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ON YOUR RADAR: The Year’s Biggest Reality TV Scandals

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Dec. 30 2011, Published 7:00 a.m. ET

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By Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter

There is nothing better than a good old scandal and that made 2011 a banner year for reality TV!

From cheating spouses, to fake marriages to shocking suicides and risking children’s lives, reality stars showed their true colors by fighting, making-up, dodging debt and raking up arrests, and Breaking Celebrity News has a gallery of the biggest scandals of the year.

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Kim Kardashian tied the knot with Kris Humphries in an $18 million made-for-TV extravaganza but filed for divorce just 72 days later, prompting outcry that the nuptials were fake and only for ratings on her reality show. The backlash was swift, especially when Kim cashed in with huge ratings for the new season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York, which was re-edited to make Kris look like the bad guy.

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Taylor Armstrong’s financial troubles were simmering when her estranged husband Russell