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

Pumkin (Brooke Thompson) will always be known as the girl who spit on New York (Tiffany Pollard), which practically made the first season of Flavor of Love good for TV.  At the time, Pumkin’s failure to tell Flavor Flav about her past appearance on Blind Date led to her elimination at the end of the episode and during the elimination ceremony, a near-brawl occurred between her and New York when Pumkin claimed New York was an aspiring actress.  New York, on the other hand, claimed that Pumkin was calling her out so Pumkin then spit in New York’s face, and then ran away.

Two years later, Pumkin was cast in yet another VH1 reality series, this time on I Love Money. Unfortunately, people still associate Pumkin with saliva.  And while that’s an odd correlation, Pumkin doesn’t seem to mind as she credits her spitting incident for her new found fame.

“If I had a dollar for every person who’s said, ‘I’m so glad you spit on New York,’ I would be a millionaire,” Pumkin said in an interview with VH1.

“Hoopz may have won [the first season of] Flavor of Love, but when people think about that show, they think of Pumkin and New York.  Hoopz was known for being pretty and that’s all she did on the show. I’m glad, because New York has done well for herself and I’m known as the girl who spit on her.  I mean, it’s gross, but if I wouldn’t have done it, I don’t think either of us would have been as popular as we are right now,” she explained.

Sadly, Pumkin was eliminated on the most recent episode of I Love Money, the show that features contestants from the first two seasons of Flavor of Love, I Love New York and Rock of Love as they compete in physical and mental challenges in an attempt to win $250,000.  During her stint on I Love Money, she made some allies and, as expected, made a few enemies, one of which is Megan, whom she clashed with from the very start.

“I don’t mind people who talk s***, that’s cool, but say it to my face.  Don’t whisper.  Don’t try to be a conniving little backstabbing bitch. Just tell me. I think that’s the hardest part.  On Flavor of Love, the girls were really cutthroat, just, ‘You’re a f***ing bitch,’ straight to your face, not whispering, ‘Oh. Saggy boobs.’ I just don’t like people like that,” she said.

Picking up from where episode 10 left off, all the remaining contestants, minus Hoopz, return to the vault to vote somebody else into the box, due to Brandi C. quitting. Toastee is voted into the box by everyone else but Pumkin. Back at elimination, Hoopz saves Real first, as he is still her friend, even if she did say no to his proposal. Toastee is eliminated because Hoopz can’t trust her and she thinks she’s responsible for Chance’s elimination. Toastee gets her check voided and gets mad that Megan got her way. Real talks to his brother Chance on the phone and talks about Hoopz, and his brother says Whiteboy might be infatuated with her and advises Real to take him out. The next day, it’s their next challenge: “You Booze, You Loose”, which is based on all the VH1 shows where the contestants get drunk and then pass out. The contestant must spin around in a chair twenty times, then walk on a platform, without stepping on any cups, or it will result in a penalty, which will add onto the total time, and then go back on the chair and spin again for another twenty times, then they have to drink a bunch of drinks, then spit it in a toilet, then kiss a person, and then they cross the finish line. The person with the fastest time will be Pay Master while the person with the slowest time will automatically be put in the box. In the end, Hoopz got the fastest time and was Pay Master again for the 2nd time in a row, which was the first time that’s happened, while Pumkin did the worse and was automatically put in the box. Back at the house, Real tells Hoopz that he claims that he heard Whiteboy called Hoopz an insulting name (which Real has also learned from Chance), and Hoopz is offended and truly believes it. Hoopz, Real, and Whiteboy talk about the issue and Hoopz still doesn’t believe Whiteboy, and Whiteboy feels hurt and accuses Real of setting him up to eliminate him from their “love triangle.” In the vault, nobody wants to vote, so they agree to let Hoopz make the decision on who will join Pumkin in the box. Hoopz picks Megan and Whiteboy. On the power outing, the four contenders go on a yacht ride. Hoopz considers getting rid of Pumkin because she went against the alliance and eliminated Chance. Megan thinks she’s safe because Hoopz gave her her word last episode, but Hoopz says that was once in a lifetime. Pumkin and Megan fight about Chance’s elimination. On the one on one, Hoopz picks Whiteboy, wanting to find out more about his side of the story. Whiteboy continues to address that he didn’t do anything and that Real is setting him up. Hoopz tells him she feels hurt about his comment to her earlier in their conversation that she’s a stranger to him. Whiteboy apologized to her and thinks he might be in trouble come elimination time. Before elimination, Real prepares a date with Hoopz and they talk about her decision. Real continues to blather on and on about why he loves her. Hoopz finally understands what’s going on. At elimination, the first person Hoopz saves is Megan. Then Hoopz calls up Whiteboy and tearfully tells him the suppose comment really hurt her, especially when she’s been tight with him since the beginning. Hoopz believes Whiteboy didn’t really say anything bad behind her back and accepts his apology he gave her, and he’s safe. Pumkin thought she was safe because Hoopz and her were friends since Flavor of Love, but Hoopz tells her that going against her alliance and sending home Chance wasn’t trustworthy, making it easier for Hoopz to eliminate her and Pumkin gets her check voided.

