Can ‘KUWTK’ & ‘Real Housewives’ Ever Be Spoiler-Free?

In June, Keeping Up With the Kardashians aired a two-part finale where Khloé Kardashian discovered that her boyfriend Tristan Thompson had cheated on her with her younger sister Kylie Jenner’s best friend Jordyn Woods. The scandal should’ve been one of the series’ most shocking twists to date—if it wasn’t for the fact that TMZ broke the news five months earlier and essentially spoiled the storyline for fans.

Reality TV has been around since the ‘50s, but it wasn’t until the late ‘90s, after the success of shows like Big Brother and Survivor, that the genre became the phenomenon we know now. And while American Idol alums like Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken were associated with...

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