What's more fun than watching desperate people eat horrible things? Watching them make out - or not make out - and cause dramatic love triangles on reality TV of course! "I Love Money" knows how to utilize its players, but the romantic entanglements should not be a surprise; all of these contestants were publicly turned down by Flavor Flav, New York, and Bret Michaels. It is shocking it took three episodes before the love games began!

In the third episode of "I Love Money" the teams were given new Captains: The Entertainer for the Gold team and Mr. Boston for the Green team. Really, Green team, Mr. Boston? They sort of deserved what they had coming. They were instructed to divide their team up into pairs, and decided from the cryptic clue given that they would be eating horrible things. Both teams quickly decided to pair everyone off depending on who would eat anything for money, and who would not. The pairs did not actually matter, as when the competition began everything fell apart.

Intermingling with the competition was the behind-the-scenes canoodling going on in the house. Heather, she of the humiliating Bret tattoo, was hooking up with 12 Pack, and Heat and Destiney were getting closer. The Entertainer watched enviously and plotted for his chance to steal Destiney. Megan used Heather's insecurities to flirt with 12 Pack, and then squealed on him afterward. The Entertainer saw right through this and acknowledged her as a trouble maker. Mr. Boston showed some amount of surprising intelligence by knowing that Real, Whiteboy, and Chance are a group of friends that will eventually need to split up. Even if they are his teammates, he knows they will band together against everyone else and wants to plan ahead.

Instead of eating disgusting things, they would be in a kiss-off. An unnecessarily long clip is shown from "Flavor of Love" where Flavor Flav and New York kissed for over an hour. The audience took a break to vomit and return. In any case, the competition was whoever kisses the longest wins. This usually would not be a problem except that Chance and Mr. Boston have teamed up, and Chance refused to play along even if for a second. The Gold team laughed it up and taunted him so he would give up, and it worked. This was the second time he blew off a challenge due to his pride, but his friend Real still defended him. The Gold team won by default, meaning that the Entertainer decided who goes home.

Meanwhile on Soap Opera Hour, Heat started a fight with Chance and Destiney stood up for him, but he just let her get cussed out by Chance. This infuriated her and split up that pairing, leaving the door open for The Entertainer to sweep right in and steal her fair-weather heart. The Green team could not decide who was to go home - although Mr. Boston tried to get the trio off - and The Entertainer chose Megan, Heat, and ... Mr. Boston. Why was everyone giving him any credit? Just watch, he'll end up winning the entire thing! Anyway, The Entertainer thought Heat had given up on Destiney and focused on troublemaker Megan instead. No one really paid attention to Mr. Boston. Megan protested her innocence, and then Whiteboy came in to mess with The Entertainer's head about Destiney and Heat. This led Heat to be sent home, and Whiteboy knows his own team is after him now ... it's on!

Next week, more drama, betrayal, tears, and backstabbing. 12 Pack plots with two of the Green team members to purposely throw the next competition, and he promises not to kick them off. Gasp! It doesn't get any better than this. "I Love Money" is on VH1 at 9 pm every Sunday night.

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Story by Chelsea 'Dee' Doyle
Starpulse contributing writer