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Reality Shows

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    And the season 11 winner of American Idol is...

    Five months of auditions, live performances and rounds and rounds of voting led to last night's big moment. Who would be crowned the American Idol champion after so much anticipation? Who deserved to win? Phillip Phillips. Beating Jessica Sanchez, the season's runner-up, in a record-breaking 132 m ... More >>

  • Music

    April 26, 2012

    It's ridiculous to take Ted Nugent seriously

    Five months of auditions, live performances and rounds and rounds of voting led to last night's big moment. Who would be crowned the American Idol champion after so much anticipation? Who deserved to win? Phillip Phillips. Beating Jessica Sanchez, the season's runner-up, in a record-breaking 132 m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    If Britney Spears accepts X Factor job, she could still learn a sexy thing or two from Christina

    This time last year, the most contagious pop trend was working with Pitbull, and what a bandwagon trend that was. As much as we're glad the Pitbull days are over, we're not too hot for this new thing, either. And this new thing, somewhat strangely, is serving as a judge for a televised singing compe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Dog the Bounty Hunter store? That's hotter than an M80 on the Fourth of July

    How the presence of an official Dog the Bounty Hunter merchandise store within 3.5 miles of my home has escaped my knowledge until now, I'm not sure. I've always had an affinity for the show, which is unexplainable by any stretch of the trashy imagination. But man, do I fucking love this show. Maybe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    Runway Redemption

    How the presence of an official Dog the Bounty Hunter merchandise store within 3.5 miles of my home has escaped my knowledge until now, I'm not sure. I've always had an affinity for the show, which is unexplainable by any stretch of the trashy imagination. But man, do I fucking love this show. Maybe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    American Idol Top 24: Stop toying with us, Randy Jackson

    Fourteen of the 24 semifinalists were revealed last night on American Idol. For most of these, it was fairly predictable whom was going to be sent on and whom was going to be cut, but that didn't stop Randy Jackson from again having his fun with the contestants' emotions. The format to last night's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Reality too real for you? Try a marathon of The Hills and check out!

    After spending a long and frustrating day last week trying to figure out what year it was and what country I was living in because my government decided it was cool to discuss a little issue regarding birth control but magically barred the only person with a uterus from being in the room, I was tire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Survivor update, week seven: Dispensary owner Jim Rice plays on as Ozzy seeks Redemption

    Jim Rice​Last week, Jim Rice ended up as the hero for his Savaii Tribe after pushing his team to victory in the elimination challenge. This week, though, the role of tribe savior was usurped by his team mate, veteran Ozzy.

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Scotty McCreery breaks a few Billboard records, plus a breakdown of this week's charts

    Scotty McCreery​Scotty McCreery's new album, Clear As Day, broke records this week by debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, proving that American Idol can still produce stars, even if it's been a while. Clear As Day is the first debut release from an American Idol winner to catapult to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Survivor update, week 3: Dispensary owner Jim Rice staying ahead of competition

    Three weeks into Survivorand local medical marijuana dispensary owner Jim Rice continues to stay alive in the competition. Episode three kicked off where episode two ended, with Christine joining Semhar on the actual Redemption Island.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Bravo's Top Chef will take its tour to Larimer Square on Saturday

    Top Chef contestant -- and Vail restaurant owner -- Kelly Liken will be part of Bravo's Top Chef tour on Saturday in Larimer Square​Because, you know, we don't already have enough eatertainment in Denver this weekend to satiate our hunger pains, what with The Great Food Truck Race motoring in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Five better things for JLo to cry about than American Idol

    ​JLo couldn't handle the dream crushing on last week's American Idol. Apparently, she was under the impression that this show consisted of judges telling people how inspiring their life stories are. She shed some tears and questioned her future on the show, but despite the manufactured drama, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Jersey Shore 3 Episode 9: The Meatballs go nuts

