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Reality TV Show Films at Camp Pocono Trails

Our weight loss camp hosted the popular shows on MTV – “Fat Camp” and “Return to Fat Camp” in 2006 and 2007. We’ve also been featured on Good Morning America. This year, we were happy to be featured on the Style Network’s show “Ruby.” Michael Sadowski of the Pocono Record had a featured story about Ruby’s visit to our camp:

Workers at Camp Pocono Trails know the drill when it comes to having television cameras on their grounds.

The camp has been featured in MTV documentaries and on “Good Morning America” in recent years.

So when weight-loss hopeful and reality show star Ruby Gettinger brought her show to the Reeders camp in June, it was business as usual for camp director and founder Tony Sparber.

“We’re not strangers to having cameras at the camp,” he said. “We’re very media-friendly, we’re very proud of what we do. We’ve had times where we’ve had cameras on us from eight in the morning to 10 at night, so we’re used to it.”

And for someone bringing a message like Ruby — whose self-titled reality show just wrapped up its second season on the Style Network — Sparber was happy to bring the cameras back for another taping.

You can read the entire article here.

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