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The reality is, secrets are hard to keep in social-media age
by Derrik J. Lang
LOS ANGELES — It became
one of the most talked about “Jer- sey Shore” moments. Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and an unidentified male partygoer sloshed drinks at each other in a berserk bar brawl. The slap-happy altercation, however, hasn’t aired on MTV. That’s because the boozy battle was hastily captured on a
low-grade camera and posted on- line months before the cultural phenomenon’s second chapter is scheduled to debut. The just-push-upload incident is the latest example of how in- stantaneous media is simulta- neously building buzz and spoiling reality TV. The intentionally raw medium relies heavily on sponta- neity, or at least something re- sembling spontaneity, and doesn’t pack the same punch without Nev-
er Before Seen Footage or The Most Shocking Elimination Ever. “It’s a blessing and a curse,” said
“Jersey Shore” executive producer Sally Ann Salsano. “You’re always grateful when people want to talk about your show, but in the end, those same people are the ones that take things, like what hap- pened with Snooki, out of context. I know I’ll have a chance to tell my story, but more people are going for the cheap shot.”
The slapping and soaking deliv- ered and received by Snooki, who was infamously punched in the face by a stranger at a bar during the show’s first season, went viral after it was posted on RadarOn-
line.com, popping up on multiple blogs and debated about on HLN. When it comes to secrets, reality
TV producers don’t typically have the same luxuries as their scripted TV counterparts. When there’s no soundstage in which to hide or
script to keep under wraps, it’s not easy to protect made-for-TV dra- ma from playing out online. Reality TV spoilers have been around since CBS first stranded a group of 16 strangers in Borneo for the inaugural season of “Survivor.”
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nondisclosure agree- ments that threaten legal action, signed by anyone exposed to a reality-TV production, are usually enough to keep the most important plotlines from leaking out. Newer tactics include forbidding the use of so- cial media during filming. The “Jersey Shore” ensemble said ciao to Twitter before they moved down to Miami for the show’s sec- ond season. Even if contestants are allowed to post online during pro- duction, such as the Season 9 “American Idol” finalists sporad- ically do, the updates are usually overseen by the show’s producers. Curiosity remains high, though, especially when cracks emerge in the barrier between a show still in production and the rest of the world. Just ask manufacturing sales representative Steve Car- bone, who has been dishing dirt about ABC’s sudsy dating franchis- es “The Bachelor” and “The Bach- elorette” for nearly seven years on his site
RealitySteve.com. “I’m not doing anything wrong,” said Carbone, who lives in Dallas. “I’m just relaying information that’s told to me. People can choose to believe it or not. It’s just my track record has proven that I know what’s going on.” Last season, Carbone correctly
“Jersey Shore’s” Nicole Polizzi.
insisted he has sources close to the production who provide him with his info. However, many amateur sleuths are able to stitch together what’s happening on a reality-TV series simply by searching online, scouring for clues in sta- tus updates and photos. “We glean informa- tion from wherever we can — Facebook, My- Space, Twitter, what- ever,” said college stu- dent Ron Lee, who oper- ates the spoiler Web site
TVFanSpace.com. “That’s the nature of the fun that comes from try- ing to spoil reality TV.
You try to get as much information as possible since everyone is chomping at the bit to know what’s going to happen next.” Fans share those findings on-
line, attempting to deduce such el- ements as who the suitors are on the next season of “The Bach- elorette” or what the route will be on CBS’s globe-trotting “The Amazing Race.” RealityFanFo-
rum.com members figured out al- most the entire course of the 16th season of “The Amazing Race” months before it premiered. “I can’t speak for the network or the production, but I really like that people see us when we’re trav- eling around the world,” said host Phil Keoghan. “If you’re a fan of the show, you’re not going to go, ‘Oh! I can’t watch the show now because I know where they’re go- ing.’ If anything, you’re going to be more excited because you want to see what happens.” Such teases sometimes become
revealed that hunky pilot Jake Pa- velka would choose feisty market- ing representative Vienna Girardi during the final rose ceremony. He also accurately predicted that Facebook advertising account manager Ali Fedotowsky would ditch Pavelka to keep her job, then become the leading lady on the next season of “The Bachelorette.” Carbone, who said he’s never been told to stop spoiling the show by the producers or the network,
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part of the action. “The Real Housewives of New York City” of- ten features the show’s drama queens reading about themselves online. During a recent episode of the Bravo docu-soap, sassy chef Bethenny Frankel flipped out when rumors of her pregnancy were posted on
PerezHilton.com. “There was so much junk being published all fall about the wom- en,” said Andy Cohen, Bravo’s sen- ior vice president of original pro- gramming and development. “I don’t think anything that was pub- lished has made it any less inter- esting now that it’s airing.” When the self-proclaimed “gui- dos” and “guidettes” of “Jersey Shore” return to film the remain- der of the second season later this summer at the same shore house they partied in during the first sea- son in Seaside Heights, N.J., exec- utive producer Salsano said extra measures, including beefed-up se- curity, will be taken to ensure the integrity of the show. “We will do everything we can to
protect the story,” she said, “and everyone else will probably do anything they can to get around it.”
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