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'''The Real Housewives of Orange County''' is a reality television program on the Bravo network. Created by Orange County producer, Scott Dunlop, the show is set in the gated community of Coto de Caza, California and follows the lives of five Coto "housewives" and their families. The show's title alludes to the hit FOX teen drama ''The OC'' and touts itself as its "real-life" counterpart. Unlike a true documentary, however, Bravo has monetarily compensated the show participants for their filming time.[1]
The show's first season premiered on March 21, 2006. The five housewives featured were Kimberly Bryant, Jo De La Rosa, Vicki Gunvalson, Jeana Keough and Lauri Waring.
The show's second season premiered on January 16, 2007. Four of the five original housewives returned, with the exception of Bryant who was replaced by Tammy Knickerbocker.
Bravo is currently casting five new families from the Southern California area, to participate in Season 3.
Bryant is a stay-at-home mom whose schedule primarily consists of shuttling her kids from activity to activity, working out and socializing with her girlfriends. The show highlights her decision to surgically enhance her physical appearance after moving to Coto; her husband Scott asked her to get breast augmentation surgery after noticing that the majority of Coto wives were very well-endowed. She describes how she went from an A-cup to a D-cup in breast size and how her husband's idea of a wife over 40 is a "lingerie model."
Bryant and her family decided to move to a less sunny city, Chicago after season 1 concluded, because of her medical history with melanoma and her son's recent growth of a benign, but still pre-cancerous mole.
De La Rosa was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated with her parents to Tustin, California at the age of eight. In 1994, De Le Rosa’s parents won the California Lottery and moved the family to Mission Viejo. She graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in English and Comparative Literature. She started her career in the title insurance industry where she met Slade Smiley.
De La Rosa lived with Smiley in his house in Coto in Season 1. As such, included in her "Coto family" were his two sons from two different relationships: 16-year-old Gavin and five-year-old Grayson. Smiley is an executive in the title insurance industry and provided De La Rosa with the money and prestige of living the Coto lifestyle. He gave her a Mercedes Benz sedan and a luxurious home and wanted De La Rosa, in turn, to be the conventional stay at home wife and mother. However, she had trouble adjusting to the traditional housewife role. Although Smiley and De La Rosa were engaged to be married in Season 1, those plans changed in Season 2.
In Season 2, De La Rosa moved out of Coto to take a position as the title representative for her company's Beverly Hills territory. Smiley then ends their romantic relationship during a session with a relationship therapist, but becomes her manager as she pursues a singing career.
Gunvalson's family include her husband Donn and her two children, Michael (who attends the University of Colorado) and Briana Wolfsmith.
Gunvalson is the dominant force in her family and has been described by her family and friends as a "workaholic." She has worked hard to achieve financial success as an insurance agent and expects her family to toe her party line. She hired Lauri Waring into her home-based insurance company but in Season 2, Waring appears to have severed her working relationship with Vicki.
Gunvalson admits to having control issues but thinks that she works hard to keep her family together.
Keough, a former Playboy Playmate of the Month (November 1980) and actress, is currently a realtor for RE/MAX in Coto de Caza. She married Matt Keough, a former pitcher for the Oakland A's and several other major league teams and current executive with the A's. She has three children Shane, Kara and Colton.
During both Season 1 and Season 2, Keough's husband is often out of town, leaving her as the primary parent to her three children in a very hectic household. She often describes her experience as a mother as tough and her children are often seen battling with one another over the usual sibling rivalries.
Season 2 continued to document Keough's marital struggle and one of her closing statements is that "We have four houses, he [Matt] can choose one."
Single mother Knickerbocker has been friends with the Keough family for over 15 years. Her family include her two daughters, Megan and Lindsey. Her marriage to ex-husband, Lou, ended when he had an affair with his assistant and their lucrative business went bankrupt. Her lifestyle has been "reduced" from being married and owning one of the largest houses in Coto de Caza to being single and renting a $1.3 million house in the community.
Knickerbocker works as a loan officer and also has a young son, Ryley, from a 10-year relationship with a man named Duff. Duff works in Vicki's insurance business and makes facetious remarks about the "crazy women in Coto de Caucausian."
Lou Knickerbocker died on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 from a heart attack, at the age of 67.
