Category — Reality tidbits

Mel B has had her AVO extended against a Sydney pap. It will go to a full hearing next year. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Kyle Sandiland’s ex Tamar Jaber has now responded to Kyle’s biography and has put out a new single which might reference why they brok up. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Beauty and The Geek Adam from last year’s series has got his job back after he was sacked for going on the reality show whilst he was on stress leave. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

This is not the first Beauty and the Geek scandal, news.com.au outline a few more.

Lucky for The Amazing Race Australia host, Grant Bowler, the show won an International Emmy this week, as his tele movie Liz and Dick is getting panned and now someone has made up a drinking game to do whilst watching it. (Source: Huffington Post)

Interesting interview with Masterchef judge Gary Mehigan about his need for speed, well his long love affair with motorbikes. (Source: City Weekly)

Recipe To Riches judge Carolyn Creswell from Carmen’s Food was awarded Telstra Business Woman Of The Year last night. If you want to go on the show you can still apply here.

Delta Goodrem and Reece Mastin to perform on Funniest Home Videos finale this Saturday on NINE at 6.30pm.

Rachel Zoe fans will be pleased to know The Rachel Zoe Project has been given a fifth season. (Source: Variety)

Courtney Stodden is now 18 and to celebrate Thanksgiving she got naked. (Source: Too Fab)

Gordon Ramsay has again got other chefs offside with him applying for a trademark of the name of The Spotted Pig. It is a famous restaurant in New York. Anthony Bourdain was not happy. (Source: Eater)

After this fracas Eater then decided to write up a yarn titled Ten People Who Have Gordon Ramsay on Their Shit List. Jamie Oliver is one. It is mildly amusing. (Source: Eater)

Bill and Guiliana are not going to put their kid on TV, it will be interesting to see how they get around that as they have their own reality show. (Source: Hollywood Life)

Jake and Ali Harrison are a brother and sister team from the Sunshine Coast who will be in My Kitchen Rules. They look like they will be a lot of fun. (Source: Sunshine Coast Daily)

The X Factor judge Natalie Bassingthwaite is rumoured to be pregnant with her second child. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Reality Shows are the new talent generators. Fourteen Australian stars who got their start on TV talent shows. Most are from Australian Idol. (Source: News.com.au)

Jeff Probst will be back as host for Survivor season 27 and 28 also there  is a good link to an interview with him. (Source: Reality Blurred)

The Hoff’s house is for sale. (Source: City Rag)

Tragedy has it Heston Blummenthal’s Fat Duck family with two of his senior chefs killed in Hong Kong in a car accident. (Source: SMH)

The X Factor host Khloe Kardashian was sent a letter with white powder. FBI were called in and powder was harmless. (Source: TMZ)

A favourite from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,Lisa Vanderpump, now has her own spinoff, “Vanderpump Rules”. (Source: Huffington Post)

Masterchef UK fans will wondering if there was a conflict of interest on Celebrity Masterchef, as judge John Torode is now dating the winner Lisa Faulkner. To be fair she did win it two years ago and they only started dating this year. Source: Daily Mail

Michael from Big Brother writes, partly tongue in cheek, about how being on the show made him a better copywriter. Source: Mumbrella

Big Brother winner Ben denies he is a bully and says he won’t be selling off the rights to his wedding. Source: SMH

Layla talks about Sam and how Estelle was really annoying. Source: Herald Sun

The Amazing Race Australia host, Grant Bowler, is not going to be happy about the reviews of his telemovie with Lindsay Lohan called Liz and Dick. Apparently it is a stinker. Source: SMH

However the good news is The Amazing Race Australia is up for an International Emmy award.

Nikki Webster who was on Dancing With The Stars is now married. Source: Daily Telelgraph

Another Dancing With The Stars alumni Fifi Box has announced her pregnancy today. She announced it on her radio show. Source: Daily Telegraph.

The usual rumour that Kris Jenner aka mum of Kim Kardashian is going to divorce husband Bruce. Source: ICYDK

Guy Fieri who came second in The Next Great Food Star has had an excoriating review by the NY Times about his new restaurant in New York City. Normally a critic review of a restaurant would not go international, but this one has! Source: NYT

On a day where Jennifer Hawkins was named the new host of Australia’s Next Top Model, here is an update on what some of the former contestants are doing. Source: Hot Hits

Heston Blummenthal is selling a christmas pudding at Coles.

