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Mayor Beetlejuice Would Make The Perfect Real Housewife!
Never to miss an opportunity to milk a concept for all it’s worth, there are always ramblings about a new “real housewives” franchise (city), but now a blind item about a new franchise in the war torn city of Chicago has been growing legs, well sort of. In 2020, Salt Lake City actually came to fruition, and not long after that, it was announced that Dubai was “in the can” as well, so I guess anything is possible. An unnamed cast member revealed that production filmed them under a pseudo name in Winnetka, IL.
Winnetka, IL, not to be confused with "Wysteria Lane", the fictional street on Desperate Housewives (the iconic television show that Bravo ripped off all those years ago), is an affluent suburb outside Chicago, IL. Some may remember the city from Meet The Parents, Home Alone, and Sixteen Candles, just to name a few. An insider (illegally?) posted an email that a “housewife” had sent them.
The email reads, “I’m currently in contract to become an inaugural housewife on The Real Housewives of Winnetka. We’ve been filming for a couple [of] weeks under “working Illinois project” but our producers have told us we’re a Real Housewives franchise. There is five of us filming, and we’ve had a lot of drama. I CANNOT WAIT TO SHARE WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING!!”.
Before anyone gets too excited (or not), there have been several cities under consideration for years that never saw the light of day. Executive Producer, Andy Cohen, revealed (years ago) that actually cast and (test) filmed, in many cities, but for various reasons they just never worked. "We've cast in some cities that we haven't wound up pursuing, like Greenwich, Connecticut, Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston," he said. "So there have been a lot of places that we've tried but just didn't work.".
Cohen explained, "It's really the women who make the show. Producers bring in casting people, and they find women who are on the society pages and belong to country clubs. 'Who are your friends, and how do you know each other?'". They obviously scrapped that concept a decade ago.
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