DC SocialPulse Extra: Lohan Beach Club Premiere and Before Ex On The Beach S2 Ep4

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The MTV week that was of the first full week of 2019 saw Cheyenne & Cory's first season on Teen Mom conclude as well as what we had here earlier of Codi's parents and an apology pizza mark the Floribama Shore group's return to Florida following the trip to Cabo. But before we bring you the Pulse of this week's Ex On The Beach on Sunday Funday, something special for those checking us out this late Saturday night.
   This week saw the debut of the winter's most anticipated new MTV show, Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club. And in the premiere, Lindsay and her business partner & close friend, Panos Spentzos, will get to open up shop on their new Lohan Beach House resort in Mykonos, Greece. There, they'll be joined by a team handpicked by them of nightlife pros from America's hottest clubs for the summer, and they'll find out that working with this "Paradise Boss" will be anything but a breeze in this European Rivera.
   While DCBLOG offered our traditional non-Trifecta preview of the season, aka The Look, before its premiere on Tuesday night, instead of just recapping the episodes like everyone else does we'll be integrating social reaction to Lohan Beach House into these Pulse Extra diaries, just before the main one covering EOTB is posted afterwards, as we consider that show to be our main focus for this winter. That's only part of a pre-diary that also includes reaction to Surviving R. Kelly, the premiere of The Bachelor, and much more... that's all ahead.

DC SocialPulse: Floribama Shore S2 - Meet The Parents

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DC ExtraTime: A Real World Original Invades Ridiculousness

From during The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros;

slightly edited from its original version

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A few weeks ago in marking the 25th anniversary of the longest running show in MTV history, DCBLOG took a look back at a memorable sophomore season of The Real World when, 24 years ago, the show went west to Los Angeles. There, we joined Challenge icon Beth Stolarcyak and country pioneer Jon Brennan as they caught up with roommates Dominic Griffin and Irene Berrera and revisited the same house by the beach where their journey to fame began, part of the path the show and MTV has helped in form of entertainment that has become a ubiquitous part of pop culture.
   The most notable member of that Season 2 cast never had a chance to compete on a Challenge, but she has become one of The Real World's most successful alumni and a trail blazer in the reality TV genre. And over a week ago, she returned to her MTV roots to sit down with the panel who, each week, join one of the channel's most well known names for a look at hilarious videos and plenty of opportunities to laugh.

Tami Roman came to that 1993 Real World season from White Plains, NY as part of a female girl group and a career goal to host her own talk show. She also came there as someone who might not be able to do a Real World season in current times: a married lady as wife of NBA player Kenny Anderson. Growing up, though, was much different: her mom once worked three jobs at the same time to help pay the bills, but when the elder Roman was left unemployed she and her daughter were left homeless and had to endure life on the streets of New York. That humble past helped Tami become strong and independent while also appreciating the finer things in life.
   As we showed you in our RW Los Angeles retrospective, she was picked up on an RV ride along the way by Jon and Dominic, which brought them cross country to Los Angeles, where they were joined by Aaron, Beth S., Irene and David. For someone who was born to be on camera and had already had some modeling experience, it was, of course, on Real World there that her vivacious, no-nonsense personality was first seen in front of a national TV audience. She watched that first season in SoHo thinking it would be a cool thing to be one of those seven strangers living in that house, and little did she know that she would help cast a mold for others to follow in bringing that "Don't give me any s___" attitude to this show and to MTV's reality programming.

   Old school fans will still remember the first notable house fight to take place on The Real World when tensions between the guys and girls led to comedian David deciding to pull the covers off her bed, and exposing her to just her underwear. That led him to leave the house, becoming the first RW roommate to be evicted. But Tami is also remembered for allowing cameras to capture a very personal moment: on the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, Tami allowed cameras to capture a personal moment when, while she was pregnant, she decided that it wasn't the right time to become a mom this early. And she made the tough and personal choice to have an abortion… the first time something like that was captured on television.

   And in the same manner as both those who joined this world by way of the romantic experiment, Tami has also had the chance to do shows produced by both production firms behind the three shows of the Trifecta. On her Real World season, cameras documented her doing an episode of the early '90s dating game show Studs, which was produced by Lighthearted Entertainment, helmed by Howard Schultz - who created and executive produced the first two seasons of Are You The One? as well as VH1's Dating Naked.

