Reality Television

January 2, 2019

domains: Super-Sorter Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show

On Netflix, you can watch other people freak out about “tidying up” for 2019.
January 26, 2018

Encounters: Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too.

Advertisement Lisa Vanderpump doesn’t merely walk. She strides, almost gallops. She did so one afternoon through the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan (staying […]
September 8, 2017

Is Jake Paul a Social Media Genius or a Jerk?

LOS ANGELES — With grave concern, a television reporter for KTLA described the mayhem in the upscale Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Grove in July: The […]
September 2, 2017

EJ Johnson Is ‘Not Just Some Other Rich Girl’

“Today we are talking about breaking boundaries,” EJ Johnson declared from the stage of Beautycon, a two-day cosmetics festival held in August at the Los Angeles […]
November 5, 2016

‘Vanderpump Rules’ Cast Pours It On During a Bar Crawl

In the middle of an anxiety-inducing World Series Game 7, six days out from a presidential election, a bar crawl in New York City offered a […]
October 19, 2016

Cultural Studies: During a Social Media Break, Kim Kardashian West Offers ‘More Me’

The publication of the new, expanded edition of Kim Kardashian West’s 2015 book of self-portraits, “Selfish,” comes at an unusual moment for the reality star. Following […]
September 24, 2016

Why the Fashion World Is Obsessed With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

Her shoes were thigh-high, bedazzled platform moon boots. Her outfit was encircled by a tutu tilted at a particularly rakish angle. Her capelet, cresting in tusklike […]
August 12, 2016

Vows: From Reality Show to Reality: A Bachelor Finds Love

Vows By LOIS SMITH BRADY In December 2010, Ames Brown was traveling home from Uzbekistan when he got a call from “The Bachelorette,” the reality TV […]
July 27, 2016

Kid Models (and Their Moms) Trade Summer Fun for City Auditions

Five children, in brightly colored T-shirts and wrinkled jean shorts, chattered in an eighth-floor office in Manhattan on a recent June day, taking breaks to lick […]
April 26, 2016

‘Real Housewives’ Invited Me In. How Could I Say No?

By KATIE ROGERS April 26, 2016 On a cold April morning in Manhattan, Ramona Singer, a cast member of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” is teetering […]