Mike Tyson Trades Places with Male Nurse for New Reality Show
Retired champion boxer Mike Tyson recently spent some time in a West Michigan hospital – to shoot a new CBS reality show.
In the new series, titled Same Name, celebrities will trade places with a total stranger who shares their same name to experience each others lives.
For Tyson, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, that meant donning hospital scrubs and temporarily swapping spots with a registered nurse in Grand Rapids – who consequently got to “live it up” in Iron Mike’s Las Vegas pad.
According to “Kid Dynamite,” the the experience of the new show, which he admitted “taught him to be a human,” was crazy but came “natural.”
“I felt it was crazy,” said Tyson in an interview with WWMT, “and the more I kept associating with these kind of bizarre shows, like Funny or Die and all these things, I became somewhat used to making a fool of myself, it comes pretty natural.”
Other big names to appear in episodes of the new series include NFL star Reggie Bush, comedian Kathy Griffin, and Baywatch icon David Hasselhoff.
The Mike Tyson Same Name episode will be broadcast on August 7th.
Photo Credit: CBS
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Posted: July 25, 2011
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Jul 25, 2011
WTF of the day…Mike Tyson was allowed near sick people… Wasn't this man convicted of rape? Why on earth would he be allowed to be a nurse for day? Oh…in the name of entertainment. wow
Jul 25, 2011
How could the RN, or the hospital be okay w/him "helping" people?
Jul 25, 2011
How could the RN, or the hospital be okay w/him "helping" people?
Jul 25, 2011
How could the RN, or the hospital be okay w/him "helping" people?
Jul 25, 2011
Yikes!
Jul 25, 2011
Yikes!
Jul 25, 2011
Yikes!
Jul 25, 2011
don't forget battery on his ex wife
Jul 25, 2011
don't forget battery on his ex wife
Jul 25, 2011
don't forget battery on his ex wife
Jul 25, 2011
don't forget battery on his ex wife
Jul 25, 2011
for what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ratings?????????? sick people
Jul 25, 2011
for what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ratings?????????? sick people
Jul 25, 2011
for what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ratings?????????? sick people
Jul 25, 2011
for what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ratings?????????? sick people
Aug 6, 2011
To the girl who said Mike Tyson should never be allowed on tv because he was convicted of rape in the past: If you believe in the system that convicted him then you'd be a hypocrite to not accept that he did his time and got rehabilitated which is the whole point of the system. Besides that, the conviction was very sketchy and there's a chance it was wrong. I'm not saying he's innocent, he was a total nutcase and capable of anything but Tyson seems like a changed man to me.
Aug 6, 2011
To the girl who said Mike Tyson should never be allowed on tv because he was convicted of rape in the past: If you believe in the system that convicted him then you'd be a hypocrite to not accept that he did his time and got rehabilitated which is the whole point of the system. Besides that, the conviction was very sketchy and there's a chance it was wrong. I'm not saying he's innocent, he was a total nutcase and capable of anything but Tyson seems like a changed man to me.
Aug 6, 2011
To the girl who said Mike Tyson should never be allowed on tv because he was convicted of rape in the past: If you believe in the system that convicted him then you'd be a hypocrite to not accept that he did his time and got rehabilitated which is the whole point of the system. Besides that, the conviction was very sketchy and there's a chance it was wrong. I'm not saying he's innocent, he was a total nutcase and capable of anything but Tyson seems like a changed man to me.
Aug 6, 2011
To the girl who said Mike Tyson should never be allowed on tv because he was convicted of rape in the past: If you believe in the system that convicted him then you'd be a hypocrite to not accept that he did his time and got rehabilitated which is the whole point of the system. Besides that, the conviction was very sketchy and there's a chance it was wrong. I'm not saying he's innocent, he was a total nutcase and capable of anything but Tyson seems like a changed man to me.