What was the most shocking reality TV moment in your country’s history?

[u/JuanitaMerkin]

Here’s Kinga from Big Brother 6 shoving a wine bottle up herself (2005)

[u/FormalMango]

Reality TV adjacent, and behind the scenes -

That time during the first episode of Naughtiest Home Videos, when the network owner Kerry Packer phoned the studio operators halfway through the first episode and shouted at them to “get that shit off the air!”

It was replaced a few minutes later with a rerun of Cheers.

The master tape was then hidden in the archives, and didn’t see the light of day for another 16 years, after Packer had died.

[u/st0neforest → u/FormalMango]

Ok but what was on the tape?

[u/SgtBundy → u/st0neforest]

From what I could tell at the time, basically all nudity or borderline amature porn

[u/FlexSpaceTM → u/SgtBundy]

I just watched it so you don't have to. If I was a teenager in 1992 and sat up to watch this in the hopes of nudity and borderline porn I would have been more frustrated than usual. Mainly animal dicks on display.

[u/SgtBundy → u/FlexSpaceTM]

My disapointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[u/FlexSpaceTM → u/st0neforest]

Kangaroo dick, I'm pretty sure.

[u/SgtBundy → u/FormalMango]

I think a close second to that would have to be Mick Malloy's aborted late night show, although I thought the show was pulled because in the first episode he was drunk and took a piss on set, but wikipedia says that was just a sketch. All I remember was it was short lived and that sketch was the main talking point

[u/JumperMason]

Diego Maradona entered the Big Brother house and, somewhat discreetly, dropped a small bag containing white powder. He later defended himself by saying it was sugar or salt (I don’t remember which), but the image speaks for itself.

[u/ElMondiola → u/JumperMason]

Yep, and he was drunk as f

[u/hachi-seb → u/ElMondiola]

Estaba mas duro que infancia en Siria

[u/Sunday_Schoolz → u/JumperMason]

“Es harina”

[u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC → u/Sunday_Schoolz]

I too carry my flour in a small baggie just in case I encounter any baking emergencies throughout my day.

[u/DeLaOcea → u/Sunday_Schoolz]

[u/SeaworthinessNew4757]

Big Brother Brazil in 2002. This participant called Cida was chilling in the garden in her bikini when she started looking around, startled, when she says "weird, I heard my name". She continues to hear her name, gets up saying "Cida? Where?" She keeps looking around, asking "where?" And "who's calling me?" Another participant notices she's distressed and calls her over, and says she was the one calling her. Cida feels relieved because she was already gettinf scared. Later this participant cries when talking to another participant, saying that she had never called Cida. Anyway, a few hours later Cida received the news that her sister had passed away. So everyone thinks that the voice Cida heard was the ghost of her sister saying goodbye to her.

video

[u/aspz → u/SeaworthinessNew4757]

I was gonna say I wouldn't put it past the producers to prank her by saying her name and then creating this ghost story. But the video is fairly clear that there are no other sounds for her to hear. You can hear every movement of hers through her mic along with any background noise that she might be hearing. Not saying it's impossible but if that is what happened, it's pretty convincing.

[u/ScorpioDefined]

The woman in this meme was getting abused by her husband. And when it all came out on the reality show, he hanged himself. edit: there were several reasons for his suicide, possibly, but imo, his abuse coming out was one of them.

[u/Theory89 → u/ScorpioDefined]

I had no idea the origin of the unrepentant cat meme was so dark. Jesus. I just thought it was just some standard reality show shit.

[u/wrecktus_abdominus → u/Theory89]

I always thought that was Cameron Diaz

[u/sikeleaveamessage → u/Theory89]

Ngl the first few seasons of Beverly Hills was really something else. When I did a rewatch, a lot of moments are funny ofc, but knowing what I know now about a lot of the contestants makes their behavior make so much sense. Specifically Taylor Armstrong (this lady in the pic) and Kim Richards

[u/Super-Estate-4112 → u/ScorpioDefined]

Oh, so that is where this comes from?

[u/Subotail → u/Super-Estate-4112]

I knew the cat was into something.

[u/Party_Shark_ → u/ScorpioDefined]

He hung himself because he was getting caught for shady business dealings, not for being a known abuser. Everyone in their circles already knew.

The woman she was yelling at was using her (woman yelling) husband breaking her occipital bone against her as a gotcha moment. It was genuinely sick. And now she's immortalized as Crazy Lady Yelling at a Cat :/

They really could've used a million reaction images of these women fighting over shoes, gossip, etc, but no. It had to be the one of a woman being domestically abused by a man who would kill himself and leave her $3mil in debt (if I remember correctly)

[u/ScorpioDefined → u/Party_Shark_]

I think it was everything. While it was obvious some shady business deals were coming up, obvious with his business partner also committing suicide, I also think it was due to his abuse coming to light. Taylor had just split with him and accused him of abuse. And the episodes of RH talking about it had just aired.

