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Like most sane people with a life, I hate reality TV shows. Why should I care about wannabe loser nobody's and what eight of them do together in a house or on an island or in an Australian desert? But, based on my viewing of the first two episodes of "Anchorwoman" on FOX, last night, I think this show is an exception. Anchorwoman is Lauren Jones, a completely ditzy excessively-siliconed, peroxided former model and WWE wrestler who wants to become a local news anchor. They'd never hire this idiot, but since FOX owns the small-town Texas TV station and wanted...

DALLAS — No longer breaking stories in high heels and skimpy outfits, Lauren Jones has signed off from the KYTX-TV "Eye of East Texas" news team and returned to modeling swimsuits. Rival stations in Tyler weren't entertained by the monthlong ratings stunt by Jones, the star behind the upcoming Fox reality show "Anchorwoman" and a former hostess for World Wrestling Entertainment. She spent June traipsing around the east Texas city in tight tops and a miniskirt, hunting down scoops for the CBS affiliate.

What do you get when you drop the former Miss New York, also known as "America's sexiest bikini model," into a struggling TV newscast in the unrated market of Tyler, Texas? You get Fox's next reality series – "Anchorwoman." Lauren Jones, whose career credits also include serving as a "World Wrestling Diva," a soap star and one of Bob Barker's beauties on "The Price Is Right," is playing a new role right now – anchorwoman on KYTX-TV, a local CBS affiliate in Tyler. But it's not a real job or a permanent journalism position. It's part of a Fox Entertainment...