15 times reality TV stars may have forgotten the cameras were rolling

The Kardashians have aired plenty of family drama, but Kim and Kourtney’s knock-down, slap-heavy fight during the final season of their family show felt like a full-on meltdown.

When you’re scraping makeup off the walls, I guess the cameras are the least of your worries.

Lisa thought she was off the clock when she trashed her bestie, Meredith Marks, in an unexpected rant, calling her everything but a friend. Too bad the mic was still hot ... and so was the tea.

Kenya Moore knows how to make a scene, but flashing a very NSFŴ picture of castmate Brit Eady to the group was next-level shady. Although she felt she won the round, it cost her everything, including some of her friendships and her job. 

Mickey Rourke came, saw, and got kicked out of the Celebrity Big Brother house. His time on the show was short and chaotic, and it ended swiftly after some truly unacceptable behavior, including homophobia toward JoJo Siwa. 

The cast of VPR had been filming for a decade, but the way "Scandoval" went down, you'd never guess it. 

Plenty of fights have gone down on Jersey, but this one started at a child's christening and turned into a full-on brawl. Joe and Joe went at it like they were anywhere but on a reality show with cameras inches from their faces.

Most Big Brother drama happens inside the CBS studio, but Da’Vonne and Paulie took their feud all the way to the jury house. The cameras weren’t supposed to be rolling much, but once the shouting started, producers made sure we saw every second.

Although the cast of Floribama Shore filmed several seasons of the hit MTV reality show, it's likely they really forgot about the cameras. They fought outsiders and fought each other over everything, including beds, pizza, hookups, and much more.

Candiace Dillard Bassett has said and done some extreme things during The Real Housewives of Potomac, but nothing left us more shook than her picking up a knife and hurling it toward Ashley mid-argument. That gesture alone leads us to believe she thought they were behind the scenes. 

Tensions were already high in Amsterdam, but Lisa Rinna losing it and tossing a glass across the table? That wasn’t just drama — it's the kind of moment you’d expect off camera, not in the middle of a cast dinner with boom mics overhead.

Teresa Giudice’s table explosion during the first season of RHONJ changed the show forever. She didn't just snap at a cast dinner; she flipped an entire table, as if the cameras weren’t even there.

Josh and Mark’s fight on Big Brother was one for the BB history books. The tension built up in the house, and before viewers knew it, they were going at it, with the cameras catching every heated moment and flying cooking pan. 

You’d expect these two Housewives to save the physical fights for off-camera, but nope. That explosive hair pull in Season 10 happened right in the middle of filming, and no one held back.

NeNe Leakes hit her breaking point in Season 11 of RHOA when she yanked a cameraman by his shirt. According to her castmates during the reunion special, she got so physical with the man that he lost a tooth and had to be sent to the hospital. 

Jax Taylor’s Vanderpump Rules antics, including drunken rants, drama, and chaos, had us wondering if it was all just for show. But after watching him for nearly a decade, it finally clicked ... that's the real Jax — camera or not.