#reality-tv

#reality-tv

On this episode of our favorite show, Rich Women Doing Things, the rich women did things! They compared their identical Birkins, each with a price tag, and we all wondered what exactly made one worth $32,000, one worth $30,000, and one worth $14,000, and why all of them were unclasped and hanging open like chastity belts on a wedding day. They went to a fancy china store with their fancy daughters to register for fancy gifts for their fancy wedding, which isn't even fancy-planned yet

As a former English literature major, I really thought I was above reality TV. I don't watch a lot of content, and when I do, I'm more of a "Game of Thrones" person than a "Real Housewives" person. I love analyzing themes, motives, and emotional arcs, and I assumed the Bravo franchise had nothing to offer but mindless drama. For years, I had avoided the shows and would usually leave the room when my teenage daughter turned them on.

Gizelle certainly doesn't care about being viewed as a mean girl or as a villain. She has accepted that as the Faustian bargain she agreed to in exchange for visibility and financial independence. But she does have her soft spots, namely around her inner circle and romantic life. Given her humiliating marriage and public relationship with Sheldon, it's not a surprise that she never wants to let a man embarrass her again.

Four years after getting married on Love Is Blind Season 3, Alexa and Brennon Lemieux are going their separate ways. The pair announced their split through a Dec. 3 post on Alexa's Instagram, writing: "After much reflection and many heartfelt conversations, we have made the difficult decision to end our marriage. This choice was not made lightly, and it comes with a great deal of care, respect, and appreciation for the time we've shared."

It almost feels like cheating to be writing about her for Dirt Bag in 2025 but viewers of the creatively titled The Kardashians reality show ( Keeping Up With ... has been off the air for four years!) were treated to a revelation that many have long joked about or suspected: Kim has "holes" in her brain and "low activity" in her frontal lobe, according to celebrity doctor Daniel Amen, who scanned her and her ex-brother-in-law Scott Disick 's brains on a recent episode.

For years, any issues that came up during a reunion taping would be obliquely referred to as "last year in New York." After that we had "the blogs," also known as blind items being reported by micro-influencing regional gossip accounts. This phenomenon involved Housewives feeding information to these platforms in the hopes of having justification to talk about each other's business on-camera, schemes that folks like Lisas Rinna and Vanderpump were famed for participating in.

It is 40 years since TV juggernaut Blind Date first aired, and Sue and Alex Tatham were the first couple who met on the show to get married, in a ceremony broadcast to around 17 million people. They both said they didn't go on the show looking for love, but love was what they found, and they have now been married for 34 years.

Fruity Pebbles have become a new shibboleth in the ongoing feud between The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives stars Demi Engemann and Jessi Ngatikaura Draper. The two have been feuding all season because of what did (or did not) happen on season 2 of Vanderpump Villa with each of them and ex-Villa bartender Marciano Brunette. Brunette implied that he and Engemann hooked up, and whether or not Draper's affair with him was emotional or physical was a major plot point of SLOMW s2.

The Mormon Wives Season 3 intro sees the titular posse walk through the desert holding hands - first in form-fitting white gowns against a dusky scene surrounded by fire (why not?) and then in daylight, sporting flowy, sky-blue dresses as orange powder blows around them. But all the dramatics couldn't distract fans from an apparent mistake in the latter scene. "Please tell me I'm not the only one who notices the visible dress clamps," one TikTok user wrote.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

To clear this out of the way, so we can get to the crew's work and personal drama: At the end of the second night of the charter, Amy asks Joe to pick two final ladies. Though Joe concedes that Anna has been "her own unique and independent self," he kicks her off the boat along with Mariely, which is just as well, since Mariely decided Joe was giving "low net worth" anyway.

Everything is scary during the night, and host Alan Cumming is taking full advantage. The Traitors season four just dropped the spookiest teaser, and it's even making a "sweet, little old lady" like Donna Kelce into a force to be reckoned with. "They're not going to know what's coming," Kelce threatened. Hell hath no fury like an underestimated mama bear. Several contestants, like Lisa Rinna and Rob Cesternino, tease that they'll play the game like no one has before.

The Running Man is the fourth Stephen King novel to get a screen adaptation in 2025, and it doesn't feel terribly far off from our current national hellscape. Glen Powell stars as Ben Richards, a working-class family man so desperate to save his sick daughter and wife from destitution that he signs up for the titular competition: a reality show of sorts where contestants must survive 30 days of being hunted by professional killers, including Pace's bloodthirsty masked villain, Evan McCone.

"really fun and gets on with everyone"

Hilarious co-op video game Overcooked is making the move to the real world. A24 has acquired the rights to the popular indie hit and reports that the company is working with Netflix to develop the concept into an unscripted competition reality TV series. I adore this idea, and with the right people behind it, I think it could be a masterwork of reality TV.

Three episodes into Bravo's Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition, I'm ready to call this experiment a noble failure. The highly produced Wife Swap format clashes with the surprisingly nuanced family drama we get on Real Housewives, which means the women we know and love are flattened into two-dimensional types. There's very little commitment to the idea of actually trading lives - Angie was never going to use a composting toilet - and the show seems completely averse to conflict.

"There's been a lot going on, I've enjoyed life tremendously, I feel like life is going great," he said.

Squid Game: The Challenge, the unscripted reality TV adaptation of the mega-hit South Korean drama, returns to Netflix for its second season. Season 2 features hundreds of new contestants to follow and brand new games exclusive to the reality spin-off. So, with Thanksgiving plans consuming all your attention, you might need a little help knowing when you can watch the new episodes. Much like a masked guard hovering over your shoulder, Esquire has your back.

The former England rugby player, 35, is one of the cast members of the first series of The Celebrity Traitors. At the time of writing he's still in the game as a 'Faithful' and is hot on the case of one 'Traitor', Jonathan Ross. In the last episode (Thursday 23 October), Marler was confronted at the roundtable over his demeanour and approach to the game, being called "cocky" by other contestants.

The breakout star of 'The Celebrity Traitors' is Alan Carr, who started out as an unconvincing Traitor - but the power and success has proven to be intoxicating and has emboldened him

The security hedge has fallen, and the brokerage has been compromised. Two men disguised as butlers infiltrate The O Group on a rare day when almost everyone (except Mary) is in the office. They are there to issue a decree through song: Bre is having a Galentine's Day party. Everyone is invited to this bacchanal of botox and fire dancers, but everyone seems to understand that this is actually the opening salvo of the war that's been brewing between Mary and Chrishell's respective fiefdoms.

Henderson, 26, is joined under the bright lights by three other finalists - Alyssa Delpopolo (a brassy R&B singer who gives Mariah Carey a run for her money), Cle Morgan (a former child actor who brings a heart-wrenching gravitas to her ballads), and Bella Parnell (whose rich tonality excels in classics by Nina Simone and Donny Hathaway) - but she's the only one who is both a reality-show alum (she appeared on The X-Factor New Zealand in 2013)