2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards Unscripted

Jersey Shore: Family Vacation took home the top prize at Monday night’s 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted ceremony.

The long-running series took home Best Docu-Reality Series, while RuPaul’s Drag Race was the evening’s most awarded series with three wins. 

The show also saw Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney winning Best Fight for the fiercely physical confrontation on Keeping Up With The Kardashians.   

Vinny Guadagnino was joined by Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi, Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley and Angelina Pivarnick, with the rest of the cast joining virtually to watch.

‘You have to understand that these are our first awards in 13 years,’ Jenni explained.

‘We did this show, and it was called Jersey Shore, and then MTV gave us a second chance with Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, and we came back even f***ing harder than we did the first time,’ Vinny bragged while accepting the award.  

The cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race took home the first golden popcorn at Monday night’s 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted ceremony.

RuPaul made a surprise appearance to accept the award after makeup artist Gottmik and season 13 winner Symone started their speeches. 

RuPaul called them ‘a perfect example of why our casting is so great.’ 

Michelle Visage also urged fans to go support their local drag queens. 

The ‘unfairly gorgeous’ Heidi Klum and Winnie Harlow presented the first award, with Heidi stunning in a black spider web outfit while Winnie glowed in a pink satin dress. 

Taking over hosting duties for the evening is comedian Nikki Glaser, 36, who will be doing the jokes from the stage of the Hollywood Palladium. 

Following last night’s MTV Movie & TV Awards ceremony, the network is returning for part two to honor the world of reality television.

It’s the first time MTV has devoted a show exclusively to honoring unscripted content.

The show opened with a montage of classic reality shows in recent years, before some of the evening’s guests danced together.

Glaser opened her monologue with a joke about how the show’s name was a ‘mouthful,’ ‘which I guess makes sense since a mouthful is how many of us got where we are tonight.’

The second award of the night for Best Dating Show was scooped up by The Bachelorette, with fill-in Bachelorette Tayshia Adams.

Ray J seemed to have patched things up with his wife Princess Love after having called off their divorce for a second time.

She stunned in a sheer white and gray sequined dress with feathered sleeves, while he complemented her in a long white tunic.

Next up was Best Fight, with Brie and Nikki Bella presenting.

After they got into a headlock, they announced Kourtney and Kim Kardashian as the winners for the knock-down fight on KUWTK. 

The nominees run the gamut from traditional documentary-like shows including Below Deck Mediterranean and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta to iconic competitions including RuPaul’s Drag Race.

In addition to televised content, the award show will also honor a Breakthrough Social Star, with TikTok stars Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae competing, among others.

Addison caused a stir on Sunday when she presented the award for Best Kiss at the Movie & TV ceremony while showing off her own passionate kiss with her He’s All That costar Tanner Buchanan.

The Unscripted ceremony even repeats the Best Fight award from the previous evening, though tonight’s nominees focus on reality show kerfuffles, including Kourtney and Kim Kardashian’s shocking pile on during Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Glaser defended unscripted television against claims that it’s fake, joking that scripted shows are the real fake content.

She looked classy in a white blazer decorated with silver sequined stripes.

The host poked fun at the reality stars on hand and how fascinated their ‘bad boundaries’ were, while joking that they were an escape from the audience’s ‘own pathetic lives.’ 

Paris Hilton looked elegant in a short yellow dress as she awards Jersey Shore with the first-ever Reality Royalty awards.  

‘Thirteen years ago, we were just a bunch of kids on the boardwalk, just partying. We had no idea it was going to change our life forever.’

Tayshia returned afterward to present the award for Best Talk / Topical Show, which went to Trevor Noah and The Daily Show.

The comedian, who has been hosting virtually throughout the pandemic, urged his fans and the show’s audience to get vaccinated as soon as possible to curb the spread of Covid-19.  

After the break, the whole D’Amelio family came out with Charli and Dixie to give an exclusive look at their series The D’Amelio show.

Charli’s the most popular TikTok personality, while Dixie also commands a strong following on the video platform. 

Afterward, they present the golden popcorn for Best Host to RuPaul for RuPaul’s Drag Race.

He came out in a smart yellow–orange suit with black stripes running down the sides. 

RuPaul shared that he learned how to host his series by following in the example of Cher.

‘So, Cher, why don’t you snap out of it and come do our show, man?’ he said, poking fun at her iconic ‘Snap out of it!’ line from Moonstruck.

Bretman Rock was next up as he presented the award for Best New Unscripted Series.

Selena Gomez won the prize for her quarantine cooking show Selena + Chef, though she didn’t attend the ceremony. 

Gottmik and Symone made another appearance after the break with Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne to present the nominees for Breakthrough Social Star.

Bretman Rock won out against major social stars including Addison Rae and Charli D’Amelio.

‘I would like to thank everyone that watched me grow up on the Internet. It’s probably the most traumatizing I’ve ever done in my whole entire life, but it’s all worth it because I’m here on stage accepting this award,’ he gushed.

Next up was the award for Best Lifestyle Show, with Gottmik and Symone returning to host from RuPauls’ Drag Race, along with Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne.

The gorgeous stars of Netflix’s LA real estate series Selling Sunset, Chrishell Stause, Mary Fitzgerald and Heather Rae Young, helped invigorate the broadcast.

Chrishel wore a playful ruffled yellow off-the-shoulder mini dress, while Mary looked fierce in an animal print dress that showed off part of her midriff.

Heather sparkled in a sleeveless beige dress covered in sequins with a ruched band around her hips. 

They presented Nailed It! with the award for Best Lifestyle Show. Nicole Byer accepted the award for the humorous baking competition virtually. 

Nikki Glaser joked that she was joined by the ‘most relatable cast members on reality TV’ when Christine Chiu and Anna Shay from Bling Empire stonily introduced the nominees for Best Competition Series.

It proved to be the night of RuPaul’s Drag Race, as the series won again against shows including The Challenge, The Circle and The Masked Singer.

Ru joked about the CDC’s new guidance that fully vaccinated people can go without masks in most indoor and outdoor situations, calling on his costar Michelle Visage to ‘take off that mask!’

‘Shade! This is my face,’ she shot back.

RuPaul ended his speech with a shoutout to Dr. Anthony Fauci. 

Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn and her unborn child stunned in a lacy black-and-white two-tone dress. 

She was presenting the award for Best Comedy / Game Show, which went out to the comedy series Impractical Jokers.

James Murray, Joe Gatto, and Brian Quinn accepted the award for their show while Sal Vulcano was absent.

The comedy series features the quartet doing crazy stunts and dares in public via hidden cameras. 

Nikki was back for an In Memoriam sketch, but instead of real deaths, she kept it light with long-gone reality fixtures, like Joe Giudice’s passport after he was deported to Italy and Scott Disick dating age-appropriate women following his 2015 breakup with Kourtney Kardashian.

The comedian also poked fun at how transitory most reality shows are and how quickly they’re canceled with a zooming list of canceled shows that seemed as if it would never end.

Kyle Richards of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills fame was tapped to present the final award of the night for Best Docu-Reality Show to Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

Two categories were also missing from the broadcast, though it wasn’t clear if they simply weren’t presented or were cut for time.

Catfish won the golden popcorn for Best Real-Life Mystery or Crime Series, while Love Island won Best International Reality Series.