Ep. - 1489 - REAL HOUSEWIVES STRATEGY AND STORYTELLING
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Executive producer and Reality With The King podcast host Carlos King joins Kate for an unfiltered deep dive into the real mechanics of reality television—what we think happens, what actually happens, and why a reunion seating chart may be more dangerous than an open bar.
From Housewives casting and OG obsession to producer manipulation, fan-favorite delusions, and the pettiest reasons reality stars refuse to film, Kate and Carlos pull back the curtain on the psychology, power plays, and behind-the-scenes chaos that fuels unscripted TV.
Reality Life with Kate Casey
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| 0:43.6 | The amazing Kate Casey. |
| 0:46.9 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with KKC. |
| 0:49.4 | And I hope that you're having a great start to your week. |
| 0:51.7 | Of course, it is holiday week. |
| 1:11.8 | And I hope that you're having some time with your friends and your family. I've got great episodes for you all week and make sure that you go to my what-to-watch list at katekasey.substack.com. I've got plenty for you to watch over the holidays, over New Year's, and I've got all of my archive lists as well. So you can go back and find something that you may have missed, I don't know, two weeks ago or two years ago. |
| 1:17.7 | Now, today's episode is one of those great episodes where we don't just talk about the cast members of Real Housewives and reality TV. |
| 1:20.5 | We also talk about the strategy and through the lens of a producer. |
| 1:25.6 | That's kind of my favorite. |
| 1:27.3 | My guest today is Carlos King. As you know, |
| 1:29.5 | he's an executive producer, a reality TV architect, and the host of Reality with the King |
| 1:34.1 | podcast. And if you're not listening to his podcast, you should know that he has a lot of the cast |
| 1:41.5 | members from his shows on. And he has great insight into Real Housewives |
| 1:46.2 | because he has worked on so many of the different franchises in the early years. For example, |
| 1:52.2 | he was NeNe Leaks personal producer, the first season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. He worked |
| 1:58.3 | with Teresa on Real Housewives of New Jersey. He was there the moment where |
| 2:02.7 | they picked the cop without a badge book up from beneath the seat and slam it on the table. So he's |
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