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Style Network’s Big Rich Texas has been referred to as season 2 of the 2009 train wreck Dallas Divas and Daughters. Big Rich follows five mother/daughter duos intended to represent Dallas’ most elite members of society. Four are newbies to the reality TV scene, and the other is Divas villain, Pamela Martin-Duarte, and her daughter, Hannah.
First we meet Leslie. Very pretty lady. She tells us that she has just relocated to Dallas from California (that explains the red Corvette) and that her cousin, Connie, is a member of one of the “most exclusive clubs here.”
In fact it seems she’s on her way to the club now. I got a little giddy thinking about that Vette rolling up to the Dallas Country Club. But instead Leslie pulled up to a place I’ve never seen. Woodhaven? I was born in Dallas, and I’ve never heard of it. I’ll Google that. Hmmm.
Leslie, you seem super sweet and all, but that club is in Fort Worth—not that there’s anything wrong with that. I’m just saying for the sake of clarity that it isn’t in Dallas.
For your convenience, a map of the greater DFW area.
Up next, Connie. She’s driving a golf cart around this Woodhaven telling us, “I mean, it is the social place of Dallas.” Again, it’s Fort Worth. Fort. Worth.
By the way, aren’t you the Connie that has kids that go to school with my kids. In Highland Park. Really far from Fort Worth. And totally close to the real most exclusive club in Dallas. Let me check. Yep, that’s you. At least according to the school directory, you live at [Street Name], #1, Dallas Texas 75205. Quite a long way from Woodhaven.
Since I don’t hang out in Fort Worth with the Dallas elite, I don’t understand how this works. I just think if you’re throwin’ down a huge pile of money on a club membership, you’d want to be able to drive there without checking traffic reports, programming the GPS, and stopping for gas on the way back.
Dr. Bonnie and her daughter Whitney
Anyway, at the exclusive Woodhaven, Connie carts Cousin Leslie off on a tour. They stop at the tennis courts, where they run into the other cast members. Almost like it was planned. They lean on the fence, and Connie points out Botox Bonnie, Melissa, and Plano resident Pamela Martin Duarte.
How far is Plano from Woodhaven?
Cut to that familiar reality television couch interview where Pamela tells us, “Basically, if you want to be a member of this club, you have to impress me.” She emphasized the “me” part with a two-handed self-point and her bottom teeth showing with her chin sticking out.
Kudos to Style Network. It had to be an epic battle to find a club willing to pimp itself out on national television with Duarte acting as the spokeswoman.
Back on the courts, Pamela and her friend Melissa (who reveals she recently joined the club to meet a man) are taking a lesson. Nearby, Bonnie and her daughter Whitney are taking instruction from a hottie tennis pro, Enrique.
Pamela gets really irritated by the laughter coming from Bonnie’s court and says, “They’re so obnoxious. They’re cursing, f-bombs all over the place.” Then she adds from memory, “There’s a no cursing code, I think section 305, page 4.”
Back on the couch Pamela continues, “Their behavior is totally unacceptable, and the club needs to raise its standards.”
Pamela, I totally agree. Hey, I must have misread the email I got from you on November 22, 2009, at 9:54 a.m.—apparently right after you read one of my Dallas Divas and Daughters recaps. Let me check. Nope, I was right, a big f-bomb with an odd mid-sentence capitalization. And I had forgotten about the subject line: Hey you [B word, rhymes with itch]. Again, with the uppercase cursing.
What’s the club’s position on that kind of thing? The cursing, not the capital letters. Though I’d check into that too.
“I’ve been trying to get Bonnie and her family kicked out of the club for some time now,” continues Pamela. Why? Because she has a Ph.D? Brains and a killer bod in one member too much competition for you? Oh, wait, it’s because, “Her behavior is so crass they certainly wouldn’t be missed around here.”
Pamela, change out of that ruffled old-lady sweater and run. Run to church. As fast as you can. Anywhere between Plano and that Tarrant County club will do, just stop at the nearest alter and fall to your knees.
Whoa, what was that? Oh it was a stray tennis ball. No problem, Enrique, it was an accident. Oh, here’s Proper Pam’s response now, “Keep your balls in your pants, Enrique.” If there’s not a club code about that kind of statement, there should be.
Back to Leslie. She’s explaining, “The best way to get to know people that matter is by joining a country club.” So she sits down with Louis Scoma, the new owner of Woodhaven, to see about becoming a member. Scoma tells Leslie she’ll need two sponsors to be considered for membership, and they’ll also need to conduct a background check and what not. He tells her there’s a dress code and “there won’t be any topless where’s there’s a…you would wear something that’s appropriate.” Leslie makes a mental note: Can’t go topless.
“This is a healthy family environment,” says Scoma. Leslie has this one in the bag, “I married my high school sweetheart. But he passed away.” Scoma looked genuinely sad for her and extended an invitation to the club’s “evening under the stars gala.” But we’re already back to the couch in Leslie’s lair where she admits, “I played the dead husband card. Works every time.”
Leslie, if you leave now, maybe you can hitch a ride to church with Pam.
Over at the pool the daughters are hanging out. Bonnie’s daughter, Whitney, strolls onto the scene in a bikini, and we get our first glimpse of her 15 tattoos. The other girls stare in disgust.
Since Kalyn (not really Leslie’s daughter, but she needed one to be on the show, so she grabbed her god-daughter and moved her across the country) is new to Texas, she’s looking for friends. What better way to get them than to rattle off a long list of pageant titles you’ve won since the age of 4. I might rather see more of Whitney’s tattoos.
She holds her foot out so the others can catch a looksee. Something is blurred out. Yowza, it’s a dirty word (starts with a C, rhymes with punt) in a fancy font across her foot.
Kalyn snarks, “This gives a whole new meaning to cun-try club.”
Just then Pamela Martin Duarte slithers up to judge the younger generation (not the moms, the daughters). Whitney greets her, “Wat up, Pam?” Though shocked by the slangy greeting, Pamela hardly has time to trash the kid before spotting the tat. Few things render Pam speechless, but the tattoo did the trick. She bolts off to join the other moms for a lunch already in progress.
Cut to the couch at Bonnie’s place, where she’s expressing her feelings so eloquently that we can see her Ph.D shining through the glam, “Pam is the fun police. And she smells bad.” Bonnie, when Pam sees this episode, you’re gonna get one of those nasty f-bomb emails with weiRdly Placed CaPs.
Lord Voldemort
At the lunch, Cousin Leslie is already scoping out sponsor number 2, “Should I ask Botox Bonnie, should I ask Milk Toast Melissa, or should I dare ask…Pam?” Don’t do it, Leslie. It’s like asking Lord Voldemort for an endorsement, you’ll pay with your life.
Professor Bonnie excuses herself from the lunch, providing Pamela with the perfect opportunity to start trash talkin’, “Hottie doctor’s daughter over there has the C-word tattooed on top of her foot.”
Like Jason, the masked thrasher in those Friday the 13th horror flicks, Melissa goes straight for Bonnie’s jugular, “Bless her little heart.”
Sad that she didn’t think of it first, Pamela tells Leslie, “Bless her heart, yeah that’s what we say.”
Then Melissa explains that in Texas, “It’s like if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all or you say ‘bless your heart,’ you know.”
Cut to Melissa’s sofa interview, “Connie and Leslie are trying very hard to impress us, bless their little hearts.” Melissa, put your knife down, you can’t kill her yet, this is the very first episode.
