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- Author: Dave Quinn
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We were ready to kill the show before it ever made air.
—ANDY COHEN
Jeana Keough (Housewife): Vicki tries to pretend she was the first
Housewife, but the bottom line is, it was me.
Vicki Gunvalson (Housewife): We started it together, but Jeana didn’t last
fourteen years. It was my show. When you start a job and you’re the
first employee and you work there for fourteen years, you have a sense
of ownership. And I do believe if the show wasn’t successful the first
couple of years, there would be no other franchises. There would be no
fifteen seasons. I set the map.
Scott Dunlop (Original Producer, Real Housewives of Orange County,
Season 1): Of course Jeana would say I created the show for her, just
like Vicki would say “It’s my show.” But Jeana actually was the first
person I met when I moved to Coto de Caza, California, in 1986. I was
unpacking the trunk of my car, and this woman in a white jumpsuit
came up to me and asked, “What the fuck are you doing?”
Before Coto, I was living in Los Angeles. And Coto is a beautiful
place—five thousand homes, fifteen thousand people, it’s the largest
gated community in America. But I was used to diversity, and it’s very
WASPy. All-white conservatives in this uber-wealthy area.
Kathleen French (Senior Vice President of Current Production, Bravo):
It is the weirdest place. You go through this first gate—you have to give
your name—and you’re in this completely different land. Immediately,
the world changes around you. It’s a huge community, and there are
gated communities within the gated community. More fabulous homes
behind other gates of their own.
Scott Dunlop: The men would leave for work and the women were left to
run wild on “the ranch,” as they called it, playing golf and hanging out
and shopping. These ladies who lunch, if you will. They were all such
unusual humans. Entertaining, but also kind of annoying. There were
the “Tennis Bitches,” who were these violent femmes resolving their
unsettled conflicts from high school in tennis matches they’d play while
dripping in diamonds. There was the “Man of Leisure,” who worked as
little as possible to make as much money as possible. Oh, and the
“Boomerang Kid,” who was living back at home again and slacking on
the couch all day, watching MTV, because that’s way easier than finding
a job.
All these archetypes started appearing for me, and I had an idea to
do a short film that was kind of a send-up of life in affluent suburbia;
something tongue-in-cheek and a little parodistic. Then, around 2003,
reality TV was becoming big business. It made me think of the Loud
family, who were on PBS’s An American Family. And I said to myself,
“There are plenty of characters here who are just as compelling. Maybe
this could be a reality series? What would that look like?
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