A Different Reality: Ex-Participants Are Giving Us A Sneak Peak Into The Curious World of Reality TV Shows

Even if you are a well-behaved teen with a good homelife, that won’t always prevent you from ending up on World’s Strictest Parents. As the person in this story says, they knew of a few guys in high school who were on the show, even though there was no legitimate reason for them to be.

Either the producers thought the family would be good actors, or they were simply running out of families to use for their episodes. In either case, the whole episode was fake, and the family’s life off the screen was much more peaceful than the show would have you believe.