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Real Housewives of New York
When <em>Gossip Girls</em> Meets <em>90210</em> With Real People Pretending to Be Fake Versions of Themselves
Social strife

Perhaps a better analogy for Social Heights, the in-production series (supposedly set to air on Bravo!) about New York's YA jet set elite, would be, "The Hills meets The Real Housewives of NYC."

Possibly-employed fameball Kristian Laliberte rounds out the cast of 20-something unnecessary men, women, and twins who begged agreed to have their lives documented by a film crew — of one.

"Another guest overheard the soon-to-be reality stars dueling over the mock-fights they were staging. They’re already pretending to be people they’re not before they’re fed their story lines. Tell me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a “reality” show?

OshKosh B'Gosh, this show sounds unironically exciting. A real fight about who gets to fake fight?

We'd love to roll our eyes and say "another one of these reality shows about entitlement?," but that anyone is still questioning the integrity of reality shows proves there's still a market for young person angst wrapped in a trust fund.

What Do You Mean <i>The Real Housewives</i> Aren't Part of New York Society?

Though he considers them non-society — hey, there's a website about that — social set chronicler David Patrick Columbia is giving some ink to the girls of The Real Housewives of New York. Newspeg: Kelly Killoren Bensimon, the exiting wife of American's Next Top Model photographer and Elle's (international) creative director, makes her TV debut. So what's huffy pants Columbia think of the cast?

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<em>MILF Island</em> Begets <em>Camp Cougar</em>
But is Lisa Gastineau really the best choice to host?

Milf Island was the fictional show-within-a-show on 30 Rock and quickly became one of the best running gags of the season. "20 MILFs, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules" — even Ben Silverman can't come up with this stuff.

Who knew that it would latch on to the cultural zeitgeist so quickly?

Now MILF Island is becoming a show IRL — only VH1 is calling it Camp Cougar, and letting reality show alumni Lisa Gastineau host.

Sure, some of these foxy older ladies might not be mamas, hence "Cougars" and not "MILFs." Still, the creepy implications for this show are unilateral: Imagine if they had this sort of reality competition for older men trying to pick up hot, nubile, women? (Beside The Pick-Up Artist, of course.)

Not to mention, most people don't even know who Lisa Gastineau is. And while that didn't stop any of the Real Housewives from getting gigs, we found some much more obvious choices to host this thing:

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