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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 8:30 pm
So many posters are commenting in the Spoiler thread (7/13), we might as well do a new thread. I'm not a fan of this strange two. I'm not in the habit to bash or dig on people I don't really know. Just very curious about them, I guess I'm noisy. It truly puzzled me why these two will be together. They explain that cliche for me though: They bring out the worst of each other. Is there any way we can find out where they are with each other today? May well be a waste of time since they self proclaimed to be on again off again all the time. But the last scene of the show last night, wasn't it Ali walking far on the grassy mall leaving Donny on the mat with Phil? I thought I've also heard them each say a couple times of being done with each other.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 8:35 pm
I certainly hope that in the 'Race' they learned they are absolutely not for one another. They define the term 'disfuctional relationship'.
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Max
Member
08-12-2000
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 8:50 pm
Personally, I'm just glad I don't have to watch them anymore. 
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - 9:17 pm
Alison was really horrible in BB and if Donny had any sense he would have dumped her then. Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it, this was his wake-up call. I read somewhere that they weren't together, but unfortunately some people in these kind of relationships just keep coming back to abuse each other. I'm just glad they're gone.
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 11:44 am
From the Amazing Race site at cbs.com: "Alison & Donny describe themselves as 'the greatest example of new age young adults. We give 110% to everything we do and don't accept not getting our way.' They are excited about competing in THE AMAZING RACE 5, as Alison says, 'to see if we should really try to work out our differences from BIG BROTHER. The $1 million is secondary.'" Blech.
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Jarryjayo
Member
06-09-2004
| Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 12:38 pm
Allison and Donny do deserve each other, just what I was thinking when I watched that show the other night. I am happy they lost too, cheering is more of the feeling I had. Thank god thats over, all I can say is I hope the only lesson learned from this is that allison your 15 mins of fame are up.. please find a new gig. it's what is best for the show in my mind, it was such a cheap trick to have them in it in the first place. let someone who deserves to win have a chance to win.
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Snoopsmom
Member
02-19-2003
| Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 1:31 pm
I'm wondering what reality show we'll see Ali turn up on next. She's turning this into a career. Will she stay with CBS and show up on Survivor? Now that she's single again, will she jump to ABC and try The Bachelor or The Bachelorette? How about NBC and For Love or Money, or the star of Average Joe? Yikes, could you just imagine how awfully she would treat the poor Joes! Personally, I think she should try The Swan, get remade, get some therapy and go live her life somewhere where no one will recognize her and she can escape the reputation she's earned with her ugly personality.
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Myga
Member
06-29-2004
| Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 1:45 pm
Does anyone know if they are going to have the team that came in last on the CBS morning show the next day???
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Gen
Member
08-22-2003
| Thursday, July 15, 2004 - 3:31 pm
Snoopsmom, may she will try "Fear Factor" next! 
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 3:33 am
I'd love to see her on The Apprentice. She'd be Omarosa to the tenth power. I'd love to see Mr. Trump say to her...."Allison. You're. Fired!" I wish Donnie well. Being around people like Allison is not easy. I trust that he can act like a sincere, personable gentleman when he gets around people who lack Allison's personality traits. We know Allison acts exactly the same way when she is around others, so I prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 9:38 am
Myga, I don't know. Looks like no one here care to ever see her again . I still don't want to say "They deserves eachother." Remember how we felt about Donny during Ali's run on BB? I can't help wondering what other personality traits could have been brought out of D if he didn't have such negative brain-washing force around him. I pity the person Ali could have been , also. She has great drive, personable at first glance, good looking to some eyes, certain charm when she wants to show it. But she truly believe that the world should evolve around her it seems. I don't want to get into bashing her, but, as some poster had said: Allison did not learn anything at all from watch herself on BB. A person who can not recognize what is lacking and try to learn from past mistakes, is bad enough in my book.
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Gemma120in2002
Member
07-05-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 9:41 am
I thought about her being on Fear Factor next as well, but not as one of the contestants. I thought she would be one of the trials the contestants would have to survive. Scares the H*** out of me!
