I watched this last night. While I know all this is totally fake, I will continue watching it. I like Whitney. I will enjoy watching Olivia embarrass herself. I don't care for Jay, but I like his accent however if the cheating stuff turns out to be true I will enjoy hating him. Also, I think Whitney is gorgeous. Did yall happen to notice the legs on that girl? I'm jealous as all get out.
@terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: Her legs are insane, and possibly deserve billing as the silent star of the show. The City - featuring Boring Whitney Port and her sidekick(s), THE LEGS.
@superrachel: Oh, that's gonna be the spinoff once The City's over. The show will consist of Whitney's legs being videotaped all day and night. And that's it.
@terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: Only if they feature her sassy friends "hair" and the "eyebrow" sisters. Seriously, girl hit the genetic JACKPOT.
@schlegs84: I know. She's gotta be like 7ft tall. And yes to the eyebrows and yes to the hair. And also I would like for her to be my personal shopper and come to my house and dress me every day. For free.
They seem to be people whose families have a great deal of money, so they can get fancy trainers and diets and beauticians, right, and then they are given lots of fame and publicity and glamorous little perks just for standing around and looking pretty at really elite, exclusive events.
@tscheese: Did you read that New York article linked above? It blew my mind.
It's like they took being a socialite to a sports level - grasping for yardage, earning points for whatever charity they're "on," it made me sick. I had heard of this, but I didnt know it still existed and to what level.
More to my disgust - how do people actually COVER this? The writers who write about this, not the ones who do it because they have to, but the ones who eat it up? WTF is wrong with you???
My bff from law school told me that his fraternity brother from college is dating Olivia Palermo. I was like "WHAT!? You joined one of those douchebag fraternities?" Seriously, my friend is not a douche, so it took me aback. Also, he went to a small upstate college, not some Ivy...
My favorite part is when Manolo was completely uninterested in Olivia. Burn!
As for the show, I want Kelly Cutrone to be my best friend. But what's this uptown/downtown war they are trying to fake...I mean, I get socialites v. hipsters (although that line is getting pretty blurry), but not downtown vs. uptown...
Vapid Twit 1: Oh my GAWD. You live, like, AT LEAST five or six subway stops away from me. Vapid Twit 2: Oh. My. GAWD. You are totally, like, in Midtown, and I am totally like, downtown.
(lofty, challenging music plays)
Twit 1 + 2: OBVIOUSLY WE MUST BE BITTER ENEMIES FOREVER SINCE WE LIVE SO FAR AWAYYYY
(gong clash, orchestra hit)
Yeah, uh, I don't get the downtown vs. uptown thing either. It doesn't even make sense.
I can't decide why watching this show was so laborious. I watch "The Hills." I was looking forward to "The City." Like, a lot. And then....something was just off. Maybe LA just serves the breezy, buttery format of the show so much better than NY? It could be because I live here. But, I actually got kind of offended listening to that Nevan idiot talk some bullshit about preventing Whitney from getting involved with the "downtown" riffraff. STOP TRYING TO SOUND LIKE GOSSIP GIRL. Gossip Girl is funny because it's so ridiculous, not because it's true.
Also, I know there are people like this that live in NY but I can't understand why they found the surfery-est people they could to fill in the "Hills" void. You're in your twenties, hit up the east village once in a blue. At least pretend you have some edge. Or a non-white friend. Or a Jewish friend. SOMETHING.
I liked how they called Olivia an "uptown" girl and she lives in TriBeCa...yeah that's downtown MTV, just FYI.
Okay, so I totes watched both episodes and I've gotta say I like this better than the Hills, despite the fact that it's erroneous. I liked that Erin girl, she seems hilarious...one of the socialite doods called her a whore, nice.
I also loved how Whitney couldn't believe everyone knew each other...even though they are all being paid to be on the show. I knew none of those people, I've live here for 4 years, should I know who this Olivia girl is and who Jay is? Am I not kewl?
@AthertonMerriweather: I figured her dad was someone famous, there was a pic of him right behind her head in one shot for like the most ridiculous obvious famous father placement ever.
The lesson I have learned is that clearly I need to drop out of my studies at The New School if I ever want to have a fan site. Or a $4,150 bachelorette pad. Damn my desire to earn a BA!
She's only 22? I feel like I've been hearing about her for 900 years. The recession is crappy and I hate it but if it means the end of socialite "brands," I can live with that.
