Can't believe we don't have a general thread for this yet.

Whilst we all know how famewhory mactors (models/actors for those not in the know) can get on reality shows, are there any of them you actually like?

On a similar note, if a show was to stunt cast someone else from another show to lift ratings (looking at you, TAR), is there anyone you would truly like to see? And on which show/s?

I wouldn't mind seeing Rich Vox and Dave Moredal (from season 1 of Last Comic Standing) on TAR. :)

WORD.

Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing them in their own reality show.

Dude, Totally. Dave Moredal and Rich Vox living in like a castle that LCS season 2 got.

One disconnect that happens to me sometime is half-recognizing someone on a scripted series -- "Who IS that guy??" -- and only gradually realizing that one of the mactors from reality TV actually got an acting job. And it isn't always stunt-casting.

One example is Teck from Real World: Hawaii, whom I noticed at Chandler's new job in Friends, and I now see that he's guested in other series as well over the years.

Another is Reichen from TAR4, who turned up once on Frasier as "Impossibly Handsome Man."

One example, though, and probably the Olympics of this kind of stunt-casting, is an episode of Nash Bridges in the November following that first season of Survivor (and on the same network, CBS). Coincidentally, it was one of the few episodes of that show that I ever watched (having missed the opening guest credits), but I was having a whole boatload of "Who IS that guy/girl?" during it, watching actors with oddly familiar, yet unfamiliar-in-episodic-TV faces. And eventually I woke up: there they were, Dirk, Sean, Joel, Jenna, and Gervase as Nash's neighbors, and some of them with substantial scenes, too. When worlds collide....