Do competition-based, reality TV participants get compensated as performers?

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Generally yes. JohnPowell is right. Plus many competitions feature tiered prizes- e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. get decreasingly smaller prizes but still SOME compensation. Ooo- also, I’m pretty sure the answer is ‘no’ to the SAG thing.

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