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august 31st?! that's when i start my first day of college 
Gossip Girl (TV Series)
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voguelover94
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^ is that the 'real gossip girl'?
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Just another reality show... Focus on a group of uber wealthy kids in New York City who probably spend more on clothes in a year than I make...
One of the quotes from the preview... "I have a credit card, but have no idea how much I spend..."
So looking are the stereotypes they selected, it does look to be "The Real" Gossip Girl kind of show, though in my jaded opinion, reality TV is heavily scripted/edited
One of the quotes from the preview... "I have a credit card, but have no idea how much I spend..."
So looking are the stereotypes they selected, it does look to be "The Real" Gossip Girl kind of show, though in my jaded opinion, reality TV is heavily scripted/edited
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I'm so sick of that image of people with money the media contribute to share with the world. Those who say such things are just one of those dumb nouveaux riches kids who think they'll become famous by saying such things (and i kinda blame Paris Hilton for that).
I agree with the above mentioned 100%. I also think the media should cut back on showing something like that on TV with the economy being so bad and a lot of people struggling right now. It's just not PC atm, imo.
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I always have to laugh at the "Real Housewives" I was flipping through and saw part of the New Jersey crew, and saw a scene when one of the "Real Housewives" was furniture shopping for the French Chateau/Palace they were having built... I want this... two of these... must have this... Spent like $120K+ on furniture for a couple of rooms.
As far as not being PC... Could care less. PC is nothing short of censorship and language police. If you control the vocabulary, you can control the world.
Saw the "Preview" last night when I could not sleep and the kids are pretty sad... One of the quotes was from one of the girls, I think Camille, was something to the extent... "Like we are very wealthy... Not multi-billionaire, but top half percent.
Also sad in a Gossip Girl sense, they dragged in a Upper West Side kid, Taylor, ala Jenny Humphry who is one of the "Poor" public school kids hanging out with the Preps and had some of the same sort of Gossip Girl scenes like them all going to an uber posh restaurant and one of the "Riches" picking up the tab, etc.
As far as not being PC... Could care less. PC is nothing short of censorship and language police. If you control the vocabulary, you can control the world.
Saw the "Preview" last night when I could not sleep and the kids are pretty sad... One of the quotes was from one of the girls, I think Camille, was something to the extent... "Like we are very wealthy... Not multi-billionaire, but top half percent.
Also sad in a Gossip Girl sense, they dragged in a Upper West Side kid, Taylor, ala Jenny Humphry who is one of the "Poor" public school kids hanging out with the Preps and had some of the same sort of Gossip Girl scenes like them all going to an uber posh restaurant and one of the "Riches" picking up the tab, etc.
^I, too, couldn't sleep last night and watched the "Preview." I was angry and annoyed within the first five minutes. Their drama and problems are just so trivial. I mean part of what I enjoy about Gossip Girl is that I know that the drama is fake, and the characters portray insecurities that make them relatable. Even though I know the drama on NYC Prep is most likely fake because as stated, reality TV is highly scripted, I just can't help but be angered with how foolish these kids are acting and find it acceptable.
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^ Wait... Young kids? Teenagers? Acting up and over dramatizing things for attention?
Apologies to the younger crowd here... Not targeting you, but Mordant hit it right on the head... This show feels like "Who wants to be the next Paris Hilton?"
Apologies to the younger crowd here... Not targeting you, but Mordant hit it right on the head... This show feels like "Who wants to be the next Paris Hilton?"
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My Monday nights suck without GG!! Does anyone know when the s2 dvd comes out?
That preview of NYC Prep isnt on youtube or anywhere except for the channel's webiste, is it ? Would like to see it but it says its not available in my country
got the same problem. i'd really like to see it even though i think i won't really like it. that's the same like with the oc and 'the real oc' laguna beach.
i just tuned in a few times into laguna beach (must be ages now
) but found it horribly boring and fake.designerleather
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^ Bravo! (Excuse the bad pun since NYC Prep is on Bravo) but right on with OC and Laguna Beach.
I think the show will still be interesting, but a little staged and over acted. Still should be some nice fashion I hope
I think the show will still be interesting, but a little staged and over acted. Still should be some nice fashion I hope
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WOW! That is a name I was not expecting. I originally had Orwell on my mind, but yes, Foucault would equally apply, and some fascinating work with Madness and Civilization
Thought Id share this with you guys - Its from NY Times 
June 4, 2009, 11:25 am Born Rich | A Preview of Bravo’s ‘NYC Prep’
By Joshua David Stein
Images courtesy of Bravo TV Cast members Camille, 17, and P.C., 18, on Bravo’s new series, supposedly a real-life “Gossip Girl.”
