I'm not watching Celebrity Apprentice. I watched the first season of the show, and I actually liked the Martha Stewart version of the show, but there's no way I'm going to sit in front of my TV for weeks and watch Marilu Henner battle Stephen Baldwin.
And I also question the "celebirty" status of some of these people. Case in point, Omarosa. She's only famous for being on, well, The Apprentice, so I think that sort of makes the whole premise of the show bogus. Fellow castmate Piers Morgan, who is also a judge on America's Got Talent, tells The New York Post that Omarosa actually approached him when the show started and asked him if he wanted to have a "showmance." Morgan had no idea what the hell she was talking about, but she explained that it's a romance between two people on a reality show. Morgan just told her she was "pathetic" and "deluded."
I'm so glad this didn't happen, or we'd have to add "showmance" to our lexicon, which is just as much an annoying word as "blog." We'd also have to add "rolliance" (a romance/alliance on a reality show) and "platosticle," which is...um...a platonic relationship that involves testicles. Or something. I'm not quite sure, lost my train of thought there for a second.
And what would their new name be? We've had Brangelina and Vaughniston, so now we'd have to come up with something like Omamorgan or Peirosa to describe these two. The former sounds like a new cholesterol medicine, while the latter sounds like a planet from Star Trek. A magical, Utopian planet where reality shows are outlawed.
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1-21-2008 @ 4:30PM
Jojee said...
First time I'm glad I'm too old to have ever heard the term "Vaughniston". I'm out of it. Yippee!!
(please ignore my personalized avatar)
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1-21-2008 @ 5:36PM
The Deej said...
Actually Showmance is a term that started in the theatre, so it's not really a new concept.
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1-21-2008 @ 5:37PM
TVmama said...
Actually "showmance" is already in use...
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1-21-2008 @ 9:54PM
TomB said...
Back in the 80's when I was in college and physically fit and somewhat more attractive (if that's even possible) I was in some of the college plays on campus. Small parts - but it was SO fun. We'd rehearse like 3-5 hours per night for weeks. Everyone got laid. Even the prop master, the electrician, set decorators, etc., not to mention the actors. We just spent so much time together night after night, had so much down time to kill waiting for our scenes, and really weren't accountable for our time away from home because of the hours we spent at rehearsal.
Why not screw?!? lol. Remember this was the 80's back when everyone smoked pot and there was no such thing as AIDs. Maybe it was GERD then - gay related R disease (don't remember what the R was) - but that was just on the east and west coast. I was in Indiana. :-)
ANYWAY, my point is (yes, I have one), 'showmance' has existed a few hundred (maybe thousand) years before Ron Burnett got rich and "reality" tv came along.
I looked up "celebrity" and found these synonyms (I guess these bozos on Celeb Apprentice DO quality after all):
Main Entry: celebrity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dignitary
Synonyms: V.I.P., ace, big cheese, big deal, big gun, big name, big shot, big stuff, bigwig, celeb, cynosure, famous person, figure, heavyweight, hero, hot dog, hotshot, immortal, lion, luminary, magnate, mahatma, major league, name, notable, personage, personality, somebody, someone, star, superstar, the cheese, worthy.
Antonyms: nobody, unknown
I guess just the fact that we know who they are on a national level makes them a celebrity - but it's hard to use the same adjective to describe Mary Lou Henner and Nichole Kidman. :-)
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1-22-2008 @ 7:09AM
Will said...
I was under the impression that the term "showmance" was thought up by the players on the Big Brother season (maybe All-Stars ?). Probably just where I heard it first. And it's used a lot on Big Brother, I don't think there's been a season yet where at least one pair of players hooked up. They have all that free time and nothing to fill it. They're not building shelters and scrounging around for food and as soon as the girls start putting on the swimsuits and using the pool and hottub, you've got horny guys with their tounges hanging out. It's inevitible.(sp?) But I think even I'd turn down Omorosa, she's trouble with a capital T.
