A quarter century ago, we first got the keys to celebrity homes across the country with MTV Cribs . The docuseries, which launched in September 2020, followed celebs — at least, those who allowed MTV ’s camera crews into their inner sanctums — as they gave tours of their houses.
“We started with a very informal in-house talk about, ‘Hey, let’s try to do this,’ and at the time everyone thought it would be impossible because no one was going to let people peek into their lives that way,” creator Nina L. Diaz told Thrillist in 2015.
Indeed, the Cribs team did have trouble persuading celebs to open their doors, but they eventually found willing participants, producer Erika Clarke explained. “Rappers and athletes were way more into doing it because of the culture of, ‘Look at what we ha