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reality blurred: Cheaters host Joey Greco's stabbing was staged, paid actor says
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RT @blank31: @lela_chelle Found out recently that Cheaters is fake!!! Watch the video w/ the article: http://bit.ly/3bXsyu 4 days ago |
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@vh1sjunk I'm so angry to read @cheaterstv might be a big fat fake and @thejoeygreco faked his stabbing!! http://bit.ly/F59DE 5 days ago |
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RT @garyowencomedy Watching cheaters they film in Dallas dont fuck around in Dallas (http://bit.ly/3bXsyu) 13 days ago |
Cheaters host Joey Greco's stabbing was staged, paid actor says
reality blurred —
Cheaters has been on the air for nine years now, documenting scorned lovers confronting their cheating partners in the act, with a camera crew in tow. It's like an episode of Jerry Springer filmed in the cheaters' natural habitats. And the syndicated series is often accused of being fake, particularly since a 2003 episode during which host Joey Greco was stabbed, which to me has never seemed genuine, although some of the early episodes certainly did.
Inside Edition reports today that the stabbing was faked, as was a relationship shown on at least one ...
'Cheaters' caught cheating (transcript)
James Hibberd's The Live Feed —
... at least some of it was staged. One Texas apartment complex seemed to be used over and over again. Some of the reactions felt off. And the whole twisted endeavor seemed just too entertaining to be true. Didn't care. Now here comes "Inside Edition" finding two cases where "Cheaters," well, cheated. A couple says they were paid to pretend to cheat. And the show's most famous clip, where Grecco was supposedly stabbed, was said to be staged. Here's excepts from tonight's transcript: Full transcript here.
TV: Hater:Show About Cheating, Shockingly, Has No Integrity
The A.V. Club - TV —
... , that stabbing never happened. Apparently, it was all staged, as was most of Cheaters . Those cheaters never actually cheated. The wronged parties were never actually wronged. And, gulp, Gotcha! reality shows do not reflect reality! From Inside Edition (via Live Feed): But the best-known episode of Cheaters, the episode that put the show on the TV map, is the episode where host Joey Greco gets stabbed by an irate man caught cheating. "So none of it was true? "No," says Cassandra Terrazas, a Dallas hotel receptionist who says she was paid $350 for a few days work playing a ...
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