Every week, scores of young dancers take to Instagram to show off a physical feat that seems to defy the limits of human hip bones.

The #TiltTuesday trend features dancers stretching their legs into extreme contortions. Sometimes the photos merely attract likes or followers. Other times they can attract the attention of scouts, leading to audition opportunities or even sponsorship deals.

Instagram and YouTube are littered with images and videos of stretches such as the "side tilt," in which one leg is extended into a standing side split, often held at bizarre angles that extend past 180 degrees. Another popular pose, known sometimes as a "scorpion" involves one leg stretched out behind the dancer, bent and grasped behind the head like a tail poised to sting.

But some dance industry veterans say the trend is an unhealthy phenomenon that encourages young dancers to attempt risky movements that could bring about irreversible damage.

While some of the dancers performing these poses are professionally trained ballerinas, many are young amateurs in the earliest years of their dance training.

These young dancers pushing their bodies to achieve such complicated stretches or dangerous leaps are putting themselves at risk of ending their careers before they even begin, according to Paul Malek, a choreographer and artistic director at Australia's Transit Dance Company.

"Pushing these dancers so far past where they should be at ages eight, 10, 12 — they're actually wearing away what holds their hips together," Malek told Business Insider.

Malek has been an outspoken critic of the stunts and acrobatics he sees dancers perform in competitions and on social media. He said he has seen firsthand the effects that excessive stretching and unnecessary tricks — such as side tilts — can have on dancers' hips and joints.

Beyond the physical effects on young dancers' bodies, these trends have also warped their understanding of what dance is, Malek said. The tricks popularized on social media have introduced a narrow set of skills for dancers to aspire to — at the expense of the large range of movement contemporary dance encompasses.

"Instagram and social media is extremely, extremely to blame here in my opinion," he said. "I ask young dancers, 'Who are some of the great dancers in the world?' And they name 16-year-olds who have 300,000 followers on Instagram who can do a leg mount or scorpion really well."

The hunger for fame

Longtime dancers say the acrobatics trend in dance has been growing for years in tandem with the rise of social media and reality-TV dance shows. Leslie Scott, a dancer and choreographer who founded the nonprofit Youth Protection Advocates in Dance, has been researching and surveying young dancers about their social media habits for years.

Most young dancers keep up on the daily posts of Instagram dance "celebrities," who have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers through photos and videos of mind-boggling contortions and tricks, Scott told Business Insider. The result is that dancers now strive for fame, not mastery of dance.

Some of the most popular dancers like Maddie Ziegler — originally from the Lifetime show "Dance Moms" and currently a judge on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance: Next Generation"— have attained a level of stardom that provokes instant reaction among their millions of followers.

When Ziegler posts a photo of an impressive leg lift or a pirouette, she accumulates hundreds of thousands of "likes" along with a slew of wistful comments: "How do you do that?" or "They make it look so easy," or "This hurts my heart."

Scott said she worries about the youngest generation of dancers, who now view these dance celebrities as role models. They may be setting themselves up for careers that are nearly impossible to achieve — both physically and realistically, she said.

"Many of them have shifted aspirations — occupational aspirations — from wanting to maybe go to college for dance or do something in dance therapy to wanting to be a dance celebrity," Scott said.

"They want to be like that, they want to look like that, they want to move like that. And they've also shared at times that they feel depressed and inadequate because they're not able to live up to that level of talent."

The physical consequences

The hunger for fame and eagerness to perform wild stunts hasn't escaped the notice of the medical community. Ruth Solomon, a dance medicine expert and professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said she frequently treats injuries sustained from ambitious tricks and overstretching and is astounded by the extremes to which young dancers push their bodies.

Even a split can be harmful, she said, and many young dancers push their legs far past the standard 180-degree angle.

Although young bodies are durable and quick to heal from injuries, the constant repetition of such strenuous movements causes instability in hip sockets and can lead to severe pain in the joints — as well as long-term conditions like deformities, dysplasia, and labral tears, she said.

"That drives us up the wall. We really do not support any reason to do splits," Solomon told Business Insider. "Most young people who are not trained in technique prior to trying to do these kinds of things really are very vulnerable to hip problems especially."

The data appears to agree with Solomon's assessment — the number of dance-related injuries being treated in US emergency rooms annually has been climbing for years, according to one 2013 study by the Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Between 1991 and 2007, the annual number of injuries in young dancers jumped by 37%, which is likely a wild underestimate, according to the study's lead author, Kristin Roberts. The study only had access to data from US emergency rooms and therefore didn't include injuries that were treated at home, by family doctors, or by private physiotherapists.

The causes of the increasing injury rate are even murkier, but social media trends, reality-TV shows, and video games that have helped popularize dance probably aren't too far off the mark, Roberts said.

Regardless of the root cause of the injuries, the popularity of these tricks defy all logic, Solomon said, especially because the solution is so simple: Stop performing movements the body isn't equipped to handle.

"I have no idea why this phenomenon has spouted up, except that it's a kind of entertainment without proper instruction," she said. "There are so many movements in the world that you could do. Why do something that might be deleterious?"

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It's rather astonishing that in six years of a reality competition show, only one major meltdown has occurred on "The Great British Bake Off."

By American reality TV standards, it's unheard of. Which is perfect because "The Great British Bake Off" is nothing like what you'll see on American reality TV.

"The show is sort of the opposite of everything that television is meant to be," executive producer Richard McKerrow told Business Insider. "There’s a basic, real kind, goodhearted nature which is at the center of the show."

"I think unfortunately, a lot of television, whether it’s in America or Britain, has a poor notion of the audience," he said. "They think they know what the audience wants. Let’s spoonfeed them reality shlock, and it’s just sort of the lowest common denominator and in a way that’s why a lot of television is struggling."

"The Great British Bake Off" certainly isn't struggling. In fact, it's thriving — so much so that its fifth season finale beat the 2014 World Cup final match in ratings by 1.4 million viewers.

How could a baking competition beat one of the biggest matches of the year? Let's break it down.

First, you might be confused about the name. On BBC, the show is called "The Great British Bake Off," but on PBS, it's called "The Great British Baking Show." McKerrow had a simple explanation:

"It’s because Pillsbury has the trademark," he confirmed.

There have been a total of six seasons of "The Great British Bake Off," but only the last three have aired on PBS as the first three seasons of "The Great British Baking Show." That's the complex stuff, but now it gets simple.

Hilarious and innuendo-loving British comedy duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins host the 10-week competition between 12 amateur bakers who are competing for nothing other than the glory of triumph and a fancy cake stand. There aren't any prizes hidden in the big white tent that the competition is held in on various grand British estates. They also vie to be each week's Star Baker, a title that means you were the best for the one week but doesn't necessarily guarantee you are safe the next.

Although, if you are Star Baker, you get a nice little toy sheriff's star to wear for the weekend. The badge almost goes entirely unnoticed.

Judges Paul Hollywood, an artisan baker, and Mary Berry, a beloved cookery writer, assess the bakers' skills after three challenges:

• The signature bake: The contestants are given a specific bread, cake, pudding, etc. to bake, but they are allowed to design and complete the recipe on their own accord and with their own flavor choices.
• The technical bake: The judges assign a more difficult recipe for the bakers to follow, though certain aspects are left out, such as the oven temperature or desired texture of the batter. 
• The showstopper: The bakers go all out in attempting to impress the judges with their creative and technical skills. Consider this when amateurs try to be a little like Buddy Valastro of "Cake Boss" or Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes." 

