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If you can’t handle the tweet, get out of the TV kitchen

25 Nov 05:40am

Filed under: Celebrity Apprentice, Reality Tv, Social Media, Twitter

When it comes to reality TV, this much we know: Facebook death threats and Twitter hate campaigns are very good for ratings.

Greens means Hines

Just check the huge numbers hauled in by all the mass-hating on Deni Hines, reluctant anti-hero of what could well have passed by as just a paler Aussie version of one more American import, Celebrity Apprentice.

Whether it was for her so-called “bullying” of fellow contestant, Polly, her brittle ego (bristling at being offered advice), or her diva antics (refusing to sing for her team’s KFC campaign because she is a vegetarian), Hines is so detested by the Twittersphere she confessed this week to being “the most hated person on TV”.

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In the Genes says:

10:49pm | 26/11/11

why do we ‘hate’ these annoying reality celebs? There’s a pretty good evolutionary explanation. Not that anyone probably cares but here goes… Our ancestors evolved in-group/out-group biases, that most likely arose from war (it paid to band together with your own and not trust outsiders). This led to altruistic/prosocial behaviours… Read more »
Mumma4 says:

04:09pm | 26/11/11

I don’t think we can say all reality shows are contrived or the winners pre-selected. My son was on Four Weddings, and none of the four couples knew the winner right until the end. Of course the show was then edited accordingly, to make the winner seem like the sweet… Read more »

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