1. Celebrity Thievery
Kim Richards who has the dubious distinction of being too messy for Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and is therefore an ex-Housewife, pled no contest to shoplifting from the Target in Van Nuys. She was sentenced to attend 52 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, 300 hours of community labor and can no longer shop (if that's the word) at the Target in Van Nuys. Tribulations trail in Richards' wake: in addition to being kicked off Housewives (for real, how much of a fuck up do you have to be to get fired by Bravo!?), she also walked out of a Dr. Phil interview, got wasted at daughter Brooke's Mexico wedding, and at one point reportedly was living in her car.
But I come here not to cast stones at Richards (who clearly has issues) but to discuss a tendency I've noticed among celebrities to, how do you say, liberate shit from random places. I have been in the company of more than one celebrity who'll just pick up something in a store/showroom we're in and just walk on out with it. Most of the time they get away with it, although I was once extremely gratified when a particularly pernicious thief was stopped in her tracks and was forced to yammer her way out of it. And I still think I was more embarrassed than she was.
But the fascinating thing is that often the stuff being stolen isn't that desirable (or certainly not worth going to the clink over). Richards, for instance, zeroed in on multiple make up cases, markers, stickers and something that looks intriguingly like a dildo (but isn't because Target). I, in turn, have seen celebs steal equally random stuff from production including: a bag of garbage bags; a couple of coolers (the Production Manager who requested them back was fired); a set of multi-colored velour track suits and quantities of craft that would fill several storage units.
I don't know why getting famous increases your predisposition to steal. Is it that you just get so much for free that you come to expect it? Cuz based on my experience thievery's a celebrity pandemic.
2. The Ginger Prince
Nothing warms my soul as much as when I can combine my first love, gossip, with discussions of reality. Thus I am delighted to send you to this article from the Daily Mail that postulates that Camilla, (AKA Charles' former sidepiece, AKA the current Duchess of Cornwall) is currently on the hunt for a bride for everyone's favorite royal Hot Prince Harry (AKA the Ginger Prince).
But how, you might say, is this about Reality? (You might also say I just want an excuse to go looking for images like this, this and even this.) Well, one obstacle to Camilla's matchmaking is that Harry, according to the DM, "has developed a penchant for the company of older, more worldly women on whose discretion he can rely." Funny that they used the word discretion, because the (former) spare to the throne was not being quite as discreet when he had a quickie with Real Housewives of DC cast member Cat Ommanney, during production on that show.
Older ladies may be discreet, but production staff, not so much!
3. Contextless Yes
Finally, Vicky Gunvalson "confessed" on the Real Housewives of Orange County Reunion that her ex, Brooks Ayers abused her (among other things). Much is being made of the fact that when Andy Cohen asked her if she was afraid of Brooks she "timidly nodded her head 'yes'." Now quite possibly he is abusive and she is frightened of him, but I will tell you this: we can find a "yes" or nod from pretty much anywhere in a sequence of footage and place it where we want it (for instance after a question like, "Are you afraid of him?").
So I wouldn't be taking anything that appears on a reality show as gospel, especially when it comes to something as loaded as this. Not everyone out there is sue happy, and I am aware of at least one other instance on Bravo where someone told an extremely damaging and bald-faced lie about another character, and got away with it. Legal be lax.
#princeharry #kimrichards #rhoc #rhbh #rhdc
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
UnREAL: Episode 10
"You're a manipulating slut!" Castmember Grace to Rachel.
Yes, Rachel is a manipulating slut, and we wouldn't have it any other way. I much prefer the manipulative slut to the whiner. Finally, Rachel's embracing her Don Draper. I also love the fact that they have allowed the Quinn-Rachel relationship to flourish.
The show deserves all the good press it's been getting including this and this.
In celebration of the finale of UnREAL, some background on the show it is satirizing, The Bachelor. I have never worked on the show myself, so what follows is hearsay from people who have.
According to my sources, the similarities between the fake show Everlasting and the actual show i are startling. While that sounds like a "No, duh!" I was actually surprised to realize the degree to which this is the case.
The first and most startling gossip I have heard is that many of the characters on UnREAL are identical to individuals that worked on The Bachelor, and many of the stories are based on real life as well.
Moving on to some issues that are of interest maybe more to those of us in the industry:
1. Producers drinking with cast members: I was honestly skeptical about the producers drinking with cast, largely I wouldn't want to be drunk on set and generally drunk people don't make for good workers. That being said I have worked in environments where the cast is encouraged to drink, because messy.
However, I am told that producers on The Bachelor do in fact drink with cast members (as an incentive to get the cast to drink). Generally producers have a drink or two and then start faking that they're drinking (as the cast member continues to imbibe). Thus, the producer may order/pour a couple of Vodka tonics, and then start just drinking tonic.