Probably the most raved about showstopper came from "Bake Off's" sixth season, when contestant Paul baked a fabulous "Bread Lion," seen below.

Even when nothing is technically at stake, the show is profoundly dramatic and entertaining — more so than cooking, McKerrow said.

It might be puzzling to think that baking can be dramatic, but watch an episode and you'll be on the edge of your couch waiting to see if the pattern turned out right or if the Swiss roll has enough layers. It's somehow very intense.

One key component of the drama is the way "Bake Off" is filmed. McKerrow described his team's style as "documentary sensibility."

"The frame of the program is artificial but what we’re about is it being completely real, not fake," he said. "It’s almost set up and plays out as proper reality rather than contrived reality. ... Then in the edit, you’re really treating it like a drama."

That's where McKerrow's "crumb cam," the close-up on the dishes, and that lovely string quartet comes into play. Are there any other reality programs that sound like a ballet or classical orchestra concert? Didn't think so.

"I sometimes watch it and it’s like endless foreplay," he said laughing. "I think great television has to be simple but then within that, all the complications can play out."

"Bake Off" also receives high marks for how, well, pleasant it is. The judges aren't like Gordon Ramsay, who screams and curses at his contestants on "Hell's Kitchen." Instead, they're more like teachers. They carefully explain that a certain pastry needs to have a golden crust or that the dough must be kneaded in a certain way to turn out properly.

They still honestly say if something is dry or has an infamous "soggy bottom," but they do so in a uncruel manner. 

"Paul and Mary, they’re delighted in the first place that people are baking, and they want to encourage them and make them better and help them develop their baking skills," McKerrow said. "You know if a teacher is cruel and strict and shouts at your students, it’s not the best way to learn and to improve."

But the education isn't solely learned by the contestants. Viewers too pick up on some tricks of the trade and come to understand how a proper macaron should look.

"We’re time poor so I’m only going to watch something if I learn from it and yet I also want to be entertained, so it’s trying to get that balance between programs which have real content where you feel like that was an hour well spent ... [and] feeling like you’re entertained," McKerrow noted.

The hour is also splendidly spent because no baker is trying to tear down a fellow contestant, unlike the common antics on "Cutthroat Kitchen" or just about any other American reality TV show with the "I'm not here to make friends" model.

The grandmas, photographers, doctors, single dads, young students (and even one body builder) aren't the typical competitors seen on TV.

"We took a decision early on that the bakers, they don’t leave their job for four weeks to come and shoot this series. They stay in their real life and their jobs," McKerrow said. "We shoot it every weekend because we figured then we’d just be getting people who want to be on television, and we’re not interested in people who want to be on television. We’re interested in people who want to bake. So again, it’s about making it much more real."

If McKerrow had to describe the show with one pastry, he chose a "proper" British Victoria sandwich: "creamy, fruity, [and] a family pleasing classic that seems straightforward but actually with the slightest error, can break your heart."

It also happened to be the first technical challenge from the show.

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The main point of "The Bachelorette" might be to see who she chooses to potentially marry at the end of the season, but sometimes the best part isn't even part of the show.

Wells Adams was a contestant on this current season, but after an awkward date in Buenos Aires, he was eliminated in week six.

Even though the radio dj is no longer part of the show — and I'll be honest, he was my favorite contestant from the start — he is still the best part of this season.

Wells has an amazing social media presence. Whether he's tweeting about the experience or sharing Instagram photos of awkward screencaps of the show, he's always on point.

And it's always fun to see the eliminated guys hanging out together. 

But even better than the rest is his Snapchat. He updates followers with his day-to-day life, but since being eliminated, he's been getting drunk, watching the show, and Snapchatting his reactions. It's brilliant.

Monday's episode saw JoJo go on the hometown dates with the remaining four guys, and Wells was along for the ride.

He asked the important questions, like, when Chase and his dad were talking, what was JoJo doing and what the dog's name was. He also admired the entire Rodgers clan's hair. These were all the same thoughts I had while watching the episode.

You can enjoy all of his drunken snaps from Monday below: 

See you during the Men Tell All episode on Tuesday, Wells. It'll be good to have you back.

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There's no denying "The Bachelorette's" Chad Johnson is a great villain, but why do we keep giving him screen time?

Short answer: great, entertaining television.

And I get that, but at this point, it's time to get him off of the screen and just let him go. He's incredibly offensive, and his brash actions are affecting real people.

Chad, a luxury real estate agent, was eliminated from the "Bachelorette" in week four, after making his roommate Derek so uncomfortable that he needed to move out, punching a door, ripping Evan's shirt, threatening to find Jordan after the show ended, and being confronted by JoJo about his violent tendencies.

In his reunion with the dudes and JoJo for Tuesday's Men Tell All episode, Chad was, obviously and unfortunately, the focal point of the night.

There was verbal fighting, and Chad threw jabs at everyone, including claiming Jordan just wants fame, posting photos hanging out and kissing other contestant's exes, and threatening dirt on James Taylor, who just might be the sweetest contestant this season.

And while Chad can claim that he's just being "real," his reality is problematic.

Rather than show that violent behavior and sexism should not be tolerated, the producers are using him for ratings purposes and are almost encouraging his behavior.

Here's why we've all had enough of him.

Chad has violent tendencies.

Chad has lashed out on multiple occasions, even though he may never have actually punched someone.

He verbally threatened Jordan and asked, "When you go home, you think I can't find you? You think I won't go out of my way to come to your house? I'm dead f---ing serious."

That may have been said to get a rise out of Jordan, but it's still a legitimate threat.

In another instance, he tells Alex he's mad that he can't punch him.

"It's just unfortunate that I can't hurt you right now without getting in trouble," Chad says.

One of the biggest beefs was between Chad and Evan.

The guys did stand-up comedy routines for one of the group dates. Evan took advantage of the moment to allege that Chad took steroids, which did not go over well with Chad. When Evan returned to his seat, he had to pass by Chad. After Evan gave a little push to move past Chad, Chad abruptly turned around, grabbed the back of Evan's shirt, and ripped it.

Now, I'll admit, after rewatching the altercation during the Men Tell All episode, Evan did give a slight shove, but Chad, who claimed he almost fell, didn't really seem to move much. I would say resorting to grabbing a guy isn't the best way to handle the situation, but Chad didn't leave it there.

He eventually bloodied his knuckles after punching a door in a burst of anger and then went back over to shove his hand in Evan's face.

While Wells, another contestant, admitted that the guys may have teamed up against him in a "Lord of the Flies" manner, Chad reacted to conflict with aggressive behavior, which was rather unwarranted and slightly terrifying.

He has made sexist comments.

While both on the show and after, Chad has continued to be a sexist.

During one of the group dates early on in the season, the guys were asked to say what they loved about JoJo. When JoJo asked Chad for his answer, he called her "naggy" and thought it was a funny joke. Excuse?

He claimed that he didn't have an answer for her, because he couldn't possibly know enough about her in a few short dates to say anything. Valid. But why call her naggy for asking you to play the reality TV show game? That's the whole point of going on the show. If you aren't into it, why do it in the first place? Or at least tell her what you've enjoyed talking about so far.

When JoJo eliminated him, his response was to say she "is either an actress or she's a complete [----], there's only two options." Oh, okay. Yeah, that's why she's not interested.