Winner/Pay Master: Hoopz
Loser: Pumkin
Bottom 3: Megan, Pumkin, Whiteboy
Eliminated: Pumkin

The episode begins with Real waking up with Hoopz sleeping next to him. Real feels like he can be with Hoopz with the rest of his life and gives her a bouquet of flowers. The next challenge requires the remaining 8 contestants to cling onto stripper poles, suspended over water, and the first person to fall off will automatically go home while the last person will be Paymaster. Real and Entertainer struggle and out of nowhere, The Entertainer falls off and is automatically out of the game. Then Real falls off, then Whiteboy, and then the girls from the secret alliance fall off. The remaining two people are Hoopz and Megan. Hoopz maintains her pose while Megan starts to feel unsure. After climbing back up higher on the pole, Hoopz continues to hold her pose, and then Megan slips and falls in the water. Hoopz is Paymaster. Entertainer says it’s been an amazing experience and gets his check voided and leaves. Pumkin and Toastee decided to convince Brandi C. to turn against Megan into the box, since the secret alliance has nobody else to target, since Entertainer is gone, leaving them to go against each other. Brandi is upset at what Pumkin and Toastee are telling her and Brandi knows this means war. Megan lies to Whiteboy saying Toastee wants him gone, to which Toastee denies and the two of them fight. Whiteboy doesn’t know who to believe. The next day in the vault, Whiteboy doesn’t vote at all, not deciding who’s right. Real puts himself in the box, in order to get closer to Hoopz. Pumkin and Toastee and Real vote Brandi and Megan into the box and Megan is mad at Whiteboy for not voting at all, to which Whiteboy gets defensive to her. Before leaving to go on the power outing, Brandi makes a comment to Pumkin and Toastee and Pumkin screams at her on the stairwell. The two get in a food fight and Megan overhears the fight and comes in and defenses Brandi and all hell breaks loose. Hoopz, Whiteboy, and Real just stand around, enjoying the fight. On the power outing, the four contestants ride horses on the beach. Real is excited because he loves horses. Brandi C. and Megan are scared because they know Hoopz will eliminate one of them and they try to enjoy their finally time together while it lasts. Megan tells Hoopz that they don’t belong in the box and Pumkin and Toastee do. Hoopz agrees. On the one on one, she talks to Real. Real says he loves her and feels a deep connection and gets on one knee and proposes to her with a ring he got from a friend earlier. Hoopz is shocked and feels flattered, but she feels awkward, since she has a boyfriend back at home, and doesn’t want to get distracted from the game. She doesn’t answer him. Back at the house, Hoopz tells Whiteboy Real proposed to her and Whiteboy laughs, surprised by his actions. Hoopz still doesn’t have the answer. Upstairs, Brandi C. cries because she knows she and Megan are about to be separated, and she doesn’t want to put up Toastee and Pumkin anymore. At elimination, Pumkin is excited because she knows either Megan or Brandi will go home, and she gets to watch it happen. Toastee wants Brandi to go home because she’s a “coward and a baby”. Before Craig lets Hoopz start giving out checks, Brandi C. tearfully stops him right in the middle of his speech and tells him she wants to quit. Craig gives her a chance to decide to stay or quit. Brandi quits and gets her check voided and then she hugs Megan and leaves. Just when everyone thinks it’s over for the night, Craig tells everyone they have to go back to the vault and vote somebody else into the box in Brandi C.’s place, and Hoopz still has the privilege to send a person home, which will be shown in the next episode.

Winner/Pay Master: Hoopz
Loser/Eliminated: The Entertainer
Bottom 3: Brandi C., Megan, Real
Eliminated: Brandi C. (voluntarily quit)