10 Hushed-Up Reality-Show Mishaps
by Tara Ariano on December 8, 2011
in News,Pop Culture
While my heart goes out to the California homeowners whose house was damaged during a Mythbusters segment, I would be remiss if I did not use the incident as a teachable moment regarding the very real destruction that reality shows wreak every day, but which the shows’ various networks keep out of the news. Sure, you haven’t heard about any of these other mishaps, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen.* Wake up, sheeple!
- Stacy and Clinton buried a contributor (What Not To Wear‘s word for its makeover subjects) in Crocs, suffocating her.
- Though the Survivor opening credits identify contestants as “Americans,” since the show’s premiere, three contestants have been native Canadians.
- That guy on My Strange Addiction who ate glass was fine, physically, but then on the way out of the therapist’s office, he tripped on a mat and broke his collarbone. [click to continue…]
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Things I Think At, But Do Not Say To, People At The Gym #38
by Tara Ariano on November 28, 2011
in New York,Things I Think At, But Do Not Say To, People At The Gym
I don’t care how many towels you put down, it’s just not okay for you to straddle a two-foot-wide bench when you’re naked.
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