Kristi Leskinen on national TV tonight which is a big deal
June 23, 2009, 7:42 PM
By: John Symms
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Kristi Leskinen Superstar
Kristi Leskinen makes her primetime television debut—her national television debut, to the best of my knowledge, being a commershLOL for General LOLspital—tonight on at 8:00 p.m. on ABC's franchise, The Superstars. In this physical challenge reality television spectacular, Kristi and her teammate Maksim Chmerkovskiy will compete against other superstars like Jennifer Capriati, and well, seeing that Jennifer Capriati is on the show kind of diffused my focus. I always thought that Jennifer Capriati was hot back in the 90s. That's how I chose my favorite athletes when I was a youth.
As I was saying, The Superstars pits celebrities and professional athletes whose careers have slowed down enough to allow them to participate in a reality television show against each other in physical challenges like those you might remember from the summer church camp days of your youth. No, not running stealthily through the woods to secretly make out with chicks and try alcohol and cigarettes (Mom, Dad, it made me very uncomfortable to see other kids, not me, doing things like that, and for that reason, it is memorable to me). The sanctioned activities, like dodgeball, canoeing, basketball, that type of stuff.
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Bode Miller. Five more of these and we can change the name to ESPN Skiing.
Speaking of being the type of bad-ass that might have done something as cool and edgy as smoking cigarettes when you're supposed to be memorizing the Beatitudes, Bode Miller is also on the show on a team with Paige Hemmis, whoever that is. In Paige Hemmis's defense, this is probably the point in the blog post at which regular people are wondering, "Bode Miller? Who's that?"
The Superstars premieres tonight at 8:00. That time is probably Eastern, which means that the show is already airing. Let me know how Kristi and Bode do, if you watch it. Oh, and Jennifer, too.
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