T.I. isn’t out of prison 24 hours, and he already has a reality TV show with VH1.

VH1 says the show follows T.I. as he “re-adjusts to life as a free man after being incarcerated for nearly a year in a Federal prison in Arkansas.”

The show will follow the personal moments as T.I. is “reunited with his wife and kids and thrust back into society at this crucial juncture in his life.”

Good luck T.I.

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Because TV isn’t full of enough douche bags, VH1 is bringing back some classic douches. Head of that group is Heidi Montag, who is one of the celebrity participants in VH1′s new show Famous Food.

The Faster Times reports the show will follow an “all star” cast of D-listers including:

Ashley Dupre

Heidi Montag

Danielle Staub

Vincent Pastore

and others as they compete to be a new restaurant’s “celebrity” partner. The crew are given $150,000 and 28 days to open the hottest place in L.A.

We really hope Heidi Montag has to scrub toilets and clean dishes. It would be somewhat satisfying to see the obnoxious bimbo actually having to perform physical labor.

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Heidi Montag is returning to reality television, People reports. 

The reality star is no stranger to the spotlight. Montag began her career on ‘The Hills’ alongside Lauren Conrad, and from there shared every aspect of her life with the media including her lacklustre music career and plastic surgery woes.

But now, almost a year after the series finale of the show that made her famous, Montag is taking a different route with the show ‘Reality Food.’

On the new VH1 show, Montag will appear alongside other familiar faces including The Bachelor’s Jake Pavelka and Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Danielle Staub as they re-launch a new restaurant.

Co-star Pavelka says “This isn’t TV to me. This is a show about us trying to open a restaurant. It’s just coincidental there are cameras there.” Yeah, sure.

Despite this new claim to fame, though, Montag is stressing the importance of keeping her life private.

“From now on, I’m going to keep my life a little more private,” Montag says. “I think I was just doing The Hills for so long and I just needed a break [from Hollywood]. Plus, I enjoy my privacy.”

Really? You enjoy privacy? Of course you do. That’s why you always publicly comment on every aspect of your life, attend every Hollywood event, and never pass up the chance to be on television. Of course you love privacy.

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In a recent interview with PEOPLE, TV reality star Audrina Patrdige opens up about her dating life.

“I’m actually single right now,” the VH1 reality star tells PEOPLE with a laugh. “Single life is fun.”

“It’s hard because being in the industry I’m in, if I talk to another guy or if I’m seen with someone, all of a sudden that’s my boyfriend,” she says. “So I don’t really get a chance to date, because then it’ll be all over the tabloids.”

Although Patridge broke up with her Australian BMX star boyfriend, finding a new guy isn’t a top priority.

“I’m just kind of focusing on my career and I’m just so busy,” the Audrina star says. “We’ll see what happens. If I meet someone, that’d be awesome, but if not, that’s okay right now.”

However, one must ask the question – what kind of guy is Audrina looking for?

“I like a guy who has a sense of humor,” Patridge says. “Looks – you know, that’s always a good thing. And someone respectful and they kind of have an edge, but they know how to treat a woman. Whenever you meet someone, if you have that connection or that chemistry, you kind of know right off the bat that there’s something going on.”

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After sixteen years of dating and two daughters, Bret Michaels and Kristi Gibson are now engaged. Michaels popped the question on the Monday night finale of his VH1 reality show, “Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It.”

Michaels got on one knee and said “Please say yes or the rejection will kill me right now,” luckily she said yes. Rumors have been circulating since the summer when Gibson was seen walking around with a huge rock on her finger. Michaels however said it was “a promise ring … a friendship ring, with benefits. That’s what we call it.”

We wish the best of luck to the young couple!

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Following a brain hemorrhage, Bret Michaels’ form of recovery hasn’t been bed rest and chicken soup—far from it, reports People.com.  After suffering the hemorrhage, Michaels got right back to doing what he loves:  Performing.

He won The Celebrity Apprentice, kicked off a solo concert tour, and is filming a new reality show titled Life As I Know It, with VH1.  Michaels wants to be known for his music and his passion for life.

“I don’t want my legacy to be that I had a brain hemorrhage,” says Michaels. “I want it to be that I rocked, I treated people with respect and I made a lot of good friends along the way. I think that came back to me when I got sick. I truly believe if you’re a good person, and you spread love, then that love will come back to you.”

The new reality show, Life As I Know It, will show a personal side of Michaels, showcasing his life as a father to his two daughters and the relationship he shares with their mother, Kristi Lynn Gibson.

VH1 executive vice president Jeff Olde says, “”I think he’s genuinely happy to be alive and happy for all the things he has in his life, but he’s really always been that way.”

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Megan Hauserman probably wishes she could have married a lawyer when she appeared on VH1′s “Megan Wants a Millionaire.”

The reality TV star was arrested Thursday night after being pulled over for DUI, reports E! Online. The beauty was weaving in between lanes and clocked at 75mph in a 55mph in Miami Beach, around 3:15am.

Officers pulled her over and smelt alcohol on her breath and noticed she had bloodshot eyes and her speech was slurred. She later failed a breathalyzer and put in jail, but was later bailed out on a $1,000 bond.

At the time of her arrest, Hauserman was reportedly on her way to a posh Pompano Beach strip club to emcee a nude $250,000 beauty contest.

