Ever wondered what happens when you take a straight Mollygood editor, ply him with booze and stick him in a room full of make-up toting drag queens? Well, here’s your chance to find out. While listening to crappy 80’s dance music. [Queerty]
Bulldozers, sledgehammers and new dry wall aren’t always the keys to happiness (neither, apparently, are the keys to news cars the keys to happiness). That’s the case for the Leomiti-Higgins family, which had their home knocked down so ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition could build them a brand new manse.
Now ABC and the show’s producers are on the receiving end of a lawsuit from the Higgins kids, who have since left the house, leaving their adopted Leomiti parents with the home. The kids, who range in age from 14 to 21 and lost both their parents in 2004, claim the Leomitis used their sob story to attract producers’ attention. But after the crew packed up, they turned it into a hostile environment (claims of physical abuse and racial name calling) for their adopted kin and are factoring Ty Pennington & Co.’s involvement into their trauma.
All this, every media outlet would like to point out, is just another example of how reality television isn’t always how it appears. Except on The Real World, because all that is straight shooting. Right? Right?!