VH1 spinoffs are pointless, yet addicting

By KATIE TRUSK

While flipping through my usual mindless television a few weeks ago, I noticed a slightly familiar face and an all too annoying crone-like voice in a promo. Yes, Daisy de la Hoya, runner-up of the second season of “Rock of Love” is getting her own reality show.

Even though this makes me lose even more faith in what television has evolved into, I know I will watch it, start to finish, judging every moment of the way.

For those of you who do not know de la Hoya, you don’t have to catch up on much as the format for this show will most likely fall into the same layout as the rest of the VH1 searches for “love.” There will be 12 to 20 potential suitors who have to hang out in the same STD-ridden mansion VH1 uses for almost all of its dating shows. One by one, they will be eliminated based off what the B-list — or in Daisy’s case, F-list — celebrity can tell within the 10 minutes they have with their suitors.

But “Daisy Of Love” isn’t the only show blossoming this season. Tiffany Pollard, a.k.a. New York from “I Love New York” and “Flavor of Love” fame, is getting another show. This will be her sixth role on a VH1 show, and this time she’s going to “work.”

Yes, in an economic environment where people are getting laid off left and right, New York will work a different job each episode. Here’s an idea — quit draining my brain and go back to what you did before you flashed your butt to Flavor Flav.

To see how these shows have come about, below is a family tree of sorts of the shows VH1 cashes in on from viewers like me who just can’t for the life of them say why they are watching, but can’t turn away.

Continue the addiction by watching the “Daisy of Love” premiere at 8 p.m. on Sunday and “New York Goes to Work” at 9 p.m. May 4.