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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Amber Portwood gets $280K a year, doesn’t "want to be known as Amber from Teen Mom"
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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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American Idol will replace the on-stage band with audience members
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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The year in reality TV, 2010
TV News: New series gets two-week jump on new season of ‘Idol’ — After years of playing off Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest on the “American Idol” stage, Paula Abdul will be in the smallscreen spotlight as the broadcast TV calendar turns to 2011 and a wave of premieres looks to find some January traction.
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Abdul’s ‘Live to Dance’ kicks off 2011 broadcast premieres
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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2010′s most popular reality TV stories and shows
And we’ve reached the end of the 12 Days of Reality TV, a celebration of the gifts reality TV has given us that’s only loosely connected to the song it borrows its name from. Today’s gifts come from you. There were so many great suggestions it was difficult to narrow them down to 12, but I loved reading them all, and was thrilled that so many were on my list of highlights, too
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12 days of reality TV: 12 reader suggestions, from Erik giving up immunity on Survivor to The Real World’s Pedro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics found that the teen birth rate dropped among all groups in 2009, the year that 16 and Pregnant debuted, and a survey reveals that teens say the show has helped them not get pregnant, probably by scaring the bejeezus out of them.
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16 and Pregnant helps prevent teen births
In his interview with HitFix, Survivor Nicaragua winner Jud “Fabio” Birza is a bit more coherent than I’ve seen in other interviews (it’s no surprise that a jury member wrote 420 next to his name when they cast their vote), and reveals that he was surprised by how many votes Chase received, and those were probably sympathy votes that went against what the jury planned at Ponderosa. In the interview, Fabio said, “I thought I…
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Fabio says Survivor jury "deviated" from Ponderosa voting plan
We’re winding down this 12 Days of Reality TV feature, and that means I’m out of ideas, so it’s time to recycle some.
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12 days of reality: regifting 11 years of reality blurred end-of-year recaps
Survivor Nicaragua’s move back to Wednesday nights didn’t impact the show’s ratings, but this weak season was reflected in the ratings of the finale, which was the lowest-rated ever, and actually lost more than 3 million viewers between the first and second half-hours. About 17.236 million viewers tuned in during the first half-hour, but in the 8:30 half-our, just 13.895 million people were watching. They stuck around for the rest of the show and the…
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Survivor survives move but has lowest-rated finale ever, which lost 3 million viewers in its first hour
