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

[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.

:)