David Otunga, fiancé of Oscar winner and former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson, has decided he wants to give up his career as a lawyer and do something more respectable—like becoming a WWE wrestler.  Otunga and Jennifer Hudson got engaged after less than a year of dating, during a romantic treasure hunt on the beach.  Her final prize was a platinum engagement ring with a 5-carat diamond in a halo setting. 
Hasn't Jennifer Hudson Been Through Enough?

Hasn't Jennifer Hudson Been Through Enough?

Otunga became known when he competed for the affections of the controversial—and probable tranny—former “Flavor of Love” contestant ‘New York’.  After losing out on Flav’s affections twice, VH1 gave her a reality show of her own: “I Love New York”.  As with “Flavor of Love”, the first episode featured a naming ceremony when everyone gave up their real names in favor of nicknames.  The man nicknamed ‘Punk’—and the man most of the viewers liked enough to want him to lose—is David Otunga.  Only on his exit interview was his real first name revealed.  Our hearts go out to his family.

Nonetheless, Jennifer Hudson fell in love with him, forgiving his reality television transgressions, as she, too, won her fame on a reality show as well: “American Idol”.  Of course, she didn’t humiliate herself in a real-sized Barbie house vying for the love of the world’s bitchiest she-male, but reality television is reality television.  To-may-to, to-mah-to.  

To Otunga’s credit, he stood by Hudson after her mother and two other family members were murdered.  He proved himself to be a stand-up guy.  At the time of the tragedy, Hudson was with Otunga.  In Florida.  At the WWE’s training camp. 

How does a Harvard Law graduate—and attractive heterosexual man—end up courting a fame-whore tranny and aspiring to wear the colorful tights of World Wrestling Entertainment?  He appeared to be back on track after the “I Love New York” fiasco as Hudson gushed to Jay Leno the Otunga is “a beautiful guy…He’s an attorney. He went to Harvard Law School”, but the formerly-practicing attorney seems bent on a career in embarrassment entertainment.  He signed a contract with Florida Championship Wrestling, which is part of the WWE’s developmental league in Tampa.  The upside is that he didn’t need an agent to explain the legalese to him.  The downside is, well, everything else.

It’s hard to embarrass yourself more than by trying (and failing) to be the boy-toy of Flavor Flav’s rejects, but David Otunga is certainly doing his best.

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