True Beauty or True Beast?

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Michael Jordan: ABC airs a new reality show tonight, calling it the “love child of America’s Next Top Model and Punk’d”.� True Beauty is not your average model reality show, though.� The set up?� Ten contestants, who think they are the most beautiful people in America, will fight to win the show’s prize - $100,000 cash and a photo feature in People magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” issue.� The catch?� The judges are actually rating the contestant’s integrity and moral character.� They’re judging their True Beauty, get it? Laura Leigh loves to be the center of attention, but so do the rest of the contestants.� Billy, the oldest contestant, is a Chippendale dancer and owns a vitamin shop.�� Monique thinks she’s beautiful but androgenous.� She has a science degree but prefers club dancing.� The contestants make small talk, commenting how shiny each other’s teeth are. Joel arrives and his #1 goal in life is to look good naked.� Julia is a pageant queen from Texas.� CJ is the oldest of the crowd, in his 30s.� He compares himself to Michael Jordan.�� Chelsea has no friends because she’s simply too beautiful for other girls to be around.� Hadiyya-lah thinks it’s very possible she’s the prettiest one of them all.� “Everything about me is perfect,” she says.� “I’m so thankful to be beautiful.”�� Ashley loves expensive couture clothing.� She packed $30,000 worth of dresses to bring with her.� Lat to arrive is Ray, who thinks it’s awesome to be the cockiest person in the room.They all arrive in fast cars, short skirts, and too-tight shirts The judges are former model Cheryl Tiegs, celebrity fashion guru Nole Marin, and former Miss Teen USA Vanessa Minnillo.� They’ve hired an actor to play a waiter and will be rating the contestant’s reactions to him.� The “waiter” trips and spill drinks everywhere.� “The waiter was hated,” Haddiyah-lah says.� “There’s a lot of hate when your beautiful.”� Laura freaks out about her lucky gold shoes.� Ray helps clean up the other contestants and tries to help them clean up. Hostess Vanessa sends them inside their new house for some beauty rest.� The house is a designer’s paradise, with a billiard room and pop-art style pictures of each contestant over their bed.� “Is that me?� It looks so good!” Ray says.� The next morning, the girls joke in the bathroom.� Chelsea complains because it seems like all of the guys care about is their muscles, but notes that CJ “seems like he has a brain.”� It turns out that CJ is a closet writer.� He started writing as a fat kid using a journal to move past the other kids’ teasing.� Chelsea and CJ� seem to have made a connection! The next task is to put the contestants through a beauty examination.� A doctor in Beverly Hills is going to measure them and compare them to a set of ideal body shapes, facial features, and other “scientific” proofs of beauty, giving them a beauty score.� Really, though, the judges want to see how the contestants treat the scientists assistant when they think no one else is watching.� First the girls and guys have to get ready to leave.� Laura has never washed a dish and doesn’t know how.� Even the other guys are laughing at her. Chelsea and Haddiyah-lah are complaining about Julia, who is a bathroom hog.� The secret camera catches it all.� It’s time to head out to the clinic.� “This is a celebrity face,” Chelsea says.� “Not you,” she says to Julia - or rather, to the camera since Julia’s not around to hear her mean remarks.� There’s a stretch limo waiting to whisk them away to the Hills for their scientifiv evaluation.� In the waiting room, Joel starts going off on Chelsea.� “I just don’t like you.� From no one, where ever I am, don’t be there,” he says, in front of everyone. Nurse Debbie is assigned to try to annoy the contestants to see how they react.� Nurse Debbie then “accidentally” leaves all of the contestant’s files out where the guys and girls can read them.� Will they?� That’s one of their tests.� CJ is rude to the nurse and the doctor, but Julia lets some rude remarks pass - and she doesn’t read everyone’s file.� Laura can’t resist the temptation and checks out a couple of the girl’s files when she thinks no one is looking.� Chelsea is tempted, but puts the files back before reading them and a lot of the other contestants pass, too.� Haddiya-lah reads her own file, then moves on to a few more.� Ray grabs the whole stack and reads it all. The doctor has declared scores over 85 is good looking, and over 95 is star quality.� Ray scores a 92 (but he failed the inner beauty test) and Monique scores a 91.� Ashley is a 94, and CJ rants at the judges, saying beauty can’t be measured.� Cheryl Tiegs is angry.� “I don’t mind someone asking questions, but he’s an expert,” she says.� CJ is a 94 and he’ll move on to the next round.� Billy is a 95 and the doctor compares Joel to Brad Pitt, also giving him a 95.� They are the winners of the challenge. Laura is a 94, and she’s safe despite failing the inner beauty test.� Haddiyah-lah, Chelsea, and were declared “non-semetrical” and given a final score of 91 each.� Laura gets a pass and Chelsea is going to go head to head with cheater Haddiyah-lah, who starts to cry.� “Don’t cry,” Chelsea says, but Haddiya-lah is more angry than sad.� “I’m pissed off because this is stupid!” she says. CJ tries to give her a pep talk while she packs everything up.� She claims she doesn’t care that she’s in the bottom two and says the doctor should have his head examined.� She doesn’t know that there is a final test to gauge their inner beauty as they ride to the Hall of Beauty. Chelsea thinks she’s unique and it adds to her beauty.� Joel can’t wait to get rid of her, though.� Chelsea and Haddiyah-lah rant about attitude and beauty.� Chelsea says that she thinks they are the last two who should be picked.�� The challenge is presented as they exit the limo.� A production assistant has his hands full of coffee, and Chelsea steps up to help him get into the building.� She passes, and even let the guy enter the building first.� Haddiyah-lah is the next to enter the building, andshe fails the test. “I don’t think you can measure true beauty,” Chelsea says, and Haddiyah-lah thinks real beauty is how pretty you are without makeup.� The judges rave about Chelsea’s smile and attitude, but Nole thinks she needs a “make-under” with less eye makeup.� She’s safe, and Haddiyah-lah is shocked.� The judges confront her with her bad behavior.� “Do you think you are truly a beautiful person?” Vanessa asks her before showing footage of her sneaking and temper tantrums.� “That was nothing,” Haddiayah-lah says.� “Honesty, to me, is the most important character trait,” Cheryl says, but Haddiyah-lah claims she was just bored.� She’s also taken to task for pushing past the PA with coffee and letting the door slam in his face. “I have a big heart!” Haddiyah-lah sobs for the camera.� “I’m ready to go home,” she says.� Wonder who will be naughty and who will be nice next week? Reality TV Magazine is your source for True Beauty news� and information.� What do you think of the contestants’ actions?� Tell us on our message board! For more on Real Beauty, check out SirLinksALot: True Beauty. ShareThis Related posts:True Beauty Produced By Tyra Banks Ashton Kutcher Premieres On ABCTrue Beauty: Judge Nole Marin Says Show Is Love Child Of Top Model And Punk’dA Geek and a Beauty Hook Up on Beauty and the Geek

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