Maddie Ziegler of Dance Moms fame says that the popular, contentious Lifetime reality series isn't so much reality as it is staged for the sake of ratings.
Knock us over with a feather, we know.
When speaking about her recent rise to fame - Maddie Ziegler stars in Sia's "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart" music videos - she dished on Dance Moms.
Dished and dissed, it turned out.
According to Maddie, the reality series that also features her mom, Melissa Gisoni, and sister Mackenzie Ziegler, 10, isn't as real as fans believe.
"It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama. The producers set it up to make us all yell at each other," Maddie admitted.
"All of the girls on the show, they're my best friends," she said. "I have so much fun getting to work with my friends and my teachers and dance."
Maddie says the program, which follows Abby Lee Miller's famed ALDC elite team at dance competitions across the U.S., can sometimes be fake.
"You know how I said that moms do fight? The moms have to fake a fight sometimes," she said. "Afterward they just start talking and laugh about it."
Somehow, we don't think Kelly Hyland and her lawyers are going to appreciate that comment, although perhaps the line was blurred in this case ...
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star Erica Pinkett was savagely attacked in a nightclub ... and Pinkett says she told police the hit was ordered by a jealous rival on the show.
Nor will it be the last. Hyland, Miller's archenemy, shared some similar tales herself a few years ago, and we're sure there's more where that came from.
However, it's the most blatant evidence yet coming from one of its biggest stars that perhaps even Abby Lee isn't as bad in real life as she appears.
Okay, maybe that's a tiny bit of a stretch on our part there.
She's clearly a strong personality, does not mince words, goes all in to win and seems to take a perverse pleasure in straight up beasting on fools.
Still, you have to start questioning almost everything you see play out on "reality" television at this point, because fights and feuds bring in ratings.
Just saying ... watch Dance Moms online and see if you can pick out what's real, what's embellished and what's clearly scripted for the cameras.
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