The image the two project of an over-the-top caricature of an "it" couple began to seem too deliciously (or horrifically) odd to be true.\n"VH1 must think I'm a fool to believe that," said Tommy Smith, a DJ in Los Angeles and a longtime fan of Public Enemy, with evident disgust. Grousing about the spectacle of "the original public enemy" canoodling with the bleach-blond Nielsen, whose former husbands include Sylvester Stallone, one viewer wrote on the VH1 Web site, "What a sellout."\nAnother viewer, SnowflakeGirl, wrote on that the hookup "seems as unnatural and unlikely" as that between a giraffe and a house cat.\nBut VH1's audience could not seem to turn away as Nielsen flirted with other men and Flav called her "loose" as Flav promised he would give up his gold teeth if Gitte (Nielsen's given name) would marry him as Nielsen proclaimed her love for "William Drayton" (Flav's real name).\nMore recently, as Flav and Nielson have appeared together to build interest in Strange Love, some fans suspected a setup. Within two months of the Surreal Life September season premiere - the most watched show in VH1's history - the channel announced the new couple would be getting their own reality series: Strange Love, currently playing in the US.\nThe show is part ebony-and-ivory cliche, part believe it or not: the outspoken rapper who once epitomized black power dating the Nordic giantess who used to embody, well, blonde power.\nEven devotees of The Surreal Life and its always strange interpersonal dynamics were taken aback by this oddball couple. The next morning, as he watched her serenely cooking breakfast, he said he just might fall in love.\nAnd if Flav, Nielsen and VH1 are to be believed, that is essentially what happened. He brought her dinner in bed, where she lay in a drunken haze, then joined her under the covers. Flavor Flav, Nielsen and four other C-list celebrities were settling in for what appeared to be a fraught 12-day stay, which was shown last fall.\nNot long after their arrival, though, Nielsen, 41, had a few drinks and began parading in pint-sized skivvies and an apron, and Flav, 45, toned down his irritation. When the 170cm rapper Flavor Flav - whose group, Public Enemy, emerged as the Black Panthers of the hip-hop generation in the late 1980s - met the 184cm former action-film star Brigitte Nielsen, a battle of bling versus brawn began.\nHe balked when she tried to touch his gold teeth she towered over him, swiped him with her makeup bag and proclaimed that she would wear the pants in the house.\nThe house in question was the set of American music channel VH1's reality show The Surreal Life, Season 3. Opposites attract, yes, but they also bicker like third graders sometimes.
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