I Love New York

The spoilers were right: last night we officially learned that New York (Tiffany Pollard) picked Tailor Made to be the recipient of her final chain. She's been saying for a while now that this is it: don't expect an I Love New York 3 because the love she found on the show is for real this time.

Needless to say, the reaction to this can be a bit – shall we say – skeptical. Can a woman who's built a career out of generated drama via televised showmances really have found her soulmate via that process? Can any woman – even New York – actually be attracted to a man who alternates between cowering, spitting and tattling? The answers, she insists, are yes and yes.

New York recently spoke to VH1's Celebreality blog and gave the skinny on the I Love New York finale.

So first of all, what, then, were her true feelings for Buddha? She says, “When we were in Jamaica, I swear I didn't know who I was gonna pick probably until right before the elimination…I finally realized that [Buddha]'d never bend at all. He was so strong and I just knew if I picked somebody like that, we would've fought a lot…Looking back on it six months later, I loved Tailor Made and I lusted for Buddha. I think I got caught up on his looks.”

She admits she didn't feel the same initial physical draw to Tailor Made. In the beginning of I Love New York 2, she says, “[t]here was no chemistry, I didn't even like the way he looked.” And now? “Now I think he's the hottest thing ever. Go figure. I don't know what happened.”

So another big question viewers might have is, after suffering the disrespect of being spat on herself, how could she pick a guy who would spit on another contestant? She admits this was a tough call – even the producers were trying to talk her out of it – but by that point in the show, she was already starting to feel something for Tailor Made and insisted he stay.

She says she could understand his methods. “I call him my Mini Me. I'm like, ‘You remind me of myself when I had to fight for Flav.' Constantly misunderstood, doing everything that it would take to win. I figured, ‘Wow. That guy reminds me so much of myself how could I go wrong with him?'”

However, there is one key area where the two happily differ, and that is in the need to control things. New York, as you may well imagine, needs to get her way, but it would appear this isn't a major issue for Tailor Made. “This man knows that I run the household. He doesn't go out and buy toothpaste without asking me if it's OK. And I just love it. It's such a great balance. I feel like I'm in control you know, but it's done in a respectful way.”

And the two actually have been buying toothpaste together, and doing all the other co-habitating type of activities because they have been living with one another since the show, in violation of the rules. She says, “We got home from Jamaica…and then a week later we moved in with each other. We've been together seriously for the last six months. It wasn't going to hotels and sneaking around and stuff like that…it was like day to day, night to night we were actually living together.”

All in all, New York has nothing but positive feelings about the future for herself with Tailor Made. “It feels very comfortable to be able to say that this is gonna work, because we both want the same things for each other. We just want to make each other as happy as we possibly can. That man completes me so perfectly and I do the same for him. He turns me onto things I didn't know and I do the same thing for him. We keep growing with each other, it's beautiful.”



- Leslie Seaton, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: VH1 Celebreality Blog
(Image courtesy of Vh1)