If you like sports and reality TV but can’t understand a word Sylvester Stallone is saying, Foxtel have just announced WAG Nation a fly-on-the-wall reality show about the crazy/hedonistic lives of footballer wives and girlfriends. Like a monoagmous football player isn’t reward enough! Seriously though, are we actually ready for a reality show about WAGs? Probably not. But like the irksome Freshwater Blue, Australia’s terrible answer to The Hills, local TV execs seem to hold little reservation in adapting international ideas for the Aussie market.
They should though. Freshwater failed because its coerced reality, fake tans and faker melodrama felt way too American, too contrived. Likewise the WAG, a term so reductive we can’t fathom why you’d self-identify as one on national television, is a wholly British idea. That culture doesn’t really exist in Australia. No one really cares who Darren Lockyer is dating as long as he wins Rugby League matches.
Nevertheless the first official cast member has been announced in shoe designer Terry Biviano, fiance of Sydney Rooster’s fullback and former test representative Anthony Minichiello.
Reports news.com.au: “There is speculation that Liz Cantor, girlfriend of Roosters bad-boy Todd Carney, will also feature, along with Home And Away starlet Tessa James, who is engaged to Nate Myles, also a Rooster. But it is uncertain whether or not rugby league’s ultimate WAG Jodi Gordon will take part, as well as AFL superstar Chris Judd’s new bride Rebecca Twigley, with both women previously indicating that they will not participate. As a result it is understood Foxtel now plans to include WAGs from all Australian football codes and cricket. The show will run for 10 episodes and spies say some candidates are receiving some “on-air” training.”
Pilot suggestions: Dude Where’s My BMW 320i? We can’t wait to not watch this show.
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