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Flavor of Love
Flavor of Love logo
Created byCris Abrego
Mark Cronin
StarringFlavor Flav
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes39
Production
Executive producersCris Abrego
Mark Cronin
Ben Samek
Running time60 minutes(including commercials)
Original release
NetworkVH1
ReleaseJanuary 1, 2006 –
May 26, 2008

Flavor of Love is an American reality television dating game show starring Flavor Flav of the rap group Public Enemy. While not a direct spin-off, the show was a result of Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav's failed relationship on Strange Love.[1] The third season of Flavor of Love began on Monday February 11, 2008 at 9/8c.[2]

On May 14, 2008 it was announced Flavor of Love 3 would be the final Flavor of Love. After 3 seasons, Flavor Flav chose to not marry or date any of the winners from any of the three seasons, including Thing 2, winner of Season 3. Instead, it was revealed that he would marry Liz, the mother of his seventh baby, on the Season 3 reunion show.

Show format

The show was part of VH1's Celebreality lineup and its format is similar to that of The Bachelor.[1] Twenty different ladies compete for Flavor Flav's heart as they live together in a mansion in Encino, California.[1] He is helped in his quest by his bodyguard and chauffeur named "Big Rick".[3] He was also assisted by his mother, as well as his former romantic partner Brigitte Nielsen in the first season,[3] and Tiffany Pollard in the second. The show also helped spin off four new shows: I Love New York,[4] Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School,[5] I Love Money and Rock of Love.

In the show, each contestant is given a nickname by Flav and is referred to by that nickname for as long as she remains in the competition. Flavor of Love features a clock ceremony where contestants who are not eliminated receive gold clocks to wear around their necks with their picture behind the hands of the clock. When a contestant is eliminated, her real name is then revealed, followed by a champagne toast.

There are a few basic elements of the show's format that have been consistent through each season of production. Throughout the season the contestants compete for intimate dates with Flav by competing in various challenges. Another typical component of the show is the involvement of the women's ex-boyfriends. This usually occurs when there are 6 or fewer contestants left. Also, Flav brings the few remaining women's parents on in the third or second to last episode. Finally, the season finale takes place in a tropical destination. The two finalists and Flav spend the last two days at a luxurious resort preceding his final decision.

The week following the finale an all-cast reunion is typically aired. A host spends this time reviewing the most memorable moments and interviewing the contestants after they have seen the season. This is also when you find out if Flav is still with the woman he chose and what they have been up to since the season wrapped.

VH1 has also introduced an internet component into the show. Viewers can create profiles, interact with contestants and other fans, and stay current with news at flavorofloveworld.com. In season 3, fans even got to vote online to elect five of the contestants, though Flav sent four of them home in the premiere episode.

Airing of the show

Season Season premiere Season finale Reunion show Winner Runner-up 3rd Place Number of contestants Number of episodes National Destination International Destination
Season One January 1, 2006 March 12, 2006 April 2, 2006 Nicole Alexander
"Hoopz"[2] 		Tiffany Pollard
"New York" 		Brooke Thompson
"Pumkin" 		20 11 Las Vegas, Nevada;San Diego, California;Palm Springs, California
Nevada 		Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Mexico
Season Two August 6, 2006 October 15, 2006 October 29, 2006 Chandra Davis
"Deelishis"[2] 		Tiffany Pollard
"New York" 		Heather Crawford
"Krazy" 		20a 12 Long Beach, California; Napa, California Placencia, Belize
Belize
Season Three February 11, 2008 May 19, 2008 May 26, 2008 Tresha
"Thing 2"[2] 		Candace Cabrera

"Black"

Niki Sharelle "Sinceer" 25b 16 Miami, Florida Paris, France
France
Monaco
Monaco
Cannes, France
France

a One supposed contestant, "Eyez," was actually an impostor hired by the producers. "New York's" re-entry into the competition officially increased the contestant count to 20.
b Although there were 21 contestants originally, there were only 20 clocks, as two contestants, "Thing 1" and "Thing 2", shared a clock. Also, nearly halfway through the season, 4 new contestants were brought to compete. On episode 8, Flav split up the twins.

