Reality Show R Us

[petermarcus]

So I'm driving in to work this morning, and the morning show jocks are interviewing a Fox casting director who is in town casting for a new Fox reality show. This guy cast the folks on Paradise Hotel, Temptation Island, and the other Fox reality shows. This is what they're looking for: Divorced men, 24-44, no kids (or kids have to be over 18), divorce within 5 years, reasonably photogenic.

The casting guy wouldn't say what the show was about, just that there was a "large cash payoff" to whoever won. The jocks mentioned it was probably difficult finding young recently divorced guys with no kids and the dude said, "Welcome to my hell."

The thing is, they are looking for me (assuming I'm "reasonably photogenic"). Except I wouldn't want to be on a reality show if you held a gun to my head. Still, it made me wonder what it would be like, in one of those wavy-lines Wayne's World kind of fantasies.

This is Fox, though, so they'd probably spring my ex on me at some embarrassing moment.

I know there are a lot of reality show fans out there...do you just like to watch, or would you want to be on one?

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Comments

[robont.livejournal.com]

Peter... dooode.. you fucking GOTTA do this.... you gotta gotta gotta

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

I knew you would say that :)

Nah, not my thing. Survivor, maybe...maybe.... But not some divorced version of ex-wife swapping in Vegas or whatever it is they're planning.

[robont.livejournal.com]

Well it was expected from me ;-)

Ya but but but.. you could be on the cover of People next year, bag some rich actress like Nicole Kidman and never have to work again... and then I can tell people I know that dooode... now go do it man, you have a responsibility to us ;-)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

No way...though Nicole's accent is kinda....no, never mind. No way.

I'd do "Strip LJ" before I'd do a Fox reality show.

[robont.livejournal.com]

I expect your pictures next week.

:)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

I think Survivor, win or lose, would be a hell of a lot of fun.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

See, I'd like Survivor just for the...ummm...survival aspect of it. The gamemanship would bug me, I'd just want to see if I could survive a month on a tropical island with no supplies.

[nbbmom.livejournal.com]

There's no button for "NO way in fucking hell...ever ever ever"

So I opted for choice #4. LOL.

I had a boyfriend once back in early '96 who I had known years prior and we had sorta hooked up after having lost touch for years and he thought we should go on Jenny Jones or some such shit and I was like NO WAY. We lasted less than 2 months. LOL.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Well, you already have your 15 minutes of fame. Or, rather, 4 hours a day ;)

Sheesh, the only thing worse than reality shows is shock TV.

[beckmermaid.livejournal.com]

My husband was in a reality show for the BBC a few years ago. He said it was an OK experience, and being that it was before reality shows really got started, it wasn't all that trashy. He worked a cruise ship with an up and coming English pop star- he was the head DJ and MC's all the shows there and the BBC taped their lives, the drama of living on a cruise ship, etc.. Anyhow, they're funny to watch now, and he even gets recognized from it sometimes, but he's not so sure he'd do it again- it wasn't fun to see his dirty laundry aired all over England and Australia... He's in the IMDB (www.imdb.com) under Scotty O'Brien (his longtime DJ name).

I'd be wary of a fox show for sure...

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

That almost sounds like a documentary, which would be kinda cool. It's the "game" aspect of these reality shows that would annoy me.

[warwick.livejournal.com]

Heh... this popped up on Fark last week. The Fox execs were reading the responses from Farkers about their divorces.

Smart guys, managed to bite down on the two guys who were making things up.

"I'm 31, my wife won everything in our divorce settlement, 2 million in cash, my Porsche, my Yacht, even the mansion."

Guy got an email from Fox asking him for more information.

Fox Reality TV! Made by stupid people, for stupid people!

(y'know, I'm going to use that in a strip... {grin})

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

That's definitely the same show. The guy said that they were looking for good divorce stories (and this is Fox, so good=juicy) and the ones that had the best stories had a good shot at being asked to play.