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Stacey’s Future

greer in BSC and pop culture, Stacey McGill

Lately I have been enjoying the VH1 show Rock of Love. For those of you without a Celebreality addiction, in this show Bret Michaels of the seminal “metal” band Poison is trying to find love, or at least something somewhat resembling love.How does this tie into the BSC? Like our Stacey McGill, Bret Michaels has juvenile diabetes. As we all remember from Stacey and the Bad Girls, alcohol would totally throw Stace’s blood sugar out of whack. Bearing this in mind, while my dad was trying to tell me that Bret had a hardcore alcohol problem back in the day (everyone confuses Bret with the much cooler member of Poison C.C. DeVille), I staunchly refuted his claim with no way, Bret has juvenile diabetes, he can’t drink.

As the show progressed, however, it became increasingly apparent that Bret Michaels drinks all the time and sometimes has drunk foursomes. But what about his diabetes??? I wondered.

I was reading USWeekly or InTouch or People yesterday and it featured an interview with Bret Michaels. He said in this interview that he taught all the girls in the house how to give him insulin injections… using an orange! Just like how Stacey was taught!

So basically what I am getting at is: 1)Stacey is the female Bret Michaels. 2)My fears that Stacey would never be able to be a drunken party girl was unfounded. She just needs to teach the guys she’s partying with how to give her an insulin shot using an orange for practice.

The real question, of course, is whether these girls said “Ew! Yuck!” while learning. This event occurred off-camera but I bet it played into eliminations. Brandi C., I’m looking at you.

4 Responsed To This Post

puck said, August 14th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

i think you missed the most obvious point - or perhaps skipped it because it *was* so obvious - that also, they look the same.

bibberly said, August 14th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

I dislike reality television, but I have always loved Bret Michaels, so I just had to watch this show. Yes, it’s true that Bret had an alcohol problem back in the day, but I had thought he was past that now - apparently not entirely the case. I couldn’t believe it when he was telling one of the women (Rodeo?) about his diabetes and she didn’t know. I knew that in fifth grade! These women are not hardcore fans like I am, and I thought they could have found some real fans for the show.
But yes, I did think of Stacey. And my mom learned to give her grandmother insulin injections (when she was a teenager) using an orange too.

greer said, August 14th, 2007 at 9:09 pm

@bibberly: to be fair, if you watch the casting special it’s clear that they didn’t cast the show advertising that Bret Michaels was the star. All they knew was that it was an eighties rocker. They only told them while they were interviewing them for the show and they had to sign a confidentiality agreement about who it was and etc. So I don’t think they were looking for huge Poison fans–they were looking for girls who would make good tv. It seemed like they kicked a lot of the hardcore fans out at the very beginning for being too old, which i think would be a problem for the majority of the hardcore poison fans around–despite the fact that bret michaels is himself no spring chicken. such is television and society.

bibberly said, August 25th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

I didn’t see the casting special, but that really puts it in perspective! Although that’s sad in a way, because it means that they want to get with a random celebrity rather than him specifically. And then they’re all like, “I love him so much!” Arg. That’s why I don’t watch stuff like the Bachelor or whatever - the idea that girls are willing to fight each other for some random guy they don’t even know (but are sure they are totally in love with).

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Stoneybrookite is a Baby-sitters Club blog written by Greer. It has been online in one form or another since 2002. Greer has been reading the BSC since 1993. She was also stamped as "Stacey" at BSC Stamped. Her geographic location is hard to pin down, as she has lived in seven cities in two countries in past five years, but a part of her is always in Stoneybrook. Hence "Stoneybrookite," the official term for residents of Stoneybrook.