reality blurred + archives + September 21 to September 27, 2008

week of September 21, 2008

Live blogging the (reality TV) Emmys
8:01 / After a flat opening clip segment, with celebrities saying famous lines, Oprah comes out to open the show. Where the hell are the...

Jessica "Sugar" Kiper: "I'd rather be the innocent pin-up than someone who gets paid to" act
Jessica "Sugar" Kiper is yet another Survivor Gabon cast member who plans to lie about her identity, but more than anyone else, she may be...
Dancing with the Stars 7 debuts tonight; two teams will be eliminated this week
Dancing with the Stars 7 starts its there-episode (!) debut week tonight, and by next Monday's episode, two pairs will have been eliminated. First, there's...
Bravo orders fifth season of My Life on the D-List
Kathy Griffin's two-time Emmy winning Bravo series My Life on the D-List has been renewed for a fifth season. The renewal comes as "[r]eports said...
Jeff Probst wins first-ever reality host Emmy; Amazing Race wins sixth consecutive Emmy
At the 60th Emmys last night, Survivor host Jeff Probst was named the first-ever outstanding reality show host, while The Amazing Race won its sixth...
CBS will air Big Brother 11 next summer, is now casting "articulate, interesting" people
CBS has renewed Big Brother for an eleventh season, but it has abandoned its poorly conceived spring season, and will air the next season in...

Dan watched past Big Brothers to prepare
Big Brother 10 winner Dan Gheesling was not only a fan of the show (he started watching as a high school sophomore) but he re-watched...
Gillian Larson: "I don't want to be the overwhelming mother"
At 61, Gillian Larson is Survivor Gabon's oldest contestant. But she had more energy and enthusiasm than anyone else. Gillian was so excited about everything...
Emmys have lowest ratings ever
Sunday night's reality TV-heavy Emmy telecast was the lowest-rated in history among people ages 18 to 49, and perhaps also the lowest ever among all...
Cloris Leachman's antics lead the comedy and drama on Dancing with the Stars 7's debut
It is now your mission to vote every Monday night (and tonight) for Cloris Leachman, because she absolutely must remain on Dancing with the Stars...
Jeff Probst used to date Kristin Chenoweth, was filmed shirtless by Ryan Seacrest
The stars of two of the best television shows on the air used to date, but are not dating now. Kristin Chenoweth, who stars on...
Project Runway 6 began production with guest judge Lindsay Lohan
The new Lifetime, non-Magical Elves, Los Angeles-set Project Runway 6 began production last Thursday. Last Thursday, Seal told Us Weekly that Heidi Klum "is filming...
Clay Aiken (finally) admits he's gay
Clay Aiken revealed the most unshocking news ever today: He's gay. He's coming out on the cover of People magazine, which according to the AP...

Corinne Kaplan: "I just want the money"
Corinne Kaplan is smart, articulate, occasionally funny, and unapologetically awful. When we talked, she was pretty much already angry at everything: Africa (she said it...
Jeffrey Ross out of Dancing with the Stars, which tries to restrain Cloris Leachman
The first celebrity to be eliminated from Dancing with the Stars 7 was comedian Jeffrey Ross, which was pretty much unsurprising, since he had the...
Clay Aiken says he "never intended to lie" about being gay; Claymates react
Clay Aiken said that coming out publicly "was the first decision I made as a father. I cannot raise a child to lie or to...

Michelle Chase: "I kind of want to be seen as a mousy, skinny girl who isn't very strong"
Michelle Chase is many things: a boxer, a DJ, a music producer, and a charity founder. She was the last person I talked to that...
Ted McGinley leaves Dancing; even its judges don't understand elimination show order
At the end of its fifth hour of the week, Dancing with the Stars 7 eliminated its second celebrity: Ted McGinley. In part because it...
Survivor Gabon debuts tonight
Survivor's first-ever HD season debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET with the show's first-ever two-hour premiere, although they are two back-to-back episodes, so not really...
Charlie was "in pretty close contact" with Clay Aiken
Newly out American Idol 2 runner-up Clay Aiken was friends online with Charlie Herschel, a cast member on Survivor Gabon. Charlie said that Clay was...
Erik and Jaime issue a press release about their "low-key love story"
Survivor China cast members Jaime Dugan and Erik Huffman, who are now engaged to be married, have issued a press release to brag that they...
Dancing with the Stars 7 wins its nights but loses millions of viewers over three episodes
The first week of Dancing with the Stars 7 saw the second-most popular reality show in the country debut strong but then lost millions of...

The Amazing Race 13 debuts Sunday
On Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, 11 new teams will start traveling 30,000 miles over 23 days on The Amazing Race 13. The the non-stop...
Clay Aiken first came out during American Idol, now wants people to "hush"
Almost exactly two years after appearing on Good Morning America to refuse to discuss his sexual orientation, Clay Aiken was interviewed by Diane Sawyer again...
Behind the scenes of Survivor Gabon's first episode
Watching the first episode of Survivor Gabon was weirder than I expected. In part that's because watching three long days play out in 44 minutes...
NBC wins preliminary injunction, keeping Project Runway from moving to Lifetime
One week and one day after Project Runway 6 started production, a judge granted NBC Universal, Bravo's parent company, a preliminary injunction that prevents the...