How do adventure reality show producers prevent crew members from helping the cast?

How do adventure reality show producers prevent crew members from helping the cast?

Richard Hall (Reality TV Producer) gives expert video advice on: Where do TV crews stay when shooting in the wilderness or extreme settings?; How do adventure reality show producers prevent crew members from helping the cast?; How dangerous are the stunts on adventure reality shows? and more...

You might think that people start rooting for people on reality shows and that they might want to help them, but the truth of it is, everybody knows better. Nobody helps and they don't really care who wins. They might really dislike people if they treat the crew poorly, but they'll take that up with production and address it in a different way. I have never seen any temptation by anybody to even unconsciously help somebody on a reality show. Everybody understands what the game is, what they're being employed to do and letting the game unfold on its own is fun; I don't think anybody wants to ruin it. There was this town where their police force allowed four celebrities to become real cops, and I'm sure that wasn't a competitive reality show, but people in that town felt that they needed to be helpful to the people on camera. That's up to production to instruct local hires, whether or not they should or should not cross that line. If it's a competitive reality show, they have to understand, they have to really lay down the law about how there can be no interference in a competitive reality show. The big networks have lawyers around for the shoots of those competitive reality shows to make sure that there are no fairness issues, no law suits or anything like that.