Fametracker :: Blue Moons :: When Stars Mate

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She who mates with Carson Daly
Tara Reid

1. She starred in American Pie.

For her involvement in one of the biggest cult movies of the '90s: +2

2. She was upstaged by a violated pie.

For starring in a movie widely known as Pie Fucker: -2

3. She will star in the live-action movie version of Josie and the Pussycats.

For playing a sexy blonde -- thus demonstrating an awareness of the limits of her gifts -- in a potential franchise: +3

4. She had a brief but memorable role in The Big Lebowski.

Coen cool points: +2

5. Seems like she should have a show on the WB, but doesn't.

For showing up the film career of Professional Children's School classmate Sarah Michelle Gellar: +2

Mate Rating » 7 out of 10

When Stars Mate: The Methodology

When you're a fully-fledged celebrity, doing nothing in your spare time but appearing on talk shows and soaking up free champagne at movie premieres, it stands to reason that the only people you ever meet are other celebrities. Hence: The All-Celebrity Hook-up, which very often makes a successful transition to The All-Celebrity Relationship.

The problem is, if you're a celebrity, the odds are that your worth, and that of your mate's, will never be evenly matched. Therefore, when you meet and fall in love with another celebrity, either your worth, or that of your mate, will necessarily go down.

When Stars Mate is a service of Fametracker for celebrities dating, or married to, other celebrities. Fametracker will use this space to determine who in current celeb/celeb pairings has gained by the relationship, who has lost, and how the balance of power could be altered.

He who mates with Tara Reid
Carson Daly

1. He hosts MTV's TRL.

For being incredibly famous to the teen and tween demographic: +4

2. He says he's twenty-seven.

For lying so shamelessly about his age: -1

3. He hosted the Miss Teen USA pageant.

For moonlighting at a second-tier beauty pageant: -2

4. He's frequently disparaged his TRL job to the press.

For biting the only hand that could ever feed him: -2

5. In the pre-Reid era, Christina Aguilera frequently declared to the press that she had a crush on him.

For having sense enough not to hook up with her in any official fashion: +2

Mate Rating » 1 out of 10

Tara Reid -- while being no great shakes herself, really -- is so far out of Carson Daly's league as to defy all reason. Fametracker predicts that once they're married, they'll be inviting David Arquette and Courteney Cox Arquette over for a lot of dinner parties.

- WC