Halloween came early to reality TV this past week. Dancing With the Stars and America’s Next Top Model broadcast graphic, disturbing scenes as scary as anything that Jigsaw fella could’ve cooked up in the Saw series. So You Think You Can Dance brought out angels, cave-people, and the human embodiment of a text message. Project Runway found its top six contestants handing out boxes of stale raisins instead of delicious candy. And Top Chef served up one deluded douchebag trying to dress himself up as a front-runner — and failing poetically!
Press play on our latest five-part installment of Réalité (segments 2-5 stream automatically after part 1 finishes) to: find out my co-host Dawnie Walton’s controversial views on krumping; discover why a damaged weave and a violent game of bobbing for crotches turned me into a fan of DWTS’s least recognizable “celebrity”; ascertain how Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama and people from dozens of ethnic backgrounds were insulted by Tyra Banks; and unearth what exactly was in Jennifer’s sauce pot on Top Chef. When you’re done, share your thoughts in the comments section below, and send me a Tweet to let me know which other shows Réalité should be covering @EWMichaelSlezak. And if that’s not reason enough for you to tune in, I promise you’ll get to hear me mispronounce the tricky French term “verjus nage” not once, but twice! Holla!
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Thank you!!! So much fun – have been looking forward to Realite!
The only way the Rockin’ Robin jive could have been worse is if they used the Megan Corkrey version from American Idol last year.
LOL That’s a good one! Maybe it’s because it’s so late at night, but I am laughing so hard right now at this comment : D
haha, I almost spit out my lunch laughing at your comment!!
That was a brilliant call!
rural juror! 30 rock! i love it!
LMAO !!!
Realite is great! So fantastic.
I liked the WTF subsitute text (during the SYTYCD recap). Maybe I’ll just watch these and not the show.
Also, SYTYCD is so hard to get into. Its like I think if I squint it will look like American Idol.
Realite is what I look forward to on Monday mornings!!! Thanks for being awesome and hilarious!
Thank you, Dawnie Walton, for identifying the problem with Ryan from SYTYCD. He’s a total Monet. Legacy/Kathryn’s routine was the best of the night, but I also still give Legacy the gasface because I believe he will turn out to be the cute but out of his depth hip hop dancer of the season. Another damn fine episode of Realite. If only you’d add The Amazing Race and get rid of Top Model (or PR, since it’s hard to get off the Tyra crack), the show would be perfect!
I think I’ll take up crumping to unleash my inner rage from having to watch Joanna Kruppa dance. Thank you for summarizing Top Model for me so I don’t have to watch it!
Didn’t Tyra do Blackface already in Season 3/4. One of those seasons.
yeah, in 4 I think. But that was before she went crazy.
I haven’t watched Top Model in years, but this clip cracked me up! Tyra is bats**t insane for doing that shoot.
“Think about Egypt, about what the people have been through.” Say what??
I agree with you Slezak on Mollee. I swear just because Nathan is paired with her he is no longer my favorite. Just something about her and the pairing of those 2 is so obnoxious. IDk But Russell was awesome last week and made me a fan!
I gave up on Top Model ages ago. Tyra and her antics are more sad than funny to me these days.
And Jennifer FTW!!! (love her)
How can you be against Mollee and Nathan, thats like being against puppies, and bunnies, and rainbows! hahaha
I’m also with you on Mollee: can’t stand her arggghhhh. And she looks like she’s 15.
My mind just keeps being blown by the idea that Mollee is older than Jeanine was during the first performance show this summer. What a difference personality makes.
Russell is awesome, though. Not just that he seems very good technically (to somebody who knows nothing about dancing), but that he enjoys it so darn much!
“My mind just keeps being blown by the idea that Mollee is older than Jeanine was during the first performance show this summer. What a difference personality makes.”
Oh, wow, that’s special. Had no idea… and really, how could I have? (Not otherwise being one to look at the birthdates)
Hmmm. Frankly, like a lot of people not from New York, I hate Seinfeld and never watched the show because it wasn’t even remotely funny and listening to Jerry was like listening to nails on a chalkboard. On Top Chef, the brothers V have devolved to obnoxious cartoons: the older is Sam the Eagle from the Muppets, complete with the rod up his rear, and the younger one clearly has some serious childhood issues to overcome. I’d pretty much hate either of those jerks to win anything. I’ve gone Team Kevin becuse his food is virtually univerally lauded for it’s taste and ability to satisfy.
Seinfeld is awesome.
Don’t speak for a “lot of people not from New York”. Seinfeld was consistently highly rated and reviewed, so obviously a lot of people not from New York (including me) watched it and liked it.
“Like a lot of people not from New York”? What national survey did you conduct in order to arrive at this conclusion?
I hate Seinfeld AND Curb Your Enthusiasm!
Don’t be a hater.
Oh, and I HATED Nathan and Molee’s disco. It was slow and labored; Nathan grimaced throughout the whole thing and looked like he’d rather have been anywhere else. Seriously, he couldn’t even fake a smile? It was just BAD. And I’m not sure what Slezak’s cohort was thinking, but Ryan is clearly very handsome (and built like a Greek god) and Logan is (arguably) not attractive at all. I’m not seeing the appeal of fashion designers that don’t look like they bathe and regularly wear metallic silver.
Great as usual, but no love for Bianca and Victor’s Travis Wall piece. When they locked legs at the knees and flipped her over him in that somersault? Holy crap. It was the dance of the week for sure.
Yay Aaron – I agree that Bianca and Victor were awesome in another great Travis Wall piece – The one move that has to be altered is the running leap the woman onto the man’s back that screams “Don’t Go!”
What about when she did the straight back bend onto the ground? That girl’s got a great core!
best REALITE EVER!