reality blurred + archives + September 30 to October 6, 2007

Sunday, Sep. 30, 2007

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition returns; "[desperate] and deserving" families are chosen
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition returns tonight on ABC for its fifth season. The show will reach its 100th episode with a Minnesota-set episode in November,...

Mark Cuban says Dancing with the Stars is "a weird, humbling experience"
Dancing with the Stars 5 contender Mark Cuban, who came in second-to-last with his partner Kym Johnson last week, is writing online about his experience...
Paula Abdul refused to do more Hey Paula, which she says was "disturbing"; wants a child
Paula Abdul says her Bravo reality series "was hard for me to watch. Disturbing," she tells USA TODAY. As a result, she would not agree...
Top Chef 4 currently shooting (and re-shooting) in Chicago
As Top Chef 3 gets ready to conclude with its live finale from Chicago this Wednesday, the new season is apparently filming in its new...
Tim Gunn: "You're going to get angry at the judges" on Project Runway 4
Tim Gunn's professorial yet bitchy honesty is a large part of why we love him, and in advance of the Nov. 14 premiere of Project...

Queer Eye starts its fifth and final season tonight
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the show eventually rebranded as Queer Eye, begins its last season tonight at 10 p.m. ET. It will round...
Jane Seymour's future on Dancing with the Stars "unclear" after her mother's death
Jane Seymour, a contestant on Dancing with the Stars 5, will miss tonight's live results show because her 92-year-old mother died. As to her future...

Top Chef 3 concludes live tonight, followed by Bravo's debut of Better Half
Bravo's Top Chef 3 concludes tonight with a live finale from Chicago, the setting for the fourth season, which recently started production. Three actually talented...
Rock of Love finale is VH1s second-highest rated 18-49 show; Heather blames editing
Rock of Love's Sunday finale on VH1 gave the network its second-highest rated show ever among people ages 18 to 49. A total of 5.4...
Survivor China is the ninth-most expensive show on television
The media likes to dwell on Survivor's dwindling ratings, and while ratings have dropped every season, it remains particularly strong. Survivor China is the ninth-most...
Jonny Fairplay body-slammed by Danny Bonaduce at Fox Reality awards
Survivor's Jon "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton was hospitalized after being slammed to the stage by Breaking Bonaduce's Danny Bonaduce during the taping of last night's Fox...
Ashley Parker Angel: "I think I'm done" with reality TV
One of the cast members of the first broadcast TV reality series, Making the Band, says he's finished with reality television. Ashley Parker Angel, who...
Jai Rodriguez gets plastic surgery from Will Kirby to have Mario Lopez's lips
Days after the first episode of the final season of his show aired, Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez is on E!'s Dr. 90210 to visit Will...

Athletes compete in tribal competitions on Discovery's Last One Standing tonight
Six athletes train with and then compete against tribal warriors in the Discovery Channel's new reality series Last One Standing, which debuts tonight at 9...
Jordin Sparks still writing, recording songs for her Nov. 20 debut
American Idol's sixth winner is still writing and recording songs for her new album, even though it will be released in about six weeks. "It's...
Footage shows Jon Dalton jumping on Bonaduce; Fairplay files police report
Jon Dalton "filed a police report Wednesday, alleging" battery by Danny Bonaduce at the Fox Reality Channel awards Tuesday night, the AP reports, despite the...
Hung wins Top Chef 3 with sous chef Rocco DiSpirito's help
After a 75-minute, partially live finale, Hung Huynh won $100,000 and became the third Top Chef. If Bravo's unscientific poll during the episode is any...

Fairplay was drunk, flirting with prostitutes backstage at Fox Reality awards
A Bunny Ranch brothel worker and HBO Cathouse star says that Jonny Fairplay was drunk and hitting on women backstage before Danny Bonaduce flipped him...
Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin are "absolutely crucial to [VH1's] success"
It's rare that two producers define a network's personality, but that's basically what Cris Abrego and Mark Cronin have done with VH1. The producing pair,...
Lou Pearlman requested sex from Making the Band O-Town hopeful
Since producing and starring in the first network reality show, Making the Band, Lou Pearlman has fallen hard. The manager of 'NSync and the Backstreet...
3 million people watched Top Chef 3 finale, down from last season's finale
Wednesday's live finale of Top Chef 3 was watched by "3.079 million total viewers and 2.187 million adults 18-49," which left the show "the No....
Jes reportedly dumps Bret Michaels; will he now star in Rock of Love 2?
We expect even less in terms of true love from VH1's ridiculous dating reality series than we do from, say, The Bachelor, so it's no...