For the second season, see: A Shot at Love II with Tila Tequila

A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila is an American reality television dating game show similar to the TV show The Bachelor. It premiered on October 9 2007 on MTV starring Tila Tequila. The series is a bisexual-themed reality dating show where 16 straight males and 16 lesbian female contestants live in Tila's house and compete for her attention and affection. The contestants were not aware of Tila's bisexuality until the end of the first episode, after ten contestants had been eliminated. The remaining contestants, both male and female, then shared the same bedroom for the rest of the series. The ten episode series is produced by 495 Productions and MTV. A Shot at Love II premiered on April 22, 2008.

Ratings

The show debuted at No. 1 in its time period across all of cable in the network's target demographic of persons 18-34, averaging a 2.0 rating, and became MTV's second highest-rated series premiere for the year so far, behind Life of Ryan (August 27 2007) and tied with Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County (August 15 2007).

The finale ended with 6.2 million viewers, making it MTV's most watched series telecast.

Criticism and controversy

The show was at the heart of a heated online debate between Tila Tequila and conservative Christians after an article appeared on The Christian Post on September 13 2007. After seeing the article, Tequila wrote an impassioned response in her blog on September 28 2007, criticizing churches for "bashing" the gay community while thanking God for saving her life. Other oppositions to the show have come from the Culture and Media Institute, Media Research Center and Parents Television Council, which has named two episodes of the show the "Worst Cable Content of the Week".

Several news outlets released an article accusing Tequila of having a steady boyfriend, claiming that the show is a sham, and that she is not bisexual. They cite New York Post's Page Six article. However, Tequila denied these rumors on her official website, stating:

First of all, let me just say that whomever they are getting their 'sources' from needs to be fired real fast! I find it absolutely absurd that they would even make such an ignorant statement such as 'She's made out with some girls in her past, as all girls have, but she is not bi at all.' ... That is such an absurd stereotype to place on all women and it just shows people how ignorant people can be!

On December 30 2007, the winning contestant of the season, Bobby Banhart, posted a message on MySpace claiming:

She never called me after the last show and no one would give me her number.

Bobby's full message:

Everyone wants to know what happend, and all there is to it, is that we didnt work as a couple outside the show. I wish it didnt have to end the way it did but there is nothing to do. We are still good friends and we try to stay in touch as well as we can, but eventually we both have to move on with our lives, and obviesly she has by making a new round of "A shot at love with Tila Tequila". We are both on our way to move on and we are both just living our lives.

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Tila offered her own reasoning for why they broke up:

We couldn’t see each other for 2 months after [the finale], and we only talked on the phone. Just naturally, people kind of move on with their lives. We tried our best to keep in touch and keep it going, but after a while, all of this camera stuff, he just couldn’t handle it.

Spin-offs, supplements, season 2 and 3

• A Shot at Love: The Hangover is a supplementary show that shows clips and interviews guests as a recap to the show. It premiered on November 13, 2007 on MTV starring Ryan Stout. The show's debut averaged a 2.85 rating.
• A Shot at Love II with Tila Tequila - The second season premiered on April 22 2008 at 10pm, and follows the same bisexual-bachelorette formula. The premiere date was announced on Tila Tequila's Spring Break Fantasy Couple. It is set in a Hollywood Hills mansion (the same one as the second season of Rock of Love). It was planned to be aired after That's Amore! Tequila announced at her Masquerade party, Tila Tequila's New Year's Eve Masquerade, that MTV greenlit her for a second season. During the Masquerade, she revealed that she and Bobby parted ways, which prompted suspicion that she would be the bachelorette during season two of A Shot at Love. News articles confirmed this.
• A Shot at Love 3 - The third season was announced, and Tequila stated that she would not be the bachelorette. The third season is currently casting.
• That's Amore! - Due to his immense popularity, Domenico Nesci had the third spin-off. Also featured was former contestant Ashley, as Domenico's consigliere on the show, which Domenico officially announced on the reunion. It premiered on MTV on March 2, 2008 at 10/9c.

Casting for both shows was handled by Doron Ofir Casting

Episodes

• Ep. 1 Surprise! I Like Boys and Girls (May The Best Sex Win-title on DVD and iTunes) (originally aired October 9 2007)
• Ep. 2 Can't We All Just Get Along? (Fight For Love-title on DVD and iTunes) (originally aired October 16 2007)
• Ep. 3 Under the Covers (originally aired October 23 2007)
• Ep. 4 A Broken Heart (originally aired October 30 2007)
• Ep. 5 I Always Get What I Want (originally aired November 6 2007)
• Ep. 6 The Cat Fight (originally aired November 13 2007)
• Ep. 7 A Second Chance? (originally aired November 20 2007)
• Ep. 8 Welcome To The Family (originally aired November 27 2007)
• Ep. 9 Three's A Crowd (originally aired December 4 2007)
• Special: One Shot Too Many (originally aired December 11 2007)

In the week after Episode 9 aired and the week before Episode 10 aired, there was a special episode titled One Shot Too Many. Instead of being a regular episode, it was flashbacks and never before seen footage of events of the previous weeks of the show.

• Ep. 10 I Choose...(This Is Real-title on DVD and iTunes) (originally aired December 18, 2007)
• Special: The Final Round (originally aired December 23, 2007)

Contestants

The following table lists the roster of contestants for each episode, ordered based on Tila's call-out order.

