Ready (and Real) or Not, Here Comes 'Blonde'

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Shayna, Krista, Katherine and Melani on "Blonde Charity Mafia," which will finally debut in July on CW. (By Brendan Hoffman -- Cw)
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By Lisa de Moraes
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

It's finally official: CW will foist Washington-based party-with-purpose reality series "Blonde Charity Mafia" on an unsuspecting public in July.

The network ordered just six episodes, which will air over five weeks in the dog days of summer.

So clear your schedule Tuesdays at 9 starting July 7 and through Aug. 4 to watch every glorious 30-minute episode of this "docu-series" about the lives of Washington's "most influential 20-something Alpha Girls" who "run the D.C. social circuit from charity events to society parties."

Interesting that CW calls the show a "docu-series," which implies a fact-based-ness of which other reality series are seldom accused.

(It's especially interesting considering The Post's own Reliable Source column obtained excerpts last month from a "BCM" shooting script, which appeared to tell the show's allegedly real people what to say -- just like on a sitcom.)

By all accounts, the "alpha girls" are Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson and Sophie Pyle, who've been this show's protagonists since way back when it was a gleam in Lifetime cable network's eye.

Lifetime eventually took a powder on the project, which then got pitched to CW, and the rest is reality history.

Sadly, none of these protagonists are included in the latest list, nearly 300 strong, of our city's under-40 social elite drawn up by local society bible Washington Life magazine. (In fairness, one of them is still an undergrad at the University of North Carolina.)

According to CW, events organized by the three "are the hottest ticket in town and everyone vies for an invitation -- from Congressmen to Hill staffers" and their exploits are posted on a Web site "for the D.C. public to devour."

We asked CW for the names of some of the congressmen -- even backbenchers -- staffers, deputy assistant undersecretaries, whatevs, who will be seen on the show. No answer yet.

At any rate, we can promise the show will be really dishy, based on the shooting script sent to Reliable Source. Take this scene at the Georgetown Dean & DeLuca, for instance, in which Sophie (the UNC student) and someone named Natalie discuss important issues confronting the new administration:

Sophie and Natalie order little pastries.


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