In what is clearly bollocks Ben Cousins name is floating around as a name to get the coveted role of host of The Amazing Race.

The Daily Telegraph reports:

The former AFL player has been short listed for the role after an in-house screening of his documentary was “extremely well received” and following his professionalism at last week’s press conference announcing his retirement from AFL.

“There’s a definite belief he could do it. Sure. He was outstanding last week, and plus he brings women onboard. He has this real James Dean feel to him,” the source said.

I beg to differ I find nothing appealing about Ben Cousins at all. I have always thought he was a bit of a tool.

However also in the mix are Daniel MacPherson, Tom Williams and Luke Jacobz. With Daniel MacPherson as the frontrunner at this stage.

Over 100,000 people have checked out The Amazing Race website since it was announced an Australian version of the series would be made. About 1000 of those hits have been me, and I certainly don’t want Ben Cousins greeting me at the pitstops.

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The news there is going to be an Australian version of The Amazing Race has made my freaking decade. Channel Seven have announced they have bought the rights of the popular US reality show.

Channel Seven’s release says:

Disney Media Distribution Asia Pacific has signed an agreement with Channel Seven to produce a local version of the Emmy award winning ‘The Amazing Race’ series for the first time ever in Australia.

As a part of this agreement, Disney and Seven are collaborating to produce a world-class Australian version of one of the most universally popular reality competition shows ever. The series will feature teams comprising Australian couples and will be shot in various locations around the world. Production will commence later this year.

‘The Amazing Race Australia’ will be produced in conjunction with Active TV. For more detailed information about ‘The Amazing Race Australia’ and audition opportunities, please visit: www.yahoo7.com.au/amazingrace.

I am going to apply, and I am afraid I won’t come across as the Marion of the series…..

Anyway due to co-ordination issues I doubt I will last more then two legs. The only down side will be no Phil Keoghan to greet me at the mat. My bet is that Jules guy from Seven or Tom Williams will get the hosting duties.

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Sorry not a full recap tonight of the show but just want to say a couple of things:

Love the cowboys they have a great style about them;

What was with the pixelating of the cows pooping, isn’t that just normal cow behaviour?

And more stick shifts (manual cars) as they are always good for a laugh.

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It would be the gay guy who would recognise Miss Teen Carolina, and he did a great imitation of her YouTube catastrophe.

Here is the real thing.

Let’s face it the first episode of most series of The Amazing Race are pretty boring, they spend a quarter of the episode introducing the contestants, another quarter getting to the airport, and their is rarely a detour. Also you only get snippets of the contestants personalities.

Tonight the first leg of The Amazing Race was from LA to Chile. But first they had to get to the airport by public transport, a bit of a challenge in LA, but it probably means there won’t be the usual near misses on the freeway as they all race to get on the first flight.

However not that it mattered for this group, as the first plane had mechanical failure and they all ended up on the same flight.

The cowboys Jet and Cord are being portrayed as the dumbasses, but really your at LA Airport and they don’t have Chiliean money, so they get Brazilian. They were a bit surprised once they were not able to use it there.

Brandy one of the lesbian couple is being portrayed as the scrag particularly when she said she was praying for a mechanical dysfunction.

The roadblock was walking across cables, most people were unfazed by it except for Brandy and Adrian.

Caite (teen queen) and Brent were the first out of the roadblock. This pair look a tad thick particularly Brent.

Adrian who is part of the childhood sweethearts who had a fear of heights, fell and could not get back up so he had to start again from the beginning.

The next challenge was painting a part of a house. Jordan and Jeff who were on US Big Brother Season 11 were first to the pit stop. Jordan looks like she could be a liability to the team, but then they did win a leg something a lot of teams don’t achieve.

I was surprised Brent and Caite came in second but they incurred a 30 minute penalty because they did not get the vernicular up the hill.

Hilarious that father and daughter team, Steve and Allie  went inside a house and started painting much to the bemusement of the other painters, and they pointed the wall and then said have you got a clue? Uh oh.

But they were not the only team painting the wrong house Michael and Louie started painting the wrong place as well.

Jordan and Dan also incurred a penalty of 15 minutes because they lost a paint brush.

And back at the cables Adrian fell off again. Phil went and met them at the roadblock and Adrian and Dan were eliminated.

The big surprise was Jet and Cord coming in third, once they get the currency issues sorted could they be a force to be reckoned with?

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Ricki-Lee Coulter To Face Court On Driving Charge

News.com.au say Ricki-Lee will be face court for driving an uninsured and unregistered vehicle.

Project Runway Season 6 – Exit Interviews

Ari Fish was the first designer eliminated from Project Runway, here is an elimination interview from Blogging Project Runway and Reality Wanted where quite frankly Ari sounds like a twat.

And let’s face it Michael Kors was right it did look like a soccer disco ball.

Padma Lakshmi Not Interested In Reconciling With The Father Of The Baby

However he is more interested in getting more “liberal visitation rights” says Celebrity Gossip

Latest Amazing Race Still Has No Screening Date On Seven

TV Tonight quite rightly points out that Channel Nine are rocking it with Survivor Heroes V Villains, as it is now uptodate with the US, and Channel Seven are being slack and have not announced an premiere date for the latest series of the fabulous The Amazing Race.

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Unfortunately I piked out of doing  a decade in review of reality TV, as I just don’t have the corporate knowledge of the last ten years. However other people were not quite as gun shy.

Here is a list from the US from Reporter which outlines their top 10 outrageous reality TV moments of the decade.

