The Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag-produced reality series Fist-Pumping For Love is still shopping for a network to call home — and apparently one of Connecticut’s hottest nightspots doesn’t want anything to do with it either.
Once The Hills wraps up its run on MTV later this year, The Pratts will be teaming up with professional bodybuilder and Gold’s Gym trainer Emilio Masella — the former flame of Jersey Shore’s Snooki Polizzi — for the “guido-themed” dating competition.
Think Flavor of Love for the tanned and desperate. (Yep — it’s as bad as it sounds.)
The show, which is in pre-production, is casting ladies (We use that term loosely…) who will duke it out in a series of challenges in hopes of winning Emilio’s heart. But according to Life & Style’s Scene Queens, Masella may want to start looking for a new place to film his first foray on the small screen. While the buff hunk had hoped to film many of the scenes for Fist-Pumping inside hometown hotspot Shrine at Foxwoods Casino, management for the MGM-owned club has pulled out of a plan that would have pemitted the show’s cameras to roll beyond its velvet rope.
“We are not going to do it. We refuse to be associated with this show,” a representative for Shrine curtly told Life & Style last week.
Sounds like Emilio and his Skank Parade will be missing out on quite a party. A blurb posted to the club’s website describes a posh spot, catering to the well-dressed grown and sexy crowd: “At Shrine, you’re the Star. Unlike anything the area has seen before, Shrine combines a full throttle nightlife experience with Modern Asian Cuisine and Superior Bottle Service. Boasting a custom Funktion One Sound System, DJ Booth, Multiple bars and over 35 Private VIP Tables, Shrine is quite the stimulating diversion from other nightclubs in the rural hills of Connecticut or the East Coast for that matter.”