Eight years before becoming a Bravolebrity with the debut of Vanderpump Rules, Stassi made her first foray into reality television when she competed alongside her father Mark, her step-mom Char, and her brother Hunter on the 2005 all-family season of The Amazing Race. Three years later, she competed on The N's Queen Bees, a reality show that took seven generally mean and rude young women and had them participate in challenges meant to teach them lessons about how they treat the people in their lives. She finished in sixth place.
13 years before the joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta—first as "friend of" in season 10 before earning a peach of her own the following year—a 19-year-old Eva competed in and won the third cycle of America's Next Top Model, which aired on UPN in 2004.
Two years before her last name became one of the most famous in all of America with the 2007 debut of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, eldest sister Kourt appeared on another E! show, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive. The 2005 series took 10 privileged children of celebrities and had them work on a Colorado cattle ranch.
Three years before she joined the cast of The Real Housewives of New York City in its inaugural season, Bethenny competed on the 2005 Martha Stewart-fronted spinoff of The Apprentice, where she finished as the runner-up. Working with producer Mark Burnett on the series would create a lasting relationship, however, as he is now producing her forthcoming HBO Max reality competition series, The Big Shot with Bethenny.
Over a decade before she joined The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its ninth season, Denise starred in an E! series of her own. Denise Richards: It's Complicated aired for two seasons from 2008-09. The series showed the everyday lives of Denise, her daughters Sam and Lola (whom she shares with ex-husband Charlie Sheen), her father Irv and her married younger sister Michelle.
17 years before she became a breakout cast member of VH1's Basketball Wives, which she joined for its second season in 2010, Tami was just one of seven strangers picked to live in a house and have her life taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real in The Real World: Los Angeles, the second season of the groundbreaking MTV series that aired in 1993.
Before launching his WWE career and subsequent reality series Miz & Mrs., which debuted on the USA Network in 2018, Mike was introduced to audiences in 2001 on The Real World: Back to New York.
Four years before she started owning it on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in its fifth season, Lisa and her beloved hubby Harry Hamlin got a reality series of their very own. Harry Loves Lisa, which chronicled their lives as they juggled Hollywood careers while raising then-preteen daughters Delilah and Amelia, aired on TV Land in 2010.
Before she joined The Real Housewives of New York City for season nine in 2017, the socialite toplined the short-lived CW reality series High Society, which the lives of her and her friends in the Big Apple, in 2010. It only lasted eight episodes. Dale Mercer, Tinsley's mom and RHONY fan-fave, was featured on the show, alongside her other daughter Dabney Mercer.