Charger Arts & Entertainment

Gold diggers take note...

Allison Coffey, Charger Staff

With reality television still being the "in" thing, I have yet to understand why it is so fascinating.

Sure, it can be amusing to watch people makes complete fools of themselves on national television for some amount of money, but after a while everything seems to be the same.

I can happily say that I’ve never watched one episode of Survivor, The Bachelor, American Idol, or any other of those fifteen-minutes-of-fame, spawn-of-Real World shows.

Until Joe Millionaire came into the picture.

The idea just amused me. Twenty women fighting over a construction worker (who in reality only makes $19,000 a year) just because they were told that he was worth $50 million.

It must be nice for America to see you as the gold digger you are.

The series premiered on January 6 on FOX. The first episode just introduced the bachelor hoping to find love (Evan Marriott) and the twenty lucky ladies hoping to win his heart. So that Evan can be formally introduced to the women, a ball was scheduled for that night.

Before the ball, Evan had to learn to be "fancy," something he probably never had to worry or think about, and the girls got the pleasure of fighting over twenty (mostly rather ugly) designer gowns to wear to the ball.

Evan then hands out necklaces to the twelve women that he likes the best, showing them that they can stay.

Everyone who watched the show came to one conclusion: They hate Heidi. And I would have to say I agree. Heidi is the ringleader of the gold diggers, and obviously in it for the money.

The second episode showed the twelve remaining girls going on three different dates, each date consisting of something that was hands-on work (ranging from picking grapes to shoveling horse manure) to help Evan determine which girls could make the best of a bad situation and which were hard working.

Viewers can now rejoice because Heidi is gone. Maybe the next few episodes will be a little bit better and a whole lot more enjoyable. But I’m not going to get sucked into something like this.

Who am I kidding? Of course I will!

~Article prepared for web by Steven Linger and Joy Wheeler~