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 9:45 am
Oooooo.... There's a Tv Guid online interview with Ali and Don posted. I don't know how to link and I/m not sure it's okay to C&P either. Go read it. They are not together any more(A is 5 states away from D). Donny said they were done since the day the race ended. I was going to take his wrod but Ali told a different one.--We moved in to gether afterwards... left him when I found out he was cheating.... AGH... the saga... I don't care any more either. I left after reading that part. Can't stand it. They are both rude.
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 9:49 am
Gemma, that's a good one!
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Spear
Member
08-06-2001
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 10:39 am
Here is their interview: http://www.tvguide.com/news/insider/040716c.asp I agree, Chy, it is unpleasant to read.
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P_gunslinger
Member
06-09-2004
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 11:10 am
They deserve each other...actually, the interview captures both of them perfectly. Unpleasant, yes, but that's who they are.

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Dilligaf
Member
06-27-2001
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 12:25 pm
Is anyone else upset with CBS for casting them on AR in the first place?? In my opinion, AR has been the most "credible" ("least cheesy") reality show in the past several years. The cheese factor went waaayyyy up when I learned that A & D were on this season. I wish they would go back to a legitimate audition process. <sigh>
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 2:16 pm
I have never seen two people snipe at each other like that in an interview - wow! For those that don't want to register:
quote:Amazing Race Exes Get Evil by Ethan Alter It's often said that time heals all wounds. Apparently, that maxim doesn't hold true for Alison and Donny, the bickering couple who went from first to last during the second leg of The Amazing Race (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET on CBS). In this exclusive Q&A with TV Guide Online, the estranged pair of losers air their grievances and let loose with a few well-aimed barbs. This unpleasant exchange is about as real as reality TV gets, Race fans. Buckle your seatbelts! TV Guide Online: Alison, why did you decide to do another reality show so soon after Big Brother 4? Alison: I got an e-mail from CBS asking if Donny and I wanted to do The Amazing Race together. I asked him, and he said he wanted to do it. Of course, I wasn't going to be the one to hold him back from winning $1 million and I was also all about trying to win $1 million. So we mutually decided to do it. TVGO: Aside from the obvious, how did the two experiences differ? Alison: Well, here you had to work with teams, and that sucked for me. It was a lot easier to do things on my own and do things the way I wanted to do them. During the race, you have to be impulsive and quick and if you make the wrong decision — or if you let someone else make the wrong decision — then you're done. TVGO: Donny, why did you agree to sign on? Donny: Pretty much just for the opportunity to travel around the world on someone else's dollar. That's something you can never pass up. Neither of us had ever seen Amazing Race before, so we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. And most of the people on the show have been fans for life. I'm sure a couple of teams had diagrams in their basement of everything that's happened on every single episode. We were almost going in there blindfolded. TVGO: How did you prepare for the race? Donny: We were on the computer until four in the morning some nights doing straight-up research. You could tell from the first episode that we knew what we were doing, because we were the only people who actually asked which flight got there first. We did everything we possibly could to be prepared. We just tried to be overcautious at a certain point, and it didn't help much. TVGO: Did you have a strategy going in? Alison: We wanted me to be the brains and for him to be the physical aspect of the race. And in last night's episode, we kind of switched that a little bit. Donny decided to be mental as well, and that's kind of where we messed up. Donny: The race was way easier to do than dealing with her. TVGO: Was it difficult to watch yourselves argue like that? Donny: Not at all. I knew exactly what to expect. There were no surprises. Alison: It was difficult for me. I didn't realize that all the name-calling would be coming from his end, and the things he said after the race. I didn't realize any of that would happen. That was a big shock for my friends and family, too. [He] was somebody I had trusted and confided in and for him to say such hurtful things killed me. Donny: Okay, well, don't let your tears get in the way, because you're no angel. Alison: Oh, I didn't cry, don't worry. TVGO: I guess this brings up the relationship question. Where do things stand now between the two of you? Donny: There's no relationship whatsoever. There's no speaking terms or anything. It ended