The Surreal Life: Fame Games

The Surreal Life: Fame Games
Created by	Mark Cronin
Presented by	Robin Leach
Starring	Emmanuel Lewis Traci Bingham Ron Jeremy Rob 'Vanilla Ice' Van Winkle Brigitte Nielsen Joanie 'Chyna Doll' Laurer Sandy 'Pepa' Denton C.C. DeVille Andrea Lowell Verne Troyer Jordan Knight
Theme music composer	C. C. DeVille
Composer	Adam Zelkind
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Cris Abrego Mark Cronin Ben Samek Jill Holmes Jeff Olde
Cinematography	Andrew Oliver
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Original release
Network	VH1
Release	January 8 (2007-01-08) – March 25, 2007 (2007-03-25)
Related
The Surreal Life

The Surreal Life: Fame Games is an American reality television series originally broadcast on the VH1 cable network. A spin-off of the VH1 show, The Surreal Life, the show assembled ten alumni of the show's six prior seasons to compete in a ten-week competition that takes place in Las Vegas, with the winner taking home a prize of $100,000 provided by the online gaming site Golden Palace.net. Robin Leach was the host. The contestants also competed in a game show format elimination round in each episode called "Back to Reality" that saw the losers, in the first three weeks of the competition, sent to "the B-List" which consisted of living in a less luxurious wing of the mansion than the rest of the housemates, who were designated as "the A-List". In the later weeks, when the teams were split evenly, they competed in team competitions where the losing team must send three members to play "Back to Reality" to eliminate one person from the competition entirely.

The show featured a theme song titled "I Wanna Be Famous" recorded by cast member C.C. Deville from his album Samantha 7.

Contestants

Player	Original season	Finish
Traci Bingham	Season 2	Winner
Ron Jeremy	Season 2	Runner-up
Pepa	Season 5	Finalist
Vanilla Ice	Season 2	Finalist
Verne Troyer	Season 4	Episode 9
Andrea Lowell	Season 6	Episode 8
Chyna	Season 4	Episode 7
Emmanuel Lewis	Season 1	Episode 6
C.C. DeVille	Season 6	Episode 5
Brigitte Nielsen	Season 3	Episode 4
Jordan Knight	Season 3	Episode 1

Game summary

Fame Gamers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Andrea	Rob	Rob	Rob	Rob	Traci	Ron	Rob	Verne	Ron	Traci	Traci	Traci
Brigitte	Ron	Andrea	Andrea	Andrea	Verne	Andrea	Andrea	Traci	Rob	Ron	Ron	Ron
C.C.	Traci	C.C.	C.C.	C.C.	Emmanuel	Pepa	Pepa	Pepa	Traci	Pepa	Pepa
Chyna	Pepa	Pepa	Ron	Ron	Chyna	Rob	Ron	Rob	Pepa	Rob
Emmanuel	Brigitte	Ron	Pepa	Pepa	Rob	Traci	Traci	Ron	Verne
Pepa	C.C.	Emmanuel	Emmanuel	Emmanuel	Andrea	Chyna	Verne	Andrea
Rob	Emmanuel	Traci	Traci	Traci	Pepa	Verne	Chyna
Ron	Andrea	Brigitte	Brigitte	Chyna	Ron	Emmanuel
Traci	Verne	Verne	Verne	Verne	C.C.
Verne	Chyna	Chyna	Chyna	Brigitte
Winning Team	N/A	N/A	N/A	A-List	B-List	A-List	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Legend

  The Fame Gamer won the Competition

  The Fame Gamer is in the B-list

  The Fame Gamer is in the A-list

  The Fame Gamer was Eliminated

  The Fame Gamer won the Reward Challenge

  The Fame Gamer was sent to "Back to Reality"

  The Fame Gamer quit the Competition

Notes

• In Episode 1, Jordan Knight went home due to the death of his grandmother and he was replaced by Verne Troyer.
• In Episode 6, the A-List and The B-list teams were no longer used and it became an individual competition.
• In Episode 7, the Fame Gamers who were in the bottom three are not sent to "Back to Reality", but instead, the person with the fewest points was instantly eliminated.