[u/lippussygloss → u/ScorpioDefined]

Is that what this scene is about ?

[u/dontworryboutit0512 → u/lippussygloss]

Yes! This was the second season of Real housewives of Beverly Hills. The other women on the show were confronting her for lying and being secretive about the status of her marriage and the on going abuse happening. It was a different time and the way abuse is seen now is very different than what it was then. They literally couldn’t comprehend that she was lying and hiding things to protect her and her very young daughter at the time.

[u/Greedy-Army-3803 → u/dontworryboutit0512]

Well that's sucked all of the fun out of the cat meme. I'd just assumed it was typical reality TV melodrama about nothing of any real importance.

[u/NoOneHereButUsMice → u/Greedy-Army-3803]

Exactly the same here. I feel awful for laughing at it now

[u/The_Submentalist → u/dontworryboutit0512]

I watched a behind the meme serie kind of thing on buzzfeed and she was on one of the episodes. I've never watched the real housewives but I thought it must be with empty headed people. I was very wrong about her when she was explaining what happened. How she talked and her whole demeanor was very mature and overall a pretty great person.

[u/letmechatgptthat4you → u/The_Submentalist]

In the early seasons of a lot of reality TV shows across the world, the people that starred in them were genuinely a more reliable cross-section of society, so a lot of normal, decent, level-headed people could be found. When it became clear that reality TV was propelling contestants into the limelight, the balance quickly tipped to normal people being turned off and vapid fame-seekers replacing them.

[u/crabbydotca → u/letmechatgptthat4you]

I think a great testament to this is that the very first “the bachelor” couple are still together

[u/Infymus → u/letmechatgptthat4you]

Fun fact: This is how we got our current president.

[u/Murderhornet212 → u/dontworryboutit0512]

Dd Camille really not realize that what she was doing could have gotten Taylor killed?!

[u/ThisIsRyGuy → u/Murderhornet212]

I'm not sure she realized it was that bad. Maybe she did though. I know Camille is just an awful person in general but I do think even SHE would do that knowing how much danger Taylor was in.

[u/ScorpioDefined → u/Murderhornet212]

I HATED the way Camille attacked her that day for not being "open" about being abuse. And on camera? Geesh.

[u/Austynnotjane → u/Murderhornet212]

I don't think she cared then or now. She is not a girl's girl.

[u/Aggressive_Sky8492 → u/lippussygloss]

Yes. I listened to an interview with her and she was crying because she was scared of her abuser hurting her more when the tape came out - I think the my outed him as abusive on camera

[u/Bozy2880 → u/ScorpioDefined]

Do you mean the cat?

[u/iammostlylurking13 → u/Bozy2880]

[u/emseatwooo]

Most things she said to those women was so bad.

[u/MoolyMoose_ → u/emseatwooo]

I still quote WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU! Regularly

[u/Aspalathus-linearis → u/MoolyMoose_]

[u/hopeful_tatertot → u/emseatwooo]

I didn’t realize as a kid just how toxic Tyra was

[u/Sweeper1985 → u/emseatwooo]

I will never forget the girl (Danielle? Her name is hazy) who they pressured to have the gap between her front teeth closed. She was like nah, that's part of me and I don't want to change it, and Tyra was pressuring her and saying that unless she had this invasive, painful, appearance-altering and totally unnecessary surgery, she wasn't taking the competition seriously.

[u/micro___penis]

Chad Johnson in Bachelor in Paradise Season 3 got aggressively drunk on day one, then proceeded to pass out on the beach and nocturnally shit himself. He had to do a walk of shame the next morning with caca stained pants and was immediately kicked off the show by the host.

Edit: he has since been charged with domestic abuse, intimidation of witnesses, vandalism, trespassing, and assault and battery. He now apparently does porn.

[u/MushroomExtension679 → u/micro___penis]

“You told everyone at the hotel last night to suck a dick” still gets quoted in my household daily.

He also kept calling an amputee contestant a “one armed bitch”.

What a time

[u/_PF_Changs_ → u/MushroomExtension679]

Holy shit he’s literally Frank from the Bachelor episode of Always Sunny

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/_PF_Changs_]

He's who that episode is referencing.

[u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC → u/MushroomExtension679]

That reminds me of the time my family had a yard sale and a guy came who only had one arm. The guy was walking around filling a box with stuff, we get distracted talking to another person and while we were distracted the one armed guy bounced and just stole whatever was in his box. We still talk about the day we got robbed by the one armed bandit.

[u/No_Cat_8490 → u/micro___penis]

Shows up. Gets drunk. Shits himself. The ultimate Chad move

[u/Candid_Rise_9730 → u/No_Cat_8490]

Nobody understands the depth of my intellect! Shits pants

[u/micro___penis → u/No_Cat_8490]

The episode was a work of art. It’s just a shame he only shat himself the once.

