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Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I watched my UPN shows.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had it on while I was cleaning the kitchen, so didn't pay strict attention to it. She certainly seemed okay with the concept, but I really didn't like the idea of the other men *pretending* to be her dad. Especially having to make up stories about her birth. Yuck.

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i did not watch the show but i heard it on the radio this morning and the girl sounded so happy.

i just wonder where does this end? here's an idea for Fox... how about when will we pull the plug... families gathered around dying people vying to see who can pull first.

or how about a roomful of alzheimer's patients trying to find their families in the room.

the possibilities of further degradation and depravity are just being tested.


Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gidget--you cracked me up!

She's an actress, so this whole thing was probably fakey-fake from the start.

Her pic:

http://immortalscarclub.com/ipw-web/gallery/CPParade/4_G

Her IMDB bio:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616866/

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Who's Your Daddy doesn't impress critics; TJ is an actress, former Playmate.
It's much more fun to be appalled and angered by a reality TV show without actually watching it, but some critics have to go spoil the fun and actually examine that which they judge. The show in question is the debut of Who's Your Daddy, on which TJ successfully selected her father, and won $100,000. She also met her birth mother, who her biological father had kept in touch with. In the New York Times, Alessandra Stanley writes that it was "fairly bland and hokey," and adds that "even though the ratings suggest that viewers are tiring of cheesy, sleazy Fox shows like 'The Swan,' the network cannot seem to go straight." The New York Daily News' David Bianculli was much more appalled: "a horrible, repellent, indefensible television show. It should not have been made, and the five others already in the can should stay there and not be shown. It's a disgusting concept for a TV special, with production values so shoddy that they don't even do justice to the concept."

Meanwhile, as Reality TV Magazine discovered, the star of the show may have been familiar to some viewers, both with and without her clothes on. "TJ Myers is an actress, model, spokesperson, and former Playboy playmate who has appeared previously in several movies and television shows," the site reports. She was also a participant in the Mark Burnett reality series Combat Missions, on which she was known as Major XO Myers. Her other credits are listed at IMDB.com. Also see her web site.

+ update: Despite the controversy, the special pretty much flopped, coming in fourth in its time slot. 6.3 million viewers watched, according to the AP, about five million fewer than watched Fear Factor.

http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/

Babyboo
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06-16-2003

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Boy, this poor show really BOMBED huh?

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gidget, I loved your "story" ideas and can't wait to see them on the little screen...lol
I've got another one...how about going into several different blind people's homes and rearranging the furniture? The person who could find their way around the fastest is the winner!
(I hope Fox doesn't read these posts, they just might use one of these ideas...ugh!)


Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm starting to get annoyed at all the crying on reality shows.



Hippyt
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06-15-2001

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol,the show ideas are too funny! I didn't watch this but a friend of mine did,she said it stank.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She was on Extra today - she never hid the fact she was an actress, and she knows she cant defend that she didnt do it for the money or the exposure (all right stop lol all of you, heehe and me!) but she showed where she tried to do this on her own yada yada...

also they have 3 more episodes "in the can"... so they hoped that they were getting free publicity, and that if people gave it a chance, they would see that the adopted person couldnt chose wrong, no matter what, she would meet her dad... they thought this made it "ok"...

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I sorta watched it but stopped as she did that rehearsed speech when choosing her FINAL dad. DARN, I would have liked to see her REAL birth mom.

I felt that the emotions of finding out what REALLY happened should be a private thing NOT paraded around on Tv. The fake dads making up stories was cruel in my opinion. I wonder how a person would feel if they did NOT feel any connection with ANY of the men????

This show is emotionally damaging and WORSE!! Money is a GOAL and the finding a father secondary IMHO>

Dalm_dad
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07-06-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I guess the fact that the show bombed means they will only order a full season.

Dalm.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think it was only meant to be a one-time special, Dalm. Thank goodness.

Max
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08-12-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 2:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
From what I understand, it came in 4th in it's time slot and they have three or four other "episodes" in the can. We may be stuck with more of it. 4th position isn't too bad these days, is it? UGH

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sun, I thought that WAS her real birthmom who came out at the end.. the blonde who had the exact same tiny voice she did!

Dalm_dad
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07-06-2004

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 8:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's shows like this that cause my DVD player to overheat from working overtime.

Dalm

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 8:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sun, then you should have watched the whole show, cuz it was her real birth mom at the end.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just hope that we can keep Gidget and Bluejaxrock away from the FOX network headquarters.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 2:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thats what I meant !! I turned off the show during her final DAD speech. I would have LOVED to see her birth mom.

I know people who are adopted and feel empty since they dont know WHY they were given up. The quest for Birth Parents is a serious thing and I really think a better show could have been done without the Bachelorette-type format. I was almost expecting a Rose ceremony when she was chosing her finalists.

Part of dealing with abandonment issues is ANGER. i'd love to know what kind of psych testing they do first and whether ongoing counselling is offered.

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Monday, January 10, 2005 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not to worry, Jimmer. I've e-mailed CBS regarding the inane stories they write (don't get me started on the whole Ridge/Brooke/Bridget thing...ewww!) The only thing that happens is that they turn up the heat on whatever storyline I'm griping about...lol I could probably suggest some of those items knowing the network would just ignore me!