There are obviously some shows on it that I have never heard of or seen, however the near domestic violence incident between Johnathan and Victoria on The Amazing Race does, as does the Johnny Fairplay “dead grandmother” manoeuvre.

One YouTube video that I found particularly disturbing to watch was an excerpt from The Surreal Life  where Mini-Me urinated into a corner. That was the least excruciating part of the scene, it was more the fact that the producers allowed a person the size of a toddler to drink so much alcohol where they must of risked him either dying of alcohol poisoning or choking on his own vomit. On the plus side I did not realise that little Peter Brady (Christopher Knight) had such a fit looking body.

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The quote of then night if not the series was when Erika was talking to camera about how her mother was not real happy that she married a white guy that by watching him on the show “they would be able to see what a wonderful guy he was”. All I could do was laugh, as I am sure Brian’s family would not be having the same feelings about Erika after seeing her throw tantrums and pout throughout the series.

To be honest last nights most memorable moments were given by Erika:

• The Cirque De Soleil challenge mega tantrum where there were flailing legs, and crying and then the usual well you do it you are taller because it is ALWAYS Brian’s fault;
• Her manic smile when she realised they were in the lead thinking she was on the way to $1 million, and maybe if she just shut up while they were counting the chips they may have got the right amount;
• Her death stare, with pout, when they were in the cab going to The Monte Carlo knowing they were in last place; and
• Her departing line to the marrying couple in the Elvis chapel when leaving saying “marriage is wonderful”.

By the way props goes to Cheyne who I have thought has been carried by Meghan for a lot of the race, for staying calm and taking control of the chip counting. Their teamwork, and methodical strategy meant they were accurate and out of there first, when they arrived last.

Bad luck to the gay guys, who came in second, but props to Wayne Newton (or was it the joker in disguise) who was gracious when they could not remember his name.

This series again showed why it is one of the  best reality shows on TV. Thumbs down to Channel Seven for moving it from its Thursday night timeslot just at the end of the season.

Here are interviews with Erika and Brian, who I did not realise were the first interracial couple on the race ever.

Here is a really good and comprehensive interview with the gay guys Dan and SamMeghan and Cheyne.

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Firstly I just want to say I am not happy with the day change for The Amazing Race, as I nearly forgot it was on last night.

Anyway the final three have been decided, with the seemingly invincible Megan and Cheynne winning the leg yet again.

However was I disappointed the Globetrotters were eliminated? Yes. Did I think they deserved to be? Yes.

Seriously you take a four hour time penalty for not completing the Roadblock challenge. You would have been able to write down all the combinations in that time. And seriously the second letter in the word could only be A or R there are not words starting with FN or FZ.

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It was down to the final four racing from Finland to Prague, and they are all pretty strong competitors any of them could take out of $1 million.

Quote of the night goes to Brian, husband of Erika, when he said that they were such an nice team. Now I know it is the way they edit people but she appears to be just awful.

The highlights from her tonight was when she was doing the Roadblock none of which she is too successful at she always complains that Brian should have done it. Anyway they got lucky and it was a non-elimination round.

I think those gay brothers must have some bad karma coming to them, however in those same circumstances (top three position at stake) I may have done the same thing.

There was much debate in how household on which detour to do the fast (kayaks)  or the slow (the ropes) – I said ropes as at least there was an end point, partner thought kayak would not be that hard, I think that proved to be incorrect, and the boys would have twice as much co-ordination then us.

I liked the fact the roadblock gave teams the opportunity to catch up and over take, however I was disappointed when Erika and Brian came in last on the mat that it was a non-elimination round.

At this stage I am not sure who is going to win, however Cheyne and Megan have not put a foot wrong all series. However in my heart I would like the Globetrotters to win.

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Firstly apologies for not getting this blog post up last night, but I was exhausted.

Regardless of whether you are enjoying this season as much as the other you have to admit this has been the season where you just cannot pick what will happen at the pitstop.

Last week, Mika refused to go down waterslide letting the Globetrotters to get past and avoid elimination. Also Maria and Tiffany were like cat’s with nine lives as twice previously they had finished last at the pitstop. Once in Japan when it was a non-elimination round, and the other time in Cambodia when Zev and Justin lost their passports so could not continue on in the race.

But finally their luck ran out they were unable to complete either of the detour challenges even though they had plenty of time to do it. They first attempted the dance challenge but were unable to hit the hammer hard enough to hit the bell, then they went to do the golf, but gave up on that pretty easily. Then it was back to the dancing, and after nearly 80 hits they were getting nowhere. Maria did not even look like she was trying. Then it was back to the golf, by this stage they were completely knackered.

But maybe their elimination was karma for kind of cheating in the bell counting challenge where the gay brothers gave them the number.

It is unfortunate they hit these obstacles as this would have seen Erika and Brian eliminated. Oh my god does anyone like this woman? She shrieks and nags her husband Brian, and then when she is doing challenge extremely badly she starts sulking and says “Brian should have done this challenge”. Then when she finally completes it she is haranguing him as they walk in the clogs to the detour.  Hello they would not be this far behind if she could pay attention to detail.

Also she is hysterical when she finds out she has a 30 minute time penalty for not following the instructions of riding a bike to the detour. I wonder if she would have been so tolerant with Brian if he had completely fucked up the bell counting roadblock. I doubt it.

Oh and a special shout out to the father and son team who stopped the dancing challenge because they had to eat a herring. That is postively gourmet compared to some of the disgusting things they have to eat in previous seasons. Cows lips anyone?

Here is an elimination interview with Maria and Tiffany on Reality Wanted.

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