TV Show Based on Farmington Hills' Natives 'Walk of Shame Shuttle' Premieres

A Farmington Hills native’s shuttle business offered an alternative to the “walk of shame” for University of Michigan students is now the basis of a reality show on VH1. (Screenshot via YouTube)

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You’ve heard of the “walk of shame”? How about the “shuttle of shame” or – better – the “Walk of Shame Shuttle,” a new reality series that started with a Farmington Hills native’s side business while a University of Michigan student.

The show premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday on VH1, the Detroit Free Press reports.

As a student in Ann Arbor, Kellyann Wargo began offering friends who had been over-served and ended up somewhere else for the night a ride home, along with a hydrating bottle of water.

“I made a little poster and (clients) called my personal cell phone,” she told The Detroit Free Press. “They could call or text me and I’d pick them up.”

In 2012, a video about her service that Wargo posted on YouTube went viral and eventually caught the attention of Hollywood.

“I had no idea that it would blow up the way it did,” said Wargo. “It started a lot of press. Then it got out to California, where people saw it and thought this would make a great idea for the show.”

She thought she was “getting punked” when she was contacted about a reality series, which was developed by Brian Graden Media, acquired by VH1 and shot last year in southern California. It’s described as “a modern day ‘Taxicab Confessions’ but with less drunkenness and more hangover humor.”

Wargo, who has moved to Palo Alto, CA, to continue working in entertainment and improv, stars in the show, along with Michelle Collins and Jordan Pease. The three play drivers who pry their fares for details about what happened the night before. At the end of each episode, a “Trainwreck of the Week” is named.

“We’re a cheap therapy session,” Wargo says in show’s opening voice-over. “We’re the friend that holds your hair back while you puke. We can’t erase the night before, but we can help you with the morning after.”

Wargo, who graduated from Mercy High School in Farmington Hills and is a 2012 U-M graduate, told the Free Press she thinks the show offers more than laughs – though there will be plenty of them.

“It’s definitely an oddly comforting show in a weird way,” she said. “I remember I would have these embarrassing nights in college where I was doing karaoke and forgot all the words or I’d run into an ex-boyfriend and I’d be like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is horrible. This is the worst night of my life. I’m never going to get over this,’ “ she said.

“But then watching the show and meeting so many different people who have these similar experiences, it’s like, ‘Hey I got over it, you can get over it. You had that happen too, so did I.’ It’s this weird kind of bonding in this hungover state.”

Below is a sneak peak of the series premiere.

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