Does Jo De La Rosa Belong on Real Housewives of Orange County?
Does Jo De La Rosa Belong on Real Housewives of Orange County? by Roxanne McDonald
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Why is a woman who decries huswifery included as one of the key figures on a show starring housewives? |
She’s pretty enough and personality-deprived enough in that paper doll replicant way—perfect teeth, Orange County maintained (or upgraded?) bod, exaggerated (unearned) sense of entitlement she never fails to show off….
She’s definitely not camera shy, doing everything on TV from dressing (or half-dressing) for a Playboy Mansion party to pursuing a singing (ugh) career to shamelessly exposing her lack of cooking skills (or her absolute ignorance of cooking anything, even basic recipes for which she complains she had no idea she had to buy ingredients…whine).
My gripe is what the hell Jo De La Rosa is doing on “The Real Housewives of Orange County”? She is anything but a housewife. She isn’t and never was Shane’s wife. She isn’t and never was anyone’s wife. She doesn’t work in the house, stay in the house, or do anything herself, anything a housewife would do—fifty years ago or today—because she can’t do anything…or refuses to. She doesn’t even give the otherwise spoiled, over-privileged housewives (Lori) who run a home and work (Vicki) a good name.
I know, I know: one, the whole premise of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” is likely one created with a tongue in cheek, that the “realâ€? housewives are those who defy huswifery as we commoners might define it. And two, just writing about Jo calls even more attention to the undeserving dilettante, as any publicity is publicity, etc. etc. But still, do we really need to be reminded of how unprivileged most of us are by way of being subjected to a one-dimensional and terribly uninteresting anti-housewife?
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I am so with you on that Jo De La Rosa NOT belonging. Shes trying to use this “fame” to get a singing career and good luck with that, cuz shes gonna need it! Stop using people Jo and work for a living, or better yet, just do something instead of trying to flirt your way through life.
Comment by Dreamergirl — March 7, 2007 @ 12:50 pm