Reality TV stars come out against extreme editing, or ‘Frankenbiting’

This dangerous practice makes reality TV stranger than fiction. 

While many fans take reality TV with a grain of salt, few realize just how heavily edited some of the material is, industry insiders say. Now, production staff and stars alike are coming forward to address the harmful effects of “Frankenbiting” audio clips to make cast members seem far more horrible than they really are. “I’m fine with people making drama out of anything heightened that you’d do in your real life,” MTV’s “The Hills” star Spencer Pratt told Vanity Fair in a new exposé about the dirty trick. “That’s the kind of fake reality I’m cool with … But the worst of it isn’t what they showed me doing, but what they showed me saying. It’s the sort of editing I am not down with and feel is totally whack if you’re calling it reality.”