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unusual facts about reality-TV



Adam de la Peña

In 2003, de La Peña created and co-starred in a reality show, Comedy Central's I'm with Busey, in which he documented days in the life of his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey.

Alejandra Gutierrez Oraa

In 2008, Oraa was chosen for a new style of "Reality Morning Show" at one of Miami's most popular Hispanic radio stations, Romance 106.7 FM.

Avinguda Diagonal

The construction of Avinguda Diagonal is one of the projects it entailed that became reality, when a Royal Decree from Queen Isabella II of Spain and Leopoldo O'Donnell's Spanish government in Madrid allowed him to start the construction of the avenue in 1859.

Bungee jumping

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).

Carnoustie Golf Links

The Golf Channel's reality series The Big Break, in which aspiring golfers compete for exemptions on professional tours and other prizes, filmed its fourth season at Carnoustie in 2005.

Cha$e

Cha$e (pronounced Chase) is a reality television show aired on Syfy in the United States around the same time as Estate of Panic.

Conceptions of God

Another example appears in the popular online novella The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect in which an advanced artificial intelligence uses its own advanced quantum brain to resolve discrepancies in physics theories and develop a unified field theory which gives it absolute control over reality, in a take on philosophical digitalism.

Cool Center

This show has guested David Archuleta and David Cook who both came from the reality show 'American Idol'.

Daniel Mitwali

In 2009, Daniel was chosen from a large pool of young footballers throughout Australia to take part in a reality television program Football Superstar to be aired on Foxtel.

Die Model WG

Die Model WG, German for The Model Community, is the name of two versions of the reality television show Modelville.

Drumchannel.com

DrumChannel partnered with LAMA College for Music Professionals to co-launch the annual Drummer's Reality Camp in Pasadena, California.

George Streeter

The reality was that the Lincoln Park Board had worked to fill in the shoreline in that area, allowing them to build Lake Shore Drive on the infill.

Gökhan Özoğuz

Gökhan Özoğuz is one of the four jury members in the third season of the reality television singing competition O Ses Türkiye aired by Star TV, the Turkish version of the television show Voice.

Human 2.0

"Resistance" uses a quote from the movie The Matrix: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer."

Jay Davis

Jay Davis is an American actor, stand-up comedian and comedy promoter/producer who garnered nationwide attention after appearing in Dane Cook's Tourgasm, a 30-day cross-country-tour-turned-reality-show which also included Cook, Gary Gulman and Robert Kelly, and was given a 8-episode run on HBO.

José Offerman

He is the father of reality television star and WWE Diva, JoJo Offerman.

Karel Marquez

Karel, along with Drew Arellano, is also a co-host in Coca Cola: Ride To Fame, a reality talent show after SOP Rules.

Kroy Biermann

During the filming of the third season of the hit reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo, at an Atlanta charity function earlier in the year.

Low fantasy

Fantasy writer David Chandler considered this "rise of 'Low Fantasy'" to reflect the contemporary reality of the War on Terror—characterized by "secret deals", "vicious reprisals" and "sudden acts of terrifying carnage"—much as the horror genre reacted to the Vietnam War a generation earlier.

Marie Slater

Marie "Maz" Slater (born in Middleton, Greater Manchester in 1972) is a British reality TV star infamous for her role as the 'Miss Nasty' resort manager of Faliraki in ITV show Club Reps.

Medwyn Goodall

One of Goodall's tracks, "Free Spirit" from his album Meditations and Visualisations (2001) features the same Spectrasonics "Distorted Reality" sample featured in the "Summer Forest" music in the video game Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, as composed by Stewart Copeland.

Megan Hauserman

Hauserman was featured in a photoshoot for Guitar World magazine's Holiday 2009 Review Guide, along with fellow reality television contestants Brandi "Hambone" Cunningham, Destiney Sue Moore, and Kristy Joe Muller.

Murtz Jaffer

The show was a behind-the-scenes look at reality television answering big-picture questions about the genre and the first season included appearances from many of Jaffer's reality star friends including Survivors Jonny Fairplay, Ozzy Lusth, Eliza Orlins, Rupert Boneham and Rob Mariano.

