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January 3, 2008
Coming Out With Cher and Chas: Reality TV Keeps Digging Downward
Posted by Dave Blount at January 3, 2008 8:23 PM
With every new reality show, it seems they've hit rock bottom. Yet they always manage to keep digging downward. The latest outrage against decency and good taste is a concept being shopped by Cher.
The show would be built on the fact that Cher's 38-year-old daughter Chastity is a lesbian. Mother and daughter would serve as televised celebrity counselors, advising kids on how to tell their parents they're homosexual. The working title: "Coming Out With Cher and Chas."
As you might guess, Cher's once-successful career is so dead, she's taken to auctioning off her bras. She may even pull the Barbara Streisand stunt of launching a comeback singing tour soon after her farewell tour.
Chastity's career was stillborn. The failed singer is mostly known for screeching on behalf of militant homosexual outfits like GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), for pushing her weight into the area of 300 pounds and for a tell-all book denouncing her mother.
According to Cher, the show could be as big a hit as The Osbournes, starring ageing rock star Ozzy Osbourne, whom as the Daily Mail notes, she has come to resemble. She's been promising producers that there will be "on-air fireworks" between her and her daughter.
The whole situation is so pathetic, and the show concept so vulgar and sordid, that MTV can be expected to snap it up in no time.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
