• Skin Wars: The Ultimate Body Painting Competition, screening on the GSN network in the US, is being billed as the first body painting reality show. The competition-style show is hosted the very busy RuPaul as well as Rebecca Romijn, who knows a thing or two about this laborious process from portraying Mystique in the X-Men series. Courtesy GSN Network
    Skin Wars: The Ultimate Body Painting Competition, screening on the GSN network in the US, is being billed as the first body painting reality show. The competition-style show is hosted the very busy RuPaul as well as Rebecca Romijn, who knows a thing or two about this laborious process from portraying Mystique in the X-Men series. Courtesy GSN Network
  • ABC’s The Quest follows the reactions of real people who are placed in a fantasy world called Everealm, set in and around a real castle in Vienna, where they are faced with actors playing villagers and villains. The show, which premièred in the US on July 31, is being called “immersive realism”. Rick Rowell / AFP photo
    ABC’s The Quest follows the reactions of real people who are placed in a fantasy world called Everealm, set in and around a real castle in Vienna, where they are faced with actors playing villagers and villains. The show, which premièred in the US on July 31, is being called “immersive realism”. Rick Rowell / AFP photo
  • “Awful, smug” is how The Washington Post’s Emily Yahr described LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian’s new VH1 show LeAnn & Eddie. The singer and actor, who got together after they were caught cheating on their respective spouses, claim the show is an attempt to clear up all the messy tabloid gossip. But they keep talking about all that messy tabloid gossip. Piotr Sikora / VH1
    “Awful, smug” is how The Washington Post’s Emily Yahr described LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian’s new VH1 show LeAnn & Eddie. The singer and actor, who got together after they were caught cheating on their respective spouses, claim the show is an attempt to clear up all the messy tabloid gossip. But they keep talking about all that messy tabloid gossip. Piotr Sikora / VH1
  • Get married first and with the help of four experts, work it out later? That’s the premise of the FYI network’s Married at First Sight, which premièred in the US earlier this summer. Hey, it works in many parts of the world, minus the experts. Courtesy AE Networks
    Get married first and with the help of four experts, work it out later? That’s the premise of the FYI network’s Married at First Sight, which premièred in the US earlier this summer. Hey, it works in many parts of the world, minus the experts. Courtesy AE Networks
  • The title of VH1’s Dating Naked really says it all. Add in activities that can be tricky while clothed — ziplining and horseback riding, for example — and humiliation, or love, is sure to follow. This show, which is screening in the US, probably won’t be coming to the UAE. Courtesy VH1
    The title of VH1’s Dating Naked really says it all. Add in activities that can be tricky while clothed — ziplining and horseback riding, for example — and humiliation, or love, is sure to follow. This show, which is screening in the US, probably won’t be coming to the UAE. Courtesy VH1
  • Untying the Knot is an American reality television series that premièred June 4, 2014, and airs on Bravo. The series follows the life of Vikki Ziegler, a divorce mediator. Ziegler mediates, advises and divides divorcing couples’ assets out of court. Jeff Daly / Bravo / Getty Images
    Untying the Knot is an American reality television series that premièred June 4, 2014, and airs on Bravo. The series follows the life of Vikki Ziegler, a divorce mediator. Ziegler mediates, advises and divides divorcing couples’ assets out of court. Jeff Daly / Bravo / Getty Images

In pictures: 7 new reality shows that are hard to believe

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From strangers going on dates while completely naked to seeing the inside workings of a divorce mediator, here are 7 new reality shows (that are hard to believe) currently airing in the US.

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