Myles Kovacs

Myles Kovacs and wife Cynthia Kovacs have recently been on Fox's reality series, The Secret Millionaire, in which $150,000 of their own money was given away to deserving people.

Nalla Pattukare

The movie is based on the struggles of upcoming artists and was modelled upon the popular Asianet reality TV show called Idea Star Singer.

Never Going Back to OK

"We Are the Sound" was used in commercials and promotion of the reality-talent competition show American Idol.

Old Codes New Chaos

The track "Feinman" features a quote from Richard Feynman, the last line of his report into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

Pakistan Sangeet Icon

Pakistan Sangeet Icon is a reality-based singing competition shown on MTV Pakistan, Indus TV and Gkaboom.

Permutation City

It focuses on a model of consciousness and reality, the Dust Theory, similar to the Ultimate Ensemble Mathematical Universe hypothesis proposed by Max Tegmark.

Pigeon Key Historic District

This place was featured at the 18th season finale (the finishing line) of the hit-reality series, The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business.

Preet Banerjee

Preet Banerjee (born September 27, 1977) is the host of the television show Million Dollar Neighbourhood on the Oprah Winfrey Network, a personal financial expert, and winner of the reality TV series The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, which aired on the W Network in Canada during the summer of 2009.

Raphael Xavier

Raphael was one of the few students to stick with it and turned the dreams of becoming a member of the famous "Scanner Boys" of Philly into a reality as he would work closely with their crew leader, Lorenzo-Prince Scarecrow-Rennie Harris, founder of Rennie Harris Puremovement.

Realidade

Realidade (Reality) was a Brazilian magazine published by Editora Abril between 1966 and 1976.

Reality distortion field

Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.

Riddlesden

East Riddlesden Hall was featured on an episode of the paranormal themed reality television programme Most Haunted.

Road Rules: South Pacific

Road Rules: South Pacific is the twelfth season of MTV's reality show Road Rules that takes place in the South Pacific.

Rudolf Leonhard

From 1919 onwards he was a freelance author for the publication Die Weltbühne, and worked for the publishing house Verlag Die Schmiede as a lector and as the editor of two series of books, “Außenseiter der Gesellschaft” (Outsiders of Society) and “Berichte aus der Wirklichkeit” (Reports from Reality).

S Club Search

S Club Search is a CBBC reality television show that documents the audition process and formation for the pop group S Club Juniors in 2001.

Santarcangelo Calcio

The club was founded as A.S.D. Santarcangelo, sports association in 1926, it is the reality most followed football in the area of Santarcangelo di Romagna, the team found a good following among local audiences.

Solve for X

European director Bruno Giussani stated regarding Google's endeavor: "The world needs more ideas, not fewer and more commitment to sharing them freely and openly so that collectively we can test-run them and turn them into reality ... Google being at the origin of this, obviously technology and engineering will play a big role in Solve For X".

St. Labre Indian Catholic High School

Land was purchased by the Bishop, and on March 29, 1884, St. Labre Indian School, named for St. Benedict Joseph Labre, became a reality.

T. L. Hanna High School

MTV came to T.L. Hanna High School in September 2007 to cast for "Made", a reality-show featuring the makeovers of high school students.

The Night Chicago Died

The East Side is not one of these "sides" of town, but in reality is a neighborhood located on the South Side, several miles away from where Al Capone lived (at 7244 South Prairie Avenue).

The Playboy Radio Show

The Playboy Radio Show is a Playboy TV reality series that follows the weekly antics of the various shows on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Playboy Radio channel.

Tim Andrew

He also worked as an assistant director on a number of feature films and as supervising producer on the television series Home James, reality series Denise Richards: It's Complicated, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? and the Tyler Perry-directed films Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys, Why Did I Get Married Too? and For Colored Girls.

Top Model po-russki

Top Model po-russki (rus. Топ-модель по-русски — Russia's Next Top Model) is a Russian reality documentary, and the second Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks', America's Next Top Model after You are a Supermodel which aired from 2004 to 2007, and had four cycles.

Under Defeat

The game takes place in an alternate reality based on World War II, and, in a controversial twist, players control German-speaking characters (under the banner of "the Empire") with uniforms that resemble those of the Nazi SS, fighting against enemies ("the Union") that speak English and possess weapons patterned after those of both real-life Allied and Axis powers (for example, naval units in Level 2 bear heavy resemblance toward the Imperial Japanese warships).

