reality TV worlds collide at the Emmys.
Sunday’s Emmy ceremony was, for the most part, dominated by reality TV, maybe even more than it was dominated by Angels in America. Reality TV was everywhere, and that includes the red carpet. What went down there, though, is nothing like we’ve ever seen; it’s a glimpse inside a different world, one where celebrities get $30,000 gift bags.

USA TODAY columnist and our friend Whitney Matheson reports from her first visit to the Emmys, and a lot of what she witnessed was normal. One example: “The Amazing Race‘s Charla and Mirna stroll down the ‘non-famous people’ side of the red carpet. Someone grabs them and ushers them back out. Apparently, they’re now famous enough to walk down the celebrity side of the aisle.” However, some of her revelations are a bit more unusual, such as Queer Eye‘s Ted Allen saying “the coolest people he’s met,” of all people, are “Kermit the Frog, Allison Janney and Edie Falco.”

But the big story is a strange and unusual collision of different worlds: Survivor‘s Jeff Probst spent Saturday night “embarked on a scavenger hunt as part of Shannon Elizabeth’s birthday party. … The hunt took them through the zoo and IKEA, among other hot L.A. spots–and his teammates included former Celebrity Mole contestant Kathy Griffin.”
+ also: how the two real people were lured to LA.