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Name(s) | The Beautiful People Beautiful People The BP's TBP Velvet-Love Entertainment The Bad Girl's Club Mi Pi Sexy Meanest Girls The Girl Band |
Former member(s) |
Angelina Love Velvet Sky Cute Kip Madison Rayne Lacey Von Erich |
Debut | December 2, 2007 |
Disbanded | April 22, 2016 |
Years active | 2007–2011, 2012, 2014–2016 |
Promotions |
AAA FWE NEW TNA |
The Beautiful People was a stable of professional wrestlers in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The stable has counted Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Cute Kip, Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich as members throughout its several incarnations. The team are known for their narcissistic gimmick, and holding the TNA Knockouts Championship and the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship simultaneously. Their characters were portrayed as arrogant blonde Barbie dolls, whose main goal as a team was to "cleanse" the TNA roster "one ugly person at a time", based on the belief that their physical attractiveness was greater than that of others in the company, however various incarnations have portrayed them as faces. Original members Angelina Love and Velvet Sky came up with the characters, inspired by Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
The Beautiful People were vain and narcissistic prima donnas. After a brief initial period without these traits, they became villainous characters who emphasized an interest in looks and created the motto "cleansing the world, one ugly person at a time." The team was created by then-TNA booker Vince Russo, with Love and Sky drawing inspiration for their performance from celebrities like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and the movie Mean Girls.