Yul Kwon-related stories
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 8:30AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, Survivor, Celebrities, Big Brother (US)
Lately, what we've been hearing about reality television has been awful. The winner of
Big Brother became a drug dealer by using his prize money to bankroll his illegal activities.
A family that appeared on Wife Swap perpetrated a hoax involving their six-year-old son and a helium balloon. Is there anything good to say about reality TV?
Here's something.
Survivor: Cook Islands winner Yul Kwon is joining the FCC. He has been named deputy chief of the consumer and governmental affairs bureau for the FCC.
That's the Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Julius Genachowski made the appointment, and it wasn't because Yul did well in challenges.
Continue reading Survivor winner appointed to FCC post
Posted Nov 20th 2007 9:21AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, OpEd, American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother (US), Contestants, Alumni, TV Squad Lists
As you probably know AOL TV is listing the
50 Sexiest Women of TV. This week they added numbers 30-21. Looking at these pictures just brings back memories--Katie Holmes on
Dawson's Creek! I almost forgot she started on the small screen before she became the kept woman of that wacko Tom Cruise.
Their list over at AOL inspired me to create my own list--this time of Reality TV stars. Be sure to write who you would add to either AOL TV's list or my own list in the comments.
Continue reading The seven hottest reality TV stars
Posted Nov 24th 2006 1:31PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Industry, Lost, Survivor, Celebrities, Heroes
This week's
San Francisco Gate takes a look at the recent upsurge in television's hot Asian ("Hasian") male factor and asks the enduring question, "Have we come a long way, baby?"
The author Jeff Yang surveys
People's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue and answers in the affirmative thanks to the presence of
Survivor's Yul Kwon,
Lost's Daniel Dae Kim and John Cho, formerly of
Kitchen Confidential. While Yang sticks to East Asia, if you throw in South Asian actors Naveen Andrews of
Lost and Sendhil Ramamurthy of
Heroes, you start to get more evidence that Hollywood's worst crimes of representation might be behind it.
Continue reading Television's Hasian Persuasion
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