Have you heard of the Mrs. America pageant?  No, not the Miss America pageant, but Mrs. America, as in a beauty pageant for all the married ladies out there.  I sure hadn't.  Have you heard of the WE Network? It's the Women's Entertainment channel.  News to me.  Apparently, it's a day of firsts.  Anyway, the Mrs. America pageant will air this Friday at  8pm ET/PT on the WE Network and will be hosted by infamous reality TV icon Omarosa from The Apprentice and Alan Thicke, the former Growing Pains patriarch.  The Mrs. America pageant has been going on since the fifties, which is crazy because I've never heard of it.  I will say that this hosting duo is fairly ridiculous, in a good way.

We all know about Omarosa.  Her days on The Apprentice were brimming with conflict and the woman certainly made a name for herself during that show's first season.  She's parleyed this fame into a number of random gigs here and there, one of which being hosting duties for the Mrs. America pageant.  I wonder how much she's getting paid for this.  These things bother me.  It can't be more that, say, $5,000.  Right?  Maybe less.  The Mrs. America budget can't be exceedingly high.

The other host is Alan Thicke, whose face has graced television screens for decades.  The man has hosted a variety of game shows, but has to be most famously known as Kirk Cameron's dad on Growing Pains, the wisest of all the Seavers.  Fun fact: back in the eighties, some television executives decided it would be a good idea to give Mr. Thicke his own late-night talk show.  The oh-so-clever title: Thicke of the Night.  I know this only because a college professor of mine was a writer on said talk show.  He said it was a terrible, terrible show.  Despite his slow decline in fame over the past two decades, Alan Thicke's blood is as mainstream as it's ever been, now in the form of his son, Robin Thicke.  Robin Thicke, of all things, has become a moderately famous and generally well-respected R&B singer.  Funny how that happened.

The Mrs. America pageant airs this Friday on the WE Network.

-Oscar Dahl, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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