VH1's Rock of Love Bus - Episode 1

Meet the Rock of Love Bus Cast as They Compete for Bret's Affections

Jan 4, 2009

The third Rock of Love show begins with 17 cast members. Rock of Love Bus takes place on the road with Bret Michaels. Find out which girls get eliminated and sent home!

Poison front man Bret Michaels returns to VH1 for a third Rock of Love series - Rock of Love Bus, which premiered on January 4, 2009.

A total of 20 girls were cast for Rock of Love Bus, with five eliminated in the first episode. The Rock of Love Bus cast members are as follows:

As the name suggests, the Rock of Love Bus cast members aren't going to be scampering around a posh mansion. This Rock of Love cast gets a real taste of the rock star life on the road with the Poison front man.

The first episode of Rock of Love Bus started with the traditional photo shoot, with Bret photographing the girls for their back stage passes - passes that will actually get the girls backstage, since the third Rock of Love series was filmed during Bret Michaels' latest tour.

So one by one, the girls were called up to get photographed by Bret. The first girl to be photographed - Brittaney (who, notably, is listed on the VH1 website as "Jasmineva") - Bret recognized from her adult film work. And the hormones only raged further as Bret went down the line, with some girls - Taya and Gia, namely - baring more than others as they tried to make a great first impression.

Once the photo shoot is done, the girls get to jump aboard the two Rock of Love buses: a pink bus and a blue bus. The blue bus ends up being home to the more down-to-earth girls, while the pink bus is the scene of arguments and girl fights within the first few minutes of the show.

Juliette Lewis look-alike Ashley and the Brazilian-born "firecracker" Marcia get in an argument when a drunken Ashley starts singing a rather rude song about Marcia. But Marcia comes out on top when she pours her drink over Ashley's head in true reality television style.

Marcia is involved in a second girl-fight with Ashley a bit later in the show when the Rock of Love Bus cast arrives at a hotel. And this time, a Tequila-loving Marcia nearly strangles Ashley after Ashley returns the favor by pouring a beer over Marcia's head.

While Marcia and Ashley were fighting, other girls were in an opposite state of mind, with DJ and graffiti artist Nikki and fun-loving Gia getting a bit too friendly with some very intimate body shots during the cast's first Poison concert after-party. Gia also got really friendly with fellow cast member Farrah on-stage during the concert, an action that definitely got Bret's (and the other cast members') attention.

But Gia wasn't friendly with all the girls; Gia and Beverly - a down-to-earth Bret Michaels fan who is the first Rock of Love Bus cast member to really get noticed by the musician with some one-on-one time - got in a drink-throwing girl fight at the bar during the after-party.

All good things must come to an end, and for five Rock of Love Bus cast members, their time on the show ended before it really got started.

Bret gave an immediate pass to all but seven girls: Gia, Brittaney, Stephanie, Marcia, Heather, Marcy, and Nikki, who appears too intoxicated to stand during the elimination.

Ultimately, Gia and Nikki's party-girl antics were simply too much, while Stephanie, and Marcy were too quiet and reserved. Heather, Bret said, did not appear as though she would be accepting of Bret's lifestyle. And despite her "checkered" past in adult films, Brittaney was picked to stay on the show, as was Marcia, who Bret apparently forgave for her attempt to choke out Ashley.

Wondering what happens next on Rock of Love Bus? Tune in to VH1 on Sunday, January 11, at 9:00 p.m. for the next episode of Rock of Love Bus!

Reality show fans may also enjoy Real Chance of Love, with Stallionaires Real and Chance of I Love New York fame!

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