06:35 AM EDT 06/04/2009
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Does Reality TV Ruin Marriages?
Originally posted 06/02/2009 08:15AM
Jon and Kate Gosselin aren't the first reality stars to face marital problems. Although audiences love the unscripted TV couples, the constant scrutiny can put the brakes on "happily ever after." Here are a few couples whose marriages couldn't survive another season.
Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
Aired: August 2003 to March 2005
Split: November 2005
Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey became household names by adjusting to married life after their 2002 wedding. In the 41-episode series, Simpson played the "dumb blonde" while Lachey was the longsuffering husband.
Simpson and Lachey announced their separation just eight months after the last episode aired on MTV. In the divorce filing, Simpson cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason behind the split. Lachey later told USA Today that the reality show was a factor in the decision. "Jessica and I began playing these parts even when we were by ourselves," he said of their roles. "It became a really blurred line. There was a question about what truly was our reality."
Since the split, Lachey has been dating Vanessa Minnillo. Simpson briefly dated John Mayer and is now seeing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
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Carmen Electra To Star in Vegas Show
Originally posted 05/18/2009 03:50PM
With one Playboy centerfold set to headline a topless Vegas show, another one is following to guest star in her own risque act in Sin City.
A rep for Crazy Horse Paris, the a topless cabaret show at MGM Grand, tells
PEOPLE that Carmen Electra has signed on to star in a week's worth of shows in July.
"She's not going topless, but she will be wearing very little. She's going
to wear whatever she is comfortable with," the rep says.
Carmen will star in the show in July – the same time Holly Madison will be baring her bosom across the Strip in her own show.
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Carmen Electra: 'A Lot of Women Would Die to Look' Like Jessica Simpson
Originally posted 01/31/2009 03:15PM
And the outpouring of support for Jessica Simpson continues!
"She's a gorgeous girl," Carmen Electra told PEOPLE Friday night at the 6th annual Leather & Laces Super Bowl Party in Tampa of her "good friend" Simpson. "A lot of women would die to look as good as she looks."
In fact, Electra believes much of the controversy surrounding Simpson, 28, and her curvier body can be chalked up to the outfit she was wearing the day she performed in Pembroke Pines, Fla.
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Carmen Gets a Tropical Spray Tan!
Originally posted 01/27/2009 06:00AM
• It's winter – but Carmen Electra still wants that sun-kissed glow. The starlet popped into the Ole Henricksen spa at Los Angeles's Sunset Plaza for a tropical tan. The process involves an exfoliation scrub, tropical rain rinse and a spray tan.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 01/27/2009 06:00AM
• It's winter – but Carmen Electra still wants that sun-kissed glow. The starlet popped into the Ole Henricksen spa at Los Angeles's Sunset Plaza for a tropical tan. The process involves an exfoliation scrub, tropical rain rinse and a spray tan.
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Carmen Electra's Wedding Advice: Don't Marry in Vegas!
Originally posted 01/05/2009 07:45AM
After a couple of failed marriages under her belt, Carmen Electra feels comfortable dishing out a smart suggestion.
"My advice to anyone is to not get married in Vegas," she tells PEOPLE. "Do not get married at the drive-thru in Vegas, especially. Take your time – enjoy it!"
Electra, 36, adds: "It's important to think out marriage in general because it's a huge commitment. Besides that, I hate to say it, but it's a lot of paperwork and a lot of emotions. It can be difficult."
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Carmen Electra to Pose for Playboy
Originally posted 11/12/2008 01:40PM
We're about to see a whole lot more of Carmen Electra: The model-actress is set to appear in an all-new, 8-page nude pictorial in January's Playboy, a source at the magazine tells PEOPLE.
Electra, 36, first posed for the publication in 1996 – a move that helped transform the Ohio-based girl next door, who was born Tara Leigh Patrick, into an international pin-up star.
The January issue, which marks the 55th anniversary of Playboy magazine, goes on sale Dec. 12.
– Mark Dagostino
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Carmen Electra Won't Be Pressured Into Marriage
Originally posted 11/01/2008 06:45PM
She's wearing an engagement ring, but Carmen Electra is in no rush to say "I do," she said in Las Vegas Friday.
"That's the thing this time – we're going to avoid everyone else's pressure and go at our own pace," said the actress while hosting a Halloween party at Rok Vegas Friday night.
Dressed as a Vegas cigarette and cigar girl, the Disaster Movie star was joined by fiancé Rob Patterson who wore a priest outfit with devil horns.
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Carmen Electra Shows Off Her Engagement Ring, Talks Marriage and Kids
Originally posted 06/23/2008 02:30PM
Showing off her black diamond engagement ring set in white diamonds, Carmen Electra talked about her upcoming marriage to guitarist Rob Patterson last night during a visit to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
"I like this ring because it is gothic," says the actress – wearing a sparkly blue cocktail dress designed by Jenny Packham – who was dealt the first hand of blackjack ever played at the casino.
Rocker Patterson, who officially inaugurated the casino's new card games by smashing a guitar into bits as confetti exploded, proposed to Electra on her 36th birthday, April 20, at Pure Nightclub in Las Vegas.
"She's a really great girl," Patterson, 37, a former touring guitarist with the alternative rock band Korn, tells PEOPLE. "She's beautiful."
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Carmen Electra: 'So Much Pressure' for Wedding
Originally posted 06/06/2008 08:40AM
Is Carmen Electra getting cold feet about walking down the aisle with guitarist Rob Patterson?
Well, not exactly, though the actress-model complains about the constant barrage of questions about their impending plans.
"It's funny, everyone else puts so much pressure, [asking], 'When are you getting married?' " Electra told PEOPLE at the Dodge Celebrity Challenger event at California's Willow Springs Raceway. "If it was up to everybody else, we'd be married and divorced already."
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