The Real Housewives of Atlanta
 

How come ATL gets a token white girl when OC and NYC didn't have a token minority? :confused:

I got the sense that maybe it was because she was good friends with one of the other women. I don't recall her name.

Her friend's name was NeNe. I had to turn it off after TWG called her secret multi millionare bf Big Popa then had him buy her an Escalade. I'm betting he's married! :blech:

Jo was the token minority, while she was there. As as for NYC, maybe Jill?

I think they are going too far with this whole Real Housewives stuff. Soon its gonna be Real Housewives of Miami, and then something like Real Housewives of Juneau.

Jo (OC) was born in Peru, and Luann (NYC) was half Cherokee.
I've also heard they are talking about .....
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....................New Jersey

I assume it would feature the bastions of Jersey life, tanning salons, bad techno and insecure Italian (and wannabe Italian) men. Sounds more interesting than any other season.

HELLZ YEAH

LMAO Ladies!!!

There's no air date yet, and the series is so early in production that Bravo executives declined to reveal what town they're filming in or even what part of the state. (Asked even a simple North Jersey versus South Jersey question, Bravo executive vice president Frances Berwick said, "It's 'New' Jersey.")

Bravo's press notes describe the series as follows:

"The newest edition to Bravo's successful 'Real Housewives' franchise brings big homes, big hair, new money and drama. Shot through Bravo's pop culture filter, welcome to New Jersey, home to five of the Garden State's most affluent ladies and the families they run. These best friends do everything over-the-top, from their decorating, to their dating and their fighting. 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' showcases the McMansions and lavish lifestyles of these women and all the drama that money can buy."

The brief clip reel shown to reporters featured two of the five housewives: Danielle, a 45-year-old divorcee who boasts of having been engaged 19 times and having kissed Mick Jagger (he wasn't as great as she was expecting, given the whole lips thing); and Dina, 38 and recently remarried, who gives us a guided tour of the very expensive, very overdone (unless onyx is your bag) decor of her home.
http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2008/04/all...es_coming.html

Exactly what I said, he's definitely married. He's her boyfriend and her close friends don't even know him? Sketchy.

CB, I say this as a "landed southerner," (LOL, it hurts me to say that) and I know you probably won't believe me, but there are some ridiculous old money/wealthy/preppy areas of NJ. I knew a lot of kids like that at W&L - that's why they were interested in coming to W&L and to the south. I think it would be a good watch.

Dang, this thread makes me want cable again. I loved the NYC season - especially the woman with the European husband. What were their names? Alex and Simon or something like that?

ETA: Look like the OC series is on hulu.com, but not the others. :( Although I did find through googling that the NYC version has been renewed for another season. :D

I agree. I know people who live in Bernardsville, Saddle River and Ho-Ho-Kus, and they are far from the blue collar stereotype.

BTW...I enjoyed NYC much more than I did OC. The worst thing I have seen lately is "Date My Ex" that Jo and Slade are on. I watched one episode and refuse to turn it on again. It's more shallow than the over-inflated implants, the hair extensions and the eyelash extensions on OC.

My money is on North Jersey, probably Bergen county...maybe more Western, Sussex and Warren have plenty of rich areas, mostly old farms. I doubt it would be Southern Jersey, unless they highlight one of the old money shore towns.
There are many many pockets of old money spread throughout the state. Unfortunately, MTV (take your pick from the beach house seasons in Sleazeside, I mean Seaside or True Life: I'm a Jersey Shore Girl, also featuring Sleazeside) and the Sopranos have pretty much ruined the state in most people's eyes. That and also that most people only travel the highways and thus see the most polluted and industrial parts. Most of the state isn't the stereotype.

I think that New Jersey series is going to be very interesting. I'd watch it. I don't know if I'll get it over here though.

Indeed. My only experience with NJ before May was taking the train from NYC to Philly (you see some UGLINESS that way) and then having a bunch of sorority sisters from there.

I went to Princeton in May for a conference - it was gorgeous.

I am quite interested in seeing the Jersey one. I grew up and my parents still live in Northwest Jersey and it isn't the stereotypical Jersey at all. There are gorgeous parts in Sussex/Warren/Morris country and then also in the Pine Barrens. Princeton is absolutely gorgeous and Morris County ranks in the top 10 for one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Going away to college I was always defending the "Jersey Turnpike" image and all the stereotypes. I would love to watch it, but as I live abroad I'll probably miss it.

