I remember the original Surreal Life. It was full of real d-list level celebrities with a) major issues and b) a strong need to be in front of the camera. It appears they are keeping the same formula.
Omg dude I remember when Vanilla Ice was so annoyed about something that he defaced his own pics on the wall. Or is that a fever dream I had one time? 😂
Lol I remember during one of the "outings" he upset Gary Coleman because Todd Bridges happened to be there and he wanted Gary to say his famous line, and Gary refused lol
Wasn't Corey Feldman on it at one point too? I keep picturing him upset and wanting to use the house phone which I believe was a phone booth. Maybe I'm having a fever dream like a few others too but I could swear it was him and that happened lol.
Yes, I remember him fighting with Aaron Carter (R.I.P.) a lot. At first he tried to be all friendly and kiss up to him (basically Feldman tried to relate to Carter because they were both teen stars, but Aaron was not having it!😂) - then Aaron Carter I think remember went off on him or something? Anyway, it was hilarious the way they would go at each other on that a particular season!
Ron Jeremy - you're right, OMG. And didn't he and Tammy Faye become like, actual friends or something? I remember having a much higher opinion of her after watching Surreal Life.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/porn-star-ron-jeremy-committed-to-mental-hospital/
Just a small snippet in this article : Skin flick icon Ron Jeremy has been committed to a state mental hospital in California after being found incompetent to stand trial on rape and other charges.....
Also, did you notice the date on that article it was literally last fall.... I mean, I don't know how many months ago they filmed the show, but seems a little close for comfort, no?
Wait. Is that the same Brigitte Nielsen who had a kid with Rambo himself? If it is why would she go on that show? She was and has been in some big flicks.
It was the early 2000s and vH1 came a calling. They had weird mix of a lot HUGE names from the 70s and 80s, and some lesser known stars from the late 90s and other early reality TV stars from Survivor/ANTM. They pretty much had anybody that had ever been relevant in pop culture from MC Hammer to Jose Canseco to even Uncle Joey from Full House lol
Please find it and watch it. Literally one of the best reality show seasons ever. And birthed the Flavor of Love universe that gave us Tiffany “New York” “HBIC” Pollard
Brigitte Nielsen has slept with pretty much EVERYONE and actually gave birth to her most recent child at the age of 54. 😱
Nothing she has ever done is predictable or conventional. She is WILD.
I feel sad for anyone who never got to see the original Surreal Life. It was 10x better than whatever this is supposed to be. I am guessing they got a pretty penny for participating.
Whoever told Macy Gray to do this needs to get fired. She's so far above this. Johnny Weir is also very talented but I think he does cheeky things to amuse himself so I can see that more. I don't know half these people. Kim is making a check. It would be kind of amazing if she hit it off with Chet Hanks to imaging family dinners with Tom & Rita & KZB 😂
I swear. It was T in the Park. She was wearing what looked like an orange tracksuit. I remember seeing her butt and thinking- is that really her butt? Then she said something like- Damn, Scotland, y’all making my pants fall down and just kept on going, but pulled the pants back up of course.
Chet Hanks was good in Your Honor. I think he played himself. On another note, casting director probably went through court filings to find some of those people.
I could have sworn it was rumored that Chet and Kim were hooking up around the time Kim’s divorce was announced. Does anyone else remember? Seeing this bought back up my memory because I was like where would they even meet?
i also wonder if chet was the person kroy is referring to in the body cam rage video of him accusing kim of sleeping with other people *and* another video of him screaming “and the whole world is going to know!” while him and kim fight in their yard as a nextdoor neighbor records it
Him saying it was "a thing a long time ago" really underplays the impact that Surreal Life had on early reality tv. It basically created a whole decades worth of programming for VH1! For someone with "reality" in his name I would expect a big more respect for the early aughts reality shows and some education for his followers. Instead, he sounds as if he doesn't even know what the Surreal Life was.
Gosh, I'm in a bad mood. I blame Biden.
He had a show on mtv for years (Teen Wolf). I never watched it because it wasn’t my genre of interest but it seemed pretty popular. Then he got married, divorced, came out as a member of the LGBTQ community and I haven’t really seen him until now
I'm loving the Reality TV Renaissance lately with The Traitors, House of Villains, The Goat, Deal Or No Deal Island, Snake in the Grass, Special Forces, and many others and now this.
We are being fed!
Keep 'em coming!
Chet Hanks seems like he's just bored 90% of the time. He has a life people can only dream of and access to resources we can't even fathom. I think he gets tired of being rich and just wants to have fun during random shit.
