Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
‘The Battle of the Ex-Besties’ in Las Vegas
New reality-TV series on Oxygen kicks off Tuesday evening
When best friends become sworn enemies, it can be tough to ever confront them again — and even tougher to swallow pride and convert them back to best friend in order to compete on a reality-TV series.
But that’s the situation Las Vegas club promoter Trevor Hunt found himself in with ex-bestie Melissa Erickson as the stakes and emotions ran high on Oxygen’s new reality-TV competition series “The Battle of the Ex-Besties,” which premieres Tuesday.
Trevor and Melissa are forced to team up to compete against 12 other ex-besties. He is the only guy playing opposite 13 women. Nothing prepared the teams for the moment that they discover they’d been paired with an ex-best friend.
This battle of domination to win a life-changing $100,000 grand prize becomes tumultuous competition under the same roof where the price of friendship is determined through past accusations, lies and betrayals.
E! News anchor Sibley Scoles, who was the first female host of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Revolt TV, tries to keep order amid fighting and feuding of the ex-besties. Three is definitely a crowd when it comes to significant others and besties.
Trevor fell out of BFF status with Melissa when his attention began to shift to boyfriend Eric. Melissa landed a stage manager position for a musical that cast Trevor as a dancer. She got him fired after he skipped out on dress rehearsals to attend an event here, which led to him moving here full time. Their relationship ended with him moving out of their apartment overnight ...