Posted Aug 27th 2008 2:03PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
This Wednesday let's do another picture book fairy tale. I'm learning a lot from
I Love Money. How about you? After the jump, I have a piece I call "12 Pack's Destruction, A Tale of Hubris." I'm not a betting woman, but I don't think anyone on
ILM knows what the term "hubris" means.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: 12 Pack's Destruction, A Tale of Hubris
Posted Aug 20th 2008 12:03PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
Today we'll talk about Rodeo who got eliminated from
I Love Money this past Sunday. The name. The guns. The bandanas she customized with a Bedazzler. The barbeque sauce.
I'm sad she got kicked off. She certainly could have used that money for some psychiatric evaluations. Let's talk about her demise after the jump. I'm doing another picture book.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: The Demise of Rodeo
Posted Aug 13th 2008 12:02PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
Today I have some life lessons from celebreality. You readers know how grateful I am to VH1 for the many cautionary tales and moral exemplars it has provided me. I'll give you a few things I learned from
I Love Money and
New York Goes to Hollywood after the jump.
(And by the way, I think
I Want To Work for Diddy might be the sleeper hit of the summer. I included some life lessons from that show, too.)
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: More life lessons from celebreality
Posted Aug 4th 2008 1:01PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Video, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

"You need a therapist, not an assistant." -- Prospective assistant to Tiffany "New York" Pollard
Truer words were never spoken. VH1 has posted a
sneak peek of their new show New York Goes to Hollywood. The show, which premieres tonight at 10 PM, will follow VH1's reality queen on her journey to become a serious actress. In the series premiere New York hires an assistant, does a bootcamp workout, gets a clip reel together, and performs at a small theatre in front of high-powered managers.
By "high-powered," I mean managers who are friends with executive producers Cris Abrego and Mark Kronin.
Or by "high-powered," I mean people VH1 hired to sit in the audience, watch New York perform, and pretend to be managers.
I think the best part is getting to see her read a monologue. She a maid who just wants to catch her 6:30 bus home and not go outside and pick up dog doodoo.
The video is after the jump.
Continue reading VH1 has a sneak peek of New York Goes to Hollywood - VIDEO
Posted Jul 30th 2008 12:23PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

Welcome to
Super Skank Wednesday. This is where I celebrate the awesomely skanky people on the following shows:
I Love Money,
Charm School,
New York Goes to Hollywood, and
The Surreal Life. Basically, I'll discuss the skankalicious shows that make
VH1 the network it is today.
After Sunday night's episode, I am reminded of the classic line from Steinbeck's novel, "The best laid plans of mice and men are often effed up by blondes with huge fake boobs and nasal voices." Or something like that. Or maybe it was from the Robert Burns' poem. But enough of this talk about low brow things like famous novels or poems. Let's get to
I Love Money.
Continue reading Super Skank Wednesday: 12 Pack's master plan, a quaint children's tale
Posted Jul 8th 2008 10:42AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday, Celebreality

What do you do if you're dad is a wrestling icon, your mom is a cougar dating a man the same age as you, and
your little brother is in jail for reckless driving? You get
your own reality show, of course. And who's reality is more messed up than Brooke Hogan's right now? She's surprisingly the most normal of that bunch.
Her new show,
Brooke Knows Best, premieres this Sunday July 13th at 10 p.m. ET / PT. That's right after
I Love Money!
I've got a sneak peek at the first episode after the jump...
Continue reading Brooke Knows Best ... not Hulkster - VIDEO
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 8:05PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday

Fans of skanktastic television will love this news. Kim Kardashian and her ass, both stars of E!'s
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, are
launching a line of perfume. She announced this news on her blog, which, by the way, is one of my favorite blogs. It's wonderfully delusional and self-congratulatory.
I'll indulge you in a sample, "It has always been a dream of mine to start my own perfume business, since I love to mix fragrances together and come up with new and different scents! I hope you understand my
total excitement as I let
you, the readers of my blog, become
the first to know that I am creating my own fragrance!!!" I love the emboldened words and gratuitous use of exclamation points.
Continue reading Try to keep up ... Kim Kardashian is launching a perfume line
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 10:23AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Super Skank Wednesday

VH1 diva Tiffany "New York" Pollard is back this summer for another chapter in her celebreality life.
New York Goes to Hollywood premieres in August and will follow your favorite H.B.I.C. as she leaves Tailor-Made behind and tries to make it in Tinsel Town.
To rev up for the new show, VH1 put together a
set of promos that have New York acting as classic Hollywood characters. She plays Dorothy from
Wizard of Oz: "Toto, where the f*ck are we?" She plays Marilyn Monroe in that classic scene where the blonde starlet walks over the sidewalk grate. However, New York uses the breeze from the passing subway car to dry her nails and her nether regions. Whatever works, right? Finally, New York plays Forrest Gump and imparts some wisdom about life and chocolates.
The videos are after the jump. All three are stupid and unfunny. And all three prove the New York's new show is going to be a blast. Check it out and let me know what you think.
New York Goes to Hollywood premieres August 4th at 9 p.m. ET on VH1.
Continue reading It's lights, camera, New York this summer - VIDEO
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