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[Nena]

I really want to know if last night's "ugly" has a myspace or something somewhere and if there's a defense written on it. As soon as they threw her pic in the trash I figured she was sitting home steaming. Problem is, I don't get the impression that many of those contestants could use a computer if they wanted to.

I do kinda love this show, though. Mr. Demi's other show proves that yes, there are stupid, pretty people who really don't have the first clue how reality tv works (or books, or gravity), so I'll give them all the benefit of the doubt that they didn't suspect a hidden camera. Actually, I would think that clueless and conceited were the two main unspoken screening factors for casting. Someone who is tv-culturally aware could plow through to the end with no effort at all.

[SparksFan59]

Well, this show did not disappoint. I knew it would be a snarkworthy trainwreck. I have to say that I loved the exit of the first contestant, who was faced with her inner ugliness and still tried to rationalize it away. The janitors taking down the portrait and trashing it was classic and yet so fitting somehow.

Chelsea might be a wreck on the outside, but she proved that she has inner beauty and compassion. I knew she would open the door for the guy with the coffee, just as I knew the other woman would not.

The "poor man's Jensen Ackles" dude just irritates me to no end, and when they said he was a gorgeous as Brad Pitt I laughed out loud. I like Ray, I think that's his name, and the other guy with whom Chelsea bonded-journal guy.

[Miss Sargent]

I think it's a given that any person who would volunteer to be on a show that claimed to be searching for America's most beautiful person would have to be incredibly vain to start with.

I kind of disagree...some people would be into that for the $100,000 and potential lucrative future opportunities. I have a few friends who are models (most of them just heartbreakingly beautiful, one of them weird-looking but very long and underweight), and they're not vain, but they ARE interested in capitalizing on assets that will allow them to make a decent living.

This show really could be designed much better. What they should do, in my opinion, is not have looks factor into the equation AT ALL. The way they could do that would be by not eliminating anybody, tallying up the scores, and then revealing the show's secret to everyone all at once in the last few episodes. The eliminations are either going to be too appearance-based, or they'll make everyone suspicious. Also, people's behavior over the full series would be a lot more revealing about their "inner beauty" than judging it after one episode.

I don't think swearing at people who tell you you aren't pretty because of some weird, Nazoid eugenic measuring "science" experiment conducted by a doctor who mutilates healthy people for a living is a sign of inner ugliness. And, I spend more hours a week on volunteer work and activism than many people spend sleeping, I genuinely like people, and I try to stay openhearted and honest--but, I have to admit that I would've read every last one of those files! I mean, a) I hate to sit in a waiting room with nothing to read and b) what could be more fascinating?

In the same situation, I would not read through, say, a friend's psychiatric or medical file, because that's personal. And I've never read someone else's private letters or journal, even my ex-boyfriend's, even though I really wanted to! But uncovering the dynamics of a game show in which I was a guinea pig by comparing my file to the others'--especially knowing we've signed off our rights to privacy--doesn't seem to me to be particularly morally bankrupt.

[Energiya Buran]

Mr. Demi's other show proves that yes, there are stupid, pretty people who really don't have the first clue how reality tv works (or books, or gravity), so I'll give them all the benefit of the doubt that they didn't suspect a hidden camera.

Especially since the swimsuit model didn't even know how to wash a freaking bowl! To me, THAT is beyond stupid...at least figure out that water and a little detergent makes soap to wash with. She held the sponge up like it was some foreign object.
Has she ever showered before? Used shampoo? Used a loofah? Come on.

[CapsChick]

For those who like CJ because he used to be fat and writes in a journal, and rejected the notion of a beauty "score," here's a quote from his bio on the show website:

He often uses his looks to convince women to pay for anything from drinks to his car insurance. CJ claims that women see him as a trophy so he accepts items as a payment for his services.

As for Hadiyyah-lah (Ha-di-yah-la, "you have to make it sexy") I Googled her and found plenty of sites with mentions. If she doesn't have a public MySpace page or web page, I'm sure it's only a matter of time...

[Jeaux35]

This show was just what I figured it would be. Moderately good looking people with massive egos and a lack of grounding in reality. It did not disappoint.

I was not surprised in the least that the two up for elimination were the two least pretty of the women. Mr Demi isn't stupid. People are tuning in to gawk at pretty, pretty, pretty. I doubt that they would eliminate one of the better-looking people, even if they kicked a puppy. Loss of pretty = lower ratings.

And it makes me feel that I haven't lost my mind that some of these contestants aren't exactly the prettiest people I have ever seen, and several posters have said the same thing. In fact, some of them are barely average. The one eliminated last night looked like she was auditioning for a mug shot in the final scene. She would be below average once her make-up was removed.

Her complete removal from reality was evident in her ability to try to cover her behavior. Who are you going to believe, me, the most beautiful woman who has ever walked the earth, or that videotape you are watching with your own eyes? Complete lack of shame, and refusal to take ownership of her behavior. Everything can be justified. Pathetic.

