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Tattle: Reality-show bozos making actors look good
ACTORS, it seems, have been getting a bad rap.
For years they've been criticized for their behavior, their morals and for being bad role models.
Then along came reality-TV stars and all of a sudden actors don't look so bad.
Richard Hatch ("Survivor") doesn't pay his taxes.
Those "real" housewives make the "Sex and the City" women look like cloistered nuns.
The women on those MTV date- show slut-fests look like they walked right off the streets of an HBO hooker documentary - and not a good one like "Cathouse."
The families of "Wife Swap" and "Supernanny" are straight out of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
So far, "The Bachelor" has loved and left women from his ABC-pimped harem, but he's never married one.
Let's not even talk about the balloon idiots in Colorado.
And who would you rather be raised by, Brad and Angelina or Jon and Kate?
The latest inductee into the Reality Hall of Shame is Adam Jasinski, now of Delray Beach, Fla., who took the $500,000 he won on "Big Brother," a show whose cast members "act" like rejects from "The Jerry Springer Show," and allegedly bought thousands of oxycodone pills with the hope of reselling them.
Now it could be goodbye "Big Brother," hello "Big House," where Jasiniski will also be under constant surveillance.
And doing all of us in the Delaware Valley proud, Jasinski has a local angle - see Dan Gross on the next page.
'Biggest Loser' gets companion
Didn't Pat Croce do a series in which he went into people's homes and tried to improve their lives?
NBC is going to try the same thing with "Biggest Loser" trainer Jillian Michaels.
The network has picked up eight episodes of "Losing It With Jillian." Michaels will travel the country showing weight-challenged Americans that they can get the same results as contestants on "The Biggest Loser" without visiting the ranch.
"We all have the demands of work, family and school," executive producer Mark Koops said. "Here's a chance to show the rest of America how to live healthier lives."
In each episode, Jillian will move into a family's home and give them a top-to-bottom fitness, nutrition and wellness makeover. Unlike "Loser," which is more strictly focused on shedding pounds, "Losing It" will take on multiple aspects of living a healthier lifestyle.
The show also will feature celebrity chef Curtis Stone, who will offer the families a nutrition plan and cooking tips.
