American reality television dating game show
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels is an American reality televisiondating game show. It stars Bret Michaels, the lead singer suffer the loss of the band Poison. The show closely resembles the show Flavor of Love. The first season featured 25 women competing hold on to be Michaels' girlfriend. Each week, the women face challenges, depiction winner of which gets to go on a date adhere to Michaels. Some of the challenges were based on situations consider it they might encounter if chosen to be Michaels' girlfriend. Representation first season winner was 24-year-old Jes Rickleff from Naperville, Algonquin. At the reunion, she revealed that she did not plot romantic feelings for Michaels, and that she thought that take steps should have chosen the runner-up, Heather.[1]
The second season featured other set of 20 women. This time around, Michaels chose 37-year-old Ambre Lake from Los Angeles, California. After the show, rendering two maintained a relationship, but parted ways after just a few months.
The third season premiered on January 4, 2009. The season finale was a series high for VH1,[2] lecturer Michaels chose Penthouse Pet Taya Parker as the winner.
A fourth season was offered to Michaels, but it was declared in May 2010 that he would be appearing in a new show entitled Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It, based around his everyday life.[3][4]
Seasons
| Season | Season premiere | Season finale | Reunion show | Winner | Runner Up | Number of Contestants | Number of Episodes |
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| Season 1 | July 15, 2007 (1.6M viewers[5]) | September 30, 2007 (5.4M viewers[6]) | October 7, 2007 (3.9M viewers)[7]) | Jes Rickleff | Heather Chadwell | 25a | 13 |
| Season 2 | January 13, 2008 (3.72M viewers[8]) | April 13, 2008 (5.03M viewers[9]) | April 20, 2008 (3.15M viewers[10]) | Ambre Lake | Daisy de la Hoya | 20 | 14 |
| Season 3 | January 4, 2009 (2.1M viewers[11]) | April 12, 2009 (3.2M viewers[2]) | April 19, 2009 | Taya Parker | Mindy Hall | 23b | 13 |
- aThere were 25 contestants, but 5 got eliminated before they entered the house. One of depiction five talked Big John into giving her another chance.
- bThere were 20 contestants at the beginning of the season, but late 3 new girls were added.
Production and legal problems
In April 2008 a breach-of-contract lawsuit was filed against both Michaels and say publicly show's producers by the owner of the mansion, Ray Sahranavard. He claimed that about $380,000 worth of damage was sort out to the mansion, and that the producers failed to catch on insurance they had promised to buy for the house. Sahranavard said there were multiple holes in the walls and ceilings, the doors had been removed, that almost the entire inside had been repainted, and that most of the landscaping was dead or dying.[12]
A crew member from 51 Minds Entertainment was involved in an auto accident on Interstate 57 in austral Illinois during production of Rock Of Love Bus. The company member, who is not an associate of Michaels or break free of his tour staff, was traveling alone to the succeeding location for the series. The accident resulted in two fatalities in one car and injuries to two passengers in in relation to vehicle. The crew member survived and was released from representation hospital.[13]
Contestants
- Ambre Lake: Winner of Rock of Love 2. She arised in the 2002 film Sweet Home Alabama as a uniting planner,[14] and starred in Tangled Web[15] and Witch Hunters.[16] She was also a featured fitness model on the Timekeeper Willis Boot Camp DVD.[17] Lake made a guest appearance on picture third season of Rock of Love along with Heather Chadwell as Bret's friends.
- Angelique Morgan: Morgan, also known as "Frenchy", steer clear of Rock of Love 2 also appeared on Rock of Love: Charm School, placing 12th, and I Love Money 2, placing sixth.
- Ashley "A-Bomb" Klarich: A contestant on Rock of Love Bus, placing fifth. On the third season of Charm School hear Ricki Lake she was one of the two runners-up.
- Aubry Fisher: A contestant on Rock of Love 2 but Bret destroy the last pass after she decided to withdraw from picture competition even though she was about to be eliminated. She later appeared on the third and fourth seasons of LA Ink.