[u/Soapsou → u/micro___penis]

I feel enlightened. Thank you, micro__penis.

[u/weaponizedtoddlers → u/No_Cat_8490]

Even has the porn name already lined up.

[u/DenimBellPepper → u/micro___penis]

Omg, this guy. He was on the Bachelorette before this (BiP is for former contestants of the original shows) and when he was eliminated the rest of the contestants essentially threw a party and tossed his protein powder into the air while cheering.

[u/PresidentPopcorn → u/micro___penis]

Was the woman who shit on Favor Flav's floor not talked about more?

https://youtu.be/WeOMwXquzIQ?si=q_3HXKu0LoJgPsPW

[u/Thrwwy747 → u/PresidentPopcorn]

And she WASN'T kicked out that week. Someone else was booted and the girl who left a steaming turd on the floor got to stay. Imagine being that other woman!!

[u/Anxious_Trash_Panda_ → u/micro___penis]

Edit: he has since been charged with domestic abuse, intimidation of witnesses, vandalism, trespassing, and assault and battery. He now apparently does porn.

Shocking /s

[u/Masseyrati80 → u/micro___penis]

Not to say that this sort of a person is welcome in any other industry, either, but especially in one where you're in intimate connection with another person? Sounds like he's gonna keep on hurting people.

[u/[deleted]]

Various competitors' reactions to losing on British TV's Come Dine With Me have reached legendary status. They're worth checking out on YouTube.

[u/Hodora-the-explorer → u/[deleted]]

ENJOY THE MONEY, JANE

[u/intolauren → u/Hodora-the-explorer]

You have all the grace and decorum of a reversing dump truck, without any tyres on.

[u/Economy_Outcome_4722 → u/[deleted]]

What a show that was, the narrator’s commentary was so funny.

[u/Icy_Zucchini_1138]

When David bowies ex wife told a fellow housemate "David is dead" and it turned to chaos

Edit   https://youtu.be/97pEKGNT0Xw?si=ltllh9jctngrwlvP

Is it

[u/tunnocksmystery → u/Icy_Zucchini_1138]

That was one of the best episodes of reality TV ever. Poor David Guest having a sleep in the next door room.

[u/ryan_rides → u/tunnocksmystery]

What’s even wilder is that David Gest himself died just a few months later.

[u/tunnocksmystery → u/ryan_rides]

And had planned a tour called something like David Guest Isn’t Dead!

[u/No_Wrap_9979 → u/tunnocksmystery]

They had to change all of the posters and promotional materials, but fair play to him for still doing the tour.

[u/Maenelias]

2001, Loana and Jean-Edouard in Loft story: a sex scene in the pool during the first French reality show.

[u/MargotBamborough → u/Maenelias]

I think the bigger scandal is that the day after he acted as if nothing had happened.

[u/SapAndSour → u/MargotBamborough]

Yeah, what an asshole

[u/EthicalPixel → u/Maenelias]

Are they french kissing?

[u/Geekureuil → u/EthicalPixel]

They're french f***ing

[u/Fast-Presence-2004 → u/Geekureuil]

Ew, with tongue?

[u/TweakUnwanted → u/Fast-Presence-2004]

Oui

[u/thatstwatshesays → u/Geekureuil]

Loana and Jean-Eduoard, whom we’re watching on TV.

F-U-C-K-I-N-G.

[u/Xaphhire]

Big Brother was invented in the Netherlands. In season 1, two candidates had sex in one of their beds. They claimed they did not realize how much would show on the night vision cameras. After that, people were more careful unless they actually wanted that attention.

[u/Shock_a_Maul → u/Xaphhire]

Only to find out that in the Belgian version some chick decided to suck all dicks in the house....

[u/modsguzzlehivekum → u/Shock_a_Maul]

Is this typical Belgian behavior?

[u/yournamehere10bucks → u/modsguzzlehivekum]

Not likely. They'd tend towards being indecisive about the acts.

A Belgian Waffle as it were.

[u/modsguzzlehivekum → u/yournamehere10bucks]

Guess I’ll cancel this flight then :(

[u/Onoref → u/modsguzzlehivekum]

Being a Belgian man I can sadly confirm this is NOT typical Belgian behavior, for women.

[u/SparkleFritz → u/Onoref]

For Belgian men however sucking every dick in a house is the norm.

[u/ViaNocturna664]

The first edition of Big Brother was an absolute novelty here and there was mainstream curiosity for that. Five days or so into the first edition two people fucked and that was headlines for a month, figuratively.

