Tinsely Mortimer On High Society: Toppers Ex Has TV series on CW

by Sudha Krishna | March 11, 2010 at 08:54 am

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New York Socialite Tinsley Mortimer and High Society Reality TV series on CW

Her name harkens back to Edith Wharton and the Age of Innocence -Tinsley Mortimer a true Manhattan socialite and fashion entrepreneur has a reality TV series on the CW network called High Society. The realty series, surprise, surprise follows the trials and tribulations of Tinsely Mortimr and the New Yorks In Crowd.

The wikipedia entrance for Tinsely Mortimer says it all

Described as "one of the most famous faces of the New York scene"[1] and "much photographed"[1], "New York's pre-eminent young socialite"'s[2] lifestyle and fashion are often commented and discussed in social pages of periodicals such as the New York Times, the New York Post, and New York Magazine.

The opening line of High Society is to the point "My name is Tinsely Mortimer and people call me a socialite" and thus begins another reality TV series. The scenario for High Society involves following the recently divorced Tinsley. She was married to Topper Mortimer a descendant of the president of Standard Oil.

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Though the marriage thrust Tinsley into the public eye, Topper’s family disapproved of her visibility on the social circuit. “In the old world of New York society, you’re only in the papers when you’re born, when you’re married, and when you die,” Tinsley says.

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There are no Gloria Vanderbilts or Peggy Guggenheims among this cast of aging children of unearned privilege, but Tinsley herself does not seem a bad sort, especially when set against some of her costars, and the narrative, of which (as narrator) she clearly approves, portrays her as a heroic, even innocent young woman, getting out of a long and respectable but no longer satisfactory marriage, against the endlessly restated wishes of her mother, who literally recoils from the walls of her daughter's new, merely Midtown Manhattan apartment.

The part about the show is her mother! Most of the scenes are hard to hear and usually a room full of very unpleasant people...The Upper East Side of NYC is a small group of people, important only to each other...Do we get a tour of the Met.?? Rossie

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