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MTV's Latest Heartfelt Message to Girls: Lose 80 Pounds in 3 Months!
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 10:20 AM on August 21, 2008
Though MTV spent the earlier part of this week teaching men how to emotionally manipulate their girlfriends, it's got plenty of advice to dole out to women, too. Why, just have a gander at the casting call for the network's upcoming entry in the crowded "model reality" genre! In what could be a first for the network, they're looking to cast the show solely with overweight women, but there's a catch: those women will be expected to lose up to 80 pounds in just 12 dangerous weeks. Says ABC News:
"Anything more than 25 pounds in 12 weeks is really over-stepping the boundaries," said obesity expert Keith Ayoob of the show's promise to help the aspiring models lose as much as 80 pounds in three months.
..."MTV is looking for girls willing to shed the pounds (30-80 lbs), become a model and win $100,000!" reads the casting call announcement on MTV's Web site.
"We are looking for girls with a great attitude, a pretty face and the endurance to sweat off the pounds during a 3 month boot camp style show," the announcement reads.
In other, vaguely related news, Ish Entertainment has announced its plans to shoot a UK version of the upcoming Paris Hilton's New BFF, a reality competition that debuts on MTV next month and stars the stick-thin socialite. We eagerly look forward to a crossover episode where Hilton coaches the wannabe models on their best purging techniques, bestowing on only one lucky girl a murmured, vomit-stained "Loves it."
- To Get on MTV's Runway, Lose Weight [ABC News]
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Mr-Busy
Posted 11:02 AM 21/8/08
Why of course they want girls with a "pretty face"! You want someone who will get thin and leave a nice corpse. It comes down to, you just want to look good in the box.
Mr-Busy
el smrtmnky
Posted 10:52 AM 21/8/08
@loudguitars: perhaps those pounds will return with seven strangers and they'll get to live in a house and start getting real?
el smrtmnky
loudguitars
Posted 10:46 AM 21/8/08
I say this from experience: If you're losing weight at a rate of more than about 5-7 lbs a MONTH, those pounds are coming straight back within a year, and they're bringing friends.
Even if you were to disregard the physical and psychological danger they're putting these kids in encouraging weight loss at a rate like that, they don't want models who wind up even fatter than they were before, do they?
loudguitars
Decebal
Posted 10:38 AM 21/8/08
Of course that $100,000 prize will cover about a day's stay at Cedars Sinai. New kidney not included.
As for the others, I hear cremation is quite a bargain these days.
Decebal
RocketRockit
Posted 10:35 AM 21/8/08
That's about 7 pounds a week. Someone could potentially "lose" that much initially -- mainly water weight, but unless someone is severely obese (making the loss a smaller percentage of their total weight, versus someone just slightly overweight), this basically seems impossible.
And that's the most thought I'll give to an MTV show for the rest of the year.
RocketRockit
EuroDad
Posted 11:26 AM 21/8/08
"they're looking to cast the show solely with overweight women"
and by this they mean any woman who isn't a size 1
EuroDad
loudguitars
Posted 11:13 AM 21/8/08
@el smrtmnky: Ha! I like your analogy better. I'm going to have to steal that.
loudguitars
gwendemarco
Posted 2:25 PM 21/8/08
Special consideration given to those with daddy issues, cry on cue, used to be a model or have the patented glandular excuse. Bonus points for a nasty ass weave and passive-aggressive sexually ambiguous younger boyfriend.
gwendemarco
tafadhali
Posted 3:48 PM 21/8/08
So that's, what, an average of -1000 calories per day, then?
tafadhali
dollywould
Posted 3:47 PM 21/8/08
@Decebal: Don't forget the plastic surgery to fix the saggy skin issues you'd have after losing that much that soon. Hot.
dollywould
WGARefugee
Posted 5:27 PM 21/8/08
Let's douche this show up with a little twist by having hunky bachelors bid for dates with the winning slimming machine. Sort of the opposite of what you're trying to do when you play games of chance at the carnival, if you know what I mean.
WGARefugee
Violex
Posted 9:04 PM 21/8/08
How sadistic. Good way to lure male viewers of the Tucker Max variety.
Violex
DrPiglet
Posted 12:05 AM 22/8/08
Wow, not to overshare or anything, but I lost about 50 pounds in 3 months... after I had a gastric bypass. So, are they going to take a bunch of chubby teens and mutilate their digestive system, or what?
DrPiglet
WGARefugee
Posted 1:42 AM 22/8/08
@Violex: It'll do surprisingly well in overseas markets where people will watch it not for entertainment but as horrifying proof of our unredeemable depravity.
WGARefugee