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  May 10, 2002
3 > Playboy Meets The Real World
By Daniel R. Coleridge

So you think the Peeping Toms behind those boudoir nightcams on MTV's The Real World exploit women? Well, just wait until the reality hit's producers — Bunim-Murray Productions — join forces with such classy outfits as Fox and Playboy. The result? Tonight's two-hour Fox special, Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold (airing 8-10 pm/ET).

Here's the sitch: A gaggle of everyday gals — college coeds, moms and working women aged 18-25 — live together in a posh house next to Hugh Hefner's infamous mansion in L.A.'s Holmby Hills. Cameras follow them 24/7 as they compete for Hef to select the winner as Playboy's Miss July 2002. "Put 12 girls under one roof and they're not all going to get along," hostess Ava Fabian tells TV Guide Online. "There's bitchiness and cattiness and bad attitude and crying and high drama!"

Speaking of which, while Fox's press release calls Fabian the ladies' "Bunny House Mother," Miss August 1986 clearly objects to such matronly labels. "I'm more of a mentor," she insists. "I've done four or five covers for Playboy and I've traveled all over the world."

Look for the comely contestants to get their hair and makeup done, as well as "do a photo shoot in beautiful lingerie." (Oooh!) She also promises the aforementioned drama. "One girl's always fighting with her boyfriend and calling him an idiot on the phone," Fabian previews. "Another girl with natural breasts feels she's above the other girls with cosmetically-enhanced breasts. She's like, 'I can hang natural. They're all big and fake.' Later, she's crying on the phone to her mother, complaining she doesn't like her breasts!"

3 > Do You Know Unfaithful's Big Secret?
By Michael Ausiello

3 > Snoop Dogg Gone Wild
By Daniel R. Coleridge

From guest starring on Just Shoot Me to his Training Day cameo, rapper Snoop Dogg has wrangled himself some A-list acting projects. Yet, he's also not shy about slumming it in the porn world. Hence, his new deal with Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis to host his own video — due out in August — demurely titled Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style. Yikes!

"Snoop's the ultimate pimp," Francis tells TV Guide Online. "He loves women and he loves the videos. He's a fan and he wanted to make his own. He's the superstar there in the street with the camera in his hand, making the girls do crazy things. This is going to pave the way for other celebrities to do their own Girls Gone Wild videos." Francis adds he "already [has] tons of celebrity offers on the table," though he won't name names.

If you're a night owl, you've seen GGW's infamous infomercials, which Snoop soon will begin appearing in. Basically, they depict female Spring Breakers and Mardi Gras revelers flashing their tops (and other things) to thrill eager "documentarians" with camcorders. Asked to sum up his product's appeal, Francis incredulously answers: "It's young, real college-age women taking off their clothes!"

Francis currently faces litigation from ladies who later came to regret their on-camera frankness. Will he be doling out any financial settlements? "No way," he insists. "We won't settle any lawsuits ever. We'll fight them all the way to the end and we'll win. We can last longer than they can and we're ultimately right.

"For somebody to sue us for invasion of privacy is just ridiculous," he adds. "They're exposing themselves in front of thousands of people in public places. They make their own decisions." Yes, but aren't these female flashers often inebriated when asked to display their wares? "Most of the time," he emphasizes, "the girls are sober and they just do it because they want to be crazy."



  May 10, 2002
3 > TOM'S NEW MISSION
Tom Cruise is developing and will possibly star in a feature film remake of H.G. Wells's classic Martian invasion saga The War of the Worlds, Variety reports...
3 > NO SOUP FOR YOU!
E! Entertainment Television's Talk Soup is all talked out. The network has axed the series, currently hosted by Aisha Tyler, after 11 years on the air. The final episode...
3 > STAR IS BORN
Early reviews are in for Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and they're mixed. "Virtually everything that went wrong in Phantom Menace has been fixed, or at...
3 > HOT POTATOE
Political has-been Dan Quayle has figured out a way to get his name back in the papers: Talk about MTV's The Osbournes. The former vice president — who made waves a decade...
3 > OZZY WINS!
Could an Emmy be next? Ozzy Osbourne was honored Thursday with a Prism Award for presenting an accurate depiction of drug, alcohol or tobacco addiction in his new song "Junkie." Other...
3 > NO SHOW
Former President Bill Clinton says it's doubtful he'll become the next Oprah Winfrey. Last week, Clinton met with NBC execs to discuss the possibility of hosting a show...
3 > AREN'T HIS 15 MINUTES UP YET?
Brian "Kato" Kaelin has finally found a role he was born to play: a freeloader. O.J. Simpson's infamous live-in pal has shot a pilot for a television series titled ...
3 > PRETTY EMPOWERED WOMAN
Fighting back tears, Oscar winner Julia Roberts pleaded with Washington lawmakers on Thursday for more money to research Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder that affects about...
3 > UNLAWFUL
A New York judge ruled Thursday that a 51-year-old German woman is fit to stand trial for allegedly stalking Richard Gere. Ursula Reichert-Habbishaw — who is said to have...
3 > CUSTODY CASE
A judge on Thursday awarded temporary custody of Robert Blake's two-year-old daughter with slain wife Bonny Lee Bakley to Delinah Blake, Blake's adult daughter....
3 > TALL ORDER
ABC has ordered 13 episodes of Law & Order creator Dick Wolf's Dragnet update, slated to debut next January. The network is expected to schedule the series on Monday...
3 > SHORT CUTS
Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel was the big winner at Thursday's Billboard Latin Music Awards, picking up a field-best four trophies... NBC is developing Anne...

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