Bravo’s Real Housewives could be extending its reach to Philadelphia, according to a recent report.
However, other channels like NBC and E! are also reportedly looking at similar show in Philly before Bravo makes a move.
A couple names that have been tossed around for the show are Sabrina Tamburino Thorne, Jill Rizen, Erin Elmore, Alisa Frederico, Megan Heaton, reported the Philadelphia Daily News.
“It’s like monkey-see, monkey-do in this business,” a source told the Daily News on Thursday. “Once one person is interested, everyone else gets excited, too.”
A couple days ago, the Daily News’ Jenice Armstrong wrote that “a producer associated with the Bravo TV show has been in Philly interviewing some of the city’s most successful and glamorous women.”
“Producer Princess Ann Banton-Lofters wouldn’t name names - nor would she confirm that she’s working on a TV project associated with the franchise. Still, you wouldn’t know it from all of the jockeying for position and tongue-wagging that’s been going on about who’s been contacted,” the report stated.
Meanwhile, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice got some bad news.
A federal judge won’t recommend that prison officials allow her to serve most of her prison sentence in a halfway house.
A lawyer for Giudice had filed a letter with a judge in Newark this week, asking for a recommendation that she serve 12 months in a halfway house. Prosecutors opposed the request, and U.S. District Judge Esther Salas announced Wednesday that she would not make the recommendation.
The judge said Giudice should have made the request to serve time at a halfway house — the maximum that could be served at such facilities — at her Oct. 2 sentencing. But even then, the judge said, she likely would have denied it.
Giudice’s new attorney, Stacy Ann Biancamano, said her client would have made the request at that time but did not know that she could.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
