20+ Desperate Reality Stars’ Porn Ventures You’d Need To Check Out!
Fact: Sex sells. While Entertainment is veering in this direction, the racy deed was never shown. Just foreplay, and then cut! (Yes, we are looking at you, The Bachelor, and your Honeymoon suite!)
That decency, unfortunately, does not always apply to their stars. Reality star porn is a common thing, from leaked "private" photos to actual footage of them doing the deed. Some of these stars managed to make a career out of this. Others simply try to move past it. So, which reality TV stars have been caught with their leaked private photos?
#1. Dunbar Merrill
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#2. Jason Rosell
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Jason Rosell was a contestant on I Love New York, a reality dating show that featured Tiffany "New York" Pollard looking for love among 20 men. In 2010, Jason turned on the heat by stripping down for the all-too-familiar Foursome series, which involved four singles spending 24 hours together in a mansion.
#3. Natasha McCollum
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Natasha McCollum was a contestant on Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, a reality dating show that featured the lead singer of the band Poison looking for his soulmate among 25 women. She also appeared on Rock of Love: Charm School, a spin-off series that aimed to teach women etiquette and manners. After failing to impress Bret Michaels, Natasha became a reality star porn actress, appearing in films such as "Scarlett Mei Dior."
#4. Arissa Hill
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Arissa Hill was a contestant on The Real World: Las Vegas and was known for her outspokenness and her conflicts with some of her roommates. She also competed in The Challenge: Battle of the Sexes 2 and The Challenge: All Stars, a spin-off series that featured 22 veterans of the show competing for $500,000. In 2003, Arissa joined her former housemate Trishelle for the Girls of Reality TV DVD.
#5. Kim Kardashian
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Kim Kardashian's private tape is her breakout role, but that doesn’t take away the fact that it is homemade reality star porn video! Her reality TV career would not have taken off in the first place if her Ray J private tape hadn't been released. Some speculate that the tape was created solely to help Kardashian land a reality TV contract.
#6. Heidi Montag
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The unholy matrimony of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt was possibly the worst thing to come out of MTV's The Hills, because they were some of the rare reality stars who did porn consciously. "Speidi" went on to appear in several commercials, as well as reality shows. In 2010, the couple filmed a very private tape, which they actively shopped and sold to the highest bidder.
#7. Farrah Abraham
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MTV has a long and glorious history of bad show ideas, but 16 and Pregnant is possibly the worst. After starring in both 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, Farrah Abraham teamed up with adult film star James Deen in 2013 for a pair of adult film videos titled Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom and Farrah 2: Backdoor and more, which made her one of the bona fide reality stars who did porn.
#8. Dustin Diamond
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Among reality TV stars porn's infamy, there's Dustin Diamond. Diamond appeared on reality television shows such as Celebrity Fit Club and Celebrity Big Brother. When neither of those options worked out, Diamond filmed and leaked his own private tape. He didn't get the money or fame he expected from the video and spent years trying to rebuild his reputation afterward.
#9. Scheana Marie
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Scheana Marie, the Vanderpump Rules star, has a history of stirring things up in the romance department, with many high-profile relationships. But a year before joining Vanderpump Rules, Scheana appeared as the villain in two episodes of "Femme Fatales" in 2012. While it is only soft-core, it is still a simulated reality star porn film.
#10. Adrianne Curry
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While Curry's modeling career never matched that of host Tyra Banks, she did have a respectable modeling career when she wasn't appearing on reality shows like "The Surreal Life". Curry posed for Playboy in 2006, and her image appeared on the cover of the February issue of that year. She returned to the cover in January 2008, and she appeared in two more issues that year.
#11. Verne Troyer
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Mini-Me from Austin Powers does, in fact, have an "adult" tape. The "leaked" video, which was released shortly after Troyer's appearance on The Surreal Life, shows Troyer in his home with a young lady. (It's mostly Troyer giving detailed instructions on how to touch his mini-me.) Verne Troyer tragically died in 2018.
#12. Aubrey O’Day
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Aubrey O'Day rose to fame on the third season of "Making The Band", but she really made a name for herself when she was featured on the cover of Playboy in March 2009. She's since released a solo album and been a member of several bands, including Dumblonde and Danity Kane, but she returned to reality TV in 2016 as a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother.
