CBS · Summer 2012
In 2012, CBS flew me to Los Angeles for a national dating show called 3. I made about five seconds of television. Here is everything that happened around them.
The concept
3 premiered on CBS in the summer of 2012, adapted from an Israeli format and pitched as a fresh idea for American TV. The premise: three very different women searching for love together, leaning on each other while they worked through nearly a hundred men to find someone worth keeping. Alex Miranda hosted. CBS pulled it after two episodes for low ratings and quietly finished the season online.
I was one of the hundred. Here is the show, for the record.
The audition
Before any of that, they flew me to LA and put me in a room for four days. The only time I was allowed to leave was one hour a day to go to the gym, or when they called me out for medical and psychological testing.
At one point I was asked, on the record, whether any sexual videos of me existed, and if they did, who had access to them. Reality TV, it turns out, is a background check with cameras rolling.
The appearance
I made it past the first round. The producers loved me. On the day of the shoot I got my moment: I walked in to meet the three women.
My segment aired for about five seconds, long enough to capture this exact excited face, and then the women sent me home. That was the show.
The better ending
Here is the part I actually love. That same night, I caught a flight to Toronto to join my hockey team. It was the year we went on to win the Hockey North America International Championship.
Rejected on national television by lunch, an international champion by the weekend. I will take that trade every time.