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He has said in some recent magazine interviews that he doesn't want to do a ROL3.
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In fact here is the article:
Bret Michaels and Me
More one-on-one from the 'Rock of Love' star
By CINDY WATTS Staff Writer March 7, 2008
When Bret Michaels called us to chat a couple of weeks ago, there was much more to the interview than could be wedged in the newspaper.
Here is the rest of the, often equally amusing, interview:
How do you know someone is being honest vs.just playing a role to get on television?
The really true thing great thing, in kind of a twisted way about reality TV is that you figure out people really quickly. I knew almost immediately that two of the girls were there for TV.
Let's be totally honest: Some of the girls are really looking to date someone. They want to have a relationship, they know who I am and they understand it. Some of them are on there for TV purposes. Some of them are playmates who want publicity, and I have to weed that out. And that's why the backstabbing starts.
One of the girls overheard the other girl, and she's still married. The other one still lives with her boyfriend, and she's on the phone with him. There are two phones in the house, one is wired (to a recording device) and one is not, and they're not supposed to go to that (unwired) phone unless it's an emergency. Then, all of a sudden, one of the camera guys caught the girl on that phone talking to her boyfriend. The next day the girls weeded her out, and I let her go. It's like, "Listen, I'm not sure me, you and your husband are going to pan out.
"At this point in my life and career, I don't kid anyone. I tell them, "I'm in my 40s. This isn't my first go-around." I'm saying I'm pretty set in who and what I am.
I can't lie. I'm diabetic. I have two kids. There's no real secret to who I am and what I do. I think that's the biggest thing, and I'm very open with them about what it is. I tell them there's a good chance, at the end of this, that even if you win, we'll work out for a couple of months and have fun, but you'll say this isn't for you and you had fun and we got a chance to meet each other and have fun dating.
You have no qualms about making out with all these girls in front of each other. It makes me feel bad for them, especially when they start to cry because of it.
I said and I made it very funny I said to them, "The truth is, there has to be a physical attraction when you walk into a room." And then I said, "Shakespeare wrote" which he didn't, but I'm saying it "the lips are the window to the booty.
"If you're physically attracted and the kissing doesn't work, it can be a disaster. I hear girls say that more than guys, and I'm like, "Let's know instantly if we can go to the next level." And that's my excuse for making out.
How do you feel about your daughters seeing Rock of Love 2?
Jorja is 2 and doesn't watch the show, and the only thing Raine is allowed to watch is the elimination. There's no point where I ever say to my kids, "This is going to replace Mom." I say, "This is Dad doing a crazy dating reality show.
"Raine has a concept of this being television. We don't do this at my house, and (the contestants) would never meet my kids. They asked me to bring my daughters on the show and I said, "Absolutely not." There's a point where reality and reality can't collide.
If I find someone and we date for several, several months after the show, then I feel they can meet my daughters, but I would never cross that line.
Raine gets it. She's been out on the road with me and she understands it's fun, but she also knows she doesn't leave Big John's side and she doesn't walk around with anyone. She has to separate reality from fantasy.
What do you hate?
Hate, as in ha-t-e?
Yes.
Good. The thing that I hate the most is the elimination. It's the worst part of the show.
I avoided it during "mud bowl" week because I couldn't think of one reason to send anyone home. The producers went nuts. I wish I could videotape them yelling at me. They're like, "You can't do this." Every week they want a head to roll. They say, "This is what people want.
"I was like, "You're wanting me to date these girls, and if I had to send one home I would have to make something up.
"This past week the show was the highest-rated cable TV show for the fifth week in a row. I get in major fights with (the producers). I don't lie when I say reality TV has a dating formula. I say, let's break the rules and make crazy challenges and set up a different kind of dating show.
I want it to be entertaining, where people don't watch the whole show and are depressed. I want them to watch the challenges. When you're out there and playing football as girls? Their competition level, just like guys, it makes them fight even more for what they want.
