VH1 has finally shown some decorum by canceling “Megan Wants a Millionaire” after one of the contestants, Ryan Jenkins, was accused of allegedely murdering his wife, Jasmine Fiore.
Jenkins later committed suicide while he was on the run from law enforcement.
When the show aired, he seemed to be doing well with Megan Hauserman, the show’s “star.” Obviously, the show and its “star” did not have the greatest taste in men.
This is probably not the last we will hear from the show’s “star.” Hauserman participated in a slew of reality television shows: “Beauty and the Geek,” “Rock of Love,” “For the Love of Money” and “Charm School,” before getting her own show, “Megan Wants a Millionaire.”
She is one of a cast of reality stars that VH1 starts out on shows in which celebrities well beyond their expiration dates – such as Flavor Flav and Bret Michaels of Poison– exploit women in a supposed search for their soul mates.
These women then become reality television stars and appear on other shows. The worse a woman behaves on the dating shows, the more likely she is to make it far in VH1’s stable of reality television programming. The lucky ones like Hauserman, Tiffany “New York” Pollard and Daisy de la Hoya get their own dating shows.
Hauserman is the rare gem, making the rounds on all the shows that VH1 offers these women. She plays the bikini-wearing villain better than anyone could and claims her life’s ambition is to be a trophy wife.
She even managed to get Sharon Osborn to slap her across the face on the reunion of Charm School, after exhibiting particularly nasty behavior.
VH1 loved the gold digger so much that it gave her a show where men not only competed for her love, but also attempted to buy it. The problems with this concept are legion.
Hauserman signed onto do a show where she was a woman on the market going to the highest bidder for selling herself. She receives full attention for prancing around in bikinis and looking for the richest man who can give her the most material security. This concept took the worst of the VH1 dating show and took it to an even uglier place. Her supposed ambition to be a trophy wife is shameful — something that does not deserve to be celebrated on its own show.
The show itself is bad enough.
Now, one of the contestants, Jenkins, turns out to be rather violent. He had assault charges prior to even appearing on the show. Does anyone run background checks on these contestants?
Jenkins seemed to be doing well with Hauserman. He might have even won. We will never know.
What we do know is that a man who would go on TV to try to buy a blond trophy woman allegedly murdered his wife — an attractive blond woman that used to model swimsuits. Her body was mutilated to hide her identity and law enforcement used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her remains.
That could have been Hauserman in that dumpster.
If VH1 continues to have these sorts of spinoff dating shows for the women rejected on the others, it needs to screen the men more carefully so that none of their “stars” winds up hurt or worse. They might also need to stay away from selling women on the shows.
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