Lineweaver to Be Featured on TV Show

The embattled juvenile court clerk has been selected to compete in the RFD-TV reality show America’s Top Bathrobe Models, which is scheduled to tape in March for summer broadcast.

Lineweaver was selected after a producer saw the now-infamous video shot by WSMV-Channel 4 news showing him trudging to his mailbox in a dark-gray bathrobe at 3:45 on a workday afternoon.

“Even the grainy, surveillance-style video couldn’t hide the fact that this is a man who just instinctively knows how to wear a bathrobe,” says show producer Michelle Moran.

The fact that the footage was taken by an investigative team documenting Lineweaver’s less-than-vigorous work habits adds to its allure, she says. “It has an element of the forbidden about it. Are those white pajama bottoms or just pasty-white legs sticking out under the robe? You really can’t tell.”

America’s Top Bathrobe Models will be taped in Las Vegas and will feature contestants from all over the U.S. walking past a panel of judges for scoring on poise, appearance and “overall bathrobe personality projection.”

For his part, Lineweaver seems as puzzled by his selection to be on the show as he was when he was arrested and handcuffed last year for failing to produce files requested by the courts his office serves.

“I don’t really understand it, but it seems like fun and I said I’d give it a try,” he says. “This is the same network that Ralph Emery and Don Imus are on, so you know it’s a quality operation.

“If all I have to do is wear different bathrobes every week and walk around, I think I can handle that. And they furnish the robes, which is a good thing—I think a lot of mine have hotel logos on them.”