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The Beautiful People
File:The Beautiful People Logo.jpg
The Beautiful People's Logo
Tag team
MembersVelvet Sky
Name(s)Angel Williams and Talia Madison
Angelina Love and Velvet Sky
Velvet-Love Entertainment
The Beautiful People
Mi Pi Sexy
Billed heightsVelvet Sky:
5 ft. 6 in. (168 cm)
HometownVelvet Sky:
The Big Apple
Former
member(s)		Cute Kip (2008-2009)
Madison Rayne (2009)
Angelina Love (2007-2009)
DebutDecember 2, 2007

The Beautiful People (sorority name Mi Pi Sexy) are a group of slutty, herpes-infested whores of professional wrestlers, consisting of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. Their characters were portrayed as arrogant blonde Barbie dolls, whose main goal as a team is to "cleanse" the TNA roster one ugly person at a time, based on their belief that their physical appearance is superior to all others.[3][4]

History

Velvet-Love Entertainment

Angelina Love and Velvet Sky made their Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) debuts as fan favorites. At the Turning Point pay-per-view in 2007, Love and Sky were placed into a tag team named Velvet-Love Entertainment (although often shown in chyron and announced as simply Velvet Sky and Angelina Love). After defeating O.D.B. and Roxxi Laveaux earlier in the show, Love and Sky came Gail Kim's aid after her match against Awesome Kong but were taken out by Kong.[5] In March, Roxxi had a premonition about their safety which they ignored and offered Roxxi a makeover to apologise.[6] On the March 13 edition of Impact!, Roxxi resisted their attempts at a makeover at which point they attacked her and became villains.[7]

The Beautiful People

Adopting the personas of superficial prima donnas who loathe and insult anyone they consider to be physically unattractive, they dropped the Velvet-Love Entertainment name and became The Beautiful People. The two later added another factor to their gimmick by placing brown paper bags over their opponents' heads.[8]

In 2008 at Lockdown, both participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match, which was won by Roxxi by defeating Love in the finals.[9] The following month's pay-per-view, Sacrifice, saw a Battle Royal where the last two in the ring competed in a Ladder Match with the loser having their head shaved; the week before on Impact! Gail Kim won immunity in a Shears-On-A-Pole-Match.[10] The Make Over Battle Royal-Ladder Match saw Kim and Roxxi survive the Battle Royal and with Kim having immunity this meant the third runner-up, Angelina Love, would have her head shaved if Roxxi won. Knowing this, Love interfered in the Ladder Match segment to ensure Kim's victory and Roxxi's head being shaved. While all the Knockouts looked on sadly, some crying, Love and Sky paraded around celebrating with Roxxi's freshly shaved hair cementing them as villains in one of TNA's most controversial moments.[11]

The Beautiful People continued to harass the fan favourite Knockouts, including ruining Kim's chance at winning the TNA Knockouts Championship, injuring her[12] and unsuccesfully attempting to shave ODB's head too.[13] This led to a Street Fight on June 5 between Sky and ODB, during which Mickie Knuckles (later named name Moose) debuted as The Beautiful People's ally on Impact!.[14] At Slammiversary the new trio lost in a six-woman tag team match against Roxxi, ODB and Kim when ODB pinned Moose.[15][16] Moose earned a return victory over ODB in a Bimbo Brawl on June 26.[17] However, a few days later at an Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South event, Moose landed awkwardly breaking her leg and was released from TNA.

Alliance with Cute Kip

The Beautiful People at Bound for Glory IV holding paper bags and hair spray.

On July 18, Sky won a ten-Knockout Battle Royal to earn a shot at the Knockouts Championship[18] but failed to win the match and consequently her and Love assaulted champion Taylor Wilde, putting a paper bag over her head.[19] Their bad luck continued when The Beautiful People main evented the July 31 Impact! in a losing effort to Wilde and Kim.[20]

On the August 14 edition of Impact!, Kip James was introduced as the team's "fashionist" under the name Cute Kip.[21] As Sky had failed to win the title from Wilde, Love was given a chance at No Surrender. The following week on Impact!, The Beautiful People people tried to intimidate Wilde before No Surrender, by attacking her backstage.[22] Love and Wilde competed in a beauty pageant which Love lost after losing the evening gown and talent contest segments.[23] Love also lost the title match at No Surrender.[24] While Sky and Love had been focussing on Wilde and her title, Kip had begun a feud with Rhino. This feud ended in defeat for the Beautiful People, with them losing to ODB, Rhaka Khan and Rhino at Bound for Glory IV.[25] Their feud with ODB spilled out into an alliance with Booker T who hired The Beautiful People to protect his wife, Sharmell, from ODB. During her match with ODB in exchange for his locker room on the December 4 episode of Impact!.[26] This resulted in a six-woman tag team match at Final Resolution against ODB, Wilde and Roxxi, which they lost.[27]