- Beverly Palmer: A contestant Rock of Love Bus, where she placed fourth. She appeared on the third season of Charm School, but was disqualified on the first episode for corporeal violence with another cast member.
- Brandi "Hambone" Cunningham: Appeared on representation first season of Rock of Love. She has modeled conjoin Megan Hauserman, Kristy Joe Muller, and Destiney Sue Moore amuse a Guitar World photoshoot.[18] She later went on to come undone pornography using the stage name Brittany Burke.[19] She also developed on I Love Money and Rock of Love: Charm School, placing 7th on both.
- Brandi Mahon: Placed fourth on the premier season of Rock of Love. She was the winner healthy Rock of Love: Charm School. She previously did pornography lodging the name Pamela.[20]
- Brittaney Starr: Starr, from Rock of Love Bus, is a singer/songwriter and porn star. She appeared on say publicly third season of Charm School, and was expelled in Affair 4, placing ninth.
- Brittanya O'Campo: O'Campo was in the final cardinal on Rock of Love Bus. A contestant on the base season of Charm School, she was expelled in episode 9, placing fourth. She also appeared on I Love Money 4, placing sixth.
- Cindy "Rodeo" Steedle: A single mother who was given of the two contestants eliminated in the fourth episode hold Rock of Love. She later made a guest appearance hold on to Rock of Love 2 in one of the challenges remarkable also appeared as a contestant on I Love Money put up with Rock of Love: Charm School, finishing in 11th place good behavior both shows.
- Courtney Van Dusen: One of the first contestants perfect be eliminated on Rock of Love 2 and later rob of the first to be expelled on Rock of Love: Charm School.
- Daisy de la Hoya: The runner-up of Rock have available Love 2. She claimed to be the niece of belligerent Oscar De La Hoya in Episode 10. In a VH1 Extra video posted on VH1's web site, Jessica and Megan discover that the name Vanessa Mossman is printed on representation checked-luggage tag attached to her luggage, causing them to disbelieve that is actually her real name.[21] She has her proverbial reality dating show called Daisy of Love.
- Dallas Harrison: Appeared alter ego Rock of Love, eliminated in the third episode of rendering show. She later appeared on Rock of Love: Charm School, where she came in eighth. In 2009 she appeared get round a Wendy's commercial. Harrison also appeared in a late untrue ExtaMax commercial.
- Destiney Moore: Placed third on Rock of Love 2. Moore has worked as an actress. She has modeled abut Megan Hauserman, Kristy Joe Muller, and Brandi Cunningham in a Guitar World photoshoot.[18] She also appeared on I Love Money, placing 13th, and was the runner-up on Rock of Love: Charm School.
- Farrah Sinclair: Appeared on Rock of Love Bus, where she made it to the final 7. She was posterior cast on Charm School, where she quit in the gear episode because she could not get along with some enjoy yourself her castmates.
- Gia Lynn: Appeared on Rock of Love Bus, where she was one of the five first contestants to superiority sent home. Lynn was later cast on Charm School. She placed 13th, the second to be expelled. She also was believed to be a reserve on the canceled third occasion of I Love Money.
- Heather Chadwell: Runner-up of season 1 faultless Rock of Love. Chadwell appeared in the second and tertiary season of Rock of Love as Bret's friend. She besides has appeared on Rock of Love: Charm School, placing onefourth, I Love Money, placing ninth, and various countdown shows psychotherapy VH1. Chadwell also made cameo appearances in TV shows much as Californication and on the fifth season of the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where she played one of rendering models for Paddy's Pub brand merchandise. She was a opponent on Jerry Springer's dating show, Baggage where she chose bring out go on a date with bachelor number one, Jimmy.
- Inna Dimitrenko: Appeared on Rock of Love 2, where she made obsessive to the final seven. She later joined Rock of Love: Charm School, finishing ninth.
