When I worked in New York, I led the Bravo account. I worked on Real Housewives, Vanderpump Rules, and Below Deck. As a red-blooded man of sport, I went into the job pretending I was taking one for the team.
‘This nonsense isn’t for me’
Then I started watching the shows. The storylines started to pull at me. Before I knew it, I was looking up the net wealth of Dorinda whilst taping up the NBC staffers for the spicy behind-the-scenes gossip.
Bravo knew they had an audience of men like me that would use the guise of their partners to get a fix of absolutely top tier shows.
Amazon seems to have taken the insight that men are suckers for reality TV by combining the idea of Real Housewives with Premier League footballers. It’s a genius idea. I absolutely will be tuning in to see Jorginho with his wife. I don’t know much about Mahrez, but taking his Mancunian wife out of Manchester to Saudi sounds like elite TV. Guys, don’t fight it. Just tune in and know this is the gateway drug into so many fabulous shows you can’t talk about on the group chat.
As a side note, I worked the first ever Bravo con. They gave me a mic to interview Captain Sandy. I was in a conference with 1000s of extremely wealthy women loaded up on rose and I’ve honestly never felt sexier in my life. That mic was a powerful aphrodisiac.
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