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HGTV »     by Andy Dehnart / July 12, 2012, 7:13 AM Overexposed Big Brother and Amazing Race cast members Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas are back on a reality show tonight at 9 p.m. ET, but is not, thankfully, the CBS show that unleashed them upon the world. Instead, a new HGTV show will use them to draw viewers—except inexplicable programming strategy has led HGTV to schedule the episode at the exact same time Big Brother 14 debuts. Natural Born Sellers is another HGTV real estate show that follows, according the network, “a successful California family of real estate agents in their quest to remain in the elite top one percent of agents in the country.” In tonight’s premiere episode , here’s what we’ll see: “Real Estate Agents Marissa and Julianna help television stars and engaged couple Rachel and Brendon find their first home. Brendon insists on staying close to UCLA but Rachel wants to get the most bang for her buck, even if that means going to the Valley.” Rachel and Bre...

Big Brother winner Rachel Reilly and her fiancee Brendon Villegas are among the cast members on The Amazing Race 20, which started taping this weekend. This will be the third season of a CBS reality show the couple has been on in less than 18 months. The source of this distressing news are a few photos taken at LAX Saturday night that were posted to Twitter. The people who are apparently Brendon and Rachel were photographed from behind on the concourse and from the side whole waiting at a gate (they’re on the right, both wearing black baseball caps; Brendon has a teal shirt and black track pants, and Rachel is wearing all black). That sighting is confirmed by both fans at LAX and by the moderator of the reliable TAR-stalking site Reality Fan Forum, which is working to identify teams and tracking the race in real time. (The site’s moderator had a cameo this season because of a contestant’s lost passport.) This follows the casting of Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd on season 16 ...

Rachel Reilly and Brendon Villegas didn’t celebrate Rachel’s Big Brother win by getting married in Las Vegas this past weekend, despite Rachel insisting they would get married . TMZ reports that Rachel said that because she was drunk (“that was just the alcohol talking”) and now cites ambiguous “sources close to Rachel” who say Rachel and Brendon “have no plans on a quickie wedding, but they do want to settle down in Los Angeles.” More significantly, Rachel plans on “pitching it as a reality show to various production companies and networks in hopes of having it all paid for.” I have no doubt Rachel would love to have her wedding telecast, but I’m pretty confident she’ll have to settle for being the Pandora’s Box punishment next summer. View the original article here

« Real Housewives of Atlanta: Is Kim Zolciak Getting Her Own Show? | Home | Dirty Soap: KTLA Morning’s Video Interview With Kelly Monaco » September 19, 2011 06:31 PM by Kristin Watson Rachel Reilly just snagged $500,000 for winning CBS’ Big Brother 13 , but is she looking for more. Word has it she and Brendon Villegas are shopping their own show. Read on for the details… Big Brother couple, Rachel and Brendon, got engaged on Valentines Day and it looks like they want to make their upcoming wedding a reality show — this should tell you they did not get married in Vegas as previously reported . According to TMZ, Rachel is looking to move to Los Angeles, where Brendon is located, in order to pitch the show to potential networks. Why would she do this? For a free wedding, of course. The show would follow the couple as they prepare for the big day. Not much else is know at this time, except for that she’s looking to make it happen. Rachel Reilly, 27, won  CBS’  Big Brother 13 , and t...

The nauseating couple known as Brenchel was split up on Big Brother last night, though there is hope their dysfunctional love can continue on television. Settling into the idea that they were going to be split up, Brendon told Rachel, “I’m gonna invent something that’s going to help cure cancer, I’m gonna patent it, then we’ll make money for the rest of our lives.” That is stunning and horrifying and perfectly illustrative of their delusion; it was also hilarious when Rachel followed up by saying she just wanted the half million dollars. Screw cancer! Most of Wednesday’s episode was spent on Brendon’s complex plan to fake out Daniele and act like he would save himself, but secretly save Rachel, thereby forcing HOH Daniele to, I don’t know, do nothing differently. It was amazing how amazing he thought that plan was. Between Rachel’s many visits to the psychologist in the Diary Room, there was the potential for something dramatic to happen, like her leaving with Brendon during the live ...

The last time we checked in with Brendon Villegas and Rachel Reilly, he was apologizing for showing his penis via webcam to someone who may have been a male college student pretending to be a groupie . But the Big Brother 12 couple got engaged to be married on Valentine’s Day (gag) and the ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 3, and they are currently applying to win Crate & Barrel’s “ultimate wedding” contest. On their contest entry page , they call themselves “a contemporary traditional couple,” and Rachel describe their relationship “as a fate fostered by TV & our love for science. We fought together against all odds, my knight saved me, &we continued our new public image, through trials we triumphed.” Currently, they have 288 votes, and they have a long way to catch up with the leaders , who have thousands of votes each. Rachel is soliciting votes via Twitter , where she announced their engagement on Feb. 14. If you’d like to congratulate the happy couple, you can buy the...

Brendon Villegas admitted to cheating on Rachel Reilly , who he met on Big Brother this summer, and later posted an eight-minute apology video to YouTube. He then deleted it, and deleted or cleared his Twitter account and all of its confessional tweets. But the video has, of course, survived. Brendon says in the video, below, that he made it “to explain what happened” and says “I was stupid,” and explains how the affair begin after an online conversation “went way further than it ever should have gone.” Brendon suggests Molly, the woman he cheated with, tried to “blackmail me and threaten me,” but admits that “three times that I’ve been emotionally unfaithful,” so he cries and pleads with Rachel to “find it in your heart to forgive me” and insists “you’ll always have my heart.” Get some cookies and milk before you settle in to watch this awesomeness: Because this is ripe for parody, someone imagined Brendon’s confession to Rachel , and someone else rewrote Brendon’s confession to be...