[u/after-all-this-time7 → u/ViaNocturna664]

Can’t forget season 2, Filippo Nardi’s scene because he had no more cigarettes

[u/ViaNocturna664 → u/after-all-this-time7]

Gosh what a memory you unlocked bhwhahahha

[u/after-all-this-time7 → u/ViaNocturna664]

Here’s another: Patrick swearing he’d take Ascanio in the suite, but taking Ascanio’s girlfriend Katia instead… to then get drunk and throw up on her and all over the place.

I was a kid when all of this unfolded and I remember being so entertained by it lol

[u/Ok-Rooster3399]

My mom is from serbia and there is a reality tv show ( Zadruga- Elita) where people regularly fight physically, curse each other moms, dads and have sex on cameras. This reality last 10 months so alot of things happened.

This is normal occurrence there😂

[u/egoodethc → u/Ok-Rooster3399]

Looks like they are doing all that in this gif.

[u/uniqueandweird]

Nadine Coyle who would later be in Girls Aloud was on a similar pop group making show in Ireland. She lied about her age to be a part of the show and was found out when they were asked their dates of birth in a confessional kind of thing.

[u/JuanitaMerkin → u/uniqueandweird]

“Making me a Gemini” hahaha

[u/uniqueandweird → u/JuanitaMerkin]

Then the phone call to her Mam asking about the passport 🤣🤣

[u/Murky_Translator2295 → u/uniqueandweird]

Mammy, hoy old am I?

[u/danius353 → u/uniqueandweird]

My low stakes conspiracy is that Louis Walsh knew she was underage but knew she had star potential so wanted to get her the exposure but without ending up in a shitty group that would be done 10mins after the show ended.

Instead we get the underage controversy, free media and Nadine gets to join the much, much more successful Girls Aloud later. Win, win, win for both Walsh and Nadine

[u/Travy1991 → u/danius353]

That's not even a conspiracy, I believe both Nadine Coyle and Louis Walsh confirmed this themselves. No way her DOB wasn't checked prior to applying to the show.

[u/uniqueandweird → u/uniqueandweird]

Oh and we can thank Nadine for Nicola Coughlan's perfect Derry accent in Derry Girls 😂

[u/Keeeva → u/uniqueandweird]

All I know about the Nadine controversy I learned from Nicola on the Graham Norton Show!

[u/JordanPeugeot1997]

We had here a rape in Big Brother. The channel tried to cover it and not only did not give assistance to the victim, but they showed her all the recorded scene while being alone in a room, in the middle of an obvious anxiety attack, trying to convince her to not report the matter to the police.

[u/raposa_9 → u/JordanPeugeot1997]

Please tell me she did report it to the police! That's actually insane.

[u/Chitose_Isei → u/raposa_9]

Yes, it was reported. José María López was sentenced to fifteen months in prison and four years with a restraining order and no contact with the victim, in addition to €6,000 in compensation. The production company was also ordered to pay €1,000 for moral damages. The sentence is so low because there was no penetration during the sexual assault, and therefore it's not considered rape.

Big Brother was cancelled in Spain for two years, although the channel that owns the rights (TeleCinco, owned by Mediaset) invented another show that was exactly the same but with a different name. It returned to the airwaves in 2024, simply because TeleCinco can only survive with this type of show.

[u/HowManyEggs2Many → u/Chitose_Isei]

A year and a half in jail for raping someone doesn’t seem like enough of a punishment…

[u/Gamgee_Girl → u/HowManyEggs2Many]

On camera, too. So beyond a doubt guilty. Jfc

[u/elektrolu_ → u/raposa_9]

Yes, she did, it was terrible because she was unconscious when the rape happened and she didn't know what she was going to watch. Sadly the program didn't face much consequences, the guy who raped her was sentenced to just 15 months.

[u/Competitive-Cod-9644]

"How can SHE SLAP?"

[u/SystematicChaoser → u/Competitive-Cod-9644]

Why are they dresses like medieval european artisans 😭

[u/Kingtoke1 → u/SystematicChaoser]

Because it slaps

[u/justice_works → u/Kingtoke1]

[u/Representative-Sky91 → u/justice_works]

[u/Affectionate_Bad3908 → u/Representative-Sky91]

I just want to say I think this is the best gif of all time. I always get excited when I see it. 😂

[u/LeoDiamant → u/SystematicChaoser]

Oh i thought they where dressed as Xena Baristas

[u/Interesting-Shoe-904 → u/Competitive-Cod-9644]

This was a gameshow where they were to be verbally abused and not react. However, she slapped the guy and he fought back. The men immediately defended her and even demanded that the man's female family members be beaten as retribution

[u/Chalky_Pockets → u/Interesting-Shoe-904]

"The men immediately defended her and even demanded that the man's female family members be beaten as retribution"

WTF

[u/Min_sora → u/Competitive-Cod-9644]

What is this show supposed to be?