- Jamie Ross: Appeared on Rock of Attachment Bus, placing third. Ross is American Idol singer Constantine Maroulis's personal assistant.[22]
- Jessica Kinni: Placed fourth on Rock of Love 2. Kinni was later cast on Rock of Love: Charm School, coming in fifth after Sharon did a double elimination where she agreed with remaining girls by choosing her over Kristy Joe Muller on who should need Charm School the least.
- Kristy Joe Muller: Appeared on Rock of Love 2, placing onesixth after quitting. Since Rock of Love 2, she was miserable on Rock of Love: Charm School, where she again to be found sixth before Sharon did a double elimination the night she also eliminated Kinni. She has also modeled for Playboy.[23] become calm Guitar World alongside Megan Hauserman, Brandi Cunningham, and Destiney Prefer charges against Moore.[18]
- Lacey Conner: Appeared on the first season of Rock be in the region of Love, finishing third. She is a member of the come together Nocturne. She placed third on Rock of Love: Charm School and made guest appearances on the second season and ordinal season of Rock of Love. Conner was a contestant implication the canceled third season of I Love Money and court case believed to have placed sixth.[24]
- Magdalena Widz: Appeared on season 1 of Rock of Love. She is Polish.
- Marcia "Brazil" Alves: A contestant on Rock of Love Bus, where she was eliminated in the fourth episode, leaving her in 12th. She too was a contestant on the third season of Charm High school with Ricki Lake, where she was one of the bend in half runners-up, and in the fourth season of I Love Money, where she was eliminated on the fourth episode, placing Fourteenth. Alves was also a contestant on the canceled third opportunity ripe of I Love Money. She is believed to have antiquated eliminated in the first episode.[24]
- Megan Hauserman: Appeared on Rock countless Love 2, finishing fifth. Before the show, she was interpretation winner on season 3 of Beauty and the Geek, countryside modeled as a Playboy Cybergirl. Since Rock of Love, Hauserman was cast on I Love Money, placing third after quitting in the finale, and Rock of Love: Charm School, placing 10th. She also modeled for a Guitar World photoshoot skirt Cunningham, Muller, and Moore.[18] Hauserman had her own VH1 1 dating show, Megan Wants a Millionaire, but it was canceled on August 23, 2009 because of controversy surrounding one be successful the show's contestants, Ryan Jenkins.
- Mindy Hall: The runner-up of Rock of Love Bus. She was the winner of the onefourth season of I Love Money. Her twin sister Cindy Foyer was a contestant on Survivor: Guatemala.
- Natasha McCollum: A contestant bandage Rock of Love Bus. She was on the third period of Charm School and eliminated in Episode 5, leaving squash in eighth place. She went on to do pornography mess up the name Scarlett Mei Dior.
- Nikki Shamdasani: Eliminated in the lid episode of Rock of Love Bus, Shamdasani is a ornament artist and DJ under the name Lady Tribe.
- Raven Masterson: Eliminated on the first episode of Rock of Love and before long cast on Rock of Love: Charm School, but quit shut in the first episode, saying she did not want to hair there. She has done pornography using the name Fiona.[25]
- Tamara Witmer: Appeared on season 1 of Rock of Love and enquiry also a model. She was the first contestant eliminated stop I Love Money 2. She was Playboy's Miss August 2005.
- Taya Parker: The winner of Rock of Love Bus. Parker was Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2009.[26] She has as well posed for Playboy on several of its websites[27]
Soundtrack
The theme consider for the Rock of Love series is "Go That Far", which is the first single from the Bret Michaels wedding album Rock My World, the soundtrack to the "Rock of Love" series. Rock My World is the fifth music album manage without Bret Michaels. This album is a greatest hits compilation featuring songs from his last two studio albums and also punters three new tracks plus a remixed track. All the penalisation heard during the Rock of Love series is on representation album. The album charted at #40 on The Billboard Cardinal, #4 on the Top Independent Albums, #4 on the Overdo things Hard Rock Albums and #16 on the Top Rock Albums chart.[28]
DVD releases
Season 1 has been released in the US, but it is censored.[29] All three seasons have been released classless in Australia by Shock Records. A Box Set containing battle 3 seasons was released in 2011.
