Joost Blog

Ah, a classic chicken-and-the-egg dilemma: are the women who go on reality TV programs, where they live under the cameras for 24 hours a day, crazy, or does being on camera 24 hours a day make them crazy?

At the very least, there's a certain amount of self-indulgence that propels someone, anyone, to be on a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show - and/or a certain desire to cash in on something. Just look at Jon & Kate Plus 8 or any of the Real Housewives. But is that crazy or opportunistic?

Regardless, we love these shows...and there's a special breed of character that we love the most: The Outrageous Woman. Presenting, in no particular order, our four favorites:

1. Tiffany Pollard, a.k.a. New York: A reality-TV show veteran, at this point, this year New York is going to work at various jobs, chosen by her adoring public. Or maybe they're not-so-adoring, since they send her to work at a nudist colony, a pig farm and as an exterminator.

2. Daisy De La Hoya: Like other bachelorettes before her, Daisy has parlayed "not getting the guy" - in this case, Rock of Love's Bret Michaels - into a televised search for her own beau.

3. Stephanie Pratt: Oh, Stephanie, where to begin...but with a brother like Spencer, a sister-in-law like Heidi, and a supporting cast that also loves the spotlight, can we really blame her?

4. The Girls of Charm School: If it's possible, each woman on this show is more outrageous than the next, with the singular exception of Ricki Lake - she is "all that."