Reality TV Is Totally Unreal

Reality TV shows are so unrealistic. The contestants may not be given a script but they certainly get plenty of hints about the way they are expected to play the game. For example the director might say to one of the actors contestants:

"Look I would never tell you to be rude and bossy with the other contestants but if you did, well you'd get a lot of extra camera time and that could be a big help to your future career --- but you don't have to listen to me. You don't have to get bossy with anyone if you don't want to. You do whatever you want." 

So guess what happens next time the camera is turned on...

Here's another scenario. It's a reality TV show where two of the cast members have decided to get married on camera. It's a good move by the young couple because the producer knows the wedding will bring in millions of viewers so he decides to foot the bill. The soon to be married contestants are delighted with the arrangement because the reality show producer is now chucking money at them hand over fist and their wedding is getting more exciting by the minute. More expensive wedding dress; more valuable ring; bigger church; bigger wedding cars; bigger reception. It all sounds so wonderful.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes (while the happy couple are excitedly preparing for the big day) their producer is secretly figuring out ways to make the wedding as newsworthy as possible. He is at a confidential meeting with his financial backers, listening intently while the PR men bounce ideas around:

• Maybe the car could break down and the bride has to get out in her wedding dress and change the tyre?
• Maybe the bride could be overcome with emotion and collapse at the altar?
• Perhaps we could get her to hesitate before she says "I do"; just long enough to make it seem like she might be going to say "No"?
• Maybe the flower girls could get into a fight with the page boys?
• What if they lost the ring?
• Hey, yeah - that could work.
• But then we'd have to find a replacement.
• A curtain ring perhaps.
• No, that's such an old joke nobody would fall for it.
• Well they could lose the ring and then find it again.

At which point the producer probably said, "OK, that's settled. We create some tension when they lose the ring, and we all heave a sigh of relief when they find it again. I'll leave you to sort out the details while I go and tell the silly buggers what we're up to."


Now you may think that no real couple who were genuinely getting married would ever agree to such an idiotic farce - but they really did! Here's Josh Duggar and Anna Keller getting married on a TV reality show in 2008:

Where do you think he found the ring? On the floor of the vestry? On the path leading up to the church doors? Out on the sidewalk? In the gutter? Behind the back seat of the wedding car? Or was the TV producer standing outside with a big grin on his face and the ring held tightly in his fist and ready to hand it over to the best man as they had rehearsed many times before?

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Since that day it has been discovered that Josh Duggar is an incestuous pedophile who abused his sisters including one who was only five years old at the time! He also cheated on his wife throughout his marriage and paid up to $1,500 a time to have sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant with their fourth child.