INTERVIEW CLASSIC (10 YRS AGO): Reality TV veteran Jonny Fairplay with Tough Enough talk including dissecting format, production, more

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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In this week’s Interview Classic episode from ten years ago (7-2-2015), PWTorch editor Wade Keller interviewed former "Survivor" contestant and TNA manager Jonny Fairplay with Tough Enough talk for the entire show, including reality TV veteran Fairplay dissecting the format, the production, how reality TV is fake, how to improve that season, predictions, and more.

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1:09.6	Now, PWTorch and Spreaker bring you the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast.
1:10.7	It's time for this week's
1:11.8	interview classic, where Wade Keller interviews one of Pro Wrestling's newsmakers.
1:20.4	Ten years ago this week, I was joined by Johnny Fairplay, formerly of TNA Wrestling and also Survivor
1:26.0	Fame and now a Survivor podcaster.
1:28.1	And we talked about Tough Enough, another reality show, and we reviewed it for the entire show.
1:32.6	We talked about the format, the production, how reality TV is both real and quite fake,
1:38.6	how he would improve tough enough that season.
1:41.7	He had some predictions and more, nearly an hour and a half of inside insight from someone who knows pro wrestling and reality TV very well.
1:52.0	The one, the only Johnny Fairplay.
1:53.7	This originally live streamed on July 2nd, 2015, and it is today's Wade Keller, Pro Wrestling
1:58.6	Podcast Interview Classic for Saturday, July 5th, 2025.
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