Reality TV Shows That Lied Straight To Your Face

#1 Storage Wars

In 2012, Dave Hester from Storage Wars sued the A&E Network for wrongful termination. In his suit, he claimed the show was committing fraud against the audience and alleged that every aspect of the series was fake.

#2 Planting Items

Hester told the courts that the producers would 'salt' or plant storage units with valuable items to make the show more interesting.

#3 Settlement Reached With A&E

Hesters suit said he wasn't asked back to host season 4 after he complained about the fraudulent practices and sued. After reaching a settlement with the network he was hosting again in season 5, though still maintains that the valuable objects found in the units are not those actually left behind by storage renters.

#4 Cash Cab

You can never actually hail Discovery Channels 'Cash Cab' because it doesn't exist. At least not for hurried passengers.

#5 It's All Staged

Former contestants claim the show is even more staged than one would imagine. All riders are screened before hand and their destinations are routed out before the cab starts rolling. Every passenger/contestant knows that they will be riding in the cab and playing the game before they get inside.

#6 No Money Exchanges Hands

Some of the scenes are actually filmed before after the actual game portion and the players don't get to keep the money handed to them. Instead, they give it back to 'cabbie' Ben Bailey and wait for a check to arrive in the mail.

#7 Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Everyone already knows this show is fake, and at the least, some of the story lines are enhanced to make it more dramatic. But producer Russell Jay exposed some of the details when he went on the witness stand to make a deposition for Kim when she divorced Kris Humphries.

#8 Rehearsed And Scripted Material

Russell claims that Kim demanded a reshoot of her reaction to Humphries 'surprise' proposal because she did not like the way her face looked in one take. He also testified that Kim and mother Kris rehearsed and then shot several takes of them discussing Kims marriage problems to Humphries on a sound stage and not on the actual trip to Dubai, where the episode was supposed to be filmed. He claimed that many scenes were shot on sets rather than in the actual locations and were not real.

#9 The Hills

Former Hills star Kristen Cavallari admitted on a talk show that many of the relationships on the show were just for the cameras. She said that almost all of the romance was rehearsed and set up by producers, including her long anticipated reconciliation with Brody Jenner. Jenner also called BS on The Hills, admitting that his relationship with Loren Conrad was a set-up for ratings.

#10 All Romances Were Faked

Jenner told People Magazine that the romance that made headlines between Spencer and Heidi was actually just a short-lived arrangement that went on for far too long. Heidi Montague dismisses that claim but several other cast members have come forward in recent years claiming the entire series was a fraud.

#11 Breaking Amish

A group of Amish teens decide to break away from the restraints of their religion and lifestyle and live it up in New York City. That's the premise of TLC's 2012 series Breaking Amish, which chronicles the real-life struggle of Amish and Mennonite teens.

#12 Not Really Breaking Anything

If this sounds ridiculous that's because it actually is. After only two episodes the show was put on blast as being a fraud. Rumors began to circulate that the cast wasn't exactly who they said they were, including two members who were said to be meeting for the first time but were secretly married and had a child together. Another girl said to be leaving the faith blindly had actually left 14 years prior and was working as a model in NY. Producers managed to recover from the scandal and renamed the series Return To Amish.

#13 Pawn Stars

The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop depicted in the series Pawn Stars is a real place, but it's not the shop you see on television.Nevada state law prohibits filming in a pawn shop, so the entire store is replicated on a sound stage in Las Vegas. Some of the artifacts seen in the shop are not real either, and some are hand crafted replicas designed to look like the real thing. In fact, none of the coins on the show are the real thing.

#14 It's A Fake Store

What you see on TV isn't actually what you get. Aside from the show being filmed on a set, the items brought in by would-be sellers are all picked and arranged prior to show filming by producers. Some come from museums and some from local experts private collections, which is why it is so easy for them to pick up the phone and call in a rare sword expert. All items are vetted beforehand and those customers are all actors.

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