Awards named after Famous People
Named after a Senator from Arkansas who served decades on the US Senate Committee for Foreign Relations, this award will fund student ambassadors to teach english, study, or research for 8-10 months in over 150 countries. This week, six FGCU students were named semifinalists, matching a record!
Fulbright Award
This show places a group of strangers in an isolated location, where they must provide food, fire, and shelter for themselves. The contestants compete in challenges including testing the contestants' physical ability like running and swimming or their mental abilities like puzzles and endurance challenges for rewards and immunity from elimination.
Survivor
Sashay Away
RuPaul's Drag Race
Tristan Thompson was cheating on this Kardashian when she was preparing to give birth to their daughter.
Khloe
Since American Idol had been gone, this singer became a multi-million platinum record selling artist and current talkshow host.
Kelli Clarkson
This award, for which sophomores and juniors are eligible, is named after a senator, conservative stalwart, and 1964 Republican presidential nominee. The scholarship seeks to support the next general of scholar-leaders in STEM fields.
Goldwater Scholarship
Rich, bored married women lunch, drink, and get in seemingly pointless spats in this nominally domestically-themed show.
The Real Housewives of...
You've got too much of a soggy bottom.
The Great British Bake Off
This show's Chip and Joanna Gaines faced a lawsuit when their former business parters claimed the couple persuaded them to sell their interest in Magnolia Reality without disclosing that they were in talks with HGTV to develop their show.
Fixer Upper
The Breaking Bad and Bojack Horseman actor first appeared on screen as a contestant in The Price is Right.
Aaron Paul
Truman Scholarship
This show the show follows the training and careers of children in dance and show business under the tutelage of Abby Lee Miller as well as the relationships between Miller, the dancers, and their often bickering mothers.
Dance Moms
Welcome to flavortown!
Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives
Teresa and Joe Giudice from this show were both jailed for fraud after failing to pay more than$200,000 in taxes.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
This American Idol star went on to play a leading role in the film adaptation of Dreamgirls.
Jennifer Hudson
This scholarship, named after a New York congressman who served from 1973 to 2000, provides up to $5000 for Pell Grant eligible students to study abroad.
Gilman Scholarship
This show places a group of moms and their sons together in a dating competition. Reviewers have claimed that it is proof that humanity is doomed.
MILF Manor
I don't know, dog. it sounded a little pitchy.
American Idol
This show, long criticized for its lack of diverse central figures, was scandalized when it was revealed that one of the finalist contestants had attended "Old South" parties in college and dressed in antebellum dresses. Her "forever love"? The first black relationship seeker in the show's history.
The Bachelor
This actress, who won an Oscar for Birdman, got her start on a reality tv show called The New Partridge Family.
Emma Stone
This scholarship, named for a scandal-plagued NYC congressman, seeks to students from underrepresented groups pursue a career in public policy or international affairs. It will also pay for a good chunk of an MA in a related field.
Rangel Scholarship
This Netflix show places a group of scantily-clad, "hormonal" twenty somethings together in a house in a tropical paradise and then tell them that if there is any romantic contact money will be deducted from their shared winnings after the competition is over. Failure to follow the rules abounds.
Too Hot to Handle
Kim, there's people that are dying.
In this show, team head Jillian Michaels was found guilty of providing her contestants with unapproved caffeine pills that may or may not have given her team an advantage. Regardless of its effects on their bodies, the team was penalized with a four pound addition (one per team member) going into the week's weigh-in.
The Biggest Loser
This singer/actor/heartthrob who would go on to star in The Social Network and break Britney's heart first appeared on Star Search. You are all probably too young to know what that reality TV show is.
Justin Timberlake