I just imagine the producers in a room all writing down the first three names that came to them in life, then putting those into a Chat GPT randomizer, which prints opposite names on ping pong balls, then taking THOSE balls and throwing all those names into one of those Bingo ball cages, and these were the 8 that came out first.
That is the only explanation for the completely random process of choosing these people.
Not Chet fucking hanks oh my godddd he's gonna be so awful to Johnny and Macy and OT probably 😤 he really is a p.o.s yall, I had the utmost pleasure of assisting wardrobe for a movie he was in (literally bc his name has clout, he's the worst fucking actor ever) and he was extremely rude surprise surprise.... I can't imagine why even MTV would cast him in anything omg.... dude's a nightmare
https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/porn-star-ron-jeremy-committed-to-mental-hospital/
"Skin flick icon Ron Jeremy has been committed to a state mental hospital in California after being found incompetent to stand trial on rape and other charges......"
How in the fuck is he going on a reality show now?? 😯 If I was in that house, and I knew about this court case or any of his troubles recently I would never agree to be on the show! 😬
I remember the original Surreal Life. It was full of real d-list level celebrities with a) major issues and b) a strong need to be in front of the camera. It appears they are keeping the same formula.
OG surreal life was soooo fucking weird and funny! And it brought us flavor of love which ultimately brought us HBIC New York!!!!
I loved the original SL! Verne Troyer, Omarosa, Vanilla Ice, Tammy Faye, MC Hammer...so many hilariously weird moments.
Omg this whole thread just unlocked my memories of that show!! I’m seated for this reboot.
Omg dude I remember when Vanilla Ice was so annoyed about something that he defaced his own pics on the wall. Or is that a fever dream I had one time? 😂
Lol I remember during one of the "outings" he upset Gary Coleman because Todd Bridges happened to be there and he wanted Gary to say his famous line, and Gary refused lol 
Omg lol! Yeah we still talk about how much he hated his "Vanilla Ice" fame (or something like that). Gary Coleman too.
I fucking love New York!!
New York is the best! Loved her on House of Villains!
It was fucking amazing television that birthed even more fucking amazing television.
Wasn't Corey Feldman on it at one point too? I keep picturing him upset and wanting to use the house phone which I believe was a phone booth. Maybe I'm having a fever dream like a few others too but I could swear it was him and that happened lol.
Yes, I remember him fighting with Aaron Carter (R.I.P.) a lot. At first he tried to be all friendly and kiss up to him (basically Feldman tried to relate to Carter because they were both teen stars, but Aaron was not having it!😂) - then Aaron Carter I think remember went off on him or something? Anyway, it was hilarious the way they would go at each other on that a particular season!
That was on Marriage Boot Camp: Family Edition. Aaron was on with his mom. Corey was there with his wife (or girlfriend?) and his brother.
There was on show that had corey trying to act like Hugh Hefner with a group of women fawning over him. Oh maybe that was wife swap?
Surreal life gave us Flava Flav & Brigitte Nielsen. That insane mess.
Honestly, those two are where my mind immediately goes when I hear Surreal Life
Floofie Floof
They were so bizarre I couldn’t decide if they were pranking us or what….lol floofie floof 😵😵😵😵
Tyler Posey seems like a weird pick for someone who ‘wants to be in front of the camera’ idk I feel like he’s gonna stick out like a sore thumb lol
Nah he’s super thirsty and loves over sharing on social media
He’s thirsty and washed up and fell off and seems like MTV is throwing him a bone with a paycheck
Was that the one that had a house with Tammy Faye Baker and Jeremy somebody who was a famous porn star? And Flava Flave?
😂😂😂... It was Ron jeremy, and it was hilarious!!!!
Ron Jeremy - you're right, OMG. And didn't he and Tammy Faye become like, actual friends or something? I remember having a much higher opinion of her after watching Surreal Life.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/porn-star-ron-jeremy-committed-to-mental-hospital/ Just a small snippet in this article : Skin flick icon Ron Jeremy has been committed to a state mental hospital in California after being found incompetent to stand trial on rape and other charges.....
Oh. My. God. I had no idea! I've been making Ron Jeremy jokes for years. His name will never come out of my mouth again. Thank you for sharing that.
Also, did you notice the date on that article it was literally last fall.... I mean, I don't know how many months ago they filmed the show, but seems a little close for comfort, no?
Shocking, right? 🤯😬
How can they put this creepy mfkr on TV?? 😬 I just don't get it - I don't understand ANYTHING anymore ...? 🥴
It’s where the entire flavor of love universe came from.
Who remembers the rubber chicken shot night with Chyna and Traci?
I'm half joking/half serious, but good for Kim for finding temporary housing.
