The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom
We now interrupt our Big Brother coverage to bring you something just a little different. (In the off-BB season, we actually cover other shows too!)
TLC SHARES THE SECRET LIFE OF A SOCCER MOM
All-New Series Hosted By Tracey Gold
Being a stay-at-home mother is an all-consuming career–and while most moms are very fulfilled by this choice, other women wonder about the dreams they left behind. TLC‘s new series THE SECRET LIFE OF A SOCCER MOM offers those women a chance to answer “what if” when it gives a full-time mom the chance to secretly live the life she gave up to raise her family. Hosted by Tracey Gold (Growing Pains), THE SECRET LIFE OF A SOCCER MOM premieres Monday, March 3, 2008 at 10 PM, part of a lineup that includes the smash hits LITTLE PEOPLE BIG WORLD and JON & KATE PLUS 8.
Each hour-long episode profiles the story of a mom as she experiences what her life could have been like if she had chosen to juggle career and family. Guided by Tracey, Mom spends one week shifting from the carpool lane to the fast lane œ giving her the opportunity to get back to the career she left behind. At the close of the episode, she makes a spectacular reveal, telling her family that she has been living a secret life, and she is asked to make a surprising choice: pursue her new dual life, or return to her family knowing that she’s made the right choice after all.
“Almost every woman experiences the pull between becoming a full-time mom or juggling both family and work. This show will give us the chance to learn what sacrifices and rewards there are in making this challenging and unique decision,” explains Brant Pinvidic, SVP Programming, TLC. “Each episode ends up being a remarkable voyage as we see them accomplish goals they never thought possible and then make the decision about which path they should pursue.”
During this season, viewers will meet women like Adrian, a mother of three who dreams of making it big in the fashion industry; Kathryn, who met her husband in culinary school and now wants to see if she can handle the heat of a professional kitchen; and Jeannie who wonders if being a police officer œ like her husband œ will be as rewarding as raising her four children. Each episode of THE SECRET LIFE OF A SOCCER MOM will bring viewers along on an exciting and emotional journey as these mom experience life both at home and work.
“As a working mom myself, I can completely relate to the hard choices we face when balancing family and career,” explains Tracey Gold. “This show is very inspirational and gives these women - many who thought they‘d never have return to their careers - a chance to see what they are capable of.”
THE SECRET LIFE OF A SOCCER MOM is a production of GRB. Photo of Tracey Gold courtesy TLC.
BB9 - Second Food Comp Is Over
The food comp appears to be over. The girls are wearing green unitards, except for Sharon who is wearing overalls along with Joshuah. The rest of the guys are wearing brightly coloured aprons. They seem to be on outdoor lockdown. Natalie is saying that it was all a team effort, so it sounds like they were playing for food categories for the house. They got beverages for sure, but don’t seem too disappointed in the items they didn’t get.
There’s some chatter about how much they all weigh having an effect on the result, as well as something about crates. Sorry, that’s all I’ve got to go on.
Everyone’s getting along just fine, for now.
Big Brother 9 Live Feeds, February 28th, Morning – Joshuah and Allison at it Again
The wake up call comes at 9:30 this morning. Josh and Sharon are already making plans for next week, saying that once Allison and Ryan are gone, they can backdoor Mattalie. But of course we know there’s a twist coming up, the game could be turning individual, and that you can’t backdoor someone if they play for and win the veto.
Josh claims that he will go off on Allison before the veto comp, but that’ll be the last time he does it. Sharon thinks he should do it to Natalie next week too, but he says no. She’s too innocent for something like that. The stripper who rubbed whipped cream all over her boobs and let others lick it off is too innocent for a verbal assault? Really?
Sheila and Allison laugh about Ryan being upset about the lesbian thing, calling it “so last week.” Natalie is there too, and she’s still complaining about Matty not talking to her. Let. It. Go.
Allison tells Chelsia and then Adam that she went up to Joshuah and told him that he did a great acting job last night. She seems to think this is incredibly funny. She thinks that there’s no way he passed the psych exam to get into the house. Honey, Booger passed the psych test. Crappy, April, Amber, Zach … they all passed the psych test. How hard can the test be?
