You’ve just signed the confidentiality agreement. You can barely contain your glee. You’ve been chosen to be a reality-TV contestant on national television. Tens of thousands tried, but you beat them all. As the non-descript producer shakes your hand, you have the feeling your life is about to change. Whether it was the hours of singing…
American Idol superstardom is upon you. Your dream of becoming a pop star is within reach. You brought your A-Game to the group eliminations and blew the competition away during the top 24 weeks. Your talents are about to be showcased in front of millions. This is your time. You don’t have to win to make it…
Life is wonderful thing. You’ve seen every episode of Entourage so you know how show business works. You’re Vincent Chase with a microphone. You’ve participated in every interview on MTV from your bedroom for as long as you can remember, and you’ve won the previous eight seasons of American Idol in a landslide from that place in your…
Last night, Tim Urban was able to put together a performance that made the judges eat their words and nauseatingly kiss his ass. Lennon and McCartney night celebrated the Liverpool lad’s brilliant song writing abilities. It is nearly impossible to ruin these songs and Urban played to his strengths. Well, sort of. Teflon Tim delivered All My Loving as a Plain…
Even through the head fog brought on from his walking pneumonia, Lee DeWyze will understand the gravity of Simon Cowell’s grandiose statement on RB/Soul night Tuesday. DeWyze is a front-runner with undeniable talent and the judges seem to toss everyone else under the bus. He can afford to soak up glory of the review, and choke…
This article was featured on www.reality-tv.buzzsugar.com Switch on the television at any time of the day, you are almost sure to find a reality show on some channel. Chances are that you have watched at least one of these shows and have taken a fancy to following the minutiae of the contestants’ lives as they unfold…
Mar 02, 2010 – Orlando, FL — Author and Reality TV Expert Dr. Vaughn Alaine-Marshall releases Überstar — the explosive novel based upon stories as told by contestants, producers and insiders from the world’s biggest reality television shows. The first installment of a trilogy follows participants, judges and the production crew in a fictitious ‘Idol’ reality show for actors. Intrigued by phenomenon of…
As featured in Yahoo! Shine: http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/ellen-degeneres-great-people-are-still-everyday-people-1120719/ Great people are still everyday people. Great people lose socks in the laundry and order Chinese food when they don’t want to cook. In the morning their breath smells and they put their pants on one leg at a time. What makes someone great is undefinable. However greatness is easy…
The ninth season of American Idol premiered on January 12, 2010, on FOX. Nearly 30 million people tuned in for the latest installment of America’s highest rating show. More viewers watched this television show than there are people living in Australia and The Netherlands. If American Idol were a country it would be the 40th largest nation…
No matter how many times I tried to turn the pictures off in my head, I lay awake staring at the ceiling. I could see dust twirling in the moonlight. I rolled over and saw ‘four a.m.’ staring back at me – ten hours after the conversation with my mother’s best friend. Sleeping in Australia in summer time is hard enough…
