2008 Woodie Awards
Tila Tequila's 'Shot At Love'
Tales of a pseudo hipster
Hamilton Hedrick
Issue date: 10/15/07 Section: Life & Style
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What has become of television? Granted, I am addicted to most of it, but really, I draw the line at a show titled "A Shot at Love." Not only is it a play on words, it is actually a play on its main star…enter Tila Tequila.
For those who only tune in to MTV to watch "The Hills," here is what you've been missing. Last week the new show "A Shot at Love," starring Miss Tequila, emerged on the MTV rotation. In the show, Tila Tequila searches for true love on none other than national television.
As though her name wasn't original enough, she had to go and rip off everyone's favorite television vixen, New York, who stars in a show in which she, too, searches for love. Yet in her case this is attempt number two.
Tequila, who is famous for nothing more than having more than two million friends on MySpace, has been cast for MTV's version of of Flava Flava's VH1 show "Flavor of Love." Did I mention she has both male and female contestants competing for her love? Well, she does, Tequila has appeared in various ads, along with Playboy and a slew of other magazines, which, I guess, is what MTV was searching for when they deiced to create "A Shot at Love."
Clearly, Tequila was not an alternate for "The Bachelor." I mean, seriously, she makes the ladies on "Flavor of Love" look classy. Seriously, what were they thinking?
As if the general idea of the show isn't bad enough, MTV and Tequila took it a step further…the contestants have to compete against each other for Tequila. What happened to the good ole days? I mean, I enjoyed the old-school "Real World/Road Rules Challenge," but this is just a mess if I have ever seen one.
Who in their right mind is interested in this train wreck? I understand people will go to extremes to get their 15 minutes of fame, but at least the people of "The Real World" can say they were on the show with some kind of dignity. I mean, it was the first "reality" show. But having to admit to being on a show with the main star being named after liquor…that's just embarrassing.
As expected, most of the contestants probably can't spell Tequila, let alone actually ever have a shot at a career in show business. But really, where did MTV find these kids? The competitors look like the rejects from "Beauty and the Geek" and Brett Michael's "Rock of Love."
As if those reality shows weren't bad enough, MTV had to go and create an even more pathetic attempt at yet another dating show. At what point are we going to move out of this genre of horrible dating shows with even more ridiculous stars and contestants?
Who knows what's in store for Tequila and her posse of rejects? I for one won't stick around to find out. Please, MTV, do us all a favor and cancel this disaster and start playing music videos again.
Hamilton Hedrick is a senior staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.
For those who only tune in to MTV to watch "The Hills," here is what you've been missing. Last week the new show "A Shot at Love," starring Miss Tequila, emerged on the MTV rotation. In the show, Tila Tequila searches for true love on none other than national television.
As though her name wasn't original enough, she had to go and rip off everyone's favorite television vixen, New York, who stars in a show in which she, too, searches for love. Yet in her case this is attempt number two.
Tequila, who is famous for nothing more than having more than two million friends on MySpace, has been cast for MTV's version of of Flava Flava's VH1 show "Flavor of Love." Did I mention she has both male and female contestants competing for her love? Well, she does, Tequila has appeared in various ads, along with Playboy and a slew of other magazines, which, I guess, is what MTV was searching for when they deiced to create "A Shot at Love."
Clearly, Tequila was not an alternate for "The Bachelor." I mean, seriously, she makes the ladies on "Flavor of Love" look classy. Seriously, what were they thinking?
As if the general idea of the show isn't bad enough, MTV and Tequila took it a step further…the contestants have to compete against each other for Tequila. What happened to the good ole days? I mean, I enjoyed the old-school "Real World/Road Rules Challenge," but this is just a mess if I have ever seen one.
Who in their right mind is interested in this train wreck? I understand people will go to extremes to get their 15 minutes of fame, but at least the people of "The Real World" can say they were on the show with some kind of dignity. I mean, it was the first "reality" show. But having to admit to being on a show with the main star being named after liquor…that's just embarrassing.
As expected, most of the contestants probably can't spell Tequila, let alone actually ever have a shot at a career in show business. But really, where did MTV find these kids? The competitors look like the rejects from "Beauty and the Geek" and Brett Michael's "Rock of Love."
As if those reality shows weren't bad enough, MTV had to go and create an even more pathetic attempt at yet another dating show. At what point are we going to move out of this genre of horrible dating shows with even more ridiculous stars and contestants?
Who knows what's in store for Tequila and her posse of rejects? I for one won't stick around to find out. Please, MTV, do us all a favor and cancel this disaster and start playing music videos again.
Hamilton Hedrick is a senior staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.
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posted 10/15/07 @ 11:24 AM CST
You really think Tila Tequila is "ripping off" New York? New York is so skanky I feel like I am getting a disease every time her commercials run! Uggh. (Continued…)
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