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1-22-2008 @ 2:08PM
Bill said...
Like Pat Riley owns the phrase that goes with winning three times in a row, Dr. Will Kirby actually trademarked and, therefore, OWNS the term that refers to a reality show romance. I just saw him mentioning this on some show on E! about reality TV moments. I'll refrain from saying that term, or I may actually be forced to pay him for it. Did Mr. Sassone pay him for the privilege of using it?
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1-22-2008 @ 2:10PM
VIC POWERS said...
eeewwweee!!! yuckie!!! no loyalty at all... except to omarosa (old morose one)... conniving, back stabbing, plotting, disloyal, in love with oneself, etc. ... and omarosa's even WORSE!!! gotcha!
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1-22-2008 @ 2:20PM
MissThang said...
Firstly..GERD is gastroesophageal reflux disease, you are thinking of GRID gay-related immunodeficiency syndrome.
Secondly..showmance may have been around, but the term became popular with the onslaught of reality tv shows
Thirdly..Omarosa is delusional to think anybody would want any kind of alliance with her, show, ro, or otherwise.
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1-22-2008 @ 9:04PM
TomB said...
Thanks. I was a little mental when I wrote that rambling rumination.
1-22-2008 @ 3:14PM
choosymom said...
The other thing to consider here, after Omarosa, is... Piers Morgan???? Yuck, Now THAT's disgusting!!!!
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1-22-2008 @ 3:31PM
Mike said...
The question isn't whether it's good that Omarosa didn't hook up with Piers, the question is with whom she did get a Shomance? If she offered it to Piers, she will offer it to all the others until she eventually gets with someone. Imagine Baldorosa, or Omarimmons, or if she switches teams Hennorosa!
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2-16-2008 @ 9:01PM
JANET KLINE said...
I HAVE TO SAY THAT OMAROSA IS THE BIG THE BIGGEST PIECE OF TRASH I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. SHE'S GHETTO TRASH! IF I WERE PIERS AND SHE BROUGHT MY FAMILY INTO AN ARGUMENT, I WOULD HAVE KNOCKED HER OVERSIZED TEETH OUT.SHE'S A TOTAL EMBARRASEMENT, AND GIVE THE APPRENTICE SHOW!!!!!!!!!! SHE BELONGS IN A DOG KENNEL
1-22-2008 @ 3:33PM
RC Weigold said...
I only started watching because Gene was on.Well that didn't last long.
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1-22-2008 @ 3:34PM
Sandy said...
I normally watch The Apprentice but after the first episode of Celebrity Apprentice and getting physically ill watching Omarosa, I decided not to watch til she gets 'FIRED'. She should have been off the first week.
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1-22-2008 @ 3:34PM
RC Weigold said...
Cant stand Omarosa,shes too bossy,and bitchy.
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1-22-2008 @ 4:04PM
ndngirl said...
You know, I always liked this show until I saw Omarosa was on....so then I had to go puke, take some meds and finally sit down to watch SOMETHING ELSE! I cannot stand her and maybe when they boot her off I'll watch again. I hope this time her 15 minutes only last one short second!
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1-22-2008 @ 4:06PM
mark said...
Gene Simmons was the biggest star on the show. He is gone now ( he wanted to get fired). No reason to watch anymore.
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1-22-2008 @ 4:12PM
Jennifer said...
Thankfully I stopped watching reality tv (except for AI) after that fiasco with the "Ultimate Prize" on Paradise Hotel which turned out to be only $250,000 and the hostess had to choke on her words just to tell the winners...shared prize....what they had won! Crappy thing to do. Anyway, I dont know who these people are and I dont care :)
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1-22-2008 @ 4:29PM
richard nixon said...
omarosa must have made an alliance with something because that butt of hers has increased in size by over 100%.
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1-22-2008 @ 4:33PM
rudewaitress said...
Now there's two turds who deserve each other!!
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