Tyra Banks Tyra Banks is reality checking her reality check Just a few months after the bombshell documentary Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model hit Netflix, Tyra Banks, the show host and creator of the mid-2000s legendary reality TV series, has officially filed a defamation lawsuit against the streaming service. The lawsuit, filed in California, alleges that despite By Stephanie • Jun 15, 2026 01:31 pm
Reality TV Summer House’s finale and the toxic allure of reality TV It’s taken me some time to process the fallout from the final installation of the Summer House reunion. Having spent years watching reunions, sometimes it can take a day or two to get a feel for the narratives that emerge after such a highly-anticipated finale. And like clockwork, By Stephanie • Jun 11, 2026 11:32 am
Reality TV Karamo Brown expands on Queer Eye’s messy dynamics Six months after refusing to participate in the press tour for the final season Queer Eye, Karamo Brown, the sole Black cast member, is reflecting on his choice to sit out the interviews, citing ‘years of toxic dynamics’ within the group. I first wrote about him skipping out on the By Stephanie • Jun 08, 2026 12:01 pm
Reality TV The Summer House Mega-Reunion We’re two-thirds of the way into what has been an explosive three-part reunion for the cast of Summer House. As you’ve probably heard by now, a bombshell scandal was confirmed as the season neared its end. Much like we saw with Scandoval and Vanderpump Rules, two By Stephanie • Jun 05, 2026 11:33 am
Reality TV Intro for May 28, 2026 Dear Gossips, A summer tradition is about to begin… for some of us, but more and more of us. I have watched every season of Love Island USA, one of only two dating reality series on my roster (the other is Singles Inferno), and during the early series of the By Lainey • May 28, 2026 09:21 am
Reality TV Bravo found the leak After launching an investigation into how audio from the highly anticipated Summer House reunion taping was leaked late last week, quickly spreading across the internet, Bravo says the network was able to find the person responsible for the release of the unauthorized recording. And the network is making it very By Stephanie • Apr 27, 2026 01:43 pm
Reality TV A new, summery Bravo scandal If I didn’t know any better, I’d say network executives across the board have offered private payouts to the reality TV stars who can generate the most scandal - and now they’re all in a competition to out-scandal each other. Because how else do you explain the By Stephanie • Apr 01, 2026 12:29 pm
Reality TV Reality TV double standards: Taylor Frankie Paul edition The fallout over the failed season of The Bachelorette continued this week with rumours of lawsuits, multi-million dollar network losses and a Nick Viall connection that, in the grand scheme of things, totally tracks. This all follows the premiere of the show being cancelled at the eleventh hour, just By Stephanie • Mar 25, 2026 11:59 am
Reality TV Taylor Frankie Paul is the latest red flag from clout-chasing legacy media Taylor Frankie Paul is addressing the bombshell news of an open domestic assault investigation into her and her ex, Dakota Mortensen. Earlier this week, PEOPLE reported that a spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department confirmed the investigation, saying allegations were made against both parties and contact was made with By Stephanie • Mar 18, 2026 02:24 pm
Reality TV Reckoning with America’s Next Top Model One week after its release, reaction is still pouring in online about Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model, which, as I wrote about here, finally got the Netflix treatment in the form of a three-part documentary. And while it was initially teased as an in-depth look into By Stephanie • Feb 23, 2026 01:14 pm
Reality TV Queer Eye’s last-season drama Earlier this week, Queer Eye star Karamo Brown was notably absent from several press appearances in the morning show circuit that had been lined up for the cast to help promote the tenth and final season of the show. In a statement shared by his assistant, Karamo attributed his eleventh- By Stephanie • Jan 23, 2026 11:55 am
Reality TV The Pump Returns Bravo’s three-time Emmy nominated hit show Vanderpump Rules made its highly anticipated return to TV this week. The good news is that it has a lot of similarities with the original production. The bad news? It has a lot of similarities with the original production. From the in- By Stephanie • Dec 05, 2025 03:33 pm
Break Ups Kandi Burruss faces the motherhood double standard in divorce Just days after announcing her decision to divorce her husband Todd Tucker, former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss is finding herself in an increasingly tense divorce. On November 21, she announced the split in a statement to PEOPLE, saying: “After deep thought and a lot of prayer, I’ By Stephanie • Dec 03, 2025 03:06 pm
Reality TV That's a wrap on the 4th annual BravoCon BravoCon 2025 brought together over 30,000 reality TV fans, nearly 200 Bravolebrities and hundreds of influencers that make a killing off of doing everything from housewife impersonations to podcasting about them. And despite vowing to never go to another one after the overpriced and understimulating BravoCon after New York By Stephanie • Nov 18, 2025 10:21 am
Equality Issues Selling Sunset’s continuing fallout It’s been exactly one week since the reunion of Selling Sunset aired on Netflix – but the conversation and fallout hasn’t stopped, and bombshells continue to drop. I can’t recall the last time we had this much of an explosive reunion in the world of reality TV, except By Stephanie • Nov 12, 2025 12:04 pm
Reality TV Selling Sunset reunion drama The Selling Sunset reunion aired on Netflix yesterday and the overwhelming verdict is that people are…disappointed. At everything. From the too-soft-spoken-and-at-times-cringey host, Tan France, to the lack of transparency, closure and resolution on some of the season’s most pressing issues and storylines, By Stephanie • Nov 06, 2025 01:49 pm
