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Kathryn Price
The Mole
In 2001, Kathryn was the very first “mole.” The former law-school lecturer now whips out screenplays like 2007’s The Game Plan, starring The Rock. But here’s something bizarre: The man that was said to be responsible for killing people with mailed anthrax in 2001 — Bruce Ivins, who killed himself in July 2008 — wrote an e-mail that month that referred to the Mole episode that was supposed to have someone throw a hatchet at Kathryn; Ivins wrote: “He should have taken the hatchet and brought it down hard and sharply across her neck, severing her carotid artery and jugular vein … I personally would have paid big money to have do[n]e it myself. The least someone could do would be to take a sharp ballpoint p[e]n or letter opener and put her eyes out, to complete the task of making her a true mole!”
KEEP READING: Joe Millionaire‘s Evan Marriott[PAGEBREAK]
Millionaire? Ha! And boy, were those women pissed when they found out back in ’03. Now it’s 2009, and well, it seems all women are still harboring a deep hatred over the former construction worker. He says, at first, he’s able to collect phone numbers, but women simply want him to call them just so they can reject him and smirk off to everybody: “Oh, that guy Evan Marriott — because he did that to those girls — I blew him off when he called for a date.” Oh, but recently, he did spend one steamy night with Bob Saget on his game show 1 vs. 100.
KEEP READING: The Amazing Race‘s Rob and Amber
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Rob and Amber Mariano
The Amazing Race
Eventually competing as an engaged couple in the seventh season of The Amazing Race, they finished as runners-up. CBS aired a two-hour special about their 2005 wedding, and Rob announced that he was looking to become a professional poker player. They’ve since moved to Vegas, competed in an All-Stars series, and announced a little secret pet project in the works. Nothing’s official, but the new reality show called Tontine will follow 15 contestants competing for keys on all seven continents over 100 days. The winner will received $10 million, what they’re claiming as the largest prize in reality TV history.
KEEP READING: The Real World‘s The Miz
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Mike “The Miz” Mizanin
The Real World Back to New York
Post Real Worlding in 2001, he emerged as a professional wrestler for WWE. He’s reappeared on various reality programs like Tough Enough, Fear Factor and The Inferno, plus, as a one-time boyfriend to fellow Real Worlder Trishelle Cannatella (more on her later). He co-hosts a weekly segment on WWE.com called “The Dirt Sheet,” but his personality is at its best on his personal website, offering the latest news with the Miz, and TV, movie, CD and concert reviews, too! They’re a little dated, but still entertaining to see that he found that Transformers “did not disappoint” and how he believes Izzy “will be back somehow” on Grey’s Anatomy.
KEEP READING: American Idol‘s William Hung
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Naturally, William would appear in an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch opposite Ricky Martin, the first fella behind “She Bangs.” Immediately following his enormous Idol fame in ’04 (indeed, William Hung: Hangin’ With Hung is a documentary about it), William milked his 15 minutes by starring in commercials for Ask.com and Cingular Wireless (like Hung, also defunct), an episode of Arrested Development, and very recently, a Hong Kong movie starring opposite Coolio. But a Google search of “William Hung” proves that his infamy lives on solely as a universal pronoun (e.g. the William Hungs … ) for what to fear on all future Idols.
KEEP READING: America’s Next Top Model‘s Kim Stolz
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Kim Stolz
America’s Next Top Model
Back in 2005, it was painful to watch Kim attempt to feminize her butch-lezzie self. Now, as a super-prominent MTV veejay, you can’t get her away from short-short skirts, sparkly eyeshadow and a flat iron. When she’s not introducing the latest from Fall Out Boy, Kim is blogging for The Huffington Post — topics that range from paycheck-seeking veterans to Gossip Girl.
