Torrie Wilson falls just short on ‘I’m a Celebrity’
After vowing three weeks ago to watch NBC’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here as long as Torrie Wilson remained on the program, I found myself torn between wanting the former WWE diva to win and wanting her to get voted off so I wouldn’t have to keep watching the inane reality show.
I stuck with it, however, because I knew that Torrie really wanted to win the thing – and she nearly did. Torrie ended up finishing second to actor Lou Diamond Phillips on Wednesday night’s final episode of the Survivor-like show.
I give Torrie a lot of credit. Not only did she spend three weeks in the Costa Rican jungle eating disgusting things and allowing giant cockroaches, snakes and spiders to crawl on her face, but she also had to live amongst vexatious “celebrities” such as Spencer and Heidi Pratt, Janice Dickinson and Sanjaya Malakar. After all that, swapping spit with Vince McMahon must not have seemed so bad after all.
To my knowledge, Torrie is the fourth pro wrestling personality to appear on a network reality competition show. Here’s a look at the others:
Stacy Keibler (third place on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2006): Quite frankly, she was robbed. One could argue that former boy band member Drew Lachey was a deserving winner, but NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice finishing ahead of Keibler was – as the late, great Gorilla Monsoon used to say – a miscarriage of justice. At least Keibler ended up getting a deal with ABC out of it.
John Cena (third place on ABC’s Fast Cars and Superstars in 2007): Cena finished behind John Elway and a rodeo champion named Ty Murray in the stock car auto racing competition. The good news for Cena is that there were no fans chanting “You can’t drive!” at him.
Ashley Massaro (voted off on the second episode of CBS’ Survivor in 2007): It sure didn’t take long for the former Diva Search winner to be “escorted” off the island.
Comments
Kevin, you also forgot to mention that Chris Jericho appeared on Celebrity Duets
Posted by: wwefan | June 25, 2009 6:53 AM
how about Matt Morgan on American Gladiators
Posted by: martin | June 25, 2009 7:28 AM
Hey Kevin, the best part of this show to me was seeing a different side of Torrie, you really got to see her as a real person and not an 'actor'.
I was happy with her or LDP winning, Lou really impressed me, he really came off as a regular guy who cares.
RESPONSE FROM KE: I agree with you about Torrie. As someone who has seen her as a "real person," I'm glad viewers were able to see how down to earth she is.
Posted by: Dave | June 25, 2009 8:41 AM
Didn't Matt Anoa'i (formerly Rosie) do a competition called Fat March?
Posted by: Ted | June 25, 2009 8:41 AM
i was sucked into the show for all 3 weeks and i was suprised at how well Torrie did. I really wish she would have won it all but to come in 2nd to Lou Diamond Phillips was greatness. I just wish she would have put the smackdown on Spencer and Heidi and Sanjaya and Janice Dickinson.
Posted by: Brian | June 25, 2009 10:12 AM
hehe, "escorted."
RESPONSE FROM KE: Glad someone got it.
Posted by: Mr. Sarcasm | June 25, 2009 11:40 AM
so, how is your brain feeling after watching that?
RESPONSE FROM KE: Brain is feeling well-rested. I gave it the night off whenever the show was on.
Posted by: Chiskabob | June 25, 2009 12:37 PM
How about WWE Fear Factor which was won by Matt Hardy
RESPONSE FROM KE: Yeah, I watched that. I think it came down to him and Jacqueline. I didn't include that because it was just a one-episode special.
Posted by: jason | June 25, 2009 1:28 PM
Does anybody remember a WWE/Vince McMahon produced combat style reality show staring John Cena before he came to WWE? Cena who I think was refered to as John C.(although I think it was Tim C. for some reason) was a leader of a team and they were "hunting" a group of contestants in the woods with paint ball guns or something. It was really bad whatever it was. It use to be on UPN Wed or Tues nights when SmackDown was on Thursday's. I'll search the internet to see if I can find it. Until then someone please let me know if you seen this so I know I'm not they only one who watched this crap. Although I may have been.
RESPONSE FROM KE: It was called Manhunt, and I remember there was a controversy because -- what a surprise -- the show was scripted.
Posted by: Andre the Midget | June 25, 2009 4:45 PM
Didn't Trish Stratus do a reality cop show on CBS that lasted about 2 episodes before it was pulled?
Posted by: Matt | June 26, 2009 1:23 PM