I am going to tell you about my ten most favorite reality TV shows of all time. We have seen many reality TV shows over the years come and go. Some have stayed on the air for many seasons and are still going strong. We have had shows that follow a married couple with a total of eight children and we have seen shows that follow celebrities in their normal day to day routines. As you will see from my list below I tend to lean more toward celebrity reality TV shows. I am a celebrity junkie, so I love that some celebrities invite a camera crew into their homes and lives to see what they go through in their quest to maintain their celebrity status. Here are my top ten all time favorite Reality TV Shows.
10. Punk’d – Ashton Kutcher gets a camera crew and some of his actor friends to play funny pranks on fellow celebrities. Justin Timberlake in the very first episode was lead to believe that his multi million dollar home and all of his possessions including his dogs were being seized by the government for failing to pay his back taxes. Hiliary Duff was pranked when Ashton arranged for the car she was using to supposedly take her driving exam in to be car jacked. Ultimately this show makes for some hilarious TV watching as you see pampered celebrities get pranked.
9. Hogan Knows Best – Hulk Hogan whom is best known as a professional wrestler along side Andre the Giant and many others, as well as being an actor in a couple of movies, one of them being Mr. Nanny, lets VH1 document his everyday life with his then wife Linda Hogan and their two children Brooke and Nick. We watched Hogan as he helped get Brooke’s singing career off to a good start, but was struggling with how the music company was portraying Brooke’s image to the viewing public by having her in skimpy outfits on the covers of magazines. It turned out that Hogan didn’t know best however when shortly after their series ended Linda Hogan filed for divorce.
8. The Surreal Life – This lovable series showed has-been celebrities that ranged from child actors to porno stars all living together for a short period of time. Corey Feldman got married to his fiance in season one’s finale, and they are now in the beginning process of a divorce. Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielson started a romantic relationship that was further documented after season three ended in their own show on VH1 called Strange Love. Da Brat and Go-Go Jane Wiedlin got into some heated discussions in season four over whether or not Jane was a has-been. It just kept getting better and better in every season.
7. The Simple Life – Socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie had their credit cards and cell phones snatched away from them and were forced to live with different families across the U.S. where they had to try to fit in with normal working class Americans. They also had to get regular jobs like working at Sonic and an auto repair shop.
6. Celebrity Fit Club – After acting jobs stop coming in, celebrities start thinking that maybe they need to start losing weight, not only to be healthy but also to get them more film roles. Celebrity Fit Club has a panel of three judges that give each celebrity a weight loss goal every week to meet by the next weigh in ceremony. This show is very entertaining to watch as it because it shows whiny, pampered celebrities that have to follow a strict weight loss plan and when they don’t meet their goal at the end of the week it is hilarious to see what excuses they come up with.
5. My Fair Brady – Christopher Knight, better known as Peter Brady of The Brady Bunch, documents his life with new girlfriend Adrianne Curry whom won America’s Next Top Model in season one. They met on season four of The Surreal Life which also aired on VH1. You’ll see Adrianne on her mission to score an engagement ring from Chris and succeeds in season one. Season two shows the couple preparing for the wedding and finally getting married. It doesn’t stop there though, in season three they almost broke up due to a very bad birthday present from Adrianne, but reconciled. In the season finale of season three, after being badgered by Chris the whole season to start a family, Adrianne tosses her birth control pills into a body of water.
4. Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica – Just like many other married couples whom have opened their lives up to the viewing public, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are now divorced. We will never forget though all of Jessica’s blond moments that will go down in history as some of the dumbest quotes ever. Jessica was confused by the brand name on a can of tuna which was Chicken Of The Sea, and asked her then husband Nick “Is this chicken, what I have or is this fish?” Nick at first shakes his head then explains to Jessica why that brand of tuna is called Chicken Of The Sea.
3. America’s Got Talent – Three judges, Sharon Osbourne, Piers Morgan, and David Hasselhoff have to whittle down the list of thousands of hopefuls to just a few for America to decide which contestant should win a live show in Las Vegas.
2. American Idol – I am scared to see how the new season of American Idol will turn out now that it will be missing Paula Abdul. Without American Idol we might never have known the talents of Kelly Clarkson, Kellie Pickler, and Carrie Underwood just to name a few. Last season Kris Allen won and I was so ecstatic, for I voted for him every week.
1. Hell’s Kitchen – Gordon Ramsay, a well known chef, puts over a dozen hopefuls through HELL to find the perfect head chef for a well known fine dining restaurant somewhere in the world. The “F” word flows frequently from chef Ramsay’s mouth and he is constantly calling wannabe chefs “donkeys” and “planks”. It is a very dramatic and entertaining show to watch as you see the egos of all the chefs competing clash.