Are Big Brother’s Stacey Wren 15 minutes of fames already over she is back at her day job tomorrow. (Source: Mumbrella)

Here is a Media Week Podcast that Reality Ravings did with Amber Giles who writes reality TV for TV Week, and what she doesn’t know about reality TV is not worth knowing. She has this great yarn about when day light saving occurred in NSW the Big Brother housemates noted the live evictions had been brought an hour forward and thought this meant no one was watching the show and it had been moved to GO! Here it is if you want to listen to the best and worst of reality TV there is a lot of Big Brother talk due to the finale last week. (Source: Media Week )

Anthony Bourdain leave Travel Channel in a blaze of glory. He writes here in his blog about how he feels about branded TV. Interesting read as there is a difference between branded products and endorsing a products. (Source: Anthony Bourdain Tumblr)

Heston Blummenthal using tampons as a palate cleanser, I don’t see this as a trend that will take off. (Source: Eater)

People working in the property market give their views on renovation reality TV shows. (Source: The Age)

Headlines proclaim Heidi Klum wears a revealing dress to the MTV awards in Germany. Newsflash it is not that revealing. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Tyler Atkins who won The Amazing Race Australia with Nathan Joliffe has won the girl Samara Weaving. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

In this is too cheesy to be true is the rumour that Shane Warne and Liz Hurley might both be on Strictly Dancing (UK’s version of Dancing With The Stars), at the one time. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Again diversity in reality TV is being written about and this time in a positive way. The LA Times talks about how  reality TV has done a lot for showcasing diversity, particularly gay and lesbians people, that drama cannot match. They also say it may bave been a link why same sex marriage was passed in three states last week. (Source: LA Times)

If you were wondering what happened with the So You Think You Can Dance judge Mary Murphy’s lawsuit where a former manager claimed she was a coke fuelled nympho well he was awarded over $200,000 because she did not respond. (Source: TMZ)

Interesting story about where the local TV industry is at now, and the future challenges for them. Also it outlines how reality TV shows attract a live audience. (Source: SMH)

Matt Preston has released a cookbook Matt Preston’s 100 Best Recipes out now in time for Christmas. (Source: Herald Sun)

Danielle Spencer appears to be the one who made the break from Russell Crowe. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Mel B apparently was goes commando and may have revealed this when dancing gangnam style with Psy. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

Guy Sebastian in an interview the other week said he was not as religious as he used to be, however this has resulted in a backlash from a section of the Christian community. (Source: Daily Telegraph)

A court has been told The X Factor US judge, Britney Spears, liked amphetamines. (Source: News.com.au)

Also the new hosts of The X Factor are Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez. (Source: Daily Mail)

Most popular reality show in Senegal at the moment is a reality show about sheep. (Source: NPR)

Mob Star cast member going to rehab and no surprise she is taking a camera with her. (Source: Huffington Post)

Tyra Banks is looking for males as well as females for the 20th cycle of America’s Next Top Model. (Source:KYSDC)

Kate Gosselin got fired from her blogging gig. Who will feed the children now? (Source: Huffington Post)

Doug Hutchison labelled a “child molester” on Couples Therapy. Quite an amusing article. (Source: Daily Mail)

Simon Cowell may or may not have a new girlfriend. Now he is single expect more of these stories. (Source: Daily Mail)

Real Housewife New York Carole Radziwill has a book deal to write about sex and dating as a widow. (Source: Daily Mail)

If you are a Real Housewife of New Jersey fan you might want to read this article about the ongoing drama on that show. (Source: Reality Tea)

Funny story from an entertainment journalist who after cooking on the Masterchef US set for Gordon Ramsay equates reality TV with dating in your twenties. (Source: NY Mag)

Gordon Ramsay must have had enough of reality TV as he is now producing a drama about a restaurant. (Source: Deadline)

It is not just reality shows, cookbooks, and business that is bringing in chefs dollars, it is also speaking gigs. The Cake Boss guy gets $65,000. (Source: The Daily Meal)