T.O. Returns To The Superstars

With the folks at ABC realizing that most if not all potential interest in their revival of The Superstars evaporated with the first-episode departure of Bills receiver Terrell Owens and his feisty, foul-mouthed, she-devil partner, there’s been a surprising twist. T.O. and Joanna Krupa will be returning. As this leaked video of the next episode illustrates, former tennis player Jennifer Capriati suffered an injury, which disqualified her team. According to the long-established and judicially-vetted rules of The Superstars franchise, the last team to be disqualified returns. How convenient. Meanwhile, Krupa stands by her profanity-filled rant at Owens from the first week of the show. “Yes, I blew up, but I had my reasons,” Krupa tells Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports. “Trust me, there was a lot of frustration, and it was building up throughout the competition -- and then it burst. I didn’t feel like my partner was giving it 100 percent, and I didn’t feel like I had a teammate. Poor, poor him? Come on! Look at his track record. “To some people, I’m a hero. I stood up to T.O. After what he’s been doing to teammates for years, I finally gave it back.” But Warren Sapp, who’s working as an announcer on the show, thinks that Krupa was the problem. “She’s a maneater,” Sapp told Silver. “You heard of cougars and all that [expletive]. This is a maneater, buddy. She wants to make it seem like he was [a primadonna], but I was there, and that’s a lie. She’s a nightmare. She treated him like he was her child. She’s crazier than any athlete I’ve ever seen. . . . As I watched her berate him, I thought, ‘Oh, if I could put Donovan McNabb and Jeff Garcia, one on each shoulder, and Tony Romo on the top of my head, it would be amazing. Cause this is something I haven’t seen.’ [Owens] looked at me like, ‘Dawg, what do I do with her?’ I was like, ‘I have no idea.’” Krupa takes issue with that characterization, offering more details regarding the issues with Owens. “Let’s get that [expletive] straight,” she said. “He was late every time he had a call time. He was 30 minutes late. I understand he was the star of the show, and the star is always late. I get it. But that wasn’t the only thing. Every time we were off camera, he was taking off his shirt, so we could all look at him. He had his bodyguard and assistant with him the whole shoot. There was a point where he threatened he was gonna leave the show if he couldn’t wear his hat with his website on it. There was a lot going on that people didn’t see on the show.” But here’s the bottom line. No one will be watching the show if T.O. isn’t on it, especially since he’s finally met his match.