Cupid's Arrows Aim for B-List Celebrities

Sure, the Bachelor and the Bachelorette are popular shows. The idea of several men and women duking it out for the affections of a single soul can be exciting. And as the dirty laundry and backstabbing begins to bubble to the surface, we can hardly help but to invest in these vicarious trysts. What could possibly be added to this equation to raise our blood pressures even higher? A gold-mouthed, clock-sporting rapper? An 80s hair rocker with an unnatural penchant for bandanas?

Yes, it seems that these mate-searching programs become more tragically fascinating when a celebrity name, no matter how obscure, is added to the format. We were introduced to this phenomenon by none other than Public Enemy's Flavor Flav when he sifted through a house of love-starved females in Flavor of Love. Our interest was piqued enough to give birth to I Love New York, where Flav's twice-spurned love interest New York searches for a man who is crazy enough to deal with her and her impossible mother.

We didn't get much time to wonder whether the train wreck would end with New York. In no time at all, Poison frontman Bret Michaels emerged from the woodwork in a quest for the ideal busty, hard-partying counterpart to become his soulmate ala VH1's Rock of Love. Surely we've had our fill of sub-par celebrities looking for "love" via process of elimination. Hold on a second! Here comes A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, and with it a new twist: men AND women get equal opportunity to vie for the attention of the curvy internet superstar.