Rock of Love with Bret Michaels

Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
Created by Cris Abrego
Mark Cronin
Starring Bret Michaels
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 40
Production
Executive producer(s) Cris Abrego
Mark Cronin
Ben Samek
Running time 60 minutes
(including commercials)
30 minutes
(Season recap)
Release
Original network VH1
Original release July 15, 2007 – April 19, 2009
Chronology
Followed by Rock of Love: Charm School
Charm School with Ricki Lake
Daisy of Love
Megan Wants a Millionaire
Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It
External links
Website

Rock of Love with Bret Michaels is an American reality television dating game show. It stars Bret Michaels, the lead singer from the band Poison. The show closely resembles its sister show Flavor of Love. The first season featured 25 women competing to be Michaels' girlfriend. Each week, the women face challenges, the winner of which gets to go on a date with Michaels. Some of the challenges were based on situations that they might encounter if chosen to be Michaels' girlfriend. The first season winner was 24-year-old Jes Rickleff from Naperville, Illinois. At the reunion, she revealed that she did not have romantic feelings for Michaels, and that she thought that he should have chosen the runner-up, Heather.[1]

The second season featured another set of 20 women. This time around, Michaels chose 37-year-old Ambre Lake from Los Angeles, California. After the show, the two maintained a relationship, but parted ways after just a few months.

The third season premiered on January 4, 2009. The season finale was a series high for VH1,[2] and Michaels chose Penthouse Pet Taya Parker as the winner.

A fourth season was offered to Michaels, but it was announced in May 2010 that he would be appearing in a new show entitled Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, based around his everyday life.[3][4]

Seasons

Season Season premiere Season finale Reunion show Winner Runner Up Number of Contestants Number of Episodes
Season One July 15, 2007
(1.6M viewers[5])
September 30, 2007
(5.4M viewers[6])
October 7, 2007
(3.9M viewers[7])
Jes Rickleff Heather Chadwell 25a 13
Season Two January 13, 2008
(3.72M viewers[8])
April 13, 2008
(5.03M viewers[9])
April 20, 2008
(3.15M viewers[10])
Ambre Lake Daisy de la Hoya 20 14
Season Three January 4, 2009
(2.1M viewers[11])
April 12, 2009
(3.2M viewers[2])
April 19, 2009 Taya Parker Mindy Hall 23b 13

Production and legal problems

In April 2008 a breach-of-contract lawsuit was filed against both Michaels and the show's producers by the owner of the mansion, Ray Sahranavard. He claims that there was about $380,000 worth of damages done to the mansion, and that the producers failed to get insurance that they had previously promised to purchase for the house. Sahranavard stated that there were multiple holes in the walls and ceilings, the doors had been removed, and that almost the entire interior of the house had been repainted. He also claimed that most of the landscaping was either dead or dying.[12]

A crew member from 51 Minds Entertainment was involved in an auto accident on Interstate 57 in southern Illinois during production of Rock Of Love Bus. The crew member, who is not an associate of Bret Michaels or part of his tour staff, was traveling alone to the next location stop for the series. The accident resulted in two fatalities in one car and injuries to two passengers in another vehicle. The crew member survived and was released from the hospital.[13]

Contestants

Soundtrack

The theme song for the Rock of Love series is "Go That Far", which is the first single from the Bret Michaels album Rock My World, the soundtrack to the "Rock of Love" series. Rock My World is the fifth music album by Bret Michaels. This album is a greatest hits compilation featuring songs from his last two studio albums and also features three new tracks plus a remixed track. All the music heard during the Rock of Love series is on the album. The album charted at #40 on The Billboard 200, #4 on the Top Independent Albums, #4 on the Top Hard Rock Albums and #16 on the Top Rock Albums chart.[28]

DVD releases

Season 1 has been released in the US, but it is censored.[29] All three seasons have been released uncensored in Australia by Shock Records. A Box Set containing all 3 seasons was released in 2011.

Season Release dates Discs
Region 1 Region 0
1 8 April 2008[30] 1 November 2008[31] 3 (R1)
4 (R0)
2 14 March 2009[32] 4
3 8 September 2010[33] 4

Spin-offs

After the show

Brandi C, Rodeo, Heather, Megan, and Destiney appeared on the first season of I Love Money, finishing in 11th, 7th, 9th, 3rd, and 5th, respectively.

Tamara and Angelique appeared on I Love Money 2, where Tamara was the first to be eliminated, and Angelique came in sixth place.

Marcia and Lacey appeared on cancelled I Love Money 3 where Marcia was the first to be eliminated, and Lacey came in sixth.

Marcia, Brittanya, and Mindy appeared on I Love Money 4. Marcia came in fourteenth, Brittanya in sixth, and Mindy ultimately won the competition.

Marcia and Lacey will appear on the re-filming of I Love Money 3 as I Love Money 5.

Megan starred on her own dating show called Megan Wants a Millionaire, with Brandi C.

Rock Of Love: Charm School featured girls from the first two seasons. Brandi M, Lacey, Heather, Brandi C, Dallas, Rodeo, Raven, Destiney, Jessica, Kristy Joe, Inna, Megan, Angelique and Courtney. Brandi M. was the winner.

Charm School with Ricki lake featured girls from Rock of Love Bus, and Real Chance of Love. Beverly, Gia, Farrah, Brittaney Starr, Natasha, Brittanya, Marcia, and Ashley were all contestants, but none won the competition.

Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It.

Erin Martin, who was eliminated during the second season premiere of Rock of Love, competed on the second season of The Voice as a member of Cee Lo Green's team. Despite having won a battle round against fellow competitors the Shields Brothers, her vocal performance has been panned by fans and critics alike, as well as Voice coach Cee Lo Green himself. On April 10, 2012, she was eliminated along with teammate Tony Vincent.

Angelique "Frenchy" Morgan appeared on Celebrity Big Brother 14 as a contestant, and became the 3rd housemate to be evicted.

Cultural references

The show was parodied in a sketch on the February 23, 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live.[35]

Michaels and the series were also parodied in the video for Eminem's "We Made You".[36]

The upcoming Paul Rothbart film, Sole Mates to be released in 2012, features a celebrity reality dating show called Soul Mate loosely modeled on Rock of Love.

The show can be seen playing on a television in a scene in the 2008 film Step Brothers.

The show can be seen playing on a television in the third episode of the U.S. reality competition television series Whodunnit?.

References

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