It looks as though reality TV is going the way of Craigslist. No one is safe.

Today TMZ is reporting that a contestant on VH1’s Megan Wants a Millionaire, a Rock of Love spin-off starring the vapid and chubby-necked Megan Hauserman, is the “person of interest” in a murder case.

Allegedly, after Ryan Jenkins was booted from Megan Wants a Millionaire this past Spring (the show is airing now), he went to Vegas and met Jasmine Fiore, who once worked as a promo model for Playboy. The two got married two days later. Jump ahead a few months to last Saturday, when Fiore’s strangled body was discovered shoved into a suitcase and dumped in a trash containter.

Police are still trying to contact Jenkins, and they think he may have fled to his hometown in Canada. Jenkins has a history of violence. Again, according to TMZ, he was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend in 2007 and sentenced to 15 months probation and forced to “attend outpatient treatment at a hospital for sex addiction.”

How the fuck did he get clearance to be a contestant on a reality TV show!?

In light of this news, VH1 has announced that they’re going to hold all future airings of Megan Wants a Millionaire. (Which delights me to no end, because Megan is a fucking brat and deserves to have her “career” squashed. I’m just sorry a former Playboy model had to die to make it happen.)

Not helping the “reality TV is not full of terrible people” cause is this news about a former So You Think You Can Dance choreographer who is being charged with eight counts of sexual assault, including four counts of rape.

Eventually, they’ll have to stop putting these people on TV if the only people they can get to partake are future (alleged) murderers and rapists, right?

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24 replies on “Is This the End of Trashy Reality TV?”

  2. is this because she’s named Megan, Megan?

    Also, how chubby of a neck are we talking? Like slightly chubby or Kimora Lee Simmons chubby?

  6. I’m sorry, what on earth do you mean by “clearance to be a contestant”? That “Megan Wants a Millionaire” show has lower standards than your average rape porno. I doubt they even test them for STDs. The only real requirement is raging alcoholism. It’s really no more seemly than watching those videos of bums fighting that the juggalos enjoy so much.

  8. @6 I know those shows are full of drunk assholes. But I guess I always assumed that if you were going to be on one of those shitty “dating” shows, even if you were a trashy drunk, you’d at least have to be able to prove you don’t have herpes or a history of criminal assault.

  9. With the headline in mind, I read “Today TMZ is reporting that” in the hopes that the sentence would conclude with “they are mercifully ceasing operations and folding like a bad hand in poker,” but no dice.

  10. Nope, they’ll just write it into the show.

    “Today’s immunity challange, survive a dark room with a rapist serial killer.” OOOH, night vision!

  12. @10 – lol.

    Coming up next: “Homicidal Mom Swapping”

    “Millionaire: The Real Lifeline Edition”

    “Watch Trump Get Attacked”

  13. “Is This the End of Trashy Reality TV?”

    Not in a million years. This story IS, however, a surefire film script and I will bet money someone has already been paid to begin working on the script.

    I used to cover reality TV for a genre-oriented entertainment magazine, like, five years ago or so, and let me tell you, If I couldn’t come up with at least five felonies or misdemeanors reported for various assorted reality TV castmembers per month it was a slow cycle – AND someone was lying like crazy.

    I would be VERY surprised if there were not other murders in the kitbags of those persons so desparate and fundamentally insane as to appear as a castmember in a reality TV show. Seriously, covering the blips and squawks of the bottom of the reality TV machine was like reading the police blotter, but sadly, not as written by Charles.

  14. @8, I think the only screening they do is put them each in a hot tub with a pneumatic naked chick. She takes a shit. Anyone who gets out is sent home.

  15. George Carlin once made a suggestion for a reality show where you give a schizophrenic all the drugs and guns he wants and then set him loose with a van in manhattan. Maniac on drugs, he called it.

    Now THAT’S must see tee-vee!

  16. Speaking of… remember how Top Chef used to ostensibly be about cooking? Welcome to Vegas. Don’t bother with a Live Slog, unless it’s to mock and rail.

  17. 1) you watch the show if you are able to characterize her as a brat

    2) you calling other people chubby pejoritively when you yourself are chubby/fat is ridiculous

    3) Anybody that wants to be on TV/famous is fucking weird, it’s just that these ones don’t have the benefit of scriptwriting and image management. need for approval and validation, much?

  23. That’s a chubby neck? Are you serious? She’s hot, if you’re going to nitpick on some imagined chubby neck when the rest of her looks like that you just sound like a hater.

    And 2 people with questionable histories is hardly a big deal given the sheer amount of people who have been involved in reality TV over the past decade and a half.

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