Meanwhile, back at the pool. Whitney is dreaming out loud, “I want porn star boobies. I’m a D now, but I want to be an E.” Enough, Whitney. Enough. We know you like to shock people but this thing is going to be available on the Internet forever—think about your future.
We spend the evening at Leslie’s house, where she’s trying to explain to us the complex, altruistic logic behind bringing her god-daughter along on the move to Texas, “I grew up in the pageant world with Kalyn’s mom, and so I know first-hand that they really just don’t have the means to provide her with the opportunities that I can.” Wait. Are Kalyn’s parents living in a box under a bridge? Do they need help? How can we save them? And if they’re under a bridge, why didn’t you bring them to Texas too?
Oh wait, Kalyn is speaking, maybe she misses her mom, “I appreciate that you even thought of me, to bring me here and give me this opportunity.” Kalyn. Wake up. She had to have a girl your age to be eligible for the show. She should be thanking you. Or your mom for giving you away.
Back to Melissa. She’s picking up her teenager Maddie from the doctor and telling America about her really bad cramps. Oh. My. God. Shut up. How embarrassing. Take me anywhere, even to a used clothing store.
Welcome to Connie’s consignment shop in Uptown. Connie tells Leslie about a fabulous estate sale where she scored on the designer duds of a dead woman with impeccable taste.
Leslie seems confused while Kalyn sniffs some merchandise, “The smell and the thought of rotting people kind of grossed me out.” Kalyn, I’m not really comfortable with it either but just to be clear, you realize the dead lady isn’t still in the clothes, right?
Next, we see Leslie arriving for cocktails at Bonnie’s house because this doc is no fool, “I want to get her on my team before Pam injects her with her snake venom.” Over drinks, Dr. Bonnie whips out a letter from the country club that she believes is Pam’s doing. She reads it to Leslie, “The board has decided to amend our official by-laws. From this point forward, any type of profanity, written or verbalized, will go under review by the board and ultimately be punishable through probation or revocation of club membership.”
What about typed profanity? ‘Cause I’ve got an e-mail the board might be interested in.
Anyway, Leslie declares in an almost foreshadow-y kind of way that she’ll never get on Pamela’s bad side.
After a much needed commercial break, Dr. Bonnie gets down to business and tells Whitney that she has to get the C-word taken off her foot. Whitney refuses. So Bonnie bribes her with a cosmetic procedure and tells her if she has the vulgar word removed, she can have her lips done.
Next we’re at Innovative Cheer Services. This is where 15-year-old Grace, Connie’s daughter who is also a cheerleader at Highland Park High School, is practicing her moves. Connie is a former cheer teacher, so she tags along, dressed to practice as well. Grace is horrified when her mom puts on a show with the coach. It was actually very good. I don’t like to embarrass my daughter, but if I could do what Connie just did, I wouldn’t think twice about showing America. Something tells me Pamela wouldn’t approve. In fact, I smell another change in the by-laws.
Back to Whitney and Bonnie on the day of the tattoo removal. I expected to see the elite duo pull up to a fancy medical office ,so I was super surprised when they arrived at a tattoo parlor that also does removals in the back room. Whitney endures the first of six painful treatments to remove the C-word and is rewarded with new pouty lips.
Meanwhile, Grace and Milk Toast Melissa’s daughter Maddie are getting ready for the gala at the club. Maddie pulls out a bag of condoms she got from the doctor that day she had really bad cramps. After they sling a few around the bathroom, Maddie offers Grace part of the stash. Grace accepts and crams them in her evening bag.
Pamela is getting ready for the gala at home with the help of her “personal style team.” Pamela, if anyone on that team had anything to do with the ruffled sweater, you need to fire some peeps. And we haven’t even gotten to the chiffon number you’re about to slip on for the big party.
Leslie and Kalyn arrive at the gala in search of another sponsor. Leslie has just explained to viewers that she must make a good impression but feels she’s more than prepared with her experience as a pageant pro. Leslie, maybe it’s just me but I think something’s brewing with Pamela and Bonnie. If you show up drunk with boogers hanging out of your nose, you’ll still look good in comparison. Even if you fail, there’s a lot of country clubs over here in Dallas you could try.
Woodhaven rolls out a piece of red carpet and calls the paparazzi. Either that or they have a flashing light up in the trees to give things that mini-Oscars feel. Four of the duos arrive showing a lot of skin, in slinky prom-like dresses. Pamela shows up in a sage green grandmother-of-the-bride dress complete with long gauzy sleeves and yards of fabric gathered and draped all over the place. Where’d that style team go?
While Bonnie is gettin’ her drink on and pointing out that Pamela looks like a mermaid, Connie searches for Grace so she can introduce her to some important Fort Worth people. But that mission is aborted when Connie locates her daughter and discovers her purse full of condoms. Grace throws Maddie under the bus, and without taking a moment to collect herself, Connie bolts over to Melissa and confronts her about her condom wielding daughter’s behavior. Eventually Connie decides that Grace should go home and tells her, “I’m putting you in a cab.”
A cab? I guess you could drop her at the taxi stand of terminal C at DFW Airport because I don’t think there are cabs circling Woodhaven waiting for a fare to Dallas. But what do I know?
Bonnie and Whitney are getting way tipsy. Whitney stumbles a bit and flips her heels off to get some balance. Then they begin gesturing at Pam, even though their fingers are blurred out, I think we all know the message being sent. And if you watched the Dallas Divas and Daughters finale, you know Pam is no stranger to that gesture. She flipped a double blurred birdie to all the guests at a Dallas Arboretum afternoon tea. While she was sober.
Pamela makes a buzz-kill jaunt over to Bonnie and the fur starts to fly.
Pamela: Ms. Blossman, can I speak to you?
Bonnie: It’s Dr. Bossman. And you were the one that went to the board. And why don’t you remove that corncob out of you’re a**?
Pamela: I don’t have one. (Good come back, Duarte)
Bonnie: Yes, you do. If you remove it, you’ll feel better.
Pamela: I don’t feel like a drunken mom. It’s called, control your children when you’re out in public.
Bonnie: We haven’t done anything.
Pamela: Yeah, you haven’t done anything as far as parenting. I’d rather have a corncob up my a** than look like a f****** disco ball that I don’t know whether to greet you or dance under you.
(Hey Pam, what was that section number? Page 4, right?)
Bonnie: Sorry you don’t look as hot as me.
Pamela: I don’t look like a hooker.
Bonnie: Hookers can’t afford this.
Pamela: A little clue to you. If my daughter wanted to tattoo my nickname on her foot…
Bonnie: Yeah, that is your nickname on my daughter’s foot.
Pamela: No that’s your nickname. With a capital C. Toodle-ooo.
Then Pamela says to Connie, “I feel bad about what just happened, I feel like I ruined your gala.”
Pamela, you did ruin it. Bless your little heart.
Leslie finds a second sponsor, Dr. Bonnie, and is accepted to the super exclusive Woodhaven Country Club. Congrats to you, Leslie. We knew you could do it.
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140 comments
Great recap.
I’ve lived in Dallas all my life and did the same thing you did about the “exclusive Dallas Club”. Also, did you notice the the doctor that performed the lip injection is the same doctor that provides Channel 8 with the daily pollen counts? Didn’t know that ENT’s did plastic surgery too.
D-lightful recap/review. Merrit, you’re a treasure.
DD
I am Merritt’s #1 fan :-) Great synopsis!
