I'm back from vacation trying to get caught up on everything and wondering how I will spend all my free time now that American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, with their on-multiple-times-a-week-ness, have closed out their seasons. Never fear, there is always something happening on the reality TV front.

Many thanks to guest blogger Tim Swift, who handily filled in while I was gone last week (and spruced things up a bit, too). Let's see if I can keep up the pace with posts and pictures.

(Dustin Diamond photo courtesy VH1)

So now that I'm back, let's talk about a show I'm sure everyone has just been desperate to discuss: Celebrity Fit Club. OK, no, it's no ratings-grabber, but it's been full of drama this season. Unfortunately, most of it has been manufactured by Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech from Saved by the Bell. Like many child stars, Diamond has a ton of barely repressed rage, which is probably magnified by playing such a completely geeky character for so long.

He's clearly gone on the show just to try to build his celebrity (he's pulled stunts like selling shirts to try to pay his mortgage and has a "sex tape" that he claims was accidentally released, but he sure seems happy about it). He acts wounded at every suggestion he has done anything wrong, even while tearing down his teammates in interviews and insisting that he will lose weight eating whatever he wants. He's exhausting to watch, and it's really hampered my enjoyment of the show since his drama eats up so much time of every episode. For me, the only upside to Diamond's time on the show was a heated exchange that led Marine Corps Drill Instructor Harvey Walden (one of the contestants' coaches) to scream at him: "Don't you ever in your [expletive] cartoon life threaten me!" It was an amusing mix of the typical DI attempt to not swearing (subbing in "cartoon" for some other two-syllable word) and being so upset that he swore, too. But I digress.

Diamond keeps threatening to leave the show, and I wish he just would, so we can get back to the experiences of the other contestants, who actually want to be there. (Including fellow child star Maureen "Marcia Brady" McCormick, who manages to be chipper and positive even while dealing with a lot of personal issues.) But based on the preview for next week, it doesn't appear that's going to happen. Pity.