@hortense: ironic isn't it, since the parties she was so desparate to get into 2 years ago she was too young to attend anyway (I have to work one of the socialite parties as part of my job and we are very insistent that you have to be 21 to get in, we turned away Levin Rambin last year--she was Tinsley Mortimer and Christian Laberte's teenage soap star pet for a bit--it was awesome).
@Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: Cool. Can I come? I'll be either "the poor one" or "the one that only likes junk food and farts in her sleep". I'm sure we could make a place for ourselves.
@baitingthebalcony: Did you know she had a deb ball? That's when she got her first pair of Manolos. For her deb ball. That's a debutante ball. It's when she got her first pair of Manolos. When she was 17. For her deb ball. When she was 18. For her deb ball.
@Yitzhak: Yes... Well...Manolo is my dad. He gave me my first pair before I was born. In the womb. My mom's womb is where they design Manolos. And I had 17 deb balls. I am at a Deb Ball right now, in Manolos. I am wearing 2 pairs of Manolos, one on each foot. Right now, at my Deb Ball. From my dad.
@ineffable.me: She did both, I believe. Because for a girl like Olivia, once just wasn't enough. And I don't know if you caught this or not, but her Manolos were SO COMFY!!
@baitingthebalcony: I don't understand what the big deal is with debutante balls, anyway. All I know is that my mum had quite the 'fro in her deb photos, and that she looked hilarious. Everything else is just boring.
Urge to quit society and move to Rocky Mountains and grow a beard (I'd find a way) and become allied with a friendly family of Grizzly bears headed by the matriarch named Egrizabeth and chop wood and live off cans of Dinty Moore beef stew cooked in a small cast iron cauldron and wear flannel and drink spring water by dipping a tin cup into the water and becomming an accomplished reclusive world champion quilter (the JD Salinger of quilting)--
@morninggloria: Yeah, I have those feelings too though they tend to run more towards the move to the middle of nowhere in some mountains, produce my own power, grow my own food and forage for other stuff. I'd still need internet, though, so I can come here. This is the most social I am in life, other than with my boyfriend. He's a homebody, too, though.
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Who lets these things happen?
Arggggh
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No, really.
They seem to be people whose families have a great deal of money, so they can get fancy trainers and diets and beauticians, right, and then they are given lots of fame and publicity and glamorous little perks just for standing around and looking pretty at really elite, exclusive events.
Am I right?
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It's like they took being a socialite to a sports level - grasping for yardage, earning points for whatever charity they're "on," it made me sick. I had heard of this, but I didnt know it still existed and to what level.
More to my disgust - how do people actually COVER this? The writers who write about this, not the ones who do it because they have to, but the ones who eat it up? WTF is wrong with you???
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My favorite part is when Manolo was completely uninterested in Olivia. Burn!
As for the show, I want Kelly Cutrone to be my best friend. But what's this uptown/downtown war they are trying to fake...I mean, I get socialites v. hipsters (although that line is getting pretty blurry), but not downtown vs. uptown...
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Vapid Twit 1: Oh my GAWD. You live, like, AT LEAST five or six subway stops away from me.
Vapid Twit 2: Oh. My. GAWD. You are totally, like, in Midtown, and I am totally like, downtown.
(lofty, challenging music plays)
Twit 1 + 2: OBVIOUSLY WE MUST BE BITTER ENEMIES FOREVER SINCE WE LIVE SO FAR AWAYYYY
(gong clash, orchestra hit)
Yeah, uh, I don't get the downtown vs. uptown thing either. It doesn't even make sense.
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Also, I know there are people like this that live in NY but I can't understand why they found the surfery-est people they could to fill in the "Hills" void. You're in your twenties, hit up the east village once in a blue. At least pretend you have some edge. Or a non-white friend. Or a Jewish friend. SOMETHING.
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Okay, so I totes watched both episodes and I've gotta say I like this better than the Hills, despite the fact that it's erroneous. I liked that Erin girl, she seems hilarious...one of the socialite doods called her a whore, nice.
I also loved how Whitney couldn't believe everyone knew each other...even though they are all being paid to be on the show. I knew none of those people, I've live here for 4 years, should I know who this Olivia girl is and who Jay is? Am I not kewl?
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I am moving to NY next year and would like this shit gone, or at least on it's way down, when I get there.
I can work from the inside, if need be. I will be the "fat girl," as that horrid article described.
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Well...Manolo is my dad. He gave me my first pair before I was born. In the womb. My mom's womb is where they design Manolos. And I had 17 deb balls. I am at a Deb Ball right now, in Manolos. I am wearing 2 pairs of Manolos, one on each foot. Right now, at my Deb Ball. From my dad.
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Bish, plz.
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RISING.
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