    Snooki makes all her booty calls on the duck phone​Nothing like a flat bang of an episode opening--finally, Snooki has gotten hers (well, again.) But as soon as this dude is in, he's out--he won't cuddle. After Snooki tells him to head out, she gets on the duck phone to call up an old flame. Meanw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Madison McKinley, The Bachelor's vampire girl, shows off her fangs and her softer side on Ellen

    Madison McKinley.​Vail's Madison McKinley, the vampire girl on The Bachelor, left the show during Monday's episode, walking away from a pleading Brad Womack, not to mention more national TV exposure. But she got additional spotlight time today, appearing in an extended segment of Ellen. Watch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Madison McKinley, The Bachelor's vampire girl, defangs herself, rejects Brad Womack

    Madison McKinley.​Colorado contestants didn't receive a rose on The Bachelor last night, with both Vail's Madison McKinley and Denver's Sarah Powell going flower-free. But McKinley, the renowned vampire girl and blood-donation dominatrix, made by far the showier exit, defanging herself before ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    The Jersey Shore Season Three premiere re-cap: Snooki gets duplicated

    Meet Jersey's newbie, Deena.​The gang's all here -- well, minus Angelina and plus the new and terrifying, droopy-eyed Snooki part two, Deena -- and after a stint in Miami, they're back at the actual Jersey Shore. Thank god.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Study says republicans like winners, dems like losers, everyone likes their politics fed to them

    Are YOU watching Dancing with the Stars?​Republicans are flag-flying rubes who drive enormous pickup trucks and lap up mass-produced reality dreck like it was a case of shitty domestic beer. Democrats are effete, pasty elitists who drink tea with their pinkies up and prefer "sophisticated" TV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Bad Girls Club coming to Denver?: Casting call for Real World-style Oxygen net bitchfest

    ​Are you ready to play host for a houseful of reality-show attention addicts à la MTV's Real World: Denver a few years back? If not, you'd better get ready -- because Bunim/Murray, Real World's production company, has just placed a Craigslist ad announcing, "THE BAD GIRLS CLUB IS COMING TO D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Top Chef takes the cake at Emmy awards

    ​A lot of my irritation with Top Chef DC is the rage of a spurned lover. I've been watching, mesmerized, since the beginning of the show, but this season the gimmicks seem cheesier, the judges smugger, the contestants less interesting -- and the food just a secondary player. In context, thou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Top Chef contestant and Coloradan Kenny Gilbert could go all the way

    Kenny Gilbert has gone from Telluride to D.C. ​The first episode of Top Chef D.C. aired last night, and like every other food obsessive I know, I was glued to the set. Now in its seventh season, at this point the show is pretty much pure formula -- Quickfire Challenge, chefs' race through Whol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ted Haggard: Is reality TV in his future?

    Is Ted Haggard ready for his closeup?​Update, 11:25 a.m.: Ted Haggard has made his announcement. It involves a launch party for his new church and a possible documentary. Details below the original item, published at 8:36 a.m. Today at 10:30 a.m., embattled Colorado Springs evangelist Ted Hag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Lilly Scott joins Haeley Vaughn as Colorado's great American Idol hopes

    Based on the edition of American Idol focusing on Denver auditions, we declared Fort Collins' Haeley Vaughn to be Colorado's great American Idol hope. (Of course, Bikini Boy Ty Hemmerling made a different kind of impression.) But last night's episode marking the beginning of Hollywood Week (and the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Bikini Boy speaks!: Ty Hemmerling on his revealing American Idol performance

    Ty Hemmerling ties one on.​Last night's American Idol episode focusing on the show's Denver auditions introduced America to Fort Collins' Haeley Vaughn, who's clearly Colorado's great Idol hope. But arguably the most memorable moment came courtesy of Ty Hemmerling, dubbed "Bikini Boy" by judg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Will La La and Melo help NBA stars find love?

