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X Factor USA Final 3

Posted by Splotches on December 24, 2011 Comments Off

X Factor USA Final 3

I am telling you I was so hooked on X Factor USA that these Final 3 contestants were actually my bets for their categories! I know that they were the good ones and I knew from the start that they would go far in the competition.

Chris Rene for LA Reid‘s Boys. Josh Krajcik for Nicole Scherzinger‘s Over 30′s. Melanie Amaro for Simon Cowell‘s Girls. My bet for Paula Abdul‘s Groups was Stereo Hogzz but were not really given that much chance to let them show their potential.

Overall, my bet to win the competition was Melanie Amaro. She has the voice that can rival that of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Beyonce. Wow! I think everyone already know what a shoo-in she was when the Final 3 was announced.

Who was your bet to win the X Factor USA?

Kate and Kat axed!

Posted by Splotches on September 1, 2011 Comments Off

Kate Gosselin and her kids’ show Kate Plus 8 is leaving the airwaves. And theirs is not the only show saying bye-bye. Kat Von D‘s reality show LA Ink has also been canceled by TLC.

TLC has decided that the current season of ‘LA INK’ will be its last. The network is proud of what the series has accomplished in its four seasons, following Kat Von D’s journey as an artist from Miami to Los Angeles.
- TLC’s statement said

According to celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D, she actually quit the show!

Whichever it is, both Kate and Kat will be off the air for now.

Survivor Philippines’ Solenn Heussaff

Posted by Splotches on August 30, 2010 Comments Off

Survivor Philippines Solenn Heussaff

I am curious to see how this woman fared in the to-be-shown Survivor Philippines celebrity edition. Solenn Heussaff is a member of the clique set here in the country. A socialite and a commercial and print ad model, I am not sure if she can really survive 39 days in the wilds.

Let’s see if she won’t be a diva on the show. Or a spoiled brat like most socialites I read about.

Survivor Philippines Celebrity Showdown Edition

Posted by Splotches on August 30, 2010 Comments Off

Survivor Philippines Celebrity Edition

Survivor has always been an interesting reality show for me. So when it was announced two years ago, if I am not mistaken, that Philippines would have its own Survivor edition, of course, I was one of those who were excited about it. The first edition of Survivor Philippines was good. I watched it from start to finish. I was in agreement with the winner. And Paolo Bediones was a good host, not of the calibre of Jeff Probst but still a good one all things considered.

I didn’t get to watch the second edition because I felt it was too corny. Everything seemed to be scripted already. And then they announced the change of hosts from Paolo to Richard Gutierrez and GMA7′s decision to host a celebrity showdown instead of the unknown castaways.

That’s when I decided to watch again. I will watch the celebrity showdown and will try to summarize here what happened on each episode.

Stay tuned.

New host for Survivor Philippines

Posted by Splotches on August 29, 2010 Comments Off

Richard Gutierrez

So Richard Gutierrez will be the new host of Survivor Philippines being aired at GMA7. I guess he is the logical choice considering there’s a big hole left behind by Paolo Bediones in terms of hosting. And since it will be a celebrity showdown, might as well get a celebrity from their roster.

Let’s see how he will fare. I know he is an outdoors type of guy. I just don’t know if he will be a good host, probing the contestants to get some juicy tidbits for the viewers to enjoy.

Project Runway Season 8

Posted by Splotches on August 27, 2010 Comments Off

Project-Runway-Season-8

If you don’t know yet, I am a big fan of Project Runway. I love the tandem of Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn. I am excited to watch Project Runway Season 8 and I am hoping the contestants will be a good batch and really have the potential to become big shot fashion designers.

Can’t wait!

America’s Next Top Model

Posted by Splotches on July 24, 2010 Comments Off

Americas Next Top Model

I wonder where the winners and runners-up of America’s Next Top Model are right now. I’ve seen a couple of them at the runway in almost every Project Runway’s season finale. But as for major media exposure, apart from that one who had a run-in with an actress and her family at an airport, you haven’t heard anything from any one of the winners.

It makes you wonder if Tyra Banks is doing something good for these women or she’s just giving them false hope. Can they really become top fashion models or will they be just one of the many who dreamt and fell short?

Quiverfull and oversized families

Posted by Splotches on December 11, 2009 Comments Off

Did you know there’s actually a basis for the multiple children mentality of reality TV families like the Duggars? I didn’t know, too! Until I read this story from Newsweek.

Who doesn’t know Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of the reality TV series “18 Kids and Counting” from TLC? Actually, the kids are 19 now, with Michelle giving birth to their 19th kid last week. They are a very large family who doesn’t have any qualms about the population control. Imagine spawning so many kids… my goodness! I wonder how her tummy feels without a kid in it.

Anyway, according to the Newsweek article, we can pinpoint Quiverfull as the idea behind these oversized families. It is an antifeminist, conservative Christian movement that motivates families like the Duggars. According to the article, Quiverfull is…

It is a pro-life-purist lifestyle known as Quiverfull, where women forgo all birth-control options, viewing contraception as a form of abortion and considering even natural family planning an attempt to control a realm—fertility—that should be entrusted to divine providence.

Read the whole article for the full information on this “ideology” of sorts. And let me know what you think.

Give my kidney back!

Posted by Splotches on January 9, 2009 Comments Off

Batista

Richard Batista, a vascular surgeon in Long Island, is asking his soon-to-be-former wife, Dawnell Batista, to give back his kidney which he donated to her in June 2001. He is divorcing his wife, claiming she cheated on him by having an extramarital affair. As part of the litigation, Richard and his lawyer is demanding $1.5million (£1 million), which he claims the kidney is worth. The way our minds work when we want revenge so badly!

Here’s the catch though. An organ donation is considered a gift in US laws. Organs cannot be bought and sold. Also, according to legal experts, there is no way Richard will get his kidney back. Poor guy!

Survivor Philippines update

Posted by Splotches on November 11, 2008 Comments Off

I can honestly tell you that I am a reality tv fan. I love watching reality shows like Survivor, Project Runway, Amazing Race, Hell’s Kitchen, Iron Chef and the like.

So it is natural for me to get hooked on Survivor Philippines. Paolo Bediones is really bad when it comes to digging the “dirt” out of what’s happening at camps. There’s no comparison to Jeff Probst. He is so polite and can’t even dig out the true feelings and can’t capture the raw emotions of the castaways during Tribal Council. It would have been great for him to be able to make the castaways reveal their innermost thoughts, just like what Jeff does in the US version.

The action at camp is far more interesting than what’s happening in the US version of the show, though. Filipinos are normally territorial and quite loyal to their own. The castaways were divided into Naak and Jarakay camps. But there are merged now and is now called Chalam. It is therefore uncharacteristic to betray a camp-mate when it comes to the merge. A betrayal happened in the last Tribal Council. And too bad Kiko Rustia, the most recent castoff, is now off the game. I would have love for him to be part of the final 3, being a really honest to goodness player.

Only 8 castaways are left and the show is getting interesting more and more.

More Survivor updates from this day forward.

Fear Factor Philippines

Posted by Splotches on November 11, 2008 Comments Off

Fear Factor the Philippine version started yesterday at ABS-CBN primetime bida. Hosted by Ryan Agoncillo, this reality show is being hyped by its promoters. I have doubts if this will be successful like Survivor Philippines. The challenges are just so gross, to say the least. Filipinos can stomach gross shows. We are that resilient. But on a daily basis?

Have you seen the premier episode of this reality tv? What do you think of it?