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Ayiiia said this week on “Real World” that she needed to put up a bitch wall to protect herself and boy did she ever! She started the rumor that Joey had herpes on his lip (he claimed it was a sunburn), but was it really necessary of her to yell it out in the streets just because he told her to shut up at the club? She stopped to get something to eat and he said he was going to spit in her tacos. I thought maybe it was a figure of speech, but no, he literally spit in her tacos. Ayiia, Emilee, and Jasmine were on the patio talking about him when he came up with his guitar and started singing an annoying song. The girls all threw water at him, which turned his electric guitar into acoustic.

But, Ayiiia didn’t stop there. When the Studentcity.com program director Christina told the group the rules – no public drunkenness, no smoking, no contests while representing the company – Ayiiia questioned it. She and Joey finally hugged it out after talking on the beach. Derek and Jasmine were with them and they decided to punk the other roommates by saying Ayiiia had hit Joey. Now, THAT was funny.
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Well, apparently doing an excellent quickstep on “So You Think You Can Dance” does you any good because it was indeed the dance of death this week for Vitolio and Karla.

Kupono and Kayla once again found themselves in the bottom three along with Karla and Vitolio and Phillip and Jeanine. The judges said Jeanine had a strong solo, but felt Kayla had a static solo. Still, they always save her and this week, the girl going home was Karla.
Continue Reading So You Think You Can Dance: Vitolio and Karla Leave

I now know why last night’s “America’s Got Talent” seemed to have only good acts – they were saving most of the bad ones for tonight! There was Divani, who I believe stunned the judges so much with her singing (and not in a good way) that they couldn’t physically press the buzzers for a few seconds. Jolie and Lester had some weird act where he balanced a running lawn mower on his chin while she and Nick threw produce into the blades. Rusty Reece was a cowboy who sang Broadway. The judges did not appreciate that.

Marti Brill told them he was the greatest magician ever, but as it turned out, he wasn’t. However, if self-confidence can get you anywhere, Marti will go far. Even as Piers looked bored and the crowd booed, he seemed to continue to think he was doing well. Brandon Paxton read poems he had written about his ex-girlfriends. Why, I don’t know. Diego Baner had a deep voice that Sharon and the Hoff likened to a sheep and the Midwest Entertainers just turned out to be wrestlers. But, the one guy looked like the love child of Bruce Willis and Vin Diesel, so that was mildly amusing.
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The guest judge on tonight’s “So You Think You Can Dance” was Mia Michaels. Cat quizzed her as to whether her opinion of Brandon had changed and she admitted it had changed…for the better. But, I don’t think even Mia expected Brandon and Jeanette to knock their socks off with the cha cha like they did. Nigel called it “the best damn cha cha I’ve ever see on this show.” Mary said they had two first class tickets on the hot tamale train. Mia made Brandon cry when she told him that she was so hard on him because he had so much potential.

Kayla and Kupono also wowed the judges with their contemporary routine choreographed by Sonya, which Mia felt was Sonya’s best piece ever. I thought Evan was going to kill his Broadway routine with Randi, but I guess the judges expected more because Nigel and Mia both said they were disappointed in his performance. Mary said he did fairly well. Caitlin and Jason got a jazz routine that Nigel called weird, but liked that they committed to it 100%. Mary, however, said the routine didn’t play to their strengths.
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The second new episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels featured Gene as chaperone for Sophie and her slumber party.  Shannon is under the weather so she tells Gene that he needs to watch the girls because she promised Sophie that she could have some friends sleep over.  Gene thinks he’s a cool and hip father so he’s up for the challenge.  First up – the video store.  The girls want to go by themselves but Gene offers to drive the and pay for everyhing with his credit card.  So the girls say ok.

Side note – wouldn’t Gene have been paying for it anyway since Sophie doesn’t have a job?  But again, let’s add some drama.  When he takes them to the store he can see those vultures better known as teenage boys who are eyeing up his daughter and their friends. Gene thinks that teenage boys are predatrs and should keep their distance from his Sophie.  That’s what he said at the beginning of the show.

As I hinted Sophie and her friends run into Christian and his friends at the video store.  I guess that one of the girls likes Christian so Sophie tells them they are having a sleep-over at her house but “don’t come over.” OK, I’m a 16 year old boy, with the testosterone flowing through my veins.  Some attractive girls tell me they’re having a sleep-over and I’m NOT going to try and stop by?  On what planet? Fantasyland?

Continue Reading Gene Simmons Family Jewels episode 6: Sophie’s Slumber Party

The first of two new episodes of Gene Simmons Family Jewels started tonight with Shannon returing from a visit to the emergency room.  She had slipped on a wet floor and put out her arm to stop thefall and ended up doing something to it in the process.  I didn’t catch what exactly happened to it, but it was bad enough for the ER docsto prescribe painkillers for her.  She was complaining that the hospital wouldn’t let Gene in to see her because they don’t have the same last name so it was a good thing the kids were there to let him in.  Gene helped Shannon get settled into bed and Shannon told him to finish packing so he could make the redeye flight to New York.  At first he protested but eventually ended up leaving for the airport.