the day the race was over. Alison: No, that's not true. I moved in with him and his family for a couple of months after the race — I don't know why you're deciding to lie. Things were actually fine after the race for a while. Then, I found out that Donny was not only verbally rude to me, he was cheating on me as well. So I decided to leave him. Donny: That's a good one, but no. TVGO: Are you still living in the same city? Donny: We're not anywhere near each other. Alison: I moved like five states away, actually. Surprised, Donny? [Silence] Alison: He doesn't know. Donny: He doesn't care. TVGO: Getting back to the race for a moment, what happened with the bus to the cattle ranch? That seemed to be the point where you really fell behind. Donny: We had no clue that there would be stops along the way. We thought, first-class bus, first-class seats, it would be direct the entire way. We also thought it was the only bus that went there. The other teams that got to the bus station after us found another bus that got there faster. At the point we got on the bus, we thought we were either first or last. Alison: I knew we were last. TVGO: Knowing what you know now, what's one thing you would do differently if you ran the race over again? Alison: I definitely would not go on the show with Donny. It was sad because last night, all my ex-boyfriends were calling me, asking, "Why were you ever dating him?" and "Why did you go on the show with him instead of me?" That's the one thing I'd definitely change. I wouldn't have let him think. I wouldn't let him use his brains, if that's what you wanna call them. Donny: Well, your good looks got us nowhere, so don't worry about it. Alison: Hey, neither did yours. Donny: I would take the midget instead of her. TVGO: Um, so... All in all, are you glad you did this? Alison: Yeah, I'm definitely glad. Donny: I'm glad I got to travel around the world with someone I hated. Alison: Maturity shines through...
And the Link again because I think it's mean to quote other people's work sans link: Link
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 2:19 pm
IMO - CBS was majorly bummed when these two only made it to the second episode. Alison is reality TV show gold. People love to hate her. They tune in just so they can find more things mean to say about her. I am not surprised in the least that CBS called her, since Erika and her discussed the AR all the time during BB (Erika either applied or thought about applying). Nor do I think it was wrong to cast her, in the end, TV shows are about ratings, if they don't have ratings, they can't put it on TV. If fans want to keep getting to see the show, they need to know that CBS has to keep the ratings up.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 3:19 pm
I'm a good example of that. I have never watched TAR before but I watched this time because I wanted to see what Alison would do. Of course now I have to watch the rest of the darned show...LOL!
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 3:47 pm
Welcome to your new addiction, Roxip! You'll like it. Too bad it's only once a week...
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 4:12 pm
Same here - I think I saw the finale ep the last two seasons and maybe three or four other eps total. Knowing Ali was on, I set the TiVo ASAP.
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Beruthiel
Member
10-08-2002
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 5:53 pm
I agree that AR is the best example of reality TV and I'm delighted that I can watch the rest of this season without this pair around to spoil my viewing pleasure! My thoughts at the end of last year's BB were that at least I'd never have to see or hear this girl again, so it was a major annoyance to not only see and hear her the first week, but also to have the show end with them in first place, because that meant they'd have a good chance of continuing week after week. I guess all I can say is Whooohoo, she's gone! As for Donnie, he's no angel either, so I'd agree they're a well-matched pair IMHO, LOL!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 8:22 pm
Doesn't anyone enjoy cheering against "nasty" contestants who bicker all the time? Some of my favorite contestants fall into this category and often these people give me the biggest laughs. Don't you like having someone on the show that you can cheer against? Aren't the best "hero" movies the ones with really good villains?
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Chy
Member
07-19-2003
| Friday, July 16, 2004 - 10:45 pm
Yeah, Jimmer. I didn't mind Ali and Donny in AR in the begining. But in 2nd epi. they lost me. All they do is pushing each other down. The name calling or the mutual blaming wasn't light hearted or fun, just nasty and got old fast for me. I wouldn't mind if they're still in either, but I'll have to reserve my right to cover my eyes and ears when the yelling begins. What a pity! Two young, pretty looking people with strong physical abilities and alright brain powers, why do they want to go through life like that? This isn't bashing, I think we have enough peeks in their lives to see that.
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