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

[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.