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King of Foolians
Mar 16, 2006
Long live the King!

Nihonniboku posted:

Logo has a new gay dating show called Finding Prince Charming, hosted by Lance Bass. It's basically a complete rip off of The Bachelor, and looked to be completely mundane other than the fact that their bachelor is stupidly hot. Every promotion has included at least one scene of him shirtless stepping out of the water onto a beach.

Then the news came out that he used to be an escort. His escorting page surfaced, along with mixed reviews, complete with videos from xtube. And not just videos of him jacking off, but videos of him receiving used condoms full of semen in the mail from clients and fans, and filming himself sucking them dry, or injecting the semen with a needle into his penis.

Logo's PR team has scrambled into overtime and sent him and Lance Bass on a media tour to talk about how it was something he just did to pay for college, and that they just want to focus on his charitable work today.

Logo is desperate for programming.

So why isn't "Did you used to be an escort?" question #1 on the vetting process for this guy? Question #2 should have been "Are there easy-to-find videos of you on porn sites?" Did anyone in charge think this kind of stuff wouldn't be found?

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King of Foolians
Mar 16, 2006
Long live the King!

garthoneeye posted:

Part of me wonders if Phi Phi's problem with not being able to play to the audience comes from her belief she was promised a redemption edit.
Phi Phi may have been doing that mind game bullshit and actively participating/instigating arguments because she was feeling secure she would come out on the good side in the edit because of her redemption promise.
If that's true she needed to realize that producer's will always go with the easiest storyline they have and WoW is certainly not a company unwilling to burn bridges with former contestants.

I agree with you, and the producers are especially not going to give you a redemption storyline if 1) There are others who have a better redemption arc (like Tatiana) and 2) no one is stepping into the "villain" role.
I doubt that Phi Phi was 'promised' a redemption edit because what producer would promise that before shooting starts, but I guarantee that she was told that she would have the opportunity to redeem herself. The fact that she still played the game the way she did unfortunately didn't support that.
I honestly think that Phi Phi came into this competition ready to do great and redeem herself. But she can't stop making little shady comments and throwing doubt onto other contestants. Like, I don't think it was her being strategic when she takes someone aside to tell them that she's worried about what they are planning to do (like she did to Roxxxy in Snatch Game); I think it's honestly just her verbal diarrhea that she can't control. And the producers are behind the cameras thinking "poo poo yeah, we can work with this, we thought we were in trouble when Detox wasn't giving us any shade."
I think there is probably a little manipulation going on. It's one thing if everyone is making lovely comments to each other and they only show you doing it, but the way she walked off after elimination and refused to hug Alyssa was super awkward and very 'sore loser-y' and that obviously wasn't edited beyond what she herself did. It's stuff like that that makes me think that maybe she is getting a bad edit but the stuff they are showing her say is stuff that she actually said. This competition (like all, I guess) can bring out the worst in people and I think Phi Phi is a perfect example of that.

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