Ryan comes out of the DR and says that there’s a competition coming up “soon.” They say exactly what I’m thinking: that “soon” will be in three or four hours. They all figure it’s a food comp, and complain about the possibility of going on slop. Lots of speculation on what the comp will be like.
Joshuah is in the kitchen, and Allison comes walking through. They bicker, even as Allison goes to the bathroom to put her face on. Joshuah’s telling her that he can’t wait to send her home. She counters by wondering what Josh’s boyfriend Chase is doing right now, and who he might be “butt-f*cking.” She says, “that’s what gay guys do.” And that would be another clip we won’t be seeing on the actual show.
More arguing, and then Allison comes into the kitchen. Joshuah tells her to stay at least five feet away, but she says she can go wherever she wants to and he has to move if she comes near him. Wow, she really is a bitch. This brings up flames, of course.
Joshuah goes upstairs to pace in his anger. Sharon tries to calm him down, talking about the upcoming veto competition. They wonder if they should put Allison and Ryan on the block, or try to backdoor them. Sharon tells him to go get everyone else except Allison and Ryan, and they’ll have a house meeting to figure it all out.
Joshuah goes downstairs and loudly tells everyone except the dead couple walking that they need to go up to the HoH room for a meeting. Allison and Ryan sit and whine while everyone else goes up. The meeting is interrupted constantly by flames, as Allison is downstairs complaining about CBS allowing this to happen. What? Allowing what to happen? Is no one supposed to yell at poor Allison? I doubt that’s in the rule book.
Upstairs, the general consensus is to put Allison and Ryan on the block along with Matt and Natalie, who are ensured safety this week. We’ll see how that goes, won’t we? If Allison and Ryan win the veto, it’s bye-bye Mattalie.
The flames reappear and then go to trivia, so either BB is laying a royal smackdown, or we’re waiting for food comp results.
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Big Brother 9 Live Feeds, February 27th, After the Live Show – Another BB First: The Restraining Order
Joshuah and Sharon are the new HoH couple, and Josh spends a lot of time hooting and hollering about their victory. Apparently, before the feeds came back, there was a shouting match between Allison and Joshuah, with Josh calling her a bitch. Imagine that.
Allison makes a point of telling Matt and Natalie that she’s the sole reason they are still in the house (even though it was her idea to oust them in the first place), so he’d better make good on his promise to use the veto on her this week when she goes on the block. Do we all foresee Mattalie throwing the veto if they get to play?
Allison says that she wants to egg Joshuah on and make him so mad that he hits her, thereby eliminating himself from the game. Josh is already on a mission to get Allison out of the house – can’t wait to find out what this “Operation” will be called. He’s telling everyone that he wants Allison out this week.
Sheila goes to Sharon, who is obviously the more reasonable of the two, and says that she understands if she and Adam have to go on the block as pawns, but she would be willing to vote the way that Sharon and Josh want her too if she’s not nominated. Sheila also points out that she and Adam haven’t done well in the comps so far, so if Sharon is looking for someone to be able to beat Allison and Ryan in the veto, they probably aren’t her best bet. That’s not a bad strategy there Sheila – well done.
Natalie joins this conversation, as does Joshuah. Natalie, dear sweet Beaver-State Natalie, tells Josh that he has to keep yelling at Allison, especially before the veto competition, to break her down and hurt her performance in the comp.
Allison ramps up the drama by saying that Joshuah is scaring her by threatening physical violence and almost hit her with his HoH key when he was swinging it around.
Joshuah mentions that he wants the vote split so that he can have the honour of evicting Allison himself. He’s only been co-HoH for a couple of hours, and he’s already got the whole week planned out. He gets called to the DR, where they tell him (according to what he tells his “group” when he returns) to keep his distance from Allison because she’s accusing him of physical threats. In fact, he has to stay five feet away from her at all times. He tells Sheila that she’s safe this week, and that what he really wants is for Allison to leave voluntarily.
