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Reality TV news and notes

By Rocky Mountain News

Published April 22, 2008 at 3 p.m.
Updated April 22, 2008 at 7:23 p.m.

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Words of wisdom

"One good lesson that I have learned is patience. Even if you are not listening, act like you are listening. Even if you are in the background watching ESPN, listen or pretend to be listening. If you are going to use the same nice charm and jokes, try not to take three women on a date at the same time so that each of them does not know you're using it."

Bret Michael, about his two stints trying to find a mate on VH1's Rock of Love

Housewives are multiplying

Last month, the Rocky's Lisa Bornstein had the audacity to insinuate that some of the cast members on The Real Housewives of New York seemed better fit for a fictional derivation set in New Jersey. Well, either Bravo liked Bornstein's idea or (more likely) were already ahead of the game, because last week the network announced that The Real Housewives of New Jersey is now in production. There's no date set for its debut, or for when their New York and Orange County counterparts will return for a second season. Other shows Bravo has penciled into its schedule:

* Obsessive-compulsive house-flipper Jeff Lewis will return this summer for the second season of Flipping Out. The man was a mess with a financial house of cards when mortgages were free and the market was scorching; what will he be like now that the whole thing is headed toward the tank?

* Kathy Griffin will return in June for a fourth season of My Life on the D List, even though it's safe to say she's clawed her way up to the C list by now.

* Jo De La Rosa from The Real Housewives of Orange County will get a show of her own, and she moves to Los Angeles to pursue a singing career. But De La Rosa doesn't travel solo: Her ex-fiance, Slade Smiley, tags along, which is why this new series will be called Date My Ex.

Big loser

112 pounds is how much Alison Vincent lost, making her the winner of the fifth season of NBC'sThe Biggest Loser. The 32-year-old hair stylist from Mesa, Ariz., who weighed in at 234 pounds at the start of the show, was booted off the series in the fourth week but came back in a new twist that reintroduced eliminated contestants who had posted the highest percentage of weight loss since the first week. Vincent's winnings: $250,000.