These reality stars once slammed their shows for being fake

Kristin Cavallari, best known for her role on Laguna Beach and The Hills, once told fellow reality star Bethenny Frankel that MTV producers had her faking storylines when she was on the show years ago. "I faked relationships, faked fights. I don't care anymore. I can tell you. At this point, it's been so many years," she said. "Laguna Beach, they really just manipulated situations and put us in situations that we normally wouldn't have been in, or we'd have to film something that maybe happened a month ago or hasn't happened yet — stuff like that." 

Another Hills star who slammed the show as scripted is Heidi Montag. She appeared in the show's original run from 2006 to 2010, and since then, she's revealed just how fake it really was. In a previous interview, the reality star said the show would have the cast play "pretend" in several scenes. She even said an entire plot about her promotion at Bolthouse was "scripted."

Spencer Pratt loves to slam MTV for faking aspects of his life with Heidi Montag on The Hills. In one TikTok video, the reality TV villain told his followers that their behavior on the show "is all acting." 

Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn blasted Netflix and the show on X, formerly Twitter, for being overly produced. "30 minutes till the launch of #SellingSunset," she wrote. "Enjoy the new season and all of its 5,000 fake storylines!" Can we talk about shady?

Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler was always front and center on the Lifetime reality show. However, her stardom came with a lot of negativity from her castmates. In one interview with Cosmopolitan, the dancer said producers told her what to say. 

"People thought I was a brat because, in all my interviews, I would say, 'I'm the best. I know I'm going to win.' But that's because the producer was telling me to say that. I don't think I'm better than everyone else," she said.

Author and reality star Carole Radziwill didn't love her time on The Real Housewives of New York City. In fact, she publicly blasted Andy Cohen for his role in producing and encouraging drama between successful women. In another interview, she slammed the show for manufacturing storylines.

MTV's The Hills will never beat the scripted allegations, and it seems like they're okay with that. "As [the show] went on, it was very manipulated and guided, and you're kinda put in these scenarios where you would show up, and you didn't know what you were in for until you were there, and you wanted to run out, but they lock the door on you," she said.

In a surprising interview with People, the OG of the OC dragged Bravo for faking the later season of The Real Housewives of Orange County. “I was ready to go,” she said before saying the series lost the plot. "It just became fake. Why do you want to go on an internationally famous show and be mean? What we’re supposed to be doing is really helping each other! It’s a tough world out there!”

She continued, “I don’t create a storyline, like so many of these women do. I read somewhere that someone said, ‘My storyline was over.’ Hold on. Last time I checked, this is a reality show. There [are] no storylines. Some of the other girls create fake storylines. I never have, I never will."

America's Next Top Model judge and OG reality TV pot-stirrer Janice Dickinson said that her tough-girl persona on the modeling competition series was not real life. Therefore, she had zero regrets about her behavior. "Um, no. It was acting. And that's that," she said. 

Netflix's biggest reality TV villain, Harry Jowsey, also spilled behind-the-scenes tea about his show Too Hot to Handle. "In these situations, if they know that you've got a problem or you need to have a chat with someone, they'll just point you in the right direction to get a result or to get that conversation happening and get to the end goal," he said. They're not forcing you to say or do anything you don't want to. They just kind of help nudge you in the correct direction." 

Real Housewives of New York star Heather Thompson told Page Six that the show is lacking "authenticity." She continued, "The women were self-producing, and many storylines were forced and contrived. Fake storylines with a ring that was pulled off of somebody’s finger two seconds before — borrowed to make this fake engagement.”

RHOA OG NeNe Leakes has been open in the past about her co-star, Kenya Moore, allegedly hiring men to play the role of her boyfriend on the hit Bravo series. In a separate interview, the supposed hired man confirmed Leakes' statements were true. 

Tamar Braxton has never been quiet about the production company and network that creates her family reality show, The Braxton Family Values. In 2018, she kept the same energy on X, formerly Twitter, and shared that most of what viewers "have seen on #BFV [were] LIES and clips put together with me acting a PLUM FOOL for ratings." 

This Real Housewives of New Jersey star never called the show out for being fake, per se; however, she's blasted her co-star, Melissa Gorga, for creating fake storylines, including one about potentially having another baby. "Who are you kidding? She's not gonna have a baby," Aydin said. "She's way too self-absorbed."

Former Bachelorette contestant Rachel Lindsay told Ziwe during an interview that the ABC producers and editors used her crying in one scene to further an agenda in another. 

“There was a point where I broke down on camera, and they used my tears for something else, but I was getting upset at the selection of men of color,” she said.