This story contains Hell’s Kitchen spoilers.
It’s so strange who I find myself drawn to on reality television shows. In my regular life I’m a ‘good guy’ – a non-judging Christian who likes to spend time volunteering in his community and attempts to treat everyone how he wishes he could be treated. Which makes my love of the reality villain that much stranger.
It all started with ‘Survivor‘ when I latched on to Richard Hatch and cheered like a horror-movie vixen when he won. Will from ‘Big Brother 2‘ was my next, and that’s continued to this season when it seems the world has inexplicably caught up with me. Brian Heidik from ‘Survivor: Thailand‘ was another, and now last night I somehow found myself secretly cheering on Virginia on ‘Hell’s Kitchen 2‘. I had a few people over to watch it, all of whom were quite noticeably cheering on Heather, yet there I sat in my little corner cracking a covert smile when she won the reward and anytime Heather had some food sent back at the end. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with Heather winning, but it just seemed I wanted Virginia under the pomp and circumstance of the finale.
Worse yet, should anyone ever take a chance and throw me on a reality show, I know I’m going to be the villain. I justify it by saying that as long as I play within the rules all behavior is acceptable. Those who’ve had the misfortune of playing any game with me know I never let someone win. I’m ferociously competitive, and would thus logically do whatever it took to win if I were in the ‘Big Brother’ house too. Who knows, perhaps one day it’ll happen.