Oh, wow. I’ve lived in Woodhaven Country Club Estates for 13 years. I dig the neighborhood but it is hardly exclusive. The country club was just purchased by Mr. Scoma (a Woodhaven neighbor) and, as far as I know, has made strides to update it from its formerly mid-80′s decor but there is no red carpet or elites at the club unless TV cameras are rolling. This stunt of portraying Woodhaven as upscale and full of “important” people from Fort Worth only reveals that the show is a complete fabrication. Those that aren’t from here won’t know the difference. I am saddened that such tacky B.S. has used my neighborhood as part of the foolishness. The country already has an incorrect view of Texas anyway. This just adds to it…and not in a good way.
Traipse on over to view pics from last night’s two, that’s right, two premiere parties with the cast and get my take on last night’s show at ohsocynthia.com. So, Merritt, you are obviously on Team Bonnie. Any takers for Team Pam?
Good job Merritt I knew you were still looking for attention from the tv show. I guess your own real life flubb ups are not good enough to keep everyone interested and your insults show that you are no better than what you are making fun of. This is – “good time” what the world is craving television .. if the show is really that disturbing for you .. please CHANGE THE CHANNEL.
Cheers !
Pamela
LOVE the recap!!! Keep’em coming!!!
Woodhaven exclusive? Surely they jest. What a train wreck!
Thank you Thank you merritt. This is an unbelievable embarrassment to the city of Dallas. Hopefully people who google us will find this as to explain that this is not normal behavior for us moms here.
I love the fat Club Manager/Owner guy! He’s hilarious, please show more of him! It kinda reminds me of Caddy Shack!
You should have seen the douche patrol at the Office Grill last night where they held their watching party… (although the food was amazing).
I’ve lived in Dallas all my life and am frankly embarrassed that this is on national television.
There are elite country clubs in Fort Worth but Woodhaven is certainly not one of them. A quick Internet search shows the initiation fee at Woodhaven is $1k compared to $50k at Colonial. This show is a train wreck and makes the entire metroplex look like fools.
Burn It With Fire!
Like all reality shows, it was a fun to watch train wreck. I have to tell Traci above that ENT doctors commonly do the cosmetic work. Who better to work on the face then an Ear, Nose, Throat surgeon
You dont have to be poor to be trash. This show proves it!
Well This And All The Real House Wife Shows!
Consider me already a fan of Big Rich Texas. I’m definitly team Bonnie!!! As far as the location goes no one cares if its exact unless your from Dallas. People do it all the time. Im from San Diego County but I dont reside in San Diego itself but when asked I say I’m from SD because its more known than to have to expain where my city is exactly located on the map. The show is intresting & entertainment, thats what people want to see. Dont forget the drama & this show surely has it! Lets all enjoy watching the train wreck & give all the location details a rest….. Oh, I’m more concerned with the details of Whitney stating she is a “D” cup right now!!!!??? By the looks of it that detail is also incorrect. Can’t wait untill next week :)
How can they get away with an entire show being a complete fabrication? Are their names even real?
I grew up on the eastside of Ft. Worth and lived in Woodhaven Estates, my parents still live there. Back in the 70′s it was a nice country club, area was upper middle class, but now. It is not exclusive at all. Most of the members are like my parents, who have been there for 30 yrs, the area is older and changed alot, with many low rent apartments. When I watched this show, and saw them pulling up to Woodhaven Country Club, like others I wondered where this was, I lived in Dallas for 15 yrs. and currently still in the area and have never heard of this club in Dallas. I could not imagine that they would be at the one in Ft. Worth, there is no way it is like that now. So, I googled this club and nothing in Dallas under that name comes up….has anyone EVER heard of it, how sad if they are really fiming this at the one in Ft. Worth and trying to pass it off as a exclusive upscale club in Dallas!
ROTFLMAO ……… I had to look up woodhaven too…… there are a LOT more ‘exclusive’ country clubs in the area….. try Shady Oaks for starters…….. forget 2 sponsors… you have to have 3 sponsors there, and one of them has to be an ‘Elite’ member……. this CR*P is for the weak of mind …….. and remember, as the saying goes…. “You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl!!”
@Mz Cali- Location DOES matter…if you knew what the real Woodhaven Country Club was really like, it is NOTHING like what they are portraying (if it is in fact the one from Ft. Worth). I saw the pool scenes, no one like that is ever at the pools. Most members are in their 60-80′s and have lived there for 30 yrs. I still don’t think it could be the one in Ft. Worth, looks nothing like it and it is not that exclusive to get into.
Well….this confirms what a joke this is…..I am watching it right now and they showed Mr. Scoma, who is a friend of my mom and dad’s and is the new owner. It is the one in Ft. Worth. What a total fake this show is…my parents have been members since 1975, these people they are showing on this show cannot possibly be members and live there!!! My mom will get a good laugh at this! Their house backs up to the golf course. Like I said earlier, the neighborhood has greatly changed over the years, and not in a good way. The club has suffered in membership, my dad still golfs there once a week, this is such a joke!!!!
In addition Mz Cali…………. you don’t get Fort Worth and Dallas confused……. even though they are only 35 miles apart (in Texas terms, that’s a next door neighbor ‘pardner) The culture and lifestyles are completely different. If you are a true Texan, you LAUGH at TV’s interpretation of the culture. I’m almost embarrassed to think about what kind of perception job the new Dallas show will present……. to be perfectly honest, most Texans laugh at these ‘caricatures’ on tv. Basically, it’s another group going for their 15 minutes ……… and 14 minutes are remaining……..
This show does not represent the Dallas social scene. These people are trash.
This show is a joke. Woodhaven is a defunt club, not near Dallas. i noticed the cushions around the club are the same ones sold at Home Depot…………………….Really give us a break
There’s a world of difference between Dallas and Fort Worth – not to mention the fact that they are not even in the same county.
If Texans are scratching their heads, trying to place these families, they can’t be very rich – at least not “Big Texas Rich.” And those who have true wealth would not be caught dead on a reality program, shamelessly displaying their pettiness and extravagance in front of millions of unemployed Americans. Talk about bad timing.
Okay, I’m a Fort Worthian. That is Woodhaven in Fort Worth. I actually rewinded and re-watched the biggest disgrace from Texas to be for sure. While the place can be glitzed up for events such as weddings and local high school dance team banquets, I have never seen teenagers there, except for the group that practices from a local high school on their tennis courts.
…But REALLY, are these people for real? This seems so fake and staged and scripted and awful. I really hope that they are actors or otherwise they are truly horrible people. Also, I don’t get the “awesome, exclusive, by-lawed country club thing. That “Gala” looked pretty tacky. I’m pretty sure that my upstate NY Jr. high-school formal was more upscale than that place. I shall say a prayer for them , bless their little hearts.
Pam,
Why don’t you tell us how long you’ve been a member of this super elite club where you have so much clout? Longer than 6 weeks of filming? I doubt any of you are actually on the membership roll. (Sidebar, Merritt- can you find one of these posters whose parents are members and get a directory or something?!)
Yah, like you really drive an hour to get to the club when Gleneagles (which could pass for marginally elite) is in your backyard. What a joke!!
To our fair Cali poster,
You say you live in SD County but say you live in SD. That’s ok as there are similar suburbs of Dallas that are in Dallas County. But this club is 35 miles away in Tarrant County. It’s like trying to pass off Compton as Beverly Hills or Brentwood. Pamela actually drives by three of the truly elite and prestigious clubs in Dallas on the way to get on the interstate to go to Fort Worth, in Tarrant County.
