Apparently, the incident on Dancing with the Stars where Marie Osmond fainted was staged. Reality TV fake and scripted? I’d never believe it!

Sources on the set of “Dancing With the Stars” tell TMZ that Marie Osmond’s fainting spell was scripted — to the point where she had a writer just off camera feeding her lines when she stood up!

Our moles say Marie has a writer on set at all times, prompting her with witty conversation. One on-set source says he was in position when Marie went down — and didn’t miss a beat.

[From TMZ]

For all we know the real reason that Marie Osmond had to have a prompter was that she swears like a sailor on leave, and can’t be trusted to utter a sentence without dropping a few four-letter-words. A renpresentative for Marie denies that she has a writer-prompter.

Could this rumor be a nasty smear campaign to ruin her chances at winning DWTS?

In other Osmond family news, there are plans for the family to reunite for a television special, “The Osmond 50th Anniversary, starring The Osmond Brothers, with special guests Donny, Marie, and Jimmy.” Look for it on PBS in 2008.

Note by Celebitchy (includes spoilers): Marie Osmond came in third in this Season’s Dancing with the Stars, with Mel B and Maksim Chmerkovskiy the surprising runners-up. Helio Castroneves and Julianne Hough won this season. It was Juliane’s second consecutive win as a dance pro. If this is true that Osmond faked her collapse, it hardly seems fair that she made it into the top three.