TheGlobeandMail.com:
The hunt is on for well-heeled, well-preserved housewives in Toronto to star in a Canadian version of the juggernaut television franchise Real Housewives.
In recent weeks, the city’s doyennes of upper-crust domesticity have been fielding calls from casting agents asking them to audition for the chance to become the next Bethenny, the break-out queen of Real Housewives of New York.
So far, there’s been lots of blushing and giggling among a chosen set, but apparently few of the moneyed matrons of Rosedale, the Bridle Path or Forest Hill have accepted the invitation to have their tony family lives filmed as tawdry spectator sport. Definite no-gos include cable guy Ed Rogers’s wife Suzanne, as well as fashionista Stacey Kimel. Jessica Mulroney – wife of eTalk Daily’s Ben Mulroney and part of the Brown shoe family – is apparently still mulling it over.
Real Housewives of Orange County launched in 2006 on Bravo (part of the NBC Universal family) and now has spinoffs in New York, Beverly Hills, New Jersey, Atlanta, Washington and Miami. The series airs in Canada on the Slice network.
Louise Clark, founder of Vancouver’s Lark Productions, has confirmed her company is “currently investigating casting opportunities for a prospective new Canadian Housewives-type series.” But she won’t fess up to official Housewives status, and adds, “casting is in very early stages and a series has not yet been green lit.”
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