The women and daughters are using their real names, but there’s not much else that’s real. They’re playing a game. They know it, we know it. The cheerleader does attend HP, but they live in a multiple-family apt complex next to the Tollway, and not a fancy house. (Their address is in the middle school directory.) Maybe some or all of the tattoos are fake, too. Maybe the whole thing is scripted.
None of these women have country club memberships, this is the fakest of fake shows, no one in Dallas social circles know any of them excpet melissa, who is a secretary living in an apartment but goes to a lot of parties.It started off real, had an actual Dallas socialite who spends many days at her country club in Dallas, and a nice African-american mother/daughter/grandmother set of cast members, all who left the show. They were the smart ones when they figured out what producers had in store for this show! to make a laughing stock out of Texans… i hope they’ve gone back to California and don’t come back to mess with Texas for another season!
Haha! This show sounds awesome….It doesn’t matter where the country club is! All of society in Dallas sucks! I grew up in Highland Park going to Northwood Country club. All my friends belonged to DCC. It all sucked and I got out as fast as possible! So glad a show is showing how horrible Dallas society is!
With the way Pam behaves would the clubs closer to her have her? From experience, I think not.
Most hilarious thing I have read in a while. I can’t imagine the show is more entertaining, therefore I hope to enjoy the weekly recaps from here on out.
I grew up in Dallas and went to Greenhill- I was RELIEVED to see that I’m not the only one who has never heard of this club. While I appreciate you taking up for the underdog, Whitney and Dr. Bon…I mean, COME ON- nothing about how horrible they are? I get that it’s unfair how they are treated but the daughter represents all things wrong with American youth and the mother, albeit a doctor, is obviously a crazy person. Pamela is a control freak but don’t let your not so thinly veiled disdain for her overshadow the fact that Dr. Bon and her daughter are complete trash. I felt dirty after seeing Whitney, she looks like one of the vampires from 30 Days of Night. We’ll see how cute her little rebellious act is when she’s 30 and working at Senor Frogs to pay for her HepC medicine. I’m a reality show freak and I watch everything. THIS SHOW, however, is such a horrible representation of my hometown that I will not be watching it again.
My parents have been members at Woodhaven since 1975, I grew up there and they still live there, most members are 60-80 yrs. and have lived there a long time. This club has an older membership, no one that I saw on this show I would bet actually are members there…it is all fake. The neighborhood demographics have changed alot, many low rent apartments and an older neighborhood, certainity NOT all the glam people that they are showing…they are all actors, this is not real in any way. What bothers me is that they are totally lying, saying this is a elite country club in Dallas…..this club is about 45 min. away from Dallas and not at all what they are portraying it to be, it is an older club in an older neighborhood, no young girls hanging at the pool or Gala parties with all the glam people. I grew up in the 70′s and 80′s gong to this club, it was never an elite club, just a nice neighborhood country club. I told my mom I would think the people of Woodhaven would be very upset with this, she was not aware of it. She said she knew they were filming something at the club,, but didn’t know what it was. I told her she needed to check it out.
Wakeup call: 90% (or more) of reality shows are….wait for it….scripted, especially the likes of this one, Jerseylicious, etc. The others (think Housewives, other Bravo-type shows) “create” uncomfortable situations for cast members to participate in. Competition shows are a tad more “real”.
why would they show a bunch of houses from highland park followed by pam’s which is in collin county… not even dallas county? as if they are in the same neighborhood…. that country club looks like a public rec center. what am embarrassment. Dallas has a lot more class than this… as you can see in the screen shot there is no city for miles… this is clearly NORTH NORTH texas…. dallas high society my butt. more like dallas social climbers 101… they’ve got a professor!
I have known kalyn for a long time now. Trust me the way she acts on the show is exactly the way she acts normally. i wasn’t shocked to see her act the way she did.
I wish the show Good Luck <— Just kidding it's gonna tank!
It’s milquetoast, you moron. If you’re going to be bitter and cuss people out, do it by being smarter than they are.
I was at the pageants they filmed at. It’s all fake. There was a DIRECTOR who told them what to say. They had a “fight” and they reshot it about 40 times.
When I first got wind of this show most of these women weren’t even cast on this show. There was a African/American mother-daughter-grandmother cast at first. My daughter use to attend the grandmothers private school, and I know they have money. Secondly, there was a caucasian women who was also casted, and removed that was VERY wealthy.. She was married to Henry S. Miller a BIG time on the real estate scene. If your going to use “BIG” and “RICH” in the same sentence please make sure your both!
Disgrace!
I am a fourth generation Dallas girl, and your review made me laugh out loud! I also googled the club. And did you notice how they filmed scenes from HPV, and surrounding areas in between scenes? All I thought when I saw all the homes, were that they must be in Plano. I mean, you can tell because of the lack of trees!!
A bunch of us were sitting at Dallas Country Club other night, crying into our ****tails about being snubbed by our betters at Woodhaven. We’ve been trying to crash the elite social scene there for months. Oh well, I guess we’ll just have to make do …
Out of what pond did these skanks roll out of? I thought these stereotypes rolled back into the gutter once the TV series Dallas went off the air! Enough with these wanna be housewives of D and show us the real Dallas housewives!
This women are not hot at all.. This show makes Texas women look gross.
Spot-on, LOL!
I’ve lived in Dallas for 25 years and had to google this country club as well. Wow, what an incredibly fabricated straw-grasp just to organize even the lamest of platforms upon which to build a “reality” show called “Big Rich Texas.” Unable to land the real thing, the show’s producers have resorted to a cheap copy: Hire 5 or 6 shallow catty mother/daughter teams who think of themselves as rich and beautiful, scrounge up a run-of-the-mill over-the-hill Fort Worth neighborhood country club where initiation & monthly fees don’t even hit $5,000 annually, and mislead/lie/omit facts in order to pass it all off to viewers as some sort of Dallas slice of “Big Rich Texas.” Riiiight.
The show’s producers want us to believe that we’re watching the truly rich as one might find at Dallas Country Club or other $6-figure+ exclusive venue and that all of the players are representative of the “elite” of Dallas society, when in actuality the country club itself is 50 miles away firmly in Fort Worth, rock-bottom cheap to join as country clubs go, and some of the actors don’t even live in Dallas (or Highland Park) (or University Park).
That said, I found it pretty amusing that villain Pamela Martin is so over-the-top consumed by her “power” at this club – she has puffed herself up in having dominion over…what?!? LOL, the other 4 or 5 mother/daughter teams?? Clearly, the reality here is that her inflated ego needs a very small pond in order to be the big fish…and way-out-of-the-way Woodhaven is the perfect setting for this way-out-of-her-league control freak. I wonder, does Pam (or the show’s producers, for that matter) realize that anybody making about $50,000 a year could also afford to be a member at Woodhaven? or that normal people do not choose to sit in metro traffic several times a week every week as if “commuting” 50 miles each direction just to enjoy the amenities of somebody else’s neighborhood country club in another county? Apparently not.
The nationally-televised “reality” drama played out recently in the Casey Anthony trial involved a whole cast of imaginary friends, jobs, & income, and it seems that the women of “Big Rich Dallas” have pieced together their own imaginary world as well. Let’s hope they’re just doing it because they need the money that badly and not because they actually believe their imaginary little “Big Rich Texas” world. Either way, they are hollow embarrassments to Texans everywhere.
This show is BeYonD StuPId!
