Will Appear on TV for Food

Will Appear on TV for Food by Roxanne McDonald

We all get that many reality TV contestants audition in hopes of landing more than a seasonal contract. So how promotional for the models, for example, is a show like “Beauty and the Geek”?

I just got curious when I was skimming the Wikipedia pages on “Beauty and the Geek” and saw so many

individual modeling webpage links that I almost forgot what the show is really—in my opinion—about.
That is, as I was checking for birthdates so I could explore astrological compatibility (for what I think is a much more interesting article), I was instead distracted by the number of “beauties” furthering the marketing of their “model” looks. So, out of even further curiosity, I thought I’d look into who has done what or made it where after [and because of?] “Beauty and the Geek.”

What the Beauties Have Gotten Out of the Show

First, some have put more into the show than they have gotten out of it, so far:

The first-ever (season 4) male beauty (which I still says is debatable), Sam Horrigan, arrived on the set with a legion of listings already, so Sam gets the trophy for making obvious the reality TV star factor. “Beauty and the Geek” is obviously another notch on his marginal stardom belt.

Hollie Winnard (season 4) has also come not as a complete unknown but as one with the indicators ablazing: she has appeared as the suicide girl in Death Plots (2005); as the virgin in Hoodoo for Voodoo (2006); as Tanya in All Wrapped Up (2007); and as Dominatrix in the yet to show Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2007).
So much for actors or wannabe actors mixing in with common folk on reality TV competitions, following in the footsteps of the dude (forgettable) who was an actor who made it onto “Survivor”—though not for long.

Amanda Hanshaw, the first in season 4 to go home (along with partner, Tony Tran), also has quite a repertoire going. Among dozens of honorifics, Hanshaw was Cherished Beauty, IMI Talent, and Haines Girl; has been Miss Jack Daniels and Miss Corona (2006); and has a portfolio layout complete with a stunning body shot (no pun intended) at OneModelPlace.com. I liked Amanda, so I won’t rag on her gig-grubbing efforts.

Erin Schneider and Jasmine Moore also have MySpace pages, though they are set to private and I could care less whether this is to build suspense about season 4 of B and the G or keep results secret or whatever.

Whether the Geeks Have Gotten Something More, Too
Despite my dread of visiting MySpace pages—most of which are a mess of imagery overkill—I learned some new

info about a current contestant who not only has a clean and cohesive (coherent) webpage but has already made some marks on the outer world:

Nicole Morgan, the first-ever (in this season, 4) female geek, has landed interviews, for example, with CW, The Boston Herald, Entertainment Weekly, and The Boston Globe. Thus far….

Joshua Green has brought mad skills and background to season 4, and whether or not he has websites and links for furthering his career (nice to see a geek doing it for a change), what he has gotten from appearing on “Beauty…” is yet to be determined (determined as distinctly separate from his having brains and potential no show was necessary for to begin with).

Yeah, that last sentence was a bit verbose, so I digress. Looks like I started out to see who has gained what and have mostly covered who has brought what [intentions] to “Beauty and the Geek.”

But I know I have seen both beauties and geeks out there on sit-coms and making cameos, so whatever my point was is now lost to me. Just curious who was moving on to bigger ventures….

Sorry.

If you want to see post-show successes, check out the following few items I found:

Season 3’s Erin Gipson Making Music

Season 2’s Cher Tenbush and Wes Wilson Living Together and Pursuing Entertainment Careers

Season 3’s Jenny Lee Berns Dated Frankie Muniz, and More…

SirLinksAlot Beauty and the Geek links

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