The Surreal Life

A&E's Obsessed strikes a nerve It could also be devised in the manner of "real-life" shows like VH1's The Surreal Life, which featured D-list celebrities, former reality show contestants and as much alcohol as they could drink, or MTV's The Real World, particularly the Las Vegas ...

And, by all accounts, he's got a stable family. From a television standpoint, that last part, well, stinks. Will "Hammertime" be watched by as many people who tuned into "Rock of Love with Brett Michaels," "My Fair Brady," or "The Surreal Life?"

 Canada He cheerfully cohabitated with other one-hit wonders, including Vanilla Ice, for VH-1's The Surreal Life in 2003. His grounded wife Stephanie – they've been married 23 years – allowed reality cameras into their home for I Married … ...

 NY To emphasize Hammer's easy-going normalcy, the photo chosen to illustrate the brief review has MC Hammer chumming it up with Vanilla Ice. Both rappers have appeared on "The Surreal Life" for VH1. "Hammer Time" features the famous MC with his wife of 23 ...

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Broadcasting & Cable, NY TV Guide Network, which was acquired by Lionsgate in January, purchased the rights to VH1 programs such as The Surreal Life, Flavor of Love and My Fair Brady in 2007. That deal would expire in 2010, which is when Entourage would have become available ...

Vanilla Ice The Huntsville Times - al.com, AL He was in the reality series "The Surreal Life" in 2004 and "The Surreal Life Fame Game" in 2007. He dated Madonna in 1992. He's produced seven CDs and been on various soundtracks and appeared in the movies "Cool as Ice" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja ...

If this was the Old Testament a VH1 reality show family tree would look like this: The Surreal Life begat Strange Love: and Strange Love begat Flavor of Love: and Flavor of Love begat Charm School and I Love New York: and I Love New York begat A Real ...

 CA Known first as a member of one of rap's most politically minded groups, Flavor Flav has been remade into a friendly reality TV star, one who even gets roasted by Comedy Central. He went from VH1's "The Surreal Life" to MTV's "Flavor of Love" (rappers ...

 MT Shows ranging from "The Surreal Life" to "Celebrity Boxing" and "Hit Me Baby One More Time" have been Ice's platform to shine. He's been labeled a hothead after destroying a few sets on shows, but that's all part of the game, he said. "I'm a jackass. ...

 Ghana Adding to the action is the fact that Cheryl 'Salt' James Wray and Sandy 'Pepa' Denton are so different. Sandy's still a party girl and is up for anything. She appeared in The Surreal Life (Season 5) and was voted the most popular member of a cast that ...

By Rich Juzwiak VH1’s Charm School Gives Back is created and executive produced by Mark Cronin and Cris Abrego for 51 Minds Entertainment, LLC. an Endemol Company, who also produce the record-breaking series Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, I Love New York, The Surreal Life, For the Love of Ray J, I Love Money...

By Monika Bartyzel We've had everything from The Surreal Life to The Two Coreys, and now we're getting Confessions of a Teen Idol. Heard of it? The upcoming VH1 show has some completely unsurprising faces, including: Eric Nies (who is now a hippie-looking life coach!?), everyone's favorite No-Match-For-...

By It's Trent, Bitch! Over the weekend, Sharon Osbourne and the contestants of the VH1 reality TV show Rock of Love: Charm School convened here in SoCal to tape the reunion special for the show which is set to air next weekend. As some of you may be aware, Rock of Love: Charm School is a spin-off of the show Flavor of L...

By dorothyzbornak These two hooked up on The Surreal Life. That begat their weird spinoff, Strange Love. Brigitte dumped Flav, so he got his own shows, Flavor of Love 1,2 and 3. Flav dumped New York twice, and then she got her own shows, I Love New York 1 and 2 and New York Goes to Hollywood.

By Rich Juzwiak You may not know Mark Cronin and Cris Abrego, but if you’re reading this blog, you’re undoubtedly familiar with their work. They helped foster the nascent genre of celebreality in 2003 when they tossed a handful of sub-A-listers in a house and showed us what happened via The Surreal Life. Wh...

By Rich Juzwiak Below is your first close-up look at all 17 ladies who will compete for the hearts of Celebreality’s favorite brothers, Chance and Real, on their upcoming spin-off of a spin-off (I Love New York) of a spin-off (Flavor of Love) of a spin-off (Strange Love) of a spin-off (The Surreal Life), R...

