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NBC's design reality show Fashion Star wants viewers to vote -- with their wallets. The day after each episode, the line of that week's winning designer will be on sale at major retailers. Real fashions for real viewers to spend their real paychecks on. Clever -- but will it sell?

Devon Fleming's casting call for her planned reality TV series, Wall Street Wives, attracted the media attention that producers relish, and hundreds of women responded. She allowed The Price of Fame to attend a recent audition, where we got a glimpse of the sort of drama the show might deliver.

MTV's Jersey Shore may bring in big numbers on TV. But recent attempts by the program's stars to become best-selling authors have met with, at best, modest success. And the same goes for other Jersey Shore-related books.

CBS's show Undercover Boss, in which CEOs secretly work alongside low-level employees to find out what conditions are really like at their businesses, is one of the biggest smashes of the past TV season. It premiered to nearly 39 million viewers right after this year's Super Bowl and continued with...

Undercover Boss often features down-and-out employees whose personal stories eclipse the company's problems. At times, these episodes seem contrived, but Sunday's episode, which featured Chris McCann, the president of 1-800 Flowers, is the exception.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is WalletPop's distinct honor and privilege to bring you one of the most appalling items from the "Taxpayer Dollars at Work" file that we've seen in quite some time. The New York Times reports that "The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether the...

Move over, Richard Hatch. Adam Jasinski is the latest reality TV winner to allegedly use his jackpot winnings in ways that are outside the law. Last year, he won $500,000 on the CBS show Big Brother. How would you use that kind of windfall? Well, Big Brother (the government one this time, not the...

Call it "The Biggest Loser" meets The Food Network. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the British voice of eating healthy, is the star of a new reality show that will try to get the denizens of Huntington, West Virginia, dubbed "America's Fattest City" to slim down by learning how to eat...

I was probably as excited as just about anyone for the new season of Flipping Out, which premiered last night -- and also probably more disappointed than just about anyone by the time the barely watchable hour was over.Earlier this week, we published my podcast with the show's star, Jeff Lewis,...

Husband stealer? Stripper? Delinquent Neiman Marcus credit card holder? Danielle Staub, one of the housewives on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, has been called a lot of things on the show. Now she's spawning literary collector's items? All season, Danielle has been the object of rumor, scorn,...