Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer In the summer of strikes and labor action, calls for reality TV personalities to form a union are gaining steam.
Bethenny Frankel unleashed a storm last month with her unvarnished criticism of Bravo and other unscripted-focused platforms for the way that unscripted stars are treated behind the scenes.
Frankel was not shy about detailing what she described as commonplace abuses, including producers manipulating contestants for the cameras. “We should just find out what reality shows are in production right now and say, ‘Just stop working.
Say you’re not going to work unless they take down all the things you’ve done in the past and then we can negotiate for the future,’ “ Frankel told Variety last month.
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