SAY IT AIN’T SO, T-RAV …
|| By FITSNEWS || The future of Bravo TV’s successful Southern Charm reality television show is up in the air … again.
In fact the star of the show – former South Carolina treasurer Thomas Ravenel – says the series is kaput.
“It’s over,” Ravenel wrote on his Facebook page this week.
But is it?
Just like the off-again, on-again, off-again, on again relationship the 52-year-old has with his 23-year-old co-star/ girlfriend/ baby momma Kathryn Dennis, his status with Southern Charm has always been up in the air.
“I’m (d)oing everything I can legally to get off this ridiculous show,” Ravenel said back in March.
Last December he posted a Facebook message describing the show as “full of lies and deceit,” adding that “any fool who watches it is an idiot.”
Of course Ravenel’s bold social media pronouncements are routinely contradicted (and frequently removed within hours after they are posted). Meaning they have about as much credibility as a Greek ATM.
Southern Charm held a second season reunion show recently – usually a sign that the series is going to be back for another season.
In fact after a dip in ratings earlier this year the season two finale of the show drew a whopping 1.7 million viewers – easily the high water mark for the franchise. That’s an 11 percent increase from the first season’s finale.
This website was the first to report on Ravenel’s impending reality TV stardom, and our founding editor – who is credited/ blamed for introducing Ravenel and Dennis – actually had a cameo on the show’s series premiere last spring.
Our bet? That reports of Southern Charm‘s demise are premature.
After all, Ravenel seems to relish showing his ass (literally and figuratively) on the show … and there’s obviously a viable market that relishes watching (or cringing at) him doing so.
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YAWN!!
That show seems to highlight OLD Charleston exemplified by its all white cast. The only black people on that show are servants. It really seems out of place in view of the 2 racially motivated shootings in the past few months. It doesn’t seem like the type of program Charleston would want highlighted.
Yes, yes, maybe Charleston should incentivize a new show, called “King Street Charm”.
Charleston’s reputation and all of South Carolina is in the toilet right now on a national scale. I’m saying this as an outsider who is an avid news watcher. How about keeping the show but add a couple of successful African American cast members. The show SCREAMS old south. Seems like you would want to be associated with the New South.
Charleston’s reputation and all of South Carolina is in the toilet right now on a national scale.
Cool story, brah.
No riots. No burning. No support of Dylann Roof. Even the effing Ku Klux Klan distanced themselves from his actions, if not his beliefs.
No burning!! You just had an AME church burning yesterday. Wait a few more hours for the media to formulate a game plan on how they can spin this to further your reputation.
No burning!! You just had an AME church burning yesterday.
South Carolina is not the only state that has summer thunderstorms.
Maybe it was a thunderstorm. The media’s going to say it was racism.
Greelyville ain’t in Charleston County. Cause has yet to be determined but you already have the scoop, right?
Yes, Charleston Place is giving away rooms. Food prices at Grill 225 are down to cafeteria levels. Streets are empty. I hear all the tourists have gone to Detroit and Baltimore.
Wow ok, so the number of guests at Charleston Place and Grill 225 are great indicators of the impact of the events of the last couple of months. You have no data to back up your claim anyways. To assert that your reputation has NOT been harmed means that you are in denial. Why the hell would the legislature take up the flag issue so quickly. If they don’t do something soon then here come large protests. Lindsey Graham admitted as much when he said “god help SC if this flag doesn’t come down.”
Why the hell would the legislature take up the flag issue so quickly…
Good question Ben. So racist,American hating tools like you wouldn’t be used by the race hustlers to burn and loot Charleston?
I don’t have a position either way. You can fly your flag. All I’m doing is stating facts. That your reputation has been harmed greatly.
What city has a better reputation?
In what sense? Safety, Economically, Quality of life, tourism, etc. Your question is vague.
All the above.
Not a hard question. San Francisco because it is the queer capital of the world? New York City because they have a marxist mayor and are burning American flags tonight?
