Shaq Gets His Own Show
Posted by Media Outrage on July 21, 2009
Shaq is coming to a TV near you. Yes, the big krispee kreme killer has landed his own reality tv show.
Via USA Today:
NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is getting ready to multitask.The four-time hoops champion, who joins the Cleveland Cavaliers next season, will star in Shaq Vs., an ABC reality series that pits him against top athletes in their own sports.
Filming begins Wednesday in Pittsburgh, where Shaq takes on Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football. Future hour-long episodes will pit him against Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols, tennis pro Serena Williams and beach volleyball Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.
O’Neal, 37, says he also hopes to book pal Lance Armstrong for a cycling competition once the Tour de France ends.
The series is set to premiere Aug. 18 and will air Tuesdays at 9 ET/PT.
O’Neal says he came up with the idea as a fun way to help train for the NBA season and figured sports fans “would really want to see an athlete play another sport.” He knew most of the athletes and recruited some of them on Twitter.
ABC was immediately interested. “He’s very playful, almost everyone can relate to him. He has a fun sort of childish persona, and at the same time he’s a superstar,” says John Saade, co-chief of ABC’s reality programming, says of the 7-foot-1 O’Neal. “Our real hope is you come for the absurdity but you stay for the sport.”
Each episode is to include preliminary challenges, banter from news conferences, interaction with needy kids, and O’Neal and his rival negotiating a handicap. The laughs come from “trash talking,” but “when it comes to competing, there is no joking,” O’Neal says.
At the finish is the marquee event, usually on the athlete’s home turf, but there’s no cash prize: “Bragging rights are always better than any monetary prize,” O’Neal says.
He says he’s “not that skilled at tennis” or in a baseball home-run derby, though he expects to excel at football and swimming. But how would his rivals do in a basketball contest if the tables were turned? “They’d be good, but not good enough,” he says.
MissTX85 said
Another one I’ll never watch!
Atlanta said
No one wants to see this big goofy nigga’s bottom lip hanging and slobbing all over the television screen.
Atlanta said
OMG! Why is his face looking so ashy???
lowridaz said
for real, damn look at his long ass fingers, he can pick me up with that finger, walk around licking me like a lollipop, LOL
Dickwell Thrust said
Just imagine If he finer fucked a woman with those hands!!!……
He’d make you cum and give you a hysterectomy at the same time!
Ms.Behave said
@ lowridaz — u say that like it’s a bad thing lol, i was passing on this post, but those remarks got me to rethink,mmm, maybe he can toss me around with those fingers and then lick me like a lollipop. AHH!! getting hot, must leave post now. *LEAVE IN RUSH* :KISS:
ucanb2 said
OMG!!! Smh
BadBadKitty said
LOL @ Atlanta! You ain’t lyin’ on both posts!
That mug look like some breed of dog they ain’t identified yet – probably in the St. Bernard family.
Marathon_Man said
damn shaq could win the high jump using his fingers.