ABC unveils the secret of 'True Beauty'
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ABC managed to keep details about its Tyra Banks-Ashton Kutcher reality series True Beauty secret for a good six months. The suspense was not exactly killing us, but now that the network has finally let loose with a full description of the show, all we can say is: Um, yeah, sure.
As described, True Beauty -- which premieres in January -- sounds something like a cross between Are You Hot?'s crass celebration of physical attributes and the supposed teaching moments of Beauty and the Geek, another series sprung from Kutcher's daring mind. Ten hotties -- six women and four men -- will live together in a fancy house and go through a series of contests to see who is "truly the most beautiful."
The rub is this: While the contestants think they're being evaluated only for their looks, the judges will also be looking for inner beauty -- treating people with respect, not being completely narcissistic and the like.
Contestants will only find out about the twist after they've been eliminated, when they're shown a video montage of their behavior during that week's challenge. Presumably they'll emerge chastened and vowing to be better people once they go back to civilian life.
The winner -- the person who's really hot but also, like, super-nice -- gets a cash prize and a spot in People's "100 Most Beautiful" issue. Whether that means he or she will actually be part of that pulchritudinous list or just somewhere in the issue is not entirely clear.
Actress and former MTV VJ Vanessa Minnillo will host the show and serve as one of the judges, along with supermodel Cheryl Tiegs and Nole Marin, Banks' former fellow America's Next Top Model cohort.
Seriously: What was with all the secrecy? Do you figure ABC was just trying to keep the show's format from being copied?
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maybe they were worried it would somehow leak to the contestants . . . .
EPIC FAILURE.
This sounds like a one season kind of show since the next round of contestants will be hip to the game...
Another brilliant effort from Aston Kutcher. Hey Kutch, how about going back on the farm in Iowa and then honing your acting skills, you putz!
Like we need another beauty pageant reality type show. They put this junk on the air but won't air the new comedy Single With Parents with Alyssa Milano, Annie Potts, and Beau Bridges. They are screwing themselves over.
thats a complete rip of of Channel 4s t4 show vanity lair
thats not from his mind he prob jus turnd on datv wen he was in da uk and stole da idea
Sound like more of the same and no longer then one season, guess not allot of brains to make this show up and his name to get it sold. good luck to ya!
How can this crap get the okay to be on TV? Seriously, like we need to watch a bunch of hot people walking around acting nice. If we wanted to see that we could sit on Sunset Blvd for an hour. Lame. I won't watch this stupid show.
sounds like something I would watch just to see the pretty contestants.. and all the "hype' that is going on about the show...
Saw the commercials of the contestants on cmt promoting the show. They all looked hot to me AND i WILL WATCH!!!