Entertainment Weekly Unscripted Issue: Lauren Conrad is Not Entertaining, Former Joe Schmo Shouldn't Feel Stupid
So why is it that she's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly? It's called, Entertainment Weekly and Lauren Conrad does not provide me with entertainment weekly, or monthly or daily or even annually.
Less entertaining? The rest of those people she talks to on camera.
There was one thing in the issue that kinda bothered me, though. It was the short mention of Spike's Joe Schmo contestant Matt Kennedy Gould.
If I had to do it over again, I wouldn't do the show at all. Honestly, the show really made me feel dumb. And I never felt like that before. I did it because I needed the money. I lived with my parents. I had just dropped out of law school. I was a regular pot smoker. I didn't want to work. And after the show I got $100,000 and signed a development deal with Spike. I went to California, and I was supposed to do all this stuff, and I just didn't do it. I was so embarrassed about the whole premise of the show that I never wanted people to think, ''Oh, here's this guy who didn't even know the show was about him. It's a big joke, and now he's some reality star trying to be a TV host.'' So I holed up in an apartment in Santa Monica, and spent a lot of the money on marijuana and alcohol. I lived there with a girl who broke up with me. The next day I flushed a half ounce of pot down the toilet, packed my car, came home to Pittsburgh, and I got help. I haven't done drugs or alcohol for four years. Now I'm married with a new baby and a stepson. I work at a logistics company. Were things different, I would much rather be working in the entertainment business. I just went about it the wrong way.
Matt, I watched the show and I never thought you were stupid. You're actually one of the only unscripted show contestants I have ever had any kind of affinity for. You're a good guy who was the center of a very well planned effort to create some compelling television. They worked damn hard to make you believe that you were just on the usual garden variety reality show. You have nothing to be ashamed of, and never did.
Having said that, I'm glad you're happy.
