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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Leif Garrett says Celebrity Rehab producers asked him to use when he was sober
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"
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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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
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
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
Only two seasons of The Amazing Race have been released on DVD, seasons one and seven, but that may soon change, as the second season of the show has been listed on Amazon. TV Shows on DVD reports that while there is not even a pre-order available right now, “it likely is” coming soon “since the listing shows a running time (569 minutes), a studio-provided description (quoted just below), and package art which is not…
The official announcement of Survivor Redemption Island on Sunday night was followed by additional details about the new, game-changing twist. Among other things, there will usually be two challenges per episode, a combined reward and immunity plus the new redemption duel, while the twist is something that CBS has rejected for years.
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More details about Survivor Redemption Island
Survivor’s 22nd season will be called Survivor Redemption Island, as I guessed back when call sheets from the season leaked out and revealed the big twist: those who are voted out will have the chance to stick around during special challenges, and one person will re-enter the actual game. And while Rob Mariano and Russell Hantz will apparently return to seek their own redemption, that was not announced. The requisite post-reunion preview was teased by..
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Survivor Redemption Island confirmed as Survivor’s 22nd season, but no word of Rob or Russell
Of the gifts reality TV has given us, it has given us a lot to laugh at and mock. The 2003 Fox series Joe Millionaire formalized that mockery by satirizing The Bachelor, pretending its star was a millionaire when he really was not
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12 days of reality: Joe Millionaire’s slurps, Joe Schmo’s schmo