Be honest.
You can just google it. That’s not hard. There are definitive studies on this subject.
“Definitive studies” in 2 weeks? Yeah..sure there are. Show me ONE. just ONE.
Where is your proof that “Charleston’s reputation and all of South Carolina is in the toilet right now on a national scale.”
Downtown is more crowded than ever; traffic is worse now than it was when school was in. I’m here in CHS everyday, all day, and see it. You’re simply full of shit.
hah – that’s good
Detroit is the only city in the world where you go in to
buy a pair of nylon stockings and they want to know
your head size!
Charleston’s reputation and all of South Carolina is in the toilet right now on a national scale.
Ben, you are a lying hater.People love SC and don’t give a fuck about the confederate flag.From my travels from the midwest to the west coast not ONE person even knows a damn thing about this issue.They don’t CARE.
They come for the beaches,shopping and seafood and are willing to put up with racist bastards like you as 99% of the locals are fantastic.
All of that was BEFORE last week. I’m sure if you traveled now and said I’m from SC the first thing that will pop in their minds is racism and killings. A lot of people did not even know you flew the flag. Now they do and it will affect their travel choices.
Only RACISTS and BIGOTS like YOU think that way.
Hardly ANY of the seafood is local anymore.
You might be get some fresh shrimp during shrimping season but that’s about it.
Most of the seafood comes from Asian suppliers
McClellanville?
Depends on where you eat I guess. For you, Red Lobster or Hyman’s is probably never fresh
I think Charleston showed its best and brightest last week – and T-Rav and the Momma were not it.
Right, but let’s ban the Dukes of Hazzard.
And….. done.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/01/dukes-hazzard-confederate-flag-tv-land
wow….how sad…PCism gone wild.
Trashy reality TV is his anti-drug.
Will you are just giving him what he wants, press.
BEST show on TV !!
“I’m (d)oing everything I can legally to get off this ridiculous show,” Ravenel said back in March.
Last December he posted a Facebook message describing the show as “full of lies and deceit,” adding that “any fool who watches it is an idiot.”
Fodder for Fits and we all know what roughage produces.
Oh ravenel you are like a stream of bats piss. You shine out like a shaft of gold. When all around is dark
If you’re watching the coked out Ravenel for any other reason than you yourself are hopped up on the goof balls
Just quit
Me
I’ve never seen an episode
In my defense I do have an intelligence quotient in triple digits
And all my original teeth.
Ravenel can suck Satans cock in hell
“Ravenel can suck Satans cock in hell”
He’ll have to wait in line behind Flip and GrandTango.
I don’t know Flip & Grandtango
Are they actual people Or a euphemism for what you want Ravenel the coked up asshole to perform
Southern Charm(less) is why charleston must be have a problem with the drinking water
Have Dhec test the h2o I say
The Unabridged List Of Valuable Quotes of Thomas “T-Rav” Ravenel:
1. [Southern Charm is] “full of lies and deceit,”
2. “any fool who watches it [Southern Charm] is an idiot.”
Left one off;
3. “I am guilty your honor…”
Col., off subject but what is the official term for a full inspection of gear — everything out. I have a sudden mental block…..
Hmm. Equipment is generally turned in at “10, 20 standards” meaning that all the user level defects have been inspected and corrected. An OIP or organizational inspection program is the new name for an IG inspection. Soldiers have showdown inspections where they have to lay out all of their individual gear and uniforms these inspections are sometimes called full layouts.
“showdown inspections” — that’s the term I need! thanx…
You also have in ranks and in quarters inspections.
in quarters? — shoes lined up, gear out, locker doors open? standing at attention?
You got it. Generally your field gear and weapon is laid out on your bunk as well. Don’t do those much anymore outside of basic training.
When my wife (German) and I were leaving the showing of THE BOYS IN COMPANY C, she said she could tell every man in theater who was in the military — why– because they all laughed at the same things during the boot camp.
