20 Reality TV Moments Where We Were Grateful The Cameras Kept Rolling
Say what you will about reality TV, but for pop culture observers like myself, they're the gift that keeps on giving.
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Over the years, reality TV has really gone there, whether it's an emotional moment, a messy moment, a legal predicament, or all the above.
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Here are the moments where cameras kept rolling even when they maybe shouldn't have and gave us reality TV gold.
1.On the first season of Jersey Shore when Snooki got punched in the face and chaos ensued.
2.New York and Pumpkin's fight on the first season of Flavor of Love.
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There was not a viewer out there who doubted Tiffany "New York" Pollard was About That Life, but Pumpkin put her to the test when she spit on her during an elimination ceremony. Reality shows shouldn't be about condoning violence, but there were few people who watched that scene and didn't think Pumpkin had more coming to her than she got.
3.The origin of Tyra Banks' infamous America's Next Top Model meme, when she let loose on cycle four contestant Tiffany Richardson.
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Tyra admits she would handle the infamous moment differently in retrospect, but she really laid into this woman with no mercy and no concern for public perception in the present or future.
4.Joe Gorga and Joe Giudice getting into a fistfight while supposedly at a retreat to improve their relationship on RHONJ.
5.Reality drama meeting IRL drama when Ashlee Simpson's disastrous SNL lip-synching moment was on her reality show, so she could share her side of the story.
6.Amber Portwood's physical altercations with then-boyfriend Gary Shirley on 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom.
7.The mom who dressed her pageant-contestant kid up as Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman on Toddlers & Tiaras in 2011, horrifying pretty much everyone else in the room.
8.Kyle and Kim Richards' limo fight in season one of RHOBH.
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Family fights can be hard to watch and a confrontation between the Richards sisters of Beverly Hills was no exception. Both sisters have had regrets about the fight looking back, but the fact that Kim's addiction was central to the argument made some feel uncomfortable with watching it play out.
9.The entirety of The Swan, an early-aughts reality show that ruthlessly tore women apart and glorified their self-esteem issues while promoting the hell out of plastic surgery.
10.Jon and Kate Gosselin announcing their divorce on Jon & Kate Plus 8.
11.Kendra Wilkinson confronting husband Hank Baskett about cheating with a transgender model while she was pregnant with their second child on Kendra On Top.
12.Brooks Ayers presenting false medical paperwork that says he had cancer on RHOC.
13.When a guy found out he got catfished by his cousin on Catfish, for a particular kind of revenge.
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Tony catfished her cousin Antwane for three years because he called her "a fat ass Kelly Price." That's the kind of petty revenge you kind of love to see, but you do feel a teensy bit bad for the dude finding out on national television in what would go on to be one of the most meme'd moments in reality TV history.