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Nice Friday to all of you... the weekend is here, and that also means that our MTV Reality episode coverage is ahead here at DCBLOG. For starters, this week has seen one man take over the spotlight in the grand scheme of things... his name is Cory.
Coming up, we'll have the reaction to him, baby mama Cheyenne and their kid Ryder crossing over into newfound territory in Teen Mom OG, along with a brief overview and thoughts on the Trifecta joining the mamas. Plus, the in-between interaction from The Challenge Final Reckoning before our episode diary covering Week 13 is posted tomorrow. See you after the jump...
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Hi there, welcome on in to the week and this first October journey Inside MTV Reality. Ahead, it's a Cory take-over as with the help of a lucky duo he invades bothThe Challenge and Teen Mom, while the AYTO crew mixes things up yet again. But first, it may be fall but the summer is winding down for our friends down by the Floribama Shore.
When we left them last week, the house had been divided: the guys got to enjoy a weekend to themselves, but the girls were disjointed and they went down to Tampa for a girls' weekend, where Aimee lived out her fantasy of being a real-life mermaid. And along with twerking and a letter from Logan, the attention shifted yet again to Gus and Nilsa... and for the second time this season, they locked lips amidst some sexual tension.
A person who hasn't been in the house in a while has been Jeremiah - tending to a loss in the family, and this week he returns to the beach just in time for the entire group's first out-of-town road trip. Their destination is a city that has proven to be a place where anything can and will happen - New Orleans. There, that game of cat and mouse for Panama City Beach's resident couple rolls along, while drama ignites the lady with a move named for her hometown. And for a couple who we got to know in the house, an incident with her boo thang may spell the end for her relationship back home.
After the jump, it's a New Orleans Takeover on the penultimate week of summer #2 with Floribama Shore. And welcome to the weekend...
So, hope you all got to enjoy this week's episodes of Are You The One?, The Challenge, Floribama Shore and the season premiere of Teen Mom OG as MTV alums Cheyenne & Cory join that family. DCBLOG will have all of that coming up for you here starting tomorrow as we usher in the month of October in grand fashion... but first, something special to begin this week's blog wave.
If you're a TV nut, then you are surely like that kid on Christmas rejoicing to your favorite shows returning for the fall, as well as wrapping your arms around new ones too. For us here - and for now, our focus is on a threesome... an MTV Reality threesome that is, with the first two shows headed into their business half of the season, and Floribama to soon wrap up its summer. And now, a lot of you are now getting to watching Teen Mom for the first time as those who we loved on Rivals III now join Maci, Catelynn, Amber and fellow new mom Bristol Palin to the show.
Something we sometimes do here is to take a peek ahead, look into the crystal ball and find out what the future holds for a show of interest on here. We don't do it as much as those of you who talk about it among yourselves and on other sites do, but when it's necessary we'll have a first opportunity to scratch the surface a little bit on it before it goes out to everyone else when the time comes. That's what we'll be doing on here as, now, we'll have this Look Ahead to something that will be keeping our eye out for, and will of course be covering it wall to wall once we arrive there.
Last time out here - and as this is posted on Mean Girls Day of October 3rd, we discussed MTV's reentry into celeb-reality television with Lohan Beach House, as Lindsay Lohan will be at the helm of a new and fabulous European resort in the Greek islands... she's been in the news lately with her bad behavior once again taking over. And one of those who has been reportedly been cast to be part of that new show that debuts in early 2019 is someone who, if you're a Challenge & Real World fan, is familiar... check that out when you can and to give you a clue about that: if you watched the second season premiere of Jersey Shore Family Vacation and the guests who came to Ronnie's baby shower you know what we mean.
For the show that received the ultra-coveted spot of airing after the first rendezvous to Miami this past spring, Ex On The Beach introduced America to something that's been keeping those in Europe and overseas on their toes of hot girls and guys having to go through absolute hell seeing the past come back to bite them in the tush. It ushered in a new way for a lot of those who loathe romantic reality shows to get a chance to see your favorite reality stars and their exes make a vacation feel like they wanted to go back home and not want to live with the ones they thought they buried in the past coming back to haunt them like Halloween ghosts.
