The Real Bad Behavior Behind Reality TV

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Allegations and complaints about working conditions, fair pay, and even covering up acts of sexual violence could force a reality TV reckoning. OG Housewife Bethenny Frankel is calling on her fellow colleagues to unionize, and last month NBCUniversal — home to such reality heavy hitters as The Real Housewives empire, and Vanderpump Rules — was sent a letter from two very high-powered attorneys investigating the "grotesque and depraved mistreatment" of its reality stars. How did we get here? sam breaks down the recent drama with legal reporter Claudia Rosenbaum. Then, he talks to someone who's seen it all firsthand: Nick Thompson, a contestant on Season Two of Netflix's Love Is Blind, who compared his experience of being on the show and finding his one true love... to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ICYMI, Sam is guest hosting on Vox’s daily news show Today, Explained this week. Listen at https://bit.ly/texwsam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Intuit from Vulture in New York magazine.
0:05.0	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:08.0	So seeing a reality star on social media is not that unusual.
0:13.0	But a reality star on Instagram calling for her colleagues to unionize.
0:19.0	Well?
0:20.0	These are the 10 terms that I propose subject to modification.
0:24.0	I did not buy the idiot guy to starting a union in 24 hours.
0:29.0	It's Bethany Frankel, OG Real Housewife, and now labor agitator.
0:35.0	The minimum should be $5,000 per episode.
0:38.0	Talent should receive.
0:39.0	Well go off Bethany.
0:40.0	It is in fact their real lives and forcing them to expose their real lives on reality television is unconscionable.
0:46.0	Now to be clear Bethany is just one star.
0:49.0	A revolution that does not make.
0:52.0	But also happening right now.
0:54.0	Two big deal entertainment lawyers have begun investigating claims of some very bad treatment on reality sets.
1:01.0	And they are threatening a possible lawsuit that could force some big change in what reality TV looks like.
1:08.0	This episode, after the break, we will get into all of this, including a conversation with a real-life reality show contestant.
1:16.0	Nick from Love Is Blind.
1:18.0	He tells me all about what it was like to be on that show.
1:21.0	Hint.
1:22.0	You have to give up your phone.
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