NEW YORK — One man and one woman still have “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” — and viewers are very interested.
The zany reality show starring bisexual Internet celebrity Tila Tequila is among the top 15 cable shows and has become MTV’s second most popular series, just behind Lauren Conrad and company on “The Hills,” according to numbers from Nielsen Media Research.
“Who would have ever thought I’d be the girl who does that for MTV?” Tequila wonders.
Good question.
In case you’re one of the few people who hasn’t seen or read a blog about “A Shot a Love,” the gist of the dating show is this: a 26-year-old MySpace pinup searches for love “Bachelor”-style among 16 men and 16 women, who compete for alone time with her in over-the-top challenges — chocolate syrup wrestling, for example — and share one oversized bed. Then, at the end of each episode, she chirpily tells the non-eliminated contestants, “You still have a shot at love. Are you interested?” And they usually are.
“It was kind of weird at first,” Tequila told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview about filming the show. “I thought, ‘What am I doing here? Can I leave now?’ But once you get to know people, you become involved.”
In the finale (airing at 10 tonight), Tequila — whose real last name is Nguyen — will choose between Dani Campbell, a 29-year-old female firefighter from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Bobby Banhart, a 25-year-old male film student from Worchester, N.Y.
Tequila, who says she realized she was bisexual at age 11, says she’s still dating the person she selected when production on the show ended earlier this year.
Tequila will come face-to-face with at least 20 of the contestants, including a few folks that claimed they fell in love with her on the show, during a special reunion show she says is filming Friday (and will air at 10 p.m. Sunday).
“It will bring me back right where we left off,” she said. “I’ll be able to say some things I never got to say to a few of them. Tell a few of them off.”
“A Shot at Love,” which has featured an ample amount of reality TV bawling and brawling, has ignited some blogworthy buzz for MTV, the aging cable network that’s spent the past few years attempting to gain a foothold in the digital world.
Casting notices have circulated online for a second season of “A Shot at Love” and “That’s Amore!” — a new dating show starring goofy “Shot at Love” castoff Domenico Nessi. MTV won’t confirm that either is in the works, but Tequila says the network did approach her about taking another “Shot at Love.”
“They’re talking about it,” Tequila said. “I don’t want to think about it so fast. I just got settled in.”
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