House Hunters Has Been Selling You a Big Lie  There are many of
us who love House Hunters, the ridiculously addictive show on
HGTV about people who are, you guessed it, hunting for houses.
And while we have long known in our hearts that much, if not
all, of the show is staged and as fake a faux brick exterior,
there is now seriously concrete proof that it is nothing but
smoke-colored paint and outdated mirrors.  Hooked on Houses has
a first person account from a woman named Bobi who was on the
show with her family. Her tale of HH stardom is equal parts
illuminating and illusion-shattering. She says the producers
made up a whole story for her episode about how her family
needed a bigger house in Texas, even though that wasn't why they
were moving at all. They wouldn't even have her on the show
until they'd already closed on their new house, and then they
had to rush to find other houses for them to pretend to be
interested in. They ended up touring two of their friends'
houses which weren't even on the market—