#	Contestants	Ep 1	Ep 2	Ep 3	Ep 4	Ep 5	Ep 6	Ep 7	Ep 8	Ep 9	Ep 10
1	Alex	Alex	Alex	Ashli	Ryan	Dani	Amanda	Amanda	Bobby	Dani	Bobby
2	Amanda	Amanda	Amanda	Bobby	Amanda	Ryan	Bobby	Dani	Dani	Bobby	Dani
3	Ashley	Ashley	Ashley	Ryan	Ashli	Brandi	Ryan	Bobby	Amanda	Amanda
4	Ashli	Ashli	Ashli	Amanda	Michael B.	Domenico	Dani	Ryan	Ryan
5	Bennie	Bobby	Bobby	Vanessa	Domenico	Amanda	Domenico	Domenico
6	Bobby	Brandi	Brandi	Dani	Brandi	Steven	Brandi
7	Brandi	Dani	Dani	Ashley	Vanessa	Vanessa	Vanessa
8	Brenda	Domenico	Domenico	Sara	Steven	Bobby	Steven
9	Chaos	Eddie	Eric	Michael B.	Dani	Michael B.
10	Dani	Eric	Krystal	Domenico	Bobby	Ashli
11	Domenico	Grace	Michael B.	Steven	Ashley
12	Eddie	Krystal	Rebecca	Brandi	Sara
13	Ellie	Lala	Rob	Rebecca
14	Eric	Marcus	Ryan	Eric
15	Grace	Michael B.	Sara	Alex
16	Greg	Rebecca	Steven	Krystal
17	Keasha	Rob	Vanessa	Rob
18	Krystal	Ryan	Marcus
19	Lala	Sara	Steffanie
20	Lance	Steven	Grace
21	Marcus	Steffanie	Eddie
22	Michael B.	Vanessa	Lala
23	Michael R.	Keasha
24	Rami	Brenda
25	Rebecca	Chaos
26	Rob	Ellie
27	Ryan	Scout
28	Sara	Greg
29	Scout	Lance
30	Steven	Michael R.
31	Steffanie	Rami
32	Vanessa	Bennie

• Contestants surviving elimination in the first two episodes are arranged alphabetically, while eliminated contestants are arranged based on the order Tila announced that their shot at love had ended.

The contestant was eliminated.

The contestant won a date with Tila.

The contestant won a date with Tila, but was eliminated.

The contestant left of his/her own accord.

The contestant won the competition.

Eliminations

The following table explains Tila's reasons for asking each contestant to leave.

• Some reasons were not stated in the episode in which they aired.

Men
Name	Reason for elimination	Episode eliminated
Bennie	Cute, but not her type.	Episode 1
Rami	Could not remember him.	Episode 1
Michael R.	Reason not stated in episode.	Episode 1
Lance	Reason not stated in episode.	Episode 1
Greg	Too focused on sex; she was looking for more than that.	Episode 1
Eddie	Respects his virginity, but felt he is also too innocent.	Episode 2
Marcus	Connected at first, but caused too much drama.	Episode 2
Rob	Will make some woman happy someday, but not her.	Episode 3
Alex	Did not feel they had a connection.	Episode 3
Eric	Did not think they would make it as a couple.	Episode 3
Ashley	Seemingly fell in love with her too quickly; she felt something was not right about him.	Episode 4
Michael B.	Reason not stated in episode.	Episode 5
Steven	Connected more with the other people in the house than him.	Episode 6
Domenico	Connected more with the other people in the house than him, but credited him for his personality.	Episode 7
Ryan	Felt that his and her paths were too different, and that his family was too traditional and she could not fit into that lifestyle.	Episode 8
Women
Name	Reason for elimination	Episode eliminated
Scout	Did not remember her.	Episode 1
Ellie	Too shy.	Episode 1
Chaos	Did not connect with her.	Episode 1
Brenda	Reason not stated in episode.	Episode 1
Keasha	Felt that she is "a demolition project".	Episode 1
Lala	Did not like having men competing and being around them.	Episode 2
Steffanie	There for two days and still did not know her.	Episode 2
Grace	Did not feel they would be a good fit.	Episode 2
Krystal	Did not click with her.	Episode 3
Rebecca	Kissed Brandi while in the house and seems to have objections with monogamy.	Episode 3
Sara	Beautiful girl, but just did not have that connection she was looking for.	Episode 4
Ashli	Did not want to put her in a position where she felt uncomfortable.	Episode 5
Vanessa	Reason not stated in episode. In the following episode, however, due to her physical attack on Brandi during eliminations in Episode 6, it was alluded that she was not the right person.	Episode 6
Brandi	Left on Episode 6 in the heat of the moment after Vanessa's attack. Came back on Episode 7. However, she was not accepted back into the house because of the feeling that her return would jeopardize the show's integrity for the other contestants and the fear that she would walk out on Tila again.	Episode 6/7
Amanda	Had a deeper connection with Bobby and Dani, or as Tila said, "There's no more keys left."	Episode 9
Dani	Mentioned loving Dani, but being in love with Bobby. Offscreen, said she eliminated Dani to make sure their friendship "never ended" like dating show romances usually do. Tila later claimed that she did not want to take Dani "out of her element", because Dani has a very stable life at home in Florida and Tila travels and lives a chaotic life.	Episode 10

DVD release

On January 22 2008, it was announced that the show would be released on DVD. A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila - The Complete Uncensored First Season was released on April 15 2008. The DVD contains the ten episodes, the reunion listed as episode 11, but does not contain the special episode "One Shot Too Many". Special features include extended scenes (Girls Cat Walk, Guys in Heels, Foam Party, Car Wash, Ashley vs. Marcus Poolside, Brandi & Rebecca Make Out, Brandi vs. Vanessa, Brandi vs. Vanessa Elimination) and deleted scenes (Spin The Bottle, Waxing, Strip Club, Brandi & Vanessa Shower, Ashley vs. Bobby, Ashley vs. Marcus).

References

External links

• A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila's official site
• Show's Video Trailer
• Tila's official website
• Analysis of the complete season of 'A Shot at Love'

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