Tami has gone on to bigger and better things, even after the highly-publicized divorce of her and Kenny Anderson which ultimately brought her to a career in television and movies, as well as starting her own lines of hair supplies and cosmetics. This has seen her appear on several few TV shows and sharing a set with Courtney Cox, Kevin Hart, Terrence Howard, Vivica A. Fox and Empire's Taraji P. Henson before landing her ultimate gig.

   In 2010, Tami was chosen to be one of five main cast members for VH1's Basketball Wives, which documented the lives of being (or in Tami's case, once being) the spouse of an NBA player, and the show continues airing on MTV's older sibling today - even as she has become partner to boyfriend Reggie Youngblood. In addition, Tami & Reggie also appeared on WE Network's Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, and has a large social media following: over a million followers on both Twitter and Instagram.
   And over a week ago after taking time off in the aftermath of the death of his beloved security guard friend Christopher "Big Black" Boykin, Ridiculousness and host Rob Dyrdek returned for its summer run. And in one of the episodes, Tami was invited to sit on the couch alongside Chanel and Steelo Brim in watching all of the hilarious web videos submitted each week and shown to MTV viewers afterwards. Below is their picture from Instagram.

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The Look: Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club

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Tonight sees MTV's first big premiere of the new year and second of the winter following the pre-Christmas premiere of Season 2 of Ex On The Beach. The channel has been on a roll in the past two years for many reasons too many to mention, and of all the premieres it has planned for the first quarter of 2019, this is the one those who are dressed a little more formally than most at 1515 Broadway are betting their attention on.

Back it was announced in the heat of the summer last July, this was one of those rare instances where the big buzz show that was revealed to everyone to great interest on social media was not a direct reboot of an old show like what we've been used to in the past couple years, but a new original idea. This one involved one of the biggest & most-buzzed about stars in showbiz the past two decades, whose life has been in the public eye ever since for both her outstanding career in film, TV and music, and what's happened to her outside of it.

Of course, it's Lindsay Lohan... and she is the boss lady for the latest in a line of new business ventures she has opened up as she goes from actress & musician to now adding entrepreneur to her broad resume. She has generated buzz for this new venture a couple times: her dance at an outdoor party on the beach became one of last year's big viral sensations, and a rough night of her attempting to lead away the kids of a homeless lady was captured on camera on Instagram Live. And it came after the revealing of a new MTV show bearing her name, as she returns to the public limelight with tonight's premiere of perhaps the winter's biggest buzz show.

But she is hardly the star of all this... there are several others who will share the spotlight with Ms. LiLo, as they have been chosen for their social, business and party skills, and who will help the one with one of last year's most popular dances make her own mark in turning Mykonos into the place to be. It has been described in the media as MTV's own take on the show that brought Faith Stowers to the MTV family in Bravo's Vanderpump Rules, but this show promises to be very much different in every other way, especially with someone with a greater appeal to millennials than a Real Housewife.

It may be January, and except for those in Australia this is that time of year where we're all freezing. But we're a full week into the new year of 2019, and tonight sees America and the world come to a new paradise across the Atlantic: Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club.

DC SocialPulse: Ex On The Beach S2 - Extra Hot Drama in Malibu

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It's the end of the weekend, and a Sunday that saw two NFL playoff upsets, monsters everywhere rejoicing at Lady Gaga winning a Golden Globe, and a first look at the farewell season of Game of Thrones. And for many of you, tonight feels like a Sunday as it's the end of a long two-week holiday break before you all go back to college, school and to work tomorrow... and what better way to bring it all to an end now than with a Pulse of Ex On The Beach.

Two weeks into Season 2, we've seen just about as much drama packed into a couple weeks as it did the first time out for MTV's "relations___" show, but not all the Singles were there when it began. That changed last week when Corey became the last OG to arrive, and he dove into a love triangle with his Morgan and her other ex Jay. Meanwhile, Farrah became a mom -- quite literally -- when she led a scheme against Kareem... this came after Murray began to stir the pot about him with a nasty rumor and hurt feelings towards Maya that may turn into something more.

