Reality Tidbits – Sunday Edition
Some Reality TV romances, former Australia’s Next Top Model host Jodhi Meares and Jon Stevens are apparently dating, and it would appear Jesinta Campbell and Didier Cohen are no longer going out. As it has been reported she is having a long distance relationship former Temptation game show model Scott McGregor. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
However on reality romances gone sour, Dating In The Dark host Laura Dundovic has split from James Kerley. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Ros Reines gives Celebrity Apprentice Australia winner, Julia Morris, a tickle up for her performance on the red carpet at the ACTAA Awards this week. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
One of Holland’s Next Top Model winners is suing her modelling agency for not paying her the full prize money, because she was too fat. (Source: WA Today)
Celebrity Apprentice Australia is going the full copy of the US version with news Mark Bouris’s son Dane is to appear on the show as an advisor, along with Deborah Thomas. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Reality TV gone too far. A Fear Factor episode has now been pulled because a contestant was made to drink donkey semen and another donkey urine. The question has to be asked where and how did they get the donkey semen? (Source: Reality Blurred)
The Courier Mail has an article about Reality TV villains and how they brings in ratings. It also appears Jennifer from My Kitchen Rules is OK with being this series villain. (Source: Courier Mail)
Josh Flinn from Australia’s Next Top Model will be reporting on all things fashion for Mornings on Nine. (Source: Sun-Herald)
Pete Evans from My Kitchen Rules is not happy that the paparazzi take photos of his children Chilli and Indii. (Source: Sun-Herald)
Simon Cowell has put axe through The X Factor US with judge Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger getting the chop. Also host Steve Jones won’t be back either. (Source: Reality Blurred)
However Simon Cowell appears to be taking it in his stride, and appears relaxed in these photos as he takes his ex-girlfriend Jackie St Clair out to dinner. (Source: Daily Mail)
So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Alex Da Silva has been sentenced to ten years for rape. (Source: Reality Blurred)
February 5, 2012 3 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Australia Day Edition
Jamie Durie gets an Order of Australia for his services to reality TV, only joking it was for charity work. (Source: TV Tonight)
Paul Kalina from SMH on the set of Excess Baggage. (Source: SMH)
Simon Cowell no longer engaged and single? Well this article says so. (Source: Daily Gossip)
Speaking of Simon Cowell he has announced a new reality show he is working on with Jada Pinkett-Smith looking for the best DJ. He won’t be a judge on the show. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
The Stafford Brothers starts on Fox 8 on Friday night at 8.30pm it is a reality program which follows two Australian DJ’s around the world. (Source: Herald Sun)
Mel B is selling her house in LA with a dodgy rumour she is moving to Sydney. However there are rumours she will be on Dancing With The Stars. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Seal talks about his marriage breakdown with Heidi Klum, it doesn’t appear to be too vexatious. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Also the other The Voice Australia Joel Madden’s marriage to Nicole Ritchie may be in trouble. (Source: Front cover of Famous Mag, Ok that source is spurious)
Project Runway mentor Tim Gunn has not had sex in 29 years, and it appears to be a voluntary choice. (Source: Dlisted)
The cast for The Amazing Race Season 20 has been revealed. (Source: Huffington Post)
Masterchef UK host John Torode has split from his wife. (Source: Daily Mail)
Top Chef judge Gail Simmons says the most overrated TV chef at the moment is Paula Deen, and Fabio said Anthony Bourdain was the judge he liked the least. (Source: Huffington Post)
Jersey Shore star Snooki is now promoting fat burning pills. (Source: Daily Mail)
Speaking of low rent reality TV shows – the Geordie Shore cast have released a perfume that smells of kebabs. (Source: Daily Mail)
Bethenny Frankel gets her own talk show, as does Rocco DiSpirito. (Source: Reality Blurred)
January 27, 2012 4 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Sunday Edition
Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s role at Seven will be more than Dancing With The Stars, but no news on what that actually will be. (Source: TV Tonight)
Media Spy is reporting that the Big Brother house is being built at Dreamworld. No idea how valid that rumour is.
