Holla!!!

According to YBF:



I linked to pictures of the event with the cast.

Why do Bravo does the all white cast and the all black cast and one of the oc gals being part mexican does not counts, why dont they do two whita , two black and one latina ,asian or middle eastern woman

I have to agree about the singular race casting for these shows. Many of these affluent pockets and enclaves, especially in newer big cities that have grown in the last 15 years or so are becoming more diverse. I'm glad to see some wealthy African Americans on TV - you know the Jack and Jill, Black Greek orgs and Links crowd who are not in sports or entertainment that many people outside the black community doesn't even know exists. I sometimes think most Americans think all of us live in the hood on welfare in the projects (not knocking that, but that monolith is not the sole black experience). But I used to live in Atlanta in the late 90s while attending GT. There are people in North Dekalb (N Druid Hills area), North Fulton (Alpharetta, Roswell, etc) and East Cobb counties who were white, black, latino, indian, east asian and middle eastern. I'm sure it's more diverse than when I left in 2000. Yes Atlanta has a large black population, but it's more diverse in the areas this show will likely target.

I'll probably check out this show just to see what it will be like.

So the pendulum just swings back the other way. Yuck.



But this doesn't seem to be it. The women on that website were all wives of NBA or NFL players. Could they not find black professionals to profile as well?

I doubt a show will ever focus on the Jack and Jill crowd - they don't do show like this.

Thanks for the clarification brownSugar. Since they seem to be going to sports/entertainment route, count me out for this one!

According to YBF, at least one of the housewives is a real estate developer and not married to an athlete (Nene Leakes). Also, there is another housewife named "Kim" who we don't have any info on.

Perhaps a couple of housewives will pop up who do not have an athletic connection? I would guess Bravo did use a lot of athlete housewives just to illustrate the point of how rich these families are. Possibly more wealthy then some of the families and/or women on the other Real Housewives programs.

Interesting and I will probably watch. But I think with any "reality" show, we have to remember who they are picking from. I think many that we may want to see do not want to be associated with such a show and thus you end of with a cast that is probably from the area but may not accurately represent the women of that area. I can no longer look at these shows expecting "reputable" people because then I am going to wonder why in the world would they subject themselves to such a show.

I think I'll be tuning in, at least for a few episodes. I fear that these women will not come off well at all, but then again, it wouldn't be good TV if they were all nice, smart and well-adjusted. I was annoyed with the baller connection as well, though. There are lots of wealthy black folks in this country who don't have a connection to the NBA/NFL. Le sigh.

I was looking forward to the New Jersey cast, but this is so much sweeter. This one is going to be good!

The full cast has been announced but why is Bravo burying the preview special by airing it at Midnight? Hardly prime time and I hope that doesn't say something about the quality of the show that they couldnt find a better time slot.

Real Housewives of Hotlanta

So two out of these five are single but at least both have kids so at least they're House Mom's if not House Wives!

ps I just googled Kim Zolciak and she only has 6 references; all coming from today's press release. So how does not rate one internet reference????? :D

This I have to see since I grew up and live in northern Atlanta. Strangely, none of the areas they have noted are in the traditional "wealthy" neighborhoods in downtown/Buckhead..all in the northern end of the metro area and not considered areas where "old money" lives in Atlanta. One is a member of New Birth...that says a mouth full right there considering all the press surround the preacher lately!

Just curious, what are Jack and Jill, Black Greek, and Links? As you can probably tell, I'm outside the black community and never heard of these?

Jack and Jill
Divine Nine - Black Greeks
...I'm not too sure about Links though. And I'm definitely surprised that J&J isn't featured heavily.

The Links, Inc

There you go!

In my community, you are a nobody unless you are in the above three mentioned groups. And I live in a city where there is a championship ball team. Any wife who comes here is ALWAYS involved in these groups even before she has come here. I'm really surprised.

LOL. this looks like a total joke!
will anybody even care about this group but a small % of the population?
they need the OC and NYC wives back more than they need new locales.

