reality blurred + archives + April 22 to April 28, 2007

Monday, Apr. 23, 2007

NBC debuts Ashton Kutcher's The Real Wedding Crashers tonight
Another reality show baits people to sue it for intentional infliction of emotional distress when NBC debuts The Real Wedding Crashers tonight at 10 p.m....
Men arrested for stealing Road Rules skull
The cow skull on the front of the Road Rules RV was stolen and not recovered this weekend, although police arrested three men for the...
Stefani hired as Trump's sixth Apprentice
Stefani Schaeffer, who never served as a project manager on The Apprentice 6, was hired by Donald Trump during the life finale, becoming his second...
Teams melt down but suffer few consequences on The Amazing Race 11
On this, the third-to-last episode of The Amazing Race, the four remaining teams had various meltdowns: Danny and Oswald couldn't find the waterfront or the...
Parents are "incensed" and feel "lied to" because school let teacher do The Bachelor
Amber Alchalabi is one of the women on The Bachelor 10, and she's also an elementary school teacher who left her job to go on...
Sanjaya has security, paparazzi, an entourage, and no idea "how to conduct himself in public"
One day after Sanjaya! and his "huge entourage" visited FOX, as Defamer reported, everyone's favorite American Idol 6 loser, he attended the White House Correspondents'...

Samantha Harris reveals Dancing with the Stars scores early
I recently started regularly watching Dancing with the Stars after seeing this impossible-to-transcribe gem on Best Week Ever: The show's host Tom Bergeron is kind...
Apprentice 6 ratings improve for its finale
Sunday's finale of The Apprentice 6 was watched by an average of 7.9 million people. That represents "an increase of about 2 million in the...
Project Runway 4 auditions "found the most phenomenal designers," Tim Gunn says
Despite a report that Project Runway 4 was having a hard time finding designers, mentor Tim Gunn says the show found enough designers for three...
Idol exec: "some people don't want to spend two hours watching poverty and people suffering"
When Idol Gives Back, American Idol 6's two-night for-charity event, begins tonight, viewers won't have to worry about being sad or missing out on karaoke....

Amazing Race 6's Hayden and Aaron get married; were engaged on the mat
Hayden and Aaron, a team on The Amazing Race 6, got married over the weekend. Jon and Kris, who came in second that season, attended...
Heather Mills leaves Dancing with the Stars, skips Jimmy Kimmel appearance
Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Paul McCartney, has been eliminated from Dancing with the Stars 4. It was not a surprise to Heather, as she...
MySpace show Independent will award $1 million to potential political candidate
Mark Burnett is teaming with MySpace "to find contestants for a proposed TV show focused on politics that would air early next year as the...
Carrie Fisher, Brett Ratner, and Garry Marshall will judge On the Lot's first round
FOX's summer Mark Burnett and Steven Spielberg reality competition series On the Lot has announced its first-round judges. The judges are actor and writer Carrie...
American Idol gives back $5 million of its $2.5 billion
Last night's special episode of American Idol 6 was pre-taped, not live, as Access Hollywood revealed. That change in schedule apparently caught Ryan Seacrest off-guard,...
Idol Gives Back performance show may be Idol's lowest-rated Tuesday episode this season
Tuesday's Idol Gives Back episode of American Idol, which was essentially just a regular performance episode, was watched by 25.7 million viewers. That's "likely its...

Casting notice posted for I Love New York 2
When Tango dumped New York on the I Love New York reunion, he made a second season of the show possible. Now, a casting notice...
No one eliminated as Idol opts for cruelty, deception after a world-record 70 million votes
At the start of last night's special two-hour episode of American Idol, Idol Gives Back, after flubbing his cold open and redoing it, Ryan Seacrest...
Simon misses Sanjaya, who is "the straight guy that understood" women and whose mom was jailed for pot
It's time for another Sanjaya! news round-up. With even lower ratings now that Sanjaya is gone, even Simon Cowell misses Sanjaya, which might explain why...
Real Housewives Tammy's ex-husband Lou dies
A cast member of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Louis L. Knickerbocker, "died Tuesday morning after a heart attack, said friend and show creator...
Idol raises $60+ million; sponsors quiet about donations; celebs backed out, were cut
After last night's Idol Gives Back finale/telethon, there were two lingering questions: How much money, exactly, did the show raise from viewers and its sponsors,...