MTV Reality World

In the Words of Ashley Angel

by Shea on January 7th, 2006

The Boston Herald ran a piece on the new MTV reality show, There and Back, featuring Ashley Parker Angel and his attempt at a comeback.

Here’s an excerpt:

In 2000 Parker Angel was one of five young men chosen to be groomed by boy-band guru Svengali Lou Perlman on the reality show “Making the Band,” which spawned O-Town. Perlman created fellow teen acts the Backstreet Boys and N’SYNC.

“It was definitely crazy,” Parker Angel said. “We were all riding this wave. We were traveling all over the world. We had a No. 1 song. It all went away as quickly as it came.”

After the group broke up in 2003, the money Parker Angel made from O-Town only covered a year-and-a-half stay Los Angeles.

During that time he struggled to secure a record deal while crashing on his girlfriend’s mother’s couch.

Unlike “Newlyweds,” “There & Back” isn’t in fairy-tale mode. Parker Angel confronts skeptical producers and learns his girlfriend, model Tiffany Lynn, is pregnant.

“I think it’s a real popular misconception that if you have success or sold a couple million records you are wealthy,” Parker Angel said. “I think most Americans are living on borrowed credit like I am. I’m not a retired rock star with three Escalades in the yard. Sometimes it’s fun to watch celebrities with money, but I feel my story is really real.”

You can read the complete article here.

The show airs Tuesday night at 10:30 EST. You can bet that I will be tuning in.

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