Slumped down in the front few rows of an auditorium on Monday, the teenage stars of the new Bravo reality television show “NYC Prep”, which will have its debut on June 23, looked anxious, like kids caught doing something naughty, unsure of the punishment that awaits them. They had been summoned for a media preview of the show, held at the Paley Media Center. They were in trouble, but they had no idea how bad it would get.
Taylor, 15, aches to fit in with her wealthier peers.
“NYC Prep,” which comes from the programming minds that brought you the “Real Housewives” franchise, is a documentary series that purports to be a real life “Gossip Girl.” The six young principals live on the Upper East Side and all — except one — attend unnamed private schools. They lead the lives of, as Andy Cohen, Bravo’s unctuous executive vice president of programming puts it, “mini-adults.” He didn’t mean little people, big world (that’s TLC). He meant that his stars are adults stuck in the awkward (but fat-free) bodies of teenagers.
Since Bravo’s camera crew was understandably barred from filming inside the school, the action is all extracurricular. “My hobby,” says Sebastian, a doe-eyed 16-year-old ladies’ man, “is hooking up with the hottest girls I can.” Like any budding player, Sebastian goes on a date to Kurve, a futuristic Thai place in the East Village, with a wingman and two hapless 16-year-old girls. This isn’t so much what adults do as what a teenager might think adults do. (Admittedly, going over credit card statements with your spouse does not good television make.) P.C., at 18 the show’s elder, sips Coke at Phillippe while discussing cleft palates with his friend Jessie. “No one dies of a cleft palate,” he says dismissively. Camille checks her SAT scores while lunching with her mother at Sarabeth’s.
The other preoccupation of adulthood-in-a-teenage-mind is shopping — a constant activity. Jessie is passionate about fashion and has had, she boasts, a personal shopper at Barneys since she was 13. But she’s also hip and with it and thus takes a trip to the Bowery boutique White and Blue, where she tries on a dress. “OMG,” says the saleswoman, “you look like you’re from ‘Gossip Girl.’” “’Gossip Girl?,’ I hate that show,” says Jessie, before departing via Suburban back uptown to her red-velvet-wallpapered home. But hey, at least she has parents to go home to.
Clockwise from left: Jessie, P.C., Sebastian, Camille, Taylor and Kelli.
Kelli, a 16-year-old aspiring singer, lives with her slightly older brother without parent supervision — Mom and Dad come in once a week from their house in the Hamptons — on the Upper East Side. As you might expect for an unsupervised minor, she has nothing but bottled water in the fridge and eats out every night. (This is perhaps the most realistic detail.) Taylor, the “poor” publicly schooled one, aches to fit in with the cushy crowd and throws a party at Japonais because, “it’s good to be perceived as having money.” Sadly, the mix of public and private school sensibilities is not a harmonious one and her private school friends — Kelli, the singer, and Camille, the uptight overachiever — leave in a huff. (It doesn’t help that Sebastian, who went on a date with Kelli to the Moschino store, spends the night flirting with Taylor.)
In a nutshell, these kids lead reckless, privileged, precocious lives, whipping small hiccups into stiff peaks and saying rash and ill-advised things like “I have my own credit card. I don’t know how much I use it” and “we’re the elite of the elite.” It’s hard not to laugh at their myopia, ridicule their inconsequential chamber dramas and scoff at their teenage histrionics. And that’s exactly what the audience did, over and over again through the hourlong show. The cast slumped further down in their seats.
After the preview ended, Andy Cohen, the show’s executive producer Lenid Rolov and four of the six cast members took to the stage (P.C. would arrive later on a private plane from Block Island; Jessie was on vacation with her family.) The four looked awkward and vulnerable. Kelli wobbled atop high beige patent leather heels and her mini dress — iridescent and shiny — was so tight she could barely mount the stage. Taylor sat stone-faced. The audience members shifted awkwardly in their seats and waited to watch what happened.
