Ochocinco‘s Tara Gets High-Brow Praise

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“She’s spinoff-worthy. She may be sitcom-worthy,” wrote New York Times writer Jon Caramanica for the Los Angeles Times this week regarding Ochocino: The Ultimate Catch‘s resident smart-ass Tara. Comparing her to Megan Hauserman (as a compliment!), Caramanica rhapsodizes the woman that he considers the “breakout” in a group of “meandering, often dull set of characters”:

“She’s mastered the way certain people have of speaking with celebrities to make them feel comfortable, a sort of overconfident obsequiousness. She addresses Ochocinco by his first name in an authoritative way. She’s committed to eye contact.

Plus, she’s eager to rib. She teased Ochocinco about her being white and him being black. ‘Baby like chocolate?’ he asked. She assured him Baby did. Then he asked what her mother would think if she brought him home. She replied, ‘Is he black? Is he robbing the place?’ Potentially touchy, but she pulled it off without malice. (In the premiere, she toyed with the preternaturally dull Terrell Owens, another football player and VH1 reality star, who was helping Ochocinco make his decisions. When he asked whether her parents would mind her dating a black man, she replied straight-faced, ‘My parents are black. I’m adopted.’)”

These kind of odes to reality stars are not common, let alone for a paper as respected as the Los Angeles Times. It may be premature to say that Tara has arrived (we can reexamine after a spin-off or two), but it’s safe to say that she’s well on her way. [Los Angeles Times]

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12 responses to to Ochocinco‘s Tara Gets High-Brow Praise

Zoe Mitchell August 5, 2010 at 6:44 pm

Shes so funny!!!!! I would love to see her on her own show dating a bunch of single celebrities!

Karina August 6, 2010 at 7:47 pm

I like Tara..not for Ochocinco but she’s witty and a smart a**. She knows how to play the camera…love it!!

BLACK BARBEE August 15, 2010 at 3:16 pm

chad is such a fool for tara she not only talks sideways about other people she talks smack about him he is falling for the blonde hair becky smh!

Ebb August 15, 2010 at 9:49 pm

tara is a hot mess
and she fake lol

Annie August 16, 2010 at 7:40 pm

Once again, i am confused and blahful or how stupid thses ladies are. This “Ochocinco” is all into himself. I can not believe this aman is worried about someone being for him or some cats. Be for Real,you are so into yourself.I would not only be surprise, but shock, if he pick any of these bimbooooooooos.
Chad get back on the field and stop playing the field.

Annie August 16, 2010 at 7:41 pm

Once again, i am confused and blahful or how stupid these ladies are. This “Ochocinco” is all into himself. I can not believe this aman is worried about someone being for him or some cats. Be for Real,you are so into yourself.I would not only be surprise, but shock, if he pick any of these bimbooooooooos.
Chad get back on the field and stop playing the field.
PLUS, learn how to eat with your mouth close

Laughing my as* off August 20, 2010 at 12:55 am

This show is funny…..rubi gonna win cuz he likes her,,,plus she’s actually got some singing skills….nuthin wrong with that…stop being a hater Annie…get a life,,,,this isnt real,,only t.v… Fool…. But you are right about his eating with his mouth open

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