The Mom, of course, is the key figure of this season to the MTV fan, but as those who've watch this show know - no one's safe. This week, she finds herself going down to the Shack of Secrets where a big surprise will await her. It's not the only Ex entrance to take center stage, as an Ex of an Ex will pop up on the beach with ambitions on wrecking havoc on a romance that's been developing early on, as well as expose some lies as well in the SOS. And the season's first Cut or Crush will go down this week, with the first Ex to get the heave-ho from Malibu at night's end.

After the jump, it's the Pulse of Episode 3 of Season 2 of Ex On The Beach. Thanks for sticking with us here... dive in.

DC SocialPulse Extra: A Team MTV New Year's 2019

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Hey there, hope this first weekend of the new year is going well. The big attraction of the MTV Reality week -- and for now, the winter -- is just to come with our Episode 3 Pulse of Ex On The Beach as the first Cut or Crush elimination looms ahead for our Season 2 friends.

Until that is posted later on tonight, indulge yourself in how Team MTV got to spend the final weekend of the year of 2018 that's just past and the first two days of 2019 as they rung in the new year. That includes the confirmation of a bittersweet breakup of an MTV fan favorite couple, Cory & Cheyenne on their first Teen Mom OG reunion, an emotional anniversary, a Challenger defending herself, a birthday for the Barbie Beast, and a first look at Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club. And of course, New Year's posts from the entire MTV crew including, if you can spot carefully, those who will be joining the membership not too long from now.

DC SocialPulse: Floribama Shore S2 - The Cabo Party Rages On...

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Hey there webbers, and if we have not spoken yet... a Happy New Year to you from DCBLOG. We are over 100 hours into 2019 with a lot happening in our world this first weekend of the spankin' new year, but in MTV Reality things are just tapering off from a December to Remember. And we are just days away from the year's first big premiere in Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club... we'll take a look at that, along with a familiar face invading Ex On The Beach later on here.
   First, this New Year's week has been a rather awesome one for three-eighth's of the cast of Floribama Shore: Nilsa, Candace and Codi all got to celebrate their birthdays this week, although for Nilsa this has also been a bittersweet one on the day that she turned 25 years old.  And this came in the middle of a time where, through the magic of television, they are rolling along with an eventful trip down to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
   When we left them last week on the tip of Baja California, things once again revolved around two people: Gus and Nilsa, and what happened with him getting to see a girl he had seen in the club and his feelings for her. Meanwhile, Kortni suffered another meltdown in the streets of Mexico, and it's after she gets put down that she broke down in the bathroom. But now everything was all drama: Jeremiah followed in what The Situation had this summer in deciding to have an eating challenge which he succeeds in, but only gets rewarded the equivalent of $10 -- 200 Mexican pesos.
   For this week, if you saw the Floribama crew on Ludacris' reboot of Fear Factor before & after becoming MTV stars, they've had to put up with creepy crawlers, sand, and hanging by a helicopter over a lake. That last task that faced Jeremiah & Nilsa last summer offers the context to what they & the group will have to muster in having to face a bungee jump down into the canyon beneath. As we saw in New Orleans as well as Season 1, there's a tendency that the last night of anything for the FBS group will not be a memorable one: it may be the case again as they prepare to leave Mexico.

Ahead, the pulse of the final week in Cabo for Floribama Shore, plus a remembrance of a close friend of the group on a bittersweet birthday. Welcome in...

DC ExtraTime: Sir Chuck, Two Footballers, and That Ty Guy

From during The Challenge Invasion

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February is a busy month for sports fans: of course two weeks ago the New England Patriots pulled off the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, by a mile, in stunning the Atlanta Falcons in Houston. This weekend is the NBA All-Star Game, taking place in New Orleans this year on short notice after a controversial state law forced the events out of Charlotte. NASCAR's Daytona 500 is not that far away, and we've also had college basketball, Australian Open tennis, All-Star Games and much more. And the 2018 Olympics begin in 51 weeks from now - evidence being Bob Costas passing his NBC host duties to Mike Tirico, the World Alpine Championships, and an Olympic hopeful, snowboarder Maddie Mastro, giving me an Instagram follow while in Korea for test events ahead of next year's Games. Along with the launch of this Challenge, this offers the backdrop for this piece of ExtraTime, where the person in focus has met a few well-known athletic luminaries.

