reality blurred + archives + September 17 to September 23, 2006

week of September 17, 2006

Jay McCarroll's "edgy" Transport collection debuts at Fashion Week
On Friday, a few hours after the Project Runway 3 fashion show, the show's prize-rejecting first season winner Jay McCarroll presented his first post-show collection...
MTV paid $2.7 million in cash for Real World Denver house
The billiards hall that became The Real World Denver house was sold to MTV last March for $2.7 million in cash, The Rocky Mountain News...
CBS' Supernova group releases its first two singles under its new name, Rock Star: Supernova
After being ordered by a court to change its name, the new group that found its lead singer on CBS' Rock Star: Supernova has decided...
MTV launches virtual Laguna Beach online
MTV is creating an online, virtual version of Laguna Beach which will allow viewers "to inhabit characters from 'Laguna Beach,' making choices and living out...
Phil eliminates a team at a random, surprising moment
After two disappointing seasons in a row--the family edition, and the one with the annoying, constantly victorious teams of young white guys--I wasn't expecting much...

A&E airs special about Dog's arrest tonight
A&E will come to its stars defense tonight when it airs a special episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter titled "The Family Speaks" at 10...
Boogie defends his comments and says he was "just entertaining people"
It's been about one week since Mike "Boogie" Malin won Big Brother 7, and in Big Brother time, that means we should have completely forgotten...
Clay Aiken's A Thousand Different Ways released today
American Idol 2 runner-up Clay Aiken's second album, A Thousand Different Ways, is in stores today, continuing the streak of fall Idol-related releases. The album...
Rhonda Britten: "I never received a call from NBC or Bunim-Murray regarding its fate"
Rhonda Britten, one of the life coaches on Starting Over, says that she never heard from NBC or Bunim-Murray about the show's cancellation. In other...

Amazing Race comes in third place in its new Sunday timeslot
CBS keeps moving The Amazing Race, and it's just not helping. The show placed third in its new Sunday night timeslot, beaten by both Extreme...
The Biggest Loser 3 debuts tonight on NBC; Matt and Suzy get married
The third season of The Biggest Loser debuts tonight on NBC at 8 p.m. ET. The two-hour debut will introduce the show's new trainer, Kim,...
America's Next Top Model 6 debuts tonight and launches the CW network
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the new CW network launches with the debut of America's Next Top Model 7, on which 13 models will compete...
Gold Rush's first round ends; Kathy Griffin is blogging for the show
AOL and Mark Burnett's interactive online reality series game Gold Rush has concluded its first round. Evan Stern won $100,000, and will compete for the...
Clay Aiken says he's on Paxil for panic attacks
Diane Sawyer's three-part interview with Clay Aiken aired its second installment on Good Morning America today. Yesterday's part was basically substanceless, except for Clay joking...

A&E's special on Dog's arrest ties Dog's wedding special for the highest-rated show on the network
Tuesday's A&E special on Dog the Bounty Hunter's arrest was watched by 4.5 million people. That was the same number of viewers that watched A&E's...
Sekou wasn't familiar with Survivor before CBS called to recruit him
The first person to be voted off Survivor Cook Islands, Sekou Bunch, says that when he was recruited for the show, "he initially only viewed...
Gilby Clarke says he couldn't decide between Lukas and Dilana "until the very end"
Rock Star: Supernova band member Gilby Clarke says the selection of Lukas Rossi on Rock Star: Supernova was not a foregone conclusion, even though a...
Three 6 Mafia will star in MTV reality series Adventures in Hollyhood
MTV has ordered a reality show that will follow the Three Six Mafia. Adventures in Hollyhood follows the group "as they endeavor to become Hollywood...
Clay Aiken says "it doesn't make any sense" for him to say he's gay
Update: Clay Aiken came out as gay in Sept. 2008. In the final part of his Good Morning America interview, Clay Aiken addressed rumors about...

Omarosa says new Survivor is a "bogus social experiment" and "Mark Burnett is playing the race card"
For the debut of Survivor Cook Islands, the St. Petersburg Times' Eric Deggans convened a diverse panel of reality TV alumni, and perhaps not unsurprisingly,...
Good Morning America surrounds Clay's interview segments with gay stories
By not pressing Clay Aiken to answer her questions with any sort of specificity, Diane Sawyer may have provided more evidence for those who think...
Top Mode 7's debut watched by 5.26 million viewers; Biggest Loser has "respectable" debut
The CW can relax: Despite launching on a new network and, in many places, a new channel, America's Next Top Model 7 debuted with strong...
David Bromstad's HGTV series may be "a color show"
Today, HGTV's Design Star winner David Bromstad begins filming the four-episode series that will follow him as he works to develop the prize he won:...
Billy falls in love with Candice at a Survivor Cook Islands challenge
Billy was voted off Survivor Cook Islands last night after his tribe threw the challenge just to get rid of him. But he told Jeff...
Feast debuts in select theatres tonight for a two-night run
The Project Greenlight 3 film is finally here. Yes, Feast will officially be released in theatres tonight, although in (very) limited release. It will then...