Tool Academy: Coming Soon To VH1
The d’bag gets his day in a new reality series coming from VH1. Check out the details of the forthcoming Tool Academy:
We have all encountered them before: those strutting, preening, over confident alpha-males who lie, cheat, and treat their girlfriends like door mats. They are “tools,” and they desperately need a wake up call. VH1 and 495 Productions are taking 9 of these unsuspecting bad boys and sending them to relationship boot camp in a new series titled Tool Academy. The eight episode series, hosted by Jordan Murphy, is slated to premiere Sunday, January 11 at 10/9c.
The guys, all secretly nominated by their girlfriends, initially believe they are taking part in a competition in search of “Mr. Awesome.” But the tables are turned almost immediately and they quickly learn that they are actually recruits in the Tool Academy, where they will be schooled in proper boyfriend behavior—covering topics like honesty, fidelity, maturity, and communication with resident relationship counselor Trina Dolenz. Each week the guy who shows the least progress in the group is deemed a hopeless tool and dismissed from the academy. But there’s a twist: he must then plead his case before his girlfriend, who decides on the spot if she wants to keep him or kick him to the curb. In the end, only one man will be rewarded for his transformation with a $100,000 cash prize and the title of “Mr. Awesome.”
“This show carries the hope that buried deep inside even the world’s most incorrigible tool, there may actually be a good boyfriend waiting to be revealed,” said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President of Programming & Production for VH1. “Sometimes all it takes is a little self reflection…and eight weeks of intensive TV therapy.”
Jordan Murphy’s previous hosting duties include all four seasons of NBC’s For Love or Money, USA’s Before & After’noon Movies, and Reality Remix. He has also appeared on such shows as Las Vegas, Scrubs, Charmed, and JAG among others. Murphy is represented by IMG Broadcasting’s Babette Perry and continues to be managed by Kathy Carter.
Trina Dolenz trained as a couples counselor in Cambridge, England, obtaining a Graduate Certificate in Marital and Couples Counseling, as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Couples Therapy from the University of East London. She has run private practices in couples therapy in London as well as her adopted home of Los Angeles.
Related content
Tool Academy show page
Tool Academy videos and extras
Tricia Dolenz’s VH1Blog advice column
March 19th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
i NEED to apply for the second season of the tool academy!! So, I’m 22 and have a ex husband who I have two beautiful boys with. He made a lot of mistakes in our relationship. Before I even had the divorce he decided to get in a relationship with his best friend(girl) who was also one of my good friends at the time and even attended my baby shower!! Also his ex girlfriend! ewww! now that they are broken up he wants another chance. fyi this is just one of the many things he’s done to me. I feel I can’t trust him…he tell’s me he has changed. That’s hard to believe after I find out he’s been arrested. I want this for him more then anything. I want him to be a good example for our children. He has a bad temper, potty mouth, lies, use to cheat. He also is super funny, and smoking hot.lol This would be our last chance,even to have a family. Plus I love him. Soooo where do I apply?
March 21st, 2009 at 2:48 am
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March 22nd, 2009 at 2:33 am
hi how can i get on the 2nd season?
March 22nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
How do I sign my boyfriend up???
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
i need my boyfriend to go on the second season really realy bad..how do i get him on?
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I need to know what to do to get on this show!!!!!!!!!! My boyfriend needs it. Please let me know what i need to do.
March 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I would really want to get on the second session, My boyfriend and I have been together for about two and a half years but we have split a couple of times but keep comen back to eachother. He has a real drinking problem, he wrecked a SSR and about 4 or 5months later he got a DUI lost his job. We are still together and kind of happy but I think that he needs to change not only for me but for himself.
March 24th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I need to sign my boyfriend up.I know this show will help him, and us in our realationship.how do i apply??
March 25th, 2009 at 1:01 am
how do I sign up my boyfriend? we in love but he need help and if he dnt get help soon im going to jet please help me i wanna work it out with him
March 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I want to sign my tool up for the second season. How do i apply? i tried going to toolacademycasting.com and filled out the application but i think that was for the first season.