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I wouldn't be. Those groups are the stomping grounds of very well educated blacks with professions. You have to be that to get in - in other words, $$$ isn't enough. Pedigree and education matter much more. The RHOA seem to be baller's wives and/or entrepreneurs, which isn't the same thing. I doubt you'll find any discussion about going to the Vineyard among this women. I could be wrong though...guess we'll have to wait and see.

I'm glad they are shaking up the formula a little by adding a new locale and demogaphic cohort, but this doesn't really sound like a show about fabulous Atlanta housewives. Not one of them actually live in Atlanta. It's like having all the NY housewives living in Brooklyn instead of just Alex and Simon. I agree that Buckhead wives would have been much more interesting. Also, picking mostly sports and entertainment types makes it pretty generic to any large city. I hope the housewives prove us wrong by being sort of professional and grounded and not like the obnoxious sports/entertainment families you see on Cribs and My Super Sweet Sixteen.

This is so sad that all they have is entertainers/athletes wives and not business people (oh 1 woman) I guess that's all they think we can do. As a black woman myself, It would of been nice to have a mixture this time around not all white, black, asian. Ijust hope that they won't show the gold teeth, spinning hubcaps (whatever they are called) nonsense. Next time I hope bravo learns a lesson and find a mixture of wives after Atlanta.

From Wikipedia:


Who writes Bravo's dumb press releases?

None of the suburbs mentioned is anywhere near the hub of black political power and influence. They are certainly not the most "exclusive" Atlanta zip codes. They aren't even Atlanta, as others have pointed out. They are far away in Duluth, Alpharetta and Sandy Springs, which are separate cities. Sugarloaf is just a golf club subdivision in Duluth. I wouldn't say it's "exclusive." There are homes for sale starting at $128,000.

mommyserenity, I seriously doubt if any old money people in Buckhead would have let Bravo cameras anywhere near them. But, yeah, it might have been interesting from an anthropological standpoint. I have a feeling we're going to see more rich people shopping, partying and spoiling their kids.

Vetasimmons I have no doubt in my mind that no one in the "old money" groups would even consider letting Bravo film them. Part of the whole idea of having money in the south is not to openly discuss it. Being part of this show would be heavily frowned upon within the social circles of true southern belles.

I'm so sick of all these RH shows.. but I'm sure I'll still watch. I love Atlanta, so it's going to be fun to see a city up there that I actually know, as opposed to Orange County and NYC.

They need to call it something else since all of these women are not really anyone's wife quite yet...it's sad when "scripted reality" telelvision imitates society in that the title of "wife" has lost it's meaning...

To mention a "Southern Belle" in Atlanta, without mentioning the Junior League?
I couldn't stand the last two groups, but I'll give this group a try. Oh, and still giggling over "exclusive" and Duluth.

That made me laugh, too! I hope someone in the cast will hop into her SUV and drive the 40 miles to town at some point during the show so the rest of the country can see something besides generic malls, chain restaurants and vast McMansions.



That's true, openly flaunting money is tasteless, and Bravo reality stars have to be tasteless above all.

I'm wondering if this show turned out to be a disappointment. The preview is in several crappy timeslots, and the first real episode is not for weeks afterwards, which means lost momentum. They are not hyping it much on the Bravo website. Seems like they're trying to bury it.

Actually the "exclusive" adjective was used for Sandy Springs - which is even more hilarious. Seriously?

And do people really still call it "Hotlanta". Ugh. Please tell them to stop.

It's like the marketing department is stuck in 1984. What a stupid slogan that was.
I do like when my Grannie calls me her "Georgia Peach", I like that, but only when she says it.

I live in Atlanta and I'm sure this show is going to blow. The thing about the Real Housewives of O.C. and NY is that there is a known stereotype or mystique surrounding people who live in these very wealthy areas and who seem to have a lot of money. There isn't that much mystique about rich people here in Atlanta. They all have the same crappy taste in McMansions and giant SUVs. Even Buckhead, which is the most obviously wealthy part of the city of Atlanta, doesn't have that much mystique about it.

In response to the 'burbs of Alpharetta, etc, don't forget Bobby and Whitty lived up there. Still, not that interesting. And that's where most of the athletes and their wives live.

