ND in Reality TV

Being from North Dakota, I thought it would be interesting to dig into the lives of three infamous winners of reality TV. I researched three winning contestants of reality TV, Noah(aka) Corn fed, Caridee English, and Nicole Linkletter.
Our most recent reality TV winner came from Fargo, ND. Noah was competing on a new dating show on VH1, “Real Chance of Love.” I personally found and interest in the show and kept up with it week by week. (Perhaps only because she was a hometown contestant!) When the show began, she was given the nickname Cornfed, do to her North Dakota roots. In the first few eliminations we sort of saw her as an underdog, being one of the last to be chosen each time. However, as the episodes progressed we began to see her real ND characteristics come out, and they definitely caught “Real’s” attention! By the fact that she was able to stay out of the cattiness of the other girls and not cause problems for him, Real started to become much more interested in this North Dakota girl. By the Final two, it was just Cornfed and Bay Bay Bay left for Real to make his decision from. In the end he revealed that he had actually fallen for this small town North Dakota girl!
The next well known North Dakota winner that I researched was, America’s Next Top Model winner Caridee English. She was also a Fargo, ND native who was chosen as the cycle 7 winner in December of 2006. Her grand prize for winning the show was a $100,000 contract with Cover Girl Cosmetics, a modeling contract with Elite Models, and a 6-page fashion editorial and cover of seventeen magazine. Throughout the season she struggled with many issues, one being psoriasis which she had struggled with for 15 years. And another happened during one of the photo shoots; she caught hypothermia from the cold water they were shooting in. However, Caridee’s personality was considered fun and outgoing and it seems that that was what caught the judges’ attention.
The final winning North Dakota contestant is perhaps one of the first ever. Nicole Linkletter, who was also a contestant of America’s Next Top Model, is a Grand Forks, ND native who competed in cycle 5 of ANTM. Many of us can remember the episode in which fellow contestant, Bre, dumped Nicole’s energy drinking down the sink and lied about it. However, Nicole was able to make it to the top two with model Nik Pace, in which her runway performance earned her the title of America’s Next Top Model winner.
Overall, I would have to say that North Dakota has done pretty well with its contestants. Maybe it’s just the rooting for the Hometown girls that gets us interested in some of this Reality TV.