By CB(noreply@blogger.com) Surreal is a beautiful word that has been hijacked by continuous flagrant misuse so that little apparently remains of the original meaning. In the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930) Andre Breton states that the surrealists strive to attain a "mental vantage-point (point de l'espri...

By Kathleen Even the most perfect TV family is not so perfect- in real life. Florence Henderson, who played Mrs. Brady, and Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady, are in a bit of a tiff. For those of you that aren't VH1 whores like me and my friends, Christopher Knight met "America's Next Top Model" wi...

 NY - “The Surreal Life” seemed like such a funny idea in 2003. Now it just seems obnoxious. And what’s “real” about a bunch of former TV stars learning how to ...

By Gilad In a recent interview with the NYDailyNews, Verne opened up about his days on his life on “The Surreal Life,” voice-overs, and most importantly about The Love Guru. Image with permission from SplashNewsOnline.] Tags: Mene-Me, Mike Myers, The Love Guru, Verne Troyer

You may remember him from VH1's hit shows "The Surreal Life 3" and "Strange Love," but just when you thought you heard your last "Yeah, Boyeee!" VH1 is hitting you with a third dose of the Public Enemy hype-man who made sporting big clock necklaces famous. Flavor Flav is back once again, this...

By editorial@zap2it.com I Love Money," if you're keeping track, is a fourth-generation derivation of a VH1 show: "The Surreal Life" begat "Flavor of Love," which both spun off "I Love New York" and set the template for "Rock of Love. ...

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Las Vegas Review - Journal MIKE WEATHERFORD: Plenty of magical moments on way Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Celebracadabra" on VH1 fuses the D-list celebrities of "The Surreal Life" with a magician's version of "The Apprentice" starting Sunday. ...

By Eric Deggans The odyssey started with Flav's debut as a housemate in the series that crammed dysfunctional celebrities in a house, The Surreal Life. It progressed to his goof of a "romance" with Brigitte Nielsen in Strange Love (she reportedly was ...

By editorial@zap2it.com In 2004, he brought his exuberant personality to reality TV with the third season of "The Surreal Life," which in turn spawned "Strange Love," featuring him and Brigitte Nielsen, and the tongue-in-cheek reality dating show "Flavor of ...

Reality TV has pushed neophytes, poseurs and fame-junkies into the worlds of modeling, dancing and boisterously bad singing, so it's no shock that acting would be the next livelihood to be plundered for viewers' vicarious, couch-potato thrills. So here comes VH1, the network that brou...

Vanilla Ice out of jail Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Apr 11, 2008 of domestic violence in Broward County. In recent years, Van Winkle has tried to resurrect his career with a role on VH1's reality TV show The Surreal Life.

Nightlife Review: The Hardware Bar Wilkes Beacon (subscription), PA - Mar 16, 2008 His concert was exactly what I expected after seeing him on television shows such as VH1's The Surreal Life. It was angry, had bad rapping and scary clowns, ...

By IS And what could be more special to these two than The Surreal Life house? At this point, my television explodes because Vh1 has reached self-referential critical mass. Seriously, it's gross, Vh1. Have a semblance dignity. ...

By Rich Juzwiak We see a brief rundown of Flav's life: Public Enemy, multiple arrests, The Surreal Life, Strange Love, Flavor of Love, Flavor of Love 2. God, I've followed all of these things so closely, it feels like a rundown of my life. His story is my story. Flav is the consummate everyman. They kiss Flav...

By InternetSensation You couldn't possibly tell me that you'd had enough of Adrienne Curry after ANTM, The Surreal Life and two previous seasons of My Fair Brady. She's just getting started! The flatulence, the vulgarity, the knee jerk reactions, ...

By Paul Goebel He was a cast member on The Surreal Life where he met and fell in love with America's Next Top Model winner Adrianne Curry. The two of them went on to star on their own reality series My Fair Brady which ended with their wedding. ...

By Joe Reality Adrianne Curry and Christopher Knight are well known stars in the world of reality TV. Adrianne Curry won the very first season of America’s Next Top Model. She then went on to appear in The Surreal Life on VH1. ...

