reality blurred + archives + October 10 to October 16, 2010

week of October 10, 2010

This week: Survivor mixes up the fetuses and fogies, another Real Housewives debuts
As both fall and fall series ramp up, some summer cable reality shows are ending this week. The Past: last week's most-read stories Real World's...
Pete Bethune says Sea Shepherd let Ady Gil sink for publicity
Pete Bethune, the captain of the Ady Gil, the ship that sank after a collision with a Japanese whaling vessel, now says that the ship...

Dancing with the Stars, E! star Aaron Carter now unrecognizable
Dancing with the Stars 9 fifth place cast member Aaron Carter, who also starred in E!'s House of Carters, a train wreck of a show,...
Kim Kardashian blames cameras' presence for incident with drunk woman
A woman threw a drink on Kim Kardashian during filming of her new spin-off E! reality series, Kim and Kourtney Take New York, late last...
Amazing Race teams fail to follow directions for the easiest tasks ever
The Amazing Race 17 lived up to the adjective in its name not because of the race or its elements, but on the strength (of...
Armless pianist wins China's Got Talent
The first winner of China's Got Talent is a 23-year-old pianist who has no arms. Liu Wei beat a 7-year-old stand-up comic on Sunday. The...

American Idol producer working hard to convince us new judges don't suck
American Idol is working overtime to convince us that its new, Simon Cowell-less judging panel isn't going to be an unmitigated disaster. First came reports...
Win tickets to America's Got Talent's live tour
If you'd like to see Prince Poppycock, Fighting Gravity, Jackie Evancho, and that guy who won America's Got Talent all perform live, I'm giving away...
Carrie Prejean reportedly cast on Survivor
The 22nd season of Survivor may have at least one cast member who's even more well-known than returning cast members Russell Hantz and Rob Mariano:...
Celebrity Apprentice 4 cast names leak out
The Celebrity Apprentice 4 starts filming next week, and several cast members' names have been leaked to various publications. They include La Toya Jackson, Star...
Project Runway's Heidi Klum and Chris March get their own reality shows
A former Project Runway cast member, Chris March, and the show's host, Heidi Klum, are both getting their own reality shows. Heidi will host a...
Kimbo Slice reported to be on Survivor, but he was on Twitter throughout production
MMA fighter and The Ultimate Fighter: The Heavyweights cast member Kimbo Slice, aka Kevin Ferguson, is reportedly a cast member on Survivor's 22nd season, joining...

30 extra inches of stage can't save The Situation on DWTS
Jersey Shore star Michael Sorrentino, aka The Situation, was voted out of Dancing with the Stars last night, because whatever fans he had voting for...
Paula Abdul's dance reality series changes its name, reveals its judges, host
Paula Abdul's reality TV comeback, a CBS dance competition, has changed its name and reveled its host and judges, who are not-exactly-household-names. While the series...
Survivor's Richard Hatch, Jose Canseco, Lil Jon will be on Celebrity Apprentice
More cast members for The Celebrity Apprentice 4 have been announced, and they include Survivor season one winner Richard Hatch and baseball player Jose Canseco....
Jessie Godderz will return to Big Brother, according to the most self-aggrandizing press release ever
Big Brother cast member Jessie Godderz issued a press release today to announce that he's been offered a development contract with TNA wrestling. At least,...

Survivor resets, replacing its bad ideas with a great spit-covered challenge, rooster madness
In the first 20 minutes of its fifth episode, Survivor Nicaragua recovered. It dumped its two failed twists, the tribe split by age and the...
Paranormal State returns after its star came out as bisexual
A&E Paranormal State, one of the roughly 215,933 ghost hunting reality series currently on cable, returns for its fifth season Sunday. The series follows the...
Sarah Palin's Alaska trailer focuses more on Sarah Palin than Alaska
A trailer for TLC's upcoming docudrama Sarah Palin's Alaska has been released, and focuses more on Sarah Palin and her family than Alaska. When the...
Remaining (reality star) Celebrity Apprentice cast members revealed
More cast members for The Celebrity Apprentice 4 have been revealed by various gossip web sites, and like the others who were revealed earlier this...

Skating with the Stars coming to ABC
ABC announced today that it is spinning off an ice skating version of Dancing with the Stars, which of course will be called Skating with...
Challenge host TJ Lavin in coma, critical condition
Pro BMX rider TJ Lavin, the host of MTV's Challenge series since its 11th season, is in critical condition and a medically induced coma after...

TJ Lavin unconscious again but "gave the docs a thumbs up"
Challenge host T.J. Lavin remains in a medically induced coma after a bike accident, but was able to respond to doctors this morning. ESPN reports...