Elizabeth Day
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377 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
Elizabeth Day’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And The Desperate Housewives was a hit TV show at the time.
And so he recut it and called it The Real Housewives.
And that's the genesis of the show that we have today.
But at its heart, what I find fascinating
is how groups of people interact.
And in this specific franchise, it's groups of women, and very often they are eccentric and camp and fabulous and exaggerated and awful and get sent to jail.
But there's also all of this sort of quiet storyline going on underneath the surface, which is about the power of female friendship or the power of accountability when you've done something wrong.
And I love seeing those relationships develop over time.
as well as being entertained by it.
This is how passionate I am about reality TV.
I can tell that.
I'm so happy to hear that.
I mean, there's also another point, which is at the time when I started watching Housewives, which was like 15 years ago,
a lot of female roles for women 40 plus were quite cliched or they were momsy.
Like the spinster.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And suddenly there are these women who are so multifaceted in their complexity, they can be brilliant and they can be awful and they're allowed to be.
It was also the first place that I saw the reality of IVF portrayed for the first time when I was going through fertility treatment.
And so for me, reality TV performs such an important function because yes, it's unbelievably entertaining, but so often we see ourselves
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