I was hoping to stay in the closet about my love for this show – which should surprise no one aware of my trashy-reality-TV proclivities – but I was out last night and missed the ep, and the recap isn’t up at EW yet.
Who went home? (Yanno, home, not to Hollywood.)
I don’t know who went home, but if you want to watch the episode you can do it here.
Great, and I probably will later … but I’m at work and just have the immediate-gratification desire to know who it was.
I DVR’d it… so can’t tell you.
Err, that is if I hypothetically watched such trash…
I think some of the “inner beauty” challenges they’ve had this season are kind of ridiculous, like the one where they had to console the bride with momzilla. Some people just like to mind their business. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re bad people, it just means they don’t want to get involved in what appears to be a private matter and create a potentially uglier situation.
And then there was the one with the sweaty guy. If I were a good looking woman and some strange creep came up to me like that, I’d probably want to keep my distance as well, lest I get groped or robbed.
What I’m really digging is that they’re keeping Vanessa Manillo under wraps lest the up-for-elimination contestants realize who she is and what the show is. I notice they haven’t shown a single “omigod” realization moment – and assume they’re editing out all kinds of “who the fuck are you” reaction shots.
I knew I couldn’t possibly be the only person watching this.
Bueller? Anyone?
My husband doesn’t let me watch it this season. I think I’ve made him crack under all the bad reality shows I subject the poor man to, and in order to keep Hell’s Kitchen, the dvds of The F Word, and So You Think You Can Dance, I had to let this one go.
I miss it.
It’s not quite as good as last year, but it’s good enough that this is the first episode I’ve missed. 
I’ll Google that for ya twix…
If you’re asking about episode 6, then
Michelle, Mavericks dancer
Episode 7 …
Amy, Model/bartender
Merci, mademoiselle! I was asking about episode 7. This person will be missed, having brought stupidity to a level that can only be described as sublime, given how stupid all of the other contestants are.
You’ve now intrigued me to seek out and watch this show. I have been watching trashy shows about dumb broads this summer (Bad Girls Club, You’re Cut Off)… sounds like this might fit the bill as well.
Well, it’s a mix of really dumb girls and really dumb boys.
They are, however, really dumb.
I hope they carried over the best part of last season…making pretty people behave in ugly ways, with very little provacation.
Oh yeah … definitely.
Based on the premise alone (as I haven’t seen the show), you’d think they’d have to be. How exactly are they hiding the actual purpose of the show? Wouldn’t you notice that the jerkiest people keep getting sent home?
There’s also a particular task serving as the competition element in each show – they know they’re in a competition, but think it’s to the “the Face of Vegas,” they don’t realize it’s for a picture in People and some cash. Thus they all participate in the task or stunt – do a trick in Penn and Teller’s show, do the spiel on a bus tour of Vegas, get picked to serve as attendants in wedding chapel ceremonies, etc. – and the two lowest scorers in those tasks are up for elimination.
What the judges consider in those eliminations is the person’s overall behavior, including at least one “test” during the course of the task (do they tell an interviewer how the P&T trick is done; do they allow a plant to fudge their scores after the bus tour; are they nice to a backstage bride being browbeaten by her bitchy mother), plus a final “test” on their way to the elimination site (kind or helpful to someone, always a plant, they encounter on the way).
The person who isn’t eliminated is sent back to the house where they’re staying, and only then is the true premise of the show revealed to the person who just got booted, who inevitably responds “I’m not like that.”
And, no, I can’t explain why I watch every week either.