Taradise

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Taradise, or Wild On Tara! outside the U.S., was a half-hour television show hosted by actress/model Tara Reid. The show was centered on Tara's visits to other countries, such as Spain, Greece, Italy, France and Monaco, where she sampled the local cuisine, visited nightclubs, and shopped.

[edit] Series run

The show was part of E!'s lineup, with new episodes premiering Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EST. E! has announced that there will not be a second season of the show because of production complications that arose from the shooting. According to E! president Ted Harbert, "The show was incredibly difficult to produce with someone well-known". Its run began in 2005 and it was cancelled in early October 2006.

[edit] Re-edited Wild On! format

Taradise was originally supposed to be a new season of E!'s long-running series Wild On!, with Tara as the new host. A week before the season began, E! changed the title to Taradise and re-edited the series as a reality show based around Tara instead of Wild On's format as more of a travelogue show. Though Taradise was a commercial flop, it held a guilty pleasure appeal to many for its candid, on-location scenes of a drunken and increasingly portly Reid, juxtaposed against documentary style commentary scenes of a sober and slimmed down Reid (that were clearly filmed later).

[edit] Legacy

Taradise is now the butt of many jokes. For example, on Season 3 of Project Runway, Kayne the designer was talking about their new challenge about jet setting. He said that the only things he knew about jet setting were from Taradise, saying "the show when Tara flies around the world, taking off her tops and shows her boobies".