Adam DiVello Spills The Secrets on Creating The Perfect Reality Show

We Have The Receipts

Netflix

Tv & Film, After Shows

4.6 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Fellow reality stans, this one's for you! Today we’re putting on our cute little historian hats and giving you a look at how reality TV has evolved over the years. And we’re talking to one of reality TV’s most prolific figures, Adam DiVello! Adam gives us the tea on creating some of our favorite early 2000s shows like Laguna Beach and The Hills. He spills about how Selling Sunset came to be and then helps us build the ultimate reality TV cast! Send all of your burning questions, either as an email or selfie video to receipts@kastmedia.com. Or, leave us a voicemail at https://www.speakpipe.com/receipts. You can also slide into our DMs with your questions! Lauren Speed-Hamilton - https://www.instagram.com/need4lspeed/ Chris Burns - https://www.instagram.com/fatcarriebradshaw/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	So you have a knack for really finding talent.
0:04.0	Obviously, you know, it's a goona Beach
0:05.8	and all of the other shows that you work with.
0:07.7	But that brings us to selling sunset.
0:10.0	So how did that even come to be?
0:12.6	You know, I was looking through the Hollywood reporter one day,
0:18.0	as I do every week when it lands on my desk.
0:20.1	And it was, Jason had a full page ad in there.
0:23.7	And I just remember going through, going through, seeing that ad
0:27.7	and it was him, his brother, and mostly all women
0:31.8	and a few other men that weren't in the show but I just
0:34.4	remember I literally ripped the page out of my magazine walked next door into my
0:38.4	development executive's office. Skyler Wakel who still works with me to day, and put it on his desk and I was like,
0:44.6	dude, get me a meeting with these people, like this is a TV show.
0:47.0	Wow. Hello guys and welcome to a very special episode of we have the receipts I'm Chris Burns and I'm
1:01.4	Lauren Spee Hamilton I'm so excited for today's show just because you know we always talk about reality TV but this show right here.
1:09.4	This show right here. Yes. It's special because we're talking about the whole kind of spectrum of reality TV where it started,
1:17.6	the history, and we have a super special guest today.
1:20.6	Yes, a reality TV prolific figure and we're not talking about you, Lauren.
1:26.0	Oh, thank you, thank you.
1:27.8	But let's go over reality TV because I forgot about the reality shows like Made what was the other one that was like a
1:35.2	doci series on MTV true life remember that oh true life I love true life I love true life
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