Life Returns to a New Normal for Contractor on 'Average Joe' TV Show
Cleveland cement contractor Fredo LaPonza is back from his two-month adventure as one of the bachelors seeking to win the heart of a beauty on NBC's reality TV show "Average Joe Hawaii." The premise of the show is for the unsuspecting beauty, Larissa Meek, to think she is on spectacular Kona, Hawaii, to meet handsome, sexy men, one of whom might end up to be the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets a whole host of "Average Joes" (some of whom redefine the word "average," and not necessarily in a good way). After her initial shock and disappointment, she resigns herself to getting to know the guys and begins to enjoy and appreciate them. But right about then, eight new hunky men appear to challenge the Joes.
If you saw Fredo LaPonza, a 31-year-old muscle-bound guy with tatoos and a ponytail, and knew only that he was one of the bachelors on the show, you might mistake him for one of the hunks. LaPonza, however was in the original group of Average Joes. As those who have watched the show -- or even the promos -- can tell you, LaPonza not only didn't get the girl, he was gutsy enough to leave the show when he was one of Meek's last four guys (two Average Joes and two hunks) after the show's producers put him in a submarine and offered him the opportunity to spy on Meek on one of her private dates. He clearly didn't like what he saw.