March 23, 2009 - PPM - Celebrity(?) Reality Shows

This week’s PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is who is considered a “CELEBRITY” by today’s Reality Shows.

I had previously blogged about Reality TV Shows’ inane existence three years ago.

Now, I read the cast of the latest installments of the Celebrity Apprentice and Dancing with the Stars. I am flummoxed about who is a Celebrity or what defines a Star?

Here is the list:

Celebrity Apprentice

Brian McKnight
Dennis Rodman
Herschel Walker
Clint Black
Tom Green
Jesse G. James
Tionne Watkins
Khole Kardashian
Joan Rivers
Melissa Rivers
Claudia Jordan
Annie Duke
Brande Roderick
Natalie Gulbis
Scott Hamilton
Andrew Dice Clay

2009 Dancing with the Stars

Belinda Carlisle
David Allen Grier
Shawn Johnson
Lil’Kim
Holly Madison
Gilles Marini
Ty Murray
Steve O
Denise Richards
Melissa Rycroft
Lawrence Taylor
Chuck Wicks
Steve Wozniak

- Half of these people don’t generate a Wikipedia entry.

- Some of them (Kardashian) are more than six degrees removed from Kevin Bacon.

- These same folks could also appear on The Biggest Loser.

(my cut downs usually come in sets of threes)

I don’t watch any reality shows, but I would tune in if they would put this cast of characters along with the show’s producers into the Celebrity Stars’ Cage of Death. Only one contestant would survive, literally. My money’s on Steve O, unless there is an Ice Dancing elimination round, where Scott Hamilton could really shine.

Just a thought.