Viviana Knows Best – Just Ask Her: Next Action Star’s Viviana Londono

All this was still prior to the selection of the final 14 finalists. By some miracle, Viviana had managed to impress the judges enough to make the cut as a finalist, so she, along with 13 other finalists, moved into a Hollywood Hills mansion where the sparks — and Viviana’s clothing — immediately started to fly.

Viviana was the only female finalist who decided to go swimming in the mansion’s pool and didn’t let a little thing like a lack of appropriate swimming attire stop her. She stripped down to her sports bra and G-string and dove right in. Far be it for me to criticize someone for not being ashamed of his/her body, but she could have at least considered how her fellow housemates would feel about this. Of course, being Viviana, the only person whose feelings she is concerned with is Viviana.

Even something as simple as room selection in the mansion didn’t proceed without incident. While most people had chosen their rooms, Viviana went upstairs and despaired at seeing two other finalists there because she apparently called dibs on that room. Unlike a fellow finalist who came in, saw that the room was taken and walked out, Viviana swore at the room’s current occupants, insisted on getting that room, and pulled a tongue at them when they didn’t budge. Way to be mature and understanding, Viviana.

Maybe it’s that English isn’t her first language, but Viviana seemed to have a lot of trouble communicating and working with her partners. Her first screen test partner claimed she was too nitpicky during rehearsal, and thus he didn’t want to rehearse with her. For her second screen test, instead of nicely asking her partner to stop joking around, she told him to respect her, “otherwise I’ll become your worst nightmare.” Not exactly an incentive to do what she was asking.

On one occasion, when she thought a group of finalists was laughing at her during lunch, she simply got up from the table, announced “you don’t need to laugh at me now,” and left the mess hall. When one of the finalists followed her and tried to placate her, she told him she’s “too complicated” for him to try figuring her out so he shouldn’t even bother trying. Maybe she meant she has too many issues to deal with. That would make more sense and sure would explain a lot.

Not only can’t Viviana work with her scene partners, she can’t work as part of a team either. When the finalists were split up into two teams, I knew immediately that, much like Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth from The Apprentice, whomever chose Viviana for their team would be the losing team — and I was right.

Both teams underwent firearms training, but Viviana – adding to the list of things on which she considers herself an expert – didn’t think she had to pay attention to the lecture on gun safety, or the lesson on how to handle a gun properly that the finalists got. When it came time for a timed speed test, the team of which Viviana was a member lost, primarily because she didn’t know how to hold and shoot a gun efficiently and safely, thus costing her teammates valuable time. One team member even accused Viviana of holding the team back, claiming that everyone on the team worked well together, except for her.

Note that these have only been a few specific examples of her shameful behavior throughout her time on Next Action Star. And all this pales in comparison to the crown jewel of shameless behavior. Unaware that Viviana was “too complicated” to be figured out, another finalist tried talking to her about her outlandish behavior. He told her to cut the drama and “keep it real.” That’s good advice, and Viviana would have been wise to take it. Then again, if she did the wise, mature thing, she wouldn’t be Viviana.

So how did she respond? She jumped on the kitchen counter and started munching on a tulip! I am not making this up! She really did that. Her justification was that if she wasn’t keeping it real, that’s the kind of behavior she’d be exhibiting all the time. At least she spat out the tulip, once she made her point.

Apparently this was the last straw, because the next thing we knew, Viviana was packing a suitcase and telling one of her fellow finalists that she was quitting the show. She claimed that all she’d been doing was fighting with the finalists instead of competing against them, and she was tired of it, so she decided to quit.

Yes folks, this woman whom the judges declared was “ready for anything,” this woman who claimed, "If I'm not here in Hollywood, I don't want to be anywhere else," decided to take the easy way out and quit. Far be it from her to sit down like a rational person and discuss her problems with her fellow housemates like a mature adult. Far be it from her to actually try and work things out. No, that would be asking too much; better to wimp out than to confront your problems head on.

Heaven help us – and her housemates – if she ever applies for The Real World or Big Brother. She couldn’t even survive one week with her fellow Next Action Star finalists. It makes you wonder how she would survive living for months with strangers, or even if she could.

So for acts of selfishness, egotism, immaturity, and unbridled shameful behavior, let me be the first to say Viviana Londono, welcome to the Reality TV Hall of Shame.

Gil Sery is a freelance writer based out of San Diego, CA. You can reach him at movieman26@hotmail.com.

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