I'm retroactively embarassed by how avidly I followed your friend's story, via meara. (It is the same friend, right? I figure not that many people walk off the set!)

hah! I totally remember that too! And was thinking it wasn't Vortex' friend but someone else but that makes sense if it was also meara's.

(It is the same friend, right? I figure not that many people walk off the set!)

yep! I forgot that we talked about it here!

I suspect that more people than we think leave.

OMG, what about the terrible woman -- a nanny, I think? -- who refused the hair cut, so Carmindy gave her a TON of makeup as a punishment! That one was bananas.

That woman was freak-ay. The thing that really, deeply baffled me was that she nominated herself -- showed up at a shopping mall casting session and begged for help with her drab nanny wardrobe and drab overall look, and then was incredibly resistant to absolutely everything. She wasn't shanghaied into it; nobody nominated her and cornered her and made her feel she had to do it. She volunteered, and then she dug in her heels about, well, everything.

And, Lord, did her hair need cutting. IIRC, Nick even offered to just go to midback (it was down around or below her ass, with the last 9-12 inches all raggedy and split-endy and shapeless), which is still pretty damn long, and she refused.

Also, I didn't mean to get Emmett hooked. I didn't even think he was paying attention to the show, and then last night I kept offering the Tivo remote to him and he kept waving it away.

She wasn't shanghaied into it; nobody nominated her and cornered her and made her feel she had to do it. She volunteered, and then she dug in her heels about, well, everything.

Oh god, I forgot that part!

I accidentally posted in Bitches about the chick who had blonde hair and dressed in khakis and white t shirts that almost didn't do it. She said fuck a lot (which they bleeped out).

They dyed her hair brown and when she came out to the reveal she looked weird, random clothes like she just picked what she thought they wanted to. At the end they took her back to blonde.

Oh! And there was the Southern woman with the addiction to hairspray, she was a tiny little thing with BIG SOUTHERN HAIR. When Nick cut it and styled it she said she wasn't sure what her husband would think. At the end he was raving about her hair and how he could run his fingers through it.

yeah, this bitchy guy with long grey streaked brown hair.

Wayne Scot Lukas. If it makes your friend feel any better, he's the guy who created Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction."

And there was the Southern woman with the addiction to hairspray, she was a tiny little thing with BIG SOUTHERN HAIR.

I remember her! After the makeover, she looked like her daughters' sister, not their mom, that's how much that big hair was aging her. IIRC, she dressed in garb straight out of the '80s, too.

Damnit, I knew his name was Wayne! Beaten to the punch.

I hate makeover shows so much. But I may have issues. Okay, I know I have issues, but I might have particular issues when it comes to makeover shows. You can have my men's cargo pants when you pry them from my cold, dead hands, or when you radicalize women's fashion into something wearable and functional.

The jury's kind of vicious tonight on Survivor.

What a parade of jackassery. Between Lisi's belittlement of Dreamz's intellect and Cassandra's capacities, Alex shouting down Cassandra's response to his uninformed, inane question and his implied assertion that Dreamz was a lesser role model than he, Boo's "What an awful Christian you are-iness" and the chunk of also-rans hung up on some niggling aspect of the fact that the finalists didn't offer up their bodies as willing sacrifices, I had to pause to complain to my totally uninterested friends about how much I was being annoyed. I was unconvinced that some jury members were as odious as their edits suggested but no, they were. Especially Alex. God, he sucks. And this whole 'Yau-Man was the best player here' talk lodged itself firmly up my nose. Had Yau-Man been the best player, he wouldn't have come fourth.

So, yeah, I was sad to see Cassandra misjudge the jury so spectacularly but I had been strongly suspecting Earl for the win since it became clear that his 'masculine yet generous mastermind' edit wasn't quite aligned with reality. I'm glad he did though, he seems lovely.