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Saturday night, well over 200 of the 301 Survivor cast members–plus crew members, press, and members of the Television Critics Association–gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the show’s 20th season and 10-year anniversary.

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This month’s issue of Radar magazine has an “expose” of one of reality television’s “secrets”: editors constructing fake situations out of real footage. With interviews with five story producers or story editors, Andrew Goldman reports on rather familiar producer tricks, such as asking leading questions during interviews and getting casts drunk. The real center of …

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