Ronan Keating talks about his foray into acting and also his new tour in January in Australia. (Source: SMH)
Alan Jones tells Kyle Sandilands to not be vulgar. I finding it interesting that Alan Jones is giving him advice on being an ethical radio announcer. Last time I looked wasn’t he one of the guys that were behind the cash for comment scandal? (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Lara Bingle is dating a surfer. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Australia Idol alumni Paulini Curuenavuli has a new single out. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Kelly Clarkson will be a mentor on the US Version of The Voice. She will assist the singer judge Blake Shelton picks. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Don’t expect to see Fifi Box as a competitor on Four Weddings anytime soon, the host of the show says she is married to her careers. (Source: Herald Sun)
The Voice judge, Christine Aguillera in the US caused a sensation when she turned up at a press call to promote the second season in a revealing dress with no bra on. (Source: Dlisted)
Paula Abdul has split from her boyfriend, Jeff Bratton. I didn’t know she had one. (Source: ET)
Teen Mom Amber Portwood is in jail and facing eviction, the article does not say who is actually looking after her child. (Source: Huffington Post)
January 9, 2012 No Comments
Reality Tidbits – Tuesday Night Edition – Hard To Find News Edition
Newly engaged UK Strictly Dancing contestant Holly Valance has cracked a rib on holidays. OK it is a slow news day. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Ricki-Lee Coulter is in Paris is eating. She apparently lost 30kgs this year that is a lot of weight. (Source: Herald Sun)
Australia’s Next Top Model winner Montana Cox kissed a boy at a music festival and he was Channel V presenter Billy Russell. (Source: Herald Sun)
Alesha Dixon will move from judging Strictly Come Dancing in the UK to Britain’s Got Talent. David Walliams is also going to be a judge on the show. (Source: Daily Mail)
Simon Cowell has two ex-girlfriends feuding over him, and his fiancee is yet to show up on his holiday. (Source: Daily Mail)
Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law has to pay him 250,000 pounds. (Source: Eater)
Uptown mag outlines their nine craziest reality TV moments in 2012.
More reality stars are backing in US Presidential candidates, the Duggars are supporting Rick Sanctorum. (Source: USA Today)
Ryan Seacrest talks about where his media empire is heading. (Source: Fortune)
Former employee of Rachel Zoe has his own reality show now, and wonders why Rachel and him don’t speak. (Source: Daily Mail)
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Taylor Armstrong’s marriage was over before her husband committed suicide. (Source: Daily Mail)
January 4, 2012 No Comments
Reality Tidbits – Monday Night Edition
China cracks down on reality TV as it is being too real about the new China and its youth. (Source: New York Times)
Lee Furlong host of Cricket Superstar talks about the show. It premieres on Fox 8 on Wednesday 4 January at 7.35pm. (Source: TV Week)
TV Tonight is saying former Australian Idol host James Mathison might be in the mix for host of The Voice, as no one has been officially announced yet. The other two names mentioned have been Darren McMullen and Jabba. I hope he is right. (Source: TV Tonight)
TV Tonight also reviews The Amazing Race app, the positive thing about it is that it does have Phil raising his eyebrow!
The US version of So You Think You Can Dance has had a rating decline so there will be no results show, it will be all be rolled into one. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)
Because there has to be a Kardashian on every show, Khloe gets Punk’d on Punk’d by Miley Cyrus and Kelly Osbourne. (Source: Huffington Post)
Also Kim Kardashian has a new look to go with the New Year. (Source: Huffington Post with Pic)
Celebrity Wife Swap cast member Carnie Wilson talks about her weight gain. More importantly are we going to see this series in Australia? (Source: Huffington Post)
Courtney Stodden does another gyrate for the cameras in the hope of getting her own reality TV show. (Source: Daily Mail)
Rachel Zoe keeps herself covered up on the beach in the Carribean, but she looks like she has lost any baby weight she might have gained. (Source: Daily Mail)
Janice Dickinson alleges America’s Next Top Model winner is not picked by the judges but the Cover Girl executives. (Source: Radar)
The Bachelor or Bachelorette have never had a non-white person in the title role. Cheryl Robinson writes about this in her new novel The One, where her main character is black and in her forties and is in the title role of the show. (Source: PR Web)
Erin the single mum from season one of Farmer Wants A Wife is getting married. (Source: The Herald)
January 3, 2012 1 Comment
Reality Tidbits – Thursday Night Edition
Chrissie Swan leaving The Circle to host Breakfast show on Mix FM in Melbourne. (Source: Herald Sun)
Dan Ewing may have his assault charges dropped. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
The Block in Melbourne has come up with some planning issues, with plans to turn a house into four garages being knocked back. (Source: Herald Sun)
Giuliana Rancic has come through her double masectomy well. (Source: Herald Sun)
The Duggars hold a memorial service for Jubilee Shalom. (Source: D Listed)
American Idol winner Fantasia is a mother again. (Source: DListed)
Clint Eastwood’s family to be in a reality TV show. (Source: Canoe)
Sober Model House – reality show based on a house where models get sober, Janice Dickinson to star in it. Chances of us seeing it on Australian screens must be slim. (Source: Reality Blurred)
Season 1 winner of Survivor, Richard Hatch wants to go on The Amazing Race also a reality show based on him meeting up with the kids he produced as a sperm donor may be on the cards. (Source: Reality Blurred)
Sarah Palin and husband Todd are unsuccessfully pitching a reality show based on Todd’s snowmobile racing. (Source: Reality Blurred)
December 15, 2011 2 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Little Bits Of Reality Gossip
Nick Jonas has flown in to meet his girlfriend The Voice judge, Delta Goodrem’s family. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Nicole Ritchie will be joining her husband Joel Madden when he comes out here to star on The Voice. (Source: Herald Sun)
Simon Cowell congratulates the team of The X Factor Australia saying it was a ‘massive step up’. I wonder if he would have said that if Andrew Wishart had won. (Source: Herald Sun)
Dani Minogue will be a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. (Source: Daily Mail)
Dancing With The Stars US contestant proposed to his girlfriend on TV. (Source: New York Daily News )
Kim Kardashian says she won’t be having kids before she is thirty now. If you care… (Source: Huffington Post)
Also soon to be ex-husband Kris is unhappy about how he was portrayed in the first episode of Kim and Kourtney Take On New York. (Source: Huffington Post)
The Huffington Post, which seems to be obsessed with the Kardashian write that Kris Jenner, aka the mum, might be the next Kardashian on Dancing With The Stars.
