BleacherReport - As most will know by now, it was officially announced last week that celebrity Maria Menounos, host of NBC's showbiz recap show Extra, would team with Kelly Kelly to take on the heel duo of Beth Phoenix (the current WWE Divas Champion) and Eve Torres at this year's WrestleMania. For one thing, it's a relatively high-profile match, coming at a time when WWE's women's division is more neglected and badly booked than ever (despite being Divas Champion, Phoenix has only made a handful of appearances on Raw and Smackdown in recent months and many fans have forgotten she's even champion). There's also the fact that Menounos, while not a wrestler, will likely manage to deliver a decent and respectable performance during the tag match. You see, Menounos, a lifelong fan of WWE, has experience in wrestling, having gotten into the ring twice before for the company.
Erin Andrews has to hate Maria Menounos, right? Must stay up late plotting ways to take her out, because if ever there has been a more natural rivalry in the field of glamourous but unecessary woman reporters, this is it.
There's no real difference between them, a couple of good looking girls who presumably have communication degrees, except one gained mainstream acceptance without a much publicized nude video, and the other didn't, and that's gotta kill Erin. She spent years languishing on sports sidelines, asking about pulled groins and sprained appendages, taking smug answers from coaches at halftime, praying that we'd see her as anything different than just another pretty sideline reporter...Wasn't until everyone caught site of her peep-hole video that she finally gained mainstream acceptance, national commercials, Dancing with the Stars, etc, etc...Safe to say her career has taken off from that point.
Maria on the other hand, I don't even know why she's famous. She's a host on E! maybe? I think I've seen her OnDemand listing the weeks movie releases? I honestly don't know. And yet here she is, making WWE apperances, Dancing With the Stars, and all in all being one of the "it" girls right now. All without even showing us a hint of side boob.
That's gotta tear right at Erin Andrews. Yea she's successful now, has more opportunities than being spit on by furious coaches at halftime and snooping around trainers rooms for updates, but still...In the back of her head she's gotta know that part of her fame is because of her sex appeal, and if there is one thing I know about professional woman in the entertainment industry its that they like to pretend their looks don't matter, even though they totally do. And for most of them, they can get away with denying it, but then again most of them don't have a video in which we've seen them nude which serves as a perfect point of inflection for when their career jumped off. So while she's dealing with that on her conscience, Maria's off in la-la land happily pretending that her fame has more to do with her bubble personality and ability to read off of cue cards than anything to do with her looks. Ignorance is bliss.
