I’m not one of those actors that despise Reality TV because it takes jobs away from actors. The Biggest Loser is one of my favorite shows. I like to watch it on my Ipad while I’m running on the treadmill. If those morbidly obese people can turn themselves into personal training worthy bodies certainly I can lose 10 pounds!!! (You would THINK!) I used to like Survivor and Amazing Race as well. Survivor because I like watching city people that have literally never been in the wilderness learn how to cope and Amazing Race because I love to travel and long to go all over the world…but since I can’t, I live vicariously through the AR contestants. I pretty much adore every reality show on the Food Network! Iron Chef, Cupcake Wars, The Next Food Network Star, Challenge, Chopped, and the new Restaurant Impossible! I don’t even cook! I think the appeal to me is that they are all shows about people that persevere! And I cannot forget the travel channel! Samantha Brown is the most adorable blonde host! She travels everywhere and describes everything perfectly! I want to BE her! Anthony Bourdain is kind of obnoxious but smart! In No Reservations he travels to offbeat locations and talks about the food! I even like Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman, for although I would never eat any of that gross crap it’s fun to see how the other half live and eat! Of all these reality shows the one that I simply cannot stand is…drum roll….Jersey Shore. To be fair, I’ve only seen a totally of 10 minutes of the show (probably 1 minute at a time over 10 episodes) but I just don’t like it…and yesterday I found an even bigger reason to hate it! I was doing cattle call background work on a brand new show called Person of Interest. There were almost 100 background actors on set and I do not know what corner of the earth some of these monsters were dug up from but they were there! Including, I kid not, Snooky’s twin Sister. OK, obviously I don’t know if they were related but this girl was a real piece of work! She showed up to set with her mother! In the bathroom she was screaming that she needed a tampon and didn’t have one! Her mother was coddling her like something out of a Miss Teen Pageant USA Jonbenet Ramsey scenario! Then she announced to everyone in the bathroom that she was 21 but she went everywhere with her mom! She was tan to a point that her face was pealing off and her Jersey accent was thick and trashy! For deep exterior background work she refused to go to set because her “hair was a mess!” Oh yes, she whipped out the flat iron in holding! Then when she was filling out her voucher she couldn’t figure out what to write because “my agent got me this job!” I’m thinking to myself “honey, if your agent got you this non union $85 for 10 hours of background work then you seriously need a new agent.” The worst was at the end of the evening when they were checking out AFTRA members first. She cut to the front of the line and demanded to be checked out stat because she had to drive back to Jersey! The PA’s stared at her in disbelief! Her mom, who had sat around holding for the entire 12 hour day got in on the fight! Unbelievable! And then it occurred to me that shows like Jersey Shore made psycho’s like this famous! Please don’t support this people! It’s just not right! Take it from someone who experienced it first hand and ban the JS from your life!
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