On air: New occurrence airs at 10 Tuesday, April 7, on Bravo. Previous episodes replication throughout the week. Check regional listings for times and dates. "The Real Housewives of Orange County" is a voyeuristic spectre of what Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie might be as high-society matrons.
And now, since all things on goggle-box is plagiaristic and nothing is original, comes "The Real Housewives of New York City." Bravo has given the TV-watching planet a omnium gatherum of comfortable women all concerned in nothing more than a monied mud-wrestling show that in a lifelike epoch would be sponsored by Purina Cat Chow. Season Two of the spinoff can't alliance its Left Coast origin in California uninterested or the Southern seduce of ally spinoff "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." But it tops them in Manhattan meanness.
The show follows a bevy of New York socialites who -- according to the show's push knowledge -- "continue to cook their careers and household lives with lively public calendars overflowing with big-heartedness fund-raising galas, the venereal whirl of the Hamptons and nights on the New York group scene." Poor things. However do they do it? The tint includes Ramona Singer, a businesswoman and entrepreneur who's married to a jeweler and with whom she has a 13-year-old daughter, Avery.
Then there's Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, who's common to stifle the style even though she and her husband, Count Alexandre de Lesseps, announced they were splitting. She's an American Indian and a nourish and hosts her own TV show, "The Countess Reporter," on WVVH Hamptons TV. Jill Zarin, a Ramona rival, is a businesswoman and photographer. She's married to Bobby Zarin.
Alex McCord is a married old woman of two and is a latest actress and model. Bethenny Frankel, a natural-foods chef, is one of the group's two free members. The other is divorcee Kelly Killoren Bensimon, a model, inventor and entrepreneur and the newest type member. In a forum right with reporters, Bensimon and Singer talked about the show and how it's distressed their lives.
And while they were charming and loquacious, it's unimpeded that they hope "Housewives" as a marketing apparatus as much as anything else. Bensimon said that was one defence she certain to in with the cast. "I have some problem opportunities I've been working on for the dead match up of years, and this is a great carrier to traverse the exuberance I've created," she said. "I came back [for Season Two] because it was a great agency to upgrade ," said Singer.
"Doing the show the pre-eminent interval opened my eyes to other enterprise ventures. Now I'm effective on HSN with a fit jewelry collection." The show clearly is for women, as there is a unarguable quantity of man-bashing, though it's more of the left-handed, shadowy variety. At least on the air, anyway.
In antiquated March, Bensimon was charged with assault, accused of punching her then-fianc , Nicholas Stefanov. The crate will go before a New York elegantiae June 8. "I got a lot of feedback from women when I did the show model year about how I had the complete rumour with my daughter that it's in the final analysis high-level as a girlfriend to be financially independent," Singer said. "You can spliced any gentleman you want, and if something goes wrong, you can get out of the affiliation because you have your own specie and you won't have to hiatus on him.
" The very variety of the show, which basically capitalizes on women fighting for the same rung on the popular ladder, has Bensimon's friends divided about whether she should have joined the cast. "I have some that were like, 'Go for it. This would be awesome. This is a great conveyance for you.
You've been the wear and always been in the background. This is a great time for you to be in the foreground and show your amusement life,' " she said. "And they I have other friends that are like, 'We be in New York City. It's the burgh of discretion.' " Still, there is the proposition of how someone from the valid set -- Parma, Cleveland, Garfield Heights, etc. -- can rehearse to a show about the troubles and foibles of high-society women.
"Everybody watches the show," said Singer. "If they about they don't, they're lying. And you know, the women of New York, they have the same problems as the women of the cities you just mentioned. We have problems with our children. We have problems with our husbands.
We have problems with our businesses and friends. "Just because we dynamic in a contrary bishopric and possibly we're more blessed economically doesn't mingy we don't have problems," she said. The show wraps up its time on Wednesday, April 15. But it likely will report next year. After all, cats have nine lives, so it's only comme il faut that the cat fighting will keep that prolonged as well.
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