The Surreal Life: Fame Games
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The Surreal Life: Fame Games is a reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series that was originally broadcast on the VH1
VH1
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 cable network. A spin-off
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 of the VH1 show, The Surreal Life
The Surreal Life
The Surreal Life is a reality television series that sets a select group of past-their-prime celebrities and records them as they live together in Glen Campbell's former mansion in the Hollywood Hills for two weeks...

, the show assembles ten alumni of the show's 6 prior seasons to compete in a ten-week competition that takes place in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
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, with the winner of taking home a prize of $100,000 provided by the online gaming site Golden Palace.net. Robin Leach
Robin Leach
Robin Douglas Leach is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in the mid-1980s and into the mid-1990s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic endeavors...

 is the host. The contestants also compete in a game show
Game show
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 format elimination round in each episode called "Back to Reality" that sees the losers, in the first 3 weeks of the competition, sent to "the B-List" which consists of living in a less luxurious wing of the mansion than the rest of the housemates, who are designated as "the A-List". In the later weeks, when the teams are split evenly, they compete in team competitions where the losing team must send 3 members to play "Back to Reality" to eliminate one person from the competition entirely.

The show featured a theme song titled "I Wanna Be Famous" recorded by cast member C.C. Deville from his solo album Samantha 7
Samantha 7
Samantha 7 was a short-lived band founded in 1998 by C.C. DeVille, lead guitarist from the rock band Poison. They released the self titled album Samantha 7 in 2000. C.C. Deville performed lead vocals and guitar on the album...

.

Contestants and Placings

Host : Robin Leach
Robin Leach
Robin Douglas Leach is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in the mid-1980s and into the mid-1990s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic endeavors...

Fame Gamers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Andrea Rob Rob Rob Rob Traci Ron Rob Verne Ron Traci Traci Traci
Brigitte Ron Andrea Andrea Andrea Verne Andrea Andrea Traci Rob Ron Ron Ron
C.C. Traci C.C. C.C. C.C. Emmanuel Pepa Pepa Pepa Traci Pepa Pepa
Chyna Pepa Pepa Ron Ron Chyna Rob Ron Rob Pepa Rob
Emmanuel Brigitte Ron Pepa Pepa Rob Traci Traci Ron Verne
Pepa C.C. Emmanuel Emmanuel Emmanuel Andrea Chyna Verne Andrea
Rob Emmanuel Traci Traci Traci Pepa Verne Chyna
Ron Andrea Brigitte Brigitte Chyna Ron Emmanuel
Traci Verne Verne Verne Verne C.C.
Verne Chyna Chyna Chyna Brigitte
Winning Team N/A N/A N/A A-List B-List A-List N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A


Legend
The Fame Gamer who won the Competition
The Fame Gamer who is in the B-list
The Fame Gamer who is in the A-list
The Fame Gamer who was Eliminated
The Fame Gamer who won the Reward Challenge
The Fame Gamer who is Sent to "Back to Reality" (From Ep. 7-10 only)
The Fame Gamer who Quits


Notes
  • In Episode 1, Jordan Knight
    Jordan Knight
    Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer in the boy band, New Kids on the Block , and actor, who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for his distinctive falsetto style of singing, influenced by The Stylistics. After New Kids On...

     went home due to personal problems and he was replaced by Verne Troyer
    Verne Troyer
    Verne J. Troyer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, stuntman and performer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series...

    .
  • In Episode 6, the A-List and The B-list teams were no longer used and it became an individual competition.
  • In Episode 7, the Fame Gamers who were in the bottom 3 are not sent to "Back to Reality", but instead, the person with the least amount of points was instantly eliminated.


Fame Gamers
  • Traci Bingham
    Traci Bingham
    Traci Bingham is an American actress, model and television personality who is best known for playing Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.-Personal life:...

  • Ron Jeremy
    Ron Jeremy
    Ronald Jeremy Hyatt , usually called Ron Jeremy, is an American pornographic actor. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog", he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list...

  • Pepa
    Pepa
    Pepa may refer to:*Pepa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a village in northeastern Katanga province with a population around 4,000*Pepa Airport, an airstrip in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near Pepa village...

  • Vanilla Ice
    Vanilla Ice
    Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality...

  • Verne Troyer
    Verne Troyer
    Verne J. Troyer is an American stand-up comedian, actor, stuntman and performer, best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series...

  • Andrea Lowell
    Andrea Lowell
    Andrea Lowell is an American actress and model most recognizable from her Playboy magazine nude pictorials and on air work for a variety of Playboy TV programs....

  • Chyna (A.K.A. Chyna Doll)
  • Emmanuel Lewis
    Emmanuel Lewis
    Emmanuel Lewis is an American actor, best known for playing the title character in the 1980s television sitcom Webster. He is tall. Lewis graduated from Midwood High School in 1989 and then Clark Atlanta University in 1997...

  • C. C. DeVille
    C. C. DeVille
    C.C. DeVille is the lead guitarist of the American glam metal band Poison. He has also acted in both reality television and television drama shows. He starred in The Surreal Life season 6 and the The Surreal Life: Fame Games...

  • Brigitte Nielsen
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Brigitte Nielsen is a Danish model, actress, musician and reality television personality who began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and several years later made appearances in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV and is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone...



Episodes


No. Title
Challenge
Challenge Winner Back to Reality Contestants (Loser in bold) Original air date


Place Name Photos
1 Vanilla Ice 6
2 Traci Bingham
Ron Jeremy
4
3 Brigitte Nielsen
Pepa
C. C. DeVille
Emmanuel Lewis
3
4 Andrea Lowell
Verne Troyer
2
5 Chyna 1


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