Stretching reality
If you need proof reality TV stretches reality, look no further than Monday’s premiere episode of The Bachelorette. How else to explain why gorgeous, intelligent Rachel Lindsay decided not to eliminate “The Whaboom Guy?”
Perhaps the most annoying contestant in the ABC matchmaking franchise’s history, 30-year-old Lucas Yancey of California spent nearly all of his airtime emitting a “whaboom” roar. Rachel’s forced laughter (at him, not with him) was an early indicator there’s no way she will end up with this guy.
THE FINAL POT
Pro poker player Kevin Martin of Calgary won Season 5 of Big Brother Canada last week, taking home $100,000, a $30,000 GC for The Brick and a 2017 Toyota 86. Perhaps the biggest winner of all? Global TV, which maintained a weekly average of one million viewers and a weekly spot in Canada’s TV Top 30 during the season’s entire two-month run.
TYRA’S GOT TROUBLE.
New judge Tyra Banks of America’s Got Talent is being accused of traumatizing a contestant’s daughter, alleges a lawsuit. Court files show singer-songwriter “Jane Doe” and her guitarist husband “John Doe” say Banks not only criticized their AGT audition — for which they performed a song about their daughter, Mary — but she also shook Mary’s shoulder and insinuated Mary was accidentally conceived.