These reality TV shows are a bit of an incestuous hotbed, aren't they? Especially the dancing ones, although we'll be forever grateful that we were spared the sight of Bonnie Langford hooking up with Andi Peters on Dancing On Ice.
It's no different in America either – Kristy Swanson, who was a moderately famous actress before she turned into a moderately famous reality TV star, last year won the TV show Skating With Celebrities with Olympic skater Lloyd Eisler. And Lloyd Eisler celebrated the only way he knew how; by leaving his pregnant wife and running off with Kristy Swanson. And now Kristy Swanson is pregnant, which is big news and would only be bigger if we could actually remember seeing Kristy Swanson in any films.
Of all the people with reason to dislike Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kristy Swanson is up there at the top of the list. Kristy Swanson was the original Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you see, and played her in a 1992 movie that nobody went to see. Then, after the show moved to TV it made a superstar out of Gellar, and left Kristy Swanson in a downward spiral of appearances in bad sitcoms, films nobody wants to watch and reality TV shows like Skating With Celebrities. What we're getting at is that it's probably Sarah Michelle Gellar's fault that Kristy Swanson is pregnant.
Because if Kristy Swanson was still Buffy, she'd have Gellar's life now, and would be making rubbish Scooby Doo films instead of going on Skating With Celebrities, meeting Lloyd Eisler, falling in love with him and letting him get her up the duff. Not that Kristy Swanson is unhappy at falling pregnant to a man who makes a living from twirling round in some Spandex – quite the opposite if this statement is anything to go by:
"We wanted to wait until I completed the first trimester to officially announce our pregnancy. Lloyd and I are thrilled and wanted to share the wonderful news."
Someone who probably isn't so thrilled is Marcia O'Brien, Lloyd Eisler's wife who he left on November 30, two weeks before she gave birth to his child and shortly before he and Kristy Swanson announced that they were an item. Still, at least Kristy Swanson and Lloyd Eisler's baby – due on Valentine's Day – will be born with all the genetic traits of a first-class ice skater. Well, a first-class reality TV ice skater anyway, and a third-class professional one.
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Skating's Kristy Swanson, Lloyd Eisler Expecting – People
[story by Stuart Heritage]