4 Times Reality Cast Members Were Monsters Outside Of The Show

Everyone knows that the producers of reality TV shows are generally amoral sacks of shit. If a reality TV producer were presented with the trolley problem, i.e., given a button to push where she alone could save five lives at the expense of killing another, her first question would be, “Can we get a closeup of their dying faces on track two?” 

In fact, the unseen forces behind these shows can be so awful that it might leave you feeling bad for the contestants and on-screen personalities foolish and desperate enough to get trapped in the web. But these reality stars are not always saints either. Sometimes when you’ve created a breeding ground for shitty behavior, you end up getting exactly what you’d expect. And sometimes you get even worse …

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Real Housewives Cast Members Keep Getting Arrested

The Real Housewives of (insert here the name of whichever city has the misfortune of hosting these ladies) is a show which, year after year, sets out to prove that rich people can be just as trashy as anyone else. The cast is always comprised of the pettiest, cattiest, and most entitled women that production can scrounge together, and Bravo is happy to provide them a battleground in which to fling wine into each others’ faces for their viewers’ enjoyment.

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But the qualities that might make for a good character on reality television don’t necessarily translate to a good person in real life, so maybe it should come as no surprise then that many of these women, once the cameras stop rolling, find themselves on the wrong side of a tiny, glass window.

Take Teresa Giudice of the New Jersey cast, who, along with her husband, was charged with “a 39-count indictment that included conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, and bankruptcy fraud.” Then there’s Kelly Bensimon of New York City, who was arrested “on suspicion of punching her then-boyfriend Nick Stefanov in the face.” Kim Richards from Beverly Hills was, in April 2015, “charged with public intoxication, trespassing, resisting an officer, and battery.” And just last month, Jen Shah of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City was arrested with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

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These are but just a few examples. Look through the cast of any Housewives season, and you’ll find so many misdemeanors listed next to their name that you’ll think they’re credits on IMDB. Is DUI, Public Intoxication, and Shoplifting the name of a movie we haven’t heard of? Nope, that’s just more of Kim Richard’s rap sheet.

It’s hard to say why this keeps happening. Perhaps, it’s all part of the “realness.” This is how real housewives act around the house, right?