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ENTERTAINMENT
‘Real Housewives’ cast members bring their style of glitz and glamour to Live! Casino
By Andrea DiFabio
If you’re not familiar with Bravo’s international reality television franchise, “The Real Housewives,” oh, what you’ve been missing!
Documenting the real lives of a group
of affluent women who live in a particular city, the American franchise premiered in 2006 with “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” Following its success, New York became the second installment and Atlanta the third, both premiering in 2008; New Jersey the fourth in 2009; and the list goes on, to include 11 featured cities just in the United States.
There’s no shortage of entertainment
and drama on the shows, as there’s quite
a mix of personalities and temperaments
among the cast members. The rotating
wives include women in various stages of
their careers and motherhood: restaurateurs
Viewers follow the casts for years and
feel like they know the housewives. The cast members become quite famous, amassing devoted fan bases with social media followers numberinginthemillions. Theirpopularity provides additional business opportunities including spokesperson gigs, Cameo celebrity video messages, and public appearances.
One such appearance will take place at Live! Casino & Hotel in Philadelphia on Aug. 26. Billed as “An Evening with Housewives,” the performance offers an intimate evening with favorite housewives from New York and NewJersey. AppearingisDorindaMedley formerly of “The Real Housewives of New York” and currently on “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club,” and Dolores Catania and Teresa Giudice, both from “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.”
Although each of these women is uniquely
Teresa Giudice Gabrielle and Frankie, as a single
• Teresa is the only original cast mom.
member still on the show and the • Catania and her siblings were only cast member on all twelve raised in Paterson, NJ, along with seasons of “RHONJ.” her fellow “RHONJ” co-star Teresa
• She’s a New York Times bestselling Giudice.
author with four cookbooks and
two memoirs.
• She’s a mom of four daughters: Gia,
Gabriella, Milania, and Audriana.
• She’s marrying Luis (Louie) Ruelas
in August.
Dorinda Medley
• Dorinda was a cast member of “RHONY” from its seventh until 12th season (2015-2020).
• She’s one of the eight cast members to appear on the second season of
Dolores Catania “The Real Housewives Ultimate
• Dolores joined the cast of “RHONJ” Girls Trip” which is set at her Blue
in the show’s seventh season in Stone Manor residence in The
2016. Berkshires in Massachusetts.
• In addition to appearing on “RHONJ,” • She navigated life in New York as a
Dolores owns a fitness franchise single mother to Hannah.
and flips houses with her • While living in London with her ex-husband, Frank. first husband, Dorinda started her
• Dolores raised her children, own cashmere company.
and entrepreneurs; actors and performers;
successful professionally and personally,
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authors,andstay-at-homemoms. They
they have some things in common: all three
Their lives are more glamorous than many but what makes these housewives so popular is that millions of people can relate to them andtheirfamilies. Aswepeerintotheirlives,
we sometimes get a glimpse of ours and like what we see. IAH
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