For quite some time, VH1 seemed reticent to even acknowledge the genre. What had been a self-propelling engine of content, reality TV personalities, and - as we'd learn later on - memes immediately ground to a halt. As more details about Jenkins surfaced, a 2007 conviction for assaulting a woman in Calgary, Alberta came to light VH1's background check didn't surface the conviction because they didn't check in Canada.Īfter the fourth season of I Love Money aired, Celebreality effectively ceased to exist on VH1. The third season of I Love Money never aired, although the fourth season did, fueling rumors that Jenkins did indeed win his season and the $250,000 prize. VH1 immediately pulled Megan Wants a Millionaire from TV and online, effectively wiping it from existence. Jenkins was the only suspect in her death, and he himself committed suicide a few days later. In August, Fiore was discovered brutally killed, her body mutilated. Jenkins was charged with battery after hitting her just three months into their marriage. The two had gotten married after filming on Millionaire wrapped, but their relationship was a rocky one. While Megan Wants a Millionaire was airing, Jenkins was charged with the murder of his wife, Jasmine Fiore. But audiences never saw any of that happen. One contestant, Ryan Jenkins, got to the final three, and later went on to compete in (and allegedly win) the third season of I Love Money. This spin on the Of Love format saw Hauserman only date men of a certain financial status. After a memorable run that saw her quit just before the end of the first season, Megan Hauserman got her own spinoff series, Megan Wants a Millionaire. I Love Money would prove to be Celebreality's undoing, though. Even those not receiving their own series got to extend their reality TV stardom thanks to I Love Money, a competition series reminiscent of MTV's The Challenge, in which the prize was not a paramour's heart, but cold hard cash. Former paramours on the Love shows got their own versions: Daisy de la Hoya from Rock of Love got Daisy of Love, while brothers Ahmad "Real" and Kamal "Chance" Givens from I Love New York got a duo series, naturally titled Real Chance of Love. Soon Celebreality was a star system all its own. (The first season, hosted by Mo'Nique, spawned more memes than perhaps any other reality show in history - if you've ever quoted her saying " See when you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite," you've let a little Charm School into your life.) Charm School, a series that sought to "reform" the girls from the dating shows, soon followed. Rock of Love, a Flavor of Love variant starring musician Bret Michaels, came next. While that series went on, Flavor of Love continued with one more season. Fed up with being second-choice, Pollard and VH1 made her the star on I Love New York. Pollard came in second on Flavor of Love twice, with Flav rejecting her at the last minute in both seasons. But if those shows were the roots, Flavor of Love was the trunk from which all future branches sprung. That show only existed because Flav and Nielsen met on The Surreal Life, a celebrity version of MTV's The Real World. That show, in turn, only existed because of Strange Love, a series that chronicled Flav's relationship with actress Brigitte Nielsen. Pollard came to fame on Flavor of Love, VH1's dating show starring Flavor Flav that was both an adaptation and parody of The Bachelor. Considering how the empire fell, though, it's notable that VH1 is once again acknowledging it - and in doing so, perhaps charting a path forward.
Tiffany Pollard and I Love New York were crucial parts of the Celebreality genre, but it was a far larger empire than just one two-season show. Celebreality refers not to those shows, but to a particular genre of VH1 reality show in the mid-to-late-2000s. On the surface, a lot of reality TV would seem to fall under the umbrella of "celebrity reality" - from the Kardashians to the more famous members of the Real Housewives franchise. If a 13-years-later reunion special for a show that lasted only two seasons sounds odd, you don't know Celebreality. Fox, will bring Pollard and some of her favorite suitors back together to reminisce about the good old days of 2007 reality television. I Love New York: Reunited, hosted by Vivica A. Thirteen years after it premiered on VH1, I Love New York, the two-season reality dating series starring meme empress Tiffany "New York" Pollard, is getting a reunion special on its old network. New York is back in the motherf*cking house.
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