When it comes to reality TV, participants are expected to keep certain things quiet, as mandated by production. When the Moonlight Inn in Leechburg, Pennsylvania, was featured in a July 2021 episode of HGTV's "My Lottery Dream Home," its owners had to keep the filming a secret for over a month. "We weren't telling anybody, and I had to sign a nondisclosure agreement," co-owner Nico Dongiovanni said to TribLive. Fortunately, it could have been more difficult for the owners to keep the secret: "We weren't that busy that day so customers didn't even ask what was going on."
In another case, in June 2022, "My Lottery Dream Home" star David Bromstad shared with his Instagram followers some pics of himself standing in front of horror author Steven King's Victorian-style house in Bangor, Maine. In the caption, he wrote he was "wow[ed] on so many levels," both by the property and the city itself. While Bromstad didn't respond to questions asking what brought him to the historic New England town, WCYY proposed that it's likely he was in the area to film an episode of his HGTV series. Furthermore, the outlet explained that whenever filming for an upcoming season of a TV show takes place, specific locations are kept on the down-low until the news is officially released to the media.
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