In the first episode of The Real Housewives of New York City, Ramona gets ready to go to the Hamptons for the summer with her daughter Avery, who thinks her mother should dress "more conservatively." At a pool party with her friends, Ramona "embarrasses" Avery by how she acts around her friends. Jill's daughter Allyson wants to go to a swanky detox center in Martha's Vineyard to work on her health and fitness, so Jill convinces Bobby to hire a private plane to take them there. LuAnn packs up her family and moves into their Hamptons home for the summer, with help from Rosanna, their housekeeper. They buy son Noel a puppy, but Rosanna is afraid that she will be the one who ends up taking care of it. Bethenny works on building her career, but is really focused on settling down with her boyfriend Jason. She wants to get married and have a child, but is afraid that Jason doesn't want the same things as he already has three children. Alex and Simon head to St. Barts for summer vacation, bypassing the Hamptons because vacationing there is "too much like work." They leave the kids home with their Au Pair and go on a glamorous shopping spree at Roberto Cavalli.
In den USA ein Phänomen, nun kommen auch Free-TV-Zuschauer in den Genuss dieser Reality-TV-Serie. Ab dem 9. Juli um 20:15 Uhr startet der Frauensender sixx mit der Ausstrahlung von The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Allerdings geht es nicht mit der ersten Staffel los, die schon 2010 an den Start ging, sondern mit der achten Staffel, dessen Ausstrahlung Ende 2017 in den USA begann.
The Real Housewives dreht sich um das Leben superreicher Hausfrauen, in diesem Ableger eben um Hausfrauen aus dem reichen Vorort Beverly Hills bei Los Angeles. Mittlerweile hat (gefühlt) jede größere US-Stadt einen eigenen "Real Housewives"-Ableger, neben Beverly Hills gibt es auch Dallas, New York, Orange County (Kalifornien), Atlanta, New Jersey, Potomac, Salt Lake City und D.C. Auch international gibt es diverse Spin-offs.
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