These Secrets From Your Favorite Reality Shows Will Completely Burst Your Bubble

Secrets from your favorite reality shows that are disillusioning at best.

You assume all reality shows are unscripted, especially the competitive kinds, but like everything else on television, it’s just an illusion. You refuse to believe it, and that’s okay. I feel ya. I just can’t picture the Jersey Shore cast reading a script. But you’ll finally realize it’s nothing but smoke and mirrors by the time you finish reading this list. For starters, those reality shows you stumbled on while channel surfing wouldn’t be so much fun if they didn’t have some sort of twist or plot line. After all, how many of you relate to everything you see on television? It turns out producers are crafty AF when it comes to reality TV. While not everything is fake, you’ll be shocked by these secrets from your favorite reality shows.

Editing And Music Creates Drama

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Producers actually edit a scene when a reality star has an OMG moment. Then they cut and paste them into other scenes where reaction shots are needed. To make things even more dramatic, they add music to those horrified looks.

In effect, that look of shock that a star might have made could have been because they stubbed their toe.

Producers Manipulate Soundbites

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Among the many secrets from your favorite reality shows, here’s one that’s totally unexpected. Producers will trick the person they are interviewing into giving them better soundbites. They’ll start by asking someone, “Hey, was that Meg cheating on her boyfriend at the club?” When the person answers “Yeah,” the producers will get them to repeat the statement in a complete sentence so it comes off like the star said it.

Jersey Shore Was Scripted

While some fights on “The Jersey Shore” were real, others were completely staged. According to bystanders, fights like the one that happened while the cast was in Italy had been completely staged. In fact, they had to reshoot the scene where Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino got into a fight several times, hence the fakeness.

There Was Tons Of Sex On The Real World

The dailies editor for the “Real World” claimed that there was a lot more hanky panky going on during the filming of the show than most of us realized.

Eventually the cast stopped because they figured that there were things that were too raunchy to be shown on television. Plus, censoring those scenes would have been impossible.