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53. Todd Oldham - Top Design - Season 1


The only host to make me feel physically uncomfortable, this awkward man-child mess managed to suck what little fun the show's lacklustre cast could produce. I don't think he has any developmental issues, but that was what I spent most of the show wondering.

Because of his total awfulness, he was relegated to Tim Gunn role in Season 2, in which he was much less of a disturbing freak. He is obviously a great interior designer, but I would not trust him around my children :/

52. Allan Wu - Amazing Race Asia


Step 1 to hosting an English-language reality show - being able to speak English. Picking a former 'Fear Factor' contestant with an incredibly limited grasp of the language was a bad idea. Especially since his pacing was so bad. He actually. Talked like. He had no idea how. Punctuation works.

He is probably the main reason Jaime thinks that China sucks.

51. Tony Sano - I Survived A Japanese Game Show - Season 1


lol Azn slaughter.

He actually could speak English but was an unengaging pretty-boy. This would be bad enough, except it went against the overall show aesthetic of "omg JAPAN IS CRRRRAZY!" to have a slick, very Americanised host in the middle of it to ease down on the culture-clash.

Getting rid of him, in favour of the zany Majide host (+ Judge Bob + Mama-San) was a great step in the right direction.

50. Tom Williams - The Mole (Australia) - Season 5


The first Google result for 'tom williams mole' is "I don't believe there will be another series. Tom Williams killed it."

A reality whore himself (winning 'Dancing With the Stars' Oz, alongside Kym Johnson), taking over the Mole hosting gig was a poisoned chalice. Not only was he replacing a much-loved established host, he had to usher in a new awful format change - live eliminations. About 80% of each episode was previously recorded footage of the contestants' adventures in New Zealand that week - and thanks to a great cast and creative challenges, this was a huge improvement over the terrible fourth season. At the end of the episode, they cut LIVE to the studio, where the red-screen ceremony took place in front of a studio audience

Even a great host would have difficulty in that situation. But a great host would have been enigmatic and mysterious, like the game itself, not a cheery, vacuous surfer boy.

49. Steve Ward - Tough Love


Probably the biggest douchebag on the list, Steve Ward is a smarmy, slimey snake-oil-salesman "dating guru" who gave out such incredible life-changing advice like "don't be weird".

Some of the more insipid contestants did benefit from his "Stating the Obvious 101", but the ones with their own personalities (good or bad) generally didn't respond well. The highlight of the season came when Steve tried to reconcile things with horrible-trainwreck Arian in front of her enabling-mother and they both laughed in his face about what a dick he was <3

Between that and another contestant who told him, "it's not that I don't trust you, I just don't like you," it was good to see a quarter of the cast actively hate on the host, which was enough for me to bump him up a few places

48. Vanessa Minnillo - True Beauty


Am I ranking her above last place because of her amazing true inner beauty?

lol no, she's just hot. But completely inappropriate for a show about being a good person :/ Though even if she did a good job of judging the morality of a a group of famewhores, I'd still rank her pretty lowdown for starring in 'Disaster Movie'.

Fun Fact: I accidentally wrote down her name as 'Vanessa Marcil', who would have been a lot better.

47. Brian McFayden - Beauty & The Geek (Season 1)


I have not seen the reality show Cupid (since I will forever associate it with Piven-Marshall love), so I can only rank him by his shiny wooden appearances on BATG. Trying to get a guy whose conquests include Nicky Hilton and Mandy Moore to be able to empathise with a bunch of total dorks was never going to happen.

Fun Fact: I accidentally wrote down his name as Brian McFadden.

46. Katie Lee Joel - Top Chef (Season 1)


I dunno why Top Chef thinks that the host of a cooking show needs to be a star-fucker, but

45. Dave Mirra - RR/RW: Challenge - The Inferno 1 & Inferno II


Mumbling sports personalities aren't good hosts. I watched both his seasons recently and can't remember any moment where he had any impact on anything, except getting everyone pumped up for a terrible biking challenge.