Instead of have them falsely argue, why don't you let one of them tackle the other one too hard and have the real thing happen and see if they care about me or if they just care about TV. That's what's been happening and people can watch this unfold. The slightly off-balanceness of the show makes it fun to watch.
Will there be a third season of Rock of Love?
I didn't think I was doing a second season. It was just a one-off show. But when Jess (the winner of the first season of Rock of Love) met me at the reunion, I knew (she was going to break up with me).
You know when you know someone has . . . Let me say this: She's a beautiful girl, and I felt I made the right decision (when I picked her). She was very giving, very caring; there was a lot I liked about her.
When we got to the (reunion) show and she came on there and she was so cold . . . I invited her to a show in St. Louis a couple of weeks before and she said she couldn't make it, and I started to sense maybe she had a boyfriend. And she came on that (reunion) show and her demeanor was so cold. I said, "Let's go have dinner," and she said, "No, I'm going to go talk to the girls." I knew right then.
It wasn't like being blown off. After you go four or five months (without seeing each other) after having an intense relationship on TV, it's weird. You can't hang out really, because if they photograph you flying somewhere together you might as well cancel the show. I went in there thinking I had found someone to date. They'll stop doing Rock of Love.
But a couple of things happened she walked, which was bad. I left there thinking there was no second show. I went to Iraq a couple of days after the reunion, and when I got back from Iraq they made an offer to do a second season.
I went in and changed a couple of things I wanted to fix from the first season. I told the girls on the first day of filming, "There's probably going to be four or five months where we won't be together. So, if you win, just know it isn't like we hold hands and walk off in the sunset and move in together." It made a couple of them leave. They were like, "I want to date you, but I can't wait for four or five months. I'll probably find someone else to date in that time." But it helped me know who could handle it.
As far as a third season, I want to do something tentatively titled Bret Michaels' Big Rock Show, which is just the foibles of my everyday life and some dating and the humor in my life. I want the world to see the ups and downs. My dream is not to do another dating show; that something great will come from this. I mean, how many times can you . . . I don't want to do Rock of Love 32.
What's going on with Poison?
Poison, for the most part . . . This is what Poison's done for 21 years.
As far as new material? Probably never going to happen again.
I got into music because I'm passionate about it. I get excited about music still, and as Poison (I) will more than likely never make a new album. But for fans, I have a good time on the road and Poison is what I call the "Grateful Dead in the summer" phenomenon. We go out sometime in June or July and go to September and just have a blast. We bring all the music out and have a spectacular show. I know this year the tour is on for sure, and then in 2009 we're off completely and will be back in 2010.
Bret Michaels and Me
More one-on-one from the 'Rock of Love' star
By CINDY WATTS Staff Writer March 7, 2008
When Bret Michaels called us to chat a couple of weeks ago, there was much more to the interview than could be wedged in the newspaper.
Here is the rest of the, often equally amusing, interview:
How do you know someone is being honest vs.just playing a role to get on television?
The really true thing great thing, in kind of a twisted way about reality TV is that you figure out people really quickly. I knew almost immediately that two of the girls were there for TV.
Let's be totally honest: Some of the girls are really looking to date someone. They want to have a relationship, they know who I am and they understand it. Some of them are on there for TV purposes. Some of them are playmates who want publicity, and I have to weed that out. And that's why the backstabbing starts.
One of the girls overheard the other girl, and she's still married. The other one still lives with her boyfriend, and she's on the phone with him. There are two phones in the house, one is wired (to a recording device) and one is not, and they're not supposed to go to that (unwired) phone unless it's an emergency. Then, all of a sudden, one of the camera guys caught the girl on that phone talking to her boyfriend. The next day the girls weeded her out, and I let her go. It's like, "Listen, I'm not sure me, you and your husband are going to pan out.
"At this point in my life and career, I don't kid anyone. I tell them, "I'm in my 40s. This isn't my first go-around." I'm saying I'm pretty set in who and what I am.
