Out of the tens of hundreds of reality television stars who may or may not be on camera to make friends, there are only a couple who have translated their access inside the homes of millions of Americans into business success stories and burgeoning media careers. One is Real Housewives of New York’s Bethenny Frankel, who has leveraged an emotionally intelligent, but no bullshit Northeastern attitude and a love of booze and calorie counting into the building and subsequent $120-or-so million sale of Skinnygirl Cocktails, as well as daytime talk show produced by Ellen DeGeneres that’s likely to be picked up in the very near future for national syndication. The other is Laguna Beach and The Hills’ Lauren Conrad, who parlayed the spotlight in what may or may not have been a pair of scripted MTV teen dramas into no less than three fashion lines - The Lauren Conrad Connection,...
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- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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