Archive through January 17, 2003
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Archive through January 17, 2003
Ruditoo | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 01:57 am     How did Alex get the job hmmmmm? Has anyone ever heard her on something else. Careful now that' a trick question they do voice overs ya know and she needed dubbing if anyone ever did. A stand in would have been a good move too. |
Fruitbat | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 04:48 am     Ebok. Who would you be meeting and how did this come to be? |
Fruitbat | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 04:55 am     The biggest questions I have are the same as Tabby's. 1. Did Alex have a bigger role that was cut? 2. Was the Butler as delightful in person as he appears on the show. 3. What percentage of the time were the cameras on them? Ruditoo. Alex was the host on the first season of Trading Spaces and did a good job. |
Ministryoftruth | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 08:54 am     Ah Ha! I knew you would all be here. I haven't seen this show, but I keep seeing all the hype, so I am going to give it a try. It's on Monday nights, right? |
Crazydog | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 09:05 am     Ministry, yes. And tonight (Thursday), they are replaying the first two episodes so you can get caught up! |
Egbok | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 09:31 am     Fruitbat, I can't reveal my sources at this time, but just as soon as everything is settled, I will tell all that I know. I'll keep your questions nearby and I'll ask them when (and IF) I get the opportunity - it'll be a few weeks though. I like your nickname for me - "Ebok". |
Crazydog | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 09:46 am     Egbok, ask her if Heidi is a real person or just an actress they hired to play the villain to increase interest and ratings. The losers were sequestered right? If Heidi is a real person, ask her what the other girls thought of Heidi, both while on the show and at sequesterland. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 10:13 am     My question would be.. did she ever see evidence that Evan washed his hair? Combed it? |
Grooch | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 10:17 am     lol! |
Realbiz | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:06 am     Why is Evan on ET EVERY night since last Monday?! He sure was't shy asking Mary Hart out on a date either. This guy has seemingly taken the place of J.Lo. on ET airtime. A bit too much I think. |
Ryn | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:39 am     Tonight 8pm on Fox - repeat of episode 1 & 2 Of course you also have Star Search on CBS and High School Reunion (repeat of episode 2) on WB (followed by Surreal Life) |
Tabbyking | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:41 am     crazydog, i think your question was perfect even before 'or just an actress they hired to play the villain.' it made sense standing all alone: "ask her if Heidi is a real person". LOL |
Fruitbat | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:50 am     Ok, you have my attention Egbok. Interesting. I hope all will come out eventually. Keep us posted. This is kinda nifty. |
Kitt | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 02:57 pm     Tabby, nope, don't know any Ethans, but I'd never heard of Evan as a first name until I watched this show. Still think you have a dirty mind . |
Tabbyking | Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 05:21 pm     kitt, seems like everyone here in the last dozen years has named boy babies evan. usually evan thomas. i don't much care for the name evan (which is welsh--i think--for john. so you can be sean, ian, evan or john...). i have 4 friends who have sons named evan that are between the ages of 9 and 11, and one of them had a roommate in her hospital room when she delivered and the other gal was naming her baby evan thomas, too! i probably do have a dirty mind, come to think of it!! |
Rslover | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 08:15 am     Wouldn't it be funny (and not so surprising) that after he claims to be poor we are told that he really is a Mariott (hotel heir)and rich. The joke would be on everyone. He was supposedly a bellman in a hotel (though it didn't sound like a Mariott hotel). Thoughts? |
Tabbyking | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 08:29 am     we have done this guess already, and i don't think he is any relation--rich sounding name, though! he was definitely not poor growing up, but probably not rich compared to having 50 million. to me, it seems as if he led a privileged life, acted like the spoiled kid who didn't have to really settle down and do something--'jetted off to europe', was sent to a private boy's school (for troublemakers it sounded like to me!), dabbles in this and that. my feeling is he should grab all the limelight he can--this guy is not really going anywhere. not bright enough. remember, this is all how i feel about the guy, and i may be way off. i just think he is a guy with so-so looks, not the sharpest knife in the drawer (or in his gladiator undies, perhaps i should say, "drawers"), who probably did not find a match and is therefore hitting all the talk shows he can so he can strike while the iron is lukewarm. IMHO |
Rissa | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 08:53 am     Tabby, With only a few very minor changes in phrasing, I agree with your assessment. He has coasted through roughly 30 years of life, putting very little effort into anything that he has tried. Just works enough to get by or maybe not enough, since he seems to have had an awfull lot of jobs for someone only in the workforce c10 yrs. I will say though (and have said before) that if the entire gossip wings of all American TV and print media have not turned up a link to the Mariott hotel family yet, it just isn't there. |
Weenerlobo | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 09:53 am     Alex is co-hosting Good Day Live right now. She is so daffy. |
Fruitbat | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 11:12 am     Nailed it again Tabby. |