Having been born and reared in Dallas, and still a current resident, I am annoyed with this show. However, I will continue to watch the train wreck to see what unfolds. Saying Fort Worth is “Dallas” is like saying McKinney is Dallas, anyone who actually lives here (city or county), knows there is a huge difference. It’s just not the same. Having attended church in Highland Park, and being able to meet women and families that come from old money, I know they would be offended by these women on the show trying to portray themselves as the elite of Dallas. Anyone who has to tell you they are “elite”, truly isn’t. And as far as the self-appointed ring leader, Pamela, who lives in Plano, Collin county… bless your precious little heart.
“Dallas Elite” women are in there 60s. Old money is Dallas elite, if anyone wants to know. This show is going to suck, and they will be literally the laughing “stock” of wherever they are from because it’s definetly NOT Dallas. Sorry ladies, try to pull that stunt elsewhere.
KUDOS!
I will give you even more juice. None of the women on this show are rich. Bon and her husband lost their house to the bank, now rent. They don’t have a dime in the bank. Leslie has a couple rental houses, flown in from CA to replace an early exit. She won Mrs Washington back in 1992. Probably the oldest on the show. Must be mid 50s for god sake. Renting here too. The country club is a dump out in Ft Worth. Nothing exclusive about it. The cars are all leased or rented. The kids are all losers, most spending time in rehab. No one has ever been part of the Dallas or any other social scene. And no one belongs to any country club. With all the rich people in Texas, seems you could have found a few for the show. Oh, then did, Dena Miller’s family had money, but they made her get out, also an african-american family! Smart on their part!
@Lauren: Get over yourself. Dallas and Fort Worth have more in common than McKinney does with Fort Worth. Population? Size? Crime? The ghetto and “elite” are in both. Have you even been to McKinney, and are you really stupid enough to think that old money somehow makes you better than others? I was born and raised in Dallas as well, and I at least have enough sense not to be superficial. You should ask some of those women you have “met” and clearly do not know to buy you a brain, so you will no longer put you ignorant views on display for others to see.
Merritt, you just made my day–hilarious!!
That said, if y’all are really upset about this ridiculous show, don’t watch it! The only reason shows like this are on the air is because people are stupid enough to turn the TV on and watch them. Now that you’ve satisfied your curiosity (and established what garbage this is), do yourself a favor and watch something else. When people stop watching crap like this new show, the networks will start making shows that are actually worth watching.
I agree with the comment above.. Let’s not watch this show. It obviously was a floop if it didn’t trend on Twitter, or get ratings on Entertainment tonight..
This show is STUPID!!!
This show and these women are ridiculous! What losers. Woodhaven is not exclusive, nor is it in Dallas, no one even knows about it and no one cares about anything going on with these woman and their worthless daughters (god daughters). Style channel didn’t make it happen with “Dallas Diva’s and Daughters” (insert vomit now) and this show just makes it even worse for Style. All these woman need to crawl back under the trash cans they came out from and leave Dallas. You’re all a complete joke and anyone with any sense will gladly look you all in the eyes and laugh at you. We’re already laughing at you at DCC.
I would say the people with all the whacked comments are worse off then the women on the show! “Don’t always believe what you see!!!!
I thought the show was great… fake or not. Just good trashy reality TV!
I can’t wait for Project Runway! Now that’s worth watching. This show is CRAP!
These women just arent likeable, they are mean and spiteful. Bonnie seems to be the only one with a personality.
I watched Big Texas Rich and frankly was shocked that Dallas was shown in such a poor light.
I have worked as a personal Asst. for the past 8 years for a “Real” big rich Dallas family, I have to say they do not behave the way the four women in the show do. Yes, it is a TV program and has to have some sizzle to get the viewers interested but lets not basically form the picture of Dallas to the US as represented by these women. First the most elite club in Dallas is DCC and you have to have much more than money to belong, Old Money and Old Money values, and never appear on a TV show. Highland Park where the real money lives and the surrounding Park Cities area do not have spec houses that are void of trees and certainly not the decor shown in these Plano, Frisco, McKinney homes. The women as far as I know are unknown to the real money, I doubt that they could even muster an invite to real Dallas society. Dallas is a lovely place with fine families and very old money / lots of old money that keeps coming in. They do good works for the city and live grand at the same time, eccentric is a word that describes the real old money, the best kind of money and these people would not appear on TV, most of them do not even watch tv it is hidden away,a tv is tacky in a HP mansion. I can also say they have never heard of Style network or anything remotely like it.
The couple I work for would not even understand the program, for them life is a bubble of money and they rarely drive 4 miles unless they are heading to Love to board a private jet. They would never drive to Fort Worth for anything much less a Country Club membership. By the way real money refers to such a place as “The Club” if you have to figure much out beyond that you do not belong. It is clever to show HP, the Mansion on Turtle Creek the Village etc. but these people on the program do not live in this realm. I have learned that old money, real money does not like its name in the papers, tv or anywhere else, yes it happens but discretely and without fanfare. This program makes Dallas Society look very silly.
I Love it, It’s almost like CADDYSHACK, all they need is Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray characters, they alrfeady have the FAT club manager, he’s hilarious….please show more of him. Now just find a greens keeper with a lisp and a comedian who builds condos across the street and tips everybody and a DANCNG GOPHER and they will have a hit show….Great comdey!
Where are the minorities? This show is crazy. So this go around there aren’t any minorities in a city that is predominately African-American and Latino. Give me a break!
Merritt I’m so glad you are recapping this show. Your observations are spot on. I am a little disappointed that Pam is appearing on this show because I had my fair share of her on Dallas Divas & Daughters. However it is amusing to see and hear how obscenity bothers her. It seems to me that she was the worst offender on her other TV show.
So far this show doesn’t disappoint and I can’t wait until Pam gets into the mud wrestling pit with the rest of the country club elite.
Your review was 10x better than the show
I thought the review was great (hilarious). As a life-long resident of Maryland I was excited to watch this show because the only exposure I’ve ever had to Texas and its culture is from watching King of the Hill (*yes, I know its fake), and I’m addicted to ****ty television (e.g., Jerseylicious, Everything Kardashian, etc). You guys’ comments are hilarious. I know what its like to have a bull**** fabrication of your home on TV, but its all for entertainment. I can’t wait for the next episode! And I seriously hope that is not Pam posting on this site. Like seriously???? You get on the internet and fire back at ppl?
Yes, Pam LOVES to get on the internet and google herself, getting all fired up about how bad she and any show she’s on is! LOL!!Half the time, she doesn’t even know what or who she’s talking about!
Ok folks, you can put your knives and forks down cause this meal is finished, morsel by morsel. Although with some of the ferocity behind some of the comments I might say retract your claws and lick your paws. IT’S A TELEVISION SHOW! Nobody in the rest of America is going to care where the country club is. It’s just campy entertainment where people can turn their brain off and just watch some “real life drama,” LOL. It’s not ever meant to be taken so seriously. Dallas is and will always be a beautiful city that draws people from around the world. Television always distorts reality, even on a reality show. Location scouting probably got complicated and they had to shoot further out. The 80′s soap opera “Dallas” shot “South Fork,” by using a 4 bedroom house that wasn’t in Dallas either. BIG DEAL! Getting so worked up shows that apparently most of you need either a hobby or a drink. What makes Dallas look bad isn’t this show, it’s the nasty attitude of people like yourselves. Think about it, are people gonna watch extravagantly wealthy people hob nob and get along with each other at charities, or are they gonna watch a bunch of outrageous women go for each other’s throats? I for one think the show is hysterical and I think all of you need to take the corncob out of your own rear ends.
