The Beautiful People (professional wrestling)
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| The Beautiful People | |
|---|---|
 Angelina Love (left) and Velvet Sky (right) | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Angelina Love Velvet Sky Cute Kip (2008-present) |
| Name(s) | Velvet-Love Entertainment Velvet Sky and Angelina Love The Beautiful People |
| Billed heights | Angelina Love: 5 ft. 6 in. (168 cm) Velvet Sky: 5 ft. 6 in. (168 cm.) Cute Kip: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Debut | 2007 |
The Beautiful People is a professional wrestling stable consisting of tag team Angelina Love and Velvet Sky as well as their associate Cute Kip. Their gimmick as a duo is that of arrogant blonde Barbie dolls whose main goal as a team is to embarrass everybody else on the TNA roster in various ways based on their belief that their physical appearance is superior to all others.
Career
Angelina Love and Velvet Sky made their Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debuts as faces. At the Turning Point 2007 pay-per-view, Love and Sky (originally known as Angel Williams and Talia Madison on the independent circuit, which both went by for a few weeks in TNA) were placed into a tag team (Williams and Szantyr came up with the idea and pitched it to TNA management) 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 did a run-in to Gail Kim's aid after her match against Awesome Kong. They assisted Kim again after another match against Kong on the December 6 edition of TNA Impact! and at Final Resolution, helping to stop a brawl post match. On the March 13 edition of Impact!, Sky and Love attacked Roxxi Laveaux during a segment when she resisted their attempts to give her a "makeover", thus turning heel. 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, and often harass backstage interviewer Lauren Brooke.
In 2008 at Lockdown, both participated in the first ever "Queen of the Cage" match, which was won by Roxxi who defeated Love in the finals. The duo went on to participate in the Make Over Battle Royal-Ladder match at Sacrifice, where the loser would have her head shaved Gail Kim won immunity on the Impact prior to Sacrifice and made it to the final two with Laveaux. Due to Kim's immunity, the third runner up would have had her head shaved should Laveaux have won. Love came in third place, being the last eliminated from the battle royal part of the match. Love interfered in the end of a match, causing Roxxi to lose and get her head shaved, intensifying the character feud between them and the rest of the Knockouts. On the June 5 edition of Impact! Mickie Knuckles (who was later given the name Moose) debuted as their new ally, and they participated in a 6-woman tag team match against Gail Kim, ODB and Roxxi at Slammiversary 2008, which they lost. Moose has not been seen with them since, instead competing as a singles wrestler.
The tag team then became part of a loose collective of self-identified "bad guys" along with Kurt Angle, Tomko, and Team 3D, later aligning themselves with Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed. On the August 14 edition of Impact!, Kip James began associating with the girls as their new "fashionist", dubbed Cute Kip.
The trio then renewed Love's feud with ODB and began a feud with Taylor Wilde, with Rhino siding with the face Knockouts to counteract Cute Kip's presence at ringside.
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature tag team moves
- Russian legsweep (Sky) / Bicycle kick (Love) combination
- Hollering Elbow (Double elbow drop, with theatrics)
- Signature foreign object
- Brown paper bag
- Hair spray (Sky)
- Associates
- Valet
- Entrance themes
- In the early stages of the teaming, Love used her "Angel On My Shoulder" theme when solo, whilst Sky used "Don't Even Lie" (both by Dale Oliver) when wrestling solo, while collectively they used Love's theme when competing in tag team matches.
- "Angel On My Shoulder" later became the tag teams official theme when they became the "Beautiful People", and Sky adopted this as her own solo theme also. They continue to use this theme, including slightly modified versions, throughout their run as the Beautiful People also used by Kute Kip.