They always went through some kind of psychological screening. Those traits can often be associated with lots of problems and disorders and all kinds of things. If we just found a dope person who walks around in a clown suit all the time who wants to make love to Flavor Flav, that’s awesome.Ĭronin: You want the person to be super outgoing and super off-the-cuff and super unfiltered. Unless you’re not just in the clown suit at three o’clock for this interview. We weren’t looking for people to come in with a clown costume and a big red nose and red shoes. Howington: I really don’t think it was possible to be too crazy to be on Flavor of Love. Was anyone too crazy to be on Flavor of Love? I swear to God, he was that open about this show. We had found a big group of girls that could have a legitimate chance of making some connection with him. We selected the girls, although I think when we were down to our finalists we had a meeting with Flav and we showed him tapes. You will be picking them.” But he did not review the casting tapes, no. When we first went to Flav and said, “Flav, we’re gonna put in you in a house and there’s gonna be 20 women,” he said, “Aw, Mark, you know they’re never gonna pick me.” And I said, “Flavor, you don’t understand. How much say did he have in casting? Did Flavor Flav get to put his “Yeahhhh, boy-y-y-y” stamp of approval on the women?Ĭronin: I’ll tell you a funny story. ![]() He’d been in love with a six-foot-two Danish woman clearly he had a very open mind about race, shapes, sizes, attitudes, walks of life. Were there types of women you absolutely would not consider?Ĭronin: The great thing about Flavor Flav was that he was completely open-minded about what kind of woman he would date. ![]() Like they suddenly realize, What was I thinking? You’ll actually even see that when somebody gets eliminated from one of these shows, they kind of snap out of it very quickly. 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. Could they really be into Flavor Flav?” Always, the answer to the question, “Were they really that into him?” is yes. Was that part hard? Finding girls who genuinely wanted to be with Flav?Ĭronin: One of the biggest questions you always get is, “Well, come on. 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. Howington: 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. Those cities tend to have eccentric people who are animated and it’s going to create awesome television.Ĭronin: The angle we had was that this guy was a hip-hop legend. There are cities most reality shows go to that tend to have more extroverted personalities, more loud people, more people hungry for an opportunity. Mark Cronin (co-creator and executive producer): 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.ĭouglas Howington (casting associate): We also did nightclub casting. When you were casting for the first season, and there was no show on the air yet, how did you pitch the show to potential contestants? As a parting gift to readers disappointed that the 2006–08 ratings juggernaut got knocked out of the Reality Rumble bracket in the first round, Vulture spoke with Flavor of Love co-creator Mark Cronin and casting associate Douglas Howington to get behind-the-scenes intel on how the show’s many memorable and memorably named cast members found their way into our living rooms. But it’s doubtful the bonkers Bachelor parody of a reality show would have taken off without the diverse assortment of batshit-crazy women, going by such nicknames as Nibblz, Toasteee, Bootz, and Deelishis, who vied for the rapper’s affections each week. Excitable clock-wearing Public Enemy hype man Flavor Flav may have been the marquee name on VH1’s hugely popular “Celebreality” series Flavor of Love.
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