My husband and I attended Reality Rally in Temecula California this weekend. This for charity event was created by Survivor contestant Gillian Larson. Reality Rally is an event modeled after The Amazing Race where teams race throughout the city in a competition involving crazy activities, all for the coveted trophy, cash prizes, and most importantly raising funds for the charity of choice. This year’s charity is Michelle’s Place, a breast cancer resource center located in Temecula. The idea is for regular folk to form teams with Reality TV stars to compete. The weekend long event gave fans ample opportunity to hang out and meet their favorite stars.
Big Brother contestants were some of the most personable we met, but we knew that, didn’t we? One of my favorites, Ragan Fox was on hand and a lot of fun to spend time with. I asked him about being on camera 24 hours a day. He said that since you don’t see the cameras that you “almost” forget they are there. I was excited that he was interested in this blog. He took my business card and promised to check us out. Hi, Ragan!
Matt Hoffman is another BB past alumni that I enjoyed meeting. He has a great personality and is very down to earth. I felt like I knew him after only spending a few minutes with him. It was great that he, along with almost all the reality TV stars took the time to get to know me by name, etc.
A surprise for me was how much I liked Annie Whittington. I think since she was voted off so early on Big Brother, we didn’t really get a chance to know her. She did admit to me that Big Brother producers made her change her hair color to dark because they didn’t want another blond on the show. This rumor had surfaced during the season and now we know the truth! She did ask me for confirmation that the blond is a better look for her. What do you think?
I know what you are thinking, but I swear Brendan Villegas and Rachel Reilly are two of the nicest people I met at Reality Rally! Rachel is really, really sweet and she is totally in love with Brendan. She broke the news that the couple are engaged and happily showed off her gorgeous engagement ring. Brendan was pretty matter of fact when I mentioned that most of America didn’t think they could survive a Big Brother romance. He laughed and said, yes, that everyone was looking at their watch to see how long they would last, but that they are happy, in love and plan to stay that way. My husband asked Rachel if they were considering any future reality TV appearances, for instance The Amazing Race. She said that this wasn’t totally out of the question, but that Brendan was really busy and focused on completing his doctorate.
Check out this picture of my husband posing with Michele Noonan. Are you saying “who?” Michele was part of the brains during the brains versus brawn BB. Dr. Michele has definitely given herself a bit of a makeover hasn’t she?
Two Big Brother “hotties” are Sheila Kennedy and Michelle Costa. If you remember, Sheila was famous for being a Penthouse gal. I whispered for them to show my husband some love and as you can see from this picture—they did!
Evel Dick Donato was one of the most elusive of the reality TV stars at the cocktail party. Lucky for me, I caught him right at the beginning of the cocktail party and asked him for a picture. He asked if he could eat first and I told him no. He raised his eyebrow a little bit, but in pure Evel Dick style he appreciated my spunk and posed. I overheard him having a conversation describing one particularly zealous fan who thought it would be okay to grab his “junk”. He jokingly said “I usually charge a hundred bucks for that!”
Do you remember Zach Swerdzewski on Big Brother? Remember him constantly promoting his website—something with the word dolphin in it? Well, some things never change. That website did go bust, but he has a new venture now and took the opportunity to ask me to give him a plug on my blog. So if you want to check out his site go to www.77liquid.com. Believe it or not, he sells couture bikinis.
Last, but absolutely not least was Hayden Moss. I kept looking for him all evening and finally found him. He told me that he had enjoyed a great game of golf that afternoon at the Pechanga Resort. He’s still living in Arizona and I took the opportunity to tease him about his fear of flying. I asked him about it and he said that he doesn’t feel in control when flying. He said he still flies, but he doesn’t enjoy it. He was exactly as I remember him on the show…oh, and did I mention, just as cute? He also told us that he will be interviewing for a sportscaster job with Fox Sports in NYC. We may be seeing a lot of Hayden in the future!