Since then, his Twitter has been filled with some cringe-worthy, sexist tweets.

Or maybe a girl can just travel on her own and do what she wants with her own life?

Following Men Tell All, Chad told ABC News that he was the villain because he was "real," and said, "If you fall in love with a girl right off the bat because of her looks, you'll do it again ... It's not about that. It's about aligning with somebody based on their personality." Again, that's valid, but it's not a sign of a good personality when a guy literally just comments about "hot girls."

Okay, there.

He just thrives on the attention.

It's hard to believe that Chad hasn't always been or isn't a total jerk, but since his portrayal on the show, he's continued to feed off of the attention.

That's not really surprising considering a look at his Twitter feed shows that he is self-assured and conceited.

In an interview with GQ, he revealed that he's moving to Los Angeles because he's now too busy to look through all of the "thousand" emails for his job in Tulsa. When "Million Dollar Listing" comes up as a suggestion, Chad doesn't turn it down.

"That's kind of what I'll have to do," he said. "To be honest, a real estate agent looking like me in Oklahoma is not a regular thing. No one wants to leave me at home with their wife."

Confidence is one thing, but then what's the point in attacking someone else?

During Men Tell All, Chad asked JoJo if he could say some things, wished her the best, and then dissed her final two choices with a villainous smirk on his face.

JoJo wasn't having it.

"Oh, I could go off right now," she said. "[But] it's not even worth my time. Because he loves this. This is what he wants. He loves the attention, and we're giving it to him, so he's not even worth my breath."

She got a standing O for that response from all the guys, and thanked all of them, except for Chad, for the respect they've given her.

Unfortunately, he's still getting the attention as he's going to be on the third season of "Bachelor in Paradise."

During the Men Tell All, viewers were given a brief glimpse at the upcoming "Paradise" season, premiering August 2.

Over a clip of Evan being placed in an ambulance and covered with an oxygen mask, contestants talk about Hurricane Chad and how he was unleashed.

Every time the producers cut montages of an injured Evan and an angry Chad together during "The Bachelorette," the two usually had nothing to do with each other. But even if that's still the case in "Paradise," that doesn't change the fact that at some point Chad goes off.

He is basically required to be followed by a security guard for the safety of others, and he definitely lays into host Chris Harrison.

"Chad, you're making this a lot worse than it has to be," a frustrated Chris tells him, security guard by his side.

"You went to sleep last night with a mimosa and a robe on," he replies. Cut to another screen, and Chad says, "F--- you, Chris Harrison."

Villains may make ratings go up, but this is dealing with real people, and it needs to stop.

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For the most part, people really don't know much about the individuals who feed us for a living.

Former "Bachelor" star Chris Soules recently told Business Insider that agriculture is one of the most important industries in the US, but that there's a serious "lack of knowledge about what farmers do."

Before appearing on reality television, Soules worked on his family's third generation farming operation, Soules Farms. The farm focuses on soybean and corn production, and also runs a hog raising operation.

Soules appeared as a contestant on season 10 of "The Bachelorette," ultimately finishing in third place. Dubbed "Prince Farming" by fans, he subsequently starred in season 19 of "The Bachelor." After that, he placed fifth on "Dancing with the Stars."

Soules says he first recognized the widespread misunderstanding about what farmers actually do during his stint on television.

"It fueled a fire for me," Soules says. "I wanted to be able to really speak on behalf of agriculture and utilize my platform to help educate others."

Soules says he wants to act as a spokesman for the farming industry in order to give back to the business that he cares about. Most recently, he appeared at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to advocate for agricultural issues like biofuels.

"It's really a blessing to be able to ... give people a glimpse into what farming techniques are like today and how farmers are probably not what they perceive," Soules says. "Many people don't see farmers as looking like me — they think, perhaps, more of somebody in denim overalls."

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Coming fast on the heels of "The Bachelorette," it's time for the premiere of "Bachelor in Paradise."

The show takes rejected contestants from previews "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" seasons and places them in a remote tropical locale in an effort to help them find love.

"Bachelor in Paradise" is returning for its third season, and while contestants will experience more broken hearts, it has found some success. One couple — Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert — ended the second season with an engagement and tied the knot four months later.

So there you have it, throw in some alcohol, paradise, and a ton of single people looking for love, and you've got the perfect recipe for a dynamic drama.

Check out what fans can expect when the third season premieres Tuesday night:

Chris Harrison doesn't get enough drama from hosting "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," so returns as host of "Bachelor in Paradise." As he told Entertainment Weekly, it is his "guilty pleasure."

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Former "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" contestants are shipped off to Mexico in the hopes of finding love. There are 16 hopefuls starting off this season — nine girls and seven guys.

They break off into couples to see who they might want to marry after a few weeks of getting to know each other.

There's no denying "The Bachelorette's" Chad Johnson is a great villain, but why do we keep giving him screen time?

Short answer: great, entertaining television.

And I get that, but at this point, it's time to get him off of the screen and just let him go. He's incredibly offensive, and his brash actions are affecting real people.

Chad, a luxury real estate agent, was eliminated from the "Bachelorette" in week four, after making his roommate Derek so uncomfortable that he needed to move out, punching a door, ripping Evan's shirt, threatening to find Jordan after the show ended, and being confronted by JoJo about his violent tendencies.

But he's been popping up on TV in various forms. 

In his reunion with the dudes and JoJo for the Men Tell All episode, Chad was, obviously and unfortunately, the focal point of the night. And now, he's on "Bachelor in Paradise," except hopefully not for long, because he was kicked off the show after the first episode! 

And while Chad can claim that he's just being "real," his reality is problematic.

As host Chris Harrison explained during "Paradise," when he was kicking him off, "In a matter of one night, you've turned this into hell." 

Here's why we've all had enough of him.

Chad has violent tendencies.

Chad has lashed out on multiple occasions, even though he may never have actually punched someone.

He verbally threatened Jordan and asked, "When you go home, you think I can't find you? You think I won't go out of my way to come to your house? I'm dead f---ing serious."

That may have been said to get a rise out of Jordan, but it's still a legitimate threat.

One of the biggest beefs was between Chad and Evan.

The guys did stand-up comedy routines for one of the group dates. Evan took advantage of the moment to allege that Chad took steroids, which did not go over well with Chad. When Evan returned to his seat, he had to pass by Chad who then abruptly turned around, grabbed the back of Evan's shirt, and ripped it.

Now, I'll admit, after rewatching the altercation during the Men Tell All episode, Evan did give a slight shove, but Chad, who claimed he almost fell, didn't really seem to move much. I would say resorting to grabbing a guy isn't the best way to handle the situation, but Chad didn't leave it there.

He eventually bloodied his knuckles after punching a door in a burst of anger and then went back over to shove his hand in Evan's face.

On "Paradise" he talked about wanting to "murder" everyone and wanting to "rip" Evan's head off. Again, even though he didn't physically attack anyone, he reacted to conflict with aggressive behavior, which was rather unwarranted and slightly terrifying.

He has made sexist comments.

While both on the show and after, Chad has continued to be a sexist.

During one of the group dates early on in the season, the guys were asked to say what they loved about JoJo. When JoJo asked Chad for his answer, he called her "naggy" and thought it was a funny joke. Excuse?

