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The first was Playing It Straight, a dating competition in which gay men posed as heterosexuals alongside actual straight men in an attempt to win a bachelorette\u2019s heart money. Our younger readers might need a moment with that one.<\/p>\n
Somehow, it got worse. The Swan took self-proclaimed \u201cugly ducklings,\u201d and, over the course of three months, attempted to make them\u2026 not that. The show gave women extreme makeovers via a team that included a personal trainer, therapist, dentist and multiple cosmetic surgeons. Whoever came out hottest was named \u201cThe Swan.\u201d Congrats to her.<\/p>\n
Together, Playing It Straight<\/a> and The Swan<\/a> made Fox\u2019s The Simple Life<\/a>, in which Paris Hilton<\/a> and Nicole Richie<\/a> bothered…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early-2000s Fox was ridiculous. In 2004, a full decade before I Wanna Marry Harry, two especially bonkers reality shows debuted on the fourth-rated broadcast network (of four). Neither would make it more than one season. The first was Playing It Straight, a dating competition in which gay men posed as heterosexuals alongside actual straight men […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2314480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Erin-Lee-Carr-to-Direct-Hulu-Documentary-Unpacking-Ridiculous-2004.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314484,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314480\/revisions\/2314484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}