BY DC CUEVA
On St. Patrick's Day night 2003, the world was on a state of heightened alert with the possibility of a second American war with Iraq in twenty-two years that would ultimately come to pass just three days later. But for those needing an escape, those who were turned to MTV on that night were offered a classic moment, one that ranked among Time Magazine's top moments in the genre.
But the one thing he may be remembered most for was of when he went to the Hollywood Hills house of his friend Justin Timberlake, and had his friends including CHIPs & Parenthood star Dax Shepard pose as government agents. There, they were seizing his Hollywood Hills home and his precious valuables as part of a foreclosure due to the 'NSYNC star not paying his income taxes. Once Ashton emerged out of the control room, Justin's reaction to him being the victim of this epic prank was classic, which became an all-time MTV moment and helped cement his megastar status.
That is the definitive moment in the several seasons' run of Punk'd, born out of a pilot where regular people would be the victims of ordinary pranks... but when a Las Vegas prank gone wrong saw MTV have a $10 million date in court, Ashton turned his attention to just pranking celebs at just about anywhere in Hollywood. Besides that JT prank, the very first episode saw Frankie Muniz get a specially-made Porsche get stolen, and red carpet interviews gone wrong by a then 15-year-old kid named Ryan Pinkston. The series itself has recently returned with Chance the Rapper taking over the big chair, and it is streaming on the newly-launched mobile-first television app Quibi.
When Punk'd made its premiere that March, it was during when The Real World Las Vegas was still airing, as the original reality series was still airing half-hour episodes and airing for as long as Final Reckoning did. It was the season that changed everything, as this documentary-based project that might be a snooze at times truly came of age in the capital of adult freedom and the go-to spot for all of us to escape our worries for gambling, entertainment and all-out fun. And the amount of sex and drama that went down on the 28th floor of The Palms Casino Resort upped the ante on the show, and set the style and tone for the MTV Reality entertainment you all enjoy some two decades later.
And in that decade of the 2000's, you pretty much haven't become big until you got to appear on Punk'd... that's exactly what happened during the show's first season. In this instance, she was called to MTV's West Coast offices then located in Santa Monica (and now it calls CBS' former Sunset studios in Hollywood home), where she was told that had a meeting with execs from the channel about possible future projects. Also at the office was the oldest member of the Backstreet Boys, Kevin Richardson, which next year turns 50 years old (and this post goes to press the week longtime MTV newsman Kurt Loder turns 75, if you can believe that).
Below, that clip of Trishelle getting Punk'd when she tried to get past two security guards and that screening checkpoint we all go through at the airport. And the man who shared that infamous threesome in the hot tub with her, Steven Hill, made an appearance towards the end when she still couldn't get by the guards before Ashton walked in to officially say that she has been pranked. And Trishelle remains to this day the only Challenger (or Real World'er for that matter), to be Punk'd... and of course, she couldn't help but laugh along with everyone else.
Trishelle on MTV’s Punk’d. The only Challenger who was Punk’d by Ashton Kutcher. from r/MtvChallenge
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