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Bling Empire is the latest reality TV series to take the streaming platform by storm. The show, filmed in 2019, follows a group of ludicrously wealthy Asian socialites and influencers as they waltz around Los Angeles buying up designer outfits and diamonds, eating at fancy restaurants, attending lavish parties and occasionally falling out (hello Christine and Anna).
Model Kevin Taejin Kreider is the only cast member who isn t outrageously wealthy, and a lot of the plot revolves around him and best friend Kane Lim, who is very much a millionaire (in episode one Kevin reveals he “owns the shopping malls you go into in South East Asia”).
Bling Empire is everything Real Housewives wishes it was.
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When
Crazy, Rich Asians was released in cinemas, it was hard to believe that it was possible for anyone to have lives like the ones shown, filled with lavish events, more money than a normal human would know what to do with, and so many ridiculously hot people.
Well, Netflix’s latest reality show,
Bling Empire, has proved that not only are these lives real, but they are actually more common than you think.
Selling Sunset comes a brand-new reality TV obsession:
Bling Empire. Itâs an eight-part series from Netflix, based on the lives of a group of extremely wealthy Asian and Asian-American residents of Los Angeles. Described as a real-life version of the hit romcom
Crazy Rich Asians (2018), the show is full of top-end Botox, custom couture and jewellery so expensive it requires security staff.
Kelly Mi LiCourtesy Netflix
Expect tiaras and tantrums between Anna Shay, who is an heiress to an estimated billion-dollar fortune, and fiery socialite Christine Chiu. There are fights and fallouts thanks to independent entrepreneur Kelly Mi Li and her partner Andrew Gray (an actor known for playing the role of the âred Power Rangerâ). Thereâs parental bereavement for former pop star and Japanese denim-empire heiress Cherie Chan. Representing the âordinary guyâ is down-to-earth (ie not a millionaire) model Kevin Taejin Kreider, while the showâs centrepiece i
Bling Empire shows the extravagances of LA s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ – and I can t stop watching it
Epic rivalries, self-serving philanthropy, couture and major spending power – it s a whole new world
Kelly Mi Li
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I thought I couldn’t stand reality TV, yet in the most dispiriting moments of lockdown I found myself turning on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Atlanta and New York in a bid for relief, half paying attention. There are some cracking episodes, but mostly it turns out to be filled with petty arguments invented for airtime.
All that changed when I lost last weekend to a new show: Bling Empire. Charting the extravagances of the real-life ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ of Los Angeles, it is a kaleidoscope of diamonds, couture and power. And its stars exhibit the kind of spending muscle Real Housewives can only dream of.
Inside the lives of the REAL Crazy Rich Asians: Los Angeles billionaires from China, Singapore, and Japan lift the lid on their VERY extravagant lifestyles in new Netflix reality show Bling Empire
The reality series follows the glamorous lives of Kane Lim, the son of a Singaporean billionaire, and his friends in Los Angeles
Kane, 33, grew up in Singapore where his family made their money in oil, shipping, tanking, and real estate, but his true passion is for fashion
His best friend, Kevin Taejin Kreider, is the only one on the show who isn t rich
Anna Shay, the show s matriarch, is the daughter of the late billionaire businessman Edward Shay and Japanese-American Ai-San