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March 23, 2008

Representing on Reality TV: Sweater Vests and the Hot Wet Furby

032308-sweater-vest-tommy.JPGBeauty & the Geek: The three Massachusetts geeks have very different personalities. Sweater Vest Tommy is discovering his inner babe, Jim just wants to be loved, and Chris is not putting up with any drama--ever, ever, ever. (That alone makes us wonder why he's on the show.)

Poor Sweater Vest Tommy came thisclose to getting laid. The conniving Amber wanted to woo her way out of the elimination room. She declared, "One day Tom's going to be really rich and take care of me." Uh, yay, feminism? Sweater Vest Tommy couldn't resist the attention and started wearing sunglasses in the Confessional Room, perhaps thinking the shades would prove irresistible to Amber.

But Jim was the big story. On the night before elimination, beauties hopped in the hot tub in the hopes that their charms would save them from getting kicked off. It worked. Jim bloomed from a regular Furby into a Hot Wet Furby as beauties taught him to give massages. One of them gave him a ponytail, and he said he'd keep the new look.

In the end, Amber was eliminated, and poor Sweater Vest Tommy didn't get laid after all. But there's plenty more beauties in the house and a whole lot of Sweater Vest Tommy to love.

The most memorable armpit ever to grace America's Next Top Model after the jump! Image from the CW.

America's Next Top Model: Poor Fatima was rattled by her appearance in the bottom two. She seems to have plenty of talent, but she somehow manages to forget something important or let words slip, and she gets reprimanded from Tyra Banks and the judges again.

However, this week the focus was off Fatima as two other models, Dominique the Draq Queen (that's the judges' words, not ours) and Anna Nicole Whitney, kept sniping at each other. Fatima stayed hard at work practicing her poses while Dominique and Whitney fought and the rest of the girls drank malt liquor. (Is that how they keep the weight off?)

During the photo shoot, Fatima had a wonderful pose. It was a close-up shot that took advantage of her strong facial features. Only problem was that she lifted her arm, unveiling a shrub of armpit hair. Tyra Banks lectured Fatima up and down about how modeling is one of the few jobs that requires you to show up clean and shaven. Fatima looked stunned, as if it really never occurred to her to check on her pits. She actually seemed to think of everything else this week. But the judges must have amped up the shock for reality-tv purposes because she didn't wind up in the bottom two.

Big Brother: 'Til Death Do Us Part: The second Massachusetts contestant got the boot from the house. Matt, the roofer from Charlestown, got tossed after saying some despicable things. (As despicable things seem to be the norm on Big Brother.)

Matt's supposed "soulmate," Natalie, a "bikini barista," seems to have high hopes that they will one day be together. But apparently Matt wasn't that into his "soulmate." Quoth TvGasm, "Previously on Big Brother, Natalie finally got her backrub from Matt which consisted of him rubbing a wooden block on her back while he dry heaved."


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