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A Guide to Bravo’s New Shows, Including “Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition”
It is a good time to be a Bravo fan.
This week, the reality television network best known for its “Real Housewives” franchise ordered a slate of new shows that seem to have something for everyone. There are new spinoffs featuring familiar stars, reboots of old series and even a crossover phenomenon.
Here’s what is known so far about the four new shows.
‘The Real Housewives of Rhode Island’
Fans have long speculated that the network would announce a new location for “Real Housewives,” its flagship franchise of series that document the personal and professional lives of a group of women in a specific city or region. Many seemed to think Chicago would be considered, but the network surprised everyone this week by announcing “The Real Housewives of Rhode Island” as the 11th location in the franchise.
Bravo described the women who would be featured on the show as: “A tight-knit circle of Rhode Islanders who have deep community roots and families that go back generations. With aspirational lives, thriving businesses and tangled family dynamics, these decade-long friendships prove that in a state this small, there’s no escaping your past … or each other.”
The cast and premiere date have yet to be officially revealed, but fans are already speculating on social media, with unverified lists of potential women.
‘Ladies of London’
After eight years off the air, Bravo announced that “Ladies of London” — imagine a “Real Housewives” show but with British royalty, international socialites and American expats — was returning to the network. “As tradition clashes with the fast-paced globalized world, these power players redefine what it means to be a woman of status in one of the most iconic cities in the world,” the news release said.
Bravo has not revealed who will be included in the cast, but it’s unlikely to feature the original show’s socialite star, Caroline Stanbury, as she’s left Britain for the United Arab Emirates as a member of “The Real Housewives of Dubai.”
‘The Valley: Persian Style’
Who knew the San Fernando Valley was such a hotbed for interpersonal drama? After the success of the “Vanderpump Rules” spinoff show “The Valley,” which follows the lives of married Bravolebrities living in the suburbs of Los Angeles, there’s now “The Valley: Persian Style.” The new offering is basically two spinoff shows combined: “The Valley” and “Shahs of Sunset,” a show that aired from 2012 to 2021 and followed the lives of Persian influencers in Los Angeles. “The Valley: Persian Style” will feature the former “Shahs of Sunset” stars Reza Farahan, Golnesa Gharachedaghi (who goes by GG) and Mercedes Javid (who goes by MJ).
The cast members “share a deep connection to their Persian culture, something that runs just as strong in the group of friends they now call family,” the new release for the show said. “As they take on the next stage of life in the Valley, their world is bigger, their circle is bolder and their challenges are more real than ever.”
“Love you all and so happy to be back and REPRESENTING,” Ms. Gharachedaghi wrote on Instagram after the announcement, while Mr. Farahan posted “Coming home to Bravo feels so good!”
‘Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition’
The last new series Bravo announced is also a combination of two franchises: Bravo’s “Real Housewives,” and “Wife Swap,” an ABC reality show that aired from 2004 to 2010 in which two wives leading very different lives swapped children, husbands and homes. In this new iteration, Real Housewives will trade lives with real housewives, which Bravo’s release said would lead to “laugh-out-loud moments, personal epiphanies and an opportunity to see if the grass is truly greener.”
Bravo has been scant on details — including which Housewives will participate and when the show will premiere — but fans are already building their dream casts.
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Kumail Nanjiani opens up on his regrets, critical failures and embracing fear : Wild Card with Rachel Martin
A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: Here’s my theory about Kumail Nanjiani: He is not a person who is afraid of his feelings. I think he’s the opposite of that kind of person.
Kumail has made his emotional life part of his comedy – whether it’s his deep and abiding love for his wife (as told in the hit movie, “The Big Sick”), his obsession with his cat or the anxiety that grips him in the middle of the night – Kumail’s brand of comedy is often about how we feel our way through living.
His new standup special is on Hulu and it’s called “Night Thoughts.”
Kylie Jenner
Ultimate Showgirl with Backless, Curve Hugging Gown
… At Kylie Cosmetics Holiday Party!
