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Surreal Life 5 season ends but the insanity lives on via the new DVD

The fifth and perhaps most simultaneously confrontational and touching season of The Surreal Life ended yesterday, and it delivered what we’ve come to expect from this series. We had Omarosa calling Janice a “crack head,” Janice egging Omarosa on and then flipping out when she took the bait, Bronson crying, Jose showing us yet another …

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Janice and Omarosa threaten each other’s weaves; Omarosa calls Janice “a high-society crackhead”

On Sunday, we finally saw the long-awaited confrontation between Surreal Life 5 cast members and larger-than-life reality TV personas Omarosa and Janice Dickinson. Alas, VH1 is milking this for all it’s worth, spreading out the fight over two episodes, so we’ll have to wait until next week to see the outcome. But part one was …

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Janice Dickinson says she was fired from Top Model, explains why she’s not promoting The Surreal Life

In an interview with Radar, Janice Dickinson clarifies her earlier remarks that she quit America’s Next Top Model over a dispute about money. Previously, she told the New York Times, “I think I was asking for too much.” In this new interview, she confirms that she didn’t really quit, as was reported. Instead, she says, …

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Janice quit Top Model over money; Surreal Life creator didn’t think Janice and Omarosa “would really so completely hate each other”

The reality TV cat fight of the century is underway on The Surreal Life 5, where Janice Dickinson and Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth are butting heads. The co-creator of the show, Mark Cronin, tells The New York Times that producers “didn’t anticipate […] that they would really so completely hate each other.” Why did Janice agree to …

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