By now, I'm sure we're all aware that reality shows are frequently staged, scripted, or manipulated in the editing bay. However, the lengths that producers, editors, and other crew members sometimes go in order to create a story can be pretty surprising. Sometimes, they take things so far that it becomes harmful to the contestants or stars.
Here are 14 times reality stars revealed how fake things actually are behind the scenes:
1. On Love Is Blind Season 6, Matthew Duliba was shown walking out on fellow contestant Sarah Ann in the middle of their conversation. He was criticized and labeled a "villain" by viewers. Even the LIB Instagram account shared a compilation of his "awkward moments." In the comments, he called the show out, writing, "Key element of my story that was never disclosed is that I live an alcohol-free lifestyle and did the experiment sober. It was a key factor in why I had so much difficulty connecting with women in the beginning."
He continued, "There was also many misrepresentations and falsehoods created in my opinion to smear my character. I look forward to telling my side of the story with the full truth at the appropriate time...Misrepresentation of the truth, never walked out when a women was talking."
Additionally, on her Instagram story, Sarah Ann responded to a follower who asked if Matthew actually walked out on her. She answered, "Nope, he did not. I’ll let Matt speak on that but we are good."
2. Mari Pepin, who appeared on The Bachelor Season 25 and Bachelor in Paradise Season 7, reportedly told the Mirror that the shows use "frankenbiting" to manufacture drama. She explained, "Frakenbiting is when they take little snippets of audio and they kind of like weave it together to form a sentence and now to me it’s really obvious,” she explained. “But sometimes they’re really good at hiding it. So they’ll take part of this sentence and part of that sentence and make the person sound like they just put it together.”
