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Get ready for a wild ride through the most baffling celebrity couple reality shows ever made! From Britney and Kevin’s chaotic whirlwind to Nick and Jessica’s famously clueless moments, these shows turned everyday romance into unforgettable TV madness. Whether it’s awkward family pressure, bizarre wedding plans, or over-the-top drama, these couples gave reality TV a whole new meaning of ridiculousness.
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00:00My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.
00:03Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most ridiculous attempts to turn famous romances
00:10into must-see television.
00:12Do you realize, Nick, all we watch is sports?
00:16It's not true.
00:18Number 10, Married to Jonas.
00:20At its core, the premise was simple. Watch the eldest Jonas brother be happily domestic.
00:25When you marry someone, you marry their whole family.
00:28It's perfect.
00:29Almost.
00:31Kevin and Danielle Jonas opened their married life to E! in 2012, and the apparent stakes were gloriously tiny.
00:37One episode had Kevin volunteering Danielle to cook for his family.
00:41Another followed the family worrying about her teenage sister's prom night.
00:45So, the question really is, is like, are you sleeping with Nick?
00:50Just to make everything clear, so we're all on the same page.
00:54Me and Nick are not going to be sleeping together.
00:57Elsewhere, Kevin tried a few home improvement projects, his mother pressured the couple about having a baby, and extended family
01:03business filled plenty of airtime.
01:05The couple was sweet, which was almost the problem.
01:08Across two seasons, ordinary newlywed problems were repeatedly treated like blockbuster drama.
01:13That God was wanting me to talk to you about you starting a family.
01:17I mean, you've already started your family, but having a baby and other children along the way.
01:23Just really relax.
01:25Trust God.
01:27Number nine.
01:28Meet the Barkers.
01:29MTV took celebrity domesticity and inflated it into a parade of trivial crises.
01:34Honey, it's beautiful.
01:35I know, I know, I knew you would like it.
01:38We have a lot of big, life-changing things coming up, and we're in the process of buying our new
01:44home and doing all the finishing touches on that.
01:46Meet the Barkers followed Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and his then-wife, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, through marriage,
01:53parenting, and a rock and roll lifestyle.
01:55Episode plots included wedding plan problems, Travis believing everyone had forgotten his birthday, and Shanna supervising a house move while
02:04he toured.
02:05The pair even went to a strip club for his bachelor party.
02:08Baby, you don't have to pack that much. It's just our bachelor party in Vegas.
02:12Will I leave soon, or how are you feeling?
02:14I'm ready to go, I know where you are.
02:15Besides, when an episode is called The $10,000 Christmas Tree, the show has pretty much admitted that absurd excess
02:20is the entire point.
02:22Somehow, it made family life feel like a sitcom where one spouse just happened to have a tour bus.
02:27What is the worst memory as you being in a band? Like, me seeing something happen to your family?
02:33I miss my wife, I miss my son and my stepdaughter a lot, but I go through separation anxiety because
02:39you're home, and then the next day, you're playing a show.
02:41Number eight, Till Death Do Us Part, Carmen and Dave.
02:44So we fell in love, we moved in together, we got engaged.
02:48When did we fall in love, by the way?
02:49Well, I...
02:50Coincidentally?
02:51On the first date?
02:52On the third date, for you.
02:53Rushing your nuptials for MTV is a questionable way to start married life, but it did give this series seven
03:00episodes of gothic pageantry.
03:02Carmen Aleksha and Dave Navarro had postponed their wedding before the show pushed them to finally set a date.
03:08This whole wedding thing is a big scam, isn't it?
03:10I think it is.
03:11I kind of don't get what the big deal is.
03:14In a weird way. You know what I'm saying?
03:17Because it's supposed to be your special day.
03:19The preparations included a wedding invitation shoot with David LaChapelle that had the couple posing as corpses in a morgue,
03:25an extravagant bridal shower, and a joint bachelor-bachelorette party in Las Vegas.
03:30On the big day, a live pair interrupted the vows.
03:33One thing that I noticed about...
03:35Talk!
03:38Can we turn off all cell phones, please?
03:41Somehow, the road to I do became a full season of spectacularly unnecessary television.
03:46Number 7, Vanderpump Rules, Jackson, Brittany, Tate, Kentucky.
03:50I loved growing up in Winchester because it's just so small and you grow up with your best friends.
03:56And we're going to the farm.
