Bowl beauty Katherine Webb to make splash on ABC
The beauty queen signs on for an all-wet reality show
Bowl beauty Katherine Webb to make splash on ABC
David Hiltbrand, Inquirer TV Critic
File this under Weird TV News. Did you know ABC has an upcoming reality show called Celebrity Diving?
Yup, and the biggest name signed so far is Miss Alabama Katherine Webb, the beauty queen who gained instant fame just for sitting in the stands at the BSC Championship.Bowl.
Gossip conglomerate TMZ smuggled a photographer onto the set yesterday during the first day of shooting and captured the photo you see above of Webb and NFL bad boy Ndamukong Suh of the Detroit Lions. Now there’s two people we never thought we’d see in the same frame.
Who else is in the cast? TMZ reports that they also spotted Playmate Kendra Wilkinson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Nicole Eggert from Charles in Charge, corpulent comedian Louie Anderson, Chuy, Chelsea Lately’s vertically challenged sidekick and a variety of other marginally recognizable names in terry cloth robes around the pool.
Olympic divers Greg Louganis and David Boudia have signed on as judges for the show, scheduled to debut March 19.
Fans of reality TV may know that this is actually the second time a network has tried this curious format. A couple of weeks ago, Fox aired Stars in Danger:The High Dive. The biggest name on that show was JWoww from Jersey Shore. Turned out to be a ripoff. Although Jenni from the Boardwalk was heavily promoted, she begged off on competing.
Onward and upward. Are you ready for Celebrity Diving? Who would you like to see take the plunge?
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See has bolder legs than him.........— Earl J- I'm glad TMZ got this shot. The young lady is worth whatever she's getting in her 15 minutes.— PhillySubsMac
- Bimbos are what Bimbos are....and some folks will do anything to get on tv......jsut another trashy reality show pandering to the low level american public,,,,— nuggett
Manti Teo's girlfriend would win this hands down.
When she dives in she doesn't make a splash.- Hey, that is my fake girfriend from the internet! She told me she was dead.— pic man
- I wonder if Suh will kick someone in the groin on this show?— MrBigDizzle
- "Nicole Eggert from Charles in Charge" So a cannonball is technically considered a dive?— Murrayman
- Hopefully they all drown.— smfiv
- Wow!!!Why do you people find it entertaining to hate on others. Cant you just be happy for them! How would you like it if these things were being said about you or someone you care about. Humm, maybe you dont have jobs and are jealous these people do have jobs and actually work for a living. Maybe your the ones sitting at home collecting your free money from Obama while real people are working.— Bobby Porter
- Free money from Obama? NO way! " Cant you just be happy for them!" Uh, no, but thanks for chiming in there, Bobby Bodhisattva. "happy" -- what's happened to manliness for crying out loud? Go back to your real work.— Murrayman
- Don't think bobby does work. Just make up inane comments. Ayone know anyone getting free money from Obama? I don't. Maybe bobby is getting it. Besides, if someone offered you a bundle to go on TV, you'd all jumot at it. — mike l
- The authentic "fake" girlfriend; do you really believe she's Johnny Manziel's "main squeeze"?— g-bman
- What— Bobby O
