{"id":33367,"date":"2025-09-30T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33367"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:21:52","slug":"riley-green-was-on-a-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/riley-green-was-on-a-reality-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Green Was On A Reality Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Riley Green was on the CMT reality show &#8220;Redneck Island&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>It was in 2016, and Riley and his partner Becky Andrews won Season 5. They split a $100,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Riley was still grinding it out on the bar circuit in Alabama, and the show&#8217;s producers scouted him at one of those gigs.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted that, at first, he was hesitant to sign on, but thought a little TV exposure might help his music career.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t skyrocket him into stardom, but it did teach him a few things. First, he quickly learned $50,000 doesn&#8217;t go as far as a twenty-something might think.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;I thought I was just gonna retire after that . . .Then I found out what taxes are pretty quick. And the IRS found out I was a person.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCwqQ8nTQsM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And in other Riley news, he just announced a new tour for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the Cowboy As It Gets Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that Riley Green was on the CMT reality show &#8220;Redneck Island&#8221;?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6674,246],"class_list":["post-33367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-redneck-island","tag-riley-green"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 15:03:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/riley-green-was-on-a-reality-show\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}