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We all have one: “backups”. You know, in high school you promise your best guy friend that if you are both single by the time you’re forty you will get married? Well, some of us have anyway and although you’d think celebs would be the last to need a backup, Jessica Simpson has one. The dose.ca reports:

The singer and reality star appeared on Barbara Walters’ Sirius XM Radio show called “Here’s Barbara” and revealed that she will have a child by the time she is 40 with, or without a husband. She is going to use her hair stylist and dear friend Ken Paves, who happens to be interested in men.

The blonde bombshell is only 29, and still has plenty of time to meet Mr. Right, but has had some bad luck in the dating pool as of late. There are rumours that Simpson is dating Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, but she was there to set the record straight.

“Right now, I am very single. Billy is a dear, dear friend of mine. I adore him. I love him very much. We will always be friends. He will always be in my life. He is a great spiritual leader and just a phenomenal guy. But, right now, I’m single. But I have been getting a lot of phone calls which is nice.”

Simpson is focusing her attention from men to her new VH1 reality show, The Price of Beauty, which debuted last night and so far, has not been gaining much success. The show features Simpson, Paves and CaCee Cobb travelling to Thailand to do things like eat fried worms and cockroaches. The Washington Post’s Hank Stuever is not her best critic, “Simpson’s naivete about the world beyond her own crosses a line from mildly clueless to patently offensive,” he wrote.

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MTV Canada has announced via a media release that the popular hit reality show “Peak Season” has partnered with VH1 and MTV Networks International, a deal that will take Peak Season worldwide. According to the release, the Canadian series will begin airing on VH1 this Sunday, Feb. 14, for all of the United States to view.  MTV Canada will present a full-season marathon this Sunday from 6-11 p.m. which will show all 10 episode back-to-back. It will debut on over 20 MTV Networks International channels around the world, this spring.

Peak Season is a Canadian documentary series filmed in Whistler B.C., at the Coastal Mountain resort. It  follows a group of young adults in the unique tourist hot-spot of Whistler, where snowboarding, parties and love is the lifestyle. A lot of drama unfolds when the local residents mix with, travelers and temporary workers from all corners of the globe. Unlike most reality TV shows, the characters are easily relatable as they are everyday people. Don’t expect the stars of Peak Season to drive flashy cars, drink expensive champagne and wear designer clothing. They are real people, like the viewers who watch them. The unscripted show became an instant hit and had the highest rating for a series premier in MTV history. Now the rest of the world will get to experience all of the drama that a Canadian television show can bring.

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Music fans could have a say in anointing the next generation of “Divas” as VH1 brings back its performance special for the first time since 2005.

The show, which has featured such top female talent as Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Diana Ross since debuting in 1998, will air live on Sept. 17.

VH1 is asking the public to weigh in on who would make the perfect “Divas” performer, as well as their dream “Diva Duet,” by visiting the network’s blog and leaving a comment. More than 6,900 comments had been posted as of Wednesday evening.

“Now more than ever, the time feels right to re-launch this beloved show as a new generation of talented female artists has come to the forefront of music,” Lee Rolontz, executive vice president of music production for VH1, said in a statement. “We’ve heard our viewers, and we promise to deliver a live show that will generate the same ‘Divas’ excitement as in the past – while also infusing some new twists along the way.”

The 2009 show will be held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in New York.

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Season 3 “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino is returning to the small screen with a new reality show on VH1.

According to the network, the as-yet-untitled series will track Fantasia’s everyday life as a recording artist and young single mother.

It’s not the first time the singer has given fans a peek into her personal life – she released an autobiography called “Life Is Not a Fairy Tale” in 2005 and later starred in the TV movie adaptation.

“Fantasia’s life has been an open book, but at 24 years old, her story has just begun,” exec producer Randy Barbato told the Hollywood Reporter. “We look forward to smashing expectations and revealing the fresh, funny and unexpected side of this one-of-a-kind country girl and superstar.”

Cameras are set to begin following the singer shortly for an early 2010 debut.

Since winning “Idol” in 2004, Fantasia has earned nine Grammy nominations and performed in the Broadway production of “The Colour Purple” as Celie, a role she will reprise when the production opens this summer in Washington, DC. She is currently working on her third album.

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VH1 announced on Thursday (March 19th) that the popular show, “Behind the Music” will be re-launched depicting more modern day musicians in mainstream Pop-culture, MTVnews.com reports.

“We had to rethink a little bit and look at these current artists that are really big stars now, and maybe it isn’t the classic rise and fall,” Rick Krim, executive vice president of talent and music programming at VH1, told MTV News on Thursday. “There’s the classic ‘Behind The Music’ arc, but in this crop we wanted to get some artists that were on top of their game now instead of looking back. And also, just because their big stars now doesn’t mean they necessarily have a great ‘Behind the Music’ kind of story.”

With 200 previous episodes, the show has covered a vast majority of iconic talents ranging from Meatloaf to Megadeth. Now that the show has made its way through the decades, VH1’s Behind the Music looks towards new age artists to reveal what goes on behind the scenes to the public and put their talents and realities on display.

Scott Weiland and Lil’ Wayne are among the first modern musical talents to sign up to be documented by the network, and these are certainly two current stars that have much drama to showcase behind their music.

New episodes are set to air in July/09.

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