I agree with chill pill. And if any of you actually read the title it says, “Big Rich TEXAS,” not “Big Rich DALLAS.” Of course those of you with Dallitude wouldn’t have noticed that.
As a member, I am speechless at the travesty presented on Big Rich Texas. But to protect my status for fear of reprisal, I choose my words carefully. The owner is fond of saying how much the Style Channel paid to use our club. Easy money if you have a huge ego and thick skin. Nothing that was presented even comes close to what our real memership is like. These are indeed paid actors, everything is staged with no reality at all.
@Heather & Chill Pill, thats what I’m saying! It is, what it is. Relax, have a drink & watch the show… Or not watch the show. Personal choice, I’ll be watching it ;)
If people from elsewhere watch this show and then form a preconceived notion of Dallas and it’s women, those people are too ignorant to see through the entertainment. Therefore, I’m not concerned what those people will think of Dallas; we don’t need their uneducated opinions on the Real Dallas.
Total **** for the American half wits. Too bad Dr. Bonnie can’t find a more redeeming show to be on.
Garbage
Merritt, you are one funny writer. I love your humor, and this out-of-town Texan appreciates the recap.
Merritt,
As a long time Woodhaven member, I am injured and offended by the way the Woodhaven membership has been portrayed. I invite you to our club to meet and interact with the real members so you can see and feel Woodhaven for yourself. We are a small club with great hearts and want to show the REAL side of Woodhaven. Email me at your convenience.
Excellent commentary! The show is a clunker but your recap makes it fun.
Well done, and thanks for the clarification on that CC. I’ve never heard of it either, and it can’t be nice to look at since the camera seems to do nothing but tight shots on the sign, or, like, a single tree.
This was a GREAT review of the show. I cannot wait to see Pamela Martin on the streets and give her my two cents of how ridiculous of a human being she is. She is the only part of the show I cringe at, but I LOVE Dr. Bon and her daughter!!!
I LOVE that you talked about Woodhaven. Watching the episode, I had to pause to google it too. If you are BIG RICH in Dallas, why drive to a crappy country club in Forth Worth?
I am so excited that Dallas has THREE new reality shows… I am just hoping one of them shows the good hearted, hilarious entrepreneurs we have here! (cough cough http://j-talking.com)
Thanks for the blog, can’t wait to read more of your work!
I am a long time member of Woodhaven. The portrayal of the club could not be any further from the truth. It was simply “rented” for the show. Our club is mostly a golf club with all kinds of members. We have lawyers, cops, doctors, plumbers, ex ball players, oil men, salesmen, stock brokers, rich guys and poor guys.
I believe the show did buy memberships so technically these folks are members. I’m sure we won’t see them again until time to film the next season if there is one.
I wonder how many hits GOOGLE got for Woodhaven Country CLub…….! It’s the 1st thing I did. I have been living in the United States since 1996, namely Dallas… Think it’s an absolute insult to Texans..but fear not, anybody with half a brain will see this for what it is….
I live in the area and the owner, Lou Scoma, has been bragging to his few members that the production company paid him over $40,000 to use the club as a “set”. Maybe he can use the money to help pay the electric bill. I watched the show and he was the only “real” person on the show that is associated with the club. It was funny to see how the set decorators had to bring in everything…including pool umbrellas, chair pads, and plants to make the club look like it was even open. The owner talked them in to leaving some of the decorations behind! He did have real employees and a few members at the “Gala” to fill the room. It is true, there are no young people around the club except for the ones that the new chain link fence surrounding the club attempts to keep out. Sad for the actual members and the elite of Dallas.
One thing for sure- this show is a joke. I almost fell over when they pulled up to “Woodhaven” and it was supposed to be this “exclusive club”. As a golfer…it’s a nice place to play golf, but exclusive- not a chance. So this show is obviously clueless about most things…
To Mr. Highland Park and my friends at DCC:
Well I guess you know we aren’t the most exclusive club in Dallas (we can’t be we are in Fort Worth), but we are a feisty bunch! I bet we could get a few of our guys to play a few of your guys in a friendly Ryder Cup match. One day at DCC and one at The Haven. We can call it Highland Park vs. Hillbillies! After all we are all just good folk. We play our golf the same way you do, one penalty stroke at a time. Come on over I’ll buy the first round!
Just b/c this silly show & these sad women are falsely representing everything about themselves, we should paint the whole DFW metroplex with the same brush. Holding Ft. Worth out as Dallas is akin to pretending Long Island is Manhattan. And no, WCC, is not an exclusive club only for the “Dallas” elite. However, Ft. Worth is a cool city w/ a laid back vibe and amazing culture. And I am sure WCC has lovely (real) members who enjoy the golf it offers and neighborly, casual appeal. No need to bash the Club and its real members b/c these “actors” and the show are to blame for pretending it is something it isn’t and likely doesn’t care to be. Nothing represents Dallas, Ft. Worth and many of the lovely people of our metroplex. These women certain don’t represent “elite” in any definition – not financially, not well known, not as keepers of our cities, not as philanthropist and certainly not as the standard for the urbane, polite, well mannered, beautiful women of DFW – from the struggling single moms to the most wealthy and well known. We love our family, our neighbors, have state pride and believe in the American dream. But, we know money can’t buy any of that and at the end of the day, believe autheticity and hard work pays off and loving your neighbor as yourself is what makes a truly “elite” person.
Really? Because I work with Dallas’ elite all the time, and I hav to say that none of them look like that;)
Hey, @Highland Park Asst… after 8 years it seems you would have figured out what else “real old money” is about: they don’t like their staff blabbing all their business, feelings, and private activities on the D Mag or PCP blog. Discretion isn’t just for socialites, it’s also for their PAs.
The clinical term here is narcissism.
Nice people doing nice things doesn’t sell. Smut sells and paid sluts sell more smut. The power of REALITY TV. Shame on Style Network and shame on Lou Scoma for endorsing it.
omg!! i just saw a rerun today of millionare matchmakers today and i saw Leslie on the show, . . . .
Leslie has been on another reality show. Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo. I thought she looked a little familiar. Bravo was running reruns of the show today and ran her episode. I wasn’t entirely she because she looks “harsher” now and I think the show was from 2009/early 2010. But on tongiht’s episode she mentioned the same exactly story as the Leslie on Millionaire Matchmaker did about being a model and then buying one property and then continuing to buy more properties and that’s how she got rich. It was only episode on the Millionaire Matchmaker but the personality seems VERY different to me. What is confusing to me is that on Millionaire Matchmaker, she said she had kids. But on here it’s being portrayed that she doesn’t and she hasn’t even mentioned any kids.
Way to F’in represent! I’m really dissapointed that Texas has felt the need to get in on that whole reality TV bandwagon. And hey, while we’re at it, how ’bout that pole dancing at home work out commercial? Wow!
How embarrasing for the state of Texas. Really, any members of the Bass or Richardson families at this joke of an “exclusive club?”
Great job on this recap…it was real painful to watch the show. and I love that Pamela Martin gets so mad when someone calls her out on being such a louche. She would be laughed out of the Dallas Country Club or even Lakewood CC. IT’s really sad that she is so desperate for attention that not only will she be on this show, but she will fight bAck at you for wriTing something so funNy
Spot on, Merritt. This is a dumb show about dumb people with dumb fake-reality writing… Thumbs UP on YOUR review, and thumbs DOWN on the show.
