HIGH SOCIETY: Must-See TV meets Reality

When I was younger in the late ’80s, I recall flipping through the pages of W before it was a magazine.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the post-party write-ups with boldfaced names and being hypnotized by the glamorous photos of High Society in New York, Palm Beach and their wacky royal cousins in Europe and South America.

Magazines like Vanity Fair and Quest usually filled in the gaps in the ’90s until SocialiteRank.com appeared on the scene and made it more fun to see my favorite members of High Society battle it out for column inches and photo captions. (Of course, New York Social Diary is The Bible!)

Since returning to NYC in 2004, I found it hard to avoid rubbing elbows with socialites like Tinsley Mortimer, Fabiola Beracasa, Zani Gugelmann, Bee Shaffer, OlivIa Palermo, and Jules Darling Kirby at every Uptown and Downtown party or event. Sometimes we would exchange words, but most of the time I preferred to watch from the sidelines and take copious mental notes for future use (!).

Next week on the CW (March 10th to be exact), I’ll be watching HIGH SOCIETY, a new reality TV show that actually follows Tinsley — “Princess of Park Avenue” — as she navigates her way through NY High Society parties, benefits, fashion excursions and other rarefied things that socialites do, with her collection of misfits nearby, like Paul Johnson Calderon (So Bret Easton Ellis), Malik So Chic (So Leigh Bowery) and her sister Dabney Mercer (So…right…).

So far, one IT Girl has already stolen the show from Tinsley, and she’s Jules, who admitted on camera that she occasionally uses the “N-word”, yells at hotel staff, throws drinks in nightclubs, and doesn’t have many black, Jewish or gay friends. (That makes it 1 out of 3 in my case…so I should count myself as lucky.)

Like Jules, I would’ve missed the premiere of my reality TV show too if the editing portrayed me as “bat-shit crazy”…especially when I’m much, much, much more “down to earth” in person.

Throughout the show’s run, I plan on broadcasting post-show commentary and sharing world exclusive interviews with some of the HIGH SOCIETY stars, so be sure to subscribe today to pop!talk if you don’t want to miss out on what really happened behind the shenanigans!

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