Real Stupid

[wheeler]

One of the advantages of being in North America is that I have increased access to terrible, terrible reality shows. Take, for example, True Beauty, which is as shallow as they come, but offers up a transparent self-justifying twist in a bid for credibility

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[andyyyyyy]

True Beauty sounds remarkably similar to Vanity Lair which was a Channel 4/T4 thing shown on Saturdays and Sundays aimed at the youth market. I only caught a couple of episodes. 10 self-professed 'beautiful people' living in a mansion undergoing tests to see who was most beautiful etc although in that, the numbers never dwindled as there were weekly 'replacements' as the lairmates had to pick one of three people to bring into the lair each week and that person had to pick the person they would replace. It really was the most amazingly shallow thing I ever saw. I think I died a little inside when I saw it.

And Ryan Seacrest isn't gay he's 'the poster boy for metrosexuality' (his words, not mine). I swear the world invented 'metrosexuality' as a closet-extension for people who people who won't come out but who don't want to pretend to be straight. That would be the mormons then...

[wheeler]

Ah, I remember that one, and there are some similarities except that I don't think Vanity Lair had a twist, did it? Or any nuance at all, really.

[andyyyyyy]

Well...no, you're right. The only 'twist' is that the incoming housemate has to choose one of the existing housemates to get rid of, having spent all week trying to woo them all enough to get themselves voted in. But really, that's not much of a twist at all. I think I prefer the Russell T Davies 'reality TV show' twist where losers are actually eliminated. Would make it much more entertaining (although difficult to get past the censors, I'd imagine).