You may have heard an in quaters inspection called a standby inspection as in “standby your wall locker”
This is the crazy part: While a dozen thoughts and ideas were buzzing in my head this morning I needed to know the Army term for a full layout inspection (I was Navy) to use in a specific situation, and I waited to ask you. Now, here is crazy — I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT I WAS GOING TO USE IT FOR ?????
You just need to drink more or less, whichever…
—was sipping a shot of Bulleit Bourbon when you posted
Just call me prescient
Who Cares!!!! Thomas is an embarrassment to this state. Most drug traffickers lay low and go about their business. This guy is an absolute moron. Not to mention an old man! I have never watched the show and never will. I can’t figure out why you (will) are so obsessed with him.
Look at the shoulders on his jacket, two sizes too big. Just like he is ego.
looks like the chick standing beside him has a grandma pooch. She’s obviously much younger than this fool, but her gut is sticking out. Looks like a lunch room lady with no boobs.
—- listening to her chomping and snapping her bubble gum
LOL+
Kiss My Grits, Tommy!
…or talking.
O God! You’ve met those type of girls too! And the foto is exactly what they looked like……
What’s a party without them?
Give me a name for those kinds of girls and I’ll see if a poem or short story could develop.
…the worst possible outcome, that.
that outfit… seriously?
I dunno – she looks like the kind of girl you want to meet at the hotel bar on a business trip. Not, though, the one you want to take home to meet Mom and Dad. Well – maybe Dad.
I still throw this one around and the women always thinks it a compliment — which it is, in a side ways sort of thinking —-
“I’d like to take you to meet my Mother – but I can’t trust my Father.”
Will, this will be my only comment, because I don’t wont to encourage further such articles by adding much to the potential hits from more replies.
Please stop it.
I was patiently waiting for your opinion before I went any further.
Never watched the show even after reading about it on this website.
Seems like a waste of electrons and satellite bandwidth to me…………
Then again the History Channel went into the shitter some years ago.
Thank goodness I recorded a lot of the documentaries/programs when the History Channel was worth a shit.
It was over a long, long time ago.
The only thing that has kept it afloat is the drunken brawls, and gay followers of gay closet cases Craig, Seth and Whitney. Take away those viewers and you are down to a few black pimps waiting on Catherine Dennis to sink one rung lower on the ladder of whoredom.
Shep not Seth
Even gayer…
It looks like Ronald Reagan with his great-granddaughter.
“any fool who watches it is an idiot.”
Holy shit – Tr has uttered a statement with which I agree completely. I don’t know whether to get drunk, cry, shoot myself, or all three.
Two men, sentenced to die in the electric chair on the same day were led down to the room in which they would meet their maker. The priest had given the last rites, the formal speech had been given by the warden, and a final prayer had been said among the participants. The Warden, turning to the first man, solemnly asked, “Son, do you have a last request?” To which the man replied, “Yes sir, I do. I love dance music. Could you please play The Macarena for me one last time?” “Certainly,” replied the warden. He turned to the other man and asked, “Well, what about you, son? What is your final request?” “Please,” said the condemned man, “kill me first.”
Pretty much where my head’s at on this…
I hear you…
The show can work w/o Ravenel. He’s kind of out of place anyway and did not look comfortable on the finale. The other cast members are good, except for Patricia and her son. I’m sure Bravo can find new cast members just as they did this year w/ Landon (very hot and sweet) and as they do every year w/ some of the Housewives shows.
Dear God will someone go ahead and shoot Old Yeller and put him (and us) out of this misery!
I’ve known Jo Jo, (T-Rav) for many years. We got frisky before. I think that you and some of you young rude people should really get a life and give this boy a break. He considers himself to be a nice person, and I would agree. He confided in me, and told me that he really wants to do the show next season. He is just stirring up interest by his little facebook posts that you youngsters gobble up.
“We got frisky before.”
“I think that you and some of you young rude people should really get a life and give this boy a break.”
“you youngsters gobble up”
there’s no way you’re under the age of 70.