A Kansas University graduate and Ottawa native has taken up residency on “Temptation Island.”
Once a Crimson Girl and sorority president, Megan Denton now is one of the television island’s pretty temptresses.
“Knowing Megan, she’s looking at this show as an opportunity to get into Hollywood or into show business,” said Jane Moseley, KU’s chapter adviser for Chi Omega, where Denton served as president before she graduated in May 1997. “When I heard she was on the show, I was excited for her. She got a lucky break.”
Until “Temptation Island” concludes its six-episode run in February, the participants, including Denton, aren’t allowed to talk to the media.
“Temptation Island” is broadcast at 8 p.m. Wednesday on Fox, channel 4.Temptation Island web siteSo far, she has appeared on the first two episodes of the show, which is broadcast at 8 p.m. Wednesdays on the Fox network.
The new reality-based show is an unscripted series about four unmarried couples who travel to Ambergris Caye, a small island off the coast of Belize, to test and explore the strength of their relationships.
Once on the island, the couples are introduced to eligible singles and then separated from their partners until the final day of their stay. The men are sent to another part of the island, called Captain Morgan’s Retreat. That leaves the women at their new home, Mata Chica.
Denton, 25, a kindergarten teacher at a private French school in California, is one of the singles.
On this week’s episode, one of the men selected Denton as his date. They went scuba diving along the island’s picturesque coast.
“The show just showed them talking,” Moseley said. “She was on a lot Wednesday night.”
During college, Moseley said, she got to know Denton fairly well and described her as “smart and caring.”
“She was always concerned about the girls in the (sorority) house and what their needs were, and she was very concerned about representing the house well,” Moseley said.
As far as the show, Moseley said, she thought Denton was just playing a role for television because Fox portrays her as a “vamp.” She said the Denton she knew would never try to destroy someone’s relationship.
“She’s a very attractive girl,” Moseley said. “She’s one of those girls you’d love to hate because she is so darling, but I could never see her in the house trying to break up a couple.”
Denton’s parents, Don and Chris Denton, who live in Ottawa, declined to say much about their daughter being on the show.
“This is one of the biggest things she’s done yet,” her father said.
At KU, Denton also served as captain of the Crimson Girls. When she moved to Los Angeles, she became a Lakers Girl and traveled as far as Bosnia with the group to perform for United Nations peacekeeping troops.