Grooch | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 01:01 pm     Host of series from Galveston By Carla Gillogly-Torres The Daily News Published January 03, 2003 GALVESTON — The premise of the show is a little mean some might say, but Fox has an original reality series that is sure to make a few women angry. And there’s one woman from Galveston who knows how it all turns out. “Joe Millionaire,” which airs Monday at 8 p.m., takes 20 single women to France who hope to hook up with a multi-millionaire. Much like “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire” and “The Bachelor,” these women will vie for this one man’s affection. What these women don’t know is that their millionaire is actually a construction worker from Los Angeles who makes about $19,000 a year. Galvestonians will recognize a familiar face on the show — Alex McLeod, the show’s host. McLeod is making her network debut on Fox after being sought out by the network to be the host of “Joe Millionaire.” “I am thrilled to be a part of a show with such a high profile concept,” said McLeod. Luckily, she said, she didn’t have to audition for the part, but Fox did make her sign confidentiality agreements galore before finally agreeing to her contract. So don’t expect to get any tips from McLeod on who the final contestant is or what her response was to the $50 million lie. You’ll have to watch the seven-part series to find out. McLeod is also one of two hosts on the series “Best of Both Worlds” on A&E, and you can catch her on re-runs of “Trading Spaces” on TLC. “‘Best of Both Worlds’ is a really, really cute show,” said McLeod. The show takes two people and sends them to the same destination — Hong Kong on Jan. 17 — only one travels in luxury and the other on a fixed budget. Viewers see how different their experiences are in the same destination. “The show is unusual because you watch two people actually go on a trip instead of telling you where you should travel,” said McLeod. “I am so proud of this project as viewers will see a very different me than on ‘Trading Spaces’ because in this show, it’s really me on vacation, and I was required to do a lot of physical stunts for the first time which required a lot of courage on my part — hangliding, surfing, cow roping on horseback and landing on the roof of my hotel in a helicopter.” McLeod grew up in Galveston and is the daughter of Doug and Joanie McLeod. She attended University of Texas where she received a degree in speech communications. From there, she has had the good fortune of hosting many reality series and starring in a few TV sitcoms such as “Married with Children” and “Ned and Stacy” and in many commercials. Don’t bother asking her isle family about “Joe Millionaire’s” results. All she could tell her family and friends was that she was shooting a romantic reality series in France. “Let me tell you, it definitely has its romantic moments and I don’t think the reactions get more real on this type of show,” said McLeod. “I knew the concept of the show from the beginning. I felt sympathetic for the women, but I suppose when they sign up for these reality shows they know anything can happen and it usually does.” Link |
Grooch | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 01:20 pm     Host: 'Millionaire' gals are not 'gold diggers' By RICHARD HUFF DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR Alex McLeod They may have been chasing a fantasy, but the women on Fox's "Joe Millionaire" were not just in it for the money. "It's very unfair for people to make these women out as gold diggers," show host Alex McLeod told the Daily News yesterday. "That was not the case." Rather, she said, they were all women who were successful on their own and who, like her, bought into the fairy-tale aspects of going to France to meet a man. It wasn't until the contestants had arrived that they were told their potential prince was a millionaire. He wasn't. But that was the concept of the show from the start. Dupe the women into believing he was wealthy, let them fight over the man, in this case Evan Marriott, and then spring the bad news at the end. However, because viewers were in on the ploy from the start, it's left the impression the women were just after the cash. "Now America thinks of them as of 20 gold-digging ho's in search of alimony payments," McLeod said. Since its launch two weeks ago, "Joe Millionaire" has become the latest water-cooler topic - largely because of the scam. "Even more than 'The Bachelor,' you just know it's a train wreck," said analyst Stacey Lynn Koerner at ad-buyer Initiative Media. "I call it rubbernecking programming." Aside from "Joe Millionaire," McLeod has developed into a reality show regular. Folks may recall she served as host of the first 40 episodes of TLC's "Trading Spaces." Now she's on "Joe Millionaire." And tomorrow at 10 p.m., she'll appear in "Best of Both Worlds," a two-part A&E special best described as a reality travel program. In "Best of Both Worlds," McLeod and fellow reality regular Phil Keoghan (CBS' "Amazing Race") each go on a trip - one taking a luxury route, while the other goes on a budget. The A&E show is a bit more involving than her work on "Joe Millionaire," during which she appears only for the ceremony in which Marriott dumps some of the contestants. "My nickname became 'The Eliminator,'" McLeod said. "I was the 'Lady of the Manor' and also 'The Manor Madam.'" McLeod was in on the trick from the beginning, which made her appearances before the 20 single women difficult. She had avoid signaling that something was amiss. "Nobody can keep a secret in Hollywood," she said. "It was tough for me. If I look a little shell-shocked in the first couple episodes, it's because not only do I send them packing in the middle of the night, but I also have to look them in the eyes." Also in the reality pipeline is "American Idol," which returns next week. ABC's got a handful of shows in the genre on the way and producers in Hollywood are dreaming up more ideas every day - the latest concept has someone training to fight Mike Tyson. "I think in some way it's supplanted the drama [genre] as the programming story of the year," Koerner said. "Last year, it was all these dramas doing well. Now people are back to watching programming that's lighter." Link |
Kitt | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 02:47 pm     I'm surprised Alex signed on, if she knew all she was going to do were those 30 second elimination segments at the end. And the camera never seems to focus on her properly. It all seems a bit odd to me. That 'Best of Both Worlds' sounds like it might be worth a look though. Tabby, not being from these shores, I must have missed the Evan baby boom! I think the more common Welsh version is Ivan, although it's kind of considered an old fashioned name. Evans or the Welsh spelt form of it, Ifans, is a common last name though. |
Tabbyking | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 04:09 pm     oh yeah, 'ivan'-- my french teacher, who was born in france, named his son 'ivan' and it is pronounced the french way, or 'yvonne'...which i always wondered about later. would the kid let people mispronounce it 'eye-ven', if he found out it sounds like an american girl's name? i always wanted a genevieve, but didn't want people to pronounce it jenna-veev. i wanted it pronounced the french, or 'zhon-vee-ev'. |
Sallycat | Friday, January 17, 2003 - 06:44 pm     My favorite thing that has happened was how WRONG the women were at picking who he would choose. They went for beauty. After he picked, one said "He just picked at random" It was clear to the viewer that he had given a lot of thought to his selections. He wanted women who were "into him" and seemed to adjust to uncomfortable situations, etc. Can men and women read each other? It would appear NOT |
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