Are you the kind of person who waits on the edge of your seat for the next season “Real Housewives?” Whether it be Orange County, New York, New Jersey, or Atlanta; are you guaranteed to have it Tivo’d? Well get ready, because LOGO has finally assembled a cast for ‘Gay Housewives of New York.’
The cast includes Reichen Lemkuhl, Rodiney Santiago (show on the right), Mike Ruiz, Austin A., Derek Lloyd, and Ryan Nickulas. I can’t say that I’ve heard of each of them. Reichen is best known for his time on Amazing Race and dating Lance Black, and Mike Ruiz is a photographer who has been on shows like America’s Next Top Model, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and, of course the Feast of Fun! From what I hear, most of the others are models or former models.
Is this going to be a hit? It’s hard to say. The LOGO marketing machine definitely figured out how to make RuPaul’s Drag Race a hit, though that didn’t need much help. The show does bring about a fair amount of excitement, but will this be just another Housewives spinoff, or can they figure out how to add enough of gay twist to make it unique? Or will it be a hot mess furthering a stereotypical image of gay men? Time will tell!
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As long as they let some of the guys talk themselves into a corner, and allow conflict to arise, I could see it being a lot of fun. Mike Ruiz is a great choice and I think it could be another hit for Logo.
As RuPaul likes to say, “dont f*ck it up.”
Sometimes the hottest messes are the most fun!
I have a confession. The Real Housewives series is one of my greatest guilty pleasures. I have watched every episode of every season of every version of the show. I have been obsessed by the flaming burnout of my favorite on screen friendship between NYC housewives Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin.
I can’t wait!
I’m only sad that this isn’t going to be the newest installment on Bravo. The thing I worry about most is that Logo is far too sensitive about sending the “right image” about gays, to allow these men to be their unrestrained selves. The greatest moments on the Bravo series have been when the women go way over the top, turn the drama and crazy up to 11 and make complete damn fools of themselves.
oh yeah I live tweet every episode of the Real Housewives. If you want to follow my thoughts about the show you can follow me @curtisjunk with tag #RealHousewives on each show night.
Thats fantastic, i’ll have to watch for the tweets!
missed last nights live tweet session as I was watching comedy legend, Oscar and Emmy winning actress Cloris Leachman’s one woman shaw.
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