33. The Apprentice
It’s hard to believe there was a time when American president Donald Trump was just a billionaire TV host. ‘The Apprentice’ introduced him to a younger audience and subsequently began a search for him to find proteges to help run some of his businesses. The show might have been a hit at the time of airing, but since Donald moved into the White House a lot of behind the scenes stories have started to surface. As it turns out, Trump often fired contestants without consulting producers, which meant that they had to tailor and edit the footage to make certain contestants look unfavorable before their big exit. From a purely aesthetic perspective, the boardroom the series filmed their dismissals in was as fake as it gets, and even the shots where contestants leave the building in a taxi were staged.
The Apprentice
34. The Voice
‘The Voice’ is widely popular thanks to its “blind” auditions, where celebrity judges hit a button to turn their chairs around and “bid” to add contestants to teams from only hearing their voices during the audition. As it turns out, and like it’s ‘American Idol’ competitor, a lot of the contestants are vetted and brought in ahead of time in order to populate a well rounded cast for each season. Fans were stunned when in 2015, the lead singer of Low Cut Connie revealed that he had been approached by producers about being on the show. He turned them down, and fans of the series were shocked that he had been approached to begin with. The truth hurts after all.
The Voice
