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Desperate Housewife | 8

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.17K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Jen Shah drives a Porsche, throws lavish parties, and brags about her $50,000-a-month shopping sprees. But when she gets arrested on camera and charged with serious federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit money laundering, it becomes clear she’s been leading a double life. Now, this drama queen is getting her own reality check. 

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0:00.0

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0:12.8

Sarah, hey, Satchie. One thing that we have in common is that we both love the real housewives.

0:19.2

I don't have a super high trash tolerance, but the housewives really, it's perfect for me.

0:25.9

Well, Sarah, since you know what it's like to be a housewife fan, you know that when you watch the show,

0:31.5

even though there are these people who are like deeply flawed, often not very likable,

0:36.1

you still end up kind of rooting for them in a weird way?

0:38.9

Yeah, I think it's because they live in a different reality, so the measure of morality is a bit different

0:46.4

because they don't live in the normal world. Rules don't apply. So this brings me to my big question

0:52.6

for this episode, what would a housewife have to do to lose your sympathy for good?

0:59.7

Wow, I mean, the bar's pretty high. Simultaneously high and low. Yeah, yeah.

1:06.7

Well, what if a housewife was truly one of the most compulsively watchable people on the planet,

1:13.8

but she also maybe ripped off a bunch of super vulnerable people? I mean, are they all kind of

1:21.0

scam influencers who not like this hags, not like this?

1:28.3

It's March 30th, 2021. It's a bright spring morning in Salt Lake City, Utah.

1:34.1

Snow dots the slopes, and for the stars of the real housewives of Salt Lake City, it's showtime.

1:40.7

Filming has already started on season two, and the ladies are headed to Vail Colorado for a ski getaway.

1:47.2

And with the crew hovering around them, Jen Shaw joins cast members Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow

1:52.2

and Whitney Rose as they board a party bus. It's parked in a strip mall outside of Heather's

1:57.7

beauty lab and laser spa. And Jen is impossible to miss in this scene. She's 47 years old and she's

2:04.5

wearing her long dark hair in box braids. She also has on a Fox for Vest and chunky gold and silver

2:11.4

bracelets. And to top it all off Sarah, she's in leopard print high heel boots. It's very

2:17.8

Gen shot, very real housewives. Jen takes a seat with the others who look casual by comparison.

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