From the team that produced "Totally Busted," the series features Andrea Lowell (VH1's "The Surreal Life", Playboy Radio, "Sexcetera") Erika Jordan ("Totally Busted") and guest star rocker CC DeVille (Poison, VH1's "The Surreal Life"). ...

By Kate Spencer Tags: Celebrity Fit Club: Men vs. Women The Surreal Life 4 Da Brat Celebreality, Hip Hop, Music, Television We’ve always loved how sassy Da Brat’s been on The Surreal Life 4 and Celebrity Fit Club, but damn she’s even spunkier in real life! The rapper was arrested early this morning in Atlan...

Christopher Knight and Adrienne Curry to 'Do Russia' in WE tv special  MA - The two met during filming for VH1's The Surreal Life in 2004 before starring in their own show for the network -- My Fair Brady -- which documented their ...

VH1 Discovers Perfect Reality Show Formula AHN - Abrego, 35, and Cronin, 43, are the duo responsible for VH1's hit shows "The Surreal Life," "Flavor of Love," "I Love New York" and "Rock of Love", ...

Flavor Flav starred in a subsequent season of The Surreal Life, on which he "exploded as a character," as did his affair with Brigitte Nielsen, Cronin said. The Flav-Nielsen relationship begat Strange Love which begat Flavor of Love which begat I Love New York.

CBS News A Very Brady Lesbian Affair? CBS News, NY - The actor who played Peter, Christopher Knight, starred on the VH1 reality show "The Surreal Life," where he met "America's Next Top Model" winner Adrian ...

America's Next Top Model' Rewind: Season 1  - Sep 10, 2007 She has become most famous for her time spent on VH1's The Surreal Life and her marriage to former The Brady Bunch star, Christopher Knight.

By Lance Bradley For a little less than a year-and-a-half rumors have circulated that Phil Hellmuth Jr. was set to join the cast for the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life. “This is the rumor that just won’t die. Celebrities do that show on their way down,” said Brian Balsbaugh, Hellmuth’s agent. “Phil Hellmut...

FLAVA CLOCKS IN FOR 'LOVE 3'  NY - Flava, who rose to fame as a member of Public Enemy, has gotten a lot of mileage out of his association with VH1. He first appeared on "The Surreal Life" ...

By Lynn The CASTING DIRECTORS from VH1 are looking for America ’s FINEST WOMEN! From the producers of THE SURREAL LIFE and MY FAIR BRADY, I LOVE NEW YORK , CHARM SCHOOL , ROCK OF LOVE, and the previous FLAVOR OF LOVE, we bring you back the ...

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By Mark Yawitz YEAH BOYEEEEEE!!! FLAVOR FLAV is back y’all. The Producers who brought you CHARM SCHOOL, I LOVE NEW YORK, THE SURREAL LIFE and ROCK OF LOVE bring you season 3 of FLAVOR OF LOVE. ARE YOU A FAN OF FLAVOR FLAV? IF SO, THEN YOU’RE THE PERFECT WOMAN FOR FLAVOR FLAV!!!!!

Rapper Vanilla Ice is upset he didn't get a chance to speak with televangelist pal Tammy Faye Messner before she died on Friday. The "Ice Ice Baby" hitmaker befriended the beloved Christian when they were cast together on reality TV show The Surreal Life and he was devastated when he saw a fr...

Phil Hellmuth, Randy Savage Surreal Life Appearances Likely to ...  FL - The Surreal Life has been receiving plenty of news in recent weeks with the revelation that Season 3 cast member Tammy Faye Messner had dropped down to 60 ...

Seattle Post IntelligencerBrigitte Nielsen in Rehab  NY - If you watched even one episode of her season on The Surreal Life, you had to see this coming. Flavor Flav's former love (and Sylvester Stallone's ex-wife), ... Brigitte Nielsen in Rehab San Francisco Chronicle all 96 news articles

The 53-year-old actor refused to take part in the VH1 show, whose participants have included VERNE TROYER, FLAVOR FLAV and BRIGITTE NIELSEN, was offered a part in the series, but immediately turned it down. Reality stars like Brigitte Nielsen 'washed up' says Mr T

By Joe Reality VH1's "I Love New York" is created and executive produced by Mark Cronin and Cris Abrego for Mindless Entertainment and 51 Pictures, who also produce the record-breaking hits "Flavor of Love," "The Surreal Life" and "My Fair Brady." Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes, Kristen Kelly and Michael Hirs...