Thomas Ravenel isn’t the only dashing aristocrat from the South Carolina Lowcounty tapped to appear in Southern Charm, a new reality TV series approved for production by Bravo.
FITS has learned that Shep Rose (above, second from right) – nephew of former S.C. Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) director Boykin Rose – will also be one of the stars of the new series, which is set to begin filming next month. Also starring? Whitney Sudler-Smith, one of the show’s executive producers.
Sudler-Smith is the son of Patricia Altschul, a former Manhattan (now Charleston) socialite who purchased the city’s historic Mikell House in 2008 for a cool $4.8 million. His cousin is engaged to actress Sophia Vergara (above, center).
Expectations for the new show – which features Planet Hollywood mastermind Bryan Kestner as one of its executive producers – are already building.
“We swoon for a good ol’ southern boy so we cannot wait to see some real southern charm and southern belles with the most amazing hair and accents, like, ever,” OK Magazine noted.
News of the show has also generated tremendous buzz in the Palmetto State – particularly among the state’s political class. Ravenel, a former S.C. State Treasurer, is the son of former U.S. Congressman (and later State Senator) Arthur Ravenel – whose name is emblazoned on the Holy City’s iconic suspension bridge.
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I doubt most SC citizens would watch this crap, who the hell thought anyone else wants to?
It’s our version of Jersey Shore. I have no doubt viewers will tune in to laugh at the caricatures.
As a Jersey Shore resident, i feel your pain. It stinks having a small group of extreme people represent your home for the world to see, especially when they arent even from the place they are representing (in our case, only 1 even lived in NJ from the shows start, and another hadnt even been to the shore before)
Why not?
Only one is from Charleston. Hilton Head doesn’t count as being from Charleston. I love how these wannabe stars think because they moved here they know everything there is to know about this city. Nice try wannabes. my family roots run deep in the development of the city from the beginning. these people haven’t a clue. sadly the only thing that people are going to learn from the show about Charleston is how to do coke ans be immature but bless your sweethearts.
I doubt most SC citizens would watch this crap, who the hell thought anyone else wants to?
It’s our version of Jersey Shore. I have no doubt viewers will tune in to laugh at the caricatures.
Wow. A candy assed pansy names Shep and a dude named Whitney with a hyphenated name whose Mom is a socialite? Who watches this shit?? Hell, Ravenel might be the only reasonable person on this show, and that’s saying a lot.
You said a mouthful!
Wow. A candy assed pansy names Shep and a dude named Whitney with a hyphenated name whose Mom is a socialite? Who watches this shit?? Hell, Ravenel might be the only reasonable person on this show, and that’s saying a lot.
You said a mouthful!
So this appears to be a slightly classier version of Myrtle Manor…..either way, it will still suck.
Man, you beat me to that one. I was going to describe it as Myrtle Manor with Daddy’s Money…
So this appears to be a slightly classier version of Myrtle Manor…..either way, it will still suck.
Man, you beat me to that one. I was going to describe it as Myrtle Manor with Daddy’s Money…
I just received this call from Mr. Beaudelicious Whippington, IV, noted Charleston socialite and refugee from the Bronx, NY —–
“Although I was not selected to be one of the stars of this series, I will be watching each episode with interest. The producers were not impressed with my wardrobe selections, I think.”
H!
I just received this call from Mr. Beaudelicious Whippington, IV, noted Charleston socialite and refugee from the Bronx, NY —–
“Although I was not selected to be one of the stars of this series, I will be watching each episode with interest. The producers were not impressed with my wardrobe selections, I think.”
H!
i hope my life never gets so drama filled that its worthy of a tv show. Seriously who is that interesting to film 24/7
Don’t be discouraged. You would get full coverage on Fitsnews, and gain lots and lots of new friends on this site — Smirks, Kat, ?, BigT, and possibly even 9″……. just to name a few!
okay from now on shifty instead of saying the same thing every time “this is hilariously on point!” my symbol will be H!
i hope my life never gets so drama filled that its worthy of a tv show. Seriously who is that interesting to film 24/7
Don’t be discouraged. You would get full coverage on Fitsnews, and gain lots and lots of new friends on this site — Smirks, Kat, ?, BigT, and possibly even 9″……. just to name a few!
okay from now on shifty instead of saying the same thing every time “this is hilariously on point!” my symbol will be H!
