VH1 is doing a show(starts Sunday) about former male teen idols, I guess they all live together and get in catfights and such. That sounds like such a train wreck
David Chokachi still looks smokin. I don't like Eric Nies' hair-and the kid from Baywatch (1st one on the left) looks really cute in that picture..I feel so wrong for saying that
JUST when you thought every possible reality show combination of humans in a house had been done - bachelors, bachelorettes, celebrities, cafones, addicts, bad girls, egomaniacs, exhibitionists, apprentices, low-brow wannabes, C-list has-beens, the mannerless and even the beauty-deprived - along comes a group even you never thought of!
VH1's new "Confessions of a Teen Idol" brings together a house full of former teen idols - guys who were once so famous, so beloved and so bedazzling that they literally couldn't go out of their homes without being mobbed by scores of panting teen girls; guys who now, however, have fallen so far into obscurity that the only people who ask for their autographs are their ex-wives - on their alimony checks.
These sorts of former celebrities are usually relegated to the "whatever happened to" pages of celeb rags or one-shot shows on VH1 and MTV, where we find out in 30 seconds or less that so-and-so, after years of substance abuse and at least one convenience store stick-up, found God and is living in Detroit.
"Confessions" is, interestingly enough, produced by Scott Baio ("Charles in Charge," "Happy Days") and Jason Hervey ("Wonder Years"), former teen stars who know firsthand the pitfalls of early stardom and the horrors of subsequent (or even threatened) obscurity.
Brought together for the show are Christopher Atkins ("The Blue Lagoon"), David Chokachi ("Baywatch"), Billy Hufsey ("Fame"), Jeremy Jackson ("Baywatch"), Eric Nies (MTV's "The Real World," "The Grind"), Jamie Walters ("Beverly Hills 90210") and Adrian Zmed ("TJ Hooker," "Grease 2") - all former TV household hunks desperate to reclaim their fame.
How they are supposed to recapture their missing fame, I don't know, because as far as I can see, nobody gets nuthin' here other than exposure. Maybe the exposure alone will remind directors and casting agents that they are still alive and taking nourishment.
Anyway, each week the guys will get acting lessons, etc., as well as participate in group therapy sessions led by a shrink who - are you ready? - specializes in "fame." What kind of a degree is that? MDF? In "group," they confess their sins of excess and the pain of fame. But, shockingly, they don't sound like idiots.
In fact, the guys seem well-balanced, not especially egomaniacal, well-spoken and thoughtful. So far.
By the second episode (that's all that was sent), I found myself pulling for them, because even if fame is a bitch, losing it is worse - it's a real bastard, in fact.
"Confessions of a Teen Idol" Sunday night 8 on VH1