Hot Nicole Alexander, popularly known as Hoopz due to her love of basketball as a fan and a player, is an American actress and model, best known as the winning contestant in the first season of the VH1 reality show, Flavor of Love, after a 10-episode nationally televised competition. She is of African American and Italian descent. She also is the first season winner of Vh1’s hit show “I Love Money” and walked away with $250,000.

In her early twenties she auditioned for Flavor of Love. Alexander eventually won after almost two months of living with the other contestants.

She has also appeared on MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out.” She was a guest judge in season 3 during E-40’s guest appearance.

As of 2007, Alexander continues to model in calendars, magazines, and for modeling agencies EyeCandy Modeling & Titanium Girlz. She has also appeared in videos such as Will Smith’s “Party Starter” & Lil’ Keke’s “Chunk Up The Deuce”, and Maddi Madd Holla Back as well as The Game’s Wouldnt Get Far video, and is the celebrity supporter of the “East Kentucky Miners” a basketball team located in Pikeville, Kentucky. Alexander is a contestant on the VH1 reality show, I Love Money, which began airing on July 6, 2008. Alexander was named the $250,000 winner on October 5, 2008, after catching up to Whiteboy (Joshua Gallander) at the final challenge and defeating him.

It’s the final four on I Love Money, and Craig notes their next challenge will be “crazy.” When the four contestants arrive to their next location, they see a wide beam supported by a crane, suspended over the water and rocks. This challenge is called “The Krazy Toss” and it’s based on Flavor Of Love 2, when Buckeey almost pushed Krazy over the balcony. The contestants will wear a harness and a helmet and will have to carry a Krazy doll over the beam and drop it on a target. Craig tells them they will then have to go back to the starting point and that the event is being timed. Whoever does it in the least amount of time will be Pay Master. The remaining three contestants will go with the Pay Master on a power dinner. The Pay Master will eliminate one person. Megan goes first although she feels she doesn’t have much of a chance because she is afraid of heights. Megan becomes somewhat paralyzed with fear, as well as having a hard time picking up the Krazy doll. Craig tells her if she doesn’t give him a thumbs up and get going, she will be disqualified. Cheered on by Whiteboy, Megan finally gives the sign but doesn’t have her footing. She drops the doll, almost falls off the beam and loses the challenge. Hoopz goes next and impresses the other contestant with the way she grabs the doll, runs right over the beam and tosses the doll off. She forgets she has to come back and stays on the balcony side until she is told she’s not done. She finishes in 23 seconds, but says the rules weren’t made clear. They replay the segment where Craig made the rules perfectly clear. Real goes next. He is also afraid of heights but he manages to get through the challenge in 28 seconds, putting him in second place. Whiteboy wastes no time and finishes in 16 seconds, winning the game. Real worries that he’ll be eliminated because he broke his alliance with Whiteboy in the last episode. He confides in Megan who reassures him that she is sure it will be her elimination. She feels she is the easiest target and basically has no more room to maneuver. At the power dinner, everyone is quiet and Whiteboy, feeling very powerful, wants to know why they all have such long faces. Whiteboy tries to talk to Real about what he considers Real’s betrayal. Seeing her opportunity, Megan tells Whiteboy about Real’s earlier conversation. Hoopz jumps in on Real’s side and brings up something that Megan allegedly said about Whiteboy several episodes ago. This only makes Whiteboy more upset since he feels that Hoopz should have told him when it happened — not now. Whiteboy now trusts none of the bottom three. At the elimination, Whiteboy calls Real up first leading everyone to think Real will get his check. Whiteboy tells Craig to void Real’s check. An angry Real can’t see that his listening to Chance is what got him here. He and Whiteboy argue, but Craig tells Real to take his voided check and sit on the bench. Craig tells Whiteboy to go stand next to Hoopz and Megan. Whiteboy is astonished that he now seems to be in a position to be eliminated by someone he just eliminated. Craig announces that Real is part of the jury. Before anyone can ask about it, 12 Pack, Heather, The Entertainer, Toastee, and Pumkin return and join Real at the bench. Craig says the jury will decide who goes home next. Megan reviews her instigations in each member of the jury’s elimination. Not wanting to give them the satisfaction of payback, she quits. The Entertainer is mad because he didn’t “fly from New York to see Megan quit.” Toastee is happy Megan quit and says she’s a baby like Brandi C. Megan gets her check voided and leaves. There is nothing for the jury to do now as far as the contest goes. The next day, Hoopz and Whiteboy learn that the final challenge is called “The Dash For the Cash.” Hoopz and Whiteboy must run up to people in a Mexican town and collect 100 pesos as quickly as they can. They can sell their clothes, dance or anything to earn a peso. The only thing they can’t do is steal the pesos. Once they get 100 pesos, they must use it to pay a taxi tor take them to their next challenge. Whiteboy, whose bilingual abilities help, works fast, gets his pesos and heads off in his taxi. Hoopz has a lot more trouble getting anyone to understand and help her, but eventually sells her diamond belly button ring. Hoopz runs into more delay when her taxi is stalled in traffic due to an accident. Whiteboy has, in the meantime, arrived at a new set of instructions, directing him to run down a steep trail. He comes out on a beach where there is a giant coin with Craig’s picture on it that he must roll through an obstacle course. After that, a boat is waiting for him. An exhausted Hoopz catches up to Whiteboy on the beach and, much to her dismay, sees Whiteboy take off in his boat. She pushes on and finally falls into her boat. When Whiteboy’s boat stops, he jumps in the water, swims to the beach and runs up the stairs to the mansion. There he is greeted by Craig who tells him his final challenge is to take pictures of all eliminated contestants and hang them up in order of elimination. Whiteboy frets as he realizes that he has not paid that much attention to the order of elimination throughout the show. Nevertheless, he tries to remember how that went down. He only gets as far as, Heat, the third contestant to go when he starts to mix everyone up. Hoopz makes it to the challenge right about when Whiteboy is realizing that he’s not at all sure he has completed the task correctly. Hoopz attacks the challenge as quickly as she can, and begins to put the pictures in the right order. Whiteboy tells Craig he’s done but Craig tells Whiteboy he has the order incorrect. As Whiteboy tries to figure out if he still has any chance, Hoopz tells Craig she’s done. She has the order correct. Craig tells Hoopz she won and voids Whiteboy’s check. A stunned Hoopz receives her check and exclaims how she can’t wait to provide for her family. Whiteboy takes his elimination in stride and isn’t a sore loser. He says if he couldn’t be the winner, Hoopz is the only one he would have wanted to see win. Craig, Hoopz, and Whiteboy drink a champagne toast as the series ends.

