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COMMENT 326491P	2012-10-01 09:20 AM
Anyone stupid enough to appear on this show deserves all the bad karma that will surely come to them.
COMMENT 326493	2012-10-01 09:30 AM
This town is to small for this. Im sure it will get ugly
COMMENT 326495	2012-10-01 09:33 AM
I'm sure they don't actually mean "real" housewives...the ones with no maids, or nannies, no catered dinners, no folding laundry in high heals. I haven't watched the shows, but I've seen interviews with some of these women. I'm not judging those who have maids or nannies (I would LOVE that at times!), the title of the shows can be misleading at times!
COMMENT 326497	2012-10-01 09:35 AM
This should be interesting.....
COMMENT 326498	2012-10-01 09:38 AM
Loud Family meets the 21st C. - only as others have predicted, in order to be "entertaining" it won't be "pretty". The bigger question is: what will this do to the Santa Barbara brand? Nothing good.
COMMENT 326499P	2012-10-01 09:42 AM
Oh brother... Anyone remember the TV show "Santa Barbara" which aired in the 80's? When I was a concierge at a local resort in Montecito, guests used to come to our desk in the lobby and ask if "that's really what goes on in Santa Barbara." I would tell them "that real life happenings in SB were much, much more naughty." The looks on many of thier faces were priceless. They never got straight answers from me about the "naughtiness." Pure entertainment!
COMMENT 326501	2012-10-01 09:43 AM
Wasn't Ryan Seacrest doing a SB ballroom dancing show? I'm guessing this is something different?
COMMENT 326503	2012-10-01 09:46 AM
498 - This may burnish the brand a little with some superficial "glitz and glam" since our brand has been tarnished for tourists in recent years by urinating, panhandling bums. And, of course, here at EdHat we'll be able to hone our level of "snark." Woo-hoo, bring it on!
COMMENT 326506	2012-10-01 09:53 AM
That's it. I'm outta here. I never thought I'd be ashamed of Santa Barbara but there it is.
COMMENT 326509P	2012-10-01 09:56 AM
I hope they have on some artist/hippy chicks from Montecito/Mountain Dr who have home births, breast feed their 5 year olds, grow weed in the backyard with the free-range chickens, compost heaps, and vegetable gardens. It would be a refreshing twist to the Bravo show brand.
COMMENT 326510	2012-10-01 09:58 AM
It clearly won't be a representation of the REAL housewives of SB..lets be real most of us work because we can't afford to stay home. Should be pretty hysterical though!! lol I am sure it will be all Montecito and Hope Ranch mothers.
COMMENT 326512	2012-10-01 10:02 AM
yesssssssssssssssss. So excited.
AQUAHOLIC	2012-10-01 10:02 AM
Is it just me, or does this sound almost as interesting as watching paint dry? Seriously, this town is too small and way too boring to warrant this show, but then again, the vacant, vacuous lives of the plastic riddled women of other cities has been able to fill an hour...yawn. Of course if they make it, I'll watch it. It's not supposed to air until a year from now, maybe by then they'll run out of story lines and scrap it...
COMMENT 326499P	2012-10-01 10:14 AM
The first espisode should include: A great white shark busted for driving a panga boat Mayor finds a bag of $750,000 worth of 100 dollar bills on Channel Drive (counterfieted by the secret lover of another housewife) and spends it all on school textbooks. Alien's invading Hope Ranch at McCaw's estate on the night the housewives party there Cruise ship officers caught in panty raid at U.C.S.B. Housewives steal cruise ship and run it ashore. Housewives mutiny the show and house-husbands have to fill thier "roles" Barney Brantingham takes up with one of the housewives only to learn later on, that she is actually his long lost neice from North Dakota The real truth about pool boys...
COMMENT 326524	2012-10-01 10:21 AM
and the demise of santa barbara continues...
COMMENT 326525P	2012-10-01 10:23 AM
The "Real Housewives of Montecito/Hope Ranch" maybe. But definitely not "of the West Side/East Side"
COMMENT 326528	2012-10-01 10:30 AM
hmm... this may be worth getting cable for.... lol.
COMMENT 326531	2012-10-01 10:31 AM
Any bets on the wives? I can only think of maybe 4...Portia De Rossi, Sheryl Berkoff, Stedman Graham, maybe Bo Derek?
COMMENT 326533	2012-10-01 10:32 AM
Maybe they can film this up in Canada, like they do "Psych", the other TV show supposedly set in Santa Barbara.
SHOREBIRD	2012-10-01 10:34 AM
Any publicity gets us more homeless.
