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Saturday, January 26th 2008

12:17 PM

Celebreality. An unfortunate new word.

  • Mood: Unfocused

Not long ago, I posted on the topic of reality TV.  I gave a long list of shows, mentioning some I thought were especially gross, and theorized that things couldn’t get much worse.

I was wrong.

It may have something to do with the writers’ strike, but the networks are airing some stuff that is truly horrifying.  A couple of the worse are revisitations of previous shows.  For example, I though Rock of Love was bad.  Now, VH1 is doing Rock of Love II.  Yep, drunken bimbos are once again competing to be the next woman to humiliate herself in the quest to sleep with Brett Michaels.  I saw some clips, with him talking about how the first round didn’t work out that well.  Well, DUH!  And I got news for ya, Brett.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.  It ain’t gonna work this time, either.  In round one, the “winner” announced she just wasn’t the right girl for Brett, some time after the fact.  

I suspect what actually happened was that she realized Brett just wasn’t the right guy for her.  The intrinsic problem with this (and all) reality courtship shows is that the premise is flawed from the outset.  They make the assumption that all of the contestants will fall in love with the object of the competition.  It’s all about getting him (or her) to fall in love with them.  The object doesn’t make any effort to win the love of the contestants.  In Michael’s case, he just assumes that any woman in her right mind would fall for him.  Haven’t 10,000 groupies already done just that? 

AND, just in case round 2 of failed celebrity love isn’t bad enough.  There is now Flavor of Love III!   I mean, have you seen Flavor Flav?  Women are competing for him on purpose?!!  THREE TIMES?!!!

Ewwwwwwww!!!!!!

But by far the worse show yet is “Celebrity Rehab.”  Yup, people are going through withdrawal on national television.  I watched an episode (I know, but it was like a train wreck—I just couldn’t look away) and could not believe my eyes.  WHAT on earth happened to Jeff Conaway?  I had a huge crush on him back in his “Taxi” days. 

And another question—does Daniel Baldwin do anything other than celebrity reality shows any more?  I was watching the TV Guide Channel (I know, I know, but it’s where the channel guide lives on my cable) and there was an episode of “Celebrity Fit Club.”  They were all complaining because Baldwin, who was some kind of team captain, had not showed up for weigh in.  My brother commented, “Yeah, he’s missing because he’s checked in to Celebrity Rehab.” One of the other Baldwin brothers was in a bunch of celebreality shows, too.  Eeek.

ACK!  I hope the writer’s strike is settled soon.

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