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From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: May 9, 2007 7:54 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Please encourage House to keep the new vegan character 5/8/07

Last night, Tuesday May 8, the Fox hit series “House” introduced a potential new character, a vegan nutritionist named Honey. We meet her when she comes into the clinic with her boyfriend of six months, who tells House that they are both vegan because Honey has taught him how healthy a vegan diet is. But when House examines the boyfriend’s stool, he tells them that he knows the man has been cheating. Honey thinks House means with another woman, and she doesn’t seem too concerned. Then she understands that he has been “eating flesh” and she is mortified that he has lied to her about that. But she doesn’t seem kooky — she is pretty and witty. House has clearly taken a shining to her, and we learn later in the show that he got her phone number. Actually, he got it on a job application. Suddenly he is thinking of hiring a nutritionist.

In the last scene of the episode, House meets Honey in a bar. She suggests that he hasn’t really called the meeting because he wants to offer her a job. But we don’t get an answer — that is left open. There is fun flirtatious banter between them, then the show ends.

The episode is recapped in full at www.fox.com/house/recaps/322.htm. In the photo gallery on that page, photos 4, 5 and 6 are of Honey. You will see why the writers have given her that name and why House is enchanted.

The Honey subplot was just a tiny portion of last night’s episode, but there are indications that the producers are considering showing us more of her. There is a poll today on the House front page, www.fox.com/house/ asking viewers, “Would you like to see House in a relationship with Honey?” On the show’s message boards, people suggest the poll is rigged, and indeed something is wrong with it. You can vote as many times as you like, but it seemed each time I voted for Honey the votes for the other possibilities went up by leaps and bounds.

The message boards, however, aren’t rigged, so I hope all of you House fans and animal advocates will let the show know how great it would be to have a hot vegan nutritionist on board.

If you go to the House message boards at forums.fox.com/foxhouse/start you will see that one of the discussions is headed, “I like the new vegan chick.” (And I didn’t start it!) It just has a few responses so please join in. If you haven’t participated on a fox message board before you will have to sign up, but it will take you just thirty seconds, and think how much it helps the animals when popular shows have likeable vegan characters.

I send a big thank you to Riva Gebel for letting us know about the episode.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

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