Episodes

No.	Title Challenge	Challenge Winner	Back to Reality	Contestants (Loser in bold)	Original air date
1[1]	"Welcome To Celebrity Island" "Celebrity Autograph"	Rob Van Winkle	Grab Bag	Andrea Lowell, Chyna Doll and Verne Troyer (Sent to The B-List)	January 8, 2007 (2007-01-08)
Random audience members were asked of which star they would most like to meet and get their picture taken with. The three celebrities with the lowest number of fans lost.
2[2]	"Sex, Size, and Videotape" "Scandal Video"	Rob Van Winkle and Andrea Lowell	What's Charo Saying?	Emmanuel Lewis, Traci Bingham and Brigitte Nielsen (Sent to The B-List)	January 15, 2007 (2007-01-15)
Teams of two had to make a scandalous video that lasted no more than 30 seconds. The team that won chose the next three celebrities to play back to reality.
3[3]	"Down and Out on the B-List" "Green Screen"	Rob Van Winkle	"Celebrity and Child Mash-Up"	CC Deville, Ron Jeremy and Emmanuel Lewis (Sent to The B-List)	January 22, 2007 (2007-01-22)
Each team was given a script to memorize and then perform in front of a green screen. The three celebrities that did the worst acting jobs lost.
4[4]	"The Chyna Doll Syndrome" "Hotel Trash"	A-List	Surreal Connections	Chyna Doll, Brigitte Nielsen and Verne Troyer (Originally eliminated from the show, but Brigitte Nielsen offered to eliminate herself.)	January 29, 2007 (2007-01-29)
Both teams had identical "hotel rooms" to trash. Whichever team trashed their hotel room more won the challenge. The losing team sent three players back to reality.
5[5]	"V for Variety" "Variety Show"	B-List	Celebrity Go Fish	Ron Jeremy, Pepa Denton and CC Deville (Eliminated)	February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11)
Both teams had to put on a variety show for a live audience. The team that got the loudest applause won the challenge. The losing team sent three players back to reality.
6[6]	"Pretty Women" "Hooker Challenge"	A-List	The Real Bling	Verne Troyer, Chyna Doll and Emmanuel Lewis (Eliminated)	February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18)
"" — Each team had to choose out of a large group of hookers and club dancers only fifteen girls. whichever team had the fewest hookers in their fifteen choices won. The losing team sent three players back to reality.
7[7]	"Dial M for Mommy" "Surreal Life Telethon"	Rob van Winkle	None	Chyna Doll (Eliminated)	March 4, 2007 (2007-03-04)
Each celebrity had to call as many famous people as they knew. Out of the people called, 50 were selected as the top 50. Players then received points based on if someone they called made the top 50 list. For instance, if Jim Carrey was ranked 40, the player who called him received 10 points. The person who received the fewest points was instantly eliminated.
8[8]	"Peeping Toms" "Paparazzi"	Verne Troyer	Gourmet or Garbage?	Ron Jeremy,Rob van Winkle, Andrea Lowell	March 11, 2007 (2007-03-11)
The teams were sent to a resort for a day of relaxation, however, they didn't know that it was a secret challenge, in which paparazzi snapped scandalous shots of the Fame Gamers. The three celebrities with the worst photos would go to Back to Reality.
9[9]	"Five Weasly Pieces" "Fan Challenge"	Ron Jeremy and Rob Van Winkle	Fill in the ____ing Blank	Pepa, Traci Bingham and Verne Troyer	March 18, 2007 (2007-03-18)
The remaining contestants were attached to one of their fans. However, they had to stay attached no matter what, and separating would let an alarm go off, thus eliminating them from the game.
10[10]	"The Ice Ice Storm" "Commercial Making"	Traci Bingham	Stick it in Google	TBA	March 24, 2007 (2007-03-24)
The contestants had To Make A Commercial For Golden Gaming Palace.Net.The Contestant Who Made the best Commercial Won. Back to Reality 1 (Contestants vote for the person they want to go home...majority vote goes home) Contestants: Ron Jeremy, Pepa, Rob Van Winkle Back to Reality 2 Contestants: Ron Jeremy and Pepa Final Two: Traci Bingham and Ron Jeremy

Place	Name	Photos
1	Vanilla Ice	6
2	Traci Bingham Ron Jeremy	4
3	Brigitte Nielsen Pepa C. C. DeVille Emmanuel Lewis	3
4	Andrea Lowell Verne Troyer	2
5	Chyna	1

See also

• List of television shows set in Las Vegas

References

1. Juzwiak, Rich (8 January 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 1 - Why don't you take a picture? Your fame will last longer..." VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 5 February 2008.
2. Juzwiak, Rich (16 January 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 2 - Lists, slurs and videotape". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007.
3. Juzwiak, Rich (23 January 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 3 - Green screen with envy". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 5 January 2008.
4. Juzwiak, Rich (30 January 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 4 - Gitte gone". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007.
5. Juzwiak, Rich (12 February 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 5 - CC you later". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 14 September 2007.
6. Juzwiak, Rich (20 February 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 6 - There's some stars in this house". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 1 December 2007.
7. Juzwiak, Rich (6 March 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 7 - Hanging up on Chyna". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
8. Juzwiak, Rich (13 March 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 8 - Not-So Hot Shots". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 21 December 2007.
9. Juzwiak, Rich (20 March 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 9 - Bound for glory". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
10. Juzwiak, Rich (29 March 2007). "The Surreal Life Fame Games Recap - Episode 10 - Mad as Ice". VH1 Celebreality Blog. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.

External links

• Official website
• Surreal Life Fame Games on AOL -- Weekly Coverage with Exclusive Robin Leach Interviews
• The Surreal Life: Fame Games at IMDb