Waring is a multiple-divorced single mother who used to live in a grand house in neighboring Dove Canyon with her ex-husband, but in the aftermath of her latest divorce has had to downsize to a townhouse outside of the gates in Ladera Ranch. Her family include Ashley, Josh and Sophie.
Although 46, Waring, a former model, is still a regular at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion parties, however she is quick to point out she was never a Playboy bunny. To make ends meet, she now works in Gunvalson's home insurance office. Her daughter Ashley moved back home and her son Josh spent time in juvenile detention.
Waring struggles with the adjustment from her former affluent lifestyle provided by yet another wealthy husband to a more modest standard of living on her own. She has said that she has gone from being poor to being rich to being poor again, and that "having money is easier."
During season 2, Waring becomes engaged on Lake Como to a wealthy real estate and land developer, George Peterson, who left his wife and kids (with little money) to become engaged to Waring. Season 2 focused on Waring's relationship with Peterson and the financial improvements to her lifestyle that this upwardly mobile relationship provides her and her children. Lauri identifies herself as a Republican and attends a Republican Party fundraiser as part of George's social obligations.
1. "Real Housewives of Orange County Eye Greener Pastures" 11 March 2007 ''Los Angeles Times'' article
★
'Show web site'
★ Official web site
'Housewives' official web sites'
★ The Real OC Brand - online fashion shop run by Lauri, Vicki and Jeana
★ Jo Delarosa official web site
★ Scott Dunlop official web site
★ Vicki Gunvalson official web site
★ Jeana Keough official web site
★ Slade Smiley official web site
★ Lauri Waring official web site
'Articles'
★ TV: "The Real Housewives of Orange County" 13 March 2006 ''The Orange County Register'' article
★ Careless People 16 March 2006 ''OC Weekly'' article
★ Monster's Bawl 30 March 2006 Kara Keough's letter to the ''OC Weekly'' editor
★ REAL HOUSEWIVES AWARDS: May I have the envelope, please? 3 May 2006 ''The Orange County Register'' article
★ Lauri says Josh broke their pact 6 February 2007 ''The Orange County Register'' article
'Other Sites'
★ Real Housewives Location Map
The show's first season premiered on March 21, 2006. The five housewives featured were Kimberly Bryant, Jo De La Rosa, Vicki Gunvalson, Jeana Keough and Lauri Waring.
The show's second season premiered on January 16, 2007. Four of the five original housewives returned, with the exception of Bryant who was replaced by Tammy Knickerbocker.
Bravo is currently casting five new families from the Southern California area, to participate in Season 3.
| Contents |
| Cast |
| Kimberly Bryant |
| Jo De La Rosa |
| Vicki Gunvalson |
| Jeana Keough |
| Tammy Knickerbocker |
| Lauri Waring |
| References |
| External links |
Cast
Kimberly Bryant
Bryant is a stay-at-home mom whose schedule primarily consists of shuttling her kids from activity to activity, working out and socializing with her girlfriends. The show highlights her decision to surgically enhance her physical appearance after moving to Coto; her husband Scott asked her to get breast augmentation surgery after noticing that the majority of Coto wives were very well-endowed. She describes how she went from an A-cup to a D-cup in breast size and how her husband's idea of a wife over 40 is a "lingerie model."
Bryant and her family decided to move to a less sunny city, Chicago after season 1 concluded, because of her medical history with melanoma and her son's recent growth of a benign, but still pre-cancerous mole.
Jo De La Rosa
De La Rosa was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated with her parents to Tustin, California at the age of eight. In 1994, De Le Rosa’s parents won the California Lottery and moved the family to Mission Viejo. She graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in English and Comparative Literature. She started her career in the title insurance industry where she met Slade Smiley.
De La Rosa lived with Smiley in his house in Coto in Season 1. As such, included in her "Coto family" were his two sons from two different relationships: 16-year-old Gavin and five-year-old Grayson. Smiley is an executive in the title insurance industry and provided De La Rosa with the money and prestige of living the Coto lifestyle. He gave her a Mercedes Benz sedan and a luxurious home and wanted De La Rosa, in turn, to be the conventional stay at home wife and mother. However, she had trouble adjusting to the traditional housewife role. Although Smiley and De La Rosa were engaged to be married in Season 1, those plans changed in Season 2.
