Why is everyone talking about Members Only: Palm Beach – and its Trump-loving cast?
RHOBH’s Bethenny Frankel compared the Netflix reality show cast to ‘Walmart Birkins’, while a writer called the show ‘The Real Housewives of Maga’
Netflix’s latest reality TV show, Members Only: Palm Beach, stars Hilary Musser, Rosalyn Yellin, Maria Cozamanis, Ro-Mina Ustayev and Taja Abitbol, the wealthy residents of Florida’s most affluent seaside town. The show’s description on Netflix reads: “Private clubs, luxurious couture and charity galas mean everything in this soapy reality series, set in a posh paradise with a wealth of drama.”
Palm Beach residents themselves are up in arms, distancing themselves from the version of their home presented on the show and even claiming that not a single scene was shot on Palm Beach. An article by the Hollywood Reporter also highlighted that only Suebelle Robbins, who is hardly featured, actually lives on the island. Shannon Donnelly, who writes for the Palm Beach Daily News, told the publication the cast members are “geographically challenged coattail riders who present themselves as Palm Beachers when they are not”.
As it turns out, the majority of the cast members actually reside in Palm Beach County rather than the Town of Palm Beach itself. And the negative criticism doesn’t seem to