FITS is an EXPERT Basher of South Carolina…yet his Rube @$$ swoons at rhe least little attention from some uber-secular trash from Bravo.
You wonder how we can get a failure like Obama in the White house and re-elected, and Sanford winning a GOP Primary?… FITS is the average intelligence after 40 years of Liberals owning education.
The left HATES home schooling…and it’s because they cannot produce stupid people like FITS, if they cannot get the minds to control.
You want a FITS-Ravenel-Sanford Nation…looks like the First District of SC is that….let’s PLEASE keep the rest of the state…
In other words: When vapid mind, pop culture jockeys, like FITS, hate you…it must mean you are doing somethign right…
You never fail to “under perform” big idio”T”.
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
If everyone would ignore Big T for five days, he would implode like the guy’s head from the sci-fi movie!!!!!!!
LOL……Big(T) we sure hope they cast you for this show..!!! LOL…LOL….
Maybe you could walk around and use your smartphone on set to make comments to this very website….!!
you want your tinfoil hat to be pointy on top, I think you may want to fix that. It sounds like yours is only pointy on the sides.
FITS is an EXPERT Basher of South Carolina…yet his Rube @$$ swoons at rhe least little attention from some uber-secular trash from Bravo.
You wonder how we can get a failure like Obama in the White house and re-elected, and Sanford winning a GOP Primary?… FITS is the average intelligence after 40 years of Liberals owning education.
The left HATES home schooling…and it’s because they cannot produce stupid people like FITS, if they cannot get the minds to control.
You want a FITS-Ravenel-Sanford Nation…looks like the First District of SC is that….let’s PLEASE keep the rest of the state…
In other words: When vapid mind, pop culture jockeys, like FITS, hate you…it must mean you are doing somethign right…
You never fail to “under perform” big idio”T”.
YOU BETCHA!
YOU BETCHA!
If everyone would ignore Big T for five days, he would implode like the guy’s head from the sci-fi movie!!!!!!!
LOL……Big(T) we sure hope they cast you for this show..!!! LOL…LOL….
Maybe you could walk around and use your smartphone on set to make comments to this very website….!!
Can’t wait to MISS it!
Can’t wait to MISS it!
Looks like a down-market, ex-con version of Myrtle Manor.
Looks like a down-market, ex-con version of Myrtle Manor.
Hurry,give me a magnolia leaf,I need to fan myself…….I feel an onset of the vapors.
ROFL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LOL………LOL……
Hurry,give me a magnolia leaf,I need to fan myself…….I feel an onset of the vapors.
ROFL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,LOL………LOL……
The Dukes of Hazzard Shore
The Dukes of Hazzard Shore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmvh-6Aw1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVmvh-6Aw1A
Will Pasquale Pellicoro be the host?
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13372783
Will Pasquale Pellicoro be the host?
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13372783
Here comes Tommy Boo Boo!
Here comes Tommy Boo Boo!
Go watch Real Housewives of Atlanta if you want to see what a waste of time this garbage will be.
Charleston is not a nouveau-riche city, and it will not get people from “off” into St Cecilia, or Carolina Yacht Club. People from “off” stay “off” in Charleston no matter the size of the wallet. I believe Ted Turner was denied admittance to Carolina Yacht Club.
Yep, absolutey right.
Anyone can get into the yacht club. It’s a joke. It took Ted multiple times but he got in.
Rascal – that’s flat out not true. No Jews and no Catholics are members. No women, either.
Oh – maybe one Catholic because he’s got a lot of money, but Larry’s the exception.
Who said jews or catholics are members? Not me. Jews are verboten. Catholics are looked upon as spooks – fanatics – members of a cult (which they are). And negroids — they work in the kitchen or at the boat house on the cleanup crew.
ooo! watch that zinger at the Catholics!
