High School Musical is hitting the beach
So, if you’re a High School Musical fan and if you live in New York, New Jersey, or California, you’re in luck. To promote the new reality series, High School Musical: Get in the Picture, ABC is hitting beaches on both coasts with free ice cream, games and prizes. The promotional tour will begin this weekend and continue all month leading up to the premiere of the series. The show, hosted by Nick Lachey, will feature talented teens from all over the U.S. as they compete for a chance to be in the next High School Musical.
As if anything to do with High School Musical needed any more promotion…
The schedule for the tour is after the jump. High School Musical: Get in the Picture premieres on Sunday, July 20th from 8-9 p.m. on ABC.
Here’s the schedule…
July 4 Santa Barbara, CA — Cabrillo Blvd. between Chapala and Bath
July 4 Wildwood, NJ — Wildwood Beach Convention Center on the boardwalk
July 5 Jones Beach, NY — Jones Beach Parking Lot 4
July 6 Anaheim, CA — Downtown Disney
July 6 Robert Moses, NY — Robert Moses Beach, Field 5
July 19 & 20 Hermosa Beach, CA — Pier Plaza
July 20 Seaside, NJ — North Casino Pier
(I know some of you who live in these areas may want to make sure that you’re NOT at these places when HSM invades.)
Pamela on Jessica: Just Kidding!
If ya think there’s a blonde-on-blonde battle brewing between Pamela Anderson and Jessica Simpson, think again.
Reports that Anderson has lashed out against Simpson for wearing a T-shirt recently that read “Real Girls Eat Meat” have been greatly exaggerated…
Yes, the former Baywatch babe called Simpson a “bitch” and a “whore” during an Australian radio show, but her tone was way more cracking a funny than battle cry.
The star of E!’s new reality series Pam: Girl On the Loose laughed when one of the radio hosts, Jackie O, asked her about the T-shirt and explained, “This is the first time I’ve heard about it.”
When the other host, Kyle, suggested that Simpson’s tee was more adult than animal themed, Anderson cracked. “She was not referring to actual, you know, cows and chickens. I think she was referring to men.”
Meanwhile, I hear Anderson is driving to Las Vegas this weekend to celebrate her birthday (she turns 41 tomorrow). The roadtrip will apparently include a stop at the world’s largest thermometer (it’s 134 feet tall) in scorching hot desert town Baker, Calif., to cook veggie burgers on the pavement.
Yummy.
Hell’s Kitchen: Day 12
“If it was men I could have worked that to my advantage, but it was bitchy, pregnant women.” - Corey
Tonight I came up with a million dollar idea for a new reality show. It’s a combination of Hell’s Kitchen and The Mole. Maybe Hell’s Mole. Or Mole in the Kitchen. You have 12 contestants trying to get the gig as Gordon Ramsay’s new chef at one of his restaurants, but one of them has been paid by FOX/Ramsay to actually screw up the service. Burn the food, put some hot sauce in something that another player is cooking when they’re not looking, blow a challenge on purpose. It could be exciting, though Mole would probably have to be change to Mole’.
I thought of this tonight after the sneaky thing that Jen did in the elimination voting…
We’re down to four players: Jen, Corey, Petrozza, and Christina. The opening of HK shows the players that have been eliminated, and to tell you the truth it’s hard to even remember some of them. Sharon? Vanessa? Shayna? They’re a blur, and the only reason Dominic stands out is because he really didn’t fit in and was voted off first.
The challenge this week is to make lunch service for 80 mysterious guests. Jen makes grouper (not sure I would go that route when you have no idea who the guests are), Christina makes a chicken dish, Petrozza makes Monte Cristos, and Corey makes salmon BLTs. Or I should say she tries to make them. Even though she has an hour, she only gets a handful of sandwiches done, which irritates Ramsay.
The 80 guests? Pregnant women! And they’re probably going to be really hungry. They seem to like all the dishes, though Corey makes several of them wait while she makes more sandwiches (never leave a pregnant woman waiting for food). After all is said and done, the women vote for the best and it’s really close. Two votes separate Christina and Petrozza, and Christina wins. She gets to go to Beverly Hills and shop for clothes while the rest have to clean the dining room (and whine and moan - Jen and Corey both say that Christina has no fashion sense and it should be them who go shopping, which strikes me as really catty and dumb - Petrozza pretty much stays out of it). Christina shows her clothing to the others. Why anyone would show $1000 worth of clothing to people who are jealous escapes me.
I’d also like to mention that for the second time, Jen eats food off of the plates. Really bizarre.
The dinner service goes incredibly well. Sure, there are some hiccups: Jen doesn’t move as fast as Ramsay wants, Christina’s hot pan burns Ramsay*, and Petrozza’s station is a mess (as usual), but Ramsay says it’s the best service yet. But they still have to vote someone else.
That’s where Jen’s treachery comes in. The group isn’t sure who to vote for, so they decide to secretly vote for someone on pieces of paper. That’s when we find out that three people voted for Christina, which is impossible since Corey didn’t vote for her. So that means that Jen voted for Christina twice! (There’s an outside chance that maybe Corey lied about who she voted for, but it doesn’t seem that way.) The two people put up for elimination are Jen and Corey.
While most of America prays that Jen is the one going home, Ramsay says “Corey…say goodbye to Jen.” Ah, the old fakeout. Thankfully Jen is now gone, free to go someplace else and out-cook everyone and be a “fashionista.”
Ramsay has the three remaining players hug each other, saying “I know Petrozza’s fat but he’s not that ugly!”
* Did anyone notice that Ramsay burned his left hand but ran his right hand under the cold water? I had to rewind it to see if that’s what happened and it is. He puts his left hand under at one point and then puts his right hand, and they showed this twice. What’s that all about?
Hollywood to Award Reality Show Winner with Starring Movie Role?!
With the success of American Idol, I knew it would be only a matter of time before Hollywood would auction off film roles in reality television shows. VH1 has greenlighted a new reality series called Scream Queens which will involve 10 unknown actresses competing for a “Major Role” in a upcoming horror film from Lionsgate Films. The series will consist of eight hour-long episodes, and is set to premiere in the fall.
The horror genre isn’t taken seriously in the first place, but this is a new low. Giving a starring role to a reality show contestant? Am I wrong? I guess you could argue that it isn’t that much different that Project Greenlight. But for some reason the idea of giving a writer/director the funding to make his movie seems a lot less tacky than this. Maybe because the logic of rewarding a contest winner with a starring role instead of finding the best actress for said role, goes beyond all logic. But I guess that happens all the time in Hollywood…
Source: THR