First episode is called “Mind on the Road”. For you diehard Rev Run fans, “Mind on the Road” is a track recorded by Rev Run last year.
The season opens with Russy taking too much interest in caring for his baby sister, Miley, and JoJo going to Los Angeles to help Vanessa and Angela set up a video-conferencing center.
The Simmons family makes an appearance on TRL along with Timbaland, Keri Hilson, The All-American Rejects, fashion designer Kira Plastinina. Sounds like an awesome show!
The cast of Run’s House on TRL, airing today at 3pm
This is the first photo we’ve seen of the whole fam together in a while. Let’s break it down:
Justine: I couldn’t decide at first if I like the caftan she’s wearing. But I figured it out: it is in fact, TIGHT. The colors are beautiful and I’m loving the bold design. It looks great on her.
Diggy: Let’s start with the red pants, those are smokin. But sorry love I must keep it real: where ever you stole that tablecloth from, put it back. You know you’re cute so I forgive you. (Just put it back.)
Russy: You’re not really matching, but it’s not a terrible outfit so we’ll put you on fashion probation for now. You’re starting to look a little older too and that’s working for you. Russy’s got potential.
Rev Run: He’s got his signature look and he’s a reverend, what’s more to say?
JoJo: Oakland A’s hat, props to the west coast so that’s all good! The shirt is hot too.
Angela: Sporting a new Pastry tee of course, and not yet released. Eh, I like the colors but the design is a little boring. I’ll give Ang the benefit of the doubt though, maybe we just need a closer look at it.
Vanessa: If these girls know anything it’s marketing, and so that has to be a Pastry blouse. It’s retro 80’s, off the shoulder Flashdance style. Is that a belt at the bottom? LOOOOOVE. IT.
V&A have hinted they will be expanding the Pastry brand to include high heels at some point. Wonder if those shoes the girls are wearing are PASTRY? I’ll have to watch the show to check them out.
Run’s House has always been #1 in its time slot for cable viewers 12-34. But this year, there’s a NEW show that seems created especially to go head to head with the Simmons family…
George Foreman, former world heavyweight boxing champion, will also premiere HIS reality show, focusing on him and his family, in the same time slot as Run’s House. George, his wife and his 5 sons all named George will star in”Family Foreman” (TV Land, 10 p.m.).
The former boxing great turned “grillionaire” explained at press tour in California last week why he succumbed to the reality TV cameras. “My life has been an open book anyway,” he said. “And sometimes guys are peeping over the windows and peeping over the gates taking pictures of me anyway. I just said, ‘Come on in.’ That’s all. It’s a great opportunity, I think. To be on television is every child’s dream, and I’m still a child.”
As head of a household of mostly adult children, George still strives to be a role model and struggles in the first episode about whether to go back into the ring against the wishes of his wife.
Now. Run’s House is the freshest show and we loves us some Simmons. But will the rest of the viewing audience agree? Will they defect to watch George and his family instead?
Loading ...
In June 2007, the stars of our favorite TV show Run’s House signed a book deal worth more than $1 million. The book, called “Take Back Your Family: A Challenge to America’s Parents” by Rev Run and Justine Simmons, shares their secret recipe for successful parenting. It hits bookstores on August 8, on the heels of Run’s House new season premiering July 16 on MTV.
The stars of MTV’s Emmy-winning, top-rated Run’s House—dubbed “the new Cosby family”—offer a vital rescue manual for modern parenting.
An icon of hip-hop, a father of six, and an ordained minister, Rev Run has developed a parenting style that is in a class by itself. With his wife, Justine, he launched the blockbuster reality series Run’s House on MTV, now filming its fifth season. The show has proven wildly popular in large part due to the way the Simmons family responds to very twenty-first-century issues. Emphasizing firm boundaries, noble values, discipline, and faith in an age marked by shallow materialism and fragmented families, Rev Run now shares the proven principles that have given his children a firm foundation, including:
• Run your family as the COEs: Chief Officers of Everything.
• Understand that you can never correct what you don’t confront.
• Lead by example, not by preaching: Hypocrisy and parenting are a destructive combination.
• Today’s fast-paced world can often make children feel small; your job is to help them feel large.
• Older children need more rules and parental involvement, not less.
Reaching an average weekly audience of 4.1 million viewers, Run’s House speaks to America’s fascination with high-profile parents. Take Back Your Family brings home the behind-the-scenes wisdom of hip-hop’s first family to everyone seeking solid guidance for raising a new generation.
A founding member of the chart-topping hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. (over 30 million albums sold), Rev Run (aka Joseph Simmons) is now a minister at Zoe Ministries.
His wife, Justine Simmons (formerly MC Justine) costars on their blockbuster reality show, Run’s House.
In Run’s House season 4 we saw JoJo Simmons, brother to Pastry designers Angela and Vanessa Simmons, get Team Blackout signed with record label Latchkey Recordings.
Check out their single “Lights Down Low”:
Dad Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons is a producer. Other tracks are “Billion Dollar Boyfriend” and “J5 on Em”. Can’t wait to see the videos! No doubt they’ll be featured heavily on Run’s House season 5.
Neither of them were nominated for anything, the designers/sisters were just there to give and get some love.
Photo Credit: theybf.com
Angela’s gone back to her most popular hairstyle, and Vanessa seems to favor satin in her ensemble.
Their competition includes “Keeping up with the Kardashians (please) and “The Hills” (double please!).
Note: you must be between 13 and 19 years old to vote. You can vote every day.
PASTRY PROPS to NADINE for the tip!
Cast of Run’s House at the Kid’s Choice Awards in 2007
Rev Run and his brood beat down MAJAH shows in this category: Dancing with the Stars, America’s Next Top Model, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, and even American Idol. The NAACP Image Awards commemorates outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those who promote social justice. Congrats to Angela, JoJo, Russy, Justine, Diggy, Rev Run and Vanessa Simmons!