Noteworthy Characters

Flavor Flav

Main article: Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is the well-known stage name and nickname for William Johnathon Drayton, Jr. Mr. Drayton, best known as “Flav”, was born in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York on March 16, 1959. His other nicknames in the past include Mr. F and Rico. Flav is known for the clock he wears around his neck, which started as a joke after seeing a stage technician wearing a stopwatch the same way. Also, earlier in his career he was never seen without sunglasses when performing. His favorite word to say is “wow”. In December of 1996, he was arrested for two pounds of marijuana. He is a promoter for the group Public Enemy, in addition to being a pianist, guitarist, and drummer. He has seven known children. Flavor Flav is 5’7’’.[6]

New York

Main article: Tiffany Pollard

New York a.k.a. Tiffany Pollard, was born on January 6, 1982, in Utica, New York. She was the runner up of Season One, and became famous for her crazy, loud personality and her propensity to pick fights with other contestants. She was brought back by Flav in Season Two, where once again, Flavor Flav did not pick her. However, she was so popular that she received her own reality dating show, I Love New York, which ran for two seasons. She has since been on Nip/Tuck, The Tyra Banks Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the movie First Sunday, Chelsea Lately and Maury.

Pumkin
Pumkin’s real name is Brooke Thompson, who is best known for spitting on New York in the final round of love in Season One. Pumkin was a favorite competitor of Flavor as a blonde from Los Angeles, CA. Thompson was born in Los Angeles and graduated college from California State University at Bakersfield with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing. Thompson loves children and was a substitute teacher and cheerleading coach until she appeared on Flavor Flav’s show and was fired from her job. In addition to Flavor of Love, Season One, she was also on Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School, where she was eliminated the episode before the finale, being dubbed, "The Whore of Charm School." She is also on VH1's, I Love Money. Ironically, she was eliminated the epiode before the finale for the third time. She has also had appearances on MTV’s NEXT, Blind Date, Street Smarts, Friend or Foe, and the John Walsh Show, and Family Feud. She received the Best Fight Award with Pollard at the Reality Remix Awards in 2006. She now has a clothing line called Pumkin Apparel, and is popular for a shirt that reads “Pumkin spit on me and I like it…”[7]

Buckeey
Buckeey's real name is Shay Johnson, who finished in the final four in Season two, and also appeared on Flavor of Love Girl's Charm School. Shay has since become a model and has been featured in King Magazine and by AskMen.com. A sex tape involving Johnson has also surfaced on the internet.

Saaphyri
Saaphyri is 27 years old and from Los Angeles, California. Saaphyri met Flavor Flav when she was 12 years old and has been, 'in love' with him ever since. When she was a child, she ran away from home to go to a Public Enemy concert. She is known for her 800 dollar hair, and Ugg boots. On Season 2 she was kicked out of the house for fighting with a contestant that hit her with flowers shortly after entering the mansion. She then was a contestant of Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School and won. She currently has her own lip balm line called Lip Chap which is a Unisex lip balm,and also her own brand of weave hair called Saaphyri's Ultimate Indian Hair. Saaphyri is also an actress with several movies under her belt.

Thing 2
Thing 2 (Tresha) is 26 years old and from Artesia, California and the winner of the third season. Originally Thing 2 entered the competition with her sister Thing 1, Trisha. When the new girls arrived, they were given the task to give immunity to the older girls. After interviewing each girl, they decided to give immunity to Thing 2, thus separating the twins. Eventually Thing 1 would be eliminated due to her ex, Calvin. During the "Never-Wed challenge," Calvin stated that Thing 1 gave him oral sex prior to joining the show. After her sister's elimination, her friendship with Sinceer grew closer. When the parents came to visit Sinceer overheard Thing 2 talking to her mom. Her mom tells her that she is worried Thing 2 can't stand on her own without Thing 1. Sinceer feels that Thing 2 needs someone to cling onto and, seeing Thing 2 as her biggest threat, tells Flav about this and he eliminates Thing 2. After arriving in France, Flav starts to regret eliminating Thing 2. After eliminating Seezinz, he brings back Thing 2 and ultimately chooses her in the end but dumped her at the reunion show for his future child's mother Liz and his son.