03:59Nothing says relationship experiment like dropping a reality TV bad boy onto his girlfriend's farm and letting her relatives question
04:07him about marriage.
04:08Jackson, Brittany, Tate, Kentucky stretched this setup into a six-episode compatibility test,
04:13sending Teller through babysitting, a failed coyote hunt, and scrutiny from her father.
04:17He answered questions about his intentions by claiming Brittany was depressed.
04:21It's time for you to have a baby!
04:24Nothing against their lives.
04:25I just want to plan mine a little differently.
04:27Brittany's been having a busy time to tell him why she is.
04:30I want to make her happy.
04:32That being said, Brittany's starting to lose her spark.
04:35By the finale, an explosive argument left her deciding whether to return to Los Angeles with him.
04:39The real mystery was never whether this city guy could handle rural life.
04:43It was why anyone thought overalls might fix the relationship.
04:47I jumped into your life and became friends with all your people.
04:49You can't even accept my friends or my family.
04:51What?
04:52You won't even accept them.
04:53You won't accept my sister.
04:54You don't accept my friends.
04:55You already said they're not good enough for you.
04:58They're not good enough for you.
04:59You don't like them.
04:59I've never said that.
05:00Number six, Tori and Dean.
05:02Home sweet Hollywood.
05:04And true Tori.
05:05Every relationship I had, I just kept my feelings inside.
05:09And the day I met you, I changed.
05:12And I didn't even need years of therapy.
05:15I just vowed to communicate because you were my soulmate.
05:18For years, this marriage was practically its own television franchise.
05:22Tori and Dean, home sweet Hollywood, followed Spelling and McDermott through parenthood, careers,
05:27and the everyday business of being a celebrity couple.
05:30We can't even have a conversation because we have little munchkins talking over us and wanting to eat vegetables.
05:35Well, that's what happens when you have kids.
05:36Your lives aren't your own anymore, you know?
05:38But I think there's got to be a balance, and that's something that we always said we'd strive for.
05:42Then, the tone changed drastically.
05:44After reports of McDermott's infidelity,
05:47True Tori turned the marriage crisis itself into the premise,
05:50showing the couple working through their issues in therapy,
05:53arguing, facing financial problems, and questioning their future together.
05:57One series sold the domestic fantasy, the next documented it coming apart.
06:01There's no happy ending.
06:03I don't believe it anymore.
06:06I have a choice.
06:07I can go back.
06:09She went back to the man who cheated on her.
06:11There she is, the doormat.
06:13Or I can leave.
06:15Hold my head up high.
06:16Few reality TV couples have taken viewers on a stranger journey from domestic reality TV
06:21to intensely public relationship damage control.
06:24Number 5, My Fair Brady.
06:26Most couples handle commitment issues privately.
06:28These two stretch theirs into three seasons of increasingly alarming premises.
06:34You want me?
06:35You gotta fight my exes.
06:37You gotta fight people for me.
06:39I've never been so attracted to somebody, and I deeply love him.
06:43My Fair Brady began with Adrienne Curry pushing Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight toward marriage,
06:48even issuing an ultimatum before he proposed in the first season finale.
06:52With this ring, I want to ask you if you'll allow me to be your rock.
07:00You'll be my...
07:05My tight.
07:06Season 2 turned their wedding preparations into television.
07:10Season 3, subtitled Maybe Baby, pivoted to arguments over starting a family and plastic surgery plans.
07:16I wasn't buying the fact that he was pretending that he likes babies.
07:22You'd make a great dad.
07:24The relationship seemingly kept generating a crisis just in time for another chapter.
07:28Years later, Curry said the complete train wreck viewers saw was actually them putting their best foot forward.
07:34Number 4, Being Bobby Brown.
07:36What began as one star's reality vehicle quickly became a showcase for his famous wife.
07:41Can I take a picture with you?
07:42No.
07:44No.
07:45No.
07:45Ma'am, I'm eating.
07:46You'll see me eating?
07:47Sorry, I can't eat.
07:48Yeah, I can't eat.
07:49She's pissed.
07:50I'll take a picture with you.
07:52Yeah.
07:52You're jealous?
07:53It's alright.
07:54Bravo's 2005 series followed Brown and Whitney Houston, who married in 1992 and divorced in 2007.
08:00Critics were sharply divided over what the cameras captured.
08:03Some saw authenticity behind the chaos,
08:05while others dismissed the whole exercise as a vanity project.
