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...Although he chalks it up to the race for ratings, Marriott says a number of scenes in ?Joe Millionaire? were altered in the editing room. When contestant Sarah Kozer finds out that he?s not a millionaire in one of the final episodes, the camera pans to a look of disgust on Kozer?s face. But that footage had been filmed hours earlier in response to a different situation, says Marriott. In another scene, Zora Andrich - who Marriott ultimately picked - angrily gets out of the hut tub when several other contestants barge in on her tub time with Joe Millionaire...
Cheating? Sure. But viewers want suspense. The problem is that makers of reality TV have the power to imply or outright fabricate things about real people who have to carry their fake reputations into their real lives. Sarah Kozer, a contestant on the Fox dating show Joe Millionaire, says producers doctored a scene in which she went for a walk behind some trees with the show's bachelor, Evan Marriott, to make it seem as if they had oral sex. The producers added sound effects and captions, she says, and dubbed in a line--"It's better...
...what about contestants? Once Frankenbitten, twice shy? Kozer feels badly used by Fox, but Baker says he would do Amazing Race again, albeit more self-consciously. Likewise, says perhaps the biggest reality villain ever, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth of The Apprentice, who says the show demonized her. "When I was a good girl, there were no cameras on," she says. "The minute I started arguing, there was a camera shooting me from every angle." She was vilified by viewers across the country. But she has since gone on to do Fear Factor and to play host to Style Network's Oscar...
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