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Complex Casting Call: Reality Show ‘Geeks’

It looks like MTV is picking up the reality show/Kutchfest known as Beauty and the Geek, which they will allegedly be remaking with a new “celebrity” angle. That’s cool, even though it’s more than a little predictable: get a bunch of IT professionals and Weird Al fans, then drop in a party-vanload of MySpace-famous SEC coeds and Entourage guest stars, and watch the ensuing cavalcade of alpha-male transformations and warm-fuzzy changes of heart.

That’s why we suggest flipping it the other way: make the geeks famous, and then watch as civilian women struggle with choosing between tertiary fame-by-association and..their natural instincts. Now that’s entertainment! Check out our round up of 5 sure-fire celebrity geek casting choices…

Face Off: MTV Music vs. YouTube

Who said MTV doesn’t care about music anymore? Sure, they replaced most of their music programming for reality shows like Run’s House and The Hills, and then axed TRL, but they’re trying. They launched a new video show FN-MTV with Pete Wentz and yesterday, they announced their newest website, MTV Music. It’s taken them a hell of a long time, but the original home of the music video has finally realized that people no longer watch them on TV.

A flashed-based video site in the same vein as YouTube and Hulu, MTV Music will open up the MTV vaults and allow users to play all their favorite music videos, as well as their favorite MTV moments like Unplugged performances. While we’re happy MTV has shown some serious interest in music videos again, we feel like they’re kinda late to the party. For our music video needs, we just hit up YouTube—why should we stop? To answer that question, we analyzed both sites to see which one should be getting our clicks…

The Curse Of The Hot MTV VJ

It sure does pay to be an MTV VJ…or does it? Throughout the years, some fine women with memorable personalities have introduced videos for the network. Each leaves their post for a bid at true superstardom, only to fade back into obscurity. While their male counterparts like Tyrese and Pauly Shore have gone on to semi-success, the females seem to be cursed.

The latest recovering VJ to make a run at it is Vanessa Minnillo, who is jump-starting her acting career with a role in this summer’s action parody Disaster Movie. Whether she’ll transcend the MTV label or retire to become Nick Lachey’s baby mama remains to be seen, but the patterns of history are definitely against her. After the jump, we compiled some of the fly chicks who couldn’t overcome the curse.

Wild For the Night

Call it the Complex convergence. Our June/July cover guy Nick Cannon invites our August/September cover dudes Pharrell and Clipse to perform their hit single, “Mr. Me Too” on this week’s episode of Wild ’N Out: Season 3, premiering tonight at 10PM on MTV.