Before bed, gotta point you to Kansas City’s Pitch, where Ben Paynter writes this week about the reality TV winners and losers from the heartland. Have you heard of Real World? Me neither, but Ben spins a story about locals who made good, or not, on that and at least a dozen other reality TV shows, and it’s a good read, tells you what you’re missing by not watching…
The Blue Springs resident’s on-air experience was the kind of coming-of-age train wreck that reality TV producers dream of. Her first night in the Real World house, she got drunk and puked. She smoked, even though she has the lung disease cystic fibrosis. Roommates caught her with a kitchen knife in the bathroom and learned that she habitually cut herself. She broke down because of a phobia of large boats.
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