Phelps reality show– to be or not to be?

So Kitty alway provides the best information and guess what!

Michael Phelps might be getting his own reality show!

Now I for one would be particularly excited about this because this may mean a) more Debbie Phelps on TV, b) his dog on tv, and c) potentially some Ryan Lochte screen time (aren’t they supposed to be training together in Baltimore?)???? Ashton Kutcher has been linked to the project, too.

But there are some problems here.

For one, if a show was in the works, it probably would not come out for a while, and the Olympic excitement would be pretty much completely gone (unless they released it around the time of those swimming championships NBC will be airing?) so the ratings may not be so good. And he would also have to compete with the hundreds of other craptastic reality shows. But if Denise Richards could do it, why not Michael?

Also, this may be just a rumor or PR stunt. That’s an opinion swirling around his iMDB page. With a quick google search, ideas of a reality show involving Michael Phelps were being mentioned since Aug. 17th, and talks of a show with Ashton and Demi go back as far as Sep 27, so you think by now some major source would have gotten their hands on this story, even if it is just a sidenote. The biggest site I could find was Just Jared. However, I do feel like if he was approached by Demi and Ashton he would take the offer because he has pretty much done every commercial offered.

Oh and speaking of commercials look at this adorable one!

It is for the new Guitar Hero (I’m soo excited!) and besides Michael it also features the homewrecker A-Rod, cheater Kobe Bryant, and the very wholesome non-man-whore Tony Hawk in a homage to Risky Business.

Well, let’s keep our fingers crossed for a Phelps show.

 

Edit: Just read this Phelps story and its really cute! In US today I read Phelps was really weird and slept with a bunch of girls back at Michigan University… and then told them they could play with his medals. Ew. But read this!

ANN ARBOR (2008-10-10) This story does not involve any football players. Just two guys.

One of them is Michael Phelps. You’ve probably heard of him. He has 14 gold medals.

The other is Scotty Passink. You probably haven’t heard of him. He has cerebral palsy.

But these two have been close friends since Phelps moved to Ann Arbor four years ago.

When Scotty Passink was born, the doctors said he would never walk or talk. They told his parents to look for a place to put him.

But Scotty’s father, Pete, had captained the Michigan golf team. His mother worked as Bo Schembechler’s secretary. They are not soft. They were not going to give up.

Scotty’s surgeries started when he was two, and didn’t stop until his senior year in high school – 15 operations in all. The doctors broke his legs and reset them – twice — just so he could walk. He doesn’t walk very fast — – he goes through a pair of shoes every two or three months — and he has a hell of a time climbing stairs. But he gets there.

When Scotty was six they put him in a special classroom. One day he came home and asked his mom, Why doesn’t anybody talk? His mom said, This isn’t right, and put him in a class with the other kids. He got teased and he got shoved, but he says, It only made me tougher.

When his grades faltered a few years later, Bo Schembechler hauled him into his office. Sit down! he said, then scared him straight. It worked. Despite all the sick days, Scotty earned his diploma on time – plus a signed photo from Schembechler that said: To Scotty, The toughest guy I know.

Scotty went to Washtenaw Community College, then transferred to Michigan, where he worked as a student manager for the football team. Now he works at the UM ticket office, where I recently heard Lloyd Carr offer him a cigar. No thanks, Scotty said. Those things make me walk funny.

His closest friends include Pat Owen, who was born with a club foot but became the captain of the Michigan wrestling team – and some guy named Michael Phelps.

I don’t think Michael knows what I have, really, Scotty says. And I don’t think he cares about it. But, when I fall down, he’s right there to pick me up. Every time.

When Phelps returned to Ann Arbor to be honored at the Michigan-Wisconsin football game, he called Scotty from the airport. Meet me at the Brown Jug in thirty minutes. That night, the all-time Olympic champion told Passink how much Scotty inspired him.