Sorry, Charlie, the Carolina Yacht Club only accepts applicants that the admission committee — 12 guys — agree upon unanimously.
Tom McQuade, the General Manager at the Massey Coal shipping terminal — an avid sailor and a hell of a nice guy — was blackballed four years in a row and finally gave up. This was 15 years ago but nothing has changed.
Tom has a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard, and is even an Episcopalian (member of St. Michaels), BUT he had one SLIGHT problem: he was born and grew up in Pennsylvania.
Each of the 12 guys on the admissions committee literally have an brown paper bag full of an equal number of white and black golf balls for each guy applying. Each applicant has two sponsors who give a short speech about why their man should be a member. Then the chairman passes around a cloth bank bag into which each committee member puts in one ball — white or black.
Then the committee chairman dumps the bag on the table and voila — you’re either in our not in.
Real simple.
The committee members can be influenced but there are certain assholes — mostly the lawyers — who will agree with you that X should be made a member, and he’ll blackball X anyway.
Teddy Turner obviously lobbied hard and demonstrated that he was an honest joe, upstanding, and not a shit hook. The CYC people really hate snob shit hooks. You really have to be a nice person to get in. But if you are a jerk — or a democrat or a catholic — your chances go way down. If you’re a jew or look “latin” — or if your last name ends with a vowel — forget it.
And Tyrone – this show is going to blast the doors of privileged secrecy wide-open and then the whole world is going to be able to see that people who aren’t in are called “off.” I love it!
Go watch Real Housewives of Atlanta if you want to see what a waste of time this garbage will be.
Charleston is not a nouveau-riche city, and it will not get people from “off” into St Cecilia, or Carolina Yacht Club. People from “off” stay “off” in Charleston no matter the size of the wallet. I believe Ted Turner was denied admittance to Carolina Yacht Club.
Yep, absolutey right.
Anyone can get into the yacht club. It’s a joke. It took Ted multiple times but he got in.
Rascal – that’s flat out not true. No Jews and no Catholics are members. No women, either.
Oh – maybe one Catholic because he’s got a lot of money, but Larry’s the exception.
Who said jews or catholics are members? Not me. Jews are verboten. Catholics are looked upon as spooks – fanatics – members of a cult (which they are). And negroids — they work in the kitchen or at the boat house on the cleanup crew.
Sorry, Charlie, the Carolina Yacht Club only accepts applicants that the admission committee — 12 guys — agree upon unanimously.
Tom McQuade, the General Manager at the Massey Coal shipping terminal — an avid sailor and a hell of a nice guy — was blackballed four years in a row and finally gave up. This was 15 years ago but nothing has changed.
Tom has a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard, and is even an Episcopalian (member of St. Michaels), BUT he had one SLIGHT problem: he was born and grew up in Pennsylvania.
Each of the 12 guys on the admissions committee literally have an brown paper bag full of an equal number of white and black golf balls for each guy applying. Each applicant has two sponsors who give a short speech about why their man should be a member. Then the chairman passes around a cloth bank bag into which each committee member puts in one ball — white or black.
Then the committee chairman dumps the bag on the table and voila — you’re either in our not in.
Real simple.
The committee members can be influenced but there are certain assholes — mostly the lawyers — who will agree with you that X should be made a member, and he’ll blackball X anyway.
Teddy Turner obviously lobbied hard and demonstrated that he was an honest joe, upstanding, and not a shit hook. The CYC people really hate snob shit hooks. You really have to be a nice person to get in. But if you are a jerk — or a democrat or a catholic — your chances go way down. If you’re a jew or look “latin” — or if your last name ends with a vowel — forget it.
And Tyrone – this show is going to blast the doors of privileged secrecy wide-open and then the whole world is going to be able to see that people who aren’t in are called “off.” I love it!
Lots of carbetbaggers in Charleston.
Not f- ing with you, but did some research. This Shep Rose guy is a Boykin. The state dog was actually bred from his family’s farms.
Shep Rose is at least Southern and “fairly local”. Sudler-Smith is a different matter. His mother, a New York socialite, buys a house below Calhoun Street and suddenly they are bastions of Southern society? Well, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
Lots of carbetbaggers in Charleston.
