Both of these shows were cruelly left out of the recent VH1 TLC biopic. It was hosted by Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, whose colleagues in TLC, after Lopes’s death, sought to find a replacement via R U the Girl, a 2005 UPN competitive reality series.
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The Next Food Network Star and ESPN’s Dream Job followed the Wanna Be cable-gig-competition template, and it is very much to my relief that MTV got there first the contest lasted from a Wednesday to a Saturday, whereas nowadays the whole thing would take place over eighteen weeks and I’d have to talk about my “journey.” Another MTV reality series running in 1998 was The Cut, an early America’s Got Talent for Americans who had talent. Just as The Real World paved the way for Big Brother, I would argue that Wanna Be a VJ served as a proto– American Idol for people with much more reasonable ambitions. The trend has come and gone and come again, but MTV was the first to anticipate our appetite for starry-eyed hopefuls getting the shit kicked out of them on live television. As we spend this week glancing back at that landmark year, let me walk you through a few of the people, trends, and concepts MTV launched on our world in 1998, as best I remember them, from my seat near the big red button. But at the same time that my life was fundamentally restructuring itself, I’d argue that our entire culture was going through some intoxicating changes, many of which came courtesy of my colleagues at 1515 Broadway and still resonate today. Thanks to placing second in MTV’s inaugural Wanna Be a VJ contest and subsequently getting hired by the network, that was the year I went - literally overnight - from being an average Joe to being an average Joe who occasionally gets pointed at by strangers. Because I am first and foremost a narcissist, I think of 1998 as being the Year That Changed Everything.
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