You've pretty much nailed my thoughts verbatim, cheeztoast! Atlanta has plenty of character, but it doesn't lie within it's wealthy alone, who are pretty vanilla and generic in their trappings and tastes. It's just like every other wealthy enclave in America, at least it is visually speaking. What you see on Columns Drive or Riverside Drive looks pretty much the same as what's in any other gated community/subdivision in Buckhead, N Fulton, N Dekalb, East Cobb and Gwinnett county. I had a friend from Marietta who used to show me the different spots in metro Atlanta and Atlanta proper (city limits), and I'm telling you, I couldn't tell much of a difference from one v/s another. Even OC falls into this a little, but OC/SoCal have things that make them unique versus other parts of the country. NY has plenty of character, even the stereotypes vary from borough to borough, or even within the neighborhoods of a given borough.

I think this show could have been more interesting with non-entertainment/baller wives with a better mix of native ATLiens v/s transplants from other cities (particularly those not from the Southeast), different ethnicities, different backgrounds (those born into the Atlanta elite v/s those who worked their way up from the rougher parts of the city) and those who embrace v/s reject the Southern heritage of Atlanta (that whole New South thing). I think that would have made for good TV.

Very true. I used to teach school in Alpharetta and had more than a few kids in my class who had daddies in the NFL or who played baseball. Heck...we even had one who had a dad in a well know rock band that made their home in Atlanta. There are two private schools in Alpharetta that were started with money from Jeff Foxworthy and Tom Glavine. The trend, at least in the last few years, seems to be the athletes and entertainers moving north out of the city to be able to have more house for the money so to speak. The "old money" ladies do not equate these ballers wives as being on the same level...no matter their race. Old money in the south is Junior League, DAR, etc...So...to get a true picture of Housewives in Atlanta, Bravo has missed it all together.

So true! Sandy Springs, Alpharetta and Duluth have me LMAO. The first thing I learned about Atlanta neighborhoods is the difference between "OTP" and "ITP," which for those of you unfamiliar is "out of the perimeter" (suburbs) and "in the perimeter" (city and some surrounding areas like Decatur). I'm an ITP girl and the last thing I want to do is look to my television to check out the OTP lifestyle.

Does anyone remember that series of shows that was titled Single in the City? There was a New York version, a Las Vegas version, maybe a Miami version (?) and finally an Atlanta version. I watched all of them and they were all pretty bad, but the New York and Vegas ones had unbelievably artificial, out-of-the-ordinary delusional women that made them somewhat entertaining. The Atlanta version was almost too real, with completely ordinary boring people. I think that one got put on in the middle of the night and then just disappeared. I can only imagine this Real Housewives will do the same and I can't see Bravo promoting this as much as it does the O.C. and NY versions.

Entertainment Tonight - Meet the Housewives of ATL

Each Bravo "Housewives" has missed it. OC is hardly society. Ditto for NYC. These are people with enough money to be interesting/funny and the shows offer a glimpse into a monied-world, but there isn't a society woman among them. Can't imagine that Atlanta will be any different. Society likes to keep their dirt hidden (though there's plenty of it), while the people who are newer to money don't seem to have a problem sharing their dirt. And I thank them.

Oh Mah Gah! Is this where the new batch of fameho's is from?!? Lol! Please, that is hardly real South $$$...It's more like New Rich! I was jogging on Peachtree like 2 weeks ago and I saw a camera crew filimg outside of Justin's and I got the feeling it was for this trainwreck.

Me thinks the blonde, country singer wannabe's boyfriend wants to stay out of camera range because his wife won't understand him wanting to be on a cheesy reality show.

Just when I thought Bravo was scraping the bottom of the barrel with Date My Ex, they come out with this drivel and prove me wrong. They should have named this show "Real Golddiggers of Atlanta". The only things these women have in common is that they all live in Georgia, and that they married and/or sleep with the right guys. I wish they could have featured smart, professional women...instead of kept women who apparently have the voodoo poon. Tacky. Tacky. Tacky.



Word. She's probably the most hideous of them all.

