Gibson Dunn Associate Turned Reality TV Star Wants To Have Her Cake and Eat It Too

We’ve written about numerous lawyers turned reality TV stars here at ATL. When we’ve done so, we’ve identified them and/or their employers by name. E.g., Jeremy Anderson (Hunton & Williams / The Bachelorette), Charlie Herschel (Weil Gotshal / Survivor), Victor and Tammy Jih (O’Melveny / Quinn Emanuel / Amazing Race), Yul Kwon (McKinsey / Survivor), David Otunga (Sidley / I Love New York), etc.
If you voluntarily appear on a nationally televised reality show, whether as a contestant or a friend or relative of a contestant, it’s a bit ridiculous to complain of privacy violation, isn’t it?


Violating your privacy is kind of the point of reality TV. From the New York Times:

[Project Runway contestant] Diana Eng says she was so tired after multiple 18-hour days of shooting the program’s 2005-6 season that she was sometimes awoken by the camera crew standing over her.

“One morning they scared me so bad I jumped and screamed,” she said. “They said that wasn’t good, so I had to pretend to wake up again.”

Producers of reality shows say that participants know what they are getting into when they sign up for a show. Even if contestants have not watched previous seasons — and most have — detailed contracts specify that anything they do or say is fair game for broadcast.

So we were amused to learn that Katherine Barclay (a.k.a. Katherine Smith), the highly attractive Gibson Dunn associate and UVA Law grad on Househusbands of Hollywood, is apparently unhappy about her real name and law firm getting out (which they inevitably would have; we just sped up the process slightly).
The position of Katherine Barclay / Smith is untenable. Kash lays the smackdown over at True/Slant.
‘Househusbands’ reality TV star doesn’t like reality of being a TV star [True/Slant]
Earlier: Biglaw Associate and Her Househusband Star in New Fox Reality TV Show

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