The show rode that post Jersey Shore-wave to be MTV's highest-rated totally new series in several years, and helped fuel the channel's reality re-embrace. Season 2 of Ex On The Beach is now filming down in Malibu as it's slated to drop during the winter and it will definitely warm us all up with those sights of summer during the season of snow. Obviously, the sequel will have much to live up to after what we saw when Cory, Alicia, Paulie, Angela and the rest of those who made up that first cast had to go through in Hawaii.
For what we have ahead of us for Season 2, there will be a new group of those who will find themselves in that spot of having to ask themselves, "Whose Ex Is Next?" And we'll discuss who will be in that position after the jump... so again, get ready for some tea around the hotstove after dark.
In many past posts here, we've brought up a staple of our television landscape - and one that your mom loves to spend time with while most of you are at work or in school: daytime TV. A person who made a cameo in Cory & Cheyenne's debut last night on Teen Mom OG and is in action tonight did a game show on GSN with Jerry Springer, two fellow AYTO alumni being spotted in the audience on Dr. Phil, three alumni competing on Let's Make A Deal and The Price Is Right, and a Real World'er providing gossip on Wendy Williams. And then, there's this...
Since Oprah Winfrey's iconic talk show went off the air seven years ago, one lady has assumed her mantle as the queen of daytime: Ellen Degeneres began her talk show more than a decade ago, and this fall marks the show's 16th season on the air. She began as a stand-up comedian in the early '80s, went onto Johnny Carson and did two sitcoms. In the sitcom field, she most famously came out during her self titled sitcom - the first lesbian actress to play an openly lesbian character on TV… and this year marks her 10th wedding anniversary with wife Portia de Rossi.
Ellen has also hosted all three major entertainment awards shows: the Grammys, Emmys and the Oscars, and it's with the ladder that she has perhaps her most iconic moment. At the 2014 Academy Awards, she paid homage to record-setting actress Meryl Streep by asking fellow celebs to join her and Meryl to take what's perhaps the most notable selfie of all. The result: 1.8 million retweets within an hour, more than 2 million by night's end, and 3.4 million overall… it was so popular that Twitter was shut down temporarily on Hollywood's biggest night. So many others have since done their best to emulate that iconic photo, including the Are You The One? Season 1 cast and Derrick H.
And there's her talk show, which has had a more deeper shelf life in the daytime than any of her other TV efforts at night. Those who tune in each day are offered an uplifting, one-hour escape from what's going in our world for Ellen's unique mix of comedy, celebrity and musical guests and human interest stories. Just last week, a viral video came to her attention, and she decided to play a prank on her production staff by having a snake fall down from the air conditioning vents in their office and scaring her fellow employees.
The audience is just as part of the everyday fun of Ellen as the star herself… take the joy they have when they are part of her annual Twelve Days of Giveaways, the show's equivalent of Oprah's Favorite Things special over the Christmas holidays. And it's with being part of getting to be in the audience -- a highly coveted but elusive part for many fans -- that makes the show as vibrant as any you'll find on TV today. And two of those who know what it's like to sit in the Ellen audience - and even get down on the dance floor - are our subjects.
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We're now on the verge of saying hello to the month of October, but we have one more piece of business to take care of from this ninth month of 2018 with the 'Pulse of Are You The One? Season 7, as the season's second half kicks off in the islands of Hawaii.
Last week, there were not one but TWO episodes for us to consume: Cam and Kayla saw that Kwasi was making a move for her in a big way, even including fisticuffs in the process. In the wake of getting slammed by Terrence J. at matchup, Sam turned her attention to Daniel, Miss West Virginia Lauren turned to New Englander Andrew, and others to new interests after they got one new beam at their previous matchup. And Zak was left with a big choice on his mind, choosing Bria over Morgan in the Truth Booth, which returned a no match.
There is some optimism for the house, though, as they gained their first positive step in the light race in four beams, and this week sees them try to build upon that always precious momentum. For that New York trainer, he makes a big gamble similar to what went down the previous night on The Challenge that may set the tone for the rest of the house. For another who just now has answered our question of why he's on this show, he gets pushed to begin making his move on the ladies. And for our resident comedian, he reveals his true feelings to one of the girls he's been flirting with.
