Category: "Reality TV"
Run's House Returns For Fourth Season
Tags: Angela Simmons, Rev Run
How excited are we that Run's House is coming back for the fourth season this week? Hip hop's first family will be bringing their antics back to our television screens and here's a preview to whet your appetites:
If you can't wait to see the premiere, MTV has you covered with the complete fist episode of the season online. But if you'd rather watch it on the high-def plasma, then the show airs Thursday, October 25th at 10 PM EST/PST.
VH1 Looking For The Next Great Female MC
VH1 may be home to the trainwreck that is Flavor of Love, but they also keep some decent hip hop flavored programming in heavy rotation. The channel that brought us Hip Hop Honors and the White Rapper Show is now casting for its next series and looking to crown a female MC in the reality competition.
The as-yet-untitled show is searching for femcees from around the country who are nice on the mic. According to the casting notice, the "winner will earn substantial dollars, national exposure and, of course, respect in the hip-hop game." Well, that last prize remains to be seen if it will come to fruition, but applicants should send their name, age, e-mail address and website to rapper@vh1staff.com to see if they got what it takes.
Can't wait until the show bows to hear some females spit that hot fiyah? Then make your way to the Can A Sista Rock A Mic? music festival this week in Washington, DC from August 8-12. The grand opening features a LadyBeatmaker competition and femcees including Georgia Anne Muldrow and Bahamadia rippin' the mic, and the grand finale features MC Lyte proving why she's one of the G.O.A.T.
Flavor of Love Reunion Special (Video)
Last night’s Flavor of Love 2 reunion was perhaps the lowest point in television history since the first FOL reunion show earlier this year. Thank goodness we have a VIBE medical plan, because it seems as if just watching a video of these women in action is enough to get an eye infection.
Here are a few questions to ponder while you watch:
Why are girls like Saaphyri, who never even met New York on the show, trying to get in on the fight?
Is Deelishis angry at New York for the comments she made about D’s family or because VH1 is giving New York her own show, making her the real winner of this competition?
Isn’t it funny how La La got up to leave as soon as Deelishis began walking over? We bet the future Mrs. Carmelo Anthony also tucked in her diamond ring before she even stepped into the studio with those women.
Bad Taste: Flavor Of Love 2 Report
Tags: Flavor of Love 2
The hot mess that is Flavor of Love 2 continues to bitch slap our sensibilities. In this week's stunning (sarcasm) elimination ceremony, Flavor Flav kicked two broads to the curb and a third left on her own accord when he decided to add last year's first loser New York back in the mix.
Nibblz bit the dust because of her nekkid activities on the net, which unlike other contestants she never kept a secret. Never mind that she looked skanky 25/8 and sounded like the female Mike Tyson with her lisp, which is never a good look.
Also getting a bus pass home was the quiet cutie Beautiful, who was a little too laid back for Flav. It probably didn't help that she had a cold sore outbreak while on the show. A round of Abreva for everyone! VC just finds it amusing that she has lips all over her MySpace page given her little affliction.
Then if the double elimination wasn't enough, Flav decided to give last year's drag drama queen New York another chance after she came on this season to help him to weed chicks out, much like Brigitte Nielsen did last season for her beloved Foofy Foo. Old feelings were rekindled between Flav and New York, and he decided to dust off her clock and hang it around her neck.
Resident wigger Buckwild wasn't having it. She bumrushed Flavor and handed her clock to him, refusing to continue. She was on probation, you see, and not trying to catch a charge if something went down with New York. Oddly enough when she was expressing her displeasure to Flav her accent went from hood to suburb faster than you could say "fake". It was no surprise to learn that her real name was revealed to be Becky because she truly sounded like one once her black act was over.
Who Hustled Who?
"Don't be mad, UPS is hiring."
Craig Mack, "Flava in Ya Ear" Remix
Since we're talking about BET reality show has been's (or never were's as the case may be), what ever happened to the Ultimate Hustler, Brian R.?
Fatty Who?