The next day Owen, Passink and Phelps watched the game on the Michigan sidelines. When the fans started counting down the seconds, a police officer warned the trio that Phelps would get mobbed, and Scotty could get trampled. Phelps turned to Scotty and said, Don’t worry. I’ve got you.

When the gun sounded, Owen and Phelps picked up their buddy, and carried him off the field. If you were lucky enough to witness that moment, you would have seen three guys running across the field and up the tunnel: a wrestler with a club foot, Scotty Passink, and the best athlete in the world.

And the toughest guy was in the middle.

bleh.

So things are weird right now? I just want all this drama to blow over.

But you’re not here to read about my life! You guys want to see random nude pictures of celebrities (like Sarah Palin, still!) And sorry, still can’t help you.

Anyway, since I am getting sooo many views lately(ahem, yeah right) and have nothing to really write about anddd I just want to procrastinate on my real work.

More TV premieres!

Tomorrow is Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money. I’m a loser and don’t have a DVR,  Tivo, whatever, so yes, I watch a three hour block of TV on Wednesday nights. But I never have to change the channel! They’re all on ABC.

So after tomorrow my TV schedule for fall will be complete.

I really don’t know why I watch Dirty Sexy Money, but its addicting. And I’ve missed it. Pushing Daisies is sooo good. The sets are adorable, and so are the clothes. And personally, I like Private Practive more than Grey’s Anatomy. The patient stories are always tear-jerkers.

 

And as for TV shows on already… well there is Skins, which I already wrote about, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, Project Runway (which will be ending soon) and sometimes Dancing with the Stars.

Gossip Girl has been disappointing lately, but Monday’s episode was really good. And I absolutely love Chuck now. LOVE HIM. And Blair. They were always my favorites, but now I just love them even more. Serena pisses me off no matter what the writers do with her. Still mixed feelings about Jenny, though. And I knd of like Dan? I didn’t see Nate or Vanessa this week (maybe they were in the first 20 minutes) so idk there. Chuck just broke my heart this episode! I want more like this. And I am looking forward to what is going to happen with Jenny and her fashion and relationship with Blair, as well as the whole Serena/Blair ordeal.

Ugly Betty was amazingly disappointing, as was Grey’s. I just felt like the writers took the easy way out with the plot on UB by making her not pick and just go “discover” herself. And it was so cliche about how she still really didn’t solve anything bceause she ran away from her problems. I wanted her to be with Gio! God. I liked the end song though! Tom Petty.

Grey’s Anatomy… I don’t know how many times I have said I wasn’t going to watch that show anymore! I want Izzie to be with Alex, but then Alex was an asshole. George should be with Meredith’s sister. But I did like how Cali and whats-her-face are back together sort of. And Christina and that crazy soldier guy! That was good, but it was kind of bland to me. And wayyy too long.

Now to Dancing with the Stars. I am rooting for my rep for the Olympics, Misty May (I want her to kick Kim’s ass! Which may be hard to do) and of course Lance! It would be just wrong if I didn’t want a former N*Sync member to win. Plus he is dancing with Lacey Schwimmer. Who is amazing. I hated her during SYTYCD, but I loved Season 3 with a little too much passion (reminiscient of my love for the Olympics) so I like to see them in the public eye. Never got to meet her when I went to the tour though. Her leg was messed up. It was upsetting.

 

Oh and November 17th is the Golden Goggle Awards, and I think you can watch it online, so I will update about that later. Ryan Lochte has been doing nothing I can talk about so justthought I’d mention it.

Skins!

Skins is my new favorite show.

Its basically like a British Degrassi, but 10x racier and a whole lot more f-bombs dropped in (they bleep it on on BBC America, and blur out a lot of things)

In the US the first season is airing right now, and I think there is only two in the UK so far.

Anyway, the show is fantastic. Especially if your sick of rich kids. Which I am.

