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Covert government agencies could learn a thing or two about secrecy and misdirection from Bravo. The cable network filmed the entire first season of, which premieres at 9 p.m.
Monday, without tipping its hand to anyone in town. The women in the cast didn’t even realize that they were forming a North Texas chapter for the ever-expanding “Real Housewives” sorority. LeeAnne Locken and Tiffany Hendra were under the impression that they were starring in a TV reality show about the Dallas society/charity/fundraiser scene, which more or less turned out to be true. Brandi Redmond and Stephanie Hollman had been told it was a show about working women. (Never mind the fact that they’re stay-at-home moms.) Cary Deuber had “a sixth sense” that this was a Dallas-based “Real Housewives” show, but she couldn’t be certain. “I felt it, but the show was not called that,” she says. “Pretty much the whole season that we filmed, we did not know what it really was.” From the day that production was announced in March 2015, the cover story was that this Bravo show, with the working title “Ladies of Dallas,” would focus on “glamorous galas, scintillating scandals and supersized spending habits in the elite tier of the Dallas social scene.” Talk about hiding in plain sight!
The 10-episode first season had concluded filming before the network came clean in November. The cast was officially revealed in February. Looking back, Hollman says, she’s happy that Bravo pulled a fast one. “For me, it was a blessing,” she says.
“If I had known it was Real Housewives, I think I would have been too intimidated to be myself. I might have tried to be something I’m not.
Because I’m not the Beverly Hills type. I’m a little bit Beverly Hillbillies maybe, but definitely not Beverly Hills!” But that’s what works about this show. It has a distinctly different vibe from the other incarnations of Real Housewives, all of which have been set in West Coast or East Coast communities. Hendra says it’s about time that the Real Housewives franchise showed Dallas some love. Locken has a feeling she’ll wind up being considered the villain of The Real Housewives of Dallas. Frankly, she’s OK with that. “My purpose for doing the show is to raise awareness for the Dallas charities I’m so passionate about,” she says.
“If getting the word out about causes like (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) and means I have to take a little crap for being crazy, loud and obnoxious, I’ll take that trade.” Locken is the likeliest of the cast to get confrontational, particularly with the women who aren’t serious about the fundraising events that she helps organize. A former Miss Arizona who placed in the top 10 of the 1989 Miss USA Pageant, Locken is an actress and model who knows her way around reality TV. In 2012, she appeared in several episodes of, Style Network’s DFW reality show; in 2008, she competed in TV Land’s She’s Got the Look, an over-35 modeling competition. Having the Bravo camera crew shadow her every move was a snap. “I’ve been in front of the camera for so long — Tiffany and me both,” Locken says. “If a plane would fly over while doing a scene, we would stop talking until it cleared.
We understood instinctively: no background noise. The crew was like, ‘Y’all are good.’ We’d say, ‘Well, we’ve done this before.’ ” The man in Locken’s life, knows the ropes, too.
The Dallas police officer was a regular on A&E’s (2006-2007). Hendra became part of the Real Housewives world because of Locken. They’ve been buddies for three decades. “We are probably one of the longer friendships ever highlighted on Real Housewives,” she says. “LeeAnne received this email about an audition. She said, ‘I think this would be fun for us to do together.’ “I’ve always been something of a risk-taker and I liked the way it sounded. That’s how I got involved.” The Houston native had been working in Los Angeles as a model, actress and TV host for many years.
But she and her musician/songwriter husband, Aaron, decided to move to Texas less than a year before production of RHoD got underway. “I was growing disenchanted with life in L.A.,” Tiffany recalls. “When you’re young, chasing your dreams is all that matters. But you get to a point as a woman when sense of community and being around family starts to mean so much more than career. And you know the saying: ‘Happy wife, happy life.’ “So Aaron decided to bring me home.
It was a leap of faith and living here wasn’t always an easy adjustment for Aaron, but it’s been good for both of us.” Hendra is quite sure she’ll cringe at times when watching the show and reliving some of the things she did and said, especially in moments when the champagne flowed a little too freely. I’d be like, ‘Oh, wow, did I actually say that?
Was that on camera?’ Tiffany Hendra “There were days when I would think back after shooting,” she says, “and I’d be like, ‘Oh, wow, did I actually say that? Was that on camera?’ But I can’t say I regret anything. Because no matter what happened, I was authentic and true to myself.” Deuber is a surgical nurse who works alongside her husband, Mark,. She never dreamed she would be a member of the Real Housewives sisterhood.
“It’s so strange how this came about,” Deuber says. “The production company found me through a friend who gave them my name. I would never have sought this out on my own.” She likes to believe she’s the Dallas Housewife with whom viewers will most readily connect.
