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Archive through October 26, 2003

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Puttergirl

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
From http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/the_surreal_life_2/2003_003935.shtml

"Vanilla Ice, Tammy Faye reported to be on the cast of The Surreal Life 2. Another late '80s, early '90s rapper is reportedly going to participate in The WB's The Surreal Life, along with a jailed televangelist's ex-wife and gay icon. Vanilla Ice and Tammy Faye Messner have both reportedly signed on for The Surreal Life 2, the New York Post reports. Vanilla Ice, a.k.a. Rob Van Winkle, once trashed the set of an MTV show that was retiring his video for "Ice Ice Baby," and "descended into a drug-fueled suicide attempt five years" before that, according to an AP story. After divorcing televangelist Jim Bakker when he went to jail, Tammy Faye went on to host a talk show with Jim J. Bullock, and has become "an unlikely icon for the gay community."

What a combination!! I can't wait to hear who the rest will be.

Sweetbabygirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Also included will be CHIPS icon Erik Estrada, porn star Ron Jeremy, and former Baywatch babe Traci Bingham.

Can't stand Traci Bingham, but I'm going to watch anyway....Tammy Faye and Ron Jeremy? Too hysterical to pass up, lol!!

Scorpiomoon

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh man, I can't wait for the second season of this show!

I don't think they'll ever find anyone as over-the-top as Cory Feldmen, but the cast they have so far sounds like they'll be fun to watch. :)

Squaredsc

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
did someone say porn star? oh i am so there.

Sweetbabygirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, I'll say it....although he has the face of a hedgehog, I'd do Ron Jeremy in a New York second!

(runs out of room to avoid ridicule)

Squaredsc

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
drags sbg back to face the music.

Azlen

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmmm, SBG...I guess we know what kind of attributes you are looking for in a man.

Somebody had to say it.

Squaredsc

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and im glad it was you az and not me, lol.

Sweetbabygirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Az, don't make me get graphic up in here!!

Ron does one thing very well....a MUST on my "How do I please Sweetbabygirl?" checklist.

Azlen

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you are refering to what I think you are refering to, I am just going to leave that one alone.

Sweetbabygirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hee!

Squaredsc

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
rofl!

Pantageas

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 1:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also read on TVGUIDE.COM that Trishelle, infamous RW slattern, will be invited also.

Disclaimer: Trishelle wasn't labelled "slattern" by TV Guide. That was just poetic license... :)

Puttergirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
New article at www.realitytv.com. What an hilarious cast:

"The WB serves up more D-listers for 'The Surreal Life 2' People said it couldn't be done. They said no one could find a list of more one-time celebrities less newsworthy than the original cast of The WB's The Surreal Life. But, for the upcoming The Surreal Life 2, the producers have topped themselves.

According to TV Guide, the permanent inhabitants of the Surreal Life house for the 11-day shooting schedule will be the following:

1. rapper Vanilla Ice,
2. religious TV star-mascara maven Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Baker),
3. ex-TV heartthrob Eric Estrada,
4. porn legend Ron Jeremy,
5. model/"actress" Traci Bingham (who also attended Celebrity Boot Camp), and
6. Real World Las Vegas castmember Trishelle Cannatella.

In addition, according to the Associated Press, there will be a "rotating" seventh houseguest during the filming, which began on October 20. The six episodes could begin airing as early as January, which is when the first The Surreal Life was broadcast."


Ladytex

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'd just come in here to post this from cnn:

Surreal 2

Tishala

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am unfamiliar with Mr. Jeremy's body of work. But he'd have to be pretty damned good at something to get me to look beyond a hedgehog face. LOL.

Not1worry

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uggghhh...Tammy Faye's face is much worse.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
believe me you wouldn't be looking at his face.

Sweetbabygirl

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 6:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Let's put it this way, Tish....you'd be brushing his hair.

(scurries out of folder)

Realitynut

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Trishelle will have a hard time deciding which man she'll be falling all over.

Kaili

Friday, October 24, 2003 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Surreal Life 2": They're Baa-aack

by Sarah Hall
Oct 21, 2003, 11:10 PM PT

The following should be read aloud, to the cadence of MTV's Real World opening monologue:


"This is the true story/of five has-beens and one wannabe/ picked to move into a house/and have their lives taped/to find out what really happens/when audiences tune in/and watch B-list celebs bottom out."

a d v e r t i s e m e n t

"Surreal Life! Season Two!"

That's right--it's time for demi-celebs on the verge of desperation to come together in a conflagration previously unimaginable to the viewing public.

While the first season gave us Webster's Emmanuel Lewis sharing bunk beds with bankrupt rapper turned evangelist M.C. Hammer, this season tantalizes with the promise of porn king Ron Jeremy swapping witticisms with Tammy Faye Messner, drama queen ex-wife of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker.