KEEP READING: Survivor‘s Richard Hatch
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When the show premiered in 2000, its first day was greeted with Richard’s cocky remark that he “already had the million-dollar check written in his name.” Of course, he was right. Pay to the order of: Richard Hatch. But ah-ha, Richard didn’t share his winnings with the government! And with further research, we’ve learned that Richard didn’t share portions of his earnings as a Boston radio host, plus $28,000 in rent on property he owned. In 2006, the year he appeared as himself — and naked — in Another Gay Movie, Richard was sentenced to 51 months in prison for official tax evasion, plus three years of supervised release.
KEEP READING: I Love New York‘s New York
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When Tiffany Pollard, aka New York, didn’t have enough fireworks for two rounds of Flavor of Love, couldn’t find enough fireworks in two rounds of her own spinoff series, I Love New York, New York ventured west in New York Goes to Hollywood. She picked up her first commercial bit for a Japanese energy drink, guest-starred in an episode of Nip/Tuck, then turned down I Love New York 3 in favor of a movie role. Internet-digging results conclude that she might star in a movie called The Trial of the Chicago 7 that — what the?! — Ben Stiller might be directing.
KEEP READING: Flavor of Love 2‘s Sumthin’[PAGEBREAK]
Sumthin’
Flavor of Love 2, Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School
That Sumthin’. She beat up New York to get to Flava, she took a dump on the floor to seem “charming,” and now … she’s got a clothing website! You can purchase tote bags with Sumthin’s (aka Tykeisha Thomas) face silk-screened to it, plus little buttons that read: “I’m sumthin’, bitch!” She’s toyed with lesbianism, but if her MySpace page is to be trusted, she’s just like the rest of us: hoping that “maybe one day I’ll be whole with love.”
KEEP READING: Big Brother‘s Boogie[PAGEBREAK]
Mike “Boogie” Malin
Big Brother
He was booted from the second season of Big Brother in 2001, but despite being sent home embarrassingly early, Boogie’s gone on to win various All-Star spinoffs. His biggest feat, post BB, is his collaborative restaurant endeavor, The Dolce Group, counting Ashton Kutcher, Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson as his partners. He is the owner of Hollywood hotspots Geisha House, Dolce, Les Deux, Ketchup, and Bella — the kinds of places with lines of commoners forming outside, and the Paris Hiltons are already sittin’ pretty on the inside.
KEEP READING: The Real World‘s Trishelle
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Trishelle Cannatella
The Real World Las Vegas
You could call her a reality TV whore, for sure. What blossomed from a three-way makeout the very first night she moved into the Palms Hotel in 2002, Trishelle has appeared on The Surreal Life, The Gauntlet, Kill Reality, Fear Factor, Dr. Steve-O, Punk’d and most recently, Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling in which her dreams of becoming a professional wrestler with the name “The Red Hot Redneck” were crushed at the end of the sixth episode. Hey, at least she can tell her folks that she starred in William Hung‘s music video for “She Bangs.”
KEEP READING: The Amazing Race‘s Reichen and Chip
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Reichen Lehmkuhl and Chip Arndt
The Amazing Race
Gay boyfriends Reichen and Chip famously won the fourth season of The Amazing Race, but soon thereafter, broke up. Reichen helped Lance Bass admit his homosexuality — on the cover of People, natch — because Reichen was the boyfriend Lance debuted. They’ve since split, thanks to Perez Hilton outing Reichen for cheating on Lance and reportedly using crystal meth (Reichen attempted to sue, but mysteriously “dropped” it), and now operates a paid-subscription-based personal website, http://www.therealreichen.com/, which offers an inside look at his home and other whereabouts. Oh, yeah, and he publishes an annual beefcake calendar. Meanwhile, Chip conducts golf clinics and donates to anti-AIDS charities.
KEEP READING: American Idol‘s Sanjaya
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It was the ponyhawk heard ’round the world — because, really, it was Sanjaya’s hair that did all the singing back in ’07. These days, he’s slinging insurance commercials for the folks in India by way of Nationwide. And after a pithy contribution to Chicken Soup for the American Idol Soul, Sanjaya’s writing voice — again, any voice but the one that comes directly from his vocal cords — was urged to pen an entire tome: Dancing to the Music in My Head: Memoirs of the People’s Idol. In stores Jan. 20 … clap … clap.
