Show Name: Flavor of Love
Network: VH1
Premise: Twenty single women vie for the affection of Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav. Personalities clash as the women live together in a Los Angeles mansion. Producers put the contestants through various challenges and Flavor Flav must eliminate at least one of the ladies each week. The last woman left in the game is the woman he will date in the real world.
Show History: Flavor Flav has turned reality TV into a career. He first starred on VH1's Surreal Life, where he started a relationship with former model/actress Brigitte Nielson. Flavor and Brigitte then starred on their own reality show, Strange Love. When their relationship didn't work out, Flavor Flav went on to star on the first season of Flavor of Love. When his relationship didn't work out with "Bootz," the woman he chose on season one, VH1 brought him back for a second season. When his relationship with season two winner Deelicious failed, the network greenlit a third season of the hit show.
Flavor of Love Facts:
- I Love New York star Tiffany "New York" Patterson was one of the ladies rejected by Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love.
- Flav gives the ladies new nicknames each season.
- Forget roses! At the end of each episode, Flavor Flav gives his chosen bachelorettes clock necklaces.
- Some rowdy Flavor of Love rejects were given their own Flavor of Love spin-off, Charm School.
- Flavor of Love is one of the most successful shows in VH1 history. When the first season finale aired in 2006, it became the # 1 show in VH1 history. The show went on to set many other VH1 records.[/ul
