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Odds ‘n Ends - Friday, May 4th

Author Carrie | 04.05.2007 | Category Odds 'n Ends

Pirate Master flagOdds ‘n Ends is a weekly roundup of news bites in the world of reality TV, and appears every Friday.

Yar! Pirate Master Cast Revealed

Mark Burnett is bringing another summer show to CBS, and it’s looking rather familiar so far. Pirate Master premieres May 31st, and the cast list has been officially announced.

The cast is evenly split between men and women, and there are an awful lot of bandanas on display so far. As someone in our forums pointed out, it seems that the casting department have tried to give us another Rupert as well. The show is hosted by Cameron Daddo, an Australian actor and musician.
Watch the video on the show’s homepage and tell me that it doesn’t look a lot like Survivor. Go on, I dare ya.

Rob and Amber Set to “Revolutionize” Reality TV

First they lost their respective seasons of Survivor. Then, somehow, Ambuh won Survivor All Stars. They did The Amazing Race … twice. They got married on television. Amber’s written her Guide for Girls and Rob went back to television for Rob to the Rescue and that poker show. Now, prepare yourself for a “revolution” in reality TV.

That’s right. Romber has created a new reality show that’s set to air next spring. We have a little less than a year to steel ourselves for a show hosted by Rob himself. The Courier Times reports that Mariano said the new show, which he will host, will be “bigger than ‘Survivor,’ bigger than ‘Amazing Race.’

“It’s a competition reality show that will last over 100 days on all seven continents of the world,” he added. “First prize is over $10 million.” He then went on to whoop a couple of teenagers in a game of musical chairs. You go, Rob.

The Naked Apprentice

Kristine didn’t win The Apprentice LA, but she’s staying in the media spotlight by posing nude in the June issue of Playboy, which hit the stands today. According to E! Online, Kristine did this to show fellow cancer survivors that they can still be beautiful. Or something.

Kristine was diagnosed with cervical cancer and underwent a radical hysterectomy only six months before appearing on The Apprentice. Now I’m not unsympathetic with Kristine’s struggles, and no encounter with cancer should be trivialized. But if she really did this to raise awareness for cancer survivors, then perhaps she should put her money where her mouth is and donate a healthy chunk of her earnings to the cause. I did, however, get a good laugh over her comments about The Donald being “obsessed” with her body.

Big Brother’s Alison Irwin - An Arena Football Cheerleader

Just a quick “where are they now” tidbit on Alison Irwin, who is also a bit of a reality TV career contestant. After two seasons of Big Brother and a stint on The Amazing Race, she’s now a cheerleader. You can check out her bio and picture right here. I’ll reserve comment on the “plays t-ball with handicapped children” thing, but is anyone surprised that she doesn’t have a favourite book? Me neither.

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The Bachelor - Amber’s Boss Gets the Boot

Author Carrie | 04.05.2007 | Category The Bachelor

Andy and AmberDoes this strike anyone else as absolutely ridiculous?

Amber Alachabi, who is sitting pretty in the final four on The Bachelor, is a school teacher in Sugar Land, Texas. She had to take a month off of school to film the show, and permission was granted for her to leave. Of course her Bachelor contract stipulated that she couldn’t go around telling people why she was leaving for so long. Instead of making up an elaborate lie, she said that she was taking care of a “personal issue.” No big deal, right?

Wrong.

You’ve probably heard that parents of the kids in Amber’s class are none too pleased with the fact that she’s appearing on the show. They were tipped off when the camera crews arrived for Andy’s hometown date in Sugar Land, and the school sent home release papers to allow the kids in her class to appear on camera. The Houston Chronicle has been keeping on top of the story, and one parent in particular is very vocal about the show. She says that The Bachelor “does not promote family values, moral values or appreciation of the normal ‘dating’ process.” Well no kidding. But who in their right mind is going to let their kid watch the show? See, this is where parental control comes in.

But there’s more. The school principal, Tammie Carpenter, is being disciplined because she approved Amber’s time off. Apparently Carpenter’s superiors would have denied the request for 22 consecutive days off. There’s no mention as to whether or not Carpenter knew the real reason that Amber would be away, but that’s immaterial. Carpenter was demoted and reassigned to another school after a “handful” of parents complained loudly. A few days later, she resigned from her position.

Check out the links above for a more complete story, and pay attention to the comments from readers below the articles. It seems that this is once again a sign of a vocal minority creating havoc, and administrators catering to them instead of supporting their own employees. A few parents complain, and the school board falls all over itself to take action on something that would go away on its own in a very short time.

Besides, it’s not like Amber got naked for peanut butter and chocolate like another school teacher we’re all familiar with.

Read more on The Bachelor at SirLinksALot! Photo courtesy of ABC.

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