Various News: Paola Mayfield Joins New Amazon Freevee Reality Competition Show, Book About Life of Dropkick Murphy

– Amazon Freevee has announced a new reality competition show, The Goat. The show will feature 90 Day Fiance star and pro wrestler Paola Mayfield (aka Paola Blaze). Here’s the full press release from Amazon Studios:

Amazon Freevee Announces Pickup of The GOAT, a New Competition Series to Find the ‘Greatest Reality Star of All Time,’ From the Producers of The Bachelor Franchise, The Office, Yellowstone, and Jury Duty … and Mayor of Kingstown, and The Hills, and Hillary, and Black-ish, and FBoy Island, and Running Wild with Bear Grylls, and Midnight Mass, and Pooch Perfect

Comedian Daniel Tosh to host and roast the contestants

Celebrity competitors are Tayshia Adams, Joe Amabile, Kristen Doute, Reza Farahan, CJ Franco, Wendell Holland, Teck Holmes, Justin Johnson/Alyssa Edwards, Paola Mayfield, Da’Vonne Rogers, Joey Sasso, Jason Smith, Lauren Speed-Hamilton, and Jill Zarin

NEW YORK – Grab your roses, tiki torches, dancing shoes, passports, wigs, and whisks, and ready your game face, because the search for the “greatest reality show contestant” of all time is on! Today, Amazon Freevee announced the series greenlight, host, and celebrity cast for a hilarious new reality competition series called The GOAT. The show will feature some of the buzziest names from the last 25 years of reality television, who will take up residence in GOAT Manor, where they will face a series of mental, physical, and social challenges. Fourteen will enter, but only one will win the cash prize and America’s respect as they claim the coveted GOAT title. Comedian Daniel Tosh (Tosh.0) is confirmed to host the series. The series started production last month in Atlanta.

The celebrity cast is:

· Tayshia Adams (The Bachelor franchise)
· Joe Amabile (The Bachelor franchise, Dancing with the Stars)
· Kristen Doute (Vanderpump Rules)
· Reza Farahan (Shahs of Sunset)
· CJ Franco (FBoy Island)
· Wendell Holland (Survivor)
· Teck Holmes (The Real World, The Challenge)
· Justin Johnson/Alyssa Edwards (RuPaul’s Drag Race)
· Paola Mayfield (90 Day Fiancé)
· Da’Vonne Rogers (Big Brother, The Challenge)
· Joey Sasso (The Circle, Perfect Match)
· Jason Smith (Holiday Baking Championship)
· Lauren Speed-Hamilton (Love Is Blind)
· Jill Zarin (The Real Housewives of New York City)

The GOAT is executive produced by Elan Gale (The Bachelor franchise, FBoy Island, Midnight Mass, Pooch Perfect), Bill Dixon (The Bachelor franchise, FBoy Island, Pooch Perfect), Anthony Anderson (Black-ish), Lee Eisenberg (The Office, Jury Duty), Michael Friedman (Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, The Hills, The Bachelor franchise), Howard T. Owens (Hillary, Running Wild with Bear Grylls), Isabel San Vargas (Hillary, Running Wild with Bear Grylls), Ben Silverman (The Office, Hillary, Running Wild with Bear Grylls), Audrey Smith (FBoy Island), Daniel Tosh, and Matthew M. Welty (Pooch Perfect). Dixon also serves as showrunner. Michael Shea directs. The GOAT is produced by Propagate and Amazon Studios.

Spanning drama and comedy, scripted and unscripted, Amazon Freevee uniquely offers premium Originals on a free streaming service, including Primo, the coming-of-age comedy from Michael Schur and Shea Serrano, premiering on May 19; the recently launched concert special Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens; and the new documentary-style comedy series Jury Duty, featuring James Marsden. Additional Originals include High School, the critically acclaimed coming-of-age series based on Tegan and Sara Quin’s best-selling memoir; Greg Garcia’s comedy series Sprung; and the cooking competition series featuring a cast of home chefs, America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation.

– A new book about the life of late wrestler Dropkick Murphy is hitting the shelves on May 9. The book is written by Emily Sweeney, and it’s titled Dropkick Murphy: A Legendary Life. Hamilcar Publications released the following information on the book:

Newspapers called him the “the man with the cast-iron toes,” “the best drop-kicker in wrestling,” and “one of the mat game’s biggest box office attractions.” But Dr. John “Dropkick” Murphy legacy extends far beyond the wrestling ring. Decades before the Betty Ford Center became a household name — and long before the band the Dropkick Murphys named themselves in his honor — the phrase going to Dropkick’s meant a person struggling with addiction needed help and would soon get some.

This book, for the first time, chronicles the unbelievable life of Dr. “Dropkick” Murphy, a professional wrestler who put himself through medical school during the Great Depression and then opened Bellows Farm, a one-of-a-kind institution that served as both a facility where elite athletes could train as well as a secluded place where down-on-their-luck alcoholics could go to sober up discreetly.

The celebrities who frequented Dropkick Murphy’s farm were many, and numerous professional athletes would go there to focus on their training and work out in his state-of-the-art gymnasium. As a result, Bellows Farm featured an unrivaled and revolving cast of colorful characters who brought it to life. Drawing on years of research and interviews, author Emily Sweeney goes behind the scenes to reveal the untold story of Murphy’s life, his farm, and the legendary events that unfolded there.

It features a foreword by Ken Casey.