2. The competition between producers: I found the cattiness between producers to be a bit over the top and attributed it to the soapiness of the show. However, I am told UnREAL is pretty accurate in this regard. Although there are no cash incentives (a creation of the show that I find particularly annoying), the producers are apparently more bitchy and competitive than I have experienced. They just happen to compete to advance in their field and pay rent, not for a thousand bucks or some shit.
3. Producers cannot complete an exit interview (that's the interview conducted when a cast member is eliminated) until the girl has cried. That's apparently where all the "So I hear tell you were abused by your babysitter" shit producers role out during interviews comes in. Obviously we pretty much always want them to cry, I guess you would have incentive to be extra evil if you couldn't leave until you did.
4. The house layout on Everlasting is almost identical to The Bachelor set, even down to where the Control Room is in relation to the the rest of the house.
5. This has been reported elsewhere (possibly even in relation to coverage of the show) but the cast are often kept outside to make them cold so that they might be more inclined to cry in interview (and likely scenes).
6. While people don't actually live on set (as Rachel does) given the hours people work on Reality in general, and competition in particular, they do spend so much time on set that they often do laundry and even do sleep on the location. That's part of the reason the crew feels like family.
Finally, although they only ever seem to call direction to A camera (and very rarely B camera) on Everlasting, there are definitely more cameras on The Bachelor set than on Everlasting (or any set for that matter)!
So that's it for UnREAL this season. We'll be checking in with our girls Quinn and Rachel when the show returns. Rachel loves Quinn and we love them both!
In the meantime I'll keep posting on Reality shows and the industry in general. So please stay tuned.
Yes, Rachel is a manipulating slut, and we wouldn't have it any other way. I much prefer the manipulative slut to the whiner. Finally, Rachel's embracing her Don Draper. I also love the fact that they have allowed the Quinn-Rachel relationship to flourish.
The show deserves all the good press it's been getting including this and this.
In celebration of the finale of UnREAL, some background on the show it is satirizing, The Bachelor. I have never worked on the show myself, so what follows is hearsay from people who have.
According to my sources, the similarities between the fake show Everlasting and the actual show i are startling. While that sounds like a "No, duh!" I was actually surprised to realize the degree to which this is the case.
The first and most startling gossip I have heard is that many of the characters on UnREAL are identical to individuals that worked on The Bachelor, and many of the stories are based on real life as well.
Moving on to some issues that are of interest maybe more to those of us in the industry:
1. Producers drinking with cast members: I was honestly skeptical about the producers drinking with cast, largely I wouldn't want to be drunk on set and generally drunk people don't make for good workers. That being said I have worked in environments where the cast is encouraged to drink, because messy.
However, I am told that producers on The Bachelor do in fact drink with cast members (as an incentive to get the cast to drink). Generally producers have a drink or two and then start faking that they're drinking (as the cast member continues to imbibe). Thus, the producer may order/pour a couple of Vodka tonics, and then start just drinking tonic.
2. The competition between producers: I found the cattiness between producers to be a bit over the top and attributed it to the soapiness of the show. However, I am told UnREAL is pretty accurate in this regard. Although there are no cash incentives (a creation of the show that I find particularly annoying), the producers are apparently more bitchy and competitive than I have experienced. They just happen to compete to advance in their field and pay rent, not for a thousand bucks or some shit.
3. Producers cannot complete an exit interview (that's the interview conducted when a cast member is eliminated) until the girl has cried. That's apparently where all the "So I hear tell you were abused by your babysitter" shit producers role out during interviews comes in. Obviously we pretty much always want them to cry, I guess you would have incentive to be extra evil if you couldn't leave until you did.
4. The house layout on Everlasting is almost identical to The Bachelor set, even down to where the Control Room is in relation to the the rest of the house.
5. This has been reported elsewhere (possibly even in relation to coverage of the show) but the cast are often kept outside to make them cold so that they might be more inclined to cry in interview (and likely scenes).
6. While people don't actually live on set (as Rachel does) given the hours people work on Reality in general, and competition in particular, they do spend so much time on set that they often do laundry and even do sleep on the location. That's part of the reason the crew feels like family.
Finally, although they only ever seem to call direction to A camera (and very rarely B camera) on Everlasting, there are definitely more cameras on The Bachelor set than on Everlasting (or any set for that matter)!
So that's it for UnREAL this season. We'll be checking in with our girls Quinn and Rachel when the show returns. Rachel loves Quinn and we love them both!
In the meantime I'll keep posting on Reality shows and the industry in general. So please stay tuned.
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