On the box
As if being rich and famous wasn't enough in life, celebs now feel compelled to air their dirty laundry on the telly. But who's reality show would you like to watch?
Hold on to your hats, ladies and gents. Not content with one very famous child star daughter who very publicly went off the rails last year, Lindsay Lohan's manager mother Dina has landed her own reality show on the E! network.

Living Lohan will document the working and personal life of Dina as she tries to launch the career of her younger daughter, 14-year-old Ali, who recently told a magazine that she wants to be famous "so bad."

‘Cause it worked out so well for your big sister?

"The Lohans are one of the most intriguing families in the entertainment industry today," E! said in a statement. "This is a family that knows how to roll with the punches and come out on top. Dina is an incredibly hard-working, passionate mom that I think our viewers will find both relatable and highly entertaining."

No doubt Dina will try and rope Lindsay into as many episodes as possible.

The Lohan reality show comes hot on the heels of news that Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen took legal action to try and prevent ex-wife Denise Richards from featuring their daughters, aged 3 and 2, in her new reality show.

He's now calling for a boycott of Denise's show for the ‘exploitation' of his daughters.

While a three-year-old and a two-year-old can't possibly choose life in the limelight, there are plenty of celebs who have found notoriety by opening their lives up on the small screen. The Osbournes paved the way in 2002 with a glimpse into their madcap, dog-infested Beverly Hills mansion.

Close behind was Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica which showed the recently-hitched D-listers settling in to their Calabasas mansion. Jessica proved herself dim, if rather endearing, with comments like: "Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?" and "The first thing I'm going to do is poop."

And let's not forget her dad, pervy Papa Joe! "Jessica has waited to sing about or have sex until she's married. And now she's married and now and I think we're celebrating the fact that she can do it until she's blue in the face and she can sing about it too."

You would be celebrating, you old perv.

These days, the celebrity reality shows on telly are a bit of a mixed bag, like those 50 cent mixtures you used to buy from the dairy when you were a kid. If you were lucky you'd get gummy strawberries, some of those Eskimos and a whole lot of smokers. Other times it'd be those chewy bananas and the ones that tasted like aniseed.

Keeping Up With The Kardashians is boiled sweets. They're okay, but you don't want them all the time, and you certainly wouldn't go out and buy them. The novelty quickly wears off all those Kardashian girls with their black hair and their names all beginning with ‘K'. And don't look me in the eye and say that it's normal for everyone in your family to have a sex tape which ‘leaks' on to the internet!

Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane is like fizzy coke bottles - you want more and then they make you feel a bit sick. The tales of model-mogul Kimora Lee Simmons, her two daughters and their extravagantly over the top life makes for some hideously compulsive viewing. Kimora is fierce, as her mate Tyra Banks would say, and it's quite compelling to see how someone with a whole lot of money and not much idea how to treat people operates.

I was never sure whether or not I really ever liked those chewy milk bottles, and I'm on the fence too with Snoop Dogg's Fatherhood, which started on E! in January. Apart from wondering why Snoop and wife Shante gave their sons two such similar names (Cordell and Corde), the show feels a bit, well, forced.

Although the kids are cute and Snoop is good for a few laughs, especially when he's been indulging in a bit of a session on the weed. The recent episode where he attempted to play ice hockey was pretty damn funny.

I'm not ashamed to say that my personal favourite reality show, and the favourite of plenty of people I know, guys and girls alike, is Girls Of The Playboy Mansion. It's the pineapple lump of the mixed lolly bag!

Whatever your thoughts on their weird relationship with an 80-something year old man or whether you could ever bring yourself to do the nasty with Hef, Holly, Bridget and Kendra make that show a must-see.

My favourite's always been Bridget because she seemed the most normal of the three, but that position is slowly being usurped by Kendra. She's only young and she's just so immature, and pretty thick, but she's always laughing. And even if she has to sleep with a man thirty-odd years older than her mother, she's totally loving the lifestyle. Plus, I like those really inappropriate booty shuffles she always does. Kendra has a foot phobia and does not like her burgers rare. See what gems you can find out online!

She doesn't know what a ‘parliament' is, she's scared of foreign food, and always adds a touch of class to proceedings. She once described that the Fourth of July was all about "food, fireworks and f---ing".

Imagine life in a land where everyone has strangely perky, bulbous bosoms, there's an abundance of pink, small dogs, and theme parties, and there's a lot of nudity!

So who'd get your vote if a new celeb reality show was to get the green light? I'd quite like to see life behind the scenes for Ice-T and Coco, the rapper-turned-actor and his voluptuous wife.

Watch as Ice raps on stage with Body Count, works on the set of Law and Order, and Coco tries to find another pair of pants to accentuate her camel toe! The opportunities are endless.

9 Comments
1. rajeevjess@xtra.co.nz - Mar 06 07:17pm
I LOVE The Girls Next Door too, just had the DVD's shippig from US. They're so entertaining.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Cruise household, also Eminem, now that would be interesting!
2. mishanessa@xtra.co.nz - Mar 07 05:33am
Hey there, Girls of the Playboy Mansion would be my favourite - surprisingly my husband hates it he can't stand Kendra's laugh. She cracks me up however and I love it. Heff the dirty rat but what man wouldn't if they could at his age aye!!! I think I would like to see the life of Brad and Ang!
3. golden.bear15 - Mar 07 06:15am
Don't you think it's weird that all the sexy and famous people are incredibly dim? Maybe that's why they decided to become famous. BTW, I've never seen any of these, never wanted to, but who in their right mind would sleep with a dude three times their age? ???
4. arcticrose76 - Mar 07 07:05am
that playboy program sounds interesting......when is it on?
5. boo.pipi - Mar 07 08:04am
i to love the girls next door they are all really funny and its great to see how the other half live cant wait till next weeks show!!!!
6. garthwilliams@xtra.co.nz - Mar 07 08:14am
My hole family loves watching the Girls of The Playboy Mansion, my favourite is Bridget.
Its on the E channel at 7pm
7. whitewaybuildersltd@xtra.co.nz - Mar 07 08:29am
Girls of the Playboy Mansion is kinda fascinating. I can't believe the life these girls have. You wouldn't want it to end. Plus I am not entirely convinced that they sleep with Hef that often, if at all. He seems happier eating choclate. Please no more Lohans - that sister is hideous
8. maximus1710 - Mar 07 08:33am
I don't do reality shows but I happened upon Kimora Lee Simmons. God shes a b.tch!! Her daughters are spoilt & she treats people like sh.t. Puhleese, don't force "Fabulousity" on the world it's not gonna catch-on like "Bootilicious"...Beyonce wannabe! [At least she's pleasant]
9. anniehatherley - Mar 08 08:29pm
LOL at Coco's camel toe... Lordy, that woman is TACKY. And talkig about trashy realityshows, have you seen the tragic "Rock of love" on c4? its like watching a lardo eating an icecream, you don't want to look, but you feel compelled to.... and grossed out, too.
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