Reality Shows That Are Totally Fake
Reality Shows That Are Totally Fake
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Breaking Amish 
Breaking Amish is purportedly about Amish youths who want to experience the world outside their old-world, conservative communities and venture to New York City to experience things like electricity, cellphones, and cars. However, TLC didn't do their due diligence prior to filming and it quickly became clear the show was completely fake. Two of the stars claimed to have just met one another when meeting at the airport. However, social media posts show they had been in a relationship for at least a year and even had a baby together. The guy, Abe, had also been arrested four years prior in Kentucky for public intoxication, meaning he had left the Amish lifestyle years before the show. Another cast member, Raber, though claiming to have just left his Amish community for the show, had married another Amish defector and had three children with her. The woman filed for divorce from him claiming he was physically abusive, was granted a restraining order from him, and was living in a domestic violence shelter. The original cast members had easily accessible trails to discover they were no where near the devout Amish that TLC hoped to portray. It's no wonder the show lasted just 20 episodes. Has anyone watched this? I haven't.
Breaking Amish is purportedly about Amish youths who want to experience the world outside their old-world, conservative communities and venture to New York City to experience things like electricity, cellphones, and cars. However, TLC didn't do their due diligence prior to filming and it quickly became clear the show was completely fake.
The Voice 
If you're a big fan of the ultra-popular The Voice singing talent show, you may want to sit down. While the decision rests with the audience on who ultimately will win, it turns out who gets to the stage is very much pre-planned. In 2015, the lead singer for Philadelphia-based band Low Cut Connie took to the group's Facebook page to reveal that he had been approached to compete on the show and why he turned it down. A couple months ago the TV show The Voice contacted our agent and said they wanted to cast me… they checked out various Low Cut Connie videos and they wanted to have me as a contestant on the new season. I spoke to them a couple times, and they told me that they had seen everything they needed to see, no need to audition, and that I simply needed to get to L.A. in about ten days time to shoot for a month or more, depending on how far I got in the contest. I really thought it was a joke, but after many conversations it became very clear that they were serious. The Voice is entirely 'pre-cast' and they had an opening they wanted to fill with me. I guess they really wanted that classic 'big-nosed, greasy looking, Fonzie piano-player type.' They wanted me to perform 'modern pop' songs but in my style, at the piano… but also be open to other duets, group performances, sharing sessions, vocal coaching from the musical genius that is Blake Shelton etc. etc. I would have had to cancel some Connie shows and clear my life for this fall in the hopes of that ONE shot to impress Adam Levine, the famous acne-survivor. Anyway, long story short… I said NO.
If you're a big fan of the ultra-popular The Voice singing talent show, you may want to sit down. While the decision rests with the audience on who ultimately will win, it turns out who gets to the stage is very much pre-planned. In 2015, the lead singer for Philadelphia-based band Low Cut Connie took to the group's Facebook page to reveal that he had been approached to compete on the show and why he turned it down.
MasterChef (USA) 
While you wouldn't think a cooking show would need to add any heat behind the scenes, here we are. MasterChef is actually a very old show dating back to the early 90s in the U.K. That original iteration has spawned spin-offs in countries all over the world. For whatever reason, the MasterChef U.S. version is supposedly rife with bakery fakery. A former contestant, Ben Starr, revealed that before signing on, they had to agree to potentially being "fictionalized," which would sometimes include humiliating portrayals that wasn't true to who they were. Starr said that producers also faked lines of dialogue, sometimes splicing bits of dialogue to make it seem like a contestant said something, when they didn't say that thing at all. (Incidentally, the MasterChef Australia rendition is supposed to be much more real and focuses much more on the cooking rather than the drama of beating the cooking clock or other contestants.)
While you wouldn't think a cooking show would need to add any heat behind the scenes, here we are. MasterChef is actually a very old show dating back to the early 90s in the U.K. That original iteration has spawned spin-offs in countries all over the world. For whatever reason, the MasterChef U.S. version is supposedly rife with bakery fakery. A former contestant, Ben Starr, revealed that before signing on, they had to agree to potentially being "fictionalized," which would sometimes include humiliating portrayals that wasn't true to who they were. Starr said that producers also faked lines of dialogue, sometimes splicing bits of dialogue to make it seem like a contestant said something, when they didn't say that thing at all. (Incidentally, the MasterChef Australia rendition is supposed to be much more real and focuses much more on the cooking rather than the drama of beating the cooking clock or other contestants.)
Chopped 
The Food Network favorite, Chopped, pits chefs up against one another in a timed battle of culinary ingenuity. Each cook is given a set of ingredients and prepares dinner courses for the judges, who one-by-one eliminate the weakest dish. While the timed cooking challenges are real, some things on the show are unfortunately not what they seem. According to sources, in the beginning of the show's run, the producers would purposely short a common ingredient (say butter) in the pantry, to create tension and drama between the chefs. (They reportedly no longer do this.) And speaking of the pantry, part of the "drama" of the show is the moment after the "secret" ingredients have been revealed and the chefs need to run to the pantry to get their ingredients to make their dish. However, the chefs have ample time prior to filming to look through the pantry to start to formulate different dishes they can make. And about the "best dish winning" in each round, that unfortunately isn't always true. While the chefs do taste test and judge the food immediately after preparation, they don't always eliminate the worst dish. There have been reports that if a particular chef's story is compelling, they'll leave them on the show as someone who might garner more sympathy from the viewing audience. So if you're watching and you see a dish that there's no way it could lose, well, it might…
Alaskan Bush People 
Could you survive the wild Alaskan wilderness? That's the premise of Discovery Channel's Alaskan Bush People, which follows the Brown family, who was according to the network "a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild." However, soon after premiering their story began to fall apart. First, the Browns' neighbors told Radar Online that the family didn't just live in the wild. They were also residents at the Icy Strait Lodge in Hoonah, Alaska. Other locals came forward to reveal the "bush home" was used strictly for filming, and thus hardly a situation of life and death. Additionally, some legal trouble sprang up for the Browns after the Anchorage Daily News discovered the family had resided outside Alaska for much of 2009 to 2012, and thus were not entitled to Alaskan residency dividends.
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Even one of our own ADC member on this show…see him?
Could you survive the wild Alaskan wilderness? That's the premise of Discovery Channel's Alaskan Bush People, which follows the Brown family, who was according to the network "a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild." However, soon after premiering their story began to fall apart.
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Even one of our own ADC member on this show…see him?
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