For reality TV fans, the early aughts can be considered somewhat of a golden age. It was a time where anything was possible: Xzibit could mysteriously pop up in your driveway to put a cotton candy machine in your cheap Craigslist car; MTV could tear you out of your bed in the middle of the night and give a future date a blacklight to inspect your embarrassingly messy room; and The Swan, arguably the cruelest reality show ever created, was somehow greenlit.
Meanwhile, in the middle of Ashton Kutcher’s wildly successful original run of MTV’s https://hookupdate.net/escort-index/tallahassee/ candid camera prank series, Punk’d, he also producedBeauty and the Geek. Touted as a social experiment rather than a run-of-the-mill reality show, it brought together polar opposites – the geekiest, most socially awkward men casting directors could find and seemingly shallow bombshells – and forced them to work together to complete challenges. Continue reading The Disturbing Untold Truth Of Beauty And The Geek