Ryan is getting edgy, and pleads with Adam to use the veto on him and Allison if he wins it. Adam bugs his eyes out and says that he doesn’t even know if he’ll be playing for it. Ryan has a whole scenario planned though, that Adam can win the veto, save Ryan, and then vote to keep Matt in the house, thereby saving the alliance and making Joshuah responsible for James and Chelsia’s demise.
Time now for an end-of-slop pizza party. The whole house gathers ’round the table for a pretend happy-families meal.
Allison gets deeper and deeper into the victim role, telling Ryan that she put a “restraining order” on Joshuah because she’s afraid of him. She also says that she really doesn’t care what “a retarded gay man” thinks of her. Ruh roh. I guess we know this clip will never make it on air, huh?
Meanwhile, Adam, James, and Matt have developed a new “Operation.” We saw that coming, right? It’s “Operation Gardener,” so-named because Allison likes to plant seeds. Hee. That one’s actually kind of funny.
Allison, who is apparently so afraid of Joshuah, starts yelling at him and Sharon about calling her a bitch. Joshuah likens Allison to wallpaper, saying that she’s so boring even he can’t be bothered to put her up. Which would be funny if he hadn’t been talking about putting her up for the past several hours.
Allison leaves, and Adam and Sharon tell Ryan about Allison’s plan to bait Joshuah and get him thrown out of the game. This angers Ryan, and he goes to confront his partner. They shout at each other a bit, and Ryan leaves. They both refuse to talk to the other until one of them apologizes. And of course they don’t want to be the one to apologize first. So third-grade.
Allison tells Chelsia that Ryan had better smarten up and realize that she saved their asses this week, because if he doesn’t, she’s going to make damn sure they get evicted. Good lord, what is wrong with this woman? Then she decides that she’s had enough, and wants to quit. She’s pissed off that BB isn’t doing anything about Joshuah’s threats except telling him to stay five feet away from her. Chelsia tries to convince her to stay, probably knowing that if Allison walks, it’ll be either Jen or Amanda who comes back to take her place. And no one wants that.
Chelsia goes to tell Ryan how upset Allison is, and he doesn’t care. Someone brings up the lesbian lie, and it seems that this is the first time Ryan’s heard it. Chelsia tells him everything, and this makes him even angrier. He wants her to leave as well, wondering why he would want to keep a partner who continually messes with him game.
A bunch of hamsters get together in one of the bedrooms, lying on all of the beds and the floor. Chelsia is talking about (and touching, apparently) Sheila’s boobs. Sheila notices Matt has a hard on. James says that he keeps having sex dreams about Sheila, and offers to go “three rounds” with her if she wants to. Sigh. It always comes back to this stuff.
Joshuah goes to the memory wall, takes Allison’s key, and puts it down the back of his pants, seemingly wiping his butt with it. He hangs the key back up on the wall. Gross. And just … wrong.
Allison and Ryan go at it again, with Ryan telling her that the whole lesbian thing is going to come out tomorrow (doesn’t everyone else know about this?) and that people will know that she’s a liar. She tries to blame all of it on Sheila, and takes responsibility for the two of them still being in the house. Ryan argues this point, saying that he worked hard for James and Chelsia’s votes the first week. They call each other names and Ryan walks away.
Natalie is once again upset that Matt doesn’t want to talk to her, but liked her enough to ask for a hand job. Hee. They fight, and Natalie runs off crying, saying that she too wants to go home. Open the door, BB. Let ‘em walk. Allison joins Natalie for a pity party.
Joshuah decides to decorate Allison’s bowl/cup with “-6 Ugly Bitch” in nail polish. I see he’s adopted Parker’s rating system. A little while later though, he goes and puts the bowl in the storage room and washes the key before putting it back on the memory wall.
Sheila comes up to tell Sharon and Josh that Ryan tried to kiss Allison and now she’s mad that she can’t have him. Or something. Who the hell knows.
Things finally start to settle down and people are getting ready for bed. Joshuah gets called to the DR, and moans that he knows what this is about. Heh. When he returns, he tells Sharon that he’s not allowed to talk about it, but everything is fine. The lights go out, and we’re on night vision watching the hamsters sleep.
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