As a member of Woodhaven for nearly 3 years, I am very upset with the fact our Owner, Lou Scoma would allow this degrading television show to portray Woodhaven as something it is not. Our membership is relatively small, and we are, by no means, an exclusive club in Dallas. We are a country club. We have a great membership and a nice golf course. Sure the facility may not be up to scale with some of the other great country clubs in FW, but we enjoy it. I feel as if our name has been sorried now that we are involved with this show.
I agree with one of the posts above, Woodhaven would love to showcase our club (as is) to some of the other establishments in DFW. We do not boast that we are the most exclusive or have the best course, but we do have fun. I, for one, am a young person, and I don’t think I would want to join anywhere else. The relationships I have gained are with real people who do not judge. We have our share of celebrities, wealthy people, blue collar folks, and guys who may be a member just for the social aspect of it, and we accept them all.
If DCC would like a showdown between our best golfers, bring it on. I’d be happy spearhead the entire tournament. Email me and let’s get a date set. We would have more than enough people to fill the roster, and we might surprise you. Take care, and I hope the show get’s booted off the air. Thanks.
Great recap… I looked up Woodhaven CC and we pay more in dues in West Texas! not to say there aren’t great people in Fort Worth, but I wouldn’t want those type people representing any Texas city! Dallas socialites have too much class to appear in a show like that and it is a shame they are giving them a bad name.
Very well done, Patterson. I am still laughing at this absurdity.
What a joke of a show. Im from Ft Worth and no one in the elite circles here would be a member at Woodhaven. It is a nice middle class club, but if you want elite in FW or Dallas then this isn’t it. In Dallas you have DCC, Brookhollow and Preston Trails and in FW the elite clubs are River Crest, Colonial and Shady Oaks. Any other club in either city is below these. What an embarrassment for the metroplex!
Well I tried to watch the 2nd episode, but the acting is pretty bad. I don’t really care much about elite, rich, or Mckinney versus Plano or Dallas versus Ft. Worth. Rich and poor people live all over and that’s a fact. I have family all around Dallas and Ft. Worth. Love visiting them all. Money can’t buy you happiness or a ticket into heaven.
FYI – there is a big difference between fort worth and fort worth proper. in fact, we play host to the wealthiest family in the state. that woodhaven country club is actually in Arlington and hasn’t been exclusive in decades. it’s real gross and in a bad neighborhood. I don’t believe that golf course is woodhavens. there are exclusive clubs in fort worth, but that isn’t one of them.
It’s so hard to contain myself and not blurt out Pam’s home address. Since I am level headed and not that evil I’ll just smirk and say, Really Pam, you’re that high and mighty and your home is under 2mil. C’mon, at least own a place that is worthy of talking about. Not some house in Plano that can’t even boast maid’s quarters. So not impressed.
OMG THIS IS SUCH A DUMB SHOW … SERIOUSLY THIS PEOPLE MIGHT BE SO RICH BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT THEY HAVE NO MANNERS AND NO RESPECT FOR THEM SELVES OR OTHER …ITS OVIOUS THAT THEY THINK THAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE MONEY THEY CAN DO WHATEVER BUT REALLY THEY JUST MAKE THEMSELFS LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF DUMBASSES…. GUYS GO TO THE STORE AND BUY YOURSELF SOME MANNERS AND RESPECT AND CHARGE THEM TO MY ACCOUNT ……
Hilarious! Thanks for the recap.
Woodhaven country club is the lowest most undesired place to get a membership. Homeless people can get accepted there.
I am a life long resident of Fort Worth and Woodhaven is an embarrassment to the golfing community. No one with any class or self respect would even attempt to join there.
This show is a facade, and reflects in no way the incredible golf courses and beautiful people of Fort Worth. I am truly embarrassed that this show is on national television. For god sakes we have the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, where the PGA tours every year. How dare some tv show come in to my town and place trash like this in my home to represent what we are about.
This is truly insulting and in no way an accurate representation of my beautiful home town!
Whitney is so damn ugly and her tatoo’s make her look even more discusting. Bonnie is pretty so her dad must have had the ugly gene. Whitneys boobs are super sagy she does need not only implants but a full lift gross she will look like **** either way poor ugly thing.
Great write up, but the comments on here are almost as bad as the terrible display on this show. I’m embarressed that so many people are wrapped up in which clubs are elite and trash talking the people who belong to Woodhaven.
I’m incredibly embarressed that the show is being filmed in my hometown (FW) – dirt poor or “elite” rich, either way I don’t want this show to be out there representing where I’m from. This is a disgrace to the City of Fort Worth, the only saving grace is that they keep referring to it being in Dallas.
“I might rather”????? Is that a southern phrase?
Thank-god this isn’t for real!! I just moved herte, and I am really hoping that these ladies are not the ladies I going to have to hang out with… BTW if the show is scripted can we please concider a wardrobe consultant?! I hate what these ladies wear!! They all can do soooo much better.. Please contact me if you want any help… Gesh! kbr.dallasfn@gmail.com
While watching the show I couldn’t help but notice that Leslie looked familiar…that’s because she was on an episode of Millionaire Matchmaker!!!!!
I am in pain from laughing as I read your reviews. So hilarious! This show is such a trainwreck…but I. Can’t. Stop. Watching.
Consider that Woodhaven’s initial fee to join is only $1,000, while other Dallas area “country clubs” begin at $15,000 up to $100,000 initial fee. Is Woodhaven really Big Rich Texas?
Whitney is such a mean spirited woman she makes her mother look stupid she talks like she has marbles in her mouth. Her tattoo are a full blown joke. I wish she would get a boob job that way all tatoo’s will sag those bows on her chest will in fact drop how does poor little bleached beast deal with a mother is a 8 and she is -100
Funny writing! I like it. But it also sounds slightly like the dialogue in the book ” The Help.” Maybe that’s the new wave of reality TV….about the faking of reality blogging….
Pamela has got to be one if the tackiest, vile people I have ever seen in my life. No scratch that. She is THE most tacky and bile person ever to walk the planet. Even my 12 yr. Old daughter recognizes how disgusting she is. I would love to push that woman into a mud puddle.
This show is exaustin whitneys father so ugly moms not to bad but Whitney is atroshus can’t wait for her mother to be wreak and give her a boob jobs she is going to look like a fat ass
This show rocks but please don’t think all texans live this way…even us poor folk down in south texas don’t act this trashy. Pam, you embarrass texas and your petty husband made a fag of himself by tryin to fit in with you & your heffer friends while bashing Leslie. His ramblings didn’t add up enough to prove he even knows ****. Its one thing to come from money..keep your mouth shut!..and its another to make the money..then maybe he could prove valid points. Ghetto.
One phrase comes to mind about this entire show: Bless their hearts!
Just beyond tacky.
i know grace, she goes to my school and is in d=choir with me. she is actually really nice
From show 9/18/2011 I now know this show is not filmed in Dallas or fortworth. They make it seem as though. But they screwed up on this show tonight. Kalyn’s pageant was supposedly held in Dallas. But they show them shopping for pageant dresses at Muzzle’s dresses. Well guess what…. That’s in HOUSTON TX. Not Dallas or ft worth!!!
