If you remember many Big Brother characters over the years like you saw them yesterday, while others you bet never even appeared on the show, it means there's a disconnect between what makes someone a successful reality show character and what makes another a mere participant. You can certainly remember some characters from The Golden Cage, but you definitely don't remember all of them and no - memory skills are not involved.
For starters, a reality show character must (1) like attention, (2) be bold enough to say things bluntly, and (3) not mind intimate and/or embarrassing details. will be seen by the public eye.
But, according to leading psychologist Mark Mathieson, they should also have another feature - hedonism .
"There's usually a pretty strong element of hedonism," Mathieson explained on the Back From Reality podcast. If you're not quite sure what this term means, “hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure; complacency".
According to him, who has consulted on a number of reality shows including The Bachelor and Survivor, reality stars also suffer from a "sense of grandeur". "It basically means the ability to think you're a little bit better at everything than everyone else," he said.
“So arrogance, if you want to call it that. Selfishness. You must want to see yourself on TV. If you don't desperately want to see yourself on TV, maybe you shouldn't go at all.” he said.
