First, pick an exclusive area known as a playground for the rich and famous. Next, add a group of friends, all wealthy and impossibly glamorous women with fabulous homes. Finally, point a camera at them and let the tears, tantrums and fallouts commence. That s been the formula for the Real Housewives reality TV series, which will return to our screens later this month from Jersey the tiny tax haven 85 miles off the mainland UK. And on an island where everyone knows everybody s business, the show is already ruffling feathers. Here, TANITH CAREY lifts the lid on what s in store . . .
A VERY FRUITFUL FRANCHISE