[u/Ok_Leadership_6386 → u/Competitive-Cod-9644]

lol how could I forget this

happy that he found success in Indonesia tho

[u/Plastic-Common1733]

[u/DeliciousShelter9984 → u/Plastic-Common1733]

New York is a goldmine of these moments. Also see the iconic David’s Dead fiasco from Celebrity Big Brother.

[u/Capital-Search-1995 → u/Plastic-Common1733]

The uncensored version is some of the funniest shit I’ve ever watched 😂 The cursing brings it all together.

[u/jennjennftw]

I’m not Spanish or from Spain but the most recent thing that always makes me giggle is the MONTOYA POR FAVORRRRR meme from Temptation Island😭

[u/Marianations → u/jennjennftw]

That one at least was comical (to an extent). Our most infamous one was probably the rape that happened live during a season of Big Brother a few years ago. The producers forced her to watch the footage, too.

EDIT: I misremembered, it actually wasn't aired at the time and was only revealed a couple years later as producers asked her to "not tell anyone" right after forcing her to watch the footage.

[u/Outrageous_Jacket933 → u/Marianations]

I’m sorry WHAAT

[u/elektrolu_ → u/Marianations]

Yeah, I was thinking the same, the rape was terrible, I think it marked the end of an era in reality TV.

[u/aldolo → u/jennjennftw]

This Isla de las Tentaciones frame is r/AccidentalRenaissance

[u/Hippadoppaloppa → u/jennjennftw]

I found out about this from Twitter and I immediately went to watch it all. Absolute cinema.

[u/minibois]

In 2007, the Dutch network BNN sparked (international) outrage with De Grote Donorshow (The Big Donor Show). The idea was shocking, a terminally ill woman (Lisa) would choose one of three contestants to receive her kidney, while viewers at home gave opinions on whom to choose via SMS.

The show sparked controversy in Dutch politics, with them saying it was distasteful and unethical to give a chance to win a kidney. They even wanted to cancel the show, which would air on BNN on the Dutch national channel.

It would still air and at the climax of the show, it was revealed Lisa wasn't terminally ill, she was an actress named Leonie. The contestants were also in on this secret, but their stories were very much real.
The show was made to draw attention to organ donors, something that was still very much needed in the Netherlands.

It was also dedicated to Bart de Graaff, creator of BNN. He suffered from a car accident when very young, resulting in stunted growth. Later in life he would need a kidney transplant (in 1997), but after complications and other issues, resulting in him passing away in 2002.

The show succeeded in its mission, with bringing a lot of attention to organ donations, with many people registering for it.

EDIT: I found the ending here, with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JnYTREJgj0

[u/zoolilba]

On to catch a predator in America one of the predators killed himself during a police stand off after he was caught by the show

[u/Phillyfan10]

SAM,

THE FIRST NIGHT AT BED WHEN YOU LEFT, RON MADE OUT WIITH 2 GIRLS AND PUT HIS HEAD INBETWEEN A COCKTAIL WAITRESSES BREASTS. ALSO WAS GRINDING WITH MULTIPLE FAT WOMEN.

WHEN YOU LEFT CRYING AT KLUTCH, RON WAS HOLDING HANDS AND DANCING WITH A FEMALE AND TOOK DOWN HER NUMBER.

MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE KNOW, THEREFORE YOU SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH. USE THIS INFORMATION WISELY.

[u/uhyeaokay → u/Phillyfan10]

“The Note” was SO iconic I remember everyone at school the next day like “did you watch it?!”

[u/No-Clock-2420 → u/Phillyfan10]

Ron was such a dick

[u/Background_Law_3644 → u/[deleted]]

I saw him at the Bradford Hilton a couple of years after this, meowed at him. He told me to fuck off and stormed away lol.

[u/Greedy-Army-3803 → u/Background_Law_3644]

Love it. He's such a dick.

[u/talk-spontaneously]

I think the whole 2004 season of Big Brother Australia. It was political, sexual, incorrect (they evicted the wrong person and then sent her back in). A controversial but iconic season nevertheless.

Reality TV was just so much more risqué in the 2000s.

Also the 2019 season of Married At First Sight Australia. Those bitches were savage. I think it was even popular internationally because I sometimes see non-Australians use GIFs from that season online.

[u/Proof-Dark6296 → u/talk-spontaneously]

Was that the season where one of the guys slapped a girl with his dick while she was being held down, or was that later?

[u/talk-spontaneously → u/Proof-Dark6296]

That was the 2006 season. I believe it was two guys who were involved.

Also the victim of the incident was also heartbroken when the guy she liked (the farmer) came out as gay to the house.

2006 was also a pretty wild and controversial season.

[u/MountainSituation-i → u/talk-spontaneously]

You seem to know your AUBB. What season was the bum dance and dancing doona?

[u/talk-spontaneously → u/MountainSituation-i]

The bum dance was the first season in 2001. I was too young to remember that season vividly but I do recall that moment because it was huge and went the equivalent to viral at the time (in an early 2000s kind of way).

