Back-stabbing. Name-calling. Fleeting fame. Elimination. Reality TV news sounds a lot like … reality TV. The latest:
– “Apprentice” Season 1 vixen Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth is back in the headlines, criticizing the NBC franchise for stereotyping her and other black contestants. “Once you start looking at how all the black men are lazy and laid-back and non-assertive and non-aggressive and all the black women are quite the opposite, I think there is a pattern,” she said Wednesday during a conference call. “How insulting to other African-Americans,” producer Mark Burnett responded. He would advise Omarosa to “take responsibility for your own behavior and stop disparaging other African-Americans.”
– It looks like Chicago business consultant Gregg Carey passed the first test on “Survivor: Palau.” Three contestants were kicked off the show during Thursday night’s season premiere. Two were thrown off as the group was being divided into tribes, and Jolanda, a lawyer from Texas, was voted off by her tribe after it lost the first challenge.
– Where have you gone, Jennifer Hudson? There’s no Chicagoan to root for on this year’s “American Idol,” but Illinois at least has one representative among the 24 semifinalists: Jared Yates, a high school senior from Danville. Meanwhile, the show’s producers have authorized American Idol: The Magazine, a 130-page viewing guide that retails for $5.99.
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Edited by RedEye staff (ritaredeye@tribune.com)
