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The nominees for the 2nd annual A-List Awards have been announced. The awards air on Bravo and are hosted by self-proclaimed “D-List” celebrity Kathy Griffin. Last year, because the awards were so new, there were not nearly as many categories as this year. But now they seem to really be embracing the fun of the awards. (You know with Kathy as the host, they can’t be totally serious, right?)

Anyway, the wonderful news is that a number of VH1 stars and music stars have been nominated for this year’s A-List Awards. Here are the descriptions of the categories and the nominees:

A-LIST ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Awarded to the artist that kept us coming back for more.

• Beyonce
• No Doubt
• Katy Perry
• Britney Spears
• Kanye West

A-LIST ALBUM – Presented to the album that rocked our year.

• Beyonce – I Am…Sasha Fierce
• Coldplay – Viva La Vida
• MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
• Britney Spears – Circus
• Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

A-LIST DOWNLOAD – Given to the song that kept you dancing.

• Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
• Britney Spears – Circus
• Coldplay – Viva La Vida
• Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake – 4 Minutes
• Katy Perry – I Kissed a Girl

A-LIST CELEBRITY DESIGNER – Presented to the celebrity whose designs we can’t get enough of.

• Victoria Beckham – dVb Denim
• Sean Combs – Sean John
• Gwen Stefani – L.A.M.B.
• Justin Timberlake – William Rast
• Kanye West – Kanye Louis Vuitton Shoes

A-LIST CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – Presented to the celebrity that most would like to read about.

• Eminem - The Way I Am
• Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
• Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
• Maureen McCormack - Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady
• Tori Spelling - sToriTelling

REALITY’S GUILTIEST PLEASURE – Presented to the most popular and entertaining individual in a reality TV series.

• The Girls Next Door –”The Girls Next Door”
• Kim Kardashian – “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”
• NeNe Leakes –”The Real Housewives Of Atlanta”
• Bret Michaels – “Rock of Love”
• Gretchen Rossi - “The Real Housewives Of Orange County”

Bily Garcia, best known from his time on Survivor: Cook Islands, is a friend of mine and sent me this exclusive account of his time filming the reality horror film, Reality Horror Night. He’s a terrific guy and his article is a fun read. You can find out more about Billy on his MySpace site & about Reality Horror Night on the official site. [Photo: Reality Exploits, DO NOT re-use without permission]

I just had the pleasure of acting in the movie Reality Horror Night. By the middle of the shoot I also had the pleasure of becoming the fight choreographer/stunt coordinator. By end of the shoot, the movie had been slated to become a trilogy and I had been commissioned to cast parts 2 and 3. Wow! I am going places! Where do I begin?

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On the first day of shooting, the whole cast got together for the first time, much like a real reality show. Jason Prager from Beauty and the Geek is a friend of mine from the New York Reality TV School where we are both mentors. So we met up at New York’s Penn Station to grab a train ride to the shoot location at Glen Cove Mansion in Long Island.

We just happened to run into Robert Smith from I Wanna Work For Diddy while we waited for our train. So during the long train ride into Long Island, the three of us got to break the ice before meeting the others.
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Destiney Moore [Photo: © 2008 VH1]

And it’s not just any new movie, it’s a movie based on a Reality Show. Survivor’s Billy Garcia told me a bit about it at the Survivor Dodgeball Charity event we were both at a couple of weeks ago and he just sent me the press release so I could share the news with you.

The premise seems to be that there’s a reality show being filmed and when each reality star is eliminated, they are REALLY eliminated…they are snuffed out, so to speak. It’s a reality horror flick. What fun!!

Angelique, aka Frenchy [Photo: © 2008 VH1]

The movie, entitled Reality Horror Night, began shooting yesterday and is being created by Fame Demands Fortune President and C.E.O. Sean Pomper, the Executive Producer of the film.

America’s favorite Reality Stars from such hit shows as Survivor, The Biggest Loser, The Mole, I Love Money, Rock of Love, Celebrity Fit Club, Momma’s Boy, MTV True-Life, I Wanna Work for Diddy, and The Amazing Race are invited to participate in a new TV Show where the prize is $1,000,000. Before the first contestant is voted off, a “freakish accident” happens, and they meet their demise. When the second and third guest “bite the dust” our contestants discover that they are not only playing for $1,000,000 but playing for their lives.

Here are the cast members for Reality Horror Night:

Billy Garcia from CBS’s Survivor: Cook Islands
Destiney Moore from VH1’s Rock of Love
Erik Chopin Winner of NBC’s The Biggest Loser
Frenchy from VH1’s Rock of Love
Gina Lynn from Howard TV On Demand’s Wack Pack At The Christy’s Farm
Robert Smith from VH1’s I Want to Work for Diddy
Elizabeth Gasinski from NBC’s Momma’s Boy
Gary Garver as featured on the Howard Stern Show
The “Drama King” Kayslay from Sirius/XM radio
Danielle Dipietro from MTV’s True-Life
Joseph Gannascoli from The Sopranos / VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club
Paul Grassi from ABC’s The Mole
Ty White from CBS’s The Amazing Race
Matthew Underwood from Zoey 101

Please visit realityhorrornight.com for more information. And keep checking back here, because I’ll be covering the movie and its production.

This afternoon at 4:00 EST, Celebrity Fit Club alum, Maureen McCormick will be live on-air on BlogTalkRadio discussing her autobiography, Here’s the Story.

She’ll take questions from her fans and tell about her substance abuse issues and other problems she had during the time she was America’s sweetheart on the show Brady Bunch.

Be sure to tune in to see what Maureen has to say at 4:00 pm EST today.

Harvey is definitely a character, all right. He brings the tough, hard authority to the show, but he also has a soft side…and some predictable things he says and does. The Fit Clubbers call them his “Harveyisms.” Here, they tell about some of their favorite Harveyisms this season:

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I gathered some video clips of things we didn’t see in this week’s episode of Celebrity Fit Club Boot Camp. First, AJ gives us his list of things he likes about this season and things he thinks are “HARRIBLE.”

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This week’s Celebrity Fit Club shows us how things are getting crazy for the dieters. This clip shows how Toccara and Simone are ready for any attack. Hear how they feel about self-defense of all kinds!

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Here are some great extras that you didn’t see on the second episode of Celebrity Fit Club. First, you get to hear the strategy behind the Pugil Stick challenge and why Toccara has no regrets.

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This week, the new season of Celebrity Fit Club premieres and here’s an introduction to the new cast of weight loss candidates. (OMG!!! Dustin Diamond is back!!)

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My favorite celebrity from last season’s Celebrity Fit Club is still Ross “The Intern” Mathews. Here he is covering the Oscar night festivities for The Tonight Show:

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