With The Surreal Life 3 nearing the end of its successful jump to VH1, the network has announced that a fourth edition of the series began taping earlier this week and will premiere on Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 9PM ET/PT.
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While the third edition of the former The WB reality series has proven to be a ratings boom for the music and pop culture network, The Surreal Life 4 will differ from the inaugural VH1 edition in one respect -- unlike Surreal Life 3, the fourth edition will not feature a "music centric" cast and will instead return to the more varied casting approach of the show's first two seasons.
The seven D-list celebrities appearing in The Surreal Life 4 will be former wrestler Chyna Doll, former The Go-Gos member Jane Wiedlin, Christopher Knight (the actor who played Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch), Verne Troyer (the actor who played Mini-Me in Austin Powers), male model Marcus Schenkenberg; rapper Da Brat, and Adrianne Curry (the winner of the inaugural season of UPN's America's Next Top Model -- apparently that modelling career isn't going very well).
Also premiering in January will be Strange Love, a new ten episode reality series starring current Surreal Life 3 odd couple Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav. Looking to determine whether the two made a lasting love connection during their time on the show, Strange Love will follow Flavor and Brigitte as they travel to each other's hometowns and meet each other's families -- before travelling to Las Vegas to determine whether they will "get hitched or ditched."
Besides Flavor and Brigitte, other Surreal Life 3 castmembers included Dave Coulier, Jordan Knight, Ryan Starr and Charo.
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The first season of The Surreal Life featured housemates Gabrielle Carteris, M.C. Hammer, Vince Neil, Corey Feldman, Emmanuel Lewis, Jeri Manthey and Brande Roderick; while the second season featured Traci Bingham, Ron Jeremy, Tammy Faye Baker, Trishelle Cannatella, Erik Estrada and Vanilla Ice.