Learning To Be On Reality TV

(From Reuters -- By Michelle Nichols)

JUDY BOLTON wants her 15 minutes of fame.

Keen to appear on TV show BIG BROTHER, the 51-year-old therapist and mother of two enrolled in New York's new REALITY TELEVISION SCHOOL, one of a growing number of people on both sides of the Atlantic seeking help getting on reality TV.

"I want the 15 minutes of fame that everybody wants," Bolton told REUTERS during a break in the three-hour course, one of about 30 people who paid up to $140 to attend the second session held by the school.

Bolton, who said she also liked THE AMAZING RACE but was worried about the stunts, was aware of the irony of taking a course to learn to be real.

"You say to yourself 'What do you need that for, when reality really means being one's self?' Why do you need to go to school to be yourself?"

But she and many others are lining up.

Learning To Be On Reality TV