COMMENT 326536	2012-10-01 10:35 AM
I am a housewife, but I bet I am not interesting. As I am the 47%! I will NOT watch this. Heck no! I can't sit here and see these ladies stress over the wrong flower assortments for their benefit gala. Or whatever. Unlike me, and most of us who stress over how we will pay rent this month!
COMMENT 326537	2012-10-01 10:37 AM
Shows like this have to get clearances to film, that's why they always end up eating at the same restaurants, going to the same clubs and stores, etc. Can't wait to boycott whichever businesses choose to support this nonsense. It would be a fun edhat poll to vote on which businesses you think will be featured on the show.
SEEDLADY	2012-10-01 10:37 AM
It will be as manufactured & scripted as all the other shows are. Do these producers have nothing better to do?
COMMENT 326544	2012-10-01 10:44 AM
Maggie's at the old State & A location was specifically remodeled and opened for the filming of this show.
COMMENT 326546	2012-10-01 10:45 AM
Ugg. How embarassing, although I'm pretty curious to see which "housewives" try to get on the show. Egad ... hoping SB has more class than this .... I agree with the Mountain Drive Hippy Mom comment, though ... at least that would be better than watching a bunch of rich (faux or real) women backstab each other and mordify their children!
COMMENT 326547	2012-10-01 10:45 AM
Proof SB has become just as lame as everywhere else?
COMMENT 326549P	2012-10-01 10:49 AM
531, none of those 'housewives' are fake enough for the show, plus, some actually have a conscience and some ethics. They'll find the fakest of the fake, those that will do virtually anything to get on T.V.
COMMENT 326498	2012-10-01 10:52 AM
@517 & 531 Aren't Danny Elfman and Bridget Fonda living in Hope Ranch? Gina Tolleson former Miss World title holder, mother, and editor of SB Magazine. The Auchinclosses, the Firestones. And Arthur Von Wiesenburger alone could entertainingly fill the spots of three or four housewives of SB....
COMMENT 326552	2012-10-01 10:58 AM
If they had a show about 4 toothless, vagrant, alcoholic women called "Homeless Housewives of Santa Barbara", I might just tune in.
COMMENT 326553	2012-10-01 11:02 AM
@ SEEDLADY. I'm with you. Why is it people don't get that every word and gesture on these silly "reality" shows is scripted down to the last pout? I think people who watch this junk are same people who love the phony wrestling programs.
COMMENT 326556	2012-10-01 11:06 AM
I already know two "housewives" who have gone to a casting call. They had to sign a non-disclosure - but I got some details. You get $5,000.00 per episode, most story lines/events are produced vs. just happen. They want to know how big/opulent your house is - since filming will take place their at times. Age must be between 35-50. Can not have a rap sheet. Husband must not have any IRS troubles. Had to take a 2 hour psychological exam. If selected to next round will have to take a polygraph examination.
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-01 11:13 AM
Oh cool can I do it I'll dress in drag?
COMMENT 326560	2012-10-01 11:15 AM
I also heard they needed to leave a urine sample at the casting. If it showed a lack of alcohol in their system, they likely won't be chosen.
COMMENT 326533	2012-10-01 11:23 AM
Come on 326557. Check your facts before you criticize. Irresponsible posting. Edhat is a news aggregator. They don't make the news stories, they report what others are reporting and it is up to us whether to discount the article. And the fact is that Bravo is actively searching in MANY cities for "Housewives" spin-offs.
COMMENT 326565	2012-10-01 11:31 AM
Real housewives, huh? Most aren't wearing heels and having a 3 Apple-tini lunch, and then visiting the docs for a Botox refill. Now, if they want to see someone shopping at the grocery store, running errands, sitting in traffic, I guess people will watch anything. Sounds a little boring though.
COMMENT 326503	2012-10-01 11:34 AM
Hmmm... I can see an episode where the housewives go for a massage at a local resort as mentioned a few months ago by Jennifer Love-Hewitt on the Chelsea Lately program to see just what the massage might include.
COMMENT 326498	2012-10-01 11:35 AM
Casting idea: make all of the above-mentioned local celebrities compete first to get on the show -- a pre-show show a la dancing with the stars but instead they'd have to host a cooking show, play polo competitively, prove knowledge of financial instruments, and demonstrate a talent. They would then be voted on the show by viewers. During the course of the show one will lose their family fortune to bad investment management, one will have a plastic surgery mishap, and one will try to drop out but be followed to an ashram in Nepal and then cleverly spin off a new lifestyle travel show and home brand: Real Ashrams of Nepal.