I will not be tuning in to this show again. I'd rather watch re-runs of Mork and Mindy. Bravo really missed the mark with this one...

OMG. Terrible. The only one not truly hideous was the pretty one that "designed" jewelry that was married to the football player. Nene and the blond - Your basic gold digger and prostitute. And for the blond to teach her daughters to just find a big Poppa to buy you a tacky ass Cadillac, she was the worst. Somewhere after that and the part of Nene in a nice restaurant screaming for the waitstaff for more wine, I turned it off.

It was only a preview and I hate them already.

My mouth is hanging open.

The sheer blunt force of the vulgarity has left me stunned.

It was like a herd of cattle wearing wigs and lipstick passed through my living room.

Wow! What can I say? I moved to Atlanta three years ago and this is the MINORITY of what goes on in Atlanta. I would even justify to say that these "women" (and I use that term loosely) are in maybe the 15% of how people in Atlanta TRULY live. And if THAT!!!

I was really shocked! As someone mentioned earlier, these women DID happen to land one of the 30 available, single men IN Atlanta and get them to marry them. If these women were NOT married to these richie rich hubbies they would be riding MARTA with me and everybody else in the working world!!! They would be getting their weaves done on MLK drive and dating a "shawty" who is tryin' to make his "paper" flippin' sh*t in da' streets!

It is ridunkulous how nowadays with the recession and everyone strapped for gas, food, etc these people think NOTHING of it to have a 88 bedroom house and just waste waste waste!!! It KILLS me to see such frivulousness in this day in age. I would LOVE to see these women AFTER their sugar daddies dump their asses for a 25 year old. Because it DOES happen!!!

Thanks Bravo for allowing me to move to another channel to find another show to watch because I will NOT be watching this self-indulgent mess of a show!!!! No thanks!!! No how! No way!

Wow! What can I say? I moved to Atlanta three years ago and this is the MINORITY of what goes on in Atlanta. I would even justify to say that these "women" (and I use that term loosely) are in maybe the 15% of how people in Atlanta TRULY live. And if THAT!!!

I was really shocked! As someone mentioned earlier, these women DID happen to land one of the 30 available, single men IN Atlanta and get them to marry them. If these women were NOT married to these richie rich hubbies they would be riding MARTA with me and everybody else in the working world!!! They would be getting their weaves done on MLK drive and dating a "shawty" who is tryin' to make his "paper" flippin' sh*t in da' streets!

It is ridunkulous how nowadays with the recession and everyone strapped for gas, food, etc these people think NOTHING of it to have a 88 bedroom house and just waste waste waste!!! It KILLS me to see such frivulousness in this day in age. I would LOVE to see these women AFTER their sugar daddies dump their asses for a 25 year old. Because it DOES happen!!!

Thanks Bravo for allowing me to move to another channel to find another show to watch because I will NOT be watching this self-indulgent mess of a show!!!! No thanks!!! No how! No way!

You too! I had to give up my apartment that was about 5 minutes (driving) from downtown Decatur. I'm in between places and currently sleeping on an aero bed at my parents house OTP down I-20 East. I hate it. Everyday it reminds me why I hate the suburbs. Nothing's open after 9, there are only crappy chain restaurants, the traffic to get downtown for work is horrible, if I want to shop I can only go to a crappy mall that's more than ten miles away on crappy un-lit roads littered with deer xing signs. Where I use to live there were 4 malls and 3 Targets within a 6 mile radius and boutiques that I couldn't afford in the trendy little enclaves nearby. I am desperately looking for a roommate so I can move back ITP.

Anyway, I didn't watch RHOC and only some of RHNY. As a black woman, even though I shouldn't be, I sometimes can't help being a little embarrassed by black folks acting a fool on national TV. My viewership of Flavor of Love and I Love New York aside, you have to watch those shows knowing those people are trash. With this it's like "This is how they act with money?"

With that said I will probably watch and will look at this like the trainwreck it's intended to be and have some fun with it. I first lady with the job I liked. Nene will probably get on my nerves, but even though she's loud and obnoxious I don't hate her now. The white girl and the divorced single mother are classic golddiggers. And the one with the house staff seemed like the biggest idiot of them all.