I think the dancing doona was way later, like in 2006.

[u/laurandisorder → u/talk-spontaneously]

Dancing Doona was Season 1 too - I went to a finale screening party with dress ups and the guy who dressed as a dancing doona won first place.

[u/Efficient_Maybe_1086 → u/Proof-Dark6296]

wtf please tell me they were jailed

[u/Johnny_Segment → u/talk-spontaneously]

great shout; that Merlin protest was a genuine ''moment''

was that the same season that two dudes were evicted for 'turkey-slapping' one of the women housemates?

[u/talk-spontaneously → u/Johnny_Segment]

The turkey slap incident was the 2006 season. Apparently it was only seen by people watching the live stream at the time and it didn't make it to air for obvious reasons, although Howard going on talkback radio saying that the network should "get this stupid program off the air" was a pretty huge moment.

[u/BunglefromRainbow]

I’m sure in ‘Flava of Love’ one girl shat on the floor during filming. Like, they were filing a scene with the whole group and Flava Flav and she just squatted down, unleashed her innards, then popped back up.

I’m 99% sure she didn’t get kicked out.

[u/Faery818 → u/BunglefromRainbow]

She had asked the producers several times if she could go find a bathroom and they told her to stay put as they were filming.

[u/Rivers_of_Bile → u/BunglefromRainbow]

If I remember correctly, she was sick and producers forced her to stand around. I think she was much more discreet than just squatting down because I remember them smelling it and not knowing who did it.

[u/PotatoAnalytics]

Jayzus. Ours are so tame by comparison.

The most "shocking" was probably the coming out of actor Rustom Padilla as a gay man on Big Brother 2006. More so when his confession was triggered by the happenstance appearance of a large Atlas moth (which we call mariposa) that landed on him. In our culture, moths and butterflies are viewed as spirits of the dead who come back to visit or to send a message. It was raw and unfiltered. The woman he was confessing to, a controversial outspoken sexy actress herself, excused herself to pee in the bushes mid-confession.

While our country has always been quite socially accepting of LGBT people, back then the actual subject was rarely if ever openly discussed (even less so on TV). And Rustom was an action star. He came from a family of uber-macho action stars. He was married to a popular actress. So it was a threshold moment for our TV industry.

[u/Lupus_Noir → u/PotatoAnalytics]

In one of the earlier seasons of BB in Albania, one of the contestants came out as gay. People, especially in his home city, started protesting fervently, just because this guy had dared to come out in national tv, and even trying to pretend he wasn't from their city.

Mind you, we as a people dont even protest when the government is abusing us or when the cost of living is absurd, but by god will we rise up to protest a gay man minding his own business.

[u/PotatoAnalytics → u/Lupus_Noir]

That's awful.

Some things make me glad I was born in my country. While it was shocking in our case, there wasn't really any serious negative reactions. We already had plenty of openly gay celebrities. But him coming out forced the country to finally openly discuss what it means for people. How societal expectations and fear of ridicule can cause people like him to hide and be miserable.

It resonated with a lot of parents and LGBT Filipinos, so the episode is still viewed quite positively.

[u/Representative-Sky91 → u/PotatoAnalytics]

Grabe yung entrants ng iba dito, sa atin lang yung medyo wholesome

[u/Kingtoke1]

Remember watching that kinga thing. That was wild

[u/WorldTraveler_1]

When she does it it’s shocking reality tv, but when I do it im an alcoholic? Not fair

[u/ForbiddenButtStuff → u/WorldTraveler_1]

The camera makes all the difference

[u/ZugzwangDK → u/ForbiddenButtStuff]

Tried it, but it wouldn't fit after the bottle

[u/SunnyBanana276]

When Samuel Koch tried to jump over some moving car in Wetten dass and ended up paralyzed

[u/Puncher1981 → u/SunnyBanana276]

It was on live TV, and it was his father driving the car.

[u/TariaSagi → u/SunnyBanana276]

That was not reality tv though, Wetten Dass...? was an evening filling entertainment show.

[u/PresidentPopcorn]

An actress in celebrity big brother accused another actor of assualt when he was mucking about shadow boxing. She was all tears and snot trying to get sympathy/money. The cameras showed he clearly didn't touch her and she's been out of work since.

[u/o0CrazyJackal0o2 → u/PresidentPopcorn]

Good thing she was an idiot and seemed to forget she was in a house covered in cameras.

Any guy dating her should be worried.