If you are interested in what Courtney Stodden wears to church click here. The 17 year old and her 50 something old husband are pitching a reality show. Her husband Doug has also pulled out of a movie due to what he thought was inappropriate sexual content. (Source: Huffington Post)
Bethenny Frankel won’t be getting her own talk show as she is thought to be too aggressive. (Source: Reality Blurred)
Survivor renewed for two more seasons, with Jeff Probst as host. (Source: Reality Blurred)
November 30, 2011 7 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Sunday Edition
A funny article on 10 reasons why you should watch Celebrity Apprentice. (Source: SMH)
I have done some pretty cool things since blogging on reality TV but appearing on The Playlist with Andrew Mercado and Di Butler from News Ltd is one of the highlights. (Source: The Playlist)
Former Dancing With The Stars contestant Simone Callahan has refused to meet ex-husband, Shane Warne, new fiancee, Liz Hurley. (Source: Herald Sun)
For some reason I do want to know the answer to this – Dr Drew is going to find out if Courtney Stodden breasts are real. Courtney was the 16 year old who married a 50 something actor who had a few cameos in LOST. (Source: Dlisted)
Former Fashion Show host, and now UK X Factor judge Kelly Rowland told the media that Beyonce’s not yet born baby was a girl. (Source: Dlisted)
November 6, 2011 15 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Saturday night Edition
Hamish and Andy again deny they will be hosts of Big Brother. (Source: Herald Sun)
Michael Lohan who has been on Celebrity Apprentice and is Lindsay Lohan’s stuffed up father has been arrested after jumping off a balcony. He was arrested for domestic violence. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Kim Kardashian tweets Justin Beiber’s “number” to get votes for her brother on Dancing With The Stars. This stunt by her has made is actually rather clever and amusing. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Kim also admits her living situation with her new husband was not idea. (Source: People)
Australia’s Next Top Model runner up Liz Braithwaite has scored a modelling contract with G-Star Raw Australian Women’s Night. (Source: Daily Telegraph)
Winner of ANTM Montana will head to New York in December. All three of the finalists have been signed to Chic Management. (Source: Herald Sun)
The Renovators will it or won’t it return to our screens in 2012. A decision has yet to be made. (Source: TV Tonight)
Steve Tyler from American Idol injured himself when he fell in a shower, he claims alcohol was not to blame. (Source: News.com.au)
Boston Rob from Survivor will tweet a sponsored message for $149.50, this is why I don’t follow a lot of celebrities. Who needs ads in their twitter streams. (Source: All Your TV)
Jackie O talks to the Daily Telegraph about work and motherhood.
October 30, 2011 2 Comments
Reality Tidbits – Sunday Morning
The X Factor judge Mel B has been to strip joints while she has been here in Sydney. I don’t know where she gets the energy from, but then she probably has a nanny. Also in the same article she said she “doesn’t love but does not hate” the other female judge Natalie Bassingthwaite. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
In other Natalie Bassingthwaite news apparently she is very tiny and thin. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Project Runway Australia host Megan Gale was spotted in Bali with her footy player boyfriend. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Speculation is continuing about whether former Dancing With The Stars contestant Lara Bingle will catch up with Jason Derulo. (Source: Sunday Telegraph)
Maria Fowler from The Only Way Is Essex is rumoured to have been an escort, her role on the show is now at risk. (Source: Daily Mail)
Kendra Wilkinson who is currently in Australia to promote the new series of her reality show has said she never felt comfortable getting naked. A bit of a career limiting issue if you are a Playboy centrefold. (Source: Daily Mail)
Kim Kardashian wears a burqa in Dubai. Not sure why considering it would not have been expected of her. (Source: Huffington Post)
Reality TV makes teenage girls more confident, however they may be more likely to tolerate bullying. (Source: Reality Blurred)
Jason Hoppy is married to Bethenny Frankel, the mystery has always been what he actually does. An article in Screen Junkies tries to uncover the truth.
Abbey Lee Miller talks about Dance Moms to Reality TV World.
In the Sydney Morning Herald, Ruth Ritchie, reviews some of the trashier reality TV shows on our screens.
Kate Gosselin who had her reality show Kate Plus Eight cancelled may be returning to work in nursing. (Source: Opposing Views)
Masterchef in the US hosted by Gordon Ramsay has been renewed for a third season. (Source: Media Market Journal)
October 16, 2011 3 Comments


