Blagojevich: A reality TV career ended too soon (sure)
It looks like disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is going to have another dubious distinction on his resume: the shortest reality TV show career in history.
A federal judge in Chicago Tuesday denied Blagojevich, who faces 19 corruption counts from his time in office, permission to go to Costa Rica to film segments of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here at $800,000 an episode.
"I don't think this defendant in all honesty ... fully understands the position he finds himself in," the Chicago Sun-Times reported U.S. District Judge James Zagel saying as he made the ruling.
"I have to do it for my kids," Blagojevich said before his court hearing, explaining to reporters why he needs the money from the NBC reality show that features D-list celebrities in a Survivor-like setting.
(Left: Chicago Tribune photo of Blagojevich being swarmed by reporters last week by Antonio Perez)
Comments
Blago is crazy, and good for the judge for pointing that out, in not so many words. That's the only explanation for how he possibly thought any judge would let him leave the country to appear on a reality show. It would've been interesting to see him navigate the jungle without the power of the bribe at his fingertips!
Posted by: Julie | April 21, 2009 3:08 PM
Maybe you should have thought about your kids before you decided to "alledgedly" commit federal crimes?
Posted by: Chris in KS | April 22, 2009 10:05 AM
Too bad, now Cathy and I will never know how his hair would have held up!
I think the judge made the right decision.
Sherry Tellitocci
Posted by: Sherry Tellitocci | April 22, 2009 2:04 PM