Reality TV couple split--Q & A

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Reality TV couple split--Q & A
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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 11:45am

Q. Well - I suppose you have heard the latest news - **drum roll please** - Meredith and Ian have separated!! No surprise there since you had doubts about their relationship lasting. As someone who is a huge fan of this couple, obsessed about them endlessly, collected everything about them she could get her hands on...I'd really be interested in revisiting your opinion of their relationship and what you think of why they split. I realize no one can ever know what caused the separation, but perhaps you can give it a try! It's very disheartening to most of us to see even these passionate relationships fall by the wayside. Is anyone ever intended to stay together?? (Marion)

A. I would not take this too seriously until the couple makes some type of statement, since it may just be hearsay and misquotes.
Even though I sometimes may “predict” a certain couple will not grow old together, it would actually be a little sad to see one more Reality TV couple separating!
If, in fact, M&I actually have called it quits, it is going to be difficult to ascertain the real reason(s), since I do not believe neither of them will agree to do a televised “Special” like Aaron and Helene did.

I wish both of them good luck!

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 12:42pm

So I've seen ads for "Fear Factor" (I've never watched it) but it seems like all those people on there are hot and are wanna be actors or models, right? All the chicks look like they could be in Playboy. Maybe "Fear Factor" isn't really a reality show. Don't know.

Lisa

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 12:49pm

I speculate that the producers only pick "hot" people for ratings. One may presume that it is much more exciting to watch a hot "playboy" wannabe eat roadkill as opposed to a regular Joe or Jill.

I may be wrong.

They do push on the envelope of reality...that is true. None the less, it is Reality Based TV show Genre. It will wear out like the talk shows did in the 90's.




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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 1:00pm

I prefer not to watch anyone eating roadkill. Dang, that's gross.

It must be really hard for networks to find good shows these days. Wasn't there one where they were trying to marry off a dad or something? And another one where some will was involved? Crazy! I think I was done with the whole deal when that Darma (?) chick married that Rick comedian dude and it lasted what - two hours? LOL

That was forever ago!

Lisa

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 1:11pm

>>I'd really be interested in revisiting your opinion of their relationship and what you think of why they split.<<

I think it's because Ian was a complete goof. Who in their right mind would've picked that guy? He was kind of ugly and is going to be REALLY ugly in a few years, he was one of those always-intense-mysterious kind of guys, and... okay, I just didn't like him at all.

Meredith, on the other hand, is a babe. I suspect she won't have much trouble landing another guy. Unfortunately, given her choice on the show and the way she talks, I think she's one of those women who's always going to wind up with a semi-loser intense-crappy-relationship kind of guy.

Maybe I should drop her a line. LOL

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 4:29pm

Guilty pleasure/escapism (don’t need a reason for that) plus I’m a romantic—even if it doesn’t last I still enjoy a great romance story (fiction or non), smiles.

SP

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 4:38pm

You're a Libra Peanut...You come by it honestly, we are hopeless romantics. Give me a good old sappy love story and a box of tissues any day.

Heck, I even had DJ (harley guy) a little misty eyed during the final episode of the Bachelor, when Evan (right name isn't it?) dropped on one knee and proposed to Mary.

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 5:11pm
I really have a hard time watching the shows when they morph into models dating other models. How real is that. Now the first Survivor was great.
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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 6:11pm

>>Now the first Survivor was great.<<

Um... I'll take the models over the fat naked guy. I don't care if it's not "reality"- if I want reality, I'll go downtown and see the bums on skid road.

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Mon, 01-31-2005 - 6:29pm
I think all Survivors are great but agreed - the first one was one of the best. I bought the DVD set (yes, I am a dork), and rewatched it. It amazed me going back. It was the basis for every other Survivor ever! Before Hatch, no one knew of alliances and Pagonging and all that great stuff. He truly was a mastermind and without him, this show never would have gotten to the point where dumb swimsuit models like Amazon Jenna can win. I would always rather see the real people than the girls with fake boobs that look like concentration camp victims with baloons in their bikini tops. But I still love it! Two weeks from Thursday the new one starts! :-)

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Wed, 02-02-2005 - 2:10pm

I like shows like Wife Swap, Amazing Race...and the new one is Nanny 911. I think they can be interesting.

I am not really into Fear Factor, The Apprentice, House Mates..or whatever.

My new interests are on Discovery Health channel. Super Surgery...Plastic Survery before and after. Is that bad??

Jodie

 

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