New York Goes To Work? RANT - May 20th, 2009

The following is the true story about a woman who became a reality star by “dating” Flavor Flav, and has parlayed it into a seemingly steady employment!


For those of you who do not know who I’m talking about, here she is, Tiffany Pollard a.k.a. New York.

She first appeared on the VH1 reality show called, Flavor Of Love. It was a wacky show that starred Flavor Flav on his quest for the girl of his dreams. He was previously dating Brigitte Nielson, who starred on two reality shows with Flav, The Surreal Life and Strange Love. Come to think of it, Flav had quite a run on VH1 himself – but that’s a rant for another day.



Anyway, Tiffany was nicknamed “New York” by Flav and soon became a fan favorite for many reasons.
1 – She looks like a Drag Queen
2 – She has an insane Mother who makes for GREAT train wreck TV.
3 – She’s a total camera whore
4 – She got into a fight with another girl who was trying to win Flav’s love and got spat on.
There are others, but I don’t have all day. Tiffany was rejected not once, but TWICE by Flavor Flav, and then got her own dating show (just like The Bachelorette) called, I Love New York, which lasted two seasons. They led up to “New York Goes To Hollywood,” in which she moved to Los Angeles to become “a working actress.” Obviously that failed, so now she needs a “real” job.

This brings us to her current show, New York Goes To Work. Each week during the run of the show, New York will have to try every aspect of a chosen occupation. If she can avoid quitting or getting fired and the boss deems her successful, New York will receive a $10,000 paycheck each episode. We the public are given three choices to choose from, and then text in to VH1 so they can tally the vote and off she goes! Essentially, this is a way for you and I to seemingly torture and humiliate her on national television! For example, the first week the job choices were, A) Ranch Hand B) Baker, and C) Exterminator. Obviously the exterminator job won. She had to wrangle a snake, remove a bee’s nest, and deal with mice. She squirmed, squealed, bitched, and moaned, but in the end earned her ten grand. Crazy, right?

She is a train wreck, but a train wreck that is making a lot of money (I’m guessing she’s using it to pay off her boob job) and getting exposure. I promise myself every week that I will not watch this, but of course I cave in when I want to see her work as a maid at a nudist vacation spot. How could I not? You know you want to see that.

I wonder what will happen to her when her fifteen minutes are totally expired. I know, go on Dancing With The Stars!

See you in two weeks!
Love,
Crystal