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Leif Garrett says Celebrity Rehab producers asked him to use when he was sober

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:53:55 +0000

Celebrity Rehab participant Leif Garrett said that before his time on the show with Dr. Drew Pinsky, he was sober but producers asked him to use on camera, so he did. And first-season participant Jeff Conway said producers asked him to lie and create drama

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Amber Portwood gets $280K a year, doesn’t "want to be known as Amber from Teen Mom"

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:42:03 +0000

Teen Mom star Amber Portwood was released from jail last week, but not before a judge forced her to reveal in open court how much she earns every year: $280,000, which is two six-month $140,000 contracts. Amber cannot contact her former fiance Gary Shirley after being “arrested Monday on two felony counts and a misdemeanor count of domestic battery and one felony count of neglect of a dependant,” The Herald Bulletin reports

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WWE Tough Enough resurrected by USA Network

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:26:00 +0000

The series that lets people compete for a pro wrestling contract will return to TV more than six years after being effectively canceled. WWE Tough Enough, which aired three seasons on MTV and then a fourth season as part of SmackDown that featured current WWE champion Mike “The Miz” Mizanin, has been picked up by USA Network. USA said in a press release that it will debut April 4 and “will feature a group of…

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Chris Lambton explains why he rejected The Bachelor

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000

Brad Womack returns to ABC tonight to try to find love again, and will face the two women he rejected (Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas), an event that turned him into a villain but saved The Bachelor by making it relevant and interesting again. The man who producers first approached about fronting the 15th season, The Bachelorette runner-up Chris Lambton, says he rejected the show and a mid-six-figure paycheck because he didn’t like the way…

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American Idol will replace the on-stage band with audience members

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:15:57 +0000

American Idol has hired Ray Chew as its new band director, but is planning to hide him and the musicians, replacing them on the stage with audience members, because as we all know, American Idol’s biggest problem was that it had too few coached audience members getting screen time. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Ray Chew would join the show; he’s previously produced and conducted live music for live TV shows such as the… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about American Idol 10 » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook .

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Reality TV saves teenager’s life

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:52:14 +0000

Some good news to start 2011: Discovery’s Man vs. Wild and Survivorman were credited with saving a 14-year-old’s life

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Casting directors discuss whether actors should do reality TV

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:26:59 +0000

Does it help or hurt an actor to go on a reality TV show? There’s varied evidence, from The Real World’s Jamie Chung, who will be in the Hangover sequel, to Survivor’s Jessica “Sugar” Kiper, who bragged about her contract with CBS but hasn’t apparently turned that into anything since her two appearances on the show, even though she was working actively before it

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Sea Shepherd, whalers’ claims "impossible to verify," AP says; do they not know of Whale Wars?

admin — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:56:49 +0000

Is it possible that the Associated Press has no knowledge of Animal Planet’s outstanding reality series Whale Wars, which documents the Southern Ocean battles between Sea Shepherd conservationists and Japanese whalers? It certainly seems like that, because in a story about Sea Shepherd finding the whaling fleet–before they were able to start whaling–the AP’s Kristen Gelineau writes, “Every year, Japan and Sea Shepherd make claims of aggression against each other, but the accounts are generally..

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Sea Shepherd, whalers’ claims "impossible to verify," AP says; do they not know of Whale Wars?

The year in reality TV, 2010

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:10:10 +0000

The year’s end is upon us, and although the transition from today to tomorrow won’t really be noticeable in any other meaningful way, the change from one number to the next prompts us to be nostalgic.

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2010′s most popular reality TV stories and shows

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:10:36 +0000

The year is concluding (as is the decade!), so it’s time for the requisite look back at the most popular stories on reality blurred over the past year. Despite the fact that I published, for the first time ever, the Survivor cast contract and rule book for the game, the most popular story was once again about porn

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