March 29th, 2009 at 1:02 am
My name is Anthony and I would like to submit myself for the next casting of this show. Me and my girlfriend don’t know if we want to stay together or not it’s like we have so many issues with eachother and I would like to fix them now before they get worse than they already are.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Me and my boyfriend have been together three years and we have been through our shares of up and MOSTLY downs. When we first met, he was just too good to be true and in time…he showed that he wasnt as good as i thought, we both have had our flaws but through it all I never left his side and never did plan to until now. We have hit rock bottom I have caught him cheating on me and there were times he wasnt there for me when i needed him and come to find out he was talking to another girl, its just been so hard and I really have a deep love for him after all that we have been through together and I dont wana loose hope in him but i feel iam due to things and what they have become. He doesnt realize the things he does is wrong and I just want to see him get the help he need becuase I know it would do a great deal of help for us! and thats all i really want, I love him dearly but if he cant get help…I got to leave him alone because I’ve tryed to help but I cant he needs someone else to show him.
April 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I was just wondering how i enter for the tool academy show. I’ve currently been in and out of a relationship with my 4 yr old sons father. Hes a drug addict and has been clean for some time now, but always seems to go back but he hasnt relasped yet. Hes always had everything handed to him as a only child, he thinks he the toughest man alive who never does anything wrong and when he does its my fault. He treats me like im a slave because i dont work and i take care of our son,cook,clean and do laundry but thats not enough he doesnt appreciate anything. so can u please help us. i dont want to leave him just fix him. GOODLUCK!!!!!!
April 8th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I need to sign up my boyfriend for the second season of Tool Academy.. He is the biggest tool out there. Along with the ~^+^&`)+!@_~$&( hole part.
April 11th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
for 5 years me and my boyfriend been in love for 5 years. but even though we drifted apart and went our seperate ways more than once. we want to be together and we’ve tried manys times to work it out but we keep drifting back to our stubborn ways. i feel like everything has to be his way and he doesnt know how to see things a different way other than how he feels. he always has to be right no matter what and i hate it but i love him and i cant pt up with this any loger. its hurting us both and we NEED help!! sign us up please.!!!!
April 12th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
my name is amanda werner.
i am 20 yrs old.
i have a 18 month old daughter with my finance, mitch.
Mitch is 22 yrs old and is the most biggest jerk around.
Over the years hes gotten worse.
I need yours guy’s help to straighten him out for our family. I have tried everything in my power to help him change, but im at a lose.
I love him to death and the only way to change him would be you guys.
I would greatly appreciate the chance to help him change and become a man for this family.
thank you, Amanda
April 16th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
please help me i have had it up to the moon and back a million times plus with my selfish cheating boyfriend! i love him dearly and he has all the potential in the world, but i need help. how do i get him on season 2 to save our relationship???
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:18 am
Hi,
I want to know what do i need to do to send my fiance to the tool academy season 2?
April 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
i really think signing up my boyfriend for the next season will help our relationship alot. we have been together for a little over two years now and have been through alot. he was homeless for a really long time because his parents kicked him out and me and my family and friends tried to help him out alot but he always seems to backstab us. he lies and steals and im afrid he is disloyal and unfaithful to me. i have caught some converstaions of him and other girls in his emails and confront him about it but he always says hes just flirting and that he loves me,but im not sure what to do. he also just resently totaled my car one nitght when he took it without my permission. bottom line is i know he has many issuses such as lying,stealing,possibly cheating ans sever anger issues,and i think if we were to go on the show it would help him and i get through life together, and to be a stonger, happier couple,and thats all i want for us is to be happy!
May 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
my ex boyfriend wants to get back together with me but he’s such a tool and i’m recently engaged to a different guy. my ex is always cheatin on me and flirtin with girls. i really do love him but if this show dosent change him than i’m afraid nothin will. please help us!
