Nicole Alexander, popularly known as
Hoopz on the reality TV circuit, is best known as the first season winner of VH1's
Flavor of Love. And as luck would have it, she is also the recently crowed winner of the first season of
I Love Money, the series that featured contestants from the first two seasons of
Flavor of Love, I Love New York and
Rock of Love as they compete in physical and mental challenges in attempt to win $250,000. She seems to have mastered the art of winning competitive series but according to the Tennessee native, she's done with reality TV, at least, as a contestant.
“I will host something, but I’m not doing another contestant show. It’s like when you go to Vegas and you hit big — the question is, do I bet it all or do I keep what I just made? I know when to stop,” Hoopz told VH1 in an interview.
Unlike most of the contestants of
I Love Money, Hoopz didn’t have a strategy coming into the game.
“I just breezed through. And when I was scared, that’s when I messed up. I didn’t have a strategy coming in. We were the realest people in the house. Real was who I chose to be close to. We bonded and clicked and became alliances and that was it,” she said.
Real, on the other hand, wasn’t just an alliance to Hoopz as he claimed to have harbored deep feelings for her, which led him to get on one knee and propose to her. While asking someone to marry you seems like an odd thing to do on TV, especially since they aren’t even dating and considering that Hoopz has a boyfriend back home, Hoopz understands where Real is coming from.
“We got really close. We have chemistry. You don’t have to have sex to know that it’s a connection. Everyone’s looking at him like he’s crazy but if you connect with somebody it doesn’t always have to be physical. In the long run, it lasts longer. We didn’t have to kiss to know we have a connection,” the
I Love Money winner said.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: VH1
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