In November 2005, Marguerite Perrin (later to be known as God Warrior), entered the annals of Reality Television Superstardom in a time where absurd reality television was thriving. The series, Trading Spouses, took mothers from polar opposite homes and swapped them with one another. Perrin, a devout Christian from rural Louisiana, was swapped with a Boston hypnotherapist, married to an astrologer. After a week together, Perrin returned home and gave one of the most iconic meltdowns to grace mid-2000s reality television, notably screaming, "They're tampering with the dark side," the gap in her teeth making that a in dark sound more like dork. "This is tainted! I am a God warrior, and I don't want anyone tainted doing anything with my family!" Show And thus, televised gold. This was early in the era of instant social viral news—a time when Perrin's meltdown had a little bit of time to ruminate across America. Her literal crusade went viral in a time before Twitter when even YouTube and Facebook were only a year old. She appeared on Leno, where he gifted her a bobble head doll of herself. She made her rounds on The Tyra Banks Show, giving her charming, Southern explanation of just what the f— happened upon her return. She was even so popular that Trading Spouses asked her to do the series again, in true all-star fashion. A highlight in her big journey? "I got to play a celebrity Texas Hold 'Em tournament," she says of a trip to Vegas. Years later, she's been name-dropped by Chrissy Teigen and repurposed to dot timelines in looping three second intervals. To those not severely online, you may only recognize her stretched out on a couch or pointing at a camera, screaming, "DORK-SIDED!" reappearing every few months as the exact meme you'd been looking for. Now, 14 years after her infamous TV debut, she still lives in Southern Louisiana and manages a dance studio. Admittedly, some of the girls were "leery" to join her studio, familiar with her booming Southern drawl and viral infamy. She's had offers for a Dance Moms-style series, but that didn't particularly interest her. Most recently, she was spotted at New York City Pride—a confusing development for the woman known for screaming out in the name of Jesus. Recognized on the street, pictures of her flanked by fit men in short shorts and tank tops went semi-viral this summer. Like most of her journey, the random pieces of Perrin's virility make little sense separately. And while the story behind God Warrior is complex, becoming the internet's joke-turned-hero changed Marguerite Perrin's life for the better. Taking my call in her car during lunch on Halloween Eve (the most dark-sided of holidays), Perrin explains how she ended up at Gay Pride, unprompted. "God's got a mysterious, humorous side with me," she says of her accidental appearance in New York. That notion is hard to argue. God Warrior's journey started when Perrin was recast for Trading Spouses in 2005. Initially, slated to swap homes with a mother to a bodybuilding family, she was redirected to spend time in a Wiccan home. Overwhelmed by the experience, Perrin's arrival back in Louisiana seemed less like a homecoming and more like an exorcism. She yelled that the process was over and that anyone who didn't believe in God should leave her house, in Jesus name she prayed. The video went viral, so on, so forth. In terms of how real that all was, Perrin is very honest. "I might not have said it all in one sentence, but I did say all those things," she confesses, through a laugh. "I'm not going to put it off on editing. I would've liked them to take 100 pounds off of me if they were going to edit something though." After her episode, everyone had an opinion on God Warrior, and she's not surprised. "I laugh at it now because I watched the show," she says, "and I look back at a scene and I'm like, 'I can see how people felt the way they felt. I get it. I totally get it.'" This content is imported from youTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. In October, the former couple also lent their story to the Stillbirth Foundation, speaking about the loss of their first child, Dexx to raise awareness for the cause along with former Big brother star, Bree Amer.
Michelle and JasonImage: Seven.These two are 100 per cent not together anymore. Although they've gone their separate ways since the show wrapped up, Instagram shows both Stacey-Louise and Sarge have been using their reality TV profiles to raise awareness for various causes. Stacey-Louise has been promoting Huntington's disease, which took her father's life, and Sarge recently took part in Movember in support of men's mental health issues. Stacey-Louise is also a brunette. In case you were wondering.
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