SexyChattyCatty: "Date My Ex" Is Bravo's Surreality TV, Or The World According To Narcissists.
HEY BRAVO, I CONFESS I'M ADDICTED TO YOUR SHOWS LIKE AN ''INTERVENTION'' SUBJECT.
I teared up when I heard that Project Runway was leaving for Lifetime. I shamefully admit that I'm even looking forward to the next season of Top Design! So why, why did you have to poison the field with “Date My Ex?”
As your promos stated, we did get to know Jo De La Rosa (Yuck!)and Slade Smiley (Double yuck!) on “The Housewives of Orange County,” and we didn’t like them then. They weren’t married and she wasn’t a housewife, just a spoiled young woman who smiled a lot and pouts prettily. She said she wanted to work but didn’t (because Slade wouldn’t allow it).
She’s a gorgeous woman who traded her beauty for yellow diamonds, big houses and expensive cars. I always got such a fake and phony vibe from the two of them.
Their breakups were always followed by her whining to her friend JJ and Slade sampling the human meat market. Once with a friend of hers, another time bringing a babe-alicious date to a “Housewife” barbecue he knew she’d be attending. Such a cad!
Slade pretended to practice tough love, insisting that if she wanted to go live by herself in L.A., well, she should just go. She did. Yaaaay. He soon followed. Boooo. Next thing you knew she was trying to launch a “singing” career with his help. He’s her “manager.” Well, he has managed to keep them in the public eye a lot longer than necessary. He’s Bravo’s Spencer Pratt.
Date My Ex begins with a fake chat with Jo and two of her friends, Myia Ingoldsby and Katy Metz, (where’s JJ? I liked her!) about life, love and Slade. They even raise the possibility they could end up back together. Oh, please. We all know he’s still paying girlfriends bills. The best they have for a future is a sweaty workout in a silk-sheeted sack.
One of Jo's new best friends turns out to also be the host of this new dating game. For eight weeks Jo will be wined and dined by 4 suitors per week until she finds her new and improved, Slade, with Slade’s help. He’ll be living with them.
Her friends have supposedly arranged these dates. But after the initial crop of guys show up, Slade drops in to offer this warning, "No one knows Jo better than me, which means that no one probably has more influence over her." I rest my case.
I quit “Date My Ex” about 11 minutes in. It came on at 10 p.m. and I have to be up early. Why waste precious sleep time on this dreck? And, oh, did I tell you, I just don’t like them. Good luck, Jo. I’ll leave you with the wisdom of one Judge Judith Sheindlin -- Beauty fades, dumb is forever.
SexyChattyCatty comments periodically at CrabbyGolightly.com on TV, America's favorite snack food.
Posted July 23, 2008
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