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It looks like MTV has sold the last of its soul on behalf of The Hills. How can this network keep promoting this show as Reality TV when everything is fictional? (No wonder insiders now call it “soft-scripted”.) The AP reports today that the fourth season finale that airs next Monday is a fraud in that Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag appear to have moved on from their fake Mexican wedding ceremony into a legitimate U.S. marriage. The pair are shown walking into a wood-paneled courtroom while a judge with the California state seal hanging on the wall behind him officiates their wedding as the couple-everyone-loves-to-hate exchange vows. But a Los Angeles Superior Court official told The AP today that MTV was recently granted permission to shoot in a Beverly Hills courtroom after hours. And that’s not one of the court’s judges in The Hills footage. So one faked ”elopement” as a publicity stunt for an Us Weekly cover and Hills episode wasn’t enough for MTV.
I’ve already reported what a cesspool of self-promotion and cross-promotion has been going on behind the scenes among the con artists on the series. Let’s see… Heidi Montag used the show to score herself a record deal and clothing line, neither of which was ever shown on camera. Pratt in real life is her manager. Meanwhile, Lauren Conrad has scored spokesperson deals, commercial gigs, and her own clothing line which she wears on the series and sells with MTV, none of which are mentioned on the show – which continues to portray her as just a fashion student. So the audience believes these numbskulls are normal folk when they’re actually paid up to $75,000 per episode.
Especially now that MTV barely bothers itself with music on its main channel, the once rebel network that created generations of devoted fans and used to stand for the anti-status quo has lost all credibility and trust which it will never be able to earn back. If only advertisers would take notice. C’mon, who doesn’t hate their MTV now?
- MTV ‘The Hills’: A Cesspool of Self-Promo
- Finke/LA Weekly: Who Hates Their MTV?
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Haha, likeokaylike, you are pretty stuck in the 90s. People don’t actually say ‘like’ anymore.
I hate to break it to Nikke et al, but I’m pretty sure most people who watch The Hills who know it’s fake. I’ve never talked to anyone who has been shocked by this fact. It’s just a soap opera with the appeal of any other soap opera.
Every house has a toilet. The house of cable has MTV.
I don’t like when people think that they (Lauren, Audrina, Lo etc) are characters and that they are not for real (like their name and identity is something else) and that it’s not their life. It’s not 10000% for real, but hey, it’s not like they read from some script. But the people who are most fake on the show is Spencer and Heidi, oh yes. But who gives a shiw in the end anyway, if the show is fake or not. And I feel sorry for the girls who think it’s that easy to get famous, through moving to L.A and just “laying around”. No realitygrip on them. But like I said, in the end, who gives a crap if the show is real, fake or both.
“Reality” killed the music channel
fake reality shows are stupid. why promote fakeness as reality? it loses an emotional connection or appeal b/c of the deception. i feel more emotion for characters in movies and sitcoms. and, i would like to watch real people. the entertainment industry is definately out of touch with the american people. we watch most sh** out of boredom. there’s nothing good on t.v. anymore. we’re even turning to the internet b/c we can control some of the things we see via media. bottom line, most of us would rather the real in reality and not the fake reality. i’m going to stop watching them. many logical, clear-headed Americans are commenting on how we’re living in strange times. We definately are, but hasn’t really always been backwards and upside-down. Life is weird.