This Thursday, Bravo is rolling out its sixth (ugh) “Real Housewives” franchise, which will document the facelifted catfights of Beverly Hills. The New York Times interviewed Bravo’s mastermind Andy Cohen about the new series, and the highlight was clearly this:
Q. You haven’t ventured into the Midwest yet. Why not?
A. I’m from St. Louis. I know the real housewives of St. Louis, and I don’t necessarily want to see them on TV. Please don’t let that be a slam on my hometown because it’s my favorite place.
I lived in southern Illinois for five years, and that dude speaks the truth (except for the “favorite place” part). You’d be hard-pressed to find another geographic region where the attractiveness of the population declines so precipitously after the age of 20 or so (some people get fat during college, others get fat after marriage and kids, but everyone gets fat). I guess “cheese curds and church” isn’t the exercise formula to get women on TV. Unless they have 16 kids.
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To be fair, So. Illinois is a completely separate entity. Even driving through there makes my arteries hurt and my eyes bleed. It’s different in suburban MN, and it was different in Madison, WI. BUT on the whole, totally agree: Church and cheese curds ain’t a recipe for beauty.
To be fair though, I don’t necessarily want to see any of the skanks on TV they’ve put on thus far.
I lived in Chicago for awhile and has it’s fair share of incredibly wealthy suburbs with more than enough surgery-obsessed housewives. But St. Louis? Christ, that might be the ugliest city in the world (can’t count all of Wisconsin as a city)
I’m having a vision of what an episode of “Housewives of St. Louis” would look like. Strangely, it seems identical to that clip of the psycho-chick at the fat guy from “Teen Mom”, only older.
Could be worse, though. Imagine “Real Housewives of Indianapolis”
I’m from the part of PA often referred to as Pennsyltucky, and we have the same problem. This summer, I ran into a girl I graduated with who was an absolute spice rack in high school. Without hyperbole, she put on 100 lbs in the last ten years. Broke my heart.
What were the 5 years Uff? You get your journalism degree in Carbondale then repay them with this libel?
I definitely don’t see the obesity knock living downtown Chicago since graduating from Champaign but I’ve visited NY and Boston plenty and don’t notice any difference. LA and SF, now my trips out west it’s obvious people stay in better shape as a whole but fat people aren’t exactly clamoring for year round warm weather unless they run a backsweat bottling boutique (it’s trendy out west, purer than Fiji and Voss)
@Wayne: Chicago is NOT representative of the Midwest.
Also, if I’d gone to Carbondale, my syntax would be worse than yours.
OK, I haven’t ever seen any of these crap shows other than the clips they show on The Soup, but near as I can tell, half of these “Real Housewives” aren’t even housewives, they’re all divorced.
As far as Chicago is concerned, it’s really the same as all major metropolitan hubs. All cities that big have a fair amount of the reasonably attractive people from that region, because that’s where all the attractive people jobs are. If you want a representative cross section of the population you have to go to the suburbs and small towns.
What’s a syntax? Is that what the church pays to families of abuse victims? Kevin, a bass line please? Where’s Kevin?
I won’t ask you anymore questions Matt sorry. Go Salukis!
In Matt’s defense, you did accuse him of going to Carbondale.
All of the SIU bashing really makes me regret getting a journalism degree there. Worst place to go to school to get the worst degree. And St. Louis is a shithole.