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I haven't seen the episode yet, but is it possible that MTV engineered the incident (without Ashley and Tiffany's knowledge)? Just a thought.

Of course, it's still reality in the sense that Ashley's and Tiffany's reactions were real. But the fact that, according to the discussion here, the guy only "slapped" Ashley, makes me think that maybe the idea was to get a reaction with no one really getting hurt.

In any case, it's typical of the way things work nowadays that it would be the innocent party, who was merely defending himself, being punished, rather than the one who started acting out of line.

It may after all be that the guy wanted to get himself on the show. In that sense, the cameras had some blame in the trouble--but it's still wrong for Ashley to be the one who has to leave. (Unless that was also part of a setup--for pathos value.)

All that said, maybe it was real. I'll have to wait until I see it. I consider myself a good judge of naturalness.

On that note, it is understandable that in the first episodes there had to be a bit of scripting and reenacting to establish the situation. For example, I think the scene in the first episode where Tiffany goes over her attitude to O-Town etc., had to be a reenactment of conversations the couple had actually had early in their relationship, before the show was even conceived. It is also understandable that it would seem like less-than-stellar acting, since even great actors normally do not strive for the strict naturalism attempted here.