Reality Ravings

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Gordon Ramsey in Hell's Kitchen USA is on Lifestyle at 8.30pm. Two top food critics will judge the kitchen tonight. I am not a big fan of Gordon in this role where he is over the top abusive, but some how I watch it week after week.

Channel 10 has Ice Road Truckers, normally a Fox 8 show. This show is quite riveting as truck drivers haul supplies to miners in the Canadian tundra in the dead of winter on a highway of ice. I know sounds boring but it isn't.

X-Weighted is on Arena at 9.30pm this is about obese people wanting to lose weight.

If totally desperate for a reality TV fix MTV has reality shows going on nearly 24 hours a day. What happened to the music?

At the end of the episode Jackie Frank wails "It's not a popularity contest.". Well Jackie if it is not a popularity contest then what is it? I don't think the general public have the skill to pick the next big supermodel. Also if it wasn't a popularity contest Hannah McCarthy would still be in the competition.

Again Tom and Shanina were busted by a camera when she was offering kisses in exchange for information in one of their tasks. How dumb are they? They are on a reality TV show can't they see the camera's. Tom is apparently still with the girlfriend as he told her he is only physically attracted to Shanina.

The task was to pick the three designer outfits on both racks, one for a boy and one for a girl. Now this was a bit tough as they only had three minutes to do so, and the designers were good but not exactly highbrow. They were Politix and Sass and Bide, they are not going to stand out as much as Gucci and YSL.

Well the producers should be paying Tom and Shanina, because if there was not this affair of the heart going on the show would be really dull.

Now back to this issue of the show not being a popularity contest. Well Courtney is continually bitching about Shanina and Tom onscreen (like she would not have been pestering Billy for the answer if she was in the same situation), so she is not liked by the voters. Tom and Shanina could get voter backlash because of their supposedly adulterous situation.

So that leaves nice guy Rhys, who looks good but has barely delivered on any of the challenges, as the possible person to win the game.

Now tell me this isn't a popularity contest.

Do the producers on The Amazing Race spike the tyres on cars? Whenever teams have to drive on this show, and I am including all series, there is an inordinate amount flat tyres on this show. This time it was Aja and Ty's.

The started the race in Bolivia and then they were all on the same flight to Auckland. Aja and Ty the long distance dating couple were starting to have cracks in their relationship.

In Auckland, Ken and Tina continued to lead and decided to go for the fast forward and beat the Frat boys to the tower to climb it.

The Frat boy's are typical frat boys as they said that they got on best with the blondes. Well the blondes were struggling finding the gordian knot they needed to get their next clue. I am not sure which of these two teams are dumber.

The Roadblock was a getting a picture of traditional Maori tattoo and matching to the an actual person. This was made more difficult with them doing a haka type dance.

Ken and Tina climbed the Sky Tower and then got to take a helicopter to the next pit stop where Phil got his dad to greet the arriving teams.

The other teams after the Road Block had to got to the City Life Hotel Roof and look with binoculars for a Travelocity gnome, and then go to the place were it was. After that it was off to the giant kiwi for their next clue.

It was detour time:
A matter of time - they had to go to a kiwi farm and stomp on kiwi fruit until they have 8 quarts of juice. Then they had to drink a glass of it.

Matter of skill - teams must assemble a go-cart and go around the track three times.

Terence and Sarah were the first to finish the detour and were second to the pit stop.

Three teams switched from the kiwi's to the go-kart. One of these were the frat boys who struggled building the go-karts.

Starr tipped go-kart and thought she had broken her arm, but then managed to complete but she was in a lot of pain.

This leg was breaking a lot of people as Aja and Ty swapped detours as well and they were battling it out for last place with the blondes. However Aja and Ty beat the blondes there and the blondes were eliminated.

As the blondes sobbed, Phil's dad took the opportunity to hug them.

Here is an interview on Buddy TV with Marissa and Brooke. They said they were only minutes behind Aja and Ty.

Make Me A Supermodel Gail Elliot must be a guest judge this week. She will be judging the models on their budget buys for the Melbourne Cup.Up for elimination is Billy, Courtney and Rhys.Make Me A Supermodel is on Channel 7 at 7.30pm.

The Amazing Race follows withe teams still racing in South America using their one word of spanish "rapido, rapido". Starr and the divorcee Christy bra dislike each other so hopefully a scrag fight will occur soon.

The Amazing Race is on Channel 7 at 8.30pm.

Channel 9 has some observational reality TV on tonight with RPA at 9.30pm and Amazing Medical Stories at 10.30pm.

Tonight Arena has the Janice Dickinson Modelling Agency at 8.30pm, followed by The Bachelorette at 9.30pm.

Joe's winning outfit.