Big Rick
Big Rick is Flavor’s main man, who serves as his bodyguard, messenger, and right-hand man. On the show, Big Rick’s job also includes delivering FlavOgrams to the women, taking the women to and from dates with Flav, helps to hand out clocks to the women Flav chooses, and much more. He and Flav met in 2004 while in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino while shooting for Flav’s other show, Strange Love. Big Rick used to work at a detention facility in Florida.[8]

Hoopz
The winner of Season One was nicknamed Hoopz. Her real name is Nicole Deannae Alexander. She was born July 12, 1983 in Detroit Michigan. She is now an actress, model and now works as a stripper in Atlanta. She has appeared in magazine such as King Magazine, was a dancer in Will Smith’s music video “Party Starter” and now has her own website which sells her merchandise which includes shirts, DVD’s, posters, pin-up calendars, and more. Hoopz dumped Flavor right after the show ended. She has since gone on to compete in the vh1 series I Love money and won the grand prize of 250,000 dollars[9]

Deelishis
Deelishis, (London Charles), the winner of the second season, is 30year old woman from Detroit, Michigan. She has scars on her body that she got from being in a terrible car accident. She keeps the scars to remind her how lucky she is to still be alive. She works in marketing and is a single mother. Deelishis has her own line of jeans called D-Cut.

Red Oyster
Red Oyster (Abigail Kintanar) was a standout on Season 1. She was originally named "Oyster", but changed her name to "Red Oyster" because she always wore red. She was memorable because she always revealed the girls' secrets to Flav. In Episode 2, she revealed to Flav that Miss Latin had been calling her ex-boyfriend from the house and asking him not to hang up. In the same episode, Miss Latin was eliminated. In Episode 3, Red Oyster told Flav that Serious was only there to further her modeling career. Serious was eliminated that same episode. In Episode 5, Red Oyster quit the competition to be with her father, who she'd learned had been in a serious car accident. Flav was unhappy to see her go, as he said he would save her from elimination. At the reunion, the host Alani "La La" Vasquez revealed to the audience and Flav that Red Oyster had been married while on the show. Red Oyster defended herself, saving she had been divorced while on the show. Flav believed her, but the audience and the other girls on the show didn't. Red Oyster was offered a part on Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School but she declined. Red Oyster is also known to have created an alliance with "New York" during her time on the show.

Toastee
Toastee (Jennifer Toof) is best known for her excessive drinking and supposed porn career on Flavor of Love 2. On Episode 4, Nibblz went to Flav and told him that Toastee did porn. Flav then went to Toastee, but she denied it. But later on in the Episode, Flav did research on the internet and found a picture of Toastee doing porn. Nibblz received her clock and Toastee was eliminated. She also appeared on Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School, but was eliminated on Episode 3 because she did not help her team at the fashion challenge. She then appeared on I Love Money and almost made it to the end of the show coming in 6th place out of 17 people.

Sinceer
Sinceer (Nicole Sharelle) appeared on Flavor of Love 3 with hopes of finding the man of her dreams. In Episode 2, a memorable moment, is when Seezinz (Autumn Joi) and Sinceer began arguing after Sinceer did a impression on Seezinz, stating she was a nobody. On Episode 13, Seezinz and Sinceer began arguing once more, at France and before they left for France. She was eliminated at the next elimination because Seezinz admitted to being there somewhat for drama with Sinceer. In an interview, Sinceer stated "I'm so glad the man Seezinz is out of here, I worked to so hard to get her out..." Sinceer was first eliminated in Episode 15 over Black and Thing 2. She is now currently into modeling.

Bootz
Bootz (Larissa Aurora) was a standout on Season 2. She is 23 years old and is from Los Angeles, California. She is a licensed cosmetologist and aspiring actress. Is famous for arguing with Krazy, Somethin, Payshintz, and fighting "New York" during the reunion show. She also appeared on the Flavor Of Love spin-off, Flavor Of Love Girls: Charm School, butting heads with the show's host, actress Mo'Nique. Bootz roasts friendship with fellow contestant Shay "Buckeey" Johsnon on Charm School. Bootz is also famous for arguing with Brooke "Pumkin" Thompson, Leilene "Smiley" Ondrade, and Schatar "Hottie" Taylor on Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School. Since being on reality TV, Bootz has appeared in Fabolous' "Baby Don't Go" video, alongside Flavor Of Love and Charm School contestant Buckeey.

Black
Candace Cabrera aka Black is 26 years old and is from Lexington, Kentucky. She came into the house on Episode 7, and was one of the four girls to be picked by Buckwild (Becky Johnston) and Saaphyri Windsor. Although she was chosen to come into the show late, she was the runner-up of Season 3. After the show, she went into modeling.