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Kylie Jenner showed up to her Kylie Cosmetics holiday party in full showgirl glam … slipping into a skin-tight, feather-trimmed, backless dress that put her hourglass figure on display.
The makeup mogul was clearly feeling herself as she posed in an IG video she shared Wednesday night, playing with the pink feathers that framed her neck and making sure to give fans a shot of her junk in the trunk as she turned around to show off the halter gown from the back. She let the drama of the dress take center stage … opting for a simple makeup look and doing her hair up in a sleek, slicked back bun with a single curl placed on her forehead.
Kylie gave more love to her fun ‘fit on her IG story, twirling around in a video set to audio that said … “Kylie Jenner! What? Oh my God, you look like a Christmas fairy.”
Last night’s showstopping ensemble was just one of the sexy looks Kylie has gifted us with as of late — just a few days ago, she showed off her famous curves in a cheerful red latex dress at the OBB Media holiday party in West Hollywood.
And before that, she was nearly spilled out of the bright orange cutout gown she wore to support her beau, Timothée Chalamet, at the Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, “Marty Supreme.” And how can we forget the figure-hugging, cleavage-baring leather jacket she showed off on the ‘gram earlier this month?
Kylie just keeps on giving this holiday season with the jaw-dropping looks — she’s certainly on our nice list!
Tom Felton, left, who played Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy in eight films, is now playing him live on stage.
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Almost eight years after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened, it has become the highest grossing show on Broadway. Why? Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter’s nemesis at Hogwarts in the eight films, is now playing him onstage.
After every performance, crowds gather at the stage door to get autographs, selfies or just a close-up glimpse of Felton.
Anna Chan flew to New York from San Francisco to see him in the show. “I grew up watching the movies and reading the books as a kid,” she said, “so just seeing him reprising his role as Draco Malfoy is really exciting and just heartwarming to see. It’s kinda like a full circle moment for him.”
Felton feels the audience’s warmth. “I’m somewhat of a bookmark in their youth on the films,” he said. “To see them as excited as I am to be doing that again on the stage was… well, it’s overwhelming and it still is every night.”
Now 38, Felton spent much of his childhood, adolescence and young adulthood getting his hair bleached blond and sneering as the bully Draco Malfoy in the films. For 10 years, he worked with some of the finest actors of British stage and screen, including Dame Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman. Felton — and all the other young cast members — learned by example.
“You know, Alan Rickman making teas for the grips,” recalled Felton, “and Jason Isaacs telling anecdotes, Helena Bonham Carter sort of just being playful. I think that’s something that made the early Potter films very special — the adults around us did not take themselves too seriously. And so that allowed us to be playful.”
Tom Felton, right, with John Skelley as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, now on Broadway.
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Post-Potter, Felton has written a memoir and has appeared in films and on London’s West End. When he was given the opportunity to play an adult Draco Malfoy on Broadway for six months, he jumped.
“I do understand the character somewhat,” he said, “although Draco now is a dad.” In the play, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy’s sons become friends and get into a mess of trouble.
In the first act, he and the older Harry have a wizard’s duel and Felton said that, during rehearsal, he added a familiar line from the films that wasn’t in the script.
“When Harry and Draco first decide, ‘Come on, let’s have a scrap, let’s have a battle,’ I think it just came up voluntarily. I said, ‘Scared Potter?’ Felton recalled, laughing. “And then it was sort of looked over and then someone came back to me a few days later and said, ‘We’ve got it in, your line suggestion.’”
The audience gets to see Malfoy and Potter fly through the air and electrical arcs come out of their wands live onstage. “Every night you can hear or feel, rather, at least half the audience go back to their childhood or older memories,” Felton said. “The first time that they saw Draco and Harry duel. And because this one’s live and in front of your face, it’s just only more exciting, I think.”
Felton said he’s proud to be part of the Harry Potter World, on film and on Broadway. He’ll be appearing in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child through May 10.
Jennifer Vanasco edited this story for broadcast and digital. Chloee Weiner mixed the audio.
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