December 2007 News Archive

Megan Hauserman is really doing anything to stay in the news.

The winner of Season 3 of Beauty and the Geek has already posed nude for Playboy. Now? She's hoping to see Bret Michaels in the buff... for life!

In her reality TV career so far, Hauserman was partnered with Alan Zackheim on Beauty and the Geek, as the two were awarded the cash prize on the show for changing the most.

She also has enjoyed a relatively successful modeling career, having posed for Playboy and been named Playboy Cybergirl of the week in February of 2006.

But it hasn't been enough.

Hauserman will appear as a contestant on Rock of Love 2, hoping to earn the affection of the former Poison frontman. But for what possible reason? In her casting video, Megan says she was compelled to join the show as fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

"I think that I was born to be a rock star girlfriend," she said. "I can't even help it. It's like a calling, like, nurses… I mean nuns… they feel a calling, they have to go to the convent. That's me! I feel it! It's calling me. It's meant to be. I can't even help it.

It really is exactly like being a nun.

Before Domenico Nesci stars in his reality dating show, he's letting the world know what he's looking for in a woman.

"My typical woman would be sweet… really sweet," Domenico said. "You have to know how to cook a little bit, too, because, you know, I'm an Italian guy, so you have to know how to cook.

You should be bored of American guys. You should be bored of this kind of a muscle-type man who walks around, counting all his muscles, and doesn't have any… brain."

Ouch. He's not a fan of the men in the United States, is he? The former suitor on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila added he is "not like an American type of guy… I believe in feelings. I believe in love. I believe in true love."

Is he implying that us Americans do not? Do you agree with that?

MTV's Newport Harbor isn't enough for Allie Stockton.

The young star of that reality show - which isn't even halfway through its second season - recently said she'll be getting her own spin-off in the near future.

The 17-year-old said the network pitched the idea for the new series "because -- brace yourselves - The Hills is going to end one day, and MTV needs a way to bring in some money."

"My show will show my job currently or internship, can't say which I have, along with some more of my personal life," Stockton  explained.  "My friends will also be on the show."

Look out, Lauren Conrad! Someone wants your spotlight.

Tiffany Pollard is ready to become Tiffany Weisgerber.

On the January 6 I Love New York 2 reunion show, Tailor Made (real name: George Weisgerber) proposes to Pollard - and the reality star show says YES!

"They are madly in love," a source close to the couple says. "They are a great couple."

Here's a shock: Donald Trump says the celebrity edition of The Apprentice is the best yet, as he had to accept far fewer stars than even applied for his show.

"I think it's important to say for every person we took on, we turned down five. I never knew there were so many celebrities, to be honest with you," Trump told reporters during a recent conference call.

In the end, 14 D-List celebrities were accepted for The Apprentice's seventh season, which is scheduled to premiere Thursday, January 3 on NBC.

"What really surprised me was the fact that I wasn't exactly sure what I was getting. These are people that are successful celebrities, some unbelievably successful," said Trump. "And we've really had an amazing crop of people. I didn't know whether or not they were going to take it that seriously.

I didn't know whether or not they were going to be as competitive as kids getting out of Harvard and Yale, and Wharton, and all the different schools who, you know, were fighting for their lives. It turned out to be, I think, the best Apprentice we've done and that includes Apprentice Number One which actually became, for many weeks, the number one show on television.

"I really, in some cases in particular, had a hard time firing some of these people because I've known them not necessarily personally, but I've known their achievements," continued Trump.

"It's much more difficult. And that was, to me, the biggest difference between this and firing some young kid from Harvard who did a bad job. That was not hard for me, but firing somebody that I, in many ways, grew up with or watched over the last 25 years or 5 years or 2 years, was much more difficult because they're people of great achievement.

And it's hard for me to fire people of great achievement. But they deserved it and they got fired."

The Clark Brothers were named winners of The Next Great American Band last week.

Congratulations to Austin, Ashley and Austin!

First, we heard from Bridget Marquardt regarding this season of The Girls Next Door.

Now, Holly Madison has talked to TV Guide about the upcoming few episodes...

TVGuide.com: I understand there's a big "Alaskan adventure" airing on The Girls Next Door this Sunday.
Holly: Yes, and I'm really excited about it because it airs on my birthday and I get to take Bridget and Kendra back to my hometown in Alaska, which is really, really rural and out in the middle of nowhere. It's definitely a change of pace for them.

TVGuide.com: What else is among your favorite moments of the coming season?
Holly: There's an episode that focuses on my work at Playboy Studio West, which follows four different girls from four different parts of the country [trying] out to be Playmates. I think that shows the real me more than any other episode. It shows me at work and it gets behind the sort of girls who come out here.

TVGuide.com: In Season 1, you said one big objective was to clear up misconceptions about life at the mansion. Do you see signs that you've accomplished that?
Holly: Absolutely. Our show has a really big female following, and we get a lot of feedback from them. They look up to us because we're in a position where we can pretty much pursue anything we want to do, and they love to see empowered women follow their dreams.

TVGuide.com: What might be in your future once Girls Next Door runs its course?
Holly: Well, we're each hoping to develop a spin-off. I'd love to do a spin-off about my work at the Playboy Studio and the girls that come through there. And some day I'd love to be a mom and have it all!

Check out the full interview with Madison now.

Bill Germanakos looks like a new man.

After shedding over 160 pounds to win the latest season of The Biggest Loser, he chatted with BuddyTV about the experience:

Is this something you could have ever even imagined?
It's a whirlwind like I never even could have thought of. Being pulled from the stage after doing the finale of one of my favorite shows, and winning it, knowing that my wife and kids were there, all my best friends were there, then being whisked away to a limousine, getting VIP treatment at the airport, just making the plane by a minute and a half, then six hours later you're speaking with Ann Curry on The Today Show.

You can imagine that it's like a whirlwind.

Do you have anything that you want to say to your fans?
Number one, I have to tell everyone, from all of the support that I was receiving from all over the country, and all of these forums, how appreciative that I've been to be getting so much support from everyone. It really drove me when things got difficult, to hear about and to read about all of the people that were cheering me on and rooting for me.

Especially after my brother got eliminated, everyone said "Now you have to do it for Jim, you have to do it for the twins." Believe me, I saw and heard every bit of it, and it really drove me and motivated me, so thank you to everyone.

Read the complete interview with Germanakos now.

I Love New York 2 ended pretty well for Tiffany Pollard.

Hoping for similar results, Bret Michaels will be trying his lucky in Rock of Love 2. The show premieres on January 13 and we've uncovered the following promotional photos for it:

Will Bret Michaels find his mate on Rock of Love 2?

Andrew Firestone - who proposed to Jen Schefft on The Bachelor, but it shockingly didn't work out - has a new job.

The wine family heir will be working for Beanie Babies tycoon Ty Warner. He's been hired as director of memberships for Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts.

The former reality TV star will seek to build a "membership community" that goes beyond the traditional focus on the two Santa Barbara properties to include other Warner holdings, according to a press release issued Thursday.

Firestone is engaged to Serbian model-actress Ivana Bozilovic, who is pictured with him above and has appeared in Wedding Crashers and National Lampoon's Van Wilder. They'll be married this spring.

Meanwhile, a new season of The Bachelor kicks off March 17!