We'll tell you which is which, along with all of what went down in the social verse during Episode 9 of this season -- one where, usually, we would start to get on the edge for that nerve-wracking 10th and last week... but we're only at the sixth truth booth and matchup. All the action, reaction and interaction awaits you after the jump...
For hip-hop fans, the summer of 2018 has no doubt been an unforgettable one. It began with in June with Kanye West releasing Ye (and him performing on Saturday Night Live tonight), Nas dropping Nasir, and Drake shutting down social media with his latest release of Scorpion to record numbers. We then saw Eminem drop Kamikaze and laid a smackdown on Machine Gun Kelly, which came after G-Eazy ignited a beef with MGK. And, obviously, there was the tragic news of Mac Miller's untimely death - which came after he dropped his last album Swimming.
As for the whole year, it has been a breakthrough one for the man who was born as Austin Richard Post, who now refers to himself by his last name and stage name, Post Malone. He was born in Syracuse but spent most of his life down in in the Dallas area when his dad became a concessions manager for the Cowboys. He had his first try at music when, with his Guitar Hero experience, he got to try to be a guitarist in a band, but didn't score the gig when his guitar strings broke. Malone then expanded his palette to being a DJ, soft music and hip-hop while he was in high school, where he was given the senior title, "Most Likely to Be Famous."
After a short stint in college and using a name generator to adopt his stage alias, Malone moved out west to join a video game player friend to L.A. to form the group BLCKVRD and began recording tracks together with several friends. One of them was "White Iverson," paying homage to NBA great Allen Iverson, which then made it to his SoundCloud account... one million plays later, he was being pursued by the big labels, with the Republic label ultimately winning out. Soon, Malone got to join Kanye on the single "Fade," landed an opening gig on Justin Bieber's world tour and dropped his debut album, Stoney.
That 2016 for him was just the opening act to the worldwide breakthrough Post would ultimately enjoy in 2018, starting with a good appetizer in opening single "Rockstar." It spent eight weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and offered the segueway to sophomore album Beerbongs & Bentleys, which not only debuted at the top but also set streaming records with 79 million listening on Spotify when it dropped last April, and two more top 10 singles in "Psycho" and "Better Now."
When I watched Post Malone at the Coachella festival - and who appeared as the last act in the Saturday livestream of Week 1 before Beyonce's epic performance, he epitomizes the feeling of being that everyday guy of those our age of being millennials in someone who loves to drink and smoke and still have a good time. Him being able to just be laid-back compared to his contemporaries, blending other genres and approaching his songwriting from an introspective point of view, and a style described as "laconic," has given Post a unique spot in the hip-hop world.
And then, there's Malone's summer of 2018: after he took to the stage with true rockstars Aerosmith at the VMA's last month, the plane he took from there to London had their tires blow out at takeoff, but rerouted back to New York and landed safely. Earlier this month, his old home in the San Fernando Valley outside Hollywood was robbed when robbers' attempt to grab him by the throat just missed when the rapper moved out. And a week later in the early hours of Saturday, Sept. 8, his white Rolls-Royce car collided with another car in Santa Monica, and again Malone was spared from his third bout with bad luck. He's obviously lucky to still be here.
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Post nearly had another event add to these past few months but something not related to him cheating death: he and Drake nearly became part of a track on Lil Wayne's newest album that dropped yesterday, but it barely didn't make the final track list. But earlier today, Post's adventures brought him to Las Vegas as the town's famous pool parties draw near to its conclusion for the season. One of them who had the opportunity to rub shoulders with the "Rockstar" of 2018 in hip-hop was Real World and Challenge original Syrus Yarborough. Sy knows very well the opportunity to hang with someone like Post, as he was featured in Eminem's "Without Me" back in 2002.
And earlier, Syrus added to the long list of those he's gotten to hang out with when he and Post Malone met up. He's not the only big name hip-hop artist to meet up with the Extreme Challenge champ this year, as Sy also hung out with another rapper who's become big in the past year, Lil' Pump during this year's Spring Break down in Cancun.