The Atlanta housewives go head to head with the presidential debate tomorrow. From the way the previews appear, I doubt I will watch much of Atlanta. Kim totally bugs me already with her, "big Papa" sugar-daddy.

I watched the preview episode, and I don't think I'll be watching the series. It just looks like the women are trying too hard. And I LOLd when one of the women started talking about how successful she was...when in truth it's her HUSBAND that's successful - he's in the NBA or NFL. Unless she defines "successful" as landing a pro athlete husband, I don't get it. And the woman who is hiring an estate manager, chef, housekeeper, nanny AND governess? Pitiful. Why buy a house that big if it's such a pain in your ass?

These women (or rather their husbands) may have a ton of money but they're severely lacking class.

Is anyone up for the Real Housewives of Wasilla where the women don't go out to dinner, then go out and shoot dinner?

From what I have read, he is, but getting a divorce.

This mess is soooo hot:eek: that I may go blind if I watch it...so I won't.

They should have asked you to pick the cast. :) Then this show probably wouldn't be half bad.

PS.....i love your blog.

I just watched the premiere episode and OMG NeNe is straight up hot buttered mess

and why am I DVRing tonights episode :D

LOL:p

Thanks for the nice complements!

Interesting that the premiere will be in "competition" with the Presidential debate...

this is from www.sandrarose.com, a gossip sight. not sure if it's true but i wouldn't be surprised:Sandrarose.com

I'm told that Sheree Whitfield has no money. She lost her clothing
boutique through mismanagement of funds. That $5,000 handbag you saw
her buy last night was actually borrowed.

Sheree buys clothes on consignment from stores like Intermix Atlanta
and Jeffreys — then takes the clothes back to the store.

Her "entourage" is made up of friends of hers who sometimes get paid
if the checks don't bounce.

I know all of this because Evander Holyfield's daughter, who used to
work for Sheree until her paychecks started bouncing, posts all of
Sheree's dirt on message boards.

NeNe was a stripper wonder where, the former Gold Club? Magic City? Montre's-ugh!, just curious)who met her husband who turned a ho into a
housewife. Even though she's ghetto as hell, as least she keeps it
real.

I'm told Lisa Wu, who got her ass beat on the regular by ex-husband
Keith Sweat, lost full custody of her two boys, Justin and Jordan, to
Keith. She has one son, EJ, with her current husband Ed Hartwell, who
was cut by the Oakland Raiders and is now jobless. But Lisa came up
after her contentious relationship with Keith Sweat.

She now designs jewelry, owns a real estate firm, Hartwell &
Associates, a baby clothing line, Hart 2 Hart Baby, and does a little
acting on the side to support her husband who is obviously smitten
with her.

I would love to know your take on Kimberleigh. The "black woman caught in a white woman's body". I now think Big Papa is either an athlete, as well, or a hip-hop artist.

I liked it! :)

I saw about 3 minutes of the show...."I'm a black girl trapped in a white girls body".... arm up and *click*

She a TV caricature. Although I wouldn't be surprised if she plans to market her gaudiness (a la wigs, jewelry, or clothing) to Middle America (and drag queens in Walmart or QVC.

That's it! Drag queen in a wig. I thought they were hair extensions all along, but a wig makes more sense.

Yeah, I tuned in, loved the NYC, pretty entertaining, watched the ATL episode for about 20 minutes and clicked it off with my eye balls stuck in the back of my head I was rolling them so hard. I'm from Atlanta, and what an embarassment!!!! WVU Alpha Phi and KSU Violet hit it on the head, severely lacking class and trying way to hard. When you try that hard to be "hip" you are five minutes past hip. I think it's HILARIOUS the post above that talks about the Sheree chick. Figures cause I nearly gagged a hair ball when she was 'coordinating' her A list party. TACKY LMAO!!!!!!

I might be the only one, but I prefer the ATL ladies over the NYC ladies.

I just don't know if I have EVER seen a group of women with less class in my life. Every single one of them is a deep as a puddle of dirty water on a hot Texas day. Somebody please tell these women that money does NOT equal taste or quality. How about contributing something to the world?

hee hee...:p

I've watched one episode, and um, there will be no follow-up.

Her ex-husband will be 37 this week, so it's probably accurate. But I agree, she appears older. BTW...She is a local girl, growing up in Shaker Heights.

I've watched it only because it is truely the train wreck that you can't take your eyes off of.

were you really expecting taste or quality from women who allow their lives to be televised?
call me crazy, I just don't feel like you can put a price on privacy.