Well Muzzie’s does have a N. Dallas location, but I have to say Woodhaven is a joke of a GOLF Club. It is not a Country Club and it is not close to being elite in the Ft. Worth area. If you are elite you belong to Colonial or Rivercrest, both old money clubs. Secondly, when you join a CC you become an equity member in that CC. And furthermore the initiation fee and dues are a joke. Those dues are barely more than a family brunch at Rivercrest of Colonial.
Initial Fee: $1,000
Monthly Fee: $260
Equity Club: No
Go back to your shanty and quit driving to Uptown Dallas to portray something you are not.
thanks for the updates! i love reading ur blogs!!!
I would never watch this show or any other Dallas reality show but reading your article made me laugh out loud and today I needed that….great writing! Hard to believe there are women out there that are that embarrassing….thank God I have boys and they know if they brought home one of those girls I would punch them in the head :)
Cheers to you and your great article!
Why is Pam so hateful? Doesnt she have a life?
Wow Whitney is even uglier with out make up!!
Did Ignacio marry Pam for citizenship? After seeing the picture he painted you know he hates the old dried up troll.
Whitney and Bonnie are delightful mother daughter duo, and the only reason to watch. Get A’s Whit and get your boobies. You are a beautiful girl with the coolest mom. Pam’s vag is as cold as an icebox, guaranteed, but I do feel sorry for her daughter, who you can tell loves her mother, and will grow up just like her. I didn’t realize how different Texans were to the rest of America till I left and traveled. This is exactly how they behave, like Pam. The fan faves on the show aren’t Texans, no big surprise there.
I come from old money, and so I have the right to make these comments. To the people who were questioning the Country Club’s low membership dues, Really???? High membership dues do not equate with exclusive. My great uncle owned two country clubs, and his dues were not that high. However, his membership consisted of lawyers, doctors, judges (my grandfather included), and professors. My father went to Exeter in New Hampshire. The disscussions at his club were about current events, literature, and culture. One does not need to pay high dues for that type of cultural enrichment. My great-uncle’s menu was one of the best in the state, and all of his member’s held at least a bachelor’s degree. That is true class. All of this nuianced Botox, plastic surgery, and technology does not make a person capable of having intelligent banter with others. Sometimes older is nicer and sometimes older means charachter. I have always thought of Texans as a bunch of gun-toating rednecks who sit around and Bible thump all day. I’m sorry but those of you think you are “elite” because you live in Dallas need a serious reality check. I do not think you are in a posistion to make fun of anyone else. Bonnie and Whitney both understand that education accompanies class. They are the only two that would be able to hack it in the harsh intellectual world of New England.
Has anyone even mentioned that you literally have to roll through the hood to get to this club? There are section 8 apartments in the neighborhood. But in all fairness – they do have a beautiful golf course with a lot of trees. Too bad Fort Worth can only keep up one side of town (the westside) and not any other part of town. What a shame.
Hey Kristen from old money BITE ME!!!
Okay just saying.. I went to elementary/middle school with Pam’s daughter Hannah. IN MCKINNEY. Therefore, Pam hasn’t even lived in plano very long, she moved from McKinney
Unless you are a member of Rivercrest CC in Ft. Worth, who cares!!!
Having grown up in Fort Worth, I’m loving that they managed to pawn off Woodhaven to Dallas. It may be shot in Cowtown, but that gals are acting pure Dallas.
Good god did Connie age 20 years since last season and did Pam get even fatter. I don’t think Leslie told her son to go out with Whitney I think Tylor just said that to get rid of her so Bonnie threw away a friendship because her daughter was dumped and Leslie would had never got a higher status by her son dating Whitney since nobody in the club likes Bonnie or her foul mouthed daughter Bonnie has a husband who is trying to be a good parent amd all she does is undermined him and make him look like an ass while she blowing kisses to her looser daughter doesn’t she know she’s not helping her and now she is going to give her a boob job what an idiot Whitney looks foolish enough now she will look like a fat tatooted circus freak I’m so glad she is banned from the country club Whitney should get her yellow wooden teeth fixed first and stop throwing drinks at everyone it’s getting old some one get a hold of this bitch she is going to be 40 years old still living with her mommie mom and daughter joke team just a couple of drunks. Pam thinks she is full of money when her house is a joke property is so cheap in Texas why doesn’t she buy something decent she’s a fat pig amd that goes for that old ugly husband of hers to. Connie you have a thrift store I would never buy second hand your a joke no wonder you don’t have a husband. Kayla hang in there sweetie Leslie is to hard on you you have been through alot and I think your a good girl.
@ DeeDd & Rob:
The show is a soap opera posing as a “reality show”. Out of all the comments on this blog & made by paid actors on the show, yours are by far the worst. You are both such mean, hateful, judgmental and angry people. Either you hate your own lives or yourselves to be so cruel. It’s a tv show. Period. For entertainment purposes only. Both of you should seriously consider seeing professional therapists (maybe even psychiatrists) because that anger inside of you is eating away your potential to be decent, caring human beings.
I do apologise to ANYONE ELSE who had to read my post; however, I do, sincerely, feel that these two seriously need a reality check. (and not that of the “reality show” variety, and not whatan actor gets paid for doing a television show)
REALITY CHECK: REVIEW YOUR OWN LIFE AND FIND IN IT WHAT,MAKES YOU HAPPY, REMOVE THAT WHICH MAKES YOU HATEFUL, HURTFUL AND ANGRY. You will feel much better after you let some things go.
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@ Dee Dd & Rjb
Pamela,
I ADORE you! There’s nothing wrong about you…..you simply say it like it is and people are jealous of you. You appear to have it all, and isn’t that what all of us want deep down….happy marriage, successful children, looks, money, friends, fun? And your daughter is absolutely beautiful too and you’re a great role model to her! Leslie and Bonnie are terrible role-models and it’s no wonder both of their daughters ended up with a frickin’ loser like Tyler! POOR Girls…they don’t have a chance. And Someone needs to teach Tyler how to open his mouth when he talks….he reminds me of a puppet. And please get Leslie outta there……that woman makes me want to shoot myself…I get embarrassed FOR her.
Even if it isn’t real, it’s quite entertaining…..Keep on doing you and calling out all the back-stabbing, wanna-Be’s. BTW….do you wanna a new friend? :-)
texans are not that same mann? they sopoably stay in DTown (dallas) but ive never accociated with people so insacure they just act the way they do cause they got the bread (money) for it .
its for sure … stay were i stay Funkey town (FT. Worth) u ain bouta meet people as stuck up as this right here
But Whitney and Bonnie are the best ! X) whitney seems like a down a** chick to be around ! and her mom seems crazy and cool:)
Pam does disturb me cause all she acts like is a snobby rich B**** she dnt gotta try nd ruin everybody thinkin everybody gotta please her to be in the country club got me F****d up!
-I watch for Whitney and Bonnie :D
lol @ Jeannie….it’s true – in fact, as a lifelong citizen of fort worth proper, I’m gonna go ahead and pawn woodhaven off to Arlington. what a craptastic city. @diane young is correct about rivercrest, but don’t forget shady oaks and the most famous FW club, colonial. fort worth is a great city – and in my opinion brings much more to the table over Dallas. it’s not true that we’ve only paid attention to the westside, we just don’t give a flying about the eastside. as is common in most cities. thanks!
im from Manchester in the Uk and i have never missed an episode..i admit you can tell it is totally staged but isnt that all the fun and without those wierd dysfunctional but funny mother daughter/god daughter duos the show wudnt be half as facinating..were onto season 2 now and still find it very addictive for some reason lol