He claimed that he didn't have an answer for her, because he couldn't possibly know enough about her in a few short dates to say anything. Valid. But why call her naggy for asking you to play the reality TV show game? That's the whole point of going on the show. If you aren't into it, why do it in the first place?

When JoJo eliminated him, his response was to say she "is either an actress or she's a complete [----], there's only two options." Oh, okay. Yeah, that's why she's not interested.

And on "Paradise," he was even worse. He called Lace a "b----" multiple times and at one point says, "I will throw you under a bus and hold you down and duct-tie you up and make sure you smell like peppermint."

That's not cute. He actually got even worse when he verbally attacked Sarah for calling him out.

"F--- that one-armed bitch," he said to her. Sarah was born with only the upper half of her arm due to a condition known as amniotic band syndrome. "You suck that d---," he continued.

He posted a video apologizing after the fact, but that doesn't' change what he said in the first place. Chad is verbally abusive. 

His Twitter is no better.

Or maybe a girl can just travel on her own and do what she wants with her own life?

Following Men Tell All, Chad told ABC News that he was the villain because he was "real," and said, "If you fall in love with a girl right off the bat because of her looks, you'll do it again ... It's not about that. It's about aligning with somebody based on their personality." Again, that's valid, but it's not a sign of a good personality when a guy literally just comments about "hot girls."

He just thrives on the attention.

It's hard to believe that Chad hasn't always been or isn't a total jerk, but since his portrayal on the show, he's continued to feed off of the attention.

That's not really surprising considering a look at his Twitter feed shows that he is self-assured and conceited.

As Lace told him during "Paradise," he is "arrogant" and doesn't own up to any of his mistakes.

In an interview with GQ, he revealed that he's moving to Los Angeles because he's now too busy to look through all of the "thousand" emails for his job in Tulsa. When "Million Dollar Listing" comes up as a suggestion, Chad doesn't turn it down.

"That's kind of what I'll have to do," he said. "To be honest, a real estate agent looking like me in Oklahoma is not a regular thing. No one wants to leave me at home with their wife."

Confidence is one thing, but then what's the point in attacking someone else?

During Men Tell All, Chad asked JoJo if he could say some things, wished her the best, and then dissed her final two choices with a villainous smirk on his face.

JoJo wasn't having it.

"Oh, I could go off right now," she said. "[But] it's not even worth my time. Because he loves this. This is what he wants. He loves the attention, and we're giving it to him, so he's not even worth my breath."

She got a standing O for that response from all the guys, and thanked all of them, except for Chad, for the respect they've given her.

Unfortunately, previews for next week's "Bachelor in Paradise" still include a pissed-off Chad.

We've got a clip of Evan being placed in an ambulance and covered with an oxygen mask, as contestants talk about Hurricane Chad and how he was unleashed.

Every time the producers cut montages of an injured Evan and an angry Chad together during "The Bachelorette," the two usually had nothing to do with each other. But even if that's still the case in "Paradise," that doesn't change the fact that Chad doesn't make an easy exit.

Rather than just end the episode with Chad going, they are dragging it onto into presumably the first five minutes of the second episode.

Villains may make ratings go up, but this is dealing with real people, and it needs to stop. So here's to hoping that after this final exit, we've had enough.

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In his tart and devastating takedown of Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, Mike Bloomberg said: “This isn’t reality television – this is reality.”

But actually, it isn’t.

The election of 2016 is reality TV on a screen the size of a Montana sky, and if they gave out Emmys for Best Direction of a Political Series, Best Actor in an Unscripted Mega-Drama and Best Audience Manipulation, Trump would walk away with a fistful of statuettes.

Everyone in America has a different and often changing-by-the-day opinion of Trump. Pick your persona: He’s a clown in bad makeup, a brilliant businessman with a tower on Fifth Avenue, a flimflam man who fleeces the naïve, a tell-it-like-it-is patriot, a draft dodger who abuses Gold Star parents, a beloved dad with a gaggle of adoring kids, a crass misogynist, a candidate who speaks for his abandoned and fearful countrymen, an egomaniacal and dangerous fascist, a refreshing and honest voice vs. purveyors of stale Establishment pabulum and correctness, a hater of Mexicans and Muslims, a guy who believes in rules and just wants to keep our shores safe, a dunce who doesn’t understand geopolitics or trade or economics, a tough dude who will stand up to China, bring back jobs and make other nations pay up if they want the U.S. to police the world.

The possible interpretations of Trump are endless. But who doesn’t have one? The name “Trump” in Google’s search box produces 492,000,000 results.

“Folks,” as the man who loves the podium might say, “I must tell you, we’ve been played.”

For over a year, the nation has been riveted – whether in anger, nodding agreement, horror or bemusement – on The Donald Show, the most successful, can’t-look-away reality TV production in history.

The Kardashians for all their gender changes, naked selfies, contrived feuds and feverish pursuit of notoriety are pathetic amateurs compared with Trump.

He is a master at keeping all eyeballs glued upon him, and he does it with an instinctive feel for what makes emotion-churning political theater.

It has been said that Trump the director has borrowed from World Wrestling productions with their bombast and caricatures. And it’s true that he loves to create battles with evil or wildly flawed opponents -- whether it’s “pathological” Ben Carson, “lyin” Ted Cruz, “crooked” Hillary Clinton or the diabolical media – and build sometimes fantastical story lines. But pro wrestling is highly scripted and fake-y.

The Donald Show is almost completely unscripted, usually non-linear and entirely real.

Trump almost effortlessly introduces new plot twists, shocking developments, fresh characters to love or hate, gasp-inducing moments and tune-in-tomorrow cliffhangers. 

Until the recently deposed Roger Ailes, the canny architect of Fox News, surfaces someplace else, Trump can rightly claim the crown as king of political media.

And the network suits have celebrated his success.

Last February, CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves made the now notorious pronouncement about the Trump candidacy: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.”

But The Donald Show hasn’t just driven ratings and revenue: It may have changed modern American politics.

For one thing, Trump has awakened the electorate, and he has been a one-man, bring-out-the-vote machine. In 2016 about 7 million more Americans voted in the GOP primaries than in 2012, for a total of 28.5 million (with 13.3 million of those votes for Trump).

More important, whatever you think of Trump, he has put professional politicians on notice that if they want to engage voters, they can’t keep feeding them the same bromide-laced swill that the country has been forced to swallow for too many election years.

That’s the new reality.

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Outrageous, dramatic, instructional, and even touching reality shows have grown into a huge business in the past two decades.

According to National Geographic Channel's numbers, there were 350 new primetime unscripted series on cable television last year.

Clearly, interest in reality TV isn't going anywhere, but critics of the genre are quick to dismiss these hit shows by calling them "scripted" or "fake."

"I've never worked on a scripted reality series. Good luck trying to get f---ing reality talent to do anything scripted, because they're so difficult. So I don't even know what that means, that accusation," one producer of several reality shows, including Bravo's "Real Housewives" franchise, told Business Insider on condition of anonymity.

"There is a cliché that the truth is stranger than fiction. And on reality, I have consistently found that to be the case," Sean Dash, who has produced nonfiction series, including Discovery Channel's "Bering Sea Gold" and "Deadliest Catch," told Business Insider.

"I think the issue often is your viewer cannot believe what they're seeing because it can be so ridiculous or so absurd, but it is actually, literally, exactly what had happened," Dash said.