Also in December it was announced on TNA's website that the company had extended an invitation to United States Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin which The Beautiful People looked forward to as they considered her husband to be attractive.[28] Palin's character, The Governor, appeared on 4 December played by Shannon Spruill.[26] Love and Sky were oblivious to The Governor being an imposter, resulting in some comedy skits where Kip tried to convince them they were being fooled while others mocked their stupidity. The Governor, meanwhile, convinced the duo that they would have a makeover that would make them worthy of her cabinet; the makeover involved frumpy clothes, no make-up and unstyled hair. On January 15, Taylor Wilde and Roxxi revealed that it had all been a ruse to humiliate The Beautiful People who, in Wilde's opinion, were making a mockery of TNA's women's division and reminded them "we are not Divas. We are Knockouts." After this they dropped mud on them from the ceiling.[29] The following week, The Beautiful People attacked Spruill until Kip stopped them after a sufficient beating.[30] On February 5, The Beautiful People exacted revenge on Roxxi and Wilde in a tag team match and put paper bags over their heads but The Governor made the save.[31]

Mi Pi Sexy

Madison Rayne (center) joined in March 2009 to make the sorority Mi Pi Sexy

Wilde's rivalry with The Beautiful People continued when Wilde teamed with debuting Knockout Madison Rayne on February 26, but Rayne turned on Wilde in the tag team match giving The Beautiful People the win.[32] With Rayne's help, The Beautiful People won a Four Corners Tag Team match against Awesome Kong and Raesha Saeed, Rhaka Khan and Sojourner Bolt and Wilde and Roxxi.[33] On the March 12 edition of Impact!, Madison Rayne was formally revealed as an initiate to Mi Pi Sexy, the sorority of the group,[34] but lost her initiation match.[35] The Beautiful People began the hazing of Madison Rayne in March 19's Impact, which began with her helping them clip The Governer's hair after Rayne lost her debut match.[36] Mi Pi Sexy would fight against Wilde, Roxxi, and The Governor at Destination X but lost the match.[37] Cute Kip was removed from television prior to Destination X to become a road agent, meaning his departure from the stable. This was explained on-screen by Sky, who stated that Kip was 'on probation' before declaring he would be spoken about no more.[38]

Rayne's hazing continued after The Beautiful People won an Impact! tag team match against Kong and Saeed, after which Rayne tried to cut the braided hair of the Knockouts Champion Kong.[39] With Sky in her corner, Angelina Love faced Kong and perennial nemesis Taylor Wilde in a three-way cage match for the Knockout Championship at Lockdown. Love narrowly missed a somersault splash from Kong, and as she was recovering Love pushed her towards the cage while Sky pulled her frayed hair through the holes in the cage and tied her to it. With Kong unable to move from the cage, Love dived onto Wilde with a cross-body splash and legitimately knocked herself unconscious. As she recovered Wilde attacked Kong, allowing Love to roll-up Wilde for the pin and win the Knockouts Championship.[40] That week on Impact! Mi Pi Sexy had a celebration with male dancers, but the celebration was cut short by Kong.[41] Kong continued her attack on Mi Pi Sexy she proved her dominance by making her way through Rayne, Sky and Kip in stretcher matches for the following weeks of Impact![42][43][44] Despite this, at Sacrifice Love retained her title against Kong.[45]

Angelina Love with the TNA Knockouts Championship.

On May 28, Love defended her title again against Sojourner Bolt with all of her associates at ringside. After quickly defeating Bolt, Love questionned why Cute Kip was still appearing with them and officially fired him from the group. After this Love made a speech about the dominance of The Beautiful People and mocked the lack of competition in TNA. This led to the debut of Tara who laid out both Sky and Rayne before using her Widow's Peak finisher and accepted the challenge.[46] At Slammiversary, Tara had her chance at the title but with the help of some hairspray from Sky and Rayne, Love retained the championship.[47] Tara, whose name alludes to the tarantula spider, began taunting the group with tarantulas over the next few weeks on Impact![17][48] which resulted in Sky voicing her frustration about Love leaving her alone with the tarantula and threatening to leave the group if Love would not back her up. Consequently when Tara defeated Sky and threatened to place a tarantula on her, Love agreed to put her Knockouts Championship on the line immediately afterwards and without Rayne for support, Love lost the championship.[49] The following week Love demanded and gained a rematch but was laid out with the Widow's Peak.[50] At Victory Road, Love almost lost the match when she was accidently blinded with hairspray but kicked out and later pinned Tara, despite her foot being under the bottom rope, to win back the Knockouts Championship. Later in the evening the referee was seen leaving Rayne's shower, with the implication she had seduced him to officiate the match in Love's favour.[51]

After all three failed to win a Battle Royal to become a member of Main Event Mafia, the group were seen mocking ODB and her associate Cody Deaner.[52] A six-man tag team match between all of Mi Pi Sexy against Tara, Kong and ODB turned into a three-on-one handicap match when Tara and Kong began to brawl between themselves but a kiss from Deaner at ringside stunned Love into losing the match.[53] It was later announced that at Hard Justice, the Knockouts Championship would be on the line in a tag team contest between The Beautiful People against ODB and Deaner; after more mistimed hairspraying from Rayne, ODB won the title by virtue of Deaner pinning Love.[54]

On the August 20 edition of Impact!, Madison Rayne was kicked out of Mi Pi Sexy for costing Love the title, receiving a beat down and humiliation from Love and Sky.[55]

On September 3, 2009, Love was released from her contract with TNA due to visa issues.[56] The current status of the stable is uncertain.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

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