Using a game show as a confessional? WTF?

I'm puttering about the place with the TV on, waiting for the sublimely evil Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen to appear on my local Fox affiliate and I'm thusly forced to be horrified by the "game show" that precedes it.  "Moment of Truth". 

It's a little like that board game "Scruples" on public steroids.  They hook these people up to a polygraph machine and ask them really loaded questions about their lives, beliefs, feelings, attitudes. . . stuff that could affect their jobs, good relations with their families, and . . . really. . .their sex lives. 

Some are moderately easy to take because they are strictly personal:  "Do you feel like a failure because you had to move back in with yoru parents?"

But then it hits his girlfriend:  "Do you think she's the prettiest girl you've ever dated?"  No. 
"Have you ever given your number to another girl since you've been dating Nicole?"  Yes. 

And the family:
"Have you ever been ashamed of growing up Mormon?"  Yes. 
"Do you think your parents dislike Nicole because she's Jewish?"  Yes.

And in between some of these they interview the family or cut back to the family to see the angry and chagrined looks upon their faces.  And apparently, the family members have the opportunity to stop the answers to the questions if they feel there's too much personally at risk. 

But no one on this segment has used it. . . . even after more and more shocking attitudes are revealed.

I don't know how it turned out.  I had to switch the channel. 

But it did make me ask the question:   What is the difference between being candid and being confessional?  Isn't there a fine line between the two?  Princess Di was notorious for her confessional interviews in the years between her separation from Charles and her death.  It was sloppy and sordid, but fascinating.  (But when Charles tried similar tactics of confessional interviews, it was way to smarmy to be handled). 

But on the candor side is of course the aforementioned Gordon Ramsay.  That guy's as candid as they come.  No holds barred honesty and reactions, sometimes whether they are timely or not.  Abrasive and jawdropping at times, but somehow I feel like his candor is absolutely necessary in that moment and not as self-indulgent or emotionally exhibitionist as the nonsense in this show.   I mean, these people get monetarily rewarded for being truthful about their prejudiced and unethical attitudes and behaviors. 

Isn't that the stuff that's supposed to stay between a girl and her priest?  Or a girl and her therapist?  Or if we're getting the family involved, shouldn't that sort of stay in the soft-lit confines of a neutrally decorated office with overstuffed pillows and kleenex boxes? 

I'm all for being honest with onesself.  And honest with the important people in your life.  But I guess I just have a block about doing it on Primetime NBC. . . . unless it's fictional.  Then its fine.