Whydah Gally

On 27 May 2007 a UK documentary/reality show titled Pirate Ship ... Live! followed a team of divers, including comedian Vic Reeves, in live coverage of a dive at the Whydah site.

William Greaves

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T.Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?, The Deep North, and Ida B. Wells: An American Odyssey, which was narrated by Nobel Prize in Literature and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison.

Yodelice

He partly composed the first album by L5–a female band created during a popular reality TV show, Popstars.


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Adam Hauck

Adam quickly found work as a writer and producer on the nightly FX talk show, "The X Show", then later worked on Comedy Central's "Beat the Geeks", and several reality TV shows, including MTV's "Road Rules" and NBC's "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?"

Aishah and The Fan Club

Paul Moss also lives in Malaysia where he has become a judge of the reality TV singing competitions Malaysian Idol and One in a Million.

Aizat Amdan

Aizat began his music career as a contestant in the reality TV singing contest Akademi Fantasia 5 or better known by its abbreviation AF.

Alex McLeod

After leaving "Trading Spaces" in 2002 McLeod performed in back to back reality TV projects making the move into major network television with a hosting role on Fox's controversial first season of Joe Millionaire shot on location in France's Loire Valley.

Andrija Jukic

He tried out for the FOX8 reality TV show Football Superstar, but narrowly missed out on making the Perth Top 10, placing 11th, After this Jukic signed for his home town club Perth Glory's 2008/09 Youth League team, where he was a standout.

Ballet West

Ballet West was featured in the reality TV series Breaking Pointe in the Summer of 2012 and 2013 aired on the CW Network, part of a BBC Production.

Ballymore Stadium

The reality TV Show Football Superstar on FOX8 their team Football Superstars play their home games at Ballymore Stadium.

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

In 2010, Ní Chofaigh took part in the "reality" TV series Celebrity Bainisteoir, managing Nobber GFC, based in her home county of Meath.

Carrum Downs, Victoria

The video was filmed in the carpark of the local Coles Supermarket, and was first shown in 2008 on the Australian Reality TV Show Highway Patrol.

Chainsaw Gang

Chainsaw Gang is a reality TV show that features Stacy Poitras – one of the country's top chainsaw artists – and his crew as they create works of art from logs and other large blocks of wood.

Chicken Treat

During the first season of the reality TV series Big Brother, adverts replicated the 'bum dance' of Perth contestant Sara-Marie Fedele.

Chris Packham

In December 2009, Packham criticised reality TV show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! for mistreating animals, accusing them of plugging up spiders' fangs, needlessly killing insects and tying crocodiles' mouths shut.

Direct Entertainment

Former clients include many reality TV stars such as the cast of MTV's Road Rules and The Real World and Johnny Cash's former backing band, The Tennessee Three.

Dream Deferred Essay Contest

The 2009 panel includes best-selling author Dr. Azar Nafisi, Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed, and Iranian-American reality TV star, Parisa Montazaran.

Encarna Sánchez

Over the last year, a new crop of gossip and reality TV shows dealing with exposing all kinds of scandals led by 'Aquí hay tomate' (There’s tomato here) a Spanish TV equivalent to National Enquirer-meets-Springer, have sporadically returned to Encarna's private life with information by a former reporter of her shows and some from the 'bunch' she talked about in her last message.

Girdwood Airport

Girdwood Airport also served as the Finish Line for the 12th season of the popular 5-time emmy winning reality TV show, The Amazing Race.

Gran Hermano

Gran Hermano ("Big Brother" in Spanish) is the name of several versions of the reality TV series Big Brother.

Javier Fuentes-León

In the following years, Fuentes-León worked as the lead writer for reality TV shows at the Telemundo in the U.S., subtitled films from major Hollywood studios into Spanish, and worked as an editor of commercials and TV shows, including Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels for the Food Network, while focusing on his own writing and directing projects.

Jimmy Lange

Lange was a contestant on the first season of the NBC reality TV show, The Contender, produced and hosted by Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard.

