Reality Roll Call

Rocker and reality show star Bret Michaels has suspended his Rock of Love Bus tour to assist the families of two people who were killed in a crash that was caused by a “Rock” roadie.

Teenagers Yasmin Jackson and Kevetta Davis were fatally injured in a car accident that occured Friday on Interstate 57 in Illinois. The accident was caused when Michaels’ roadie, Dennis Hernendez fell asleep while driving a truck to  a Rock of Love shooting location. The truck veered off the road, crossing the median strip and killing the two girls.

Although Hernandez was assisting in the Rock of Love shoot, he was not an actual associate of Bret Michaels or part of his tour staff, according to VH1.

VH1 issues this statement:

R&B singer, Brandy’s brother and Kim Kardashian’s sex tape partner, Ray J will join the ranks of Flavor Flav, and Bret Michaels in his public search for temporary love and a career boost via VH1. His dating show will kick off sometime in 2009, and it should be interesting since he is significantly younger than both Flav and Bret. It should be entertaining to see how he handles the off-the-wall situations that he will certainly find himself in on the show.

According to VH1:

He may be one of the most infamous playboys in hip-hop, but he still hopes to find that special woman he can settle down with … and VH1 is going to help! The “Sexy Can I” singer is getting his own dating show in 2009, and producers are already looking for smart, attractive women over 21 who think they can handle the drama of celebrity life.

GONZALES, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–General admission and VIP tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster for this year’s inaugural Gonzales Thunder Rally, a three-day rock festival and bike rally Oct. 10-12 at JB Wells Park in historic Gonzales, south of Austin, east of San Antonio, featuring special guest Bret Michaels of Poison and VH-1 “Rock of Love” fame.

The festival, which has already booked AXE and Great White and is busy booking others for Oct. 10, welcomes special guest Bret Michaels, Poison frontman and star of VH-1’s “Rock of Love” reality show, which just finished its second season. Bret’s new CD “Rock My World” is in stores now. Poison has sold 25 million records and had 15 Top 40 singles. The Gonzales Thunder Rally was added to Bret’s VH-1 Presents Rock of Love Tour 2008 – he’s headlining Saturday, Oct. 11. Electric Ocean opens.

• General Admission tickets: $45 for all 3 days

(Press Release)

SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 16 — Rock star Bret Michaels tried twice to find love by filling a mansion with gorgeous women and having them compete for his heart. But after the final pass was handed out and the cameras stopped rolling, Bret’s picks didn’t work out. He and season two winner, Ambre Lake, really tried to make it work and although they still remain close friends, between his tour line-up and her work schedule there’s no time for a relationship.

“Bret has been very upfront and honest about how difficult maintaining a normal relationship may be for a touring rock star. He’s right, it’s absolutely an insane lifestyle and neither of us had the time to make it work,” stated Lake.

Now Bret is taking another stab at finding his perfect match in the ultimate rock and roller’s test … life on the road! “Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels” is set to premiere in early 2009.

Here’s rocker and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels’ new video for his latest release, Raine, about his daughter. You’ll get to see Bret all dolled up and prog-rock metrosexual, with his extensions blowing in the wind, and his eyeliner applied so perfectly it’s disturbing. But just so you don’t confuse him with a lady, he’s got a beard. It’s almost as if he’s afraid to be as pretty as he secretly wants to be.

Finally, VH1 has come up with a spinoff of their “love” reality shows that totally throws the, “Are you here for me?” question out the window. This summer the cable network will be launching their new show, “I Love Money.”

Honestly, we all knew that everyone on Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and I Love New York was not there for love. It was always a joke when Flav or New York would suddenly suspect that a contestant was not “there for them”, because everyone was there to boost their careers, or at least get recognized on the street and asked to host parties.

According to Variety.com, former contestants of Flavor of Love, Rock of Love and I Love New York will be competing in a series of reality show competitions, not for fake tv love, but cash prizes. The show has already been filmed, and the casting special is set to air on July 6th, and the series will debut on July 13. Carmelo Anthony’s baby’s mama and VH1 Flavor of Love reunion host, Alani “La La” Vasquez will host the show.

Well, the moment Rock of Love fans have been waiting for has finally arrived. After weeks of drunken, embarrassing, silicone booby-bouncing cat fights, and wildly slung rock star cliches, Poison frontman Bret Michaels has chosen his Rock of Love.

Ambre Lake, the 37 year old from Chicago, was chosen over the much younger Daisy de la Hoya to swap bodily fluids with Brett until something better comes along for either one of them. According to the blog at VH1, even though the two have been physically apart since taping the show’s finale five months ago, the two are still together.

Congrats to the both of them…oh and Bret; see you next year on Rock of Love 3.

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Reality show Rock of Love star, and Poison frontman Bret Michaels was named in a lawsuit that charges him and producers Mindless Entertainment with causing almost $400,000 of damage to the house used to film the VH1 show.

The newly constructed house used to film the dating competition show belongs to Ray Sahranavard, who permitted them to use the house for two months, with the agreement that nothing Mindless did during the filming would “cause any type of damage or any integral change to the plaintiff’s.” But apparently, Bret and the girls skanked up the joint to the tune of $378,269. Not only that, but Sahranavard’s lawyers allege that he was led to believe that they had an insurance policy to cover the damages, which was not true.

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