08:10Fire!
08:11Boom, boom, boom.
08:13Hey, oh, fire!
08:16The way you walk!
08:17The walk!
08:18It's hot!
08:18It's hot!
08:19Really setting my mood?
08:20I'm so excited, child.
08:22Yes, you are!
08:24Audiences, however, kept watching, and the series became a major hit for Bravo, with Houston
08:28emerging as the show's biggest draw.
08:30That success makes the premise feel even stranger.
08:33Countless fans watched two music stars surrender an extraordinary amount of privacy for reality
08:37television.
08:38I'll be talking and say, damn, I'm tired of fighting.
08:42It's a...
08:44Stop it.
08:46Stop it!
08:48Stop fighting yourself.
08:50Number three, newlyweds, Nick and Jessica.
09:00Some reality shows need elaborate challenges.
09:03This one found pop culture immortality in a bowl of tuna salad.
09:07Newlyweds Nick and Jessica followed pop stars Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson through the
09:11early years of their marriage, but its biggest moments were charmingly mundane.
09:14Simpson famously wondered whether chicken of the sea was chicken or fish, and later revealed
09:19that she thought buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo meat.
09:22Is this chicken what I have or is this fish?
09:26I know it's tuna, but it says chicken.
09:30By the sea.
09:32The series leaned heavily into her ditzy blonde persona opposite Lachey's exasperated husband,
09:38turning domestic confusion and relationship friction into its comic engine.
09:42Simpson quickly became the breakout star, and her tuna blunder outlived the show itself.
09:46Years later, she brought the joke full circle in a chicken of the sea ad.
09:50Mom, what are you eating in that packet?
09:52It's called chicken of the sea, but it's not really chicken, it's tuna.
09:56So don't get confused by it.
09:58Number two, Bam's unholy union.
10:01Most wedding shows manufacture chaos.
10:03This one came with a groom who already specialized in it.
10:07It's been three stressful months, and what I've been waiting for is finally done.
10:12My ramp, and I'm gonna go skating.
10:13MTV followed Bam Margera and Missy Rothstein in 2007 as their wedding ceremony approached,
10:19but the planning often competed with the kind of antics viewers already associated with the Jackass star.
10:24While Missy handled dress shopping and later tried to finish arrangements,
10:27Bam veered towards parties, stunts, and increasingly bizarre side quests.
10:32I'm the one who asked him to do it.
10:34I thought he could do it, and I feel bad.
10:36I'm gonna have somebody serenade him tonight.
10:37I feel so bad.
10:39Dude, just don't hurt me anymore.
10:41Oh, shut off.
10:43The season bounced from wedding rings and a belated venue search to a Playboy offer,
10:47and a Lamborghini trip through a blizzard.
10:49The result was less a portrait of two people preparing for marriage
10:52than another Bam Margera show that happened to end at an altar.
10:56Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever,
10:59Mr. and Mrs. Bam Margera.
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11:33Number one, Brittany and Kevin, chaotic.
11:36He's so cute.
11:38Hi.
11:40Kevin, we have to ask you a question.
11:42Oh, God, here we go.
11:44How do you feel about marriage and commitment?
11:46Long before celebrity vlogs became commonplace,
11:50this experiment felt startlingly homemade.
11:53Brittany and Kevin, chaotic, repurposed footage Spears
11:56shot through the European leg of her 2004 Onyx Hotel tour
11:59following her romance with Kevin Federline.
12:01The material included rambling confessions,
12:04intimate oversharing,
12:05and a courtship moving at frightening speed.
12:08Finding somebody to,
12:11you know, share your life with what it can do
12:13and what it really means
12:14and how you should embrace that in a big way.
12:19Producers admitted they had to create a story arc
12:22out of nothing.
12:23But UPN stretched it into five episodes anyway.
12:25The show lost 1.6 million viewers
12:28from premiere to finale,
12:29and years later,
12:30Spears called it probably the worst thing
12:32she had done in her career,
12:33which is a devastatingly efficient review all by itself.
12:37Listen, what are you doing?
12:38You're zooming in.
12:39You're doing something weird.
12:41I'm listening.
12:42Why are you looking through the peephole?
12:44You're acting like a cameraman.
12:47Stop looking through the peephole.
12:50Which ridiculous reality show
12:51do you still have a soft spot for?
12:53Let us know in the comments.