44. Jaclyn Smith - Shear Genius


I know old and/or gae people seemed to be very excited to hear she was going to host a reality show, but she's the lamest Charlie's Angel and was a bit distant and grandmotherly during both seasons. Plus, she never made fun of Kim Vo, which she should have done.

43. Jamie Theakston - The Search


lol that girl's face.

One of the rare cases where being too competent is a bad thing. Having presented a zillion other shows ('Beg, Borrow or Steal', 'The Games' with g-oddess Kirsty Gallacher) he was too familiar a face to take seriously in a Da Vinci Code plagiarising quest. While Theakston is apparently a member of Mensa, they needed more of a serious old man to add a bit of credibility to the whole shebang.

42. TJ Lavin - Most RR/RW Challenges since Gauntlet 2



Anyone who complains about Probst favouring alpha-males would hate this guy. A strong guy asks to be voted out to take care of problems at home and he applauds it. A girl with a leg injury asks to be voted out and he starts bitching about stupid it is to quit

The rest of the time, he seems like he doesn't give a shit, except for berating quitters, which is kind of funny enough that I can at least not hate him entirely, despite his clear signs of toolishness.

41. India Hicks - Top Design 2


I like her posh accent. But she's probably better suited to being a Real Housewife of New York City than fronting a competitive TV show.

40. JD Roth - Unan1mous


Just because you create the show doesn't mean it's a good idea to host it. If Bert van Munster was willing to give up the dream job of hosting TAR, JD Roth should have realised it might have added more gravitas if the host didn't look like a 14 year old boy.

39. Daisy De La Hoya - Daisy Of Love


"It's like.......oh my gawd.........this is Daisy of Love, not something else of love" x1000. Plus, unlike most of the other "Of Love" hosts, she doesn't seem to realise that you need to keep a few interesting characters around or nobody's going to care about your show. Plus, she's BFFs with Rikki Ratface even though he's 20 years older and the most uncool person I have ever seen.

38. Laird Macintosh - Treasure Hunters


It was very easy to turn poor Laird into a whipping boy - the producers obviously wanted an earnest, mechanical host, so he shouldn't be blamed for a very robotic performance. Even though I normally like hosts who don't show up in the flesh, but he wasn't a very important part of the production and might have been better as a voice-over alone. He's this high mostly because I still remember him saying "to find the treasure, they must find the key" with the same accent and intonation he used every week.

37. Damien Fahey & Myleene Klass - I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! - Season 2


The lowest of the "so bad they're good" hosts on the list, this bumbling, and absurdly overpaid, pair manage to throw at least one stiff awkward comment in every link. From their mock horror that John Salley would possibly want to take immunity for himself, to their uncomfortable flirting, they have less chemistry than Daniel Baldwin and Janice Dickinson.

36. Danny Bonaduce - I Know My Kid's A Star


The constant shirtlessness is enough for put him near the bottom of the list (not to mention hosting a pretty poor show that I didn't even watch to the end). But he had a few amusing moments, like taking a bunch of 10 year olds on a bus tour of all the gruesome deaths and overdoses from Hollywood child-star history. Todd Oldham wouldn't do that.

35. Real & Chance - Real Chance Of Love


The Brothers Givens did a few things right - they were willing to make big stupid moves to increase the drama-potential of the show, like Real "stealing" Promo and Chance spreading lies about Sexy Legs, allowing them to eliminate a boring contestant early. But: a) their nicknames sucked b) they were almost show-killers on I Love Money 1. And I didn't finish watching their season, which means they can't be all that great.

34. Brett Michaels - Rock Of Love


Number of confessionals over all three seasons where Brett Michaels says neither "awesome" nor "hi-yo" = 2.

Even though he's more willing to kick off the entertaining contestants than Real & Chance seemed to (though perhaps because RoL always has better castmembers because he's at least somewhat marketable?), his toolishness never becomes as annoying as it should be.

That basically finishes up all the hosts I didn't like all that much - list finishes up tomorrow with good hosts people should actually like.