Rich Girls on MTV. I can’t get over how ridiculous this show is, yet I’m drawn to it.
The premise of the show is is these two rich 18 year old girls (Ally Hilfiger, daughter of Tommy, and her friend Jamie Gleicher) are followed around by cameras as they:
Spend Spend Spend
Smoke Smoke Smoke
Act Silly
What my roomate and I can’t figure out is:
Where does Jamie get her money from? We know that Ally has her dad’s money from his clothing line, but Jamie can spend dollar for dollar with her with no apparent source of income.
If any of you dopers out there know the answer to this mystery, I will be able to continue on with my daily life without pondering this day and night.
The Hilfiger girl isn’t bad. I thought it was cool that she asked her dad to give a donation in her name to some Ethiopian charity for her high school graduation gift (instead of a Hummer or some other obscene gift) and she often mentions her dislike of wealthy people who look down on the working class.
The Gleicher girl is too much of a drama queen and seems more vapid. Kinda like Paris Hilton if she spent too many hours eating Twinkies and watching TV.
Gleicher has quite an interesting perspective on American history and reincarnation beliefs. I caught one show in which Hilfiger admitted she sometimes felt guilty that she was in such a rich family, because she felt like she didn’t really deserve it. Gleicher begged to differ, telling her that she must have done something good in a past life to have earned such a position in this life.
To prove her point, Gleicher explained that she, too, must have good karma from her past lives to earn her high social status. “I feel like we are old souls,” she told Hilfiger and their friend, another daughter of wealth and privilege. “I share a birthday with Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King Jr. Maybe I was one of those guys in a past life.”
Riiiight.
And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, she added “You know, Benjamin Franklin–the guy who invented the light bulb.”
Actually, she said that she shared a birthday with Benjamin Franklin and Mohammad Ali and wondered if she was the reincarnation of one of them, which would be an astounding feat considering Ali is still alive.
Her “Benjamin Franklin invented the lightbulb” comment has displaced Jessica Simpson’s “Is this chicken what I’m eating?” comment as the most vapid and stupid thing I’ve ever heard on TV.
Good lord, she said Mohammad Ali?? I misheard it somehow–my brain must have still been reeling from the idea of her being the reincarnation of Benjamin Franklin.
I see from a little Googling that she was right about Mohammad Ali and Benjamin Franklin sharing a birthday–which means that our Jamie must have been born on January 17th. But I wonder if Ali knows that someone else has his soul now.
Oh help me, Jamie’s birthday is the day before mine. And if my memory serves, I think that means Jamie has the same birtday as Cosmopolitan (it’s the day before or after mine, I forget which).
Okay…I know I’m no beauty queen, but does anyone else think Jamie looks like a sad dog? Those cheeks!
And if Ally said one more time that she’d like to come back as a tree, I was gonna kick the tv.
Ally strikes me as a basically well-meaning, if not-too-bright and flaky girl, while Jamie, on the other hand, is a twit. The show is a good source of laughs, if you can just get past how irritating those girls (Jamie especially) can be.
I saw it for the first time last night. I really couldn’t figure out if they’re well-meaning but clueless or just a pair of assholes. I’m tending towards the latter.
Ugh. I think they’re both annoying. I’ve only seen it twice and in both episodes Ally has a breakdown about “I don’t know what to do with my life. Daddy, help me figure it out. I just don’t know what I’m going to do once I’m on my own.” Ha! Like that chick will ever be completely on her own.
Actually, isn’t her name spelled “Jaime”? Or so it seems in the credits. But it’s pronounced Jamie…which seems to make no sense to me.
They’re both pretty awful, although Jamie seemed slightly less obnoxious/stupid than Ally. Took me the longest time to tell them apart anyway (…not that I watch it or anything…). Stupid faux tans. When will Caucaisan girls learn?
Actually, Jamie Gleicher goes to my school. But I’ve never met her…ugh…<shudder> I don’t know, the whole show seems to represent the epitome of what people think of as nouveau riche. Just soo tacky.