This is a busy weekend in the sports world this last week of September: Chelsea vs Liverpool and Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid headlined today's European soccer, with Daniel Sturridge netting a goal of the year candidate in the former. It's championship weekend down in Australia: the West Coast Eagles beat the Collingwood Magpies and American born Mason Cox to claim Aussie Rules Football premiership, and later Sydney faces Melbourne for the title in Australian Rugby League.
Here at home, Penn State has just defeated Ohio State in a game fueled by a tweet gone wrong earlier, while the Steelers & Ravens highlight Sunday's NFL action. It's also the last weekend of baseball's regular season with NL division & wild card races and a Yanks/Red Sox playoff preview just before the postseason is set. There's also the NASCAR Playoffs taking to a new road course in Charlotte, and preseason action in the NBA starting and the NHL too.
Aside from those, this weekend the attention of sports fans in the U.S. and Europe -- at least in the morning hours here -- is on golf. Last week, Tiger Woods won his first PGA Tour event in 5 years -- his 80th overall -- and it bumped the NFL from the top of the sports page. And now comes the one time every two years where honor, pride and country take over for a special event in the game. The Ryder Cup is taking place in Paris, where Tiger has joined America's top golfers to face the best Europe has to offer in the always intense and spine-tingling drama of match play. Those who watch every other autumn know about the drama of these teams playing not for themselves, but for their nations in the purest form the game of golf has, where every hole is a tournament in itself - and it's of how many holes a player/team can win, not by total strokes, that determines who wins.
While The Masters in Augusta each spring is the most serene setting for any golf tournament, the Ryder Cup is the total opposite. Galleries come out in droves wearing either European blue or American red, while they actually cheer for an opponent's missed shot. And at times, the Ryder Cup can be described as a mix of a golf tournament, an Olympic event in displays of patriotism, a college football game in the emotions of the competitors, and European soccer in the way of atmosphere.
Through two days of four-ball and four-some matches in the morning and afternoon, Team USA went off to an early 3-1 lead after the first session of better-ball. But ever since, the Europeans have taken control in its specialty of alternate shot: it took all four matches on Friday afternoon, three four-ball rounds earlier this morning and two after lunch. British Open champ Francesco Molinari and partner Tommy Fleetwood took down Tiger not one, but three times in leading an underdog European side.
The score stands at Europe leading the U.S., 10-6, with a dozen singles matches to take place tomorrow to decide whether Europe will regain the dominance they've enjoyed in the competition the past quarter-century or if the Cup will somehow stay in American control. But that Saturday night score is a jinx: two times a team has been down by that 10-6 margin after the two days of team play and then manage to come back in the Sunday heads-up matches to win: the U.S. did it on home soil in Boston in 1999, then Europe coming back in Chicago in 2012.
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Happy Saturday night friends, and while we're enjoying this last weekend of September, things are getting serious for real down in South Africa, as The Challenge Final Reckoning is past the halfway point. And as the past has shown over the years, this is the time where we will figure out who the contenders and the pretenders are, and it's where the house will get both stir crazy and get serious.
Last week, we saw the former take place when we saw two throwdowns take place in both the main house and in redemption. In the former, Cara and the Lavender Ladies got into it with Amanda leading the charge. Upon her and Kam taking last in the latest Purge, Kayleigh got into a blow-up with Natalie after the Brit outed the Big Brother alum on social media. But there was a competition to go along with it: the teams ascended hundreds of feet above to combine heights with high stakes.
In the end, only Tony and the new host of 1st Look TV, Johnny Bananas, completed that tough course, and this week they hold the power vote in the hands... but it's what happens at Armageddon that will cause a ripple effect both in the main house and in Redemption. Meanwhile, one player finds themselves shook when an insult that might be considered unforgivable further divides them. And the teams will get locked up but will also find themselves puzzled by the week's challenge.
We'll have all the action, reaction and interaction from this week's episode coming up, along with the aftermath as a member of one of those teams speaks out. That's all ahead... we're glad you're with us.