June 4, 2009, 11:25 am Born Rich | A Preview of Bravo’s ‘NYC Prep’
By Joshua David Stein
Slumped down in the front few rows of an auditorium on Monday, the teenage stars of the new Bravo reality television show “NYC Prep”, which will have its debut on June 23, looked anxious, like kids caught doing something naughty, unsure of the punishment that awaits them. They had been summoned for a media preview of the show, held at the Paley Media Center. They were in trouble, but they had no idea how bad it would get.
“NYC Prep,” which comes from the programming minds that brought you the “Real Housewives” franchise, is a documentary series that purports to be a real life “Gossip Girl.” The six young principals live on the Upper East Side and all — except one — attend unnamed private schools. They lead the lives of, as Andy Cohen, Bravo’s unctuous executive vice president of programming puts it, “mini-adults.” He didn’t mean little people, big world (that’s TLC). He meant that his stars are adults stuck in the awkward (but fat-free) bodies of teenagers.
Since Bravo’s camera crew was understandably barred from filming inside the school, the action is all extracurricular. “My hobby,” says Sebastian, a doe-eyed 16-year-old ladies’ man, “is hooking up with the hottest girls I can.” Like any budding player, Sebastian goes on a date to Kurve, a futuristic Thai place in the East Village, with a wingman and two hapless 16-year-old girls. This isn’t so much what adults do as what a teenager might think adults do. (Admittedly, going over credit card statements with your spouse does not good television make.) P.C., at 18 the show’s elder, sips Coke at Phillippe while discussing cleft palates with his friend Jessie. “No one dies of a cleft palate,” he says dismissively. Camille checks her SAT scores while lunching with her mother at Sarabeth’s.
The other preoccupation of adulthood-in-a-teenage-mind is shopping — a constant activity. Jessie is passionate about fashion and has had, she boasts, a personal shopper at Barneys since she was 13. But she’s also hip and with it and thus takes a trip to the Bowery boutique White and Blue, where she tries on a dress. “OMG,” says the saleswoman, “you look like you’re from ‘Gossip Girl.’” “’Gossip Girl?,’ I hate that show,” says Jessie, before departing via Suburban back uptown to her red-velvet-wallpapered home. But hey, at least she has parents to go home to.
Kelli, a 16-year-old aspiring singer, lives with her slightly older brother without parent supervision — Mom and Dad come in once a week from their house in the Hamptons — on the Upper East Side. As you might expect for an unsupervised minor, she has nothing but bottled water in the fridge and eats out every night. (This is perhaps the most realistic detail.) Taylor, the “poor” publicly schooled one, aches to fit in with the cushy crowd and throws a party at Japonais because, “it’s good to be perceived as having money.” Sadly, the mix of public and private school sensibilities is not a harmonious one and her private school friends — Kelli, the singer, and Camille, the uptight overachiever — leave in a huff. (It doesn’t help that Sebastian, who went on a date with Kelli to the Moschino store, spends the night flirting with Taylor.)
In a nutshell, these kids lead reckless, privileged, precocious lives, whipping small hiccups into stiff peaks and saying rash and ill-advised things like “I have my own credit card. I don’t know how much I use it” and “we’re the elite of the elite.” It’s hard not to laugh at their myopia, ridicule their inconsequential chamber dramas and scoff at their teenage histrionics. And that’s exactly what the audience did, over and over again through the hourlong show. The cast slumped further down in their seats.
After the preview ended, Andy Cohen, the show’s executive producer Lenid Rolov and four of the six cast members took to the stage (P.C. would arrive later on a private plane from Block Island; Jessie was on vacation with her family.) The four looked awkward and vulnerable. Kelli wobbled atop high beige patent leather heels and her mini dress — iridescent and shiny — was so tight she could barely mount the stage. Taylor sat stone-faced. The audience members shifted awkwardly in their seats and waited to watch what happened.
hmm....
the picture and posing is very Gossip Girl style isn't it.
i may watch it when my mind needs a rest (mindless fluff is good).
though like many here, I'm also of the cynical opinion it's 90% scripted, they probably have stylists and hair and full hair and makeup done even when they're filmed "just waking up". You know the works.
the picture and posing is very Gossip Girl style isn't it.
i may watch it when my mind needs a rest (mindless fluff is good).
though like many here, I'm also of the cynical opinion it's 90% scripted, they probably have stylists and hair and full hair and makeup done even when they're filmed "just waking up". You know the works.
That's got to be the biggest LIE ever. You know that they all worship the GG cast.
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