It's the guys' turn to go wild on video
'Girls Gone Wild' producers will offer version that features fellows who bare all.
By Christy Lemire
Associated Press
July 2, 2004
NEW YORK -- Now all red-blooded American males can drop trou for the cameras.
Introducing "Guys Gone Wild," an all-male version of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series.
" 'Girls Gone Wild' has been around about seven years, and every person who's been involved with it on many different levels has been asked once or multiple times, what about a 'Guys Gone Wild'?" said Bill Horn, spokesman for Mantra Entertainment, which produces the videos.
"It was about seeing something different for a different audience," Horn said Thursday. "We took the mirror image of what we had been doing with 'Girls Gone Wild.' "
Starting July 13, three titles will be available on DVD and video through a Web site and an 800 number: "Guys Gone Wild," "Guys Gone Wild: Spring Break" and "Guys Gone Wild: Frat Boys."
The stars are young, good-looking guys who aren't shy about taking it all off and letting it all hang out. They gyrate like strippers, do push-ups and, in one memorable scene, bounce up and down on their hotel room beds while tossing a football back and forth.
So who exactly would shell out $19.99 to see this?
"Based on the reactions I've gotten, college-age girls, maybe older," Horn said. "I think it's going to be a big gag gift, bachelorette kind of gift."
But Horn also expects the videos will to appeal to gay men. "There's a certain amount of gay women who purchase 'Girls Gone Wild,' " he said.
Misty Nicole, a 24-year-old aspiring actress, helped to recruit subjects as a member of the all-female "Guys Gone Wild" production crew.
At sunny destinations including Cancun, Mexico, and South Padre Island, Texas, Nicole scoured the parties and sweet-talked the guys into appearing in front of her camera.
"I look for cute guys," she said. "I go up to them and I go, 'Hey, you're cute. How crazy and wild are you?' They'd be like, 'I'm pretty wild.' Then their friends would come over and they'd see the camera, they'd see the shirt and they'd go, 'Oh, my God, you're with 'Girls Gone Wild!' "
From there, getting them to take off their shirts and yell "Guys Gone Wild!" is pretty easy, she said -- but about half the time, it requires a little coaxing to get them to go further.
"Some of them, they just need reassurance," she said.
Another occupational hazard: being hit on constantly.
"Sometimes they get out of control," Nicole said. "Sometimes they try to get my camera and pull me into the shot."
But sometimes, Nicole found, there's a hangover of regret.
"There are a few people who come up to me the next day or later that night and say, 'You know what? I'd really prefer that you not use that. My dad is the governor of blah-blah-blah.' Or 'I'm planning on going into politics.' Or 'I'm going into the Army,' " she said. "I lost some really good footage, but I can't do that to them."
