Reality TV

"Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" producers are making cutbacks on bloodshed by increasing security during shoots, and Lil Scrappy can testify ... it's already saved him from brawling with a FEMALE co-star.

Sources close to production tell TMZ ... Scrappy and a new cast member named Erica Pinkett had to be separated by the new security force after she threw wine in his face during a dinner this week.

We're told producers have added security -- it's now one guard for every cast member --- on all shoots to keep things from getting "too ratchet."

We're also told it isn't just cast-on-cast violence they're guarding against ... it's also civilians trying to attack the show's stars.

As one cast member put it ... "That s*** gets ratchet and now the bodyguards shutting that s*** down."

Life's not always fair if you're part of the "Duck Dynasty" brood. We've learned they've been invited to the Alaska State Fair ... but there are already cries of boycott.

The Robertsons were hired to do a town hall of sorts, telling stories about their lives and their beliefs. But those beliefs include Phil's views on homosexuality ... including his observation that a man's anus is no match for a woman's vagina ... and therefore the boycott.

We're told there's a groundswell from people who want to either get the Fair to cancel the gig or -- if necessary -- disrupt the gig.

State Fair officials tell us ... they don't endorse all of Phil's views ... but they believe his core value is family ... something near and dear to Alaskans ... so the appearance WON'T be cancelled.

Giving booze to a bunch of horny kids living in the American wilderness sounds like a pretty bad idea ... unless it's for the Alaskan reality show "Slednecks" ... which struck gold when a CRAZY brawl broke out during a party scene.

Production sources tell us ... "Slednecks" (which used to be called "Buckwild") staged the party inside a barn that doubled for a rickety nightclub. There was lotsa liquor for the cast and a bunch of yocals.

A new reality show about L.A.'s little women is already running into big legal problems -- and it's all because the show's little Britney look-alike is allegedly acting a little too Britney.

Jeff Beacher from Beacher's Madhouse has sent a cease and desist letter to the producers behind Lifetime's new show "Little Women: L.A." ... telling them to watch their backs when it comes to one of the show's stars, Elena Gant.

Gant has famously worked at Beacher's Vegas theater -- doing a "Little Britney" act -- and Beacher wants her new TV producers to know ... he owns the "Little Britney" schtick and they better not try to lift it.

Beacher claims "Little Women" producers are already exploiting Elena's reputation as "Little Britney" in promotional materials ... and he insists ... it better stop now, or else.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are doing something that seems to go against their DNA ... getting married PRIVATELY and without fanfare, and we're told it's going to happen this week.

Sources connected with the couple tell TMZ ... they already have a marriage license and plan to tie the knot before the week is out.

We're told it's strictly on the QT ... so much so they got a "confidential" marriage license so no one officially knows.

Sources tell us ... with a confidential license, K&K won't have to appear publicly at a courthouse to get married ... instead, an official from the court will actually go to them and perform the ceremony privately in their home.

And then, in about a month -- after they're already legally married in California -- we've learned Kim and Kanye will hold a lavish, blow-out wedding ceremony in Paris.

They got engaged on Kim's birthday ... October 21.

"Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta" star Nikko Smith is so in love with his suddenly famous junk ... he wrote a song to celebrate it -- and TMZ has audio of the phallic ode.

As we first reported ... Nikko and Mimi Faust's very dirty shower work in "Mimi and Nikko: Scandal in Atlanta" has been raking in major dough -- and it also inspired Nikko to write "New Shower Rod."

The song's an instant Valentine's Day classic with lyrics like ... "Don't you change a thing, my personal freak" -- and "Let me f*** you in the shower, hands up on the rod."

Out with the old, in with the new ... even when your new car looks just like the old one -- at least that's how the guys from "American Pickers" do things.

Mike Wolfe recently hooked himself up with a 2015 Ford Transit after co-stars Frank and Danielle prodded him for months to can the old ride.

We're told the old van had 275k miles on it and was starting to smell -- so they gave up on constantly paying to fix it.

All dogs go to Heaven ... and now one more rambunctious canine has checked into the big puppy bowl in the sky -- Tyler the Swamp dog.

Tyler's owner Janet Mitchell -- "Swamp People" star Bruce Mitchell's wife -- says the dog's heart gave out around 1 am Monday morning after a 3-year battle with congestive heart failure.

Bruce buried the swamp dog in his yard not long after ... alongside other deceased pets.

Hug your loved ones for Tyler and eat a zebra cake.

