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"
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
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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Reality TV saves teenager’s life
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 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
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
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…