“I’m different from most of the Housewives on any of the shows because of my career,” she says. “I know there are women on these shows with careers, but mine is the kind where you’ve actually got to be there every day. I have to be present for my patients.
“Between work and my marriage and raising three kiddos, there’s a lot of juggling. I wear a lot of hats.” Not one of those hats looks like a tiara. “I’m a normal, down-to-earth girl,” Deuber says. “I hope that comes across.” The reality TV life was overwhelming for her at first. Deuber had “a meltdown panic attack” after her first day of filming. But unlike Redmond and Hollman, she also showed immediately that she won’t be intimidated by the force of nature that is Locken. It is Cary Deuber who has the first “oh, no, she didn’t” moment when she plays a prank at the Mad Hatter’s Tea and Luncheon.
In the second episode, it is Deuber who has the first “oh, no, she didn’t” moment when she plays a prank on Locken at the Mad Hatter’s Tea and Luncheon. It appears, in fact, that Locken thinks Redmond is the culprit, making it the perfect crime (at least until Locken sees the episode). “I have a dry sense of humor,” Deuber says. “I’m sure I’ll say things that are minorly offensive. Hopefully nothing too over the top.” Redmond, a five-time Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, was a must-have Housewife for one obvious reason: It would have been heresy for the show not to align itself somehow with America’s Team.
There simply had to be a player’s wife or a cheerleader in the cast. Once filming started, fun-loving Redmond hit the ground running. “I’m used to having a camera crew follow me around,” she says. “During my fifth year as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader, I shot the pilot for CMT’s Making the Team. Also, when I was with the Cheerleaders, we had ESPN swimsuit specials, where they followed us while we shot our calendars.” That said, making RHoD was a little different. “This was more intense, more invasive, but it was so much fun,” Redmond says.
“The camera crew and the producers became like family. I loved everybody I worked with and I’m really proud of the show.” Redmond is married to her high-school sweetheart, Bryan, and is the mother of two young girls. She and best friend Stephanie Hollman were cast together, more or less as a package deal.
Don’t be surprised if the show winds up with a LeeAnne and Tiffany-vs.-Brandi and Stephanie showdown (with Deuber somewhere in the middle). Brandi Redmond is a newcomer to Dallas’ society charity fundraiser world and she quickly ruffled a few feathers.
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Redmond is a newcomer to Dallas’ society charity fundraiser world and she quickly ruffled a few feathers with her cheeky attitude about the opulence of these events. Wait until you see the crazy hat she wears to the Mad Hatter’s Tea. (She made it herself, with assistance from her kids and a few glasses of “Jesus Juice.”) “As far as I’m concerned,” she says, “if I make just one viewer laugh, I think I’ve done my job.” During the months before the cast was officially announced, many people in the DFW area played Real Housewives guessing games: Who’s in? “I was always considered the long shot in all the stories,” Hollman recalls. “And every time my name would come up, friends would message me and say, ‘This is so hysterical.
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You’re not the kind of personality they would ever consider. There’s just no way.’ ” Imagine their reaction when it turned out that there was a way. “People at my kids’ school were shocked when the news came out,” Hollman says with a laugh. She’s an Oklahoma native who has two sons with husband Travis, who’s known for making multiple lists of chores for Stephanie to do while he’s away on business. Hollman and Redmond wound up on the “Real Housewives” radar after a mutual friend recommended them. Hollman and Redmond wound up on the Real Housewives radar after a mutual friend recommended them. The two women, best friends for 10 years, are inseparable.
“We have taken every New Year’s vacation together for the past 10 years,” she says. “We had our babies together. We have the same sense of humor.
We’re like two little girls when we get together. “I’ve never had another friend like Brandi — and thank God for that, because my husband would hate it if all of my friendships were like that.
Too many poop and fart jokes.” Hollman is eager to see the show — and also more than a little bit anxious. Aside from a red-carpet screening in Dallas mere days ago, Bravo didn’t let the cast members see any episodes in advance. “I feel like it’s a big mystery,” Hollman says. “It keeps me awake some nights. But I’m ready to rip the Band-Air off and see.”.
SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area native and star of ABC's Dancing with the Stars Cheryl Burke stopped by ABC7 Tuesday to tell us about an exciting charity event where you can watch the ultimate pro and two-time Mirror Ball trophy winner tear up the dance floor. With the season over, Cheryl is kicking off her two-month break by hosting a fundraiser at her dance studio in Mountain View. She'll be dancing, signing autographs, and greeting fans to support a charity called 'PhilDev.' Cheryl says 'X-Factor' star Jason Brock will be there along with another Dancing with the Stars pro whose identity will be a surprise. So, put on your best 70's attire and get ready to dance or just watch the pros in action. Visit to buy a ticket to the Saturday event.