The Surreal Life: Fame Games is a reality television

Reality television

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 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

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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

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.

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

External links

• Surreal Life Fame Games on AOL -- Weekly Coverage with Exclusive Robin Leach Interviews