Liz
The mother of Flav's youngest child, Karma. Flav said she was the right one the whole time and proposed to her on the reunion show of Season 3.

Spin-offs

Rock of Love series

After the success of Flavor of Love, VH1 quickly looked for another celebrity to star in it's next version of the show, and ultimately chose Poison front man Bret Michaels. Rock of Love was almost a carbon copy of Flavor of Love, only Bret handed out Backstage passes to the ladies instead of clocks, and did not give the ladies nicknames. The first season featured 25 girls that competed for Bret's heart. The challenges the girls faced were things they would come across if chosen to be Bret's girl. The winner was 24 year-old, Jes Rickleff from Naperville, IL, who disclosed she and Bret would not stay together, and a second season saw Ambre Lake beat out 20 girls. A third season premiers in January of 2009.

I Love New York series

The twice rejected Flavorette Tiffany "New York" Pollard has her own quest to find her true love in a pool of 20 men.[10] Season one featured Mauricio Sanchez as "Chamo" (New York's assistant) along with Pollard's mother, Sister Patterson. Season two also featured Sister Patterson, but "Chamo" was replaced by "Big Ant," New York's bodyguard.

New York said that she did not care that season one winner, Tango, broke off the engagement, nor would it not cause her any bother. The series first aired Monday, January 8, 2007, the season one finale aired April 2, 2007 and the reunion special aired April 15, 2007. New York announced during a commercial break on the April 29, 2007 episode of Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School that there will be a second season of the show.

The second season aired on VH1 on October 8, 2007, and the season two finale aired on December 17, 2007. Tailor Made was named the winner of season two over Buddha. Another contestant, known as Punk, finished third, but after the show became engaged to singer Jennifer Hudson.[11] The second season Reunion Show aired on January 6, 2008 on VH1.

Charm School and Charm School 2

This show premiered Sunday, April 15, 2007 with a ten episode run. Saaphyri Windsor was proven to be the most improved and won the $50,000 prize[5] The season finale aired on July 1, 2007[5] and the reunion show aired on July 8, 2007.

Other Flavor of Love contestants were chosen to be on the show and were interviewed before the final cast was decided. They included Abigail "Red Oyster" Kintanar from the first season[12] and Britney "Tiger" Morano from the second.[13]

I Love Money

A number of contestants from Flavor of Love, Rock of Love and I Love New York are brought together in a mansion in Mexico to compete in a co-ed battle of mental and physical challenges to win $250,000. I Love Money started filming in February 2008 and ended in March 2008, and is premiered on July 6, 2008.

Contestants from Flavor of Love include Season one winner Hoopz and second runner-up Pumkin, and Toastee, who was eliminated from Season two after Flav found naked photos of her online. Also on the show is Nibblz of Season 2.

New York Goes To Hollywood

Also featuring Pollard, showcases her quest to become a Hollywood actress, giving her 30 days to cement her career. Sister Patterson and Tailor Made also appear.

Real Chance of Love

Featuring Chance and Real, who were both contestants on I Love New York and I Love Money. The two are brothers, and the show is set up in the same format as the original Flavor of Love shows, as the two simultaneously look for love.

References

  1. ^ a b c Ogunnaike, Lola. A Ladies' Man Everyone Fights Over. The New York Times, October 1, 2006. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  2. ^ a b c d Flavor Flav Continues His Search for "The One". TV Guide, February 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  3. ^ a b http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/flavor_of_love/series_about.jhtml Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  4. ^ Strauss, Gary. Flavor's shows clock in on VH1. USA Today, April 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  5. ^ a b c Strauss, Gary. Pupils focus on Flavor Flav-inspired 'Charm School'. USA Today, April 26, 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  6. ^ IMDB.com The Internet Movie Database, IMDB, Copyright 2008, IMDb.com, INC. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  7. ^ TV.com Pumkin. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  8. ^ Reality Shack.com Big Rick Biography. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  9. ^ Hoopzonline.com Hoopz Biography. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  10. ^ Daly, Erin Has I Love New York's New York Found True Love?. TV Guide, March 5, 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  11. ^ Watch She Loves Me, Latest Online Video from I Love New York 2 | View Original Reality TV Shows | VH1.com
  12. ^ Charm School Alternates: Red Oyster. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  13. ^ Charm School Alternates. Retrieved 2008-02-21.

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