Now available on Netflix, Season 5 of Selling Sunset has The Oppenheim Group’s estate agents delivering all the real estate drama we’ve been seeking lately.
The new episodes of Selling Sunset will be explosive, with stars like Christine Quinn, Chrishell Stause, and Emma Hernan returning and British-Nigerian real estate expert Chelsea Lazkani joining the cast.
There’s a lot to unpack in the program’s most recent season, from Chrishell and Jason’s romance to Christine Quinn possibly quitting the show. But is it all real, or is it all scripted? Christine’s most recent remarks suggest that we might want to reconsider.
She cryptically wrote: “30 minutes till the launch of #SellingSunset enjoy the new season and all of its 5,000 fake storylines!”
30 minutes till the launch of #SellingSunset enjoy the new season and all of its 5,000 fake storylines!
— Christine Quinn (@XtineQuinn) April 22, 2022
To find out what exactly happens behind the scenes, we researched the real lives of the Selling Sunset cast members.
Is Selling Sunset Scripted Or Real?
Selling Sunset on Netflix is likely just as authentic as The Only Way Is Essex and Made In Chelsea in the UK regarding reality television.
The show focuses on the lives of many real estate brokers who market some of the largest and most opulent residences in Los Angeles.
Along with following the professional lives of the Selling Sunset cast, which includes people like Chrishell Stause, Christine Quinn, Mary Fitzgerald, Davina Potratz, and Maya Vander, the program also focuses on their personal lives.
When Selling Sunset’s fifth season was released, Christine Quinn’s most recent tweet, which asserted that the program contained “5,000 fake storylines,” may have raised some questions.
But a few years ago, Chrishell addressed inquiries on Instagram Story on how scripted the series is.
“The show isn’t scripted. If it was, I would be p**sed!” she insisted, in response to season 3’s coverage of her split from This Is Us’s Justin Hartley. “Who wrote that plot twist?!”
She added: “But seriously, they can sometimes nudge us to address things but what we say is all us. Beware anyone that says otherwise. Gotta own it.”
Subsequent rumors claimed that some cast members obtained their licenses just before Selling Sunset began filming, but Chrishell has again come up to defend herself.
Sharing an Instagram snap from 2016, when she got her license, the star added: “People keep trying to hate on the show, which means it’s a huge success! Lol! This post is still on my IG proving I have been licensed and working before being approached about #SellingSunset.
“Working all day showing clients properties in the heat and writing up my new listing to hit the market tomorrow! Busy! Thanks for watching though.”
She continued: “I am so grateful to have been able to do acting AND real estate.”
The show’s executive producer, Adam DiVello, also famed for working on The Hills and Laguna Beach, told Variety the show is “full reality.”
He said: “I can’t tell you how many hours we would sit in an edit bay just working on one scene. I think most reality shows would have turned it out in a day and we’ll spend a week.”
However, Christine acknowledged in 2020 that one of her plotlines had been changed in a conversation with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on This Morning.
Christine acknowledges that while viewers mistakenly believed they had seen her meet her future husband, Christian, for the first time, they had been dating for months before the shooting of that scene.
“That was amped up a little, I’m not going to lie,” she said. “I actually met him through a girlfriend of mine, but Mary spun this story that he was a client. We were dating for three months and then we bought a house together, but television is fun.”
Chrishell concurred with these remarks, stating to TMZ that although the show is not scripted, some things have been “amped up.”
But, in response to recent rumors, Jason Oppenheim has come up to defend his organization and company.
“There’s nothing that’s scripted, we’re never told to say anything. At most, I would say that in some situations, if some things need to be addressed or we’re meeting a client or something, we’ll be asked to wait to make sure if we get everything on camera, but that’s certainly not scripted,” he told Metro.
We adore Selling Sunset, whether authentic, staged, or somewhere in the center.
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