When we met Ty Ruff on Real World D.C. back in 2010, he came to the District straight out of college. Having being abandoned by his biological parents, Ty was moved around all over Baltimore in foster homes before being adopted at age 5, eventually growing up in a neighborhood he compares to one seen on HBO's The Wire. Being one who relies on just himself, Ty considers himself smart, handsome, athletic, opinionated, funny, and tempered sometimes.

In the house in DuPont Circle, he became close to Emily shortly after moving in and they had an attraction that stayed throughout the season, which challenged the both of them emotionally and physically. He also pushed a Denver cartoonist famous for wearing panda hats in the house, Andrew, off the balcony by the side of their house, and sending him to the hospital. Then, Ty emerged onto The Challenge on Cutthroat where, not surprisingly, he got into words with Gulag master Brandon, which saw them get paired up on Rivals I. There, Ty was also the target of a fight that took place on the first night where Back to Vegas' Adam R. threw a punch at him which sent the bad boy (and now, new dad) home. Then on the first Exes, he got close to Challenge stalwart Paula causing a riff with Emily, but he overcame that to win 3 eliminations en route to a 3rd place finish. And on Rivals III, Ty & Leroy were recipients of a win by a DQ, then lost a close battle to Jordan & J-Deezy Marlon.

Since Ty moved out from the cold of Connecticut to the sunny climate of SoCal, he has had the opportunity to meet three notable people, all having played on the biggest stage in their various sports and also having done broadcast work as well. And you can't ask for a better first subject in offering these photos from his rarely-used Twitter, @The_Ty_Ruff.

● First, the aforementioned NBA All-Star Weekend is taking place this weekend, which again was planned for Charlotte until North Carolina's HB2 law intervened. In 1991 in that city, Charles Barkley had one of his best days of his NBA career when he received the Most Valuable Player award. Sir Charles enjoyed a stellar career as a member of the renowned 1984 draft class along with Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, John Stockton and Hakeem Olajuwon, all of whom (along with Brazilian basketball legend Oscar Schmidt) would join him in the Basketball Hall of Fame and wore the USA colors at the Olympics - the first three as part of the '92 Dream Team. And though he's never tasted an NBA title, Barkley's shining moment has been of spending over 15 years with Kenny Smith and host Ernie Johnson on Inside the NBA on TNT. And few years ago, Ty met with Chuck at one of those events when the legend wasn't in Atlanta alongside them and Shaquille O'Neal.

● Second, another Hall of Famer who's transitioned to television is Michael Strahan. The NFL player was drafted by the New York Giants in 1993 and in the salary-cap era was one of a handful of players to spend his entire career with one team. Few defensive ends in the league had the kind of dominance Strahan had during his career, being named Defensive Player of the Year three times either in the entire league or in the NFC, and considered by many the gold standard at his defensive end position. Strahan would stick around long enough to receive a Super Bowl ring when the Giants upset the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII in 2008 where had a sack and two tackles in what turned out to be his last game, with having the all-time career and single season sack records. And shortly after, he would join the FOX NFL Sunday pregame show, followed by a stint as co-host on Live with Kelly Ripa and on Good Morning America. Ty also met with Michael too.

● Finally, as Strahan was a constant for Big Blue, a quarterback from Syracuse was emerging to become the face of their bitter NFC East rivals. Donovan McNabb played in the NFL for 13 seasons, and was picked by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1999 NFL Draft, becoming their starting quarterback. Under his wing, the Birds won five NFC East titles, went to five NFC title games, and stood strong in Super Bowl XXXIX in stretching the defending champion Patriots to the limit. McNabb became the club's all-time leader in all major passing categories and his career total rushing of just under 3,500 total yards is sixth all-time among QB's when being forced to rush rather than pass. After stints with in Washington and Minnesota after injuries derailed his career, McNabb turned to broadcasting, first with NFL Network, then with FOX, and now with beIN Sports' and ESPN Radio. And like Sir Charles and Michael, Donovan has also met Ty, also.

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