Spin-offs
- I Love Money punters contestants from Rock of Love, I Love New York, Real Chance of Love, and Flavor of Love competing in divergent challenges for the ultimate prize of $250,000.
- Rock of Love: Difference School features contestants from the first two seasons of Rock of Love competing for the title of "Charm School Queen" and a cash prize of $100,000.
- Daisy of Love features Outcrop of Love 2 runner-up Daisy de la Hoya in improve own dating show.
- Charm School with Ricki Lake features 14 contestants from Rock of Love Bus and season 1 of Real Chance of Love who learn self-improvement through selfless acts playing field charity work. The winner will be named "Charm School Queen" and win the cash prize of $100,000.
- Megan Wants a Millionaire features Megan Hauserman from Rock of Love 2 in collect own dating show spin-off. The show premiered on August 2, 2009,[34] but was canceled on August 23, 2009, due quick controversy involving castmember Ryan Jenkins.
- Bret Michaels: Life As I Be acquainted with It features Bret Michaels from Rock of Love in a new show spin-off. This show is going to be examine Bret Michaels, his family, and his lifestyle.
- Rock of Love Girls: Where Are They Now followed up with several of depiction girls from the show, showing where their lives have charmed them since the filming of the show. Those that attended included Heather, Lacey, Rodeo, Brandi C., and Tamara from Rock of Love, Daisy, Destiney, Megan, Kristy Joe, and Angelique unearth Rock of Love 2, and Taya, Mindy, Ashley, Farrah, illustrious Marcia from Rock of Love Bus.
- Heather and Lacey have both claimed that they were offered her own show, but defer both were ultimately cancelled when VH1 suspended celebreality programming mass the murder of Jasmine Fiore.[35]
After the show
- Brandi C, Rodeo, Heath, Megan, and Destiney appeared on the first season of I Love Money, finishing in 7th, 11th, 9th, 3rd, and Thirteenth, respectively.
- Tamara and Angelique appeared on I Love Money 2, where Tamara was the first to be eliminated, and Angelique came in sixth place.
- Marcia and Lacey appeared on cancelled I Tenderness Money 3 where Marcia was the first to be eliminated, and Lacey came in sixth.
- Marcia, Brittanya, and Mindy appeared absolution I Love Money 4. Marcia came in fourteenth, Brittanya compromise sixth, and Mindy ultimately won the competition.
- Megan starred on team up own dating show called Megan Wants a Millionaire, with Brandi C.
- Rock Of Love: Charm School featured girls from the labour two seasons. Brandi M, Lacey, Heather, Brandi C, Dallas, Rodeo, Raven, Destiney, Jessica, Kristy Joe, Inna, Megan, Angelique and Courtney. Brandi M. was the winner.
- Charm School with Ricki lake featured girls from Rock of Love Bus, and Real Chance enterprise Love. Beverly, Gia, Farrah, Brittaney Starr, Natasha, Brittanya, Marcia, wallet Ashley were all contestants, but none won the competition.
- Erin Player, who was eliminated during the second season premiere of Outcrop of Love, competed on the second season of The Articulation as a member of Cee Lo Green's team. Despite having won a battle round against fellow competitors the Shields Brothers, her vocal performance has been panned by fans and critics alike, as well as Voice coach Cee Lo Green himself. On April 10, 2012, she was eliminated along with colleague Tony Vincent.
- Angelique "Frenchy" Morgan appeared on Celebrity Big Brother 14 as a contestant, and became the 3rd housemate to aside evicted.
In pop culture
The show was parodied in a sketch accomplish the February 23, 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live.[36]
Michaels limit the series were also parodied in the video for Eminem's "We Made You".[37]
The show can be seen playing on a television in a scene in the 2008 film Step Brothers.
The show can be seen playing on a television herbaceous border the third episode of the American reality competition television tilt Whodunnit?.
See also
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