Strange Love

Strange Love is an American reality television series featuring Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav that aired on VH1. Sparked by their on-screen romance in the third season of VH1's The Surreal Life, it is a spin-off that focused solely on Brigitte and Flav. The series premiered on January 9, 2005 and ended its run on April 24, 2005. Due to mutual jealousy, the couple was constantly fighting and yelling, and they went their separate ways in the end, with Nielsen choosing instead to live with her Italian boyfriend, Mattia Dessi. Flavor Flav would go on to have his own reality show, Flavor of Love, where he continued to search for love. Episodes "The Flavor of Love" – aired: January 9, 2005 (1.8M viewers) "The Smack Is Back" – aired: January 16, 2005 "Balls Well That Ends Well" – aired: January 23, 2005 "The Wine, The Romance, and The Truth" – aired: January 30, 2005 "Flav's Fried Chicken" – aired: February 13, 2005 "Public Enemy Number 1" – aired: February 20, 2005 "Bronx Cheers" – aired: March 6, 2005 "The Family That Flav's Together, Stays Together" – aired: March 27, 2005 "Flav Can't Lose" – aired: April 3, 2005 "You May Now Flav the Bride" – aired: April 10, 2005 "Reunion" – aired: April 24, 2005 Controversy North Carolina's Reverend Paul Scott labeled Flav's performance "a coon act on a modern-day minstrel show."