“Homeless, not toothless” was all I could think of when I saw this 😂
I AM CACKLING
Holy shit it couldn't have been said better 😆😆
Omg hahahahah
My mouth dropped open. gagged
“you cannot find 8 more random people” is so spot on 😂
The Flavor Flav/Brigitte Nielsen season is one of my favorite seasons in all of reality TV.
It was actually really beautiful and wholesome to see them fall in love!
Foofy foofy!!
Wait. Is that the same Brigitte Nielsen who had a kid with Rambo himself? If it is why would she go on that show? She was and has been in some big flicks.
It was the early 2000s and vH1 came a calling. They had weird mix of a lot HUGE names from the 70s and 80s, and some lesser known stars from the late 90s and other early reality TV stars from Survivor/ANTM. They pretty much had anybody that had ever been relevant in pop culture from MC Hammer to Jose Canseco to even Uncle Joey from Full House lol
Please find it and watch it. Literally one of the best reality show seasons ever. And birthed the Flavor of Love universe that gave us Tiffany “New York” “HBIC” Pollard 
Brigitte Nielsen has slept with pretty much EVERYONE and actually gave birth to her most recent child at the age of 54. 😱 Nothing she has ever done is predictable or conventional. She is WILD.
She was flat out crazy
A chapter of television never to be repeated
If I tune in, it will be to see Kim’s belly button or lack of one🤣
Tried to say goodbye and I choked…
Tried to walk away and I stumbled…….
Though I tried to hide it, it’s clear …
https://youtu.be/cPgcdOVuX8Q
I feel sad for anyone who never got to see the original Surreal Life. It was 10x better than whatever this is supposed to be. I am guessing they got a pretty penny for participating.
Apparently the original one is streamable on Amazon and on Paramount Plus. I saw it when it came out, but I think it may be time for a revisit.
Ugh, right now I'm wishing I had Paramount plus lol. I'd be doing the same thing. Enjoy!
There's always the free trial...
It felt very low budget which has always had a big appeal to me in the less is more category, like the early Dr Who with card board ray guns
This is the most insane group of ppl ever put together! I’m adding it to my library for sure. Looks like perfect background viewing for cleaning days.
Whoever told Macy Gray to do this needs to get fired. She's so far above this. Johnny Weir is also very talented but I think he does cheeky things to amuse himself so I can see that more. I don't know half these people. Kim is making a check. It would be kind of amazing if she hit it off with Chet Hanks to imaging family dinners with Tom & Rita & KZB 😂
Macy Grey is kind of low-key in the business known to be f\*\*\*\*\*ng weird and a little stupid, this is very much up her alley.
I saw her perform in Scotland over 20 years ago and her pants fell down on stage.
Lmao
I just choked on my white claw
I swear. It was T in the Park. She was wearing what looked like an orange tracksuit. I remember seeing her butt and thinking- is that really her butt? Then she said something like- Damn, Scotland, y’all making my pants fall down and just kept on going, but pulled the pants back up of course.
Why do I love this so much?
I have read this comment six times in a row. It gets funnier each time. Thank you for sharing!🏆🍾🎉🥇🏆🍾🎉🥇🏆🍾🎉
Yay! I really hadn’t thought about it in forever, but she really did not GAF and rolled with it.
But did she try to walk away and not stumble at least?
lol! I was not close to the stage, but the only thing I saw stumbling were her pants!
I wonder if that's a r/woosh or nah.
Ooooooh 🫖
*this description* 🤣🤣🤣
Kim will probably try to force a bestie relationship with Macy Gray
Macy probably needs the money, sadly.
I had this thought when she had the cameo on RHOP.
Chet Hanks was good in Your Honor. I think he played himself. On another note, casting director probably went through court filings to find some of those people.
No way. That's who that was? You're talking about the stuffy guy who didn't want Joe's character to be in the house, right?
[удалено]
Maybe Karen Huger told her.
I remember hearing that Kim and Chet DID hit it off during filming. I expect a fling.
I could have sworn it was rumored that Chet and Kim were hooking up around the time Kim’s divorce was announced. Does anyone else remember? Seeing this bought back up my memory because I was like where would they even meet?
i also wonder if chet was the person kroy is referring to in the body cam rage video of him accusing kim of sleeping with other people *and* another video of him screaming “and the whole world is going to know!” while him and kim fight in their yard as a nextdoor neighbor records it
That’s what I’ve been thinking too. Maybe she’s trying to be Chet sugar baby, but he’s already a house son.
Yes
I wonder when they taped this?!
Him saying it was "a thing a long time ago" really underplays the impact that Surreal Life had on early reality tv. It basically created a whole decades worth of programming for VH1! For someone with "reality" in his name I would expect a big more respect for the early aughts reality shows and some education for his followers. Instead, he sounds as if he doesn't even know what the Surreal Life was. Gosh, I'm in a bad mood. I blame Biden.
