They're Baaaaackkk! Jonathan Baker and Victoria Fuller, the "Amazing Race 6" contestants best-known for their constant onscreen bickering, are back for to give us more of their special kind of lovin' and sharing.
Victoria, the 1996 Playboy centerfold, will be appearing again in the magazine next month, then the coule is opting for a reality show pilot on VH1. They've also taped a demo for a potential show to air on Sirius Satellite Radio.
"Basically it's Jon and I, and the arc of fame," Victoria explained, "from going on a reality show, being dumped off on the end, and what happens when you come out on the other side."
Welp, that's not what we saw last fall when Jonathan unload - screamed at, shoved, and humiliated - his wife on the popular network reality show, a scene that many interpreted as domestic violence. The couple earned a reputation as one of the most hated contestants ever on "The Amazing Race."
, "As the show was going on, people were in a state of shock," she said. "And so were we, because we were portrayed so negatively."
After the Amazing Race episode when she was so rudely shoved by her husband at the mat, the couple reported they received one million E-mails (mostly negative) on their Web site: jonathanbakerandvictoriafuller.com.
But after they started doing interviews and showing up at red carpet events, people started seeing them in a different light. Fuller said the incident and other situations where it appeared Baker was verbally abusive were overblown.
Still, their new show will have some aspects of the explosive relationship viewers saw on "Amazing Race." "People like flawed characters," Victoria said. "It's all great and fun. People want to know you have problems, so there will be an element of that. Is he pushing me? No. Will we be at each other's throat to that degree? No. But we still will be bickering, we still will be fighting because that's who we are."
"As the show was going on, people were in a state of shock," she said. "And so were we, because we were portrayed so negatively."
After the Amazing Race episode when she was so rudely shoved by her husband at the mat, the couple reported they received one million E-mails (mostly negative) on their Web site: jonathanbakerandvictoriafuller.com.
But after they started doing interviews and showing up at red carpet events, people started seeing them in a different light. Fuller said the incident and other situations where it appeared Baker was verbally abusive were overblown.
Still, their new show will have some aspects of the explosive relationship viewers saw on "Amazing Race." "People like flawed characters," Victoria said. "It's all great and fun. People want to know you have problems, so there will be an element of that. Is he pushing me? No. Will we be at each other's throat to that degree? No. But we still will be bickering, we still will be fighting because that's who we are."
Comments
What the hell is this? Do we need a reality show peering into the lives of a couple whose current fame is predicated only on the fact that they were previously on a different reality show? It's bad enough that there are so many programs chronicling the lives of people who are actually celebrities. Now we have to suffer through the mundane existences of a husband/wife duo who are (quasi) famous solely because they're famous.
Posted by: Cordelia | April 11, 2005 7:34 PM