Reality show looking for perfect Maine woman

foxA video company was at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show in March, in a back room in the north wing of the Augusta Civic Center, conducting a casting call for a female host for a reality TV show about the outdoors. Here’s what we learned from the advertisement.

She must be “physically attractive,” be a “rugged-type woman,” and have a “big personality and a witty charm.”

She can’t be more than 40, must be “outdoorsy,” be “well spoken” and, oh yea, “sophisticated.”

But she also can’t “mind getting dirt under her fingernails.”

I especially loved this requirement: “She enjoys learning new things from her fellow outdoorsmen and exploring new places.”

One of those new places ought to be with her female outdoorswomen friends, don’t you think? Or perhaps the female reality show host needs to be a fellow and an outdoorsman, too.

Oh, her “knowledge of the outdoors needs to come across as believable.”

If there was a woman this perfect, she ought to be running for Governor, not starring in a Reality show that will surely make fun of her, despite her perfection.

PHOTO: A fox, taken by my friend, blogger Robin Follette, a real outdoors woman.

George Smith

About George Smith

George stepped down at the end of 2010 after 18 years as the executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine to write full time. He writes a weekly editorial page column in the Kennebec Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel, a weekly travel column in those same newspapers (with his wife Linda), monthly columns in The Maine Sportsman magazine, two outdoor news blogs (one on his website, georgesmithmaine.com, and one on the website of the Bangor Daily News), and special columns for many publications and newsletters. Islandport Press published a book of George's favorite columns, "A Life Lived Outdoors" in 2014. In 2014, George also won a Maine Press Association award for writing the state's bet sports blog. In 2016, Down East Books published George's book, Maine Sporting Camps, and Islandport Press published George and his wife Linda's travel book, Take It From ME, about their favorite Maine inns and restaurants.