Have any of you been on a reality television show?

[twinbelters]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:30pm

Just curious because there have been such a massive amount of these shows I'm starting to meet people who have been on reality shows.

Edit: Oh, and naturally, it would be great to hear about your experience participating and so forth. =)

Updated On: 8/5/10 at 05:30 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:45pm

Not me. It might be interesting though.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:48pm

It's my dream to go on THE AMAZING RACE. I'm gonna do it too, if I can find someone willing to go with me.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:50pm

I am a Snooki. President Obama does not know what I am.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:56pm

I've been crossing the paths of Work of Art art-testants like mad lately. Perhaps that's because I'm in the visual art world. Still, by the time I'm 80 years old, 50% of this country will be on a reality show I swear. It's outta control. Someday there will be a "Housewives of..." channel.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 5:58pm

I have 5 PROJECT RUNWAY contestants living in my neighborhood, one I see all the time down in Chelsea and another I see most days when I go to work.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 6:10pm

Jordan, I'll go on the Amazing Race with you.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 7:04pm

Jordan, I'll go on the Amazing Race with you too. That show is awesome.

A friend from college and I actually applied for that show. We made a video, sent it in and everything. It was fun. He tried to convince me we needed a "shtick" to get on the show so he invented some big elaborate back story that we would talk about....how we dated and broke up and now I was dating his roommate. Then he said we would fake make out on the show to create more of a story line. It was too complicated for me.

I suggested we went with the "two good friends from college" shtick. Our video was actually pretty funny. Hmm. I wonder where it is. I have a suspicion it will show up at my wedding some day.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 7:07pm

I want to go on with someone who I'm in a complicated relationship with and we're separated and think that being in the most stressful situations imaginable for a month will bring us closer together and all we do is fight and hit each other and try to secretly kill each other in the challenges. I think that will get people to tune in.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 7:24pm

I'd hook up with another contestant too. Then sparks will fly.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 7:46pm

I was at a restaurant while they were filming a new VH1 reality show a few months ago. They spent most of the time setting up and we left just as they actually starting filming. That's as close as I've gotten, and as close as I want to get.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 7:51pm

Nope, never been in one. If I were to be in on a reality show, it wouldn't be one where it's a one time thing and I become a nobody after it's done (i.e. Real World, Survivor, etc). If I'm signing away my life to the reality TV gods, then I better benefit from it in the end.

Oh, and I've concluded I would be the "boring one" that wouldn't film dates, relationships, family, real friendships, etc.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:32pm

Nope, but I almost auditioned for American Idol this week (I ended up not going).
Oh, but I was interviewed by the news when my 8th grade vocal teacher won Star Search!

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 10:58pm

We can all audition to be Jordan's partner. Then, on the show we can be identified as "Broadway message board companions."

For what it's worth, I can eat the scorpions and such or do highwire/bungee type things, but if it's diving or unrolling haystacks, you gotta do it.

[supportivemom]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:32pm

When I was a pharmaceutical rep, I went to a national product launch and met Survivor Contestant Penny Ramsey- she was the really cute little blonde who wore her hair in side braids. She was on the 3rd or 4th season- the ex-adult film star guy won that year. Anyway, she was also a rep with my company and brought publicity shots of herself to give out to people. That was a little weird but she was very nice.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/5/10 at 11:44pm

I actually met a few people from "The Real World" when they came to my college for their talk tours or whatever you would call them. Fortunately, none of them seemed awful.

I need to be on either the Bachelor or Bachelorette now. I feel like I'm the only person I know who is not engaged or seriously seeing someone. One of my sisters just got married a month ago, and now my older sister is engaged.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 12:34am

Marianne, aren't you 25? You're too old for the Bachelor/ette. The women who need ABC's help finding a husband are clearly the pretty petite blonde 23 year olds.

[singtopher]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 3:15am

Personally I have not, but personally I know two folks who have been on them.

Mondo in this season of PR used to work in the costume shop of a theatre I worked at. He built my Cat in the Hat costume for Seussical. Yes, I've worn a Mondo original.

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:06am

My 5th grade teacher was a contestant on the Bachelorette -- she got booted off pretty quickly though :)

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:24am

My daughter and I did make it to the AI auditions Tuesday and given all the filler and prep stuff they did before the actual auditions began, there's a chance we might make a "see that speck in the corner--that's us!" cameo come January.

BTW, she didn't make it through. Of the 10-17,000 people who showed up, only 200 supposedly made it to the second round. Gave us a nice peek into how random and deceptive the whole process is, though.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:38am

Nope, I'm just waiting for Bravo to make a spin-off of NYC PREP called "DC THEATRE DORK."

But I was on Jeopardy Kids' Week when I was twelve years old... that was a lot of fun, it was a chance for me to take my first trip to a Disney park, and it's covering my first year of college.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:40am

I've been applying to be on the Amazing Race since year one.
I've had three friends on reality shows. Alison Irwin was on Big Brother 4, Amazing Race 5 and Big Brother Allstars. Erika Shay was on season 5 of the Amazing Race. Chet Welch was on Survivor Micronesia. My friend Paul made it all the way to final call back for Survivor Africa.

I was on the Gene London and Sally Starr shows in Philadelphia when I was 6, if that counts.
Updated On: 8/6/10 at 10:40 AM

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:43am

I had cousins on Family Feud when Richard Dawson was hosting.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:52am

Had? Did they get all Italian and kill each other.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 11:05am

Something like that