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Recap: ‘Your OWN Show’ week 6, Feb. 11
Well, I didn’t see that coming.
I don’t know if Oprah told hosts Carson Kressley and Nancy O’Dell to step it up or what but, in surprise move, both contestants who landed in the bottom two on Friday’s episode of “Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” got pink slips.
The tattered remains of the two teams were tasked to create a financial segment with money maven Suze Orman. Austinite Zach Anner’s team sported a not-so-secret weapon in Alicia, whose specialty is real estate and finance. As we’ve learned on this show, however, those competitors whose passions lie in the same area as the challenge topic often find themselves in trouble and this week was no different.
The professional but cold Alicia had trouble connecting emotionally with the guest family in Team Focus’ segment, which grated against Orman’s annoying mantra of “People, then money, then things.”
Team vision had no such problem with Terey and the super-annoying “I can make myself cry on command — try me!’ Kristina. However, they left out all traces of facts and figures from their segment, which Orman also claimed was a mistake.
Each of the segments was among the worst I’ve seen on this program, so it’s no surprise that the judges had few positive notes for either of them. In the end, Team Vision was declared the victor and so we’ll see Kristina and Terey again.
The judges declared Zach safe which, again, was not surprising — he really didn’t do anything this week except fall on his sword and beg forgiveness for not speaking up when he saw his team’s segment heading off the rails.
Back-stabbing Ryan (who got a huge “Suze smack down” when he tried to place the blame on Anner) and Alicia headed off to prepare for their last-chance one-on-one interviews with Orman. Those were both … okay. Ryan always skates through these interviews and Alicia took the judges’ notes to heart and actually improved.
At this stage in the game, however, the stakes are high and, in the end, the judges told the pair that neither of them deserved to stick around.
So now it’s down to three contestants: Annoying Kristina and her less-annoying toady, Terey; and Zach. Next week the three have to go through some kind of press junket exercise and then it looks like they’re going to have to go one-on-one with Oprah herself, pitching their proposed shows for a spot in the finale.
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By Dale Roe
February 16, 2011 10:05 AM | Link to this
Hey, warriors. Thanks for taking the time to comment. No, I did not know that about Alicia but, then, I only read Playboy for the articles. I agree that Alicia is attractive and, while I understand that creative editing can portray a reality show contestant in any number of ways, I do feel that while Alicia seemed warm and gregarious off-camera, her interview segments came off as cool and distant. They were what they were and it's hard to imagine that was the result of an editing trick. As for Zach skating through, I prefer to think that he's just a smart player. While he *has* been criticized — most recently by Ryan, who attempted to throw him under the bus — Zach is, to the best of my knowledge, the only contestant who's never had a negative thing to say about any of his competitors (at least that we have been shown). Staying largely in the background can be a good strategy in this type of show, and he seems to know when to do that and when to step into the spotlight. As far as his value goes, I believe his contributions in the Arsenio Hall and Daisy Fuentes episodes were largely responsible for his team winning both of those segments. Let's see how he handles Oprah next week, though.
By warriors
February 16, 2011 3:45 AM | Link to this
Did you know Alicia just posed for Playboy Magazine in 2009, she's a super hot finance lady and per the articles written on her over the years, she is anything but cold. I find it interesting that the reality show, never showed that side of her. Don't you think Zach has skated this whole show, everyone loves him, but what has he really done? I think everyone is too PC to criticize him.