    La La Vazquez, former MTV veejay and fiance of Nuggets starter Carmelo Anthony, knows a bit about love-themed reality shows -- especially the VH1 kind that star gold-toothed-'80s-rappers-who-once-had-relations-with-the-Russian-chick-from-Rocky IV and crazy bitches who cat-fight other crazy bitches. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Meet Louisville Top Model hopeful Nicole Fox

    Editor's note: Catch up with Nicole Fox's journey to America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen victory by reading all our cycle thirteen recaps. Click to revisit episode two (with Lauren Conrad), episode three (when Nicole channels Gollum), episode four (the show Nicole barely survived), episode fiv ... More >>

  • News

    November 19, 2009

    Reality bites for Colorado and Richard Heene

    Editor's note: Catch up with Nicole Fox's journey to America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen victory by reading all our cycle thirteen recaps. Click to revisit episode two (with Lauren Conrad), episode three (when Nicole channels Gollum), episode four (the show Nicole barely survived), episode fiv ... More >>

  • News

    October 15, 2009

    Let's get real: Who are Denver's top ten reality TV stars?

    Editor's note: Catch up with Nicole Fox's journey to America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen victory by reading all our cycle thirteen recaps. Click to revisit episode two (with Lauren Conrad), episode three (when Nicole channels Gollum), episode four (the show Nicole barely survived), episode fiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    Top Model: Lauren Conrad loves Nicole Fox

    Nicole Fox.​On episode two of America's Next Top Model's thirteenth cycle, Louisville's own Nicole Fox, who we introduced you to last Thursday, was seldom in the spotlight, but was in no real danger of getting the heave-ho, as happened to not one but two contestants, Rachel and Courtney. She l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Highlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen

    Lori MidsonTop Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and knifed cheftestant Fabio Viviani By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I'd already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Jesus tells Colorado native Heidi Montag to love the mean people on her new reality show

    Denver pizza entrepreneur Mark Huebner isn't the only Coloradan scoring points for engaging in a "Verbal Fight/Physical Fight" on television these days. Crested Butte's Heidi Montag -- along with her fluffy-haired weenie of a husband, Spencer Pratt -- is a contestant on the lamely named NBC realit ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2009

    Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

    Colorado connections make these reality TV shows more fun to watch.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg spreads the wealth

    A few weeks back, shortly after it was announced that Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg had taken home the big prize and won this year's Top Chef prize on the Bravo reality show of the same name, Rosenberg mentioned in passing that he was already working with a local artisanal foods company, but wouldn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    Boulder's Ace Young back on American Idol -- kind of, sort of, in a way

    The newly shorn Ace Young, now of "American Idol Extra." American Idol didn't prove to be a skyrocket to fame for Boulder's Ace Young, a 2006 Westword profile subject. But three years after finishing seventh in the contest -- remember how he equated that number with the one John Elway wore? -- he's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    America's confidence still high, according to Next Top Model casting call

    See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we're beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Chef and Tell!

    See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we're beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Fallen Idol

    See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we're beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown D ... More >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    A Louse in the House

    Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2007

    The Worst TV of 2007

    Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2007

    Vlog the Impaler, Numero Tres

    Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2007

    Chairman of the Board

    Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2007

    Va Va Room With a View

    Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    Room With a View

    TV or not TV? That was the question.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2006

    So You Think You Can Judge Dancing?

    TV or not TV? That was the question.

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2006

    Incredible Feet

    TV or not TV? That was the question.

  • Music

    July 13, 2006

    Poison/Cinderella

    Sunday, July 16, Coors Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Get Real

    A clipboard and a camera will get you anywhere -- even on The Real World.

  • Culture

    December 30, 2004

    Artbeat

    Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Reality Bites

    It's the Colorado hillbillies!

  • People & Places

    March 27, 2003

    Best Appearance by a Coloradan on National TV

    Ryan Sutter
    The Bachelorette

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    Backwash

    Start me up: The Stones came to town — and everyone knew it.

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