The news of a second season of Real Chance of Love wasn’t a surprise but man, these shows cast fast! The line up for season two is ready to go. Starting August 3, at 9PM, viewers will be privy to more back-stabbing, curseouts, meltdowns, blowups, fighting and general catty behavior from women vying for the hearts of Stallionaire brothers, Real and Chance. Why anyone would want to date either one of these guys is beyond me. However, we do know that most of the women on these shows are aspiring [insert entertainment job here], so that’s my guess. I suppose, pretending to actually want one of these guys is a last resort for some of these girls. Plus, we still haven’t found anyone as obnoxious as New York yet, and we all know from previous shows in this vein, that these girls are really trying to be the next break out reality TV star. Are you not entertained? I am!

In a recent post about Tiffany “New York” Pollard returning to reality TV”, I may have er, expressed excitement about watching the show for Tiffany’s antics (*looks away in shame*). Now that I’ve actually watched New York Goes to Work, not so much.

The premise of the show is that New York takes on a different job each episode, chosen by viewers. So far, we’ve seen her be an exterminator, a pig farmer and last night, she worked at a nudist resort. She half-did every job, and in the first two episodes, still managed to earn the $10,000 that awaited her at the end of every task completed; but last night, she didn’t earn the money (which is way too much anyway) and flipped out, but it wasn’t a classic New York spazz. There was something tame about it and I felt cheated. The least she could do, since the rest of the show was painfully boring (and unrealistic), was set it off on someone (and they could throw Sister Patterson back into the mix for more amusement).

I guess New York brings ratings, which is why they keep giving her shows, but the bottom line is New York Goes to Work is the worst show I’ve seen in the NY chain and even though it’s only three episodes deep, I hope they don’t come back with a season two. I’d much rather see New York try to find love again or continue pursuing an “acting” career. It’s clear that she’s a clown (that’s not the word I wanted to use), but New York Goes to Work does not feed my dysfunctional reality TV addiction. Fail.

Break out reality TV star Tiffany “New York” Pollard has proven to be recession proof, whether you like it or not. New York Goes to Work premieres tonight at 10pm on Vh1, and it’s your chance to play antagonist (if that’s your style). In tonight’s episode, we get to see if she’ll be a ranch hand, a baker or an exterminator. I hope she gets ranch hand just so that I can see her bring out the inner HBIC diva that she’s famous for (and the drama that I crave for my reality TV fix). She is not getting down and dirty on anybody’s ranch!

Check out this clip where she reaches out to fans, urging them not to play her when choosing professions. At 1:33 she says she loves makeup and hair (that’s an understatement) and that she wants to be “one of those people that dresses people up.” Stylist much? In any event, I’m sure viewers will break her out of her delusions of fabulous employment. Most of the American public, haters and fans alike, want to see her get riled up. I can’t wait to see her as a waitress cursing someone out. It’s definitely coming.

It’s actually more than six degrees but numero seis sounded catchier for the title of this post. Basically, I saw some commercials for New York’s forthcoming reality show, for the first time last weekend, and realized that Flavor Flav is single-handedly responsible for about 90% of Vh1’s reality TV shows. Let’s track his reality TV journey and see how it all began…

The Surreal Life

Flavor Flav was pulled from the depths of “where are they now” (the rap edition) and featured on season three of The Surreal Life. In a bizarre twist of events, he developed a relationship with 80s model Brigitte Nielsen and viewers couldn’t keep their eyes off the disaster. In fact, the pair was so fascinating that they got their own show:

Strange Love

And this, my friends, is when we officially thought that Flavor Flav had jumped the shark. However, the joke was on us. Brigitte Nielsen broke Flav’s heart, leaving him susceptible to the cunning wits of Vh1 producers, who convinced him to let them help his search for love on national TV. Hence, Flavor of Love was born and lasted for three seasons, until Flav finally decided that he wanted to make a relationship work with the mother of his youngest child.

Flavor of Love (season two’s cast photographed)

The break-out star from Flavor of Love was of course, Tiffany Pollard aka New York. After being strung along and eventually heartbroken by Flav twice, she got her own crack at finding love with:

I love New York (season one’s cast photographed)

New York thought she scored with Tailor Made by the end of season two and moved on to another show, New York Goes to Hollywood, which isn’t featured in this blog, but definitely gets honorable mention because without Flav, there would be no New York. She broke up with Tailor Made on NY Goes to Hollywood and was offered a third season of I Love New York, but declined. However, residual from I Love New York lingered. Break out stars “Real” and “Chance” were brothers competing for Tiff’s love and actually came close to winning NY’s heart.

Real Chance of love

They were such outstanding personalities, that once again, Vh1 struck gold with another spin off and are currently casting for season two. Whatever happened to those Flavor Flav girls? They appalled Black women in America so much that comedienne Mo’Nique made it her mission to help them learn etiquette and become respectable women.

Charm School

Although there was no reform school for the unruly men on New York’s dating show, everyone was brought together on I Love Money.

I Love Money

Technically, For the Love of Ray J and Rock of Love should also get honorable mention, as should Daisy of Love because these shows would not exist had it not been for the success of our giant clock laden, viking hat wearing friend. He provided the prototype for these types of shows, which also proved that viewers like to watch train wrecks whether it’s a guilty pleasure or point of pride. Thanks Flavor Flav, for fueling reality TV addictions all accross America.

In yesterday’s post about the top Black Women on Reality TV, I chose Tiffany Pollard aka New York as number one and speculated that we haven’t seen the last of her on reality TV. Lo and behold, I was right. According to Vh1, New York Goes to Work will air on Monday, May 4 at 10/9c. This time around, viewers get to have a hand in Tiffany’s antics.

Tiffany has discovered that landing roles in Hollywood isn’t always so easy so she must get a day job. Each week America will choose from a list of three possible job opportunities and vote via their mobile phones by texting which job they would like to see her try. She could be anything from a mortuary beautician to a fast food employee. If she can impress her new employers, she’ll receive a $5,000 bonus each week. But, if she quits, fails, or gets fired, she’ll get nothing.

I will definitely be watching. How about you?