The issue often is your viewer cannot believe what they're seeing because it can be so ridiculous or so absurd, but it is actually, literally, exactly what had happened.

"I certainly see that plenty of times on the shows that I've worked on, and I go see the comments and I just laugh because yes, that did happen. That genuinely was a father and son rolling around the dirt fighting. That's them; that's not us."

That doesn't mean the shows just stand back and film. The producers we talked to say there is definitely a story they're trying to tell. That can take skill to pull off, and some maneuvering when things don't go as planned.

"As a reality producer, you're dealing with real people with their own minds that have their own images that they want to control or they want to be seen. We don't always know what we're going to get," said producer Rahel Tennione, whose credits range from "Real Housewives" to dating shows like "Tough Love," competitions shows including "The Real Gilligan's Island," and serious docuseries like FX's "Black. White."

Business Insider talked to producers about the behind-the-scenes secrets that go into creating the drama you see on successful reality shows. Here are some of the trade secrets behind TV's most popular reality shows.

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It all starts with casting.

Obviously, a reality show hinges on the people involved. That's where a show can be made or broken.

"We look for people who have really interesting stories to tell who won't shut down on camera, who are outgoing, dynamic personalities, or willing to expose themselves a little bit, for lack of a better term," the anonymous producer said.

Dash said that not everyone on a show gets equal footing. Many times, the cast needs someone who shines above and beyond the others.

"Frankly, you're looking for a star," he said. "You're looking for somebody to hang the show on. And that is such an intangible quality, because people can be incredibly dynamic when you're sitting with them across the table, but they fall flat on screen. And the opposite can happen. You really have to put them on camera to know. But you're looking for somebody that you just cannot take your eyes off of."

Producers are prepared to cut a cast member.

Many reality shows with ensemble casts will bring in more people than they need, because it's hard to tell if someone will fall flat. In those cases, producers try to help the struggling cast member out.

"One thing I like to tell my casts sometimes is, 'Look, I want you to have a story and if so-and-so is showing up for more scenes, they're going to naturally get more screen time, and they're going to tell your story and you'll have less of a voice to tell your story. It's better to be present and show up and have some screen time. The last thing you want is for someone else to tell your story,'" the anonymous producer said.

"You do everything you possibly can to try to bring out the best of them," Dash said. "You try to see who it would be good to pair them up with, who do they bounce off with naturally, what tends to spark them."

But sometimes it's a lost cause. "Real Housewives" is known to bring in extra women who attend shoots alongside the other ladies. And by the end of shooting, it becomes clear whether they've earned a place in the opening credits.

"If somebody just doesn't deliver, they just begin naturally to fade because the edit bay, honestly, is a meritocracy," Dash said. "The best characters win out and the best stories win out. People who don't deliver just end up on the cutting-room floor."

You have to get inside the reality stars' heads.

In Lifetime's hit "Unreal," which parodies the production of a "Bachelor"-like reality show, producers constantly coax their contestants. The truth is that's a very big part of creating the drama you see on reality TV.

"I like to be like an assassin. I'll try to subtly get the story way before the scene," the anonymous producer told us. "I'll put it into their heads so they think about it organically. I'll trick them. Basically, I'll sort of give them story beats a couple days in advance or remind them what's happening in real life and what we want to see in a subtle way, so they don't know I'm doing it."

Sure, that sounds underhanded, but it can actually turn out to be cathartic for a cast member who may not want to handle confrontation, or who's trying to figure out what's bothering them, according to the producers.

"You simply prompt them and you say, 'Hey, so-and-so, I know you feel this way, tell him about that,'" Dash said. "In a weird way, you're doing on-camera therapy, but all you're actually doing is bringing out the tension that exists between these two people and letting them talk it out. I know this sounds bizarre, but I have seen relationships actually improve because of the intervention of the show in people's lives."

It's rather astonishing that in six years of a reality competition show, only one major meltdown has occurred on "The Great British Bake Off."

By American reality TV standards, it's unheard of. Which is perfect because "The Great British Bake Off" is nothing like what you'll see on American reality TV.

"The show is sort of the opposite of everything that television is meant to be," executive producer Richard McKerrow told Business Insider. "There’s a basic, real kind, goodhearted nature which is at the center of the show."

"I think unfortunately, a lot of television, whether it’s in America or Britain, has a poor notion of the audience," he said. "They think they know what the audience wants. Let’s spoonfeed them reality shlock, and it’s just sort of the lowest common denominator and in a way that’s why a lot of television is struggling."

"The Great British Bake Off" certainly isn't struggling. In fact, it's thriving — so much so that its season-five finale beat the 2014 World Cup final match in ratings by 1.4 million viewers. The show airs its season-six finale in the UK Friday night (and the season-three finale in the US the same night).

How could a baking competition beat one of the biggest sports events of the year? Let's break it down.

First, you might be confused about the name. On BBC, the show is called "The Great British Bake Off," but on PBS, it's called "The Great British Baking Show." McKerrow had a simple explanation:

"It’s because Pillsbury has the trademark," he confirmed.

There have been a total of six seasons of "The Great British Bake Off," but only the last three have aired on PBS as the first three seasons of "The Great British Baking Show." That's the complex stuff, but now it gets simple.

Hilarious and innuendo-loving British comedy duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins host the 10-week competition among 12 amateur bakers who are competing for nothing other than the glory of triumph and a fancy cake stand. There aren't any prizes hidden in the big white tent that the competition is held in, located on various grand British estates. They also vie to be each week's Star Baker, a title that means you were the best for the one week but doesn't necessarily guarantee you are safe the next.

Although, if you are Star Baker, you get a nice little toy sheriff's star to wear for the weekend. The badge almost goes entirely unnoticed.

Judges Paul Hollywood, an artisan baker, and Mary Berry, a beloved cookery writer, assess the bakers' skills after three challenges:

• The signature bake: The contestants are given a specific bread, cake, pudding, etc. to bake, but they are allowed to design and complete the recipe on their own accord and with their own flavor choices.
• The technical bake: The judges assign a more difficult recipe for the bakers to follow, though certain aspects are left out, such as the oven temperature or desired texture of the batter. 
• The showstopper: The bakers go all out in attempting to impress the judges with their creative and technical skills. Consider this when amateurs try to be a little like Buddy Valastro of "Cake Boss" or Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes." 

Probably the most raved-about showstopper came from "Bake Off's" sixth season, when contestant Paul baked a fabulous "Bread Lion," seen below.

Even when nothing is technically at stake, the show is profoundly dramatic and entertaining — more so than cooking, McKerrow said.

It might be puzzling to think that baking can be dramatic, but watch an episode and you'll be on the edge of your couch waiting to see if the pattern turned out right or if the Swiss roll has enough layers. It's somehow very intense.

One key component of the drama is the way "Bake Off" is filmed. McKerrow described his team's style as "documentary sensibility."

"The frame of the program is artificial but what we’re about is it being completely real, not fake," he said. "It’s almost set up and plays out as proper reality rather than contrived reality... Then in the edit, you’re really treating it like a drama."

That's where McKerrow's "crumb cam," the close-up on the dishes, and that lovely string quartet come into play. Are there any other reality programs that sound like a ballet or classical orchestra concert? Didn't think so.

"I sometimes watch it and it’s like endless foreplay," he said laughing. "I think great television has to be simple but then within that, all the complications can play out."

