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Season 2 of The Pickup Artist ended with Simeon going head-to-head with his good friend Matt and winning it all. Here’s an excerpt of what he has to say about the competition and how it felt to win it:
[Photo: © 2008 VH1]
What did your family & friends say when you told them you were auditioning for the show?
You know, I didn’t give them a lot of detail. I basically told them it was a reality show and I’d tell them more about it later. I wanted to keep it under wraps.
When I talked to Matt he said it was kind of embarrassing to use the tag line about how you’re all “Socially awkward, lovable losers”.
I never saw it as that, I was like, well, this show is more about guys who need help with girls and I always tried to make it sound a little better than that description.
What do your friends think about the show, have they picked up some of your pickup techniques? You were such a good teacher to your friend Ryan when he was on the show.
Some of my friends have definitely made transformations themselves. In Ryan’s case I definitely see a change, and when we go out we definitely get a lot more attention from women and we do better. It’s nice to see that even just from those little moments we had months ago, he’s made great progress. It’s worked for some of my other friends too, we definitely have a better time now and don’t just sit at a table at a bar drinking beer by ourselves. I’m looking forward to eventually teaching this to other people so they can have the same kind of transformation that I’ve gone through and enrich their lives. My life has definitely been enriched.
You definitely were a great teacher; you were really invested in showing him what to do.
Absolutely. Some people made fun of me because of how realistic I took things with pretending to be his target, but I wanted things to be as realistic as possible, and I think that method proved correct, even if it was maybe unorthodox. I drilled the techniques in a realistic fashion and that really helped him succeed.
Was it ever discouraging to constantly be referred to as the hyper one or to have them tell you were too energetic?
It was all entertaining. It’s not like VH1 were the first people to accuse me of being hyperactive; I was used to that assessment. Even, I mean, to be parodied on The Soup – to me everything is in good fun – even when I supposedly slobbered on the sexologist. I talked to her after and we laughed about it. I think I was fairly portrayed on the show, although I will say that some of the situations, like the final episode, tried to make it look like it was a close competition between me and Matt, but behind the scenes, it wasn’t close at all. Matt kissed a girl for maybe thirty seconds and she left, and I was with my target for at least twenty minutes.