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Little to love in latest VH1 celeb-reality show

BY ALEX ERIKSON
Daily Arts Writer
Published August 5, 2007

"Rock of Love" Notebook
Sundays 9PM
VH1

Bret Michaels is the luckiest man around ... sort of. Who wouldn't want to spend a month in a mansion with a bunch of hot, single, drop-dead gorgeous women? Except that this Flavor Flav style ruckus of a show has gotten to the point of utter ridiculousness. Yes, I mean ridiculousness.

The show is essentially a bunch of exceptionally horny strippers drinking to excess with the lead singer of the somewhat-over-the-hill '80s hair band, Poison. Yet, somehow bundles of viewers have fallen completely in love with it. Bret Michaels is just too sexy to be messed with.

Still, like any "reality dating" show, "Rock of Love" has its flaws. The girls are absurdly catty, which does give VH1 something to draw us in. But watching 30-somethings bitch and moan about how one has a fianc


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