João Kléber

Recently, he returned to Brazil, where on the reality TV show A Fazenda 4 of Rede Record, being the fourth eliminated from the show, with 47% of the vote.

Jouni Hynynen

He has also written books, hosted a reality TV show called "Äijät" ('The men') with Jone Nikula and been a columnist for newspapers.

Judi Shekoni

In 2005, she appeared in the ITV reality TV show, Celebrity Love Island alongside Calum Best, Paul Danan, Abi Titmuss and Nikki Ziering among others.

Kevin Sacre

He married professional dancer Camilla Dallerup on 29 July 2010 in Ibiza, two years after meeting on the set of the reality TV series The Underdog Show.

La Purisima Mission

The mission is reportedly haunted by the Indians and Spaniards who died there and has recently been featured on the paranormal reality TV shows Ghost Adventures, The Othersiders and The Missions of California.

Last 2 Walk

One of the reasons why the album was pushed back so many times is because of their reality TV show on MTV Adventures in Hollyhood.

Manuel Carrasco

At 21, he tried out for the second edition of the Spanish interactive reality TV show, Operación Triunfo (Spain's version of Fame Academy or Star Academy) where he finished second.

Marisa Lang

Her company WOW2210 Productions is currently producing a reality TV sitcom titled “All About Me” starring Nick Mancuso and Jimi Bertucci.

Midnight Lamp

A young woman raped by her father, and doomed by the crippling mental illness that is her heritage, featuring on the reality TV show hosted by Bollywood import, the truly wonderful Puusi Meera .

Mollee Gray

She was also featured in the TV series Suburgatory, in the episode "Black Thai" and was a dancer in reality TV Shows such as America's Got Talent, The Voice and Dancing With The Stars.

Nancy Sumari

She is one of five children, including her older sister Nakaaya Sumari of reality TV show "Tusker Project Fame".

Oona Garthwaite

Their music has been featured several times on the reality TV show So You Think You Can Dance, including an audition by Stephen "Twitch" Boss and a routine choreographed by Sonya Tayeh and performed by Ellenore Scott and Jakob Karr.

Oussama Rahbani

Between 2004 and 2007, he was a consultant in the reality TV show Star Academy produced by LBC giving musical culture lessons to the aspiring contestants.

Paris By Night 93

The show is an adaptation from the international reality TV show Dancing with the Stars where Thuy Nga contracted-singers were paired up with professional ballroom dancers who have participated in Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance.

Pignon sur rue

This precursor of the genre is often cited by Québécois intellectuals as an early form of a more intelligent and respectable form of reality TV, before the Loft Story and Occupation Double era.

Rakesh Aggarwal

British celebrity Alexandra 'Binky' Felstead from the augmented reality TV show Made in Chelsea is a beauty ambassador and blogger on behalf of Escentual.com.

Reality TV confessional

The name of the practice, that is "confessional", has its roots in a Simpson's episode in which reality TV was parodied.

Robert Carradine

In January 2013, he and former Revenge of the Nerds co-star, Curtis Armstrong, will host King of the Nerds, a reality TV series in which a group of nerds compete to find out which one is the nerdiest.

Rossi Morreale

In 2008, Morreale hosted season one of the Country Music Television reality TV series Can You Duet, a talent search for undiscovered country music duets.

Save22

CEO Guyi Shen was featured on the reality TV Show Angel's Gate and appeared to agree on a mentoring relationship with two of the angels on the show for 10% equity in the company.

Sharon Carpenter

Carpenter is a co-creator and main cast member of the VH1 reality TV show, The Gossip Game.

Ted Kenney

This list of credits includes reality TV's show, MTV's The Real World.

The Apprentice Africa

The Apprentice Africa is an African version of the original American Reality TV format, The Apprentice, hosted by Donald Trump.

The Selection Box

The Selection Box was a talent search reality TV show produced by Adare Productions for RTÉ.

True Life

For example, the episode "I'm a Reality TV Star" featured people from The Real World and Survivor, while the episode "I'm a Muay Thai Fighter" and "I'm a Mixed Martial Artist" both featured Kit Cope, who has recently signed a deal with the WFA and Frankie Edgar, who was the UFC Lightweight Champion.