"Bake Off" also receives high marks for how, well, pleasant it is. The judges aren't like Gordon Ramsay, who screams and curses at his contestants on "Hell's Kitchen." Instead, they're more like teachers. They carefully explain that a certain pastry needs to have a golden crust or that the dough must be kneaded in a certain way to turn out properly.

They still honestly say if something is dry or has an infamous "soggy bottom," but they do so in an uncruel manner. 

"Paul and Mary, they’re delighted in the first place that people are baking, and they want to encourage them and make them better and help them develop their baking skills," McKerrow said. "You know if a teacher is cruel and strict and shouts at your students, it’s not the best way to learn and to improve."

But the education isn't solely for the contestants. Viewers too pick up on some tricks of the trade and come to understand how a proper macaron should look.

"We’re time-poor so I’m only going to watch something if I learn from it and yet I also want to be entertained, so it’s trying to get that balance between programs which have real content where you feel like that was an hour well spent ... [and] feeling like you’re entertained," McKerrow said.

The hour is also splendidly spent because no baker is trying to tear down a fellow contestant, unlike the common antics on "Cutthroat Kitchen" or just about any other American reality TV show with the "I'm not here to make friends" model.

The grandmas, photographers, doctors, single dads, young students (and even one body builder) aren't the typical competitors seen on TV.

"We took a decision early on that the bakers, they don’t leave their job for four weeks to come and shoot this series. They stay in their real life and their jobs," McKerrow said. "We shoot it every weekend because we figured then we’d just be getting people who want to be on television, and we’re not interested in people who want to be on television. We’re interested in people who want to bake. So again, it’s about making it much more real."

If McKerrow had to describe the show with one pastry, it would be a "proper" British Victoria sandwich: "creamy, fruity, [and] a family-pleasing classic that seems straightforward but actually with the slightest error, can break your heart."

It also happened to be the first technical challenge from the show.

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Eight years ago, high school teacher Bob Crowley was sleeping on the jungle floor.

These days, he charges others to do (more or less) the same.

Crowley, the winner of the 17th season of "Survivor" and the oldest person to take home the prize, used part of his $1 million award to build a campground outside Portland, Maine. His retreat offers peace and quiet in the great outdoors — though not without creature comforts.

"I would say we lean towards 'glamping,'" Crowley, 65, tells Business Insider.

Guests shouldn't expect to rough it at Maine Forest Yurts quite as much as Crowley did on the show.

In 2008, Crowley spent his summer break from teaching physics in Maine stranded in the rainforest of the central African nation of Gabon. A self-described hybrid of Indiana Jones and Robinson Crusoe, the natural outdoorsman set out to prove nice guys can win on "Survivor."

He played fairly. He formed alliances and kept them. And he won three consecutive immunity challenges, helping him "outwit, outplay, and outlast" his competition. Crowley returned to his native Maine with $1 million.

After paying off bills and setting aside funds for taxes, Crowley and his wife, Peggy, looked to the hospitality industry to start the next chapter of their lives.

During their 30-plus years living in South Portland, the couple came to acquire some 100 acres of remote Maine woods. The thickly forested land surrounds a pond, and in winter, you can't make out a single house through the trees. The family would visit and cook hot dogs and beans over open fires. Otters, beavers, kingfishers, and a couple of eagles also call it home.

In the winter of 2013, the family constructed their first yurt — a circular, portable tent used by the nomadic people in Central Asia for thousands of years (and now favored by glamping resorts and hippies alike). Crowley's three yurts feature hardwood flooring, a wood stove for warmth, a gas stove for cooking, and furniture Crowley built using wood found on the property. Natural light radiates out from the center.

Guests pay $125 a night to rent a yurt. The company sells out through summer.

"Glamping," or glamorous camping, has caught on in recent years. People who want to enjoy nature without buying camping equipment or getting dirty enjoy the five-star accommodations that glamping provides. 

At Maine Forest Yurts, accessibility trumps luxury on the list of priorities.

The resort welcomes school groups, active military and veterans, and non-profit groups, like the Special Olympics, to stay in yurts for free. It manages to do so through an annual fundraising event called the Durham Warriors Project, where applicants from across the country (including some former "Survivor" contestants) compete in challenges inspired by the show. Their donations fund over 100 guests' stays annually.

Crowley loves entertaining guests with stories of his adventures in Gabon as he tours them around the property. But "Survivor" fans make up only about 10% of the guests, he says.

Life in rural Maine suits Crowley. But he wouldn't say no if CBS asked him to return to "Survivor" for a later reunion season.

"I would hang up this phone and run right out the door," Crowley says.

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The first time I watched a person hop across a bunch of bright blue pillars before gloriously falling into a pool of water below, my first thought was: how did he get there?

It turned out, "American Ninja Warrior" is really, really popular. In the show, contestants subject themselves to insane-looking obstacle courses, trying to get across a complicated, cartoonish terrain as fast as they can. It's kind of like what Mario has to go through to get past Bowser and save Peach in her castle.

Like many game shows, the behind-the-scenes of "America Ninja Warrior" are just as fascinating as what you see on screen. Here are the answers to all the unexpected and obscure parts of being on "American Ninja Warrior."

INSIDER spoke with two contestants from season 8, Akiva Neuman and Logan Broadbent, to tell us about the unexpected and obscure parts about being on the show.

1. It's really easy to apply.

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The show doesn't scout for contestants. Like most other reality television shows, people can just apply 

There's an online form that you fill out, and applicants also send in a video of themselves.

The form asks for the type of information you'd expect. It asks for health information, like your height and weight, and it asks whether you've been on any game shows before and have any experience as a professional athlete.

It also asks questions about your past that can be used to figure out how interesting you might be as a character on the show, like "What was the worst job you ever had?", "What is the most difficult/devastating non-athletic thing you've ever gone through?", and "Tell us something about yourself that we wouldn’t know just by looking at you."

2. They don't just want a bunch of athletes.

For the video, the show wants contestants to show how physically impressive they are, but also to appear as an interesting human being. "Let your personality shine through,"the guidelines recommend.

They want someone with a good story, not just a jock. Akiva Neuman, a contestant in season 8, is a rabbi-in-training. 

"They take some older people, like that are in their sixties and seventies," Neuman told INSIDER. "They could be very strong, but the odds of them actually competing the course is slim... They took a guy who served in the army and he had lost a leg. He got 'till like the fourth obstacle."

Logan Broadbent, another contestant on that episode, is a professional athlete — but an offbeat one. He's on the United States boomerang team.

"I've been competing on boomerang competitions since before I could walk," Broadbent said. "So I guess that was a bit of a hook."

3. You only get two weeks' advance warning before the show.

"I figured there were 75,000 applying to this thing, so I didn't really expect a call," Broadbent said. About two weeks before the competition, a producer called him to ask him to be a contestant on the show.

To prepare, Broadbent changed his usual workout regiment to emphasize grip strength, doing more rock climbing, which would be better for the obstacle courses.

"I started watching previous seasons to see what obstacles have been done, and what I should be working on — from balance, to strength, to agility," Broadbent said. "I started practicing all those techniques."

Pulling off a $10 million dollar jewel heist is one thing — but finding a buyer is another, say experts, predicting that the robbers who targeted Kim Kardashian would struggle to dispose of their loot.

Kardashian, the world's highest paid reality television star, was held up at gunpoint in a luxury Paris apartment in the early hours of Monday.

