full story on The Boot.