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Reality TV's Craziest: Where Are They Now?

Reality shows have birthed some of the loudest, craziest and most entertaining characters on TV. Are you ever curious about what these people are doing today? From Jonny Fairplay of Survivor to New York from Flavor of Love, here are some updates on 10 of the craziest stars from reality TV.

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On Survival Islands, Johnny told what was the biggest lie in reality history, when he fibbed about his grandmother dying to avoid getting voted off the show.

He appeared in several Survivor spin-offs since, and other reality shows including Celebrity Fear Factor, Dr. Phil, and the Celebrity Newlywed Game.

Many despise him and he even got in a fight with Donny Bonaduce in 2007 at the Fox Reality Awards.

FairPlay married to Michelle Deighton, a contestant on America’s Next Top Model and WWE’s Tough Enough.

Shortly after she went on the show I Love Money.

She started daing Shaquille O’Neal in 2010.

She can be seen on her recent reality show on Oxygen, “It Takes a Sister"

She also has a fitness line Hoopz Fit and boutique Heaven on Earth.

Omarosa Manigault first hit television on Donald Trump’s The Apprentice in 2004

She was listed on TV Guides Top 60 Nastiest Villians of All Time.

She has since appeared on at least a dozen reality shows, including Fear Factor, Girls Behaving Badly and The Surreal Life.

She appeared on Celebrity Apprentice in 2008 and started controversy with Piers Morgan, which got her fired.

In 2010, she collaborated with Donald Trump to star in a reality dating show called The Ultimate Merger.

She began dating actor Michael Clark Duncan in 2010 and continued until his death in 2012 of a heart attack.

Today, she currently studies and teaches business at Howard University, is a regular political commentator on CNN,

and was named Donald Trump’s director of African-American outreach for the 2016 presidential campaign.

The first winner of America’s Next Top Model has not slowed down since she won the series in 2003.

She was a center in Playboy twice.

She went on to VH1’s The Surreal Life in 2005 and met Christopher Night.

After he proposed to her she became a producer and star of the series My Fair Brady shortly after.

They married in 2006 and had problems shortly after, going on Dr. Phil for help and eventually filing for divorce in 2011.

Making her break on MTV’s Laguna Beach and the Hills.

She has formed a standing partnership with Kohls, written a number of bestsellers and married rocker-turned-lawyer William Tell.

After winning season 2 of Flavor of Love, it didn’t work out.

She was last reported to be dating Wiz Khalifa and didn’t deny the claim when she was asked in an interview.

Getting his start on Project Runway in 2005, while he was not the winner of the series, he managed to become one of the most memorable due to his impressive work and humor,

including impersonations of Tim Gunn.

After the show, he found work in the fashion industry on reality television including a long-time judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race

and also recently on the Lifetime series On The Road With Austin and Santino, with him and fellow former Project Runway contestant, Ausitn Scarlett.

After she accepted an invitation to the 3rd season of VH1s The Surreal Life in 2004, she became involved with Flavor Flav and then co-starred with him in Strange Love.

By the end of the show, the couple went their separate ways due to constant fighting and Brigitte married her Italian boyfriend Mattia Dessi.

After she appeared on countless other shows, including Celebrity Rehab for her alcoholism, a show which showed her series of plastic surgeries, as well as Dancing with The Stars in Germany.

As she became one of the favorites on reality television, she managed to snag a reality show of her own on VH1 named I Love New York in 2006, and many after.

She has been guests on talk shows such as Jimmy Kimmel and even on dramas, such as the FX series Nip/Tuck.

This year, she appeared on VH1’s Family Therapy.

Her last work was on Big Brothers Bit on the Side.

Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino made his debut on Jersey Shore.

In 2010, he made $5 million, which made him the highest paid reality television star behind Kim Kardashian.

Since Jersey Shore, he’s done Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump.

He & his brother were charged with tax fraud on $8.9 million in 2014.

He is currently engaged to his college sweetheart Lauren Pesce, who was on season 3 of Marriage Bootcamp with him in 2015.

He can be found on The Sorretinos, which features his family, and most recently Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition.

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