'Married at First Sight' or 'Love & (Restraining) Order'

IN MANY Tattle items over the years, we've pitched made-up TV shows, movie sequels and spin-offs based on dopey ideas voiced elsewhere in the column.

Our most recent suggestion, thanks to Caitlyn Jenner, was a remake of "Bosom Buddies" with actual transgender actors.

But with all the crazy ideas we have broached over the years - some just to have the lawsuit ready when they're stolen from us - we're not sure we could ever come up with a reality show/social experiment as icky as A&E's "Married at First Sight."

ABC pimping for "The Bachelor" is odd enough - it's like an old-fashioned harem in which a multitude of women live with the king hoping to become his favorite - but "First Sight" is a show from a different country in a different century.

It's one thing for your parents to marry you off to the creepy neighbor next door in return for a goat, but here it's matchmakers and computer programmers putting couples together to meet on their wedding day.

Goodbye, speed dating - hello, speed mating.

Do they find each other physically attractive? Are they philosophically compatible? Are they going to do it on their honeymoon or cry into their pillows wondering how they could have been so gullible?

Or are they going to file a restraining order?

Ding, ding, ding.

E! "News" reports that Jessica Castro and Ryan De Nino, one of the couples who "Married at First Sight," got through the show's season finale OK, but on Saturday De Nino Instagrammed a photo of what appears to be a restraining order taken out against him by Castro.

Kinetic Content, the "First Sight" producers, said in a statement to E! News: "We don't know all the details and can't comment on the specifics. What we can say is that, unfortunately, couples on the show can go through real divorces, and divorce can often be difficult."

Huh? These people barely know each other.

The statement continued: "The experts on our show have the best of intentions and highest hopes for success for each couple. After undergoing extensive background and psychological checks by third parties, couples agree to be legally married on our show. We document their journey for six weeks after their wedding, but we can't control how they behave, or govern their actions after production."

And that's why we have courts of law.

* The Hollywood Reporter says that Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson will star in a third "Pitch Perfect" movie, now that the sequel has tuned up $260 million in the global box office. Penn alum Elizabeth Banks will once again produce - no word whether she'll also direct.

"PP3" will be released on

July 21, 2017, for those of you who schedule two years out.

* The aptly named New Jersey senator Cory Booker is writing a book . . . er.

The first-term Democrat has a deal with Penguin Random House Ballantine Bantam Dell for United, which will combine stories from his life with a plan for "revitalizing" the country.

United will start uniting in January.

According to the publisher, the book will touch on Booker's time as a Rhodes scholar and his ideas for the economy and the criminal-justice system.

* E! reports that Selena Gomez announced earlier yesterday that she's the new face of Pantene, but she really means her dark, long locks are the new hair of Pantene.

According to an E! source, she's getting paid in the neighborhood of $3 million per year to endorse the hair-care line.

"I've always loved using Pantene, so it's a dream come true to be the brand's newest ambassador. Not only because Pantene stands for strong, healthy hair but also because it encourages women to be their best selves," Gomez said, via press release.

What? It's shampoo! Who dreams of endorsing shampoo? As for the encouragement thing, we know it's tough out there, but no woman needs encouragement from shampoo.

And that's coming from Tattle, which is Head & Shoulders above all other gossip columns.

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