Mormon "Reality"

As the worldwide membership of the church continues to grow, and as the epidemic that is reality TV continues to spread through popular culture, it is a mathematic inevitability that more and more LDS people will pop up on the tube.

With this reality (ha...punny) in mind we bring you the top 5 BEST KNOW MORMON REALITY STARS:

5. Julie from The Real World New Orleans.
In 2000 Julie became the first LDS person to appear on the popular MTV reality show. Living in an old frat house in the big easy with "7 strangers who stop being polite and start getting real" turned out to be a bit of a shock to this naive Provoite. Julie ended up getting the boot from BYU for various honor code violations that were, umm..., well documented.

4. Julianne Hough from Dancing with the Stars.
This 19 year old dancing nymph from Provo (we're only at our 2nd person on the list and we already have 2 skinny blonde girls from Provo...weird) is the star, who is actually not a star on dancing with the stars (if you watch the show you know what we mean). She has been partners with various short, dark haired stars such as; Apollo Anton Ohno, last season's champ Helio Castroneves, and is currently partnered with Adam Carolla. But really, who is looking at those chumps when they're dancing with her?

3. Thurl Bailey from Jazz Pre-Game Live.
Ok so maybe Thurl is only well known in our house and maybe the Jazz pre-game show doesn't quite meet the strictest definition of reality TV, but we had to give a shout out to the former Jazzman (and budding music sensation) who brings logic and reason to the most painfully inept pregame show in the country.


2. Woodcross Girl from American Idol.
Woodcroos girl was the first LDS contestant to ride her membership further into the show than her talent warranted, but we are pretty sure she won't be the last. (Note again the blondeness and the skinniness thereof).

P.S. Clearly woodcross girl is ridding her American Idol notoriety to a huge performing career as you can tell from her upcoming events:

Handcart days in Burley, Idaho
Sevier County Fair
and don't forget her big screen debut in the LDS remake of Pride and Prejudice where she made a road show worthy cameo appearance.

1. Current American Idol wannabe's: David Archuleta and Brooke

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There is little argument that David is infinitely more popular than Brooke, but we think Brooke has a cool, folkly, Janis Joplin without the anger and drugs kinda sound, so we mention her here along with David. She is also (fill in the blank)..... blonde and skinny.... which goes along nicely with our semi-theme.

American Idol is apparently becoming the sharpest arrow in the church's missionary quiver and we're not sure whether or not that is a good thing but we are pretty sure that having a Mormon American Idol champ is far better for the church's PR than having a Mormon president.