I definitely probably won't watch 'NYC Prep'

Hello, I'm Barbara, and I'm a reality-TV addict. I need an intervention for all the back episodes of Intervention that I have piled up on my TiVo. I swore I wouldn't start watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey after wasting so much time on that car wreck, The Real Housewives of New York City. But then they started focusing on Danielle, a character even the Sopranos writers couldn't make up: with a face less animated than an Old Navy mannequin and eyebrows just about hitting Philadelphia, she resists coming clean on exactly how hideously crime-filled her background is. (She was born Beverly, adopted the name Danielle as an exotic dancer, desperately paws at the other housewives and perhaps even murdered JFK.) Anyway, here come the promos for Bravo's NYC Prep, which debuts Tuesday, June 16. A real-life version of Gossip Girl, it follows six high school kids who, according to Bravo, are "firmly entrenched in Manhattan's social circle." These kids are such hideous stereotypes of spoiled bratty rich kids, it's as if they've been practicing in front of the mirror all their lives, just waiting for the cameras to show up. It's toxic stuff. I refuse to watch. Til Tuesday.

—Posted by Barbara Lippert

June 8, 2009 | Permalink