The robbers made off with a ring worth four million euros ($4.5 million) and a case of jewellery with a value of five million euros ($5.6 million).

Sandrine Marcot, acting president of the French union of jewellers and watchmakers, said the value of the haul would "crash" due to the media hype around the heist and the recognisability of the stolen goods.

"Everyone knows that ring. It won't be easy to get rid of it," a police source said.

Last week, Kardashian had posted a Twitter photograph of her left hand sporting a huge diamond sparkler -- reportedly a 20-carat ring by Lorraine Schwartz given to her by her husband, rap superstar Kanye West.

"These are not everyday jewels. These are unique pieces," Marcot told AFP, predicting the spoils of the raid would be cut into smaller gems to conceal their origin.

Precious stones often come stamped with a laser mark, making them "extremely easy to trace", Marcot said. 

Some laser marks are so deep they are impossible to cover up but others can be concealed by savvy polishing, making the stone "difficulty to identify, unlike, for example, a stolen painting," the police source said.

In most cases, the robbers work with several intermediaries, including a shady jeweller in charge of whittling down the gem into less conspicuous stones.

But a gem that has been recut is worth only a fraction of its initial value. 

Kardashian's ring could lose three-quarters of its value after being reworked, according to police.

And yet despite the difficulty in disposing of eye-popping jewels, they still exert a powerful pull on thieves, with Monday's robbery the latest in a string of brazen heists around France in recent years.

"You will always have customers who want stones or to melt down the metal," the police expert explained.

Just stealing precious gems and rendering them unrecognisable does not make for the perfect crime, however.

Robbers also need to have connections in the jewellery business to get a good price for their spoils.

The gang that walked into the exclusive Harry Winston store in Paris in 2008 disguised as women, walking away with loot worth up to 85 million euros, failed miserably at the final hurdle.

Knowing nothing about jewellery, the leader of the gang from the Paris suburbs entrusted the sale to a friend.

His friend's gem trading acumen proved rudimentary. In four deals, he managed to amass only 483,000 euros.

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Donald Trump allegedly referred to Khloé Kardashian as a "fat piglet" and made other derogatory remarks about her before firing her from "The Apprentice" in 2009, The Huffington Post reports. 

Multiple sources from the show's staff told the outlet that Trump complained off-camera about Kardashian's looks and was eager to remove the reality star from the show because of her appearance. 

Trump asked the show's producers, "Why don’t we fire Khloé? She is a fat piglet. Why did we get the ugly Kardashian?" according to one of the show's editors. 

Another one of "The Apprentice" editors told the outlet that "When they fired [Kardashian], it wasn’t on merit ... It was on [Trump] not liking her." 

Trump's reported derogatory comments about Kardashian aren't the first we've heard of Trump's crass behavior on the set of "The Apprentice." Sources from the show recently told The Daily Beast that Trump once called deaf actress Marlee Matlin "retarded" in the 2011 season of "The Celebrity Apprentice."

Trump's behavior and language toward women have come under increasing scrutiny recently following the leak of a 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape in which he bragged about groping women without consent. Multiple women have come forward with allegations that Trump sexually assaulted them.

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Though no explosive Donald Trump tapes have yet emerged from "The Apprentice," editors are sharing what they remember of cutting together the show and its former host, now of course the Republican presidential nominee.

CineMontage, a journal for the Motion Picture Editors Guild, talked to editors who worked on the NBC reality show, who say that the image of Donald Trump "was carefully crafted and manufactured in postproduction to feature a persona of success, leadership, and glamour, despite the raw footage of the reality star that was often 'a disaster.'"

"We were told to not show anything that was considered too much of a 'peek behind the curtain,'" one editor, Jonathon Braun, told CineMontage.

The editors say one of their biggest challenges was in the boardroom, making Trump's often whimsical decisions about who was fired instead look "legitimate."

"Trump would often make arbitrary decisions which had nothing to do with people’s merit," an anonymous editor said. "He'd make decisions based on whom he liked or disliked personally, whether it be for looks or lifestyle, or he'd keep someone that 'would make good TV' [according to Trump]."

This required creative editing to set up the firings in a way that would make them seem logical, according to the sources, and while manipulative editing is standard in reality TV, this was apparently on another level.

Trump also reportedly had issues with facts — changing the amount of his net worth from scene to scene or misstating the number of show applicants — and the editors had to fix the mistakes.

All of it was part of an overall mission to make Trump looks as good as possible and keep his brand of success intact.

As for the kind of vulgar comments heard in the leaked "Access Hollywood" video from 2005, Braun recalls one particular refrain.

“Trump’s favorite word was ‘drill,’” Braun said. “He was always saying between takes, ‘I’d like to drill her,’ lewdly referring to female crew members working on set. He couldn’t help himself making comments about women and the way they looked. He also had comments about women he found less attractive. There was no question he took the men a lot more seriously than the women.”

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While he made news for refusing to accept the presidential election results, Donald Trump won't even concede to losing the Emmy race — twice.

During Wednesday's presidential debate, Hillary Clinton apparently hit a soft spot for the real-estate mogul when she highlighted his history of alleging that the election is "rigged," and furthermore his history of calling contests generally rigged if they don't go his way. That even touched on his time hosting "The Apprentice."

"There was even a time when he didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row," she said. "He started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged."

To which Trump interjected, "I should've gotten it."

In response, the Television Academy, which awards the Emmys, responded to Trump's accusations on Wednesday night, along with an infographic showing how an Emmy is won.

NBC's "The Apprentice"was nominated for eight Emmys, two of which were for outstanding reality competition in 2004 and 2005 (so Clinton was slightly off when she said it was three years). It lost on both occasions to CBS's "The Amazing Race."

He actually complained about the 2004 loss on "The Apprentice" about 11 years later on a January 19, 2015 episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"I got screwed out of an Emmy," Trump said on the episode. "Everybody thought I was going to win it. In fact, when they announced the winner, I stood up before the winner was announced. And I started walking for the Emmy. And then they announced the most boring show on television, [CBS's] 'The Amazing Race.' Piece of crap."

So in the event that Trump loses the presidential election, he could keep us waiting a long while for his concession speech.

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If you live in London or are familiar with British TV, chances are you've caught at least one episode of E4's "Made in Chelsea."

Claiming to be a "reality series following the lives, loves and awks of SW3's bright young things," the show documents the goings-on of a group of rich twenty-somethings living in posh West London areas like Belgravia, the Kings Road and Knightsbridge. Just how much "reality" happens inside "Made in Chelsea" is open to debate.

So Business Insider caught up with Hugo Taylor, a previous cast member who came up with the idea for the programme, to ask him what really goes on behind the scenes.

"I was working in L.A. and was just being a bum with the guys who were on 'The Hills' and a couple of others who knew them," Taylor said. "They all worked in party promotion and were on the most popular TV program in America. I thought, there’s no reason why this wouldn’t work in the UK."

When Taylor returned to London, he shot a pilot with MTV who passed on the concept.

"About a year and a half later, Channel 4 called me and said they were doing a show set in Chelsea, and they had two of the original cast which I’d had in my pilot," Taylor said.

So in 2011, he began filming the show with Channel 4, a "fly-on-the-wall drama" following the love lives, arguments and parties of his friends who were (and still are) constantly visiting London's best restaurants, bars, shops and club openings.