Rounding out the has-been cast will be former Baywatch-beauty, Traci Bingham, washed-up rapper, Vanilla Ice and ChiPs star, Erik Estrada.

Then there's the wannabe category--while last year's cast got to feel slightly superior to Survivor alum Jerri Manthey, this year's cast can look down on Real World: Las Vegas's Trishelle--after all, she's not a real B-lister.

The motley crew will share the Hollywood Hills hideout for 11 days, during which time cameras will follow them as they interact with one another, as well as with average folks on the outside.

The casting process for SL2 was apparently a lengthy one, as numerous personalities approached producers about appearing on the show.

"We wanted to get worlds colliding, and I think that's been achieved," said Keith Cox, WB alternative chief, per Variety. "It's a tricky puzzle. You have to start with certain cornerstones, and then build inward. Tammy Faye was actually one of the first people we cast."

Producers cut the cast from seven to six members this season to allow for a weekly guest celebrity crib crasher.

"Having a revolving, big celebrity guest star every week--that person becomes our seventh cast member," executive producer Cris Abrego told Variety.

This season is being shot at the same digs as Surreal 1; however, the pad has apparently been spiced up for the new cast.

"It's very pimp, very Austin Powers love shack," Abrego said of the decor.

The pseudo-stars arrived on the scene Monday via Hollywood tour bus, having been picked up at Hollywood locations appropriate to their stature; Estrada, for example, will be found at a Winchell's donut shop, while Messner will be collected at the Hollywood Wax Musuem. No word on where Jeremy will be found...

Surreal Life Two is expected to kick off in early 2004. So far, the WB has ordered six half-hour episodes, though that number may grow, depending on how well the B-listers perform for the network.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12749,00.html

Kaili

Friday, October 24, 2003 - 10:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
‘Surreal Life 2’ set to film in desert
By Bruce Fessier
The Desert Sun
October 23, 2003

Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner and porn legend Ron Jeremy will gain more exposure than they’ve had in a long, long time in an upcoming episode of WB’s "Surreal Life 2" being shot at a Palm Springs nudist resort.

They are part of a cast of celebrities who began a nearly two-week shoot Monday in a Hollywood Hills mansion. The others are rapper Vanilla Ice, "ChiPs" actor Erik Estrada, former "Baywatch" actress Traci Bingham and "Real World: Las Vegas" cast member Trishelle

A celebrity guest will join them in the house each week. They’ll take field trips around Southern California.

"We wanted to get worlds colliding, and I think that’s what we’ve achieved," WB alternative chief Keith Cox said. noting that assembling the cast was quite an effort. "It’s one of those tricky puzzles. You have to start with certain cornerstones, and then build inward. Tammy Faye was actually one of the first people we cast."

They’ll get away to Desert Shadows Inn in Palm Springs Monday afternoon. The first order of business will be a 10-minute tour of the property. Then they’ll learn that they, too, will have to grin and bare it.

Desert Shadows co-owner Stephen Payne said a nudist activity is planned and the celebrities will be told if they don’t participate in the buff, their team will lose points that could cost them the competition.

Payne also said his resort is nudist only -- not clothing optional -- so they won’t be allowed to go anywhere on the grounds with their clothes on.

"They’ll be told they have to play naked," Payne said. After the afternoon exposure, the celebs are slated to eat at the Lobster Company followed by karaoke at Sports City in Palm Springs.

Messner, who divorced disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker in 1992 while he was serving a fraud sentence involving his Heritage USA theme park in South Carolina, is a familiar face in the Coachella Valley. She lived in Palm Springs with Bakker and married his best friend, Roe Messner in Rancho Mirage.

Jeremy, who has starred in more than 1,600 pornographic movies and directed more than 100, also has reportedly lived in Palm Springs.

The show is expected to air in early 2004.

One of the show’s executive producers, Cris Abrego, said the casting process took a long time, in part because so many personalities were interested in joining the cast.

"Having a revolving, big celebrity guest star every week -- that person becomes our seventh cast member," he said.

The new season of "Surreal Life" is expected to be broadcast early next year. The WB has ordered six half-hour episodes.

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2003/entertainment/20031023014022.shtml

Jan

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SweetBabyGirl..thanks for making me really laugh out loud. Brushing his hair indeed. I see you were really not talking about size...well not of some aspects of size anyway.

but your comments do bring to mind a certain cover from a rolling stones album

LOL square why am I not surprised to see you would be there too???

Squaredsc

Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
sshhhh jan, im innocent.

Jan

Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 9:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
many things may be said, Square...but innocent?????