Drew Lachey

You also survived reality TV well before it was a way to become famous.

The Nick and Jessica era was very much in the spotlight, and that always kind of seemed uncomfortable for the Laches.

Was that a lot to deal with at the time?

I think, you know, everybody that gets into reality now knows what they're getting into.

At that time, it was the Osbournes and that show.

Yeah.

So it was, you know, the kind of...

you know, beginning the incubation period of what reality was going to become.

I think early on, it was for the most part reality.

Like we just kind of lived our lives.

We had cameras following us pretty much 24 hours a day.

And, you know, they got their stuff and then they edited it together.

As the show progressed and as reality TV progressed, they figured, oh, well, let's kind of shape our storylines, shoot what we need to shoot, and then save a bunch of money and not worry about it.

And that's when stuff kind of got a little bit more...

You know, a little more annoying, a little more difficult.

You know, you're living somebody else's story, living somebody else's life.

But, you know, as things progress, you realize you're like, all right, well, in order to control this, we need to get, you know, executive producer credit on it so we can be there for the editing and we can do all that stuff.

So you learn as it goes.

But it was always something that was a bit of a...

It was just kind of always a little bit weird.