Strange Love
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| Strange Love | |
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 Strange Love logo |
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| Format | Reality |
| Created by | Cris Abrego Mark Cronin |
| Starring | Flavor Flav Brigitte Nielsen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Cris Abrego Mark Cronin Ben Samek |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | VH1 |
| Original run | January 9, 2005 – April 24, 2005 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Strange Love is a "celebreality" (see definition:[1]) show featuring Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav. Sparked by their on screen romance in the third season of VH1's The Surreal Life, it is a spin-off that focused solely on Brigitte and Flav. The series premiered on January 9, 2005 and ended its run on April 24, 2005. [2] Due to mutual jealousy, the couple was constantly fighting and yelling, and they went their separate ways in the end, with Nielsen choosing instead to live with her Italian boyfriend, Mattia Dessi. Flavor Flav would go on to have his own reality show, Flavor of Love, where he continued to search for love.
[edit] Episodes In Order
- The Flavor Of Love (aired January 9 2005)
- The Smack Is Back (aired January 16 2005)
- Balls Well That Ends Well (aired January 23 2005)
- The Wine, The Romance, and The Truth (aired January 30 2005)
- Flav's Fried Chicken (aired February 13 2005)
- Public Enemy Number 1 (aired February 20 2005)
- Bronx Cheers (aired March 6 2005)
- The Family That Flav's Together, Stays Together (aired March 27 2005)
- Flav Can't Lose (aired April 3 2005)
- You May Now Flav The Bride (aired April 10 2005)
- Reunion (aired April 24 2005)
[edit] Controversy
North Carolina's Reverend Paul Scott labeled Flav's performance a "coon act" on "a modern day minstrel show." Flav's friend and fellow Public Enemy member Chuck D accused VH1 of "Flavsploitation" in a journal entry regarding the March 27 episode which showed a tense conflict between Flav, three of his children and their mother.
- "Peeps will let the Bridgette [sic] thing perhaps slide, but not the wild statements and what seems like a disrespect conflict on camera with his children and their mother. Last week, it was that same part of his family who went on Wendy Williams' program and launched the worst on-air diatribe ever directed at a father by his children."
Flav responded by saying,
- "I want Strange Love to be a mirror for them. I want them to see themselves, because they did disrespect me also. But that's their mother. When children grow up without both parents, there's an imbalance — and what you see on the show with my kids is an imbalance…But I love my kids."
A petition was set up in conjunction with Chuck D's criticisms in hopes of convincing VH1 to pull the show off the air, yet VH1 continued to broadcast the program for its entire run.