I can't lie. I'm diabetic. I have two kids. There's no real secret to who I am and what I do. I think that's the biggest thing, and I'm very open with them about what it is. I tell them there's a good chance, at the end of this, that even if you win, we'll work out for a couple of months and have fun, but you'll say this isn't for you and you had fun and we got a chance to meet each other and have fun dating.
You have no qualms about making out with all these girls in front of each other. It makes me feel bad for them, especially when they start to cry because of it.
I said and I made it very funny I said to them, "The truth is, there has to be a physical attraction when you walk into a room." And then I said, "Shakespeare wrote" which he didn't, but I'm saying it "the lips are the window to the booty.
"If you're physically attracted and the kissing doesn't work, it can be a disaster. I hear girls say that more than guys, and I'm like, "Let's know instantly if we can go to the next level." And that's my excuse for making out.
How do you feel about your daughters seeing Rock of Love 2?
Jorja is 2 and doesn't watch the show, and the only thing Raine is allowed to watch is the elimination. There's no point where I ever say to my kids, "This is going to replace Mom." I say, "This is Dad doing a crazy dating reality show.
"Raine has a concept of this being television. We don't do this at my house, and (the contestants) would never meet my kids. They asked me to bring my daughters on the show and I said, "Absolutely not." There's a point where reality and reality can't collide.
If I find someone and we date for several, several months after the show, then I feel they can meet my daughters, but I would never cross that line.
Raine gets it. She's been out on the road with me and she understands it's fun, but she also knows she doesn't leave Big John's side and she doesn't walk around with anyone. She has to separate reality from fantasy.
What do you hate?
Hate, as in ha-t-e?
Yes.
Good. The thing that I hate the most is the elimination. It's the worst part of the show.
I avoided it during "mud bowl" week because I couldn't think of one reason to send anyone home. The producers went nuts. I wish I could videotape them yelling at me. They're like, "You can't do this." Every week they want a head to roll. They say, "This is what people want.
"I was like, "You're wanting me to date these girls, and if I had to send one home I would have to make something up.
"This past week the show was the highest-rated cable TV show for the fifth week in a row. I get in major fights with (the producers). I don't lie when I say reality TV has a dating formula. I say, let's break the rules and make crazy challenges and set up a different kind of dating show.
I want it to be entertaining, where people don't watch the whole show and are depressed. I want them to watch the challenges. When you're out there and playing football as girls? Their competition level, just like guys, it makes them fight even more for what they want.
Instead of have them falsely argue, why don't you let one of them tackle the other one too hard and have the real thing happen and see if they care about me or if they just care about TV. That's what's been happening and people can watch this unfold. The slightly off-balanceness of the show makes it fun to watch.
Will there be a third season of Rock of Love?
I didn't think I was doing a second season. It was just a one-off show. But when Jess (the winner of the first season of Rock of Love) met me at the reunion, I knew (she was going to break up with me).
You know when you know someone has . . . Let me say this: She's a beautiful girl, and I felt I made the right decision (when I picked her). She was very giving, very caring; there was a lot I liked about her.
When we got to the (reunion) show and she came on there and she was so cold . . . I invited her to a show in St. Louis a couple of weeks before and she said she couldn't make it, and I started to sense maybe she had a boyfriend. And she came on that (reunion) show and her demeanor was so cold. I said, "Let's go have dinner," and she said, "No, I'm going to go talk to the girls." I knew right then.
It wasn't like being blown off. After you go four or five months (without seeing each other) after having an intense relationship on TV, it's weird. You can't hang out really, because if they photograph you flying somewhere together you might as well cancel the show. I went in there thinking I had found someone to date. They'll stop doing Rock of Love.
But a couple of things happened she walked, which was bad. I left there thinking there was no second show. I went to Iraq a couple of days after the reunion, and when I got back from Iraq they made an offer to do a second season.
I went in and changed a couple of things I wanted to fix from the first season. I told the girls on the first day of filming, "There's probably going to be four or five months where we won't be together. So, if you win, just know it isn't like we hold hands and walk off in the sunset and move in together." It made a couple of them leave. They were like, "I want to date you, but I can't wait for four or five months. I'll probably find someone else to date in that time." But it helped me know who could handle it.
