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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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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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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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12 days of reality TV: 12 reader suggestions, from Erik giving up immunity on Survivor to The Real World’s Pedro

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:52:42 +0000

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

Fabio says Survivor jury "deviated" from Ponderosa voting plan

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:48:39 +0000

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…

12 days of reality: regifting 11 years of reality blurred end-of-year recaps

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:33:37 +0000

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.

Survivor survives move but has lowest-rated finale ever, which lost 3 million viewers in its first hour

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:41:39 +0000

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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12 days of reality: Osbournes ham-throwing

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:30:55 +0000

The Osbournes changed everything. They made everyone realize reality TV wasn’t just for unknown schmoes, and that famous people had something to both give and gain from showing us more of themselves on reality shows

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