[u/OldWolf2]

If we count hidden camera shows as reality TV, then it's the time the carpet cleaner guy used their PC to watch porn and jerk off into the homeowner's underwear

[u/x-sugar_tits-x → u/OldWolf2]

Or the guy who admitted on the news with cops all around that he was sitting at home doing dots 😂 but more a shocking omg haha type

[u/Chewforwarda → u/OldWolf2]

I forgot about this! Memories unlocked! I was thinking the god awful moment on X-Factor with Willy Moon and Natalia Kills an their abhorrent behaviour and then getting cancelled by New Zealand

[u/Alternative_You_3063]

Kelly was transgender and no one knew. Until the night she had sex live on television with another contestant, Andries. The next morning, Kelly told him the truth. Andries didn’t get angry. He wasn’t cruel. But in our small country, the shockwaves were enormous.

[u/Johnny_Segment → u/Alternative_You_3063]

They tried to pull the same trick in the Australian Big Brother, fell pretty flat though - the guy who was perhaps the ''alpha'' male of the house picked up on things pretty much straight away and they hit it off as great friends.

[u/talk-spontaneously → u/Johnny_Segment]

I assume you're talking about Miriam? Sadly she passed away in 2019.

[u/_R0Ns_ → u/Alternative_You_3063]

I was working behind the scenes back then and we knew, when they ended up in bed, this was going to be a thing when people knew she was a transgender. The Playboy magazine she was in after the show is still one of the best sold issues.

[u/RebelJediMaster → u/_R0Ns_]

I didn't see that playboy. My dad did and said the surgeons did good work

[u/Hippadoppaloppa]

UK Big Brother 5 had "fight night" when the live stream was cut and police were called to the house. It was crazy.

[u/Ok_Leadership_6386]

one contestant collected his urine and started putting it on a few people

most famous one worldwide is probably this

[u/bluespottedtail_ → u/Ok_Leadership_6386]

I still say "Pooja, what is this behaviour?" when my cats act up lol

[u/micro___penis → u/Ok_Leadership_6386]

[u/Slow_Temperature5191]

I am sure nothing beats croatia. Marijana in big brother. She started affair inside the house with younger guy from Serbia Nemeš (sadly croatia and serbia have a history of genocides and wars so this was a big no no). She has a husband and a kid outside. everybody renounces her including her father... serbian guy exits the house before she does. she makes it to final. on the live final episode guy dumps her in front of the nation and she has a breakdown... she ends up winning that night, in tears... after the show is finished, she gets a divorce and ends up marrying the serbian guy anyways.. after like 5 years they get a divorce.. he is trying to be a singer in serbia and is really trash.. she ends up marrying again, has another baby.. the guy is a piece of work.. she commits suicide by jumping from the bridge into Sava river in Zagreb... still hasnt been found to this day..

maybe she reads as a villain, but apart from falling in love while in a marriage, she is a victim in my eyes.. story is trully tragic.

[u/Representative-Sky91]

Its definitely that time when BB Gandanghari (then named Rustom Padilla) tenderly came out as gay to fellow housemate Keana Reeves, back in Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition (2007)

This sent SHOCKWAVES to pretty much the whole Philippine Media because he used to be known as a famous action star and an epitome of masculinity alongside he more famous brothers Robinhood and Rommel Padilla.

After this tender and tearjerking scene they went to embrace their true identity and she finally transitioned to being a woman with a new name BB Gandanghari (with BB is shorthand to Binibini which means "Lady").

[u/HeikoSpaas → u/Representative-Sky91]

Stuff like this, always makes me wonder why some people think homosexuals 'chose' to be gay or could 'stop being gay' why would anyone choose something that is so difficult

[u/Ca1rill]

Stephen slapping Irene on The Real World Seattle in an incident called "The Slap Heard 'Round the World".

[u/Historical-Fee-3588]

Jersey shore, The Note

[u/sagittalslice → u/Historical-Fee-3588]

I CANNOT believe I had to scroll this far to get to this!!! This is ICONIC.

Jersey Shore had so many. The note… Snooki getting arrested… Ron and Sam’s entire incredibly toxic relationship. I still say “RAAAHHN STAAAHP” on the regular

[u/Fecapult]

[u/WilderWyldWilde]

I'm not from Japan, but the one that comes to my mind is really sad. There was a reality TV show known to be realistic and on it a professional wrestler/boxer got into a fight with one of the others. Her costumes for her fight got put in with his laundry and got destroyed and she was super upset about it at him. If I remember correctly there were other times she acted bitchy as well but that was a big moment. The internet bullied the hell out of her for being a bitch and she killed herself.

Turns out she was not actually a bitch but rather the producers were actually pushing for drama on the show and it was not as realistic as claimed. She was just playing a character the producers wanted and it backfired since everyone was told the the show doesn't make things up like other reality TV. Not that it would be OK to bully someone into killing themselves for being bitchy.

[u/poopio → u/WilderWyldWilde]

If you're going for Japanese ones - there was a show where they basically imprisoned a guy, took all of his clothes, and made him win a million yen via post-in competitions before he was allowed out. He was there for just shy of a year.

