Author: Asa Hawks

Tonight is the premiere of CMT’s new reality series Cheer! featuring a competitive cheerleading squad of 20 girls from Kenilworth, New Jersey headed up by Patty Ann Romero, who Cheer! executive producer Kelly Ripa calls “the most quotable woman alive.” The show will feature six one-hour episodes and will follow CMT’s other successful cheerleading reality series, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, which is premiering its seventh season just before Cheer! tonight. Unlike similar shows in the competitive youth reality series genre such as Dance Moms and Toddlers & Tiaras, Cheer! will forego the shock antics and sometimes borderline abusive parenting to focus on the serious struggles of these 20 young women and their relationship with a strong but nurturing coach. As the New York Times wrote in its very positive review, the approach is a refreshing one.

Keep reading for a synopsis of the show as well as photos and brief descriptions of all 20 girls that comprise the Central Jersey Allstars cheerleading squad!

Former Dancing With The Stars co-host Samantha Harris has found herself another network hosting gig alongside General Wesley Clark on NBC’s Stars Earn Stripes reality series in which eight celebrities compete against each other by attempting to complete “complicated missions inspired by real military exercises.” The show premiered last week to well over 5 million viewers, and Samantha is doing her part to make sure that number goes up tomorrow night by increasing awareness through increased bareness! Keep reading to see Samantha invading the beaches of Malibu in a skimpy bikini and find out more about the veteran-themed Stars Earn Stripes and the celebrities competing on it!