Edited because "N" are "R" are not the same letter

I like how the preview introduced the Housewives in order of increasing odiousness.

Those are more mainly white institutions in the South- but you also have Jack and Jill and Links as was mentioned at the start of this thread which is what group I thought they would be more focusing on if they were going to do the elite African American Atlanta community in particular since Atlanta does not just have a white elite group. I thought the first woman was not that bad (at least in comparison of the others and she actually worked), and could see her being a member of Links or having her son attend a Jack and Jill event down the road.



I agree it would have been fun with a mix. I would have not just liked it if it was old Anglo money, Daughters of the Confederacy (do they still have that there, they did when I left in the 1990s) but it would have been fun with more variety. I don't see anything wrong with have one athlete or artists' wife (again- I think the first woman was all right enough) but a mix would have been fun.

that sums it all up! LOL

I didn't watch the O.C. or N.Y. versions of the show, but I'm going to watch this one. Whether this show is So Bad It's Good or So Bad It's Horrible won't matter to me. I'm going to enjoy the snark. With that said on to the "women"...

Lisa Wu Hartwell-The only one I liked. She's not relying on hubbies money to live, owns her own business.

NeNe Leakes-HATE! Or at least I think I hate her. Was she the one who had the estate manager, chef, nanny, some job title I've never heard of, and personal assistant? I thought "with all this fucking hired help what the hell do you do around the house?"

Kim Zolciak-White Jailbait Ass.

DeShawn Snow-I don't remember anything about her.

Sheree Whitfield-My first impression was Omarosa. She wants to be successful but she's keeping herself from getting to the top.

I watched Project Runway last night and there was no mention of this show, in fact, aside from places like Media Take Out, I wouldn't know this show was coming.

I never watched the OC version, but watched every episode of the NY housewives. Those that mentioned old-money Black families, they probably weren't even approached. I've read that the joke of the OC housewives were that they lived in an inner OC subdivision, not the Newport Beach crowd, and the NY ladies as well, although I have a soft spot for them, weren't blue blood Park Avenue types either.

Some other websites have criticized some of the Atlanta ladies for being a little thick, but that's to be expected.

I was really looking forward to this and found myself enjoying the first profile. A kick-ass woman doing her thing and enjoying her marriage. Working hard and playing hard. Enjoying a good life.

And then came NeNe. NoNo. For about a millisecond I thought she might be fun. I thought wrong. She's abrasive. Give her a few drinks and watch the fuck out. Even without a few drinks, duck and run for cover. The woman has no censor button.

The aspiring country singer is aspiring to one thing. She wants to be Big Papa's Big Mama but, as someone else noted, surely that role is filled. Talk about a kept woman! Her house said it all. He bought her a townhouse to stow her away. Throws her a few bucks to shut her up and keep her on call. There is something distinctly wrong when even some of her girlfriends have never met him. Expect a Dateline Special about her disappearance. Or an episode of Snapped when she loses it on him.

Sheree is all 'tude with nothing to back it up, from what I saw. She's trying to rape her ex and get seven figures. I wouldn't proudly announce that. Yeah, you'll attract lots of future prospects with that declaration.

I think it was DeShawn who has the cast of thousands to serve her. Beautiful showplace, but not a home. And she has a house manager so she doesn't have to speak to the other staff? What society instruction manual did she read? Such an elitist attitude. Cute kids, though. They seemed to get a real kick out of their new house. Loved that her husband thought she was a fool that her father was called to see if he had any special requests for his visit. Didn't love that he said, "Don't aks (axe) my father." As bad as LuAnn from NY saying "anyways."

I might watch the first episode to see if I find them tolerable, but so far I'm only interested in/entertained by Lisa Hartwell, but she's not enough to carry a show for me.

I watched this last night because I was a little obsessed with Eric Snow when he played for Michigan State. We used to go to the games all the time. 15 years or whatever it is later, he still looks EXACTLY the same! His wife is a trip, though.

IIRC, he always did talk "ignant" when he did interviews and stuff, so stay tuned for more "Don't axe my father" if they are going to keep showing him.