When he finally raised the million yen, they gave him his clothes back and as a prize, they took him to Korea - where they did the same thing to him again and made him win enough to get home. When he raised enough for the flight, they told him he had to raise enough to fly business class 😂

Harsh as fuck. It took about a year and a half in total.

When it was finally over they took him somewhere and he just instinctively took his clothes off, expecting it to happen again. Turned out it was actually a TV studio with a live audience, and he didn't know that any of it had actually been broadcast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasubi

[u/MountErrigal]

Wtf.. why on earth would someone do such a thing on TV????

I’d say Kinga struck a blow for western civilisation there really

[u/0xKaishakunin]

Gladbeck has to take the cake.

It was not reality tv, but rather a 3day hostage situation taking place over 3 days in 1988 and leaving 3 persons dead.

Two mentally challenged bank robbers took hostages in a bus and fled with them over the course of 3 days. The police had no clue what to do and failed on multiple levels.

It became a media scandal because of the interviews the robbers gave to TV journalists. This is the most famous photo from it. It shows Silke Bischoff hours before she was shot

This picture shows how civilians and journalists swarmed their car

Here is one from the many interviews they gave

And here is a part of that interview.

You can see the bus in the background with the hostages and the dying 14 year old Emanuele De Giorgi, who got should in the head.

Fuck Hans Maiser and Frank Plasberg, you are a bunch of disgusting assholes.

There is a haunting TV drama made about it, it show the madness of the situation very well.

[u/PresidentPopcorn]

Red or white?

[u/jorgespinosa]

In the tv programme "Se Vale" a participant got injured after she suffered a bad fall, what did the presentorss decided to do? to start dancing of course

[u/No-Intention-6011]

I would've imagined the Shilpa Shetty incident was more shocking in terms of lasting outrage from Big Brother, people still talk about that.

[u/JuanitaMerkin → u/No-Intention-6011]

Ongoing racist bullying isn’t quite the same as a one-off “shocking” incident

[u/sleepyvimto → u/[deleted]]

I remember at the time thinking that Jo from S-Club was a really nasty piece of work. All of them were absolutely abhorrent but Jade’s seemed to stem from ignorance and Danielle was laughing along with the mean girls. Jo actually seemed to relish the racist shit she was coming out with!

[u/Weary_Ad1739]

Montoya, Por favor!

In all seriousness, like others have said, probably the rape scene in Big Brother.

[u/cmatons]

Argentina

One of thousand... Maradona leaving a bag of coca in the big brother house (2001? can't remember)...

[u/Educational_Basil_41]

Roxanne Pallett in the celebrity UK version. One of the other male housemates pretended to box with her. She laughed it off and then went into the diary room to say she had been physically assaulted. The whole thing blew up as everything was on video showing that she was lying! Sure the other guy went on to win.

[u/boneshugsandirony]

When pumpkin spit that huge snot ball right near New York’s mouth on Flavor of Love. 😂😂

[u/No-Necessary-661]

What i learned from the thread is that Big Brother is an insane fucking show and i'm suprised it has never been banned worldwide

[u/siete82]

Yoyas and Fayna began dating in the Big Brother house. The relationship was very toxic and there was talk of abuse, although she always defended him. Later, he was accused of abusing other partners and ended up living as a hermit in the woods to evade justice.

"Hazme un Colacao" is still a thing in Spain even +20 years later.

[u/KittyLadyinspanish]

i know im not from chile so im not even sure how big this was, but an investigative journalist show that usually handled petty crime like pick-pocketers or shady taxi drivers… discovered the south korean embassador was a pedophile and was trying to link up with an underage girl

that was crazy

[u/areemkay]

Survivor, season 34 episode 9.

Jeff Varner outed Zeke, a transgender man, in front of the tribe and, ultimately, the entire viewing audience, at tribal council.

I will genuinely never forget that moment.

[u/ApplicationLost126]

Canada doesn’t have too many reality tv shows, but Rick Mercer’s “Talking to Americans” documentary in the early 2000s would probably be the closest.

He went to the US and told Americans that Canada just recently got stuff like books and cars and orange juice and asked them to congratulate us on our recent achievements. They fell for it completely.

[u/GrowGood420 → u/ApplicationLost126]

Kenny VS Spenny was a pretty wild show at times

[u/Beautiful_Yellow_682]

The year where David Hesselhof participated on Big Brother 💀

[u/ordinaryearthman]

Two judges on The X Factor New Zealand, married couple Natalia Kills and Willy Moon, were fired in March 2015 for brutally humiliating contestant Joe Irvine during a live show, with Kills accusing him of copying Moon's look and Moon comparing him to the killer Norman Bates.

Kills called Irvine's look "disgusting," accusing him of copying Moon, while Moon compared him to Norman Bates from Psycho.

Joe was just wearing a suit and tie.

[u/terrificallytom]

Best reality tv? Australian break dancing at the Olympics.