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In between donation phone calls to Idol Gives Back last night, we found time to watch a trio of other reality TV shows. Here's what we saw:

Top Chef: The guest judge is Ming Tsai, who Lisa describes as being known for his "east-meets-west cuisine." This challenge is all about a trained palate: it's the blindfold taste test. Antonia's psyched because this is her favorite challenge on the show... Reality News Online

Big Brother: James wasn't laying down on the job this week. After Adam replaced Sheila's nomination with James, the mohawked hamster went to work. His plan? Take out Natalie... TV Squad

Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious: This week's oddly avant garde video message tells the girls that their challenge is about "Star Quality" - the ability to stand out in a crowd and turn heads and all that jazz. When they go to meet Robin, she tells them that the weakest member will go home... Zap2It

While American Idol finalists attempted to inspire last night, a trio of other reality shows didn't aim nealtly as high. Their goal, instead? High ratings. Here's are a few recaps...

Hell's Kitchen: We have the ceremonial lighting of the millions of fires and spotlights that festoon the outside of Hell's Kitchen itself, making it as bright as the sun. But there's no time to speculate on their moth problem because we have to get the extremely short introductions... Television Without Pity

The Biggest Loser: On tonight's episode of The Biggest Loser, the final four contestants flew back to the campus from Australia but had to work out without their trainers. First, Rocco DiSpirito returned to the show after talking to everyone's families. He showed them their favorite dishes that they loved to eat before they came to The Biggest Loser and reminded them how unhealthy their eating habits used to be... BuddyTV

Big Brother: After Adam honored his word to James (which he later admitted was probably because he got caught up in James' sob story), Sheila went on a rampage reminiscent of her first week in the house... TV Guide

A pair of absurd dating shows and a reality show mainstay graced television screens last night. Here's a look at what went down on each...

That's Amore: Domenico takes the two girls to Italy, but sadly, Ashley McNeely is left behind. Once they arrive at Domenico's village, the girls are a bit disillusioned to see that he lives in a tiny village out of a bad movie. -- Buddy TV

Rock of Love: The three girls returned to an empty house and were forced to do some cleaning because guests were arriving. Then the fateful moment when the doorbell rings occurred, it wasn't an ex of Bret's, though, the families came! -- Celebrity Cafe

Big Brother: After Adam won Head Of Household, he said he felt much more confident in his abilities with the power this time around. Natalie claimed yet again that she had a dream that Adam would win HOH, saying it's almost like God is talking to her. Well okay then.-- Reality TV Magazine

As Ramiele Malubay fans continue to mourn the loss of their favorite American Idol finalist, a trio of other reality shows aired last night. Let's see what went down on them...

America's Next Top Model: the girls broke into two teams, got a GPS enabled cell phone, and had to navigate their way around New York City to try and book gigs with various modeling agencies... -- TV Squad

Top Chef: This week's episode required the chefs to think with both sides of their brain, demonstrating their technical skills as well as their imagination. The Quickfire Challenge was almost more demanding than the Elimination Challenge, and it came with a higher reward giving the winner immunity rather than sending someone home... -- TV Guide

Big Brother: As always, we start after the veto meeting. Everything interesting in this segment always comes from the diary room. Although she's now on the block, Sharon feels safe, but she will miss Josh when he leaves. Sheila feels for the former partners being on the block, as they share a very tight bond... -- Reality News Online

It was a huge night of reality TV. American Idol contestants sang Dolly Parton; Steve Guttenberg got voted off Dancing with the Stars; and the following pair of shows aired:

The Biggest Loser: The contestants were in for a big surprise at the beginning of tonight's episode. Allison keeps them in the boardroom to tell them all that they are going to be making a trip to Sydney, Australia... -- Reality TV Magazine

Big Brother: After Sheila gave James an inspirational pep talk (which made no sense to me at all), she then doubled back and gave Joshuah a very similar speech while also trashing James... -- TV Guide

If ever there were an evening for trashy reality TV, it would be Sunday night. What better way to begin your week, right? Let's see what went down on the following three shows:

Big Brother: As usual, the Sunday night episode opened with several minutes of commentary on last week's events to help remind viewers of what had happened. In a few words, Chelsia was evicted and Natalie won Head Of Household â€" there's the first ten minutes... -- Reality TV Magazine

That's Amore: This is the penultimate episode of That's Amore, thank God. It's kind of amazing, and a commentary on MTV's lack of faith in this show, that 14 women can get eliminated in just six episodes... -- Buddy TV

Rock of Love: They arrive in Vegas without incident and are no sooner in their suite then Jessica and Destiny are delivered golf outfits for their date with Brett. Surprisingly, Jessica apparently played on her high school golf team, so she's excited about the outing... -- Zap2It

Below are highlights from some of last night's popular reality TV shows, courtesy of a pair of our online, reality TV-obsessed counterparts ...

On Big Brother, the motto is to expect the unexpected. Tonight was a good example of why we enjoy the reality TV genre. You never know what's going to be said or what will happen. Tonight's episode will go down in the classics of the Big Brother annals. We don't necessarily agree or like everything which was said or happened. But tonight was legendary. - TV Squad

On America's Next Top Model, Claire struggled with connecting to a country music look. Aimee had a difficult time with the sensual aspect of her R&B character. Fatima and Stacy Ann worried more about posing than looking natural. Strong performances were given by Dominique, Whitney, and Katarzyna. - BuddyTV

As with every Tuesday episode of Big Brother 9, the episode revolved around the power of veto competition. Crazy James and Chelsia reacted unfavorably to being nominated for eviction, vowing vengeance against Adam.

The rest of this episode followed various alliances and contingency plans in the event that James, the true target, was able to wriggle himself off the block.

Big Brother 8's Dick Donato, naturally, shows up to wake up the guests by banging pots and pans. He invited them outside for the PoV competition, in which the competitors must drink 10 disgusting shots in three minutes.

James is the only one to drink all the shots, and therefore, he wins the veto. This guy is a serious fighter! With James taking himself off the block, obviously, Joshuah and Sharon realize one of them is guaranteed to go up.

Continue reading this recap by BuddyTV ...

Fans were treated to a special edition of Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites last night. Not only did it air on a Wednesday night (due to the NCAA Tournament taking over CBS tonight, but a contestant quit! Check out the recap for that show and for Big Brother right now...

Survivor: Day 18 arrived with 13 players remaining. Over at Malakal, Tracy wanted to kill and eat some of the chickens since she didn't think they were laying as many eggs as they used to.. -- Reality TV Magazine

Big Brother: As always with a Wednesday episode, the good part (if you can call it that) begins after the veto ceremony. One week ago, Matt celebrated his non-backdooring a little much. This week, he's definitely not celebrating. Neither is Natalie, who calls James a hypocrite whose word is worthless, while in the diary room... -- Reality News Online

A pair of reality TV staples aired last night. For those that were glued to the American Idol results show, here's what went down on Big Brother and America's Next Top Model...

America's Next Top Model: We start out the night with early confessionals from Dominique, who is overconfident despite her bottom two performance, and from Lauren who is underconfident despite her being called first by the panel. Irony and contrast noted. -- Reality News Online

Big Brother: Day 35 arrived with eviction looming.  After James was nominated to replace Chelsia (who removed herself from the chopping block) "all hell broke loose," host Julie Chen said.  It certainly didn't seem that way based on the montage that followed. -- Reality TV Magazine