A Testy Reunion for The Real Housewives of New York City

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If you’re anything like me, the season finale of The Real Housewives of New York City left you gagging.  There’s no way those five women would have ever posed for a group photo in real life...let alone agree to be at the same party.

Well according to the New York Post, next Tuesday’s reunion special will be a lot less friendly and potentially more bitchy.  Awesome.

Bravo spies claim there were several arguments at this pre-taping between entrepreneur Ramona Singer...and just about everyone.  When asked why she chose not to invite Jill Zarin to her cooking party, Singer opted to walk out of the taping.  (In case you didn’t know, she has a thing for dramatic exits.) When Bethenny tried to defend the absent woman, Ramona then started screaming at her ‘friend’ because she dared to speak for her.

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More Real Housewives…of New Jersey

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable, Gossip, Renewals

Although Bravo has barely scratched the surface of its newest hit, The Real Housewives of New York City, plans have already been made to expand the reality franchise.

In addition to a 4th season of The Real Housewives of Orange County (and a 2nd season of the NYC version), the cable channel will soon be offering us The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

The latest spinoff - which is currently in production - promises to give us “best friends do everything over-the-top, from their decorating, to their dating and their fighting.” Oh goodie.

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The Real Housewives of New York City: One Shrew Too Many or New Guilty Pleasure?

Posted by Jacci Lewis
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, Bravo, Cable/Satellite, Editorial, News

I remember once a media professor at the University of Washington asked our class the simple but loaded question: Why do you watch TV? The class’ answer seemed to boil down to two main reasons: we watch television because we aspire to be what we see or because what we see makes us feel better about our own lives.

This memory popped into my head as I watched a mini-marathon of Bravo TV’s newest ‘docu-reality’ series the The Real Housewives of New York City. What I can’t yet decide is which category of reason for watching TV this show falls into. I’m pretty sure it is the latter.

After shame watching three seasons of the The Real Housewives of Orange County, I expected the NYC ladies to be more of the same cliche of spoiled, self-indulgent, wasteful and shameless cougars albeit a bit less tan, with sleeker hair and a much less appealing accent. And while they are to an extent all of those things, much like New York City itself, these women do seem more worldly and educated than their Southern California counterparts. It is also clear that despite Bravo’s spin-off name for this show, these women are not housewives at all. In fact, it appears they spend very little time, if any, at home.

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