The scene at the airport was interesting.  He comes up to the desk and announces who he is and that he is scheduled to be on the next flight to New York.  The girl is like that’s great, now lets seesome ID.  He says don’t you know who I am.  She says he looks familiar but that she can’t process him without ID.  He pulls out a Kiss tee shirt from a suitcase and tries to use this for ID.  Again, that’s great but it won’t work.  Finally Gene recalls he has his wallet in his shoe and pulls out his picture ID, just in time to board the plane.  Now let’s think about this.  I can’t stand walking or even being when there is something as small as a rock in my shoe.  Are you telling me that this highly intelligent man “forgot” that he had his wallet in his shoes/boots?  I highly doubt that.  His “forgetting” and having to pull out his Kiss tee shirt in a blatant example of self promotion makes for better television.  The girl at the desk does ask if she can keep the tee shirt and he says yes.  Big surprise.

Continue Reading Gene Simmons Family Jewels episode 5: Economic Stimulus

Tonight’s episode of “America’s Got Talent” focused mostly on people who DID have talent. Moving on in the competition are the following: Carol Lugo (who looked like a school teacher, but her dance was deemed “wonderfully bizarre” by Sharon), Joseph “YoYo Jo” Harris (whose yo-yoing was incredible), The Diva League (I think each season is required to have a drag queen act), Chris “Coney Island Chris” Allison (I want to see more of his act!), Jay Mattioli (now THIS is an act that could go over big in Vegas), and The Fab Five (clogging sisters).

Two of the more remarkable acts of the evening were singers. Fourteen year old Thia Megia came out to sing and I thought “Oh great, another teen singer,” but she had a big, no huge voice. I honestly felt like she was lip synching to CD by a 35 year old woman. She was in incredible.
Continue Reading America’s Got Talent: The Auditions Continue

The Fine Living Network is currently casting for their new reality program. Do you know someone who is, well, a tool? What is a tool you might ask? A tool is a slang word to describe someone who might be a fool, an idiot, a person who is easily used but doesn’t know it, or a cretin. Actually, the term tool can apply to many different types of people with odd or annoying personality traits.

If you know a person who is between the ages of 25 and 35 and falls into one (or more!) of the following categories you might just have the opportunity to get them on this new reality program on the Fine Living Network. They’re looking for people such as:

• The Milquetoast - Easily swayed from their opinion by outside influences.
• The Control Freak - They must have a handle on everything…AT ALL TIMES
• The Metro-Sexual - Very conscious about his image and looks in public.
• The Game Killer - We all know this person… they’re the anti-wingman.
• One Uppers - They’ve done everything bigger and better than you have
• The Half-Empty - The Eeyore of the group…Debbie or Don Downer
• The Mama’s Boy/Daddy’s Girl - Big decision - better give Mommy/Daddy a call.
• The Suck-Up - They’re a kiss-up…but they don’t see anything wrong with it

If you want to submit a friend with any of these “toolish” traits for consideration for this reality program, send an email to this email address: myfriendisatool@hotmail.com and include the following:

• A brief but detailed description of how your friend could be classified as a TOOL
• City and State that you live in
• A recent photo of both you and your friend
• Your Contact Information
• Optional: Video footage of your tool friend in action (taken from a camera or video phone)

This show will air on the Fine Living Network. Click here for a link to the casting page on the FLN web site.

Could this week’s “Bachelorette” have been any weirder? Yes, Jillian went home to meet the five remaining guys families, but that wasn’t the weird part.

First of all, Jake showed up and told Jillian that Wes had a girlfriend. We even got a name – Laurel. Jake told Jillian that Wes would deny it and say she was an old girlfriend and they had broken up. When Jillian confronted him, guess what he said? Uh huh, exactly what Jake said he would say. Jillian looked perplexed for a while, but then fell back into Wes’ web. He took her to meet his band when she first got there. Honestly, what does he have to do for her to understand he is a scrub? She met his family and they told her how great he was. Of course, they are going to, they are his family. Why didn’t Jake conference call Tanner and get him in on the conversation? Even if Wes doesn’t have a girlfriend (which I think he does), he is only there for his career!
Continue Reading The Bachelorette: Michael and Jesse Leave

This week’s “Iron Chef America” pitted Chef Phillipe Excoffier against Iron Chef Bobby Flay. The secret ingredient was dorade. The judges were food author Michael Ruhlman, Jenna Wolfe of “Sunday Today,” and Andrew Knowlton of Bon Appetit.

Chef Excoffier presented five dishes: dorade tartare with gazpacho (Jenna found it difficult to eat), carmelized honey dorade, curried dorade soufflé (Andrew felt the mussels overpowered the dorade), dorade with potato scales, and grilled dorade with herbs.
Continue Reading Iron Chef America: Battle Dorade