There is a gay, a Muslim, a girl who had an eating disorder and then tried to kill herself, the nerdy sidekick, the guy who sleeps with everyone, your normalish girl who dates the guy who sleeps with everyone on and off, a musical girl, and a kid who is sleeping with his teacher. Well those are pretty much most of the main ones. So the characters are really diverse and that makes it even more interesting. And there are cute clothes! On both guys and girls!

It is more realistic than a lot of shows we’re used to, but some things I really can’t relate too. (Like everyone is smoking a cigarette… all the time)

But I really wanted to post this to tell you about the episode I just watched because it was not-so-realistic, yet very compelling. And as you may or may not know, I am a sucker for Olympic swimmers, guys who wear cardigans, and protective older brothers. This episode had 2/3 so it just had to be good.

So the boy who sleeps with everyone, Tony, was jealous of his now ex, Michelle, so in the last episode he stole her new boyrfriend’s phone and tok the dirty pictures he took of that kid’s sister and sent it to Michelles phone, so of course Michelle thinks her new bf is a total perv.

WELL n this episode Tony’s younger sister decided to be all rebellious and go to some weird racing with shopping carts thing where she meets this guy who gives her some drugs and they get arrested, which leads to Tony (in a CARDIGAN) finding out his sister is up to something, and then they go to this crazy ass party house with weird lighting and a pool table because Tony never got to the jail on time and she already got out. There, the guy she came with and Michelle’s new boyfriend injected her with more drugs so she passes out and then she got raped (it was so crazy!) and the whole time her brother was like “Where the hell is my sister”

None of Tony’s friends like him anymore so no one would help him except Sid who then left him to go find the crazy girl, but then Tony got a ride to the crazy party house where Michelle’s new boyfriend asked him to play poker, but he wanted to know where his sister is, and his sister was laying on the floor so he ran to her (ADORABLE OLDER BROTHERNESS) and tried calling an ambulance, BUT THEN the guy was like “Sorry no! You sent those pictures to Michelle so now if you want your sister to survive you’re going to have to HAVE SEX WITH HER!” And of course Tony was like “NO!” and was crying so the kid was like stepping on his throat, but Tony was begging and said he would fix things and then carried his sister out. IT WAS ADORABLE. And in the car he was holding his little sister and it was just the cutest thing.

And THEN his mom accused him of giving her the drugs and it was so upsetting, but Sid stood up for him.

And it was just really good and you should all go watch it now that I told you the whole thing.

How can you not find the big brother protecting little sister thing adorable?

We can get our swimmer fixes in 2009!

Weren’t you all worried you would not be able to see our favorite swimmer’s and their torsos for another four years (and a swimmer I know even said Eamon might not be there!)?

Well, we have something to get us through.

I guess this is old news (like… month old news) but NBC will be broadcasting the swimming world championships until the next summer Olympics. This is probably because NBC wants to milk Michael for all he’s worth. They obviously would not have picked this up without the Phelps.

Now we will get our swimming fixes without having to have multiple interuptions for gymnastics.

 And for all of those airplane commercials with Michael Phelps…

This one I posted a little while ago on Perez. Highlight would be the torso.

Then we have this one. Phelps sings Don’t Stop Believin’ very strangely.

And then the prank one, with adorable smile.

I would also like to know why Ryan Lochte isn’t doing any talk shows.

Why haven’t I seen this?!

So I heard he was on the Today show in Beijing, and never got to see the video.

Well, I don’t know why I didn’t check his page, but here is the cutest video ever. And if you watch it stay tuned for his adorable laughter starting around 1:07 or something. Oh, Matt… can’t I have your job?

AND… according to Perez Hilton here, Ryan may be on Oprah September 11th if they go through with the show. The idea is to get all the American gold medalists on one show. OMGOSH HOW EXCITING! This would be the best Oprah ever. So Opes, you should totally do it. Let’s all hope Phelpsy gets on board. Some winner named Ronda Rousey already confirmed it, but according to Oprah’s people nothing seems to be written in stone.

FINGERS CROSSED!