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Chas comes clean: Chastity Bono shares the story of her 10-year battle with drugs, her trip through rehab, her happy new life and love, and her shape-shifting TV turn on Celebrity Fit Club
Advocate, The, Jan 31, 2006 by Michele Kort
Of course, being on the show will elevate her public profile again, and she's expecting that it might help get other projects in gear. It was announced in July 2004 that the Logo TV network was going to produce a coming-out show headlined by Chastity and Cher, but when the exec championing the series left the gay channel, the show died. Meanwhile, she developed a relationship with the Here gay TV network and hopes to see a film script she wrote get produced there: "It's about two old friends, a gay woman and a straight woman, both very high-profile in their own fields, and the gay one ends up in a heterosexual relationship and the straight one ends up in a lesbian relationship."
Bono says it's strange to find herself a reality TV participant, since she hates most of what she's seen on such shows. But she's media-savvy enough to know how to convey the impression of "realness" without being entirely real. "There are certainly things that are, if not scripted, at least set up," she divulges. "And there are often times when they have to do a take 2 of something." Like maybe they didn't catch her initial reaction to being told she'd have to run a race inside a giant inflatable hamster wheel. "So," she says, "you have to repeat the shot of 'Oh-my-gosh-it's-a-giant-inflatable-hamster-wheel!'"
There's that big smile. Even among moments of TV pretense, real life is good again.
Kort is author of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.
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