Not f- ing with you, but did some research. This Shep Rose guy is a Boykin. The state dog was actually bred from his family’s farms.
Half a bucket of cold spit
Half a bucket of cold spit
That’s Joe-Sam Palmer’s house in the background. Olivia and David live there now and rent out the kitchen house as bed & breakfast.
http://charlestonareahotels.cruisesleavingcharleston.com/the-palmer-home-charleston-sc.php
They still have Joe-Sam’s huge telescope in the front second-story room.
Ironically, it was built by John Ravenel in 1848. Maybe that’s why the tv producers are standing in front of it — because they plan to interview Thomas Ravenel.
It’s called The Palmer House now.
Olivia and David would perfectly puke at the idea of Thomas “coke-party” Ravenel representing Charleston to the rest of the world.
Thomas Farrow or Richard Stoney would be more interesting, charming, informed, humble and funny/goofy. Their families also go back 250-plus years in Charleston.
But maybe the reality tv show people really want our “shoe bottoms,” AKA “trash” — and that’d be Thomas Ravenel.
Real Charlstonian society have nothing to do with this. It is absolutely a closed society.
Not anymore :)
That’s Joe-Sam Palmer’s house in the background. Olivia and David live there now and rent out the kitchen house as bed & breakfast.
http://charlestonareahotels.cruisesleavingcharleston.com/the-palmer-home-charleston-sc.php
They still have Joe-Sam’s huge telescope in the front second-story room.
Ironically, it was built by John Ravenel in 1848. Maybe that’s why the tv producers are standing in front of it — because they plan to interview Thomas Ravenel.
It’s called The Palmer House now.
Olivia and David would perfectly puke at the idea of Thomas “coke-party” Ravenel representing Charleston to the rest of the world.
Thomas Farrow or Richard Stoney would be more interesting, charming, informed, humble and funny/goofy. Their families also go back 250-plus years in Charleston.
But maybe the reality tv show people really want our “shoe bottoms,” AKA “trash” — and that’d be Thomas Ravenel.
Real Charlstonian society have nothing to do with this. It is absolutely a closed society.
Not anymore :)
I just pray they do us proud.
I just pray they do us proud.
Inbred secret society. What a bunch of ass hats.
You validated my gut-feeling…inbred secret society…funny I was raised in it.
So you got the Hibernian Society secret hand shake down pat?
Shari Hutchinson (SC Educational Radio) – redhead on the right. Shari is a long-time fixture in Charleston during Spoleto when SCERN tapes lots of the music programs. She’s not hitched & is an easy pick-up and screaming-biting lay. Other times, real quiet. http://www.scetv.org/about/pressroom/biographies/hutchinson.cfm
Curious she’d be involved with this.
Not the least bit hot.
Redheads are by default hot. Like whats-her-name Dennis. ?Catherine Dennis? They’ve got freckles. The freckles are everywhere the sun shines. Usually that is everywhere except on their boobs, their butts and their private parts. Disrobing a redhead is a unique event unlike a regular girl. That particular redhead looks like one piece of ass. I would plunge her with gusto.
I’m pretty sure it’s actually Jessica Joffe, wannabe model/actress/socialite. She used to be a reporter but now doesn’t seem to do much but get her photograph taken.
Inbred secret society. What a bunch of ass hats.
You validated my gut-feeling…inbred secret society…funny I was raised in it.
So you got the Hibernian Society secret hand shake down pat?
Shari Hutchinson (SC Educational Radio) – redhead on the right. Shari is a long-time fixture in Charleston during Spoleto when SCERN tapes lots of the music programs. She’s not hitched & is an easy pick-up and screaming-biting lay. Other times, real quiet. http://www.scetv.org/about/pressroom/biographies/hutchinson.cfm
Curious she’d be involved with this.
Not the least bit hot.
Redheads are by default hot. Like whats-her-name Dennis. ?Catherine Dennis? They’ve got freckles. The freckles are everywhere the sun shines. Usually that is everywhere except on their boobs, their butts and their private parts. Disrobing a redhead is a unique event unlike a regular girl. That particular redhead looks like one piece of ass. I would plunge her with gusto.
