There have been thousands of people to appear on reality shows (although, oddly, I don’t know anyone who has), so it’s understandable that at least a few of them are going to be crazy. The nine individuals and one band listed below (none of whom were famous before appearing on a reality show, otherwise Anna Nicole Smith would have this thing WON) are not only insane, but their lives have been in disastrous disarray since appearing on TV.

#10. The Dude from “Punk’d” Who Was Married to Shannon Elizabeth

I think we can all agree that we learned a lot about ourselves from Shannon Elizabeth’s character in American Pie, Nadia (also the name of my girlfriend—coincidence, I think not). It gave all of us 12-year-old males (and females?) hope that if a beautiful woman like Elizabeth could fall for Jason Biggs, there’s a chance for us unattractive pie fu*kers out, too—and one of us unattractive pie fu*kers did get her: Joseph Rietman, who looks like the curly-haired baby of Joey Fatone and Mickey Rourke. Rietman and Ashton Kutcher teamed together to prank Elizabeth on “Punk’d” by making her believe a sex tape of Elizabeth and Rietman had been publicly released. She didn’t take it very well, and partially because of the joke, the couple split up after three years of marriage. You blew it, dude.

#9. Richard Hatch from “Survivor”

Over 50 million people watched Susan Hawk give her famous “Rat and Snake” speech before Richard “The Snake” Hatch won the first season of “Survivor” by a single vote. He took home $1 million (and arguably launched the reality show craze that continues to this day), but “forgot” to pay taxes for his winnings (plus subsequent wages he earned for co-hosting a radio show), so he was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion before being released in 2009. But a few days ago, he was sent back to the pokey for nine more months for still not paying taxes. His reasoning for why the government’s continues to bug him: “I don’t think you or anyone else could deny that we as homosexuals face discrimination.” If being gay means you don’t have to pay taxes, hellllllooooo Matt Smith.

#8. Trishelle Cannatella from “The Real World: Las Vegas”

This list could have been made up of nothing but former-”Real World”’ers, but Cannatella wins the challenge, so to speak, for the company she kept after leaving Sin City in 2002. Namely, Steve-O (appearing in his short-lived show “Doctor Steve-O”), Hulk Hogan (she wrestled as the Red Hot Redneck on Hogan’s “Celebrity Championship Wrestling”), and William Hung, shaking her bon-bon in the music video for “She Bangs.” A funny sidenote: she was born in Cut Off, Louisiana.

The Ryan Jenkins-suitcase-Dumpster Photoshop gets work for the third consecutive day, as police have formally charged the reality star with the murder of bikini model Jasmine Fiore.  In case you’re late to the saga, Jenkins was a contestant on VH1′s “Megan Wants a Millionaire” who reportedly went on to win “I Love Money 3,” which has yet to air.  He met Fiore in a Las Vegas strip club, married her two days later (it was later annulled), then she showed up strangled to death in a suitcase found in an Orange County Dumpster the day after he reported her missing — and also a day after she was getting texts from an ex-boyfriend.  Full story here and here.

Phew.  That’s a lot of back story, but I always enjoy re-telling it.  Anyway, here are the new developments:

A police lieutenant said Fiore’s fingers and teeth had been removed, and prosecutors have asked that Jenkins be held on $10 million bail when he is found.

Authorities in Washington state said a man matching Jenkins’ description was seen boarding a boat bound for a remote area where it is possible to walk into Canada [Jenkins is from Alberta].

Yeeeeeee-ikes.  **avoids eye contact with Canada, backs away slowly** That is some twisted stuff right there.  I mean, it’s messed up enough to strangle someone to death, but you can at least be like, “Okay, crime of passion, it happens sometimes when people’s darker sides escape.”  Removing the fingers and teeth of someone you murdered with your bare (or possibly gloved) hands?  Dude, that takes a sick mind and an iron stomach.  Uh, or so I would assume.  As always, the lesson to be learned here is: always have a pre-dug grave in an isolated spot, just in case.

In the wake of the news that “Megan Wants a Millionaire” contestant Ryan Jenkins is wanted by police for questioning in the murder of his wife Jasmine Fiore, VH1 has done everything in its power to pretend he never existed, pulling all “Megan” content from its website and removing the show from iTunes.  Kind of a bitch move, VH1.

But wait, there’s more.  Jenkins was also convicted in 2007 of assaulting his girlfriend at the time.  Oh, and on the night of Fiore’s murder, she received a text message from an ex-boyfriend.  TMZ says:

At some point in the evening, Fiore texted Robert Hasman, a former boyfriend with whom she was involved before meeting Jenkins.

We’re told Jenkins not only knew of Hasman, he was upset Hasman had been communicating with his wife while Jenkins was in Mexico shooting a reality show. We’re told Fiore texted Hasman on Friday night, saying she was going to travel to Las Vegas to see him.

Later that same evening, we’re told Hasman received another text from Fiore’s phone that just said, “suck it.” Police are exploring a theory that Jenkins may have seen the text Fiore sent to Hasman and then fired off the “suck it” message out of anger.

WOW.  This is a horrible, horrible story… and yet totally fascinating.  Further F-ing up VH1′s world, TMZ also uncovered that Jenkins was also a contestant on the recently-wrapped “I Love Money 3″ — and he won the $250,000 top prize.  I’m thinking they can make that check out directly to his defense attorney.

Ryan Jenkins, one of the supposed millionaires on VH1′s “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” has been declared a person of interest in the murder of the woman with whom he was involved (not Megan Hauserman, unfortunately).  Jasmine Fiore, a bikini model who allegedly married Jenkins in Las Vegas after they met at a strip club, was found inside a suitcase in a Dumpster in Buena Park, California after she was strangled to death.  Oh I know, it’s hard to believe that a woman named Jasmine was in a strip club.  And that a man with a carefully groomed goatee might murder someone.

She was first reported missing by Jenkins on Saturday night. We’re told the Buena Park PD has been trying unsuccessfully to contact him and fear he may be on the run. A police official told us they fear the 32-year-old Jenkins, a resident of Calgary, may be fleeing to Canada. As the official put it, “It’s suspicious.” [TMZ]

Holy crap, this story is a massive combination of every joke I’ve ever told.  It’s at the center of my comedic Venn diagram.  Well, not the exact center.  There’s no rape involved.  Not unless Jenkins goes to prison, anyway.

(Fiore’s modeling pictures are here and here. I didn’t post them because I’m classy like that. More on this story at the LA Times. Thanks to “gimp” for the tip.)

If you don’t watch VH1′s aggressively tasteless lineup of quasi-celebrity-based reality shows, good for you.  But that likely means you don’t know who Megan Hauserman (loving rendered here) is.  A former Playboy Cybergirl (NSFW pictures here with super-NSFW ads), Megan established her reality show career by stealing scenes in “Rock of Love II,” “I Love Money,”  and “Rock of Love Charm School” — the last of which led to her suing Sharon Osbourne because Osbourne threw a drink on her.

And now she’s got her own wear-a-bikini-and-hook-up-with-dudes reality show called “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” in which men who can afford to have better-looking and smarter women try to woo someone who even Bret Michaels didn’t want.  Sounds awesome.  You guys are doing great at life.

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