While I appreciate that these women live in lavish homes and drink spicy margaritas at fancy restaurants, I am really here for the chaos of Dorinda Medley drunkenly telling a house of feuding Housewives that she “ made it nice,” Karen Huger and Gizelle Bryant making fun of each other’s clothes and age, and Jen Shah fleeing from the Feds outside of Beauty Lab + Laser.Įach of these shows operates on the implicit reassurance that despite obscene wealth, people cannot buy themselves out of being silly. If I’m tuning in, it’s because I enjoy witnessing mess. I’m an ardent supporter of Salt Lake City, Beverly Hills, Potomac, Atlanta, and New York City, and I dabble lightly in Orange County and Miami. It’s a voluntary Hunger Games for aspiring socialites. They’ve built a perfect machine for humiliating the rich while still allowing them to feel like winners. In this way, they’ve managed to get dozens and dozens of well-to-do people to sacrifice their privacy and dignity for our entertainment. For years, the network has done an impeccable job of not giving the game away: Is being a Real Housewife an honor or a curse? A status symbol? Is it a glimpse at glamour or a clown show? It’s unclear, thanks, in part, to the “ Bravo wink” in which the channel expertly walks the line in celebrating, mocking, and cashing in on its various Housewives. Some of the cast members may not fully realize it, but Bravo’s Real Housewives aren’t exactly aspirational. Why Housewives’ bad behavior doesn’t stop with Jennie As Bravo has found, chronicling the intersection of affluence and shamelessness results in cast members who exhibit a wide range of awful behaviors, including racism and bigotry.Ĭreating unhinged Housewife entertainment while making sure all of them are “good” people could mean the impossible task of dismantling its own machine, Bravo is finding out. The latter allows the women to hurl drinks, insult each other’s husbands and loved ones, and mock each other’s financial situations on television season after season. The Real Housewives franchise exists because Bravo casts women who possess an embarrassing amount of wealth and a mortifying lack of shame. I’m not privy to Bravo’s Housewives employment calculus, but the abhorrent and frequently bigoted behavior from some of its Housewives seems more like a feature of its design than a bug.
What about Singer’s castmate Luann De Lesseps, who appeared on the show in a blackface costume in 2018? (De Lesseps has denied that she wore blackface.) And where was Bravo when Tiffany Moon, an Asian American cast member on The Real Housewives of Dallas, complained about overt racism against her, including by one of her castmates, Brandi Redmond, who filmed herself mocking Asian Americans in a 2017 social media post? Williams? Singer was also recently on a Housewife spinoff show where she feuded with and cursed at castmate Kenya Moore and repeatedly called her “Porsha,” who is Moore’s Atlanta castmate. If Jennie’s past comments are grounds for firing, what about someone like Ramona Singer who was, according to tabloids, investigated by Bravo for making a racist comment about fellow cast member Eboni K. Nguyen’s firing was seen by many fans as the right thing to do, but the termination raises questions about where Bravo draws the line. In its Instagram post, Bravo said, “Moving forward, we will work to improve our processes to ensure we make better informed and more thoughtful casting decisions.” On January 20, she admitted the posts were hers and apologized via Instagram post, but it wasn’t enough. Earlier this month, screenshots of Nguyen’s deleted Facebook posts with anti-Black and anti–Black Lives Matter comments were posted on Reddit and have since made social media rounds. The network announced via Instagram post that Jennie Nguyen, a rookie appearing on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, would no longer be a cast member amid accusations of racism. This week, Bravo fired one of its Real Housewives.
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