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Everybody in the tub: From reality TV to Oscar nominees, pop culture is bubbling over with hot, hot, hot tubs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Malcolm Mayhew
FORT WORTH, Texas _ Shannon Oliver knew it was coming: They were gonna ask her to take her clothes off.
As a contestant on the ABC reality series "The Bachelor," the 25-year-old Addison, Texas, resident was hoping and praying she could bypass the "hot-tub scene," a spicy staple of reality shows such as "The Real World," "Joe Millionaire," "Meet My Folks" and "The Bachelor."
And for a while there, it looked like she had, in fact, weaseled out of weaseling out of her clothes. A month into filming, though, bachelor Alex Michel popped the question: Wanna get in the hot tub?
"It was me, Alex _ and 15 crewmen," says Oliver, an operations specialist for a financial planning company. "It's one thing to jump in a hot tub with friends and have a good time. But jumping in a hot tub when America's watching and critiquing every inch of your body, that's another story."
It's a story that's getting longer and longer. One of this season's most talked-about movie moments occurs in "About Schmidt," when zaftig actress Kathy Bates' character bares all as she takes a dip in the spa with Jack Nicholson.
And for reality shows and real-dating series such as "Blind Date" and…
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