“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a drag show competition where contestants show off their hair, makeup, costume, and performance skills. Throughout the competition, they also do entertaining performances such as impersonating celebrities and lip-syncing. Drag queens are known for coming with the drama, and they supply plenty for viewers, but according to former contestants, some of it is scripted.
Jaremi Lee Carey, or Phi Phi O’Hara, while in drag, was the runner-up of season four of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” back in 2012. He later returned to the show for the All-Star season in 2016, where according to him, he was offered a ‘redemption’ storyline. However, during filming, producers often egged on the drama behind the scenes and would goad him (and the other contestants) into saying outrageous and ridiculous things, only to take them completely out of context making the contestants look bad.
Long Island Medium
TV has a long history of fake psychic mediums, and Celebrity medium, Theresa Caputo, is yet another one. Her methods include doing lots of research on her clients well before “reading” them.
"What are her research methods"? you may wonder. Well, she digs dip into their social media. That combined that with lots of generic advice and a bit of misdirection, and voila, you've got your “psychic” reading. Not to say that real psychics don’t exist — you decide for yourself — but dear Caputo isn’t one of them for sure.
Breaking Amish
"Breaking Amish" was a show about Amish youth who want to experience the "outside world" and travel to New York City to experience things like phones, cars, and even electricity. It just happens that TLC didn’t do their homework properly before filming and so it soon became clear the show was completely staged.
It was revealed through social media that two of the stars claimed to have just met one another on the show. However, their old social media posts showed that not only had they been in a relationship for a year but they even had a baby together. So, basically, the cast member's deceiving stories could have easily been discovered if TLC did a little background research. It’s no wonder the show lasted for only 20 episodes.
Say Yes to the Dress
SYTTD manages to make wedding dress shopping seem glamorous, somewhat life-changing, and very dramatic of course. And the show does a great job at making shopping at Kleinfeld, a boutique in New York, look like a much more eventful experience than it actually is.
In reality, the store is much smaller than it looks on our TV screens (which is usually the case, to be honest), making the space pretty tight for brides who now want to shop there once they fit all of the camera crew there. If that wasn't disappointing enough, shopping appointments are limited to 90 minutes, and brides are allowed to look through only a selected number of dresses while the others are stored out of sight.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians
The times the Kardashians staged drama for their hit show, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians", are literally too many to keep up with. Even the house! Yes, Kris Jenner’s Meditteranean-style family home isn’t really where these Hollywood empresses reside. The house was actually empty at the time of filming and was just simply used as a stand-in home until the property was sold in 2018.
Many of the arguments that pop up between the sisters are scripted and even some of their Twitter rants are staged for ratings. Even love! People behind the scenes have reported that at least two of the marriage proposals on the show were staged. It’s literally all an act!