All the contestants are looking forward to the next Big Brother season. Rachel is wondering what BB has in store for season 13. She thinks that the producers will definitely take advantage of the unlucky number 13, but she doesn’t know how and she can’t wait to find out.
All in all, I have to give high props to the Big Brother reality TV stars that attended this charity event. They were a great bunch and I love every one of them! See you in July! Bloggergal
Great pics! Haven’t seen much of Zach in the news.
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Thanks for the update, Bloggergal… is this the Bloggergal I know from elsewhere??? My BB friends will all be ecstatic and wetting their pants when they get this post. You know who you are…
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No Ted, Not quite” Wetting My Pants” but, bloggergal did a great job with this, I enjoyed reading it, very entertaining, Thanks Bloggergal, great Job. 😆
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Hayden, looks like the same twit as usual, he should be shot for going out in public looking like that 🙄
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Zach, Looks like the same” DOUCHE” he was on the show. 🙄
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Annie, looks really good as a blonde, she should have been that way on the show
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Michele Noonan, Has” LOST HER MIND” 🙄
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Brendon and Rachel, GTFOMS
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Great seeing EVEL DICK, Sheila and Michele looked good, nice seeing them. 😆
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I agree… GREAT PICS!! I’m sure Brendon and Rachel are good enough people in real life.. I just don’t want them to appear together on my tv again. I can take them separately.. but together?? ..ughhhh…
So, I think the important question is this..
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Does this mean that Bloggergal will be returning to BB Blog for BB 13? It sure sounds like it.
I’d like to see BBBlogger, Donna Rose, & Bloggergal team up to give us our daily posts… (hoping).
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Thanks for all the great comments. I knew you guys and gals would be amused. Just want to let you know that most of the Big Brother “stars” I met were very interested in the blog so I think they will be reading your comments too! Next year, I’ll be more prepared and I’ll check in with you all to see what you want to know or say. They publish a list of who will be there in advance.
One thing I didn’t mention in the blog was that my husband and I did go to Pechanga after the cocktail party. Since there were only appetizers and (lots of!) wine, we were starving so we headed straight for the food court and some burgers. We were standing in line and I turn around and behind us in line were Hayden, Ragan, Matt Hoffman and John Fincher (from Survivor). It was great to be able to talk to those guys without feeling like a geeky fan :)! I did embarrass myself (and perhaps him) by asking John Fincher who he was. From what I found out later, he’s actually a rocket scientist. Ragan also was interested in my day work (transcription) so I may end up working for him in the future.
I did do a blog similar to the Big Brother one for Survivor, but since I’m not a regular contributor I can’t post it. I emailed it to BBBlogger, so if it doesn’t show up–go after him! There are pictures of Marty, Sondra, Bob Crowley, etc. There are also random pictures on the American Idol blog site. Bloggergal
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Geez… I come here and read.. and before I can respond.. Aggie fills the page with comments!! 😆
Hi Aggie….
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Hey Sweetie, just caught me
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i’m so jealous you were able to go and meet so many house guests. looks like you had a great time 😉
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Welcome Back Everyone
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Great story Loved the pictures and great entertaining writing
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THANKS bloggergal – very interesting – wish i were there! annie DOES look better blonde – wonder if she and brendon would have hooked up with that killer hair (instead of ‘fireball’) well, i’m ready for the new show – they auditioned here last week – and NO WAY did i go –
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Hey Bloggergal! Looks like you had an awesome weekend…and you just made ours a little moreso too!! (vicariously!)lol So good to see all those familiar face again! I still can’t believe that Brendon and Rachel are ACTUALLY going to get married!! Who knew??!! I think that has only happend one other time on reality TV that I know of, from Survivor with Boston Rob and Amber.
SOOOo good to be on this blog again..been jonesing for it BIG time!! Hopefully this means it will be back for BB13 too….there seemed to be some doubt at the end of last season!
And you GO girl…..networking like that! How COOL to be working with Ragan! Let us know if it works out for you!!
