Phil Hellmuth, Randy Savage Surreal Life Appearances Likely to Draw Huge RatingsWith the revelation that Ultimate Bet "poker brat" Phil Hellmuth and Professional Wrestler Randy Savage, not to mention everyone's favorite television psychic Miss Cleo, will be joining the seventh season of VH1's hit The Surreal Life, the show could receive its highest ratings ever.
Gambling911.com has registered an unbelievable number of inquiries related to our initial report, confirmed by both Phil Hellmuth and Randy Savage. Miss Cleo has not yet revealed what's in her crystal ball.
That story during Thursday alone received several thousand reads.
"The news received some few dozen pickups, most notably from Fark," disclosed Gambling911.com Senior Editor, Payton O'Brien.
The Surreal Life has been receiving plenty of news in recent weeks with the revelation that Season 3 cast member Tammy Faye Messner had dropped down to 60 pounds due to her bout with inoperative lung cancer. The televangelist appeared in a frail state on Thursday night's edition of Larry King Live. The episode was especially uplifting and Faye Messner, despite being in tremendous pain, kept her sense of humor. Tammy Faye appeared along side Vanilla Ice and porn star Ron Jeremy in one of the most memorable seasons to date of the Surreal Life.
But Season 7 could draw even larger audience numbers.
Both Hellmuth and Savage are known for their quirky personalities while Miss Cleo adds that "mystery" element. Everyone wants to know more about the disgraced psychic spokesperson who may in actuality have just been caught up in an elaborate scam that was not necessarily her doing. We recall the PTL Club and Tammy Faye in a way.
For online poker room Ultimate Bet, Hellmuth's appearance on this program is proving to be quite the coup before it even airs.
The Surreal Life story surpassed the usual suspects in terms of overall readership popularity, including Ron Paul. Gambling911.com Special Contributor Jennifer Reynolds provided yet another hit:
Ron Paul Factor: Polling Data Flawed, which on any other day would have been the most read article appearing on Gambling911.com.
Other stories of interest drawing significant readership included
2007 World Series of Poker Champion Profiled by Las Vegas Sun and other pieces related to poker's newest celeb, Dr. Jerry Yang.
The Consequences of a Neteller "Agreement" with the US Government and another article related to troubled online gambling money processor Neteller forfeiting money over to the US government enjoyed tremendous traction on the Gambling911.com website Thursday.
Surprisingly, little of Gambling911.com/Sports911.com's coverage related to the 2007 British Open made a serious impact on Thursday. Heavy early betting action on the Open resulted in heavy readership the past few days. Interest has since waned though the site anticipates substantial traffic come Sunday, the final day.
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Gambling911.com News Wire
Originally published July 20, 2007 12:40 am ET