#13. Tonya Cooley
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Tonya Cooley is a well-traveled veteran of MTV's reality programming, having appeared on the 11th season of "The Real World" in 2002 as well as six iterations of Real World/Road Rules Challenge. In between, she appeared in the Cinemax softcore series "The Erotic Traveler and Girls Gone Wild". She even posed for the "Cyber Girl of the Week" feature in Playboy. Are we expecting an up-and-coming reality TV stars porn star?
#14. Darva Conger
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Darva Conger made a name for herself on reality television as the sole winner of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire". Conger married titular multimillionaire Rick Rockwell on live television in the series finale, but the couple soon filed for an annulment. Conger capitalized on her celebrity before the summer of 2000 ended by appearing in Playboy.
#15. Kelly Bensimon
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Kelly Bensimon, Real Housewives of New York star and author of both nonfiction and fiction books, graced the March 2010 Playboy cover. While it is revealing, do we still count this Playboy's cover as reality star porn?
#16. Michele Noonan
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After finishing fourth in "Big Brother 11" season 11, Noonan—a self-described nerd with a PhD in neuroscience—went on to appear on Playboy's Foursome the following year.
#17. Brooke Thompson
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Flavor of Love is a show in which a bunch of women compete for the chance to get "racy" with Flavor Flav. Brooke "Pumkin" Thompson finished third among those women. Thompson went on to appear in Flavor of Love: Charm School and the appropriately named I Love Money before switching gears and appearing on Playboy's Foursome, which is as racy as it sounds!
#18. Joey Kovar
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Joey Kovar, another Real World contestant, appeared in the show's 20th season, which was filmed in Hollywood. Kovar, who has a history of drug and alcohol abuse, left the show for treatment after episode four, returned on episode eight, and left permanently after episode nine. The fitness fanatic worked out and ate healthily, which qualified him to appear in Playgirl in 2011. Kovar tragically died in 2012.
#19. Chyna
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Before posing for Playboy, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Chyna (real name Jonie Lauer) appeared on "The Surreal Life". She later released six adult films, the majority of which were distributed by Vivid Entertainment. This makes her reality-star-turned-porn-star. In 2016, Lauer passed away.
#20. Natasha McCollum
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Natasha McCollum, another Rock of Love alumna, is one of the few reality TV stars who has appeared in an adult film parody of her own reality TV show. Does this make the film a pornstar's reality show?
#21. Sandro Padrone
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Former I Love New York contestant Sandro "Rico" Padrone has appeared in a number of adult films classified as "gay for pay," which is exactly what it sounds like. The majority of his work can be found on the website Straight Guys for Gay Eyes.
#22. Flora Alekseyeun
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Flora Alekseyeun, a Ukrainian-born reality star, made headlines after forcing her way through a pair of glass shutters to watch her fellow housemates engage in a threesome, which make them, instead of her, reality stars who did porn. But not to be outdone, six years after the show ended, Alekseyeun and a half-dozen other former contestants took part in Playboy's Real World/Road Rules Challenge shoot.
#23. The Entire Cast Of ‘Tool Academy’
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Yes, there was a reality show called Tool Academy, and no, it wasn't about gay pornstar reality show. However, six of its cast members went on to do actual gay porn. Straight College Men released a series of adult films featuring Stewart Ellefson, Tyler Synon, Dan Jovicevic, and John Lamb from season 2, as well as Ryan Matsunaga and Shawn Southern from season 1.
#24. Kristine Lefebvre
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Kristine Lefebvre appeared on The Apprentice in season six, reaching the final six before being fired by Donald Trump. Shortly after, in 2007, Lefebvre appeared on the cover of Playboy after winning a trip to the Playboy Mansion in an Apprentice challenge. Following the shoot, Lefebvre, a seasoned attorney, went on to advise and represent a number of other Playboy cover models, including Pamela Anderson and Deborah Gibson.
#25. Brandi Cunningham
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Brandi Cunningham, a former Rock of Love contestant, went on to appear in a few other reality TV shows, became friends with Chris Crocker, and has appeared in over 30 adult films under the alias "Brittany Burke." This prolific body of work makes her a professional reality star porn actress.
Conclusion
Reality TV shows can shoot people to superstardom, but most of their stars fall back into oblivion after their fifteen minutes in the spotlight run out, as we have seen with this list of reality stars who did porn. And some of them manage to salvage some of their fame. But most become infamous cautionary tales and laughing stocks. Because people would only remember them when searching for reality star porn videos.