Challenge: The Krazy Toss
Winner/Pay Master: Whiteboy
Bottom 3: Megan, Real, Hoopz
Eliminated: Real, Megan (voluntarily quit)
Final Challenge: The Dash for The Cash
Winner: Hoopz
Runner-up: Whiteboy

It’s been an endless journey for your boy Flav and three seasons full of ups and downs. But finally, in the City of Lights, it’s time for Flavor Flav to put it all on the line. On the series’ finale of “Flavor of Love 3″ premiering on Monday, May 19 at 9:00 PM* Flav finds himself caught between an undeniable chemistry with one girl and a love connection with the other. With his promise that he’ll “find love or die trying,” this final episode proves to be the most dramatical elimination in “Flavor of Love” history.

Leading up to the series’ grand finale, VH1 will marathon episodes from season 3 on Monday, May 19 beginning 11:00 AM.* Fans can also relive moments and contestants from seasons past throughout the weekend. On Saturday, May 17, the entire “Flavor of Love” season one will air back to back beginning at 1:00 PM*. Then on Sunday, May 18 beginning at 10:30 AM* VH1 will air “Flavor of Love 2.”

Additionally, Flavor Flav’s new single “317,” which he recorded and co- produced with Sam Knight, the winner of “VH1’s The Track with Flavor Flav” is now available for free download on FlavorOfLoveWorld.com. In addition to providing vocals, Flav plays bass and the keyboard on the new upbeat and funky single “317.” The track also features Raphael Saadiq on bass.

The winning track created by Sam Knight was chosen by user votes from the nearly 5,000 submissions the online contest generated. Additional behind-the- scenes video shot during Flav and Sam’s recording session is also available online at FlavorOfLoveWorld.com.

VH1’s “Flavor of Love” is created and executive produced by Mark Cronin and Cris Abrego for 51 Minds Entertainment, LLC. an Endemol Company, who also produce the record-breaking series “Rock of Love,” “Flavor of Love,” “Charm School,” “I Love New York,” “The Surreal Life” and “My Fair Brady.” The production teams’ programming launched VH1 into their highest ratings ever and their ratings continue to outperform their previous successes. Ben Samek and Matt Odgers also executive produce for the series and the company.

Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes and Kristen Kelly oversee the series for VH1.

VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 90 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, VH1Games and extensive broadband video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.

This summer, VH1 staged a casting blitz for the next season of Flavor of Love, including a web-based casting program. That’s long gone, but did you know that Becky “Buckwild” Johnston wants another shot at Flavor Flav?

It’s completely outside the rules of eligibility, but that didn’t stop Buckwild from throwing her hat at the ring to get another chance on the show. After all, New York (Tiffany Pollard) pulled it off, and certainly helped along her reality career. Buckwild has had a second run at reality stardom with her turn on Charm School, but there’s always room for a little more Flavor of Love.

It’s not just the quest for more screen time, Buckwild said earlier this year, that motivated her to try her luck at the summer’s casting for Flavor of Love. She said, “I’m genuinely attracted to Flav. I love his personality. I’ve never said he was ugly. I’m not gonna be the one that says that. I wouldn’t put a poster of him on my wall, but I’m attracted to him. When you’re around him, he’s got this thing. I don’t know what you call it. It’s that thang. Flav’s got it.”

She said she enjoyed her time with Flavor Flav, she just didn’t get enough of it. “I didn’t get any private dates. I got to go on the gondola for maybe 15 minutes and that was it. I didn’t spend alone time with him, but I did connect with him. I kissed him. They didn’t show it all, but we kissed a little bit. There was a little booty grabbin’. It was good. I think we can take it a little farther.”

She said that despite the fact she voluntarily left the show because New York was invited back, that actually means she really deserves a second chance. “[T]he fact of the matter is, I’m pretty sure I’m the only girl that left without being eliminated by Flav. He didn’t say he didn’t want me. I think I deserve another chance. And, if New York comes back, I’m prepared. I’ve gone through Charm School, I have learned things. I’m telling you, I’m going to take everything I learned in Charm School, I’m going to go to Flavor of Love 3 and I’m going to kill it. Third time’s a charm.”