Keep the flying saucer balloon boy parents off of that show. They were on it a while back. Let them do a reality show about their 90-day jail sentence. .
I heard that one of the judge's conditions was that they weren't allowed to make any kind of reality show.
True, to some extent. They got 5 years probation and can't capitalize financially off the balloon incident. They could do some other stuff though. .
Man. That astronaut who stalked and attacked a women got only one year probation if I remember right and no actual time in jail. The balloon parents got 5 years probation. .
I would have gave them jail time for wasting all those tax dollars on a fake rescue....probation in my mind is for kids
The balloon boy father got 90 days in jail. The mother got 20 days. They also have to pay $30K+ restitution for the rescue but not the full $40k+. I don't remember the exact figures. That incident is symbolic of the blur between reality and fantasy that U.S. culture seems to be falling into in recent years. .
Someone said that the balloon boy father is known to have a short fuse and threw a glass of milk in someone's face during the taping of Wife Swap when he and the wife were on that show. .
Reality TV is the ultimate money maker for the TV industry. It's not a fully-scripted well-rehearsed show with talented well-paid actors like old school shows. It's also not like the old school reality shows either, such as Candid Camera or the early 80s Real People. Those shows involved camera crews traveling across the country and filming real events. That takes money, creativity, planning, hard work, etc. Who wants to do that? The ultimate is having some cheap 'actors', slapping a show together on a shoestring budget in a manner just good enough to trick the general people into thinking it's not contrived, and making as much money off it as possible. .
My husband and I went through casting for Wife Swap and I was two weeks away from flying out for the swap and we got dropped. When I watched the season we were supposed to be on I figured out what family replaced us, they were not nearly as cool as us I have to admit I am a reality tv junkie.