The surprising success of Danity Kane has VC thinking about another reality show group:
What ever happened to these guys?
Michelle Williams Does Celebrity Duets
Beyonce and Kelly Rowland's backup singer Michelle Williams stepped to the forefront last night as one of the celebrity singers paired up with a non-singing celebrity on last night's premier of Celebrity Duets on Fox. She sang duets with Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air fame and Jai Rodriguez from Queer Eye who was acting rather no homo last night.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Reality Bites
Tags: Flavor of Love 2
It's gonna be on and poppin' on the next season of Survivor. Looking to shake things up and add some much-needed diversity to the cast, the tribes will be divided along black, white, Latino, and Asian racial lines when it lands on the Cook Isands in the South Pacific.
This should be interesting. Not as interesting if Survivor were set in the ghetto, and contestants had to dodge bullets, avoid the po-po, and make a dollar out of fifteen cents, but it should make for some good TV and watercooler conversations.
Dividing the tribes up by race is fine and all, but VC would like to see a Black celebrity edition of Survivor one day. Can't you see Jay-Z , Beyonce, 50 Cent, and Kobe Bryant in one tribe with R. Kelly, Letoya Luckett, Vivica Fox and Shaquille O'Neal in another? Then again, there may not be any survivors on that island once it's all over.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Black Folks Plan Reality TV Takeover!
Tags: Fantasia, Jennifer Lopez
Wayne Brady is set to host Celebrity Duets, son! The new Fox reality show will pair up professional singers with non-singing celebs. Chaka Khan (Chaka Khan), Patti LaBelle, Brian McKnight, Macy Gray, and Carlton Banks Alfonso Ribeiro are all on tap to flex their vocal skills. VC just wonders if Wayne Brady will have to choke a bitch.
Although her UPN series South Beach flopped, Jennifer Lopez will try her hand at scripted television again. La Lopez is producing a comedy for F/X centered around L.A.'s diverse Echo Park 'hood. Mrs. Marc Anthony is also still busy fending off husband numero uno from publishing his book The Unknown Truth: A Passionate Portrait of a Serial Thriller, which details their spicy relationship. But aint it funny how all this would go away if Jenny from the block simply forked over a cool $5 million to pay her ex not to spill the arroz con pollo? Talk about hush money.
American Idol hopefuls are auditioning across the country as we speak, but season 3 winner Fantasia is the Idol all eyes are once again. Her TV biopic, The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale, hits the air this Saturday on Lifetime with Fantasia playing herself . We all know that Fanny can sing and slob Jamie Foxx down, but can she act?
Hush, Hush, Pass: Dance Mania!
Dancing is the new pink. Everywhere you turn someone is busting a move:
Step Up may not have taken the number one spot from Talladega Nights, but it made an impressive $21 million at this weekend's box office considering it's the 389th dance movie to come out in five years. At least all that dirty dancing paid off for the lead stars Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan who are now dating. VC hasn't seen the movie yet, but if the hot like fire soundtrack is any indication then this movie is a must see. (No bootleg.)
Yesterday the next round of has beens celebrities were announced who will be competing in the third season of ABC's reality hit Dancing with the Stars. Among the competitors are Mario Lopez from Saved by the Bell fame, former child star Joe (you'll always be Joey to us) Lawrence who was most recently seen on the UPN sitcom Half & Half, freak talk show host Jerry Springer, former Dallas Cowboy Emmett Smith who will be this year's jock to watch taking the reins from last season's standout competitor Jerry Rice, and 50's old jumpoff actress Vivica A. Fox. We all know that Viv can pop her coochie as seen on stage with Lil Jon at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, but can this Fox do a Fox Trot? VC just prays that Vivica doesn't have any wardrobe malfunctions.
The season finale of So You Think You Can Dance? airs on Fox Wednesday night. Musical guests include Ciara who is sure to one, two, step her way through her single "Get Up," and the first lady of the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie who will sing her number one stunna "London Bridge." Oh snap!
