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What do you do during a pandemic when it’s a struggle to film Reality TV?
Make a documentary about it, which is kind of ironic given most observers feel the genre emerged from Documentaries in the first place.
In
For Real: The Story of Reality TV presenter Andy Cohen casts his eye over American reality television but the results are closer to
20 to One clips with allied commentary, rather than considered critique.
The timeline begins unexpectedly with an
I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy gave birth to Little Ricky, an art-imitates-life event which mirrored Ball’s own birth to Desi Arnaz Jr. America was gripped by the synergy, which enables Cohen to segue into Celebrity Reality stars for Episode 1.
You wouldn’t expect beauty bloopers from seasoned red carpet walkers and fashion icons from the 90s and 00s Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, but they had their moments.
Anyone who remembers the best friends starring in The Simple Life (below) will be aware of just how cute the two were (as well as hilarious) as they took their own kind of crazy on the road as they attempted to live humbly, without their usual trappings of wealth.
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie at the Palazzo Suites at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Jeff Vespa/WireImage)
It was essentially the first time we saw anyone rich go down this reality road on TV, but they were the Kardashian’s predecessor in this area, we only had had one of their beauty bloopers last week.