If you thought the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" fight between Porsha Williams and Kenya Moore was brutal on TV ... Kandi Burruss says it was worse in person ... because Bravo didn't show everything.

Burruss was at LAX on Thursday where she told our photog she did watch the fight on TV when it aired on Sunday night ... just like her fellow Housewife Kenya did.

Kandi says she has every intention of coming back to the show next season and says she wants the WHOLE cast to return ... even Porsha, violence and all.

Justin Bieber's gone, but residents of his old Calabasas gated community think they have a new demon neighbor ... Kourtney Kardashian.

Neighborhood sources in The Oaks tell TMZ ... residents complained to the homeowners association after TV crews set up a "movie type production" outside the mansion Kourtney recently bought from Keyshawn Johnson.

Our sources say neighbors were pissed because filming is not permitted inside the gated community ... and because the crew was there well into the night -- when contractors, gardeners and other workers are not allowed.

Sources close to the Kardashians tell us the cameras were there for one day of exterior shots for "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" ... and won't be back.

Move over, Sarah Palin ... the folks at "Buckwild" are coming back to MTV for season 2 and TMZ has learned they are shooting in the former Alaska governor's backyard.

As TMZ first reported, "Buckwild" was cancelled by MTV last year after the death of one of the cast members, Shain Gandee. Producers of the show maintained at the time they were going forward with season two.

Now sources tell TMZ the show has been shooting for about a month now in Wasilla, Alaska with a whole new cast. Our sources say the concept is the same as before -- lots of hooking up and fights -- but with some insane new stunts.

We're told they've already shot the cast skinny dipping in freezing cold water during an ice fishing trip ... and a crazy snowmobile ride through the mountains, with people being pulled on inner tubes. Our sources say the stunts being shot now may or may not make the final edit.

Information Dean McDermott could have used before this photo was taken: Guys who are trying to save their marriages, after admitting cheating and telling the world their wives suck in bed ... should NOT be seen chatting up women in public.

Hours after Dean and Tori Spelling aired their dirty bedroom laundry on their reality show ... Dean hit up an L.A. coffee shop -- solo -- and shared a few laughs with a couple of ladies.

Sure, it could be totally innocent, but Dean's gonna have a hard time getting the benefit of the doubt after his couples therapy confession that he cheated ... BECAUSE sex with Tori "wasn't fantastic."

Home brewed coffee can be good too.

Gretchen Bonaduce claims the guy she was dating threatened to kill her in the most ominous way ... by sending her texts telling her, "Enjoy that lunch, you never know, may be your last," and "remember John Lennon."

Gretchen -- who was famously married to Danny Bonaduce and starred in a reality show about their lives -- was having lunch with former "Top Model" Adrianne Curry earlier this month when she got a slew of texts ... she claims from then-boyfriend Kevin Kautzky.

Aside from the "lunch" and "Lennon" texts, he allegedly got even more direct and wrote, "When somebody decided to push your mother out of the window, she probably didn't realize that her prior meal would be her last."

Kenya Moore told our photog ... the epic "Real Housewives of Atlanta" brawl between Porsha Williams and herself was "disgusting" to watch on TV.

Kenya was tight-lipped on Porsha's glamorous mug shot -- taken after she was criminally charged with battery, but she did say she'd love to see her nemesis replaced with someone less violent.

It's also interesting how she responds to the $64K question ... whether she'll return to the show next season.

Bethenny Frankel's divorce has dragged on so freakin' long that now she has to fork over $100k just to cover her soon-to-be-ex husband's legal fees -- even though they've yet to agree on terms for a divorce settlement.

According to court docs ... Frankel has to immediately hand over what amounts to an advance payment to Jason Hoppy's attorney. The docs stipulate the $100,000 will be subtracted from whatever financial settlement Jason ends up getting from Bethenny ... presuming they ever hammer out a deal.

Frankel filed divorce docs in Jan. 2013 ... and they've been battling over money and custody issues ever since.

Frankel sold the Skinnygirl brand for about $100 mil, so technically 100K is a drop in the bucket -- but since it's going to her ex's lawyer ... we doubt there's a smiley face on the check.

Kim Kardashian cannot get enough of herself ... hitting up a newsstand on Tuesday to buy up every issue of her Vogue magazine cover she could get her mitts on ... but why did she wait three weeks after the magazine hit shelves?

The video might answer the question ... as she and Kendall Jenner go rifling through the magazine racks, a camera crew (most likely from her reality show) is tracking their every move.