As far as a third season, I want to do something tentatively titled Bret Michaels' Big Rock Show, which is just the foibles of my everyday life and some dating and the humor in my life. I want the world to see the ups and downs. My dream is not to do another dating show; that something great will come from this. I mean, how many times can you . . . I don't want to do Rock of Love 32.
What's going on with Poison?
Poison, for the most part . . . This is what Poison's done for 21 years.
As far as new material? Probably never going to happen again.
I got into music because I'm passionate about it. I get excited about music still, and as Poison (I) will more than likely never make a new album. But for fans, I have a good time on the road and Poison is what I call the "Grateful Dead in the summer" phenomenon. We go out sometime in June or July and go to September and just have a blast. We bring all the music out and have a spectacular show. I know this year the tour is on for sure, and then in 2009 we're off completely and will be back in 2010.
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I thought I read he had all but confirmed a RoL3 - on some daytime talk show, Ellen maybe? Did I read it on this thread or another site?
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Thanks for that article!!!!
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Thanks for the article!
Of courseIt's just creepy to watch him do it, over and over, with every girl...I mean if this was the guy I wanted to be with, I wouldn't be ok with all the tonsil hockey, especially right in front of me, blech!
I know! I hope those girls have had their Gardacil vaccination.
Todd&Copper
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I know! I hope those girls have had their Gardacil vaccination.
And I hope the mansion's medicine cabinet is stocked with penicillin.
I sort of watch this. Not religiously, but if I happen to catch it on I will watch it. What I thought was a little creepy was that he seems almost fatherly to some of the girls. Granted, he's old enough to be most of their fathers.
I've thought that with a few of the girls, he definitely doesn't seem to want a woman his age though.
And I hope the mansion's medicine cabinet is stocked with penicillin.
Yeah, I think we should dub the mansion the "House of Herpes".
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I can't believe I just found this thread. I was stuck home for a week with the flu in Feb and got hooked on this show. I adore Ambre, but I'm afraid she is the next to go. I like Daisy too, even though she's a bit of a nut. I think Brett made a big mistake letting Peyton go.
I can't believe how much I like this show, my roommate thinks I've cracked
I can't believe how much I like this show, my roommate thinks I've cracked
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I cant even remember whp Peyton was! lol
I can't believe I just found this thread. I was stuck home for a week with the flu in Feb and got hooked on this show. I adore Ambre, but I'm afraid she is the next to go. I like Daisy too, even though she's a bit of a nut. I think Brett made a big mistake letting Peyton go.
I can't believe how much I like this show, my roommate thinks I've cracked
We're glad to have you! I agree about Peyton, but I'm beginning to understand Bret's motives (God help me). She wasn't hot enough and didn't have a big enough rack.
And you know, Bret...you CAN cut your hair off and still be a "rocker." Long rocker hair went with the 80s.
(I hate long hair on guys....HATE IT!
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Peyton was the rock chick who played guitar. She was pretty good - I thought she had a nice voice. Much better than Daisy's!
(I hate long hair on guys....HATE IT!
Ugh, me too!
By the way - I LOVED your last trip report. It was so funny and well written. I remember when you announced on your thread that you were having a baby - he's adorable! Congrats!
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We're glad to have you! I agree about Peyton, but I'm beginning to understand Bret's motives (God help me). She wasn't hot enough and didn't have a big enough rack.
And you know, Bret...you CAN cut your hair off and still be a "rocker." Long rocker hair went with the 80s.
(I hate long hair on guys....HATE IT!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don't want him to cut his hair. He is HOT with it!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don't want him to cut his hair. He is HOT with it!
LOL. I'll admit that he aged well, especially considering that he's diabetic and partied most of his life. But the hair? I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don't want him to cut his hair. He is HOT with it!
Really??
I think he would look better with short hair. Just look what a good hair cut did for Bon Jovi
I think he would look better with short hair. Just look what a good hair cut did for Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi looks WAAAAAAAY hotter with short hair.
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