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What's The Wildest Secret You Know About Reality Shows?

It's time to get real.

Shelby Heinrich
by Shelby Heinrich

BuzzFeed Staff

Have you worked on or been a cast member/contestant on a reality show? If so, we'd like to hear from you!

Bravo

Are you neither of those things, but instead someone who looooves reality TV and has a ton of behind-the-scenes knowledge? We'd like to hear from you too!

Rosanna Pansino

We wanna know your juiciest reality show secrets. Like, maybe you know for a fact that some of the contestants on House Hunters buy their homes before even appearing on the show.

A couple on house hunters walking through an empty house with the sarcastic text "explores house as if they've never seen it before"
HGTV / Via youtube.com

Or maybe you're privy to the fact that the producers on Survivor tell the contestants what to wear.

Survivor contestant Cochran giving a confessional in a red sweater vest with the text "literally never wore sweater vests before coming on the show"
CBS / Via youtube.com

Or maybe — and this is a long shot — you worked on Vanderpump Rules and you can finally tell me if James and Lala were actually talking about pasta during the infamous "It's Not About the Pasta" episode.

James and Lala fighting about how she ate all of Raquel's pasta the other night at SUR
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Or, y'know, other fun secrets/stories about the show.

Whatever you've got, we wanna hear it! Tell us your wildest, juiciest, realest reality show secrets in the comments below, and don't be afraid to get detailed. If you've worked on a show and/or would rather remain anonymous, simply fill out this form instead! We'll feature the most eye-opening responses in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post.