I’m pretty sure it’s actually Jessica Joffe, wannabe model/actress/socialite. She used to be a reporter but now doesn’t seem to do much but get her photograph taken.
Patricia Altschul is not a Charleston socialite. She’s a former NYC socialite playing a Charleston socialite. My grandmother and great grandmothers are turning in their graves at Magnolia Cemetary over this.
and that attitude is precisely why this show is going to be effing wonderful! No admittance to a NYC socialite. Funny. In the rest of the world people aren’t denied entrance because their families didn’t live somewhere for generations. Only in Charleston and it’s so disgusting, archaic and creepy – and those who are in it don’t even see how much the rest of us laugh about it.
Wrong! Same thing up in Wilmington, NC. However, their yacht club is older and even more selective!
Not gracious for sure
Mine too!
Patricia Altschul is not a Charleston socialite. She’s a former NYC socialite playing a Charleston socialite. My grandmother and great grandmothers are turning in their graves at Magnolia Cemetary over this.
and that attitude is precisely why this show is going to be effing wonderful! No admittance to a NYC socialite. Funny. In the rest of the world people aren’t denied entrance because their families didn’t live somewhere for generations. Only in Charleston and it’s so disgusting, archaic and creepy – and those who are in it don’t even see how much the rest of us laugh about it.
Wrong! Same thing up in Wilmington, NC. However, their yacht club is older and even more selective!
Mine too!
LOL……..has Wil Folks given the least bit of thought of how to take advantage of this reality show….???
LOL……..has Wil Folks given the least bit of thought of how to take advantage of this reality show….???
Shep used to score lots of cocaine in hopes of scoring friends. My friends didn’t befriend him but we did all of his cocaine.
Whatever, Gillis.
zip it, steedman.
Shep used to score lots of cocaine in hopes of scoring friends. My friends didn’t befriend him but we did all of his cocaine.
Whatever, Gillis.
zip it, steedman.
These shows are so addictive, tons of people watch them or they wouldn’t keep producing them. It’s just more exposure for Charleston, and I think that’s a good thing.
Ditto
These shows are so addictive, tons of people watch them or they wouldn’t keep producing them. It’s just more exposure for Charleston, and I think that’s a good thing.
Ditto
Shep Rose is a stand up guy and will surely do a great job representing the great state of South Carolina. That being said, Shep touched my butthole. That’s why I’m on your penny.
Shep Rose is a stand up guy and will surely do a great job representing the great state of South Carolina. That being said, Shep touched my butthole. That’s why I’m on your penny.
Wow a show about a bunch of bisexual coke heads. It will get about 1/10 the viewers of say Duck Dynasty or Swamp People.
Wow a show about a bunch of bisexual coke heads. It will get about 1/10 the viewers of say Duck Dynasty or Swamp People.
SCDOT is renameing the Arthur Ravenel bridge after Thomas Ravenel…
…because of all the white lines down the middle.
SCDOT is renameing the Arthur Ravenel bridge after Thomas Ravenel…
…because of all the white lines down the middle.
Holy crap….wait until the policy council sees this crap! Sled investigations for everyone involved! I can hear the sirens….and press releases now.
Holy crap….wait until the policy council sees this crap! Sled investigations for everyone involved! I can hear the sirens….and press releases now.
Your friends sound just lovely Wordem Johnson. You sound proud to know addicts who use people.
Your friends sound just lovely Wordem Johnson. You sound proud to know addicts who use people.
B A R F
B A R F
Wow!! I thought they had scraped the bottom of the barrel with Thomas Ravenel, but amongst this crowd of trust fund, do-nothing losers…he may be the cream of the crop!
I wonder what lengths some of the shows producers are going to, to keep their skeletons hidden in the closets they have yet to come out of…??!!
My husband’s family ran South Carolina since 1600, they’re from Salem MA, they had property in England and the West Indies. These are a bunch of “Northerners”. If we knew who they were, they would be on the family tree.