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Hello and welcome back to Night Call, a call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality.

I am in Los Angeles. I am Tess Lynch and with me are Molly Lambert and Emily Oshita.

We were going to be joined by Mara Wilson today, but unfortunately she had some technical difficulties, so she will be on the podcast next week.

We have a night call we want to take right off the top in honor of the recent finale of the

Vow on HBO. This is a night email actually, and it is anonymous and it is juicy. Okay. So they write

really enjoying all of the conversation around the vow and glad to hear I'm not the only one who seems to have been driven crazy by many aspects of the series. How did Keith pull this thing off? Where is Mark to blame in all of this? Why do so many of these ladies have bad eyebrows? What the hell is up with this series narrative structure? Who shortens Anthony to Nippy? Great question. Anyway, back in 2012, I was working at an unscripted production

company that was shopping around a project about the housekeepers of Beverly Hills homes.

I'm sure you can guess what the very clever title was. The sizzle was tasteless even for the time.

We were talking the height of Jersey Shore and the eve of here comes honey boo-boo and featured long

sequences of the housekeepers just cleaning fancy houses. One of the featured housekeepers

was employed by none other than the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia,

dynasties Amanda Carrington, and Nexium's public enemy number one herself, Catherine Oxenberg. I don't remember specifics,

but I do remember one woman complaining about how long it took the housekeeper to walk up

and down the driveway to get the mail and one obsessed with having crystal clear windows.

I've seen a lot of failed projects, but the level of cringe from this one was really breathtaking.

I'll never forget it. Thank you so much

for this scoop. So it turns out that Catherine Oxenberg was like so close to being a real housewife.

The spotlight fell on her housekeeper instead and what sounds like a really awful project that I'm glad

didn't go to a series. You know what's funny is that when they showed the interior of Catherine Oxenberg's house

and the wall of religious artifacts that's so densely packed with crosses and stuff,

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