Good to see you and everyone here again!! Hopefully, as JT said, we can look forward to you, BBBlogger and Donna Rose all here together again come July!!! CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
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woohoo, from my mouth to
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------God’s ears was just telling Star I have to get in touch with donnarose to check what is going on with bbblog, was so happy to receive email from you, and i am so jealous (here is where aggies smilies of jealousy would come in handy lol) txs for sharing bloggergal u rock girl, am all pumped up and so happy to see so many friends are here and are as excited as i am, have a great day, looking forward to the next bbblog, have a great day
ciao
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ps jt was so happy to see u, hope all is well, take care
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Woot Woot, great job Bloggergal. You made my day with this post! Great pix and good to see everyone. R & B getting married, whaaaat? Good for them.
I agree with JT & Star – I’m so looking forward to Bloggergal, Donnarose & BBblogger all popping in and out. It will make it sooooo fun! I’m ready for BB, big time! Unfortunately not interested in Zach’s website.
Is that Hayden with the flip haircut I used to wear in the 60s? lol
Good to see everyone back and Ted, “wetting their pants” – please say it isn’t so. Temecula isn’t far from me so how does one get info about these events?
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Nicely done Bloggergal…and thank you for All the updates. Good to see Everyone is doing well and anxious as I am for Big Brother 13!!!! Can You believe that??? 13 Years!!!!!! LOLOL!! July can’t get here soon enough. Unlucky or Lucky 13…what are We in store for this Year??
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It’s nice to see Miss Star, Miss Margie, Miss Starfish, I am so looking forward to the new season, I hope it’s certainly better than the last. And hopefully Rachels time will be limited, Why in the hell, of all people, they bring back her, How about someone better? Just a suggestion 🙄
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Aggie, I didn’t mean to give the impression that Rachel is going to be on the show. She isn’t, as far as I know. She is looking forward to watching the show and was speculating about what it will be like since it involves the number 13. Sorry, if I phrased incorrectly! Bloggergal
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Thanks for all the great pics Bloggergal. Good to see alot of the usuals have been here already….I’ve been a liitle held up lately but I finally found time to go through all my e-mails. Can’t wait for Big Brother…whoohoo!!
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Thanks so much Bloggergal. I love the pics. It’s so nice to realize that BB is not dead and gone. It seems so long between shows. I really can’t stand Rachel and Brendan. He’s kind of okay when she’s not around but I was never so glad to see anyone leave as I was to see her get out of there. I can’t stand the thought of seeing her again.
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Hi Bloggergal!!
That was SO fun!! Thanks for the awesome pics and updates.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You do such an great job keeping us all informed and in touch with oyu and each other. I’m looking forward to another BB season together!!
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I am totally jealous!!! I would Love to meet ED (Evil Dick) and all the other little people as well!! 🙂 He is my all time favorite!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------So happy for you, but yes totally jealous!!!
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I thought Brendon & Rachel broke up, after Rachel found out he’d cheated on her 3 TIMES, with 3 different women? I guess time & the possibility of making an appearance on BB13 heals all wounds? LOL.
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I loved seeing this in my mail and I’m looking forward with high hopes to a new and exciting season coming up.
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Thanks Bloggergal for solving that mystery, I’m so glad about that, I wouldn’t be surprised though, if they had her doing something on there, to annoy someone, why don’t they bring back only the faves?
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I loved Annie the Saboteur! It will forever remain a mystery why she got voted off first. She was a funny, clever houseguest who would have added a lot to the season.
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Hi Johnny, Annie did make things interesting.. and she left too early. But really no mystery why she got voted out first.
Meow Meow and friends saw Brendon as the biggest threat. But after Brendon won the POV.. Rachel was the target…. until Annie opened her big mouth to Enzo and said how close she was to Brendon…. so they decided she was a bigger threat than Rachel…. and how wrong they were!! 😆
(Sorry for re-hashing BB12… I’m just trying to get in shape for BB13!)
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