Daisy Picks Her Dude. And, Of Course, It’s London.
Posted by: Kate Torgovnick
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5:40PM, Monday July 27th 2009
While most of you were drooling over “True Blood” last night, I had much more important things to attend to. Namely, the season finale of “Daisy Of Love.” What went down wasn’t a shocker to anyone who’d been watching the season, which took trashy reality dating shows to a whole new glorious low. In the end, even when given the choice of the mega-hot, super-sweet, and totally amusing Flex, Daisy chose London, the homeless 30-year-old rocker from Brooklyn with perma-eyeliner and maybe a girlfriend. Yep, she chose the guy who passed out drunk in a hallway the first night of the series and left midway through because he couldn’t take it, only to eventually come back, with his mohawk between his legs. These two had a gravitational pull towards each other, even though they’re obviously a trainwreck-about-to-happen. The show’s host Ricky Rachtman seemed totally surprised by Daisy’s choice. But I, on the other hand, was not.
See, last week I had the pleasure of seeing London face-to-face. I went to see a friend’s band play at a small punk-rock club in Brooklyn. When I arrived, my friend asked, “Do you watch ‘Daisy of Love?’” To which I responded, “Are frogs green?” After discussing what happened to Daisy’s face for a few minutes, my friend let a bomb drop: the band playing after his was none other than London’s.
I watched his band’s van pull up to the club and start to unload, and beheld him in all his reality TV glory. Only, he wasn’t actually that glorious. Is he cute? Sure. But there were way more smokin’ guys in the club that night. Was his band good? They were alright, though frankly a little emo and whiny. But what was so fascinating was watching women’s reaction to him. As soon as his band took the stage, the gender composition of the club shifted from 80 percent male to 70 percent female. Women flooded in to see him, most of them wearing outfits I didn’t know could get that skintight. When they finished playing and retired to the pool table area, I couldn’t stop staring as woman after hot woman walked back to essentially throw herself at London. A large number of them had on tight, pink jeans with hair teased to the sky. I felt like I was witnessing a moment out of 1984. And I’ll totally fess up—I considered for a split second going to talk to him too. But I decided this was a moment to observe rather than participate.
So my big question to you is: Why are guys like this so, so attractive, even when all logic tells you they shouldn’t be?
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Ami Angelowicz
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 04:51 pm: [report]
London is such a loser! But then again…so is Daisy. Even though Daisy is about as smart as a parakeet, I was hoping she was over the bad boy crap. BORING!
Anniekins
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 05:06 pm: [report]
I can’t like a guy who wears eyeliner.
Smartinez1990
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 05:42 pm: [report]
I felt really bad for Flex, he seemed like a genuinely good guy, and even Daisy said that he was what she needed, and I totally wanted her to pick him, but I guess I wasn’t that surprised, she’s IS about as smart as a parakeet.
ellear
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 05:42 pm: [report]
Ami, true Daisy is a loser, but I don’t know if I can pinpoint London as the same. Although, to be honest, the more I think about it, he did go on a reality show to win the affection of this ahem, class act. So maybe he is a loser? My conclusion: we all like bad boys, London has those puppy dog eyes that make you want to be bad and to top it off he makes Daisy work for it. Anything that challenging is going to turn a girl like her on!
Jenn27549
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 05:46 pm: [report]
He’s in a band. I, as well as many ladies I have known, are strangely attracted to dudes in bands despite any other negative traits. My husband now WAS in a band, before we met, and I finally figured it out after talking to him one night—its the ego and the confidence that attracts women to other losers and jerks. Something about that level of self-confidence and absorption is attractive.
foxxxyrae
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 05:50 pm: [report]
What the hell is wrong with Daisy! Flex is perfect in every sense of the word. He’s hot, sweet, funny, and did I mention hot?? I would have picked Flex in a heartbeat! I give it six months before there is a Daisy of Love 2…
PinkRanger
wrote on July 27 2009 @ 09:44 pm: [report]
Like it even matters. I"m sure they’re in pre-production for “daisy of love 2” as we speak.
cindylop-her
wrote on July 28 2009 @ 06:51 am: [report]
I loved this show, because even though you might have considered the participants “trashy”, most of them seemed more real than many other reality-show stars. They were flawed, just like we all are.
London reminds me of someone I’ve known since we were kids, and this guy also has issues with responsibility and compulsivity, but does it mean he doesn’t deserve to pursue happiness like everyone else? No, way.
Additionally, I commend Daisy for doing what most people wouldn’t - making her choice with her heart. You can argue it wasn’t really love, but none of us will ever know. Life’s short, so why not have some fun. If I was in her hot-mess reality show situation and someone gave me butterflies like it was apparent London gave her, I’d hope I’d have the balls to pick that person instead of the one who “looks good on paper”.
Jill
wrote on July 31 2009 @ 05:11 pm: [report]
I love this show! I too was very sad she chose london. Their relationship was volatile and they fought every episode over nothing and then had passionate makeup makeout.
I saw Sinister at a club a week before he got eliminated. He was hitting on some girl that looked like daisy and bret michaels had a baby…weird huh? I tried to talk to him (I was WASTED) and he basically blew me off. :(
TEAM FLEX!