![]() ![]() When you take a group of people, take them away from their homes, take away their cell phones and television, and their phone calls are bugged - and there’s this one guy who shows up and decides whether you’ll get to eat a nice dinner tonight or whether you’re going to be in a limo with him - it’s like Stockholm Syndrome and they become very quickly caught up in it. Stockholm Syndrome helped along the romantic process: So we were trying to find people who knew Flavor Flav and also wanted to be with Flav in a relationship. He’s one of the most dynamic hype men of all time. It was great to see people come in and know Public Enemy, but also know the essence of Flav and what Flav does. We were looking for women who either knew who he was or were interested in getting involved with someone like him, whether it was because he was an artist, a legend, a millionaire - whichever it was. The angle we had was that this guy was a hip-hop legend. We had a lot of fan contact from when he was on The Surreal Life and Strange Love, and we used anybody who had directly contacted us or even posted about him. Most of the first season cast were legitimate fans: As such, I found this Vulture interview with co-creator Mark Cronin and casting associate Douglas Howington on how they cast the original Flavor of Love and subsequent sequels to be an absolutely fascinating read. It was stupidity and schadenfreude at its finest, so basically the kind of thing that I live for. I watched all of the Flavor of Loves, I Love New Yorks, Rock of Loves, I Love Money - you name it. If you’re anything like me, you gobbled it up. From there VH1 developed the Bachelor-type reality dating series with Flavor Flav called Flavor of Love which would go on to produce a gaggle of sequels, spin-offs, spin-offs of spin-offs and spin-offs of spin-offs of spin-offs to the point that it eventually became like one of those paintings within a painting that goes on forever. What became known as “Celebreality” began innocently enough, with The Surreal Life, and then moving on to Strange Love with castmates Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen. Back in the mid-aughts, VH1 had a juggernaut reality franchise on its hands. ![]()
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