COMMENT 326572	2012-10-01 11:37 AM
Great... more stereotypes we have to explain away.
COMMENT 326576P	2012-10-01 11:48 AM
I say awesome! And if anyone asks you if that's what SB is really like, just say "heck yeah"!
COMMENT 326579	2012-10-01 12:00 PM
My bet would be a bunch of the Laguna Blanca moms, since Hope Ranch is a perfect blend of over-entitled, detached from reality people with way too much time & money on their hands. Sadly most people in SB will watch this (if it happens) just out of pure morbid curiosity.
COMMENT 326583	2012-10-01 12:05 PM
My guess is there will be no contenders. The women in this town who do things have class, and it is too unwelcoming for the wealthy trash to live here.
COMMENT 326589	2012-10-01 12:20 PM
It is beyond me why people put themselves on television to completely embarass themselves. I do hope there is a lack of participation from the women of Santa Barbara. I have never watched a "housewives" show and having one filmed here will not change that. If Bravo wants to have a show titled real housewives they should focus on women that actually stay home and care for their family rather than the likes of the women they have used on the past series. Show some class SB just say no.
4358ED	2012-10-01 01:02 PM
There goes the town (or at least what is left of it).
COMMENT 326646P	2012-10-01 03:26 PM
Oh my gosh, I live in Hope Ranch and the moms aren't anything like you describe. We take our kids to school and the beach. We dress in sweats and ride horse. We have jobs. There was a Firestone here and she was sweet as pie... Hope Ranch housewives are concerned, earthy, and not spoiled at all..... We would make a very boring story line!
COMMENT 326648P	2012-10-01 03:29 PM
And will they call it: "Soap Ranch"?
COMMENT 326666P	2012-10-01 03:57 PM
Just clicking on the article read the update where E has a Bravo rep saying completely not true or the E article here: http://www.eonline.com/news/350241/real-housewives-of-santa-barbara-casting-rumors-completely-not-true
SHARON93111	2012-10-01 04:15 PM
Darn..this would have been fun!! I remember when the soap Santa Barbara was running! So many people know of Santa Barbara because of the soap!!
COMMENT 326491P	2012-10-01 04:26 PM
I'm guessing there's a whole bunch of Hollywood types in Montecito and the Carp foothills who are none to happy about their place of residence becoming Star Watch territory again, where they can't slip out for a meal without some pulled back bleached blond whining into her cellphone in front of the cameras about how inconvenient life is. Talk about pooping in your own back yard.
YIN YANG	2012-10-01 04:52 PM
Thank you 666P. I could not have been the only one whose first reaction simply to the "on the web" icon was to google for info... Sure, it could happen. But media/tv gossip mags and sites are saying it's only a rumor.
IMABOO	2012-10-01 06:25 PM
LMAO @ Roger. Now THAT I would watch.
COMMENT 326553	2012-10-01 08:28 PM
509, 546. I don't have chickens, but I do have fruit trees, a compost and a veggie garden. My hair is long and blonde, my boobs aren't augmented. Does this make me a hippie? Oh, and my 8 bedroom, 4 and 1/2 bath house is worth about 1.75 mil. Only problem is, I'm not a housewife. Darn it. And I hate fake nails. Guess I am a hippie.
COMMENT 326648P	2012-10-01 10:19 PM
I hope Fiona gets a leading role.
LOUWHO?	2012-10-01 11:45 PM
797P for the win!!!
COMMENT 326855P	2012-10-02 09:22 AM
After years of trying to explain that Santa Barbara has poor neighborhoods, lay-off days for our librarians, limited school funding, etc., just like everywhere else - I get puzzled looks and "But there's a lot of money in Santa Barbara" - now this dumb show comes along to supposedly affirm: "There's a lot of money in Santa Barbara." I know I should be laughing it off but it's galling.
COMMENT 326931P	2012-10-02 12:17 PM
Originally I believe the intention was to share lives of woman living out their days and having a good time. That sounded enjoyable and a chance to escape our own day-to-day lives. Seeing women supporting one another to pursue further endeavors of fashion, books, singing etc… what it has unfortunately turned into is narcissistic woman abusing each other and it is getting worse. The yelling and berating of each other is out of hand and only because this is what gets ratings???Sadly It doesn’t teach young women to be successful, just hateful and frankly who needs to watch that on TV?
COMMENT 326975P	2012-10-02 01:54 PM
Relax and keep reading. This story is false. The show was considered, but canned.

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