"We thought it was going to be a real hit, and it was," he said. "I think the main reason the show got so much traction in the first few seasons was the original cast – we all knew each other, and had known each other for 10 years at that point. We had a long history."

The show, now in its 12th series, even won a BAFTA in 2013 in the Reality and Structured Factual Category, and has filmed entire series abroad in glamorous vacation destinations.

However, in 2012, Taylor dropped out of the show.

"It just stopped being attractive to be nearing the later part of your 20s talking about makeups and breakups," he said.

In 2013 he and close friend Charlie Morris launched their Taylor Morris sunglasses label. 

"When we started the business, every time a newspaper wrote about us it was always about "'Made in Chelsea'’s Hugo Taylor and best friend Charlie Morris,' and we needed to change that," Taylor said.

"It was never an ambition to be a reality star. I wanted to be a businessman."

He added that while the first "three or four seasons" were "really real," this has started to change on the show.

"I live with the girl on the show who I was with six years ago," Taylor said, referring to Millie Mackintosh. "It had to be real to me otherwise it wasn't worth doing, but there were definitely moments where we were like, 'We don’t have an argument to have today, can we find something to jam it up? Of course we can.' It gave us all a chance to develop our awful acting skills."

He said he stopped watching the show when his best friend, Spencer Matthews, also made the decision to leave.

"Now it's completely fabricated," he said. "The guys are completely characterless fops, it’s ridiculous."

"The people are there to make cash off of it," he added. "I definitely got into it to make money, but we had to fight to get there, rather than like what they do now."

However, he said that the original cast are all still great friends, and that being involved was "fun while it lasted."

"You live and die by the sword," he said. "We all got together the other day. Ollie Proudlock works in fashion now, Caggie is living out in LA, Millie and I are living together and Spencer is my best friend and we see each other every day."

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There's a widely held conviction among people who support Donald Trump for president that goes something like this: Despite some of the more wacky things he says, or a lack of specific policy proposals, they say, "He's a successful businessman."

When CNN's Poppy Harlow recently talked to voters in Ohio, a swing state that's struggling economically, she heard that line "a lot." Harlow asked one woman what about Trump's career made her confident that he's a "successful businessman."

"First of all, he had a television show," the woman said.

She was of course talking about "The Apprentice," the NBC reality show hosted by Trump that was a giant hit when it premiered in 2004 and is still very much at the core of his appeal to his voters (though after 14 seasons, he's now off the show for good). I'd argue it's even the principal reason he's been able to become the Republican nominee for president.

Of course, Trump was famous long before "The Apprentice," as a colorful New York City real-estate figure, one who was known at least as much for his failures, extravagant lifestyle, eccentric behavior, and checkered romantic history as for his accumulated assets. A 1991 feature in Spy magazine summed him up with the headline, "How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time: How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the Bondholders, and Used the Bondholders to Pay for the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses."

"The Apprentice" made Trump a national pop-culture figure way beyond New York tabloids and glossy magazines, but more importantly, it promoted a different view of Trump: a confident but measured businessman who knew how to spot a good deal and foster success, and when to cut someone loose with a simple, "You're fired."

What you learn about Trump on 'The Apprentice'

I recently rewatched the very first episode of "The Apprentice." Seen in retrospect, it almost looks like a roadmap for Trump's campaign strategy in 2016.

The show starts with Trump introducing the business world of New York City, "the real jungle," where you can "make it big." The implication is that Trump owns this city.

"My name is Donald Trump, and I'm the largest real estate developer in New York," he tells the camera from the back of a limo.

In fact, he wasn't and isn't. The claim, often made by Trump, has been widely debunked. "He's a dear friend of mine, but it wouldn't be accurate for him to say that,'' Richard S. LeFrak, a scion of one of New York's most active real estate families, told The New York Times in 2004. The New York Observer, owned by Trump's son-in-law, ranked him as the 14th most powerful person in New York real estate in 2011.

"The Apprentice" touts Trump's properties, from resorts and residences to Miss Universe. It mentions the "billions of dollars in debt" Trump once faced in the early '90s, but he tells us, "I fought back and won, big-league" (a taste of an expression that's become commonplace from him). He also says his company is "stronger than ever." It's a trajectory he also promotes on the campaign trail.

At the time of the show's premiere, however, Trump's Atlantic City casino holdings were burdened by $2 billion in bond debt that they struggled to repay, according to The New York Times, which goes unmentioned in the first episode of "The Apprentice." (Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts sought bankruptcy protection in 2004 and Trump's stake in the company was reduced.)

"The Apprentice" repeatedly spouts superlatives including Trump calling his name the "highest-quality brand" with no evidence. "The Apprentice" was a show under NBC Entertainment, not its news division, and Trump was hardly running for office. As on most reality shows, fact-checking was less than rigorous.

How Donald Trump thinks about women

Most of "The Apprentice" runs on the high-concept gimmicks of your usual reality competition. Sixteen people compete in silly weekly tasks that have little to do with the work of a business executive for the "dream job of a lifetime." Trump's "boardroom" is actually a studio, and it's made to look darker than a movie mob hangout.

But Trump's personality plays a crucial role in the middle of all this. His commentary is peppered with themes that have popped up again and again in the current election.

For example, Trump's treatment of women adds a strange flavor to the competition.

"Women have a tougher time in the workplace — or so they say," Trump tells his mix of male and female contestants. (He eventually splits them up into separate teams of men vs. women, in a gender war that admittedly makes for entertaining TV.)

"I'll tell you, they're looking awfully good, fellas," Trump says of the female team to the men.

The gimmick of the first episode is that the teams have to sell lemonade on the street. One woman gives her phone number to a man in exchange for buying a cup of lemonade, and later admits, "I was surpised that, yeah, I did use sex to sell lemonade."

The women win.

Trump is 'like really, really rich'

The prize of the winning team on the first "Apprentice" episode is that they get to go to Trump's penthouse home in his Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

The women are impressed from the moment they see the giant, sparkling gold front door.

"This is, like, rich. Like really, really rich," one says.

"When we went up to Donald's apartment, words can't describe how beautiful it was. Everything you saw was breathtaking," another says to the camera afterward.

To me and I suspect many people, Donald Trump's home looks a little ridiculous. There's an indoor fountain. Nearly every surface of the apartment is plated in gold. It's hard to imagine how you wouldn't get dizzy living in it.

But the contestants are floored. This is the life they want.

"If you're really successful, you'll all live just like this," Trump tells them.

"We can only wish," one contestant says.

Trump has been making a similar pitch to the American people since launching his presidential campaign in 2015: that he can help out those who have fallen on hard times because he knows how the system works. He can help you live more like him.

"The Apprentice" put together the best possible version of Trump it could. The "successful businessman" you see is a TV fantasy, and one the show sold well. Editors on the show have described how they stitched together the footage. Trump's role was reportedly "carefully crafted and manufactured in postproduction to feature a persona of success, leadership, and glamour, despite the raw footage of the reality star that was often 'a disaster.'" Editors claim that on the set, Trump had trouble reciting facts and talked about how he'd like to "drill" female crew members.

"We were told to not show anything that was considered too much of a 'peek behind the curtain,'" Jonathon Braun, a supervising editor on the first six seasons of the show, said.

That strategy has served Trump well. Without "The Apprentice" and the carefully curated image of Trump it insinuated into millions of American homes, it's hard to imagine how Trump could have ever sold the American people on his ultimate pitch: becoming president.

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