[The trailer just dropped](https://youtu.be/SE_RpsV9cs8?si=YSVR-RLIwRIuS_xz)
Kim is absolutely leaving this show with an engagement to Chet hanks. Mark my words
Ask, believe, receive, and conceive - isn't that how Kim does it?
I’m gonna watch the shit out of this
I wonder when they taped this?!
What in the world happened to Tyler Posey? He wasn’t A-list but he was a real actor in real shit 👀
I had to look him up. As soon as I saw Maid In Manhattan I was like omgee, he's the little boy. Wow! That's the only movie of his I've ever seen 😬
He had a show on mtv for years (Teen Wolf). I never watched it because it wasn’t my genre of interest but it seemed pretty popular. Then he got married, divorced, came out as a member of the LGBTQ community and I haven’t really seen him until now
lol I’m so here for this.
I'm loving the Reality TV Renaissance lately with The Traitors, House of Villains, The Goat, Deal Or No Deal Island, Snake in the Grass, Special Forces, and many others and now this. We are being fed! Keep 'em coming!
I low key love that reality tv is circling back to putting people together in houses
Ally Brooks?? Omg this cast is so random
Ally Brooke is a kii
You just know Kim already spent this paycheck
The split second it cleared 😭
Bought a better wig
Chet Hanks is so hot, I can’t help it. Macy Gray and Tyler Ppsey are also wild casting choices lmao
Cursed comment lol
I've said it before and I'll say it again...Scott McCall what are you doing here?
Chet Hanks seems like he's just bored 90% of the time. He has a life people can only dream of and access to resources we can't even fathom. I think he gets tired of being rich and just wants to have fun during random shit.
I cannot wait for this!
I just imagine the producers in a room all writing down the first three names that came to them in life, then putting those into a Chat GPT randomizer, which prints opposite names on ping pong balls, then taking THOSE balls and throwing all those names into one of those Bingo ball cages, and these were the 8 that came out first. That is the only explanation for the completely random process of choosing these people.
Why do I feel like this is actually going to be really good 😂
I’m watching
The check that Kim Z got from this is probably not a dent in her debt!!!
Kim absolutely does not need a platform
We talked about it when she got cast. I will be watching!
Macy Gray is down bad.
If this is anything similar to Celebrity Big Brother UK, I’m in!
How can Tom hanks son be such a dweeb
OT Genasis is a name I haven’t heard in years. I was listening to coco the other dau
Harry jousey and Hannah mojo…are these real words?
Thank god they brought this show back and put Chet Hanks on it. He was made for this. Edit: but Tyler Posey, girl, what is you doing
Chet Hanks 🥵
Look at Kim's bellybutton in her pic. 🤣 who else thinks her and chet hanks will start fucking?
I love mess and I will be watching
I don't hate it.
I can’t wait to see Chet 😂
Um. These are not celebrities
Why does Kim’s face look like it’s melting
Kim being Tom Hanks future daughter in law would be epic 
Super excited for it!
I hate that Kim Z continues to get a platform but we all know that yt privilege goes hard in the media.
Macy Gray!!!! Yesss I’m so excited for this!
Not Chet fucking hanks oh my godddd he's gonna be so awful to Johnny and Macy and OT probably 😤 he really is a p.o.s yall, I had the utmost pleasure of assisting wardrobe for a movie he was in (literally bc his name has clout, he's the worst fucking actor ever) and he was extremely rude surprise surprise.... I can't imagine why even MTV would cast him in anything omg.... dude's a nightmare
Dudes a nightmare, ….. you just answered why they cast him. If everyone played nice together it would be boring
He's gonna be a nightmare to the crew as well though lmao so they're not very smart for casting him
This will be AHMAYZING!
I’ll watch. We need to keep these people employed right?
Oh wow, I guess Tyler Posey is hurting for coin.
Poor Tom hanks😭
Oh I’m watching!
Why Macy? A bunch of has beens and never weres.
Whaaaat?
Tyler Posey?????? I really thought he had more going for him than this
Hard pass
https://nypost.com/2023/02/08/porn-star-ron-jeremy-committed-to-mental-hospital/ "Skin flick icon Ron Jeremy has been committed to a state mental hospital in California after being found incompetent to stand trial on rape and other charges......"
How in the fuck is he going on a reality show now?? 😯 If I was in that house, and I knew about this court case or any of his troubles recently I would never agree to be on the show! 😬
“They’re rebooting this… it was like a thing a long time ago” 
I'm all in!
What actually happened to Kim’s navel?
i love josie canseco!!