May 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I really need to sign my boyfriend up for the second season he is not only my boyfriend but the father of my child and I really want it to work but if he keep lying and cheating then I will have to do what i got to do.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I NEEEEEED to get my boyfriend on the 2nd season of TOOL ACADEMY!!!!!!! HOW do I apply?!?!?!?!?!?
May 9th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
i have been with my boyfriend for two years an he is a tool help me
May 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
where can i apply i have been with my boyfriend for two years i think he loves himself more than me sometimes he cheated on me at the begining of our relasionship and i suspect if of cheating may times before i love him so much and i would be so happy if i could spend the rest of my life please help
May 11th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
when does the second season start i have been waiting to watch it for a long time.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I want to apply for the second season of Tool Academy because my boyfriend and I have been in this relationship for seven years and I just can’t seem to get thru to him. We have a 5 year old daughter and I’m currently eight months and 3 weeks pregnant. We are always arguing and I really just want the fights to end. I was always told that a man should do anything he has to do to take care of his family and he has not proven that to me yet. He proposed to me one time before when I was leaving him and I said “no”. I’ve tried so hard to tell him in so many ways what’s wrong and how to fix it but it doesn’t work. He thinks I’m to controlling and I’m really not trying to be, but someone has to take a stand in our house to hold things together. I LOVE him so much and really want our family to be together but I need help desperatly. I need someone to show us the way. PLEASE HELP.
May 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Hi my name is Jessey. My boyfriend is still married!!! We have been together for 3 years. We have 5 chlidren between the two of us. He is seven years my senior, and He seems to thing he is way more mature than me. We fight and break up once a week! We r truely in love but he is a TOOL!! Can u help me?
May 26th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
I would like for my cousin and her….well…asshole boyfriend to attend the Tool Academy. He is rude,lazy and way to demanding of my cousin. But there is another problem…she can get pretty violent with him. I think they both need some help with their relationship. He makes he lay out his clothes for him, he tells her to clean up after his messes, tells her to get his dinner for him..basically to wipe his “~^&`@_*#)~&~^ for him. Its ridiculous. Write me and let me know if you can help them. I told her I was going to write to you, but she thought it was a joke.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Hi I need to apply for the second season. I have a child with a father who does not meet all the needs that needs to be met. He is a bum but also a very good loving father. He has cheated a lot in the past and I have done nothing but be a very good loving girlfriend. I would love him to change his thuggish ways to be a perfect father and loving husband. How do I apply.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I have a boy friend that is a `(`!*&+!_~!&+&% he tells me he can do so much batter. and you know all that good %%^)$_*^`!~^$_)` Its to much i love this guy with all my heart i dont get why he is so mean to me.I give him every thing im 18 and pregnant i need him to help me, im a only 18,
i dont know what to do. he dose not care about me it sames.so i would love to see if we can change not for me but for are kid. I need help vh1 plz help me i cant see my self doing this by my self.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:45 pm
hey i really want to sign up my baby dady/ fiance i would like to know how please!! we need this just not for us but for our family
June 5th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
PLEASE GET TOOL ACADEMY BACK ON SOON. MY TOOL LIKES TO WATCHES AND REALLY CHANGES HE IS SUCH A TOOL WE ARE NOT MARRIED BUT HAVE BEEN TOGETHER OVER 20 YEARS AND HAVE NEVER HAD A ANIVERSRY.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
PLEASE GET TOOL ACADEMY BACK ON SOON.!!! MY TOOL LIKES TO WATCH AND REALLY CHANGES HIM FOR THE BETTER. HE IS SUCH A TOOL. WE ARE NOT MARRIED BUT HAVE BEEN TOGETHER OVER 20 YEARS AND HAVE NEVER HAD A ANIVERSRY. AND YES HE HAS PUT ME THROW ALL OF THE CRAP THE REST OF YOU ALL HAVE BEEN POSTING WHAT THEY DO CLONE THESE JERKS AND WHY DO WE EVEN CARE AND OR LOVE THESE TOOLS.
HURRY PLEASE
June 30th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
My boyfriend and I really need to be on this show..we need to work on our relationship. How do I sign up??????