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Following a campaign to “eradicate all social evils” and “advocate a healthy, civilized and high-minded lifestyle” that involved shutting down night clubs and massage parlors, censors in China are now going after reality TV shows. They have “ordered all matchmaking shows to cut the sexual innuendo, uphold traditional values and ban any talk of women ‘gold digging,’” The Washington Post reports. What they’re upset about is so tame that the censors’ heads would probably explode..

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China bans sexual innuendo, "gold digging" in dating reality series

When they’re not standing in line to watch The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Twilight fans do more than swoon over Robert Pattinson’s sparkling abs, Kristen Stewart’s hair color, and Taylor Lautner’s blank stare: they take pilgrimages to Forks, Wash., a real town where the Twilight books and movies are set. As part of the merchandise and media the series has spawned, there’s a documentary about its impact on its setting that’s been on DVD for a… keep reading » » read the full story and comment , or find the latest news about film documentary » follow reality blurred on Twitter and on Facebook

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Twilight in Forks explores how films, books, fans impact Twilight’s real setting

Sean Duffy, a candidate for Congress who calls himself “pro-life, pro-traditional-marriage, pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment,” is doing well in his campaign, but still has to deal with the repercussions of appearing on The Real World Boston in 1997. After deciding not to run for Congress in 2004, he announced his candidacy a year ago for retiring Democrat David R.

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Congressional candidate Sean Duffy doing well, but still has to defend Real World actions

A celebrity tabloid magazine’s cover story directly challenges spoilers about the outcome of The Bachelorette 6.

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Magazine report challenges Bachelorette finale spoilers

The Real World New Orleans 2 debuted last night on MTV, and tries to bring the series from its lowest ratings ever slump by returning to drunken sex and fighting. Out of deference to the first New Orleans season, the completely unappealing trailer, and the fact that I’ve wasted too much of my life on recent seasons, I didn’t watch the season premiere

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Real World creator identifies three reasons why the show isn’t as awful as it seems

Looking at the Big Brother 12 cast, you’d think that this season’s twist is to have the whitest, least racially diverse cast ever, because there’s apparently only one non-white person. And as we learned yesterday, one cast member will be a secret saboteur/mole/America’s Player, and if the producers selected Monet for that job, that will be awkward, to say the least. And why is the cast so white

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What if Big Brother’s only non-white cast member turns out to be the saboteur?

The cast of Big Brother 12 was announced on The Early Show this morning, and there are 13 cast members again, although one is America’s saboteur and isn’t competing for the prize. Seven are in their 20s, five in their 30s, and one is 40; that’s as old as ..

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Big Brother 12 cast announced, includes an Orthodox Jew; house has a Miami theme (source: Realityblurred.com)

Two actors are getting into the reality TV game, but as producers, not cast members. Susan Sarandon is producing a series that follows ping pong players at her nightclub SPiN

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Susan Sarandon producing ping-pong reality show; Rob Lowe producing DC-set docudrama

After being publicly shamed on The Bachelorette Monday, Justin Rego denied having a girlfriend or doing the show for fame instead of love, which is really what the series is all about. “I absolutely went [on the show for] the possibility of falling in love

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Justin denies cheating, doing Bachelorette for fame, but Chris Harrison says there’s "proof"