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2001-01-24 - 12:09:15 - Temptation Island
Yes, I hate to admit it, I am actually looking forward to watching Temptation Island tonight. But before you condemn me for this let me at least tell you why I’m finding it so intriguing tonight. You see, I kind of know one of the ‘Temptresses’ and tonight she is going on a ‘date’ with one of the men so I’m eager to see what transpires. Now I must say that I am not by any means well acquainted with this person, but I have met her a few times through mutual friends. My little sister, who is ‘mentally challenged’, is quite enthralled with this woman because she once had a guest role on 90210 (one of my sister’s favorite shows – groan) when she still considered herself an ‘actress’. (Now I don’t know if she now doesn’t consider herself an actress, but during introductions she did not introduce herself that way. I guess she’s moved on to other areas of the entertainment industry.) I must say in her behalf that she is always very nice to my little sister, despite my sister’s annoying tendency to ‘shadow’ someone she likes or holds in high esteem for one reason or another. That to me at least shows some decency and kindness, because she doesn’t have to bother to be kind to my sister. She’s posed for photographs with my sissy and signed her ‘guest book,’ etc. But I’ve said hardly more than a few words to her, more because I didn’t feel we had a whole lot in common than for any other reason. Also, I’m not much of a ‘star gazer’ and someone having lunch with the ‘90210 gang’ doesn’t do much to impress me. If anything I find that being on that show would reduce a persons chances of being taken seriously as an actor in Hollywood, but then since I’ve never tried to ‘make it’ in Hollywood I wouldn’t know if that assessment is correct or not. Anyway, I must admit that my husband and I started watching the first episode of Temptation Island out of morbid curiosity. I mean, who in their right mind would want to ‘test’ their relationship in that manner??? I just don’t see how this could cause anything BUT jealousy, hurt feelings, mistrust, etc. And who in their right mind would want to be one of the ‘available singles’ that are supposed to ‘tempt’ these people. I mean it’s like ‘coming out’ to the world to let them all know that you are an easy tramp. And while many might not view the single men in the same ‘trampish’ light as the women, I certainly do. I find that the same holds true for them as the women. And you know that might not be what some of these people are about at all (though there are others that I think were probably well cast for the role), but certainly that is the impression they are giving to the world watching them. So we start watching the show in disbelief, making snide comments about the couples ‘reasons’ for wanting to do this. Then when they introduced the singles I was half-heartedly paying attention until the person I know introduced herself. In fact, I don’t think I was even looking when she did her introduction until I heard her name and where she was from. By the time I looked up I barely caught a glimpse of her, so I spent the rest of the night trying to figure out if it could be the person I thought it was. Every time the cameras ‘scanned’ over the line of the single women I tried to see if I could recognize her. We then watched as the men and women picked someone to ‘ban’ from the Island and each picked someone to be ‘blocked’ from dating their significant others. It just so happens that this particular person was chosen to be blocked and when they showed her getting the bracelet, I jumped up and shouted “That IS her.” Of course I had to remind my husband who in the heck this girl was, though he had met her himself the last time we were in Hawaii. (We were even on the same plane as her family and I had pointed them out to him on the way over.) And once to appease my sister he had watched her short ‘guest appearance’ on 90210, which my sister had taped (shows you how much he actually paid attention at the time). And he agreed it might be her. Well, with THIS new development, you can bet I was anxious to see how this show continued. A few days later, we were having dinner with my parents and sister when I brought up the show and asked if they knew if this particular girl might actually be on this show. And while my parents had NO idea about the show or the concept of it (they are not couch potatoes and rarely watch tv), they had heard that she was going to be on it from our mutual friends. So now I had absolute confirmation. Of course, my sister’s eyes lit right up and she wanted to know exactly when it was going to be on and what channel etc. Yeah, another quality show for my sister with a 13 year olds mental equivalent to watch! The night of the 2nd Episode, my mom called me at 8:00pm asking me what time and channel ‘that show with X’ was going to be on. I was shocked. One because as I said my parents just don’t watch much tv and two because this was definitely not the type of thing my parents would ever chose to watch if they did. She went on to say that she had talked with their friends who had said that this girl’s dad was not very happy that she was doing the show, but that she wanted to be in the entertainment industry so badly that she would do anything to ‘get ahead’. I’m sorry, but I don’t see how doing a show such as this one could EVER be good for someone’s acting career. But I guess her ‘shining moment’ of some on-screen time is tonight, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
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