You have to wonder what’s going on in Hollywood when gorgeous women like Sandy “Pepa” Denton and “Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas can’t find a man. But apparently, as long as female celebrities are willing to go on TV to find one, VH-1 will keep giving them reality shows.
The latest edition of “Celebrity Love Match” comes via Chilli’s new reality series, “What Chilli Wants,” where she enlists the aid of Brooklyn “relationship expert” Tionna Smalls, whose claim to fame is as a blogger who once wrote a book for young women. (Evidently, since the busty Smalls is in a successful relationship herself, that’s enough criteria for her to help Chilli.)
What appears to be stopping Chilli – as we get a look at her struggle to find a man at age 39, though she barely looks 29 – is her inability to deal with anyone who isn’t religious, attentive, good-looking, funny, fit and ready to head down the nearest aisle. Evidently her 13-year-old son’s father, producer Dallas Austin, was lacking in one of those areas and has long since been out of her life as a romantic partner, and well, although Usher certainly seemed to fit a few, he decided to marry – and divorce – someone else. However, boxer Floyd Mayweather appears on “What Chilli Wants,” and he’s definitely fit, funny, rich, and has the requisite six-pack abs that were one of Chilli’s requirements.
Is it a real love match or one made for TV? Guess you’ll have to watch and see.
Chilli’s stringent checklist seems to be the main obstacle to her search for love, and its rigidity has even famous friends like Missy Elliot shaking their heads. Yet it does seem that she is sincerely yearning for a man to call her own.
The eight-week series begins on VH-1 on Sunday, April 11 at 10:30 p.m.
