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Related: About this forumTLC orders Pete Rose reality series (Sorry, El. This is a REAL puff piece)...
Major League Baseballs all-time hit leader is hoping for one more in the form of a TV show. EW has learned that TLC has begun production on a reality series starring Pete Rose, the polarizing 17-time All-Star who was banned from his beloved sport for gambling on games while he was a manager for the Cincinnati Reds.
With a working title of Pete Rose and Kiana Kim Family Project, the show will follow the 71-year-old Rose and his thirtysomething model fiancée Kiana Kim (who has posed for Playboy) through their daily lives as they try to blend their families. There are some challenges along the way. A few family members are apprehensive about the relationship. And while Rose is based in Las Vegas (where he signs baseball memorabilia) or is on the road making public appearances, Kim and her two children live in Los Angeles. Shes got younger kids and Ive got [four adult] kids, and we go through the same things everybody else does: taking the braces off, making sure they get their education and they go to basketball practice or acting class, Rose tells EW, adding: Its not going to be classless like it seems like a lot of reality shows arent really reality, but our reality show is going to be funny, entertaining, and real.
The cameras will trail them through such events as Rose taking the family to visit the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, to Kim getting a breast reduction. Were not a traditional family, says Kim. We are a total modern-day family, mixing the cultures, the ages, the different backgrounds together. I didnt even know who Pete Rose was when I first met him. Its kind of a crazy story, but at the core of every family is love and its what TLC wants to show. Quips Rose: Were just a normal family with 4,200 hits.
Rose says that the show will afford him the opportunity to clear up misconceptions that he believes the public has about him. People will get a chance to see what kind of personality I have and she has, he says. I think the majority of people who dont know me look at me as a very aggressive person. I see that in the autograph world all the time. People come in and theyre scared to say hi. Im not going to do anything unless you try to strike me out or make a double play. When I took the cleats off, I was a down-to-earth nice guy. I dont talk down to nobody or up to anybody. I talk to them.
Read more (if you really want to): http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/07/17/tlc-pete-rose/?sct=hp_t2_a13
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TLC orders Pete Rose reality series (Sorry, El. This is a REAL puff piece)... (Original Post)
madinmaryland
Jul 2012
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El Supremo
(20,365 posts)1. Pete Rose AND Barry Bonds...
You love those guys!
rocktivity
(44,585 posts)2. Found his audition tape