Last we heard of Eliot Spitzer's old escort Ashley Dupre, the multi-talented young lass was looking to get into real estate. We guess the commissions weren't good enough though, because now Dupre is joining up with the luminous likes of Heidi Montag, Real Housewives of New Jersey's Danielle Staub, and The Bachelor's Jake Pavelka for a new reality restaurant show called Famous Food. We're imagining a combination of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here and Celebrity Rehab with a dash of America's Next Great Restaurant, and we can't wait.
The 10-episode "reality" show will feature the fame-whores (and famous whore) competing for the approval of LA restaurateurs Mike Malin and Lonnie Moore. The duo, who run restaurants in LA like Angels & Kings and Geisha House, will have the contestants do basic tasks related to the "renovation, concept, marketing, menu, staffing and opening" of a new restaurant called...Famous Food, natch. The "winner" will get "a partnership stake in the restaurant." And they'll all walk away with lots of publicity.
All of which makes us think of season three of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Please, oh, please, powers that be, can this new show have a scene like this one?
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