Hello everyone and welcome to the Weird, Scary and Horrible Parts of Humanity!

Today we are looking at reality tv stars who took their own lives.

We will analyse as many cases as we can since the first case including the first suicide related to a reality tv show, that of Sinisa Savija who took his own life following filming of Expedition Robinson in 1997, the suicide of boxer Najai Turpin after filming The Contender, the suicide of Kellie McGee when her sister was due to appear on Extreme Makeover, the passing of Carina Stephenson after filming The Colony, American Idol contestant Paula Goodspeed who took her own life, the suicide of contestant Cheryl Koswicz of failed reality tv show Pirate Master, the passing of Scott Terrill who took his own life after appearing on Super Nanny, the suicide of Hell's Kitchen contestant Rachel Brown as well as Kitchen Nightmares' contestant Joseh. Cerniglia, the suicide of Nathan Clutter after appearing on Paradise Hotel, the muder-suicide of Ryan Jenkins after appearing on Megan wants a Millionaire, the passing of singer Simone Battle who was on the first season of The X-Factor, the passing of The Voice contestant Anthony Riley, the suicide of Australia's Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson, the murder-suicide of Mark and Debby Consantino who where on Ghost Hunters, the death of Secret Story contestant Francois-Xavier Leuridan, the suicide of Russell Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the suicide of Wesley Durden of Next Great Baker, the suicide of physician Thierry Costa who was the physician on the French version of Survivor Koh-Lanta and the suicide of an unnamed contestant Jeon on unaired South Korean reality tv show Jiak.

We will also analyse the passing of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette contestants Alexa McAllister, Gia Marie Allemand and Julien Hug as well as the passing of Mark Balelo, a buyer on Storage Wars.

We will also explore the suicide of MasterChef Season 3 finalist Josh Marks, the passing of Miriam Rivera of There's Something About Miriam, the infamous suicide of Hana Kimura who appeared on Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 as well as passings connected to Love Island, Sophie Gradon and her boyfriend Aaron Armstrong, Mike Thalasatis and host Caroline Flack.

Finally we will discuss what we have learnt and attempt to come to some sort of conclusion on how reality tv shows can prevent these tragedies from re-ocurring.

Media footage is copyright Sky News, Fuji TV, Netflix Japan, Fox, ABC, 9 News Australia, 7 News Australia, Channel 10 Australia, VH1, CBS and Inside Edition.

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