It is pretty apparent that they cast these people for the outsized egos first, looks second. Because we all know that pretty people being nice and courteous would be boring. Good looks will bring in the curious, but bad behavior gets the audience hooked.

The judges are just as vapid as the contestants.

Trashing the pictures is priceless! Even better, the wheels on the cart were squeaking! High-larious!

[Cookie Hoarder]

The "poor man's Jensen Ackles" dude just irritates me to no end, and when they said he was a gorgeous as Brad Pitt I laughed out loud.

I'm hoping they just meant that he and Brad Pitt had the same scores on that doctor's weird beauty index. Otherwise the judges are as deluded as the contestants.

[Sarraghina]

What I would love is if they found someone who was nice, understood their looks are considered attractive to others (meaning they aren't humble, but aren't conceited) and wasn't a doormat. If they stuck up for the underdog but didn't have to be the "most" anything. Someone confident in who they are.

Oh, wait. Those people wouldn't be on a reality TV show, would they?

[mexic0]

Oh, I did not like the way this show was done. Even if every one of these contestants is self-obsessed, I got the impression that the were asked questions like "if you were the most beautiful person in the world, how would you describe yourself?" to make them seem even more shallow than they are for being on the program in the first place.

I am very disappointed in the prize- first, why is any contestant of this show worth that kind of money? Furthermore, why not underscore the supposed premise of the show by making the prize charitable?

[ketose]

I could care less how ugly or pretty these people are. A lot of models are weird looking, but they are striking. As far as these contestants, I assume they want to be on TV for the exposure or money, but they probably don't watch enough relaity shows (maybe "Workout") to know how much the camera is on them.

But I love reality shows that mock the reality genre. "Joe Schmo" and the first season of "Who Wants to be a Superhero" were all about putting regular people in riduculous situations. And from their jobs, I'd say these people are on the average scale anyway.

[Austinmom]

God forgive me, but I love this show. I am so ashamed that I watched it twice and felt more and more superior to these really gorgeous people.

My fat ass thanks them.

Oh, and Ho-yo-nay-nay or whoever you are? I heard you say "I am a good person."

Um, no. Not even close.

[BettyPoz]

Especially since the swimsuit model didn't even know how to wash a freaking bowl! To me, THAT is beyond stupid...at least figure out that water and a little detergent makes soap to wash with. She held the sponge up like it was some foreign object.

Ah yes, Laura Leigh...With her sparkly little freckles and adjusting her boobs in her little MaryAnn from Gilligan's Island red and white checked top. She appears to be a major bitch in the "how dare you not think I'm the cutest thing you every saw" way. Don't like her at all.

What I would love is if they found someone who was nice, understood their looks are considered attractive to others (meaning they aren't humble, but aren't conceited) and wasn't a doormat. If they stuck up for the underdog but didn't have to be the "most" anything. Someone confident in who they are.

Well, for me right now that would be Billy. The 31 year old Vitamin store owner from Idaho? Montana? Somewhere out there. He seems to be fairly humble, nice guy, polite. I like C.J. too but I think he knows exactly how handsome he is and obviously how to use it as someone posted he gets women to pay for his car insurance? Not a humble quality I think.

I personally like Chelsea. Yeah, so right now maybe she's a hot tranny mess but hopefully she'll take Nole's advice and tone it down. She seems to let things go right off her back (lookin' at YOU poor man's Brad Pitt), and I don't think the judge's should have used the bathroom scene against HER, I think it should have gone against the other girl. Chelsea was in there getting ready and the other girl basically kicked her out.

[EmbiggenedSoul]

I am debating whether to watch this show or not...am leaning towards not. But, for those of you who did watch, do they reveal to the booted contestant that they were being judged for inner beauty as well, or just let them go on their oblivious way? TIA.

[RoadTrip]

What was up with the editing at the first of the show? They show the contestents all covered in chocolate, then the Judges say "Let's go out and meet them!" and POOF! They are all clean with the chocolate fountain still on the table. Then they are told to go check out their new home, and they enter ooh-ing and aah-ing in their bathing suits!

Funny, I had forgotten that Mr.Demi Moore was a producer...for some reason that less feminine contestant reminded me of Rumer Willis in a way.

To paraphrase Chelsea: "I would walk into a room and everybody would be staring at me like I was some sort of freak...but now I realize that it was my beauty." Um, Chelsea? I hate to break it to you, but it's because you're a freak! She always raises one side of her upper lip in an Elvis homina-homina way.

[CitizenKang]

It is pretty apparent this show is from Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher as it comes off totally condescending. Let me get this straight: Tyra Banks (supermodel), Ashton Kutcher (actor), Cheryl Tiegs (supermodel), Vanessa Minnillo (actress/host) and Nole Marin (stylist) AKA people who make their livelihoods on OUTER beauty are supposed to be judges of INNER beauty?? What qualifies them exactly? Because they are "nice"? How come the judges aren't a nun, someone who runs a non-profit and someone in the peace corps or just any combo of objectively "good" people?