Okay, I realize I risk losing whatever respect you may have for me, but I love the show True Beauty on ABC.  While recognizing how terrible the show is, I can’t help but watch it.  It is my guilty pleasure.

With blushing cheeks, I will admit that I was first drawn to the show for the beautiful people.  I mean, an hour of eye candy isn’t all that bad, is it?  With the first episode, however, I was hooked.  These beauties are arrogant, delusional and not the most beautiful people in the world.  It’s so much fun!

But, it’s also bad.  The challenges to test the contestants’ inner beauty are not solid challenges.  Last night, the inner beauty challenge was to see if each contestant would help their partner make a video.  Really?  It could be a test of the inner beauty of teamwork, but that’s not how it played out.  Chelsea, my favorite, failed the challenge simply because she couldn’t figure out how to work the camera.  It wasn’t lack of motivation nor lack of desire to help her teammate.  It was a legitimate lack of understanding of how to work the camera.  And this led her to the hall of beauty where she was sent home.  Not really all that fair.

As I said, Chelsea is/was my favorite contestant.  She may come across as arrogant, but I think it’s a front.  I think she’s trying so hard to fit in with this group of people, who she thinks are more beautiful than she, that she’s not showing her true self.  I detect a good heart, a bit of a lack of confidence and some uncertainty in her.  She does have an inner beauty, but she masks it in order to fit in with the group and, as she’s said to a reporter in her home town, to try to win the game.  She didn’t, though, being sent home because she couldn’t figure out how to work a camera.  When they showed her the video that showed her inner ugliness, they even had to stretch to really put stuff together.  Her stuff wasn’t really that bad.  Joel, on the other hand, has plenty of footage to showcase his inner ugliness.