Tila Tequila Fans

Tila Nguyen (Tila Tequila) was a contestant on VH1’s reality television show “Surviging Nugent.” Tila and six other contestants were competing for a $50,000 cash prize. The reality show premiered on October 1st 2003. Read more for Tila’s full experience and thoughts about being on the show!

Source: VH1 Surviving Nugent

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VH1: Why did you want to participate in the show?
Tila Tequila: I was tricked into it!! And that’s the truth! Hahaha! The casting people made it sound like some fantastic fantasy getaway at some exotic place or something, but I had no idea that it was what it was!

VH1: How many Ted Nugent records do you actually own?
Tila Tequila: Besides the one that he gave me at the end of the show? None, but of course everyone knows all his hit singles…Cat Scratch Fever…and ummm….what else?? Haha!

VH1: What was the hardest thing about being in front of the cameras?
Tila Tequila: It was hard for me not to punch them and tell them to f*ck off!

VH1: What was the worst thing Ted made you do?
Tila Tequila: I had to pretty much slaughter this poor, helpless dead Russian bore and made me eat it. SICK!

VH1: What was the one Nugent remark that infuriated you most?
Tila Tequila: Everything? If he wanted to talk politics, talking about it to 7 hungry, starving, and mentally abused people was not helping at all. And all that ass-kissing was getting on my last nerves!

VH1: What was the most humiliating moment of Surviving Nugent?
Tila Tequila: Mmmm….I couldn’t tell you because I will get some people into trouble and I don’t want to do that!

VH1: When were you most embarrassed?
Tila Tequila: I was never embarrassed…just starving to death and every human, animal, grass, trees, etc…started to look like hamburgers to me. I was dying for food! I was so ready to dig on the other people’s bags to see if they had any snacks stashed in there.

VH1: At what moment did you decide that you wanted to kill Ted Nugent?
Tila Tequila: When he was trying to be “Down with the boys” please c’mon…that’s so last year to be all understanding about the “hood” those of you out there know what I’m talking about….or maybe not…haha! It’s like, please…don’t try too hard to be down when you don’t know sh*t about the city life you know?

VH1: What was your best line to Ted himself?
Tila Tequila: I told him that he’s too much of a softy so then he made things tougher for me. That was my bad I guess, but whatever…

VH1: What rock artist would you like to have had in place of Nugent?
Tila Tequila: Damn, why didn’t you guys ask me this crap before I joined the show?? Haha! I would have j*zzed in my pants if it were a show called, “Partying with Riot Girl(Bikini Kill).” Homegurl rocks! She thinks sluts rule and that’s rad! Haha!

VH1: What was the thing that all your friends wanted to know about the show?Tell us what you told them.
Tila Tequila: My friends all wanted to know who won, of course, and what the hell I was doing there! I told them to leave me alone about it because I still needed time to recuperate from my mental abuse.

VH1: Did he ever agree with you or was it always a losing battle?
Tila Tequila: You know what? He left me starving on his ranch/farm/hell hole or whatever you want to call it so I was so hungry that I couldn’t really comprehend what the hell was going on. I just wanted to kill something so I could eat. All the others could do the ass-kissing for me cuz that’s not my thing. I could give a rat’s ass what the hell everyone was yacking about.

VH1: What experience of this show is going to demand a lot of time in therapy?
Tila Tequila: I actually had a lot of fun. You guys should’ve picked a lot more hot dudes so that way if I couldn’t eat, at least I could be making out with somebody or something. That place was driving me nuts! I was losing my mind and I didn’t care….hell, I would’ve humped the pigs if I had to stay there any longer! Hahahhaha! OK just joking, but I definitely would’ve killed them again to eat. You don’t understand…I was STARVING! Every now and then we’ll pick berries off trees as food or eat hay, but that wasn’t cutting it. I had to eat! Oh and by the way, my only freakin’ pair of tennis shoes blew up in the fire that we built to keep warm. I should start suing people! Ok just kidding..don’t cut me off! =P