Precious Panda # 8
Celeb Reality
Fred and Ben Savage never thought they’d be here. Child stars fading into obscurity are common, but being spit out the bottom of reality television is fairly rare. Unless you count VH1.
It all started six months before. After staring in “The Wizard” and “The Wonder Years,” Fred had not made the transition to more mature films very well and had been relegated to bit parts on Seinfeld and in an Austin Powers movie. He spent his time perusing local garage sales and narrating “Lumber Sports: Behind the Sawdust” on tape.
Ben was worse off. After “Boy Meets World” was cancelled and his career as a professional cyclist failed to develop, he was left sleeping in his car and eating discarded tins of holiday popcorn. His last project was playing “AJ” in the Backstreet Boys off-Broadway musical.
So, when their communal agent was contacted about them doing a reality show to fill the hole in VH1’s 1:35 a.m. spot left by the cancelled “Tucson Grammar Rodeo,” they jumped at the chance. The show was called “Savage Island” and the premise was simple: Fred and Ben were to survive as long as possible on a deserted tropical island resort without any food or water. It was being dubbed “The real Lost,” from the creators of “Alf.”
Despite the constantly erupting volcano and Fred speaking in the third person for hours on end, it really wasn’t so bad, although neither Savage had noticed a camera yet during their four months on the island.
Fred and Ben Savage never thought they’d be here. Child stars fading into obscurity are common, but being spit out the bottom of reality television is fairly rare. Unless you count VH1.
It all started six months before. After staring in “The Wizard” and “The Wonder Years,” Fred had not made the transition to more mature films very well and had been relegated to bit parts on Seinfeld and in an Austin Powers movie. He spent his time perusing local garage sales and narrating “Lumber Sports: Behind the Sawdust” on tape.
Ben was worse off. After “Boy Meets World” was cancelled and his career as a professional cyclist failed to develop, he was left sleeping in his car and eating discarded tins of holiday popcorn. His last project was playing “AJ” in the Backstreet Boys off-Broadway musical.
So, when their communal agent was contacted about them doing a reality show to fill the hole in VH1’s 1:35 a.m. spot left by the cancelled “Tucson Grammar Rodeo,” they jumped at the chance. The show was called “Savage Island” and the premise was simple: Fred and Ben were to survive as long as possible on a deserted tropical island resort without any food or water. It was being dubbed “The real Lost,” from the creators of “Alf.”
Despite the constantly erupting volcano and Fred speaking in the third person for hours on end, it really wasn’t so bad, although neither Savage had noticed a camera yet during their four months on the island.
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