No, seriously...

How's this for a TV show - grab eight drug or alcohol addicted celebrities, put them in rehab for 21 days and film the whole thing.

When I saw the ad for Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew, I was rather excited. How trashy! Surely this would be reality TV at its best.

And I was not disappointed.
Now, before I go into it I should let you all know that this is a Foxtel show, so the only reason I got to watch it was because I was staying at my parents' house and using their pay TV.

Nonetheless, it's great television.
The celebrities are premium B grade celebrities. First cab off the ranks is Jeff Connaway, the actor who played Kenickie, one of the T Birds in Grease. There's Brigiette Nielsen, there's the lead singer from that one hit wonder rap/rock band Crazytown, there's the actress who played one of the children in the long running sitcom Family Matters and even a porn star named - wait for it - Mary Carey.
Gold.

But that's about where the trashiness stopped. The show was actually quite full on, confronting and intense.
All of the 'celebrities' arrived at the rehab centre drunk, stoned or high.
Jeff Connaway had to be helped out of his car and was in a wheelchair for the first 24 hours, which gives a pretty good indication of his level of inebriation.
He then had a seizure less than 24 hours later as he started to suffer withdrawals from the cocaine and alcohol.

Don't get me wrong, the trash factor is there in the celebrities that appear on the show. But the content and subject matter of the show is far from trashy. If you can download it, or buy the dvd, I highly recommend it.
I'll probably never get to see another episode again because I don't have Foxtel, but it was well worth it just to catch one episode.

Did I mention the porn star's name was Mary Carey...?