In Season 2, De La Rosa moved out of Coto to take a position as the title representative for her company's Beverly Hills territory. Smiley then ends their romantic relationship during a session with a relationship therapist, but becomes her manager as she pursues a singing career.
Vicki Gunvalson
Gunvalson's family include her husband Donn and her two children, Michael (who attends the University of Colorado) and Briana Wolfsmith.
Gunvalson is the dominant force in her family and has been described by her family and friends as a "workaholic." She has worked hard to achieve financial success as an insurance agent and expects her family to toe her party line. She hired Lauri Waring into her home-based insurance company but in Season 2, Waring appears to have severed her working relationship with Vicki.
Gunvalson admits to having control issues but thinks that she works hard to keep her family together.
Jeana Keough
Keough, a former Playboy Playmate of the Month (November 1980) and actress, is currently a realtor for RE/MAX in Coto de Caza. She married Matt Keough, a former pitcher for the Oakland A's and several other major league teams and current executive with the A's. She has three children Shane, Kara and Colton.
During both Season 1 and Season 2, Keough's husband is often out of town, leaving her as the primary parent to her three children in a very hectic household. She often describes her experience as a mother as tough and her children are often seen battling with one another over the usual sibling rivalries.
Season 2 continued to document Keough's marital struggle and one of her closing statements is that "We have four houses, he [Matt] can choose one."
Tammy Knickerbocker
Single mother Knickerbocker has been friends with the Keough family for over 15 years. Her family include her two daughters, Megan and Lindsey. Her marriage to ex-husband, Lou, ended when he had an affair with his assistant and their lucrative business went bankrupt. Her lifestyle has been "reduced" from being married and owning one of the largest houses in Coto de Caza to being single and renting a $1.3 million house in the community.
Knickerbocker works as a loan officer and also has a young son, Ryley, from a 10-year relationship with a man named Duff. Duff works in Vicki's insurance business and makes facetious remarks about the "crazy women in Coto de Caucausian."
Lou Knickerbocker died on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 from a heart attack, at the age of 67.
Lauri Waring
Waring is a multiple-divorced single mother who used to live in a grand house in neighboring Dove Canyon with her ex-husband, but in the aftermath of her latest divorce has had to downsize to a townhouse outside of the gates in Ladera Ranch. Her family include Ashley, Josh and Sophie.
Although 46, Waring, a former model, is still a regular at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion parties, however she is quick to point out she was never a Playboy bunny. To make ends meet, she now works in Gunvalson's home insurance office. Her daughter Ashley moved back home and her son Josh spent time in juvenile detention.
Waring struggles with the adjustment from her former affluent lifestyle provided by yet another wealthy husband to a more modest standard of living on her own. She has said that she has gone from being poor to being rich to being poor again, and that "having money is easier."
During season 2, Waring becomes engaged on Lake Como to a wealthy real estate and land developer, George Peterson, who left his wife and kids (with little money) to become engaged to Waring. Season 2 focused on Waring's relationship with Peterson and the financial improvements to her lifestyle that this upwardly mobile relationship provides her and her children. Lauri identifies herself as a Republican and attends a Republican Party fundraiser as part of George's social obligations.
References
1. "Real Housewives of Orange County Eye Greener Pastures" 11 March 2007 ''Los Angeles Times'' article
External links
★
'Show web site'
★ Official web site
'Housewives' official web sites'
★ The Real OC Brand - online fashion shop run by Lauri, Vicki and Jeana
★ Jo Delarosa official web site
★ Scott Dunlop official web site
★ Vicki Gunvalson official web site
★ Jeana Keough official web site
★ Slade Smiley official web site
★ Lauri Waring official web site
'Articles'
★ TV: "The Real Housewives of Orange County" 13 March 2006 ''The Orange County Register'' article
★ Careless People 16 March 2006 ''OC Weekly'' article
★ Monster's Bawl 30 March 2006 Kara Keough's letter to the ''OC Weekly'' editor
★ REAL HOUSEWIVES AWARDS: May I have the envelope, please? 3 May 2006 ''The Orange County Register'' article
★ Lauri says Josh broke their pact 6 February 2007 ''The Orange County Register'' article
'Other Sites'
★ Real Housewives Location Map
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