KEEP READING: The Real World‘s Jacinda Barrett[PAGEBREAK]
Jacinda Barrett
The Real World London
Now this is heartwarming: Jacinda’s makin’ it! As an actress! She’s no Jennifer Aniston yet, but the Australian player is getting a decent grip on playing leading girlfriend roles, opposite Zach Braff in The Last Kiss and opposite Kal Penn in The Namesake. In real life, she’s the wife of Gabriel Macht, whose success rate (The Spirit, Because I Said So) is nicely on par with Jacinda’s. This year, they will co-star in Middle Men with Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi.
KEEP READING: Laguna Beach‘s Jason Wahler[PAGEBREAK]
Lauren Conrad was girlfriend to this hot-headed attacker of random people, racial slur deliverer to an apartment security guard, the recipient of a DUI for his impressive .22 alcohol content, and recently, Jason was caught on the street, praying he’d be back on The Hills again soon, and also giving a verbal prayer to Heidi Montag that included the words: “kill yourself.”
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Michael Wray
Hell’s Kitchen
He was Gordon Ramsay‘s first winning chef — and he rejected an offer to work at one of Ramsay’s restaurants. Instead, he bragged about an Executive Chef title at the L.A. restaurant Tatou, but it’s unclear if he ever did any chef-ing. He was selling knives briefly, but the URL for his company, Skull and Cleavers, is no longer working. The restaurant LolaPop that was supposed to be his ultimate tribute to his wife never appeared in Vegas like it was supposed to. Michael was last heard celebrating the birth of his son a year ago and getting lots and lots of tattoos.
KEEP READING: The Real World‘s Puck
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David “Puck” Rainey
The Real World San Francisco
Puck, of course, was the prick who was a meanie to Pedro. But that was 1994. He’s grown up since, right? Well, he is married — he did so very intimately on the Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes. And just last summer, TMZ spotted him in a Vegas nightclub saying, “My wife doesn’t care where I put my balls, as long as I don’t bring back any bugs.” FYI, this man is a father to two children.
KEEP READING: Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?‘s Rick and Darva
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Rick and Darva
Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?
In 2000, multi-millionaire Rick chose Darva to be his new bride. With a three-carat diamond on and $100,000 in prizes, Darva was whisked away on a honeymoon, only to demand an annulment upon return. Was it the separate rooms? Well, she claimed that the two never consummated their marriage, and that her morals were compromised. By the way, that year, she posed nude for Playboy. A couple of years later, Rick published a kitschy looking tome titled What Was I Thinking — available for purchase on Rick’s personal website: http://www.rickrockwell.com/. Darva is now married to a man named Jim Arellano and lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif. with her mother, former actress Susan Harrison.
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Jerri Manthey
Survivor: The Australian Outback
In Scary Movie 2, she’s referenced as an “unholy bitch.” Following her 2001 Survivor crawl, Jerri appeared on The Young and the Restless and reality shows like Blind Date, The Surreal Life, The Joe Schmo Show and on the cover of Playboy. She keeps a sporadic personal blog and offers various how-to tips on how to pump gas and how to kill a kitchen grease fire. Also, she really hates texting.
KEEP READING: Project Runway‘s Malan Breton
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Malan Breton
Project Runway
Easily the oddest person ever on Runway, Malan was eliminated way too prematurely in its third season in 2006. Wonder if it was because he snubbed the show’s original offer to join the second season? Turns out that peculiar voice of his has done voiceover work for ESPN and ABC. His slicked-back ‘do has appeared on BravoTV.com’s cult-fave web series “The Malan Show.” He’s shown at various Fashion Weeks and has offered confusing debonair advice on Australia’s Next Top Model.
