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The Real Housewives of D.C.
Starringtbd
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons0
No. of episodesunknown
Production
Executive producersAbby Greensfelder
Sean Gallagher
Rich Calderone
Production locationsWashington, D.C., United States
Running timeApprox. 44 minutes
(excluding commercials)
Production companyHalf Yard Productions LLC
Original release
NetworkBravo
Releasetbd

The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C. is a reality television program scheduled to appear on the Bravo network sometime in 2010. It will be the network's fifth installation of The Real Housewives of... series, following The Real Housewives of Orange County, The Real Housewives of New York City, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of New Jersey.[1][2][3]

2009 White House incident

File:Tareq and Michaele Salahi with Barack Obama.jpg
Michaele and Tareq Salahi (center and right), who were under consideration to appear as contestants on The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C., met U.S. President Barack Obama after attending a White House event uninvited.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi, a Virginia couple under consideration to be contestants on The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C., entered the White House and greeted President Barack Obama during a On November 24, 2009, receiving line for 400 invited guests. The event was also attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Three days later, the United States Secret Service publicly stated the Salahi couple were not invited to the event and, although went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, should have been prohibited from the event altogether. The Secret Service apologized for the error and launched an investigation into it. Bravo producers said they had been filming the Salahis before the dinner, but were told the couple were invited. Bravo said in November it would not be determined for "several months" whether the Salahis would be selected for the series.[4] The Secret Service, Bravo and the Salahi couple were all criticized for the incident. Ellis Henican, a columnist for Newsday, called the Salahi's "low-class, high-gloss wannabes", and said the matter amounted to "a new low" for reality television and the depths people will resort to for fame.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Real Housewives of DC". Pop Tower.
  2. ^ Roxanne Roberts and Amy Argetsinger. "'Housewives' Won't Come Clean". Washington Post.
  3. ^ Helene Cooper, Janie Lorber, and Brian Stelter (2009-11-26). "Network Cameras Followed White House Crashers".{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Stelter, Brian; Cooper, Helene (2009-11-27). "Uninvited Pair Met Obama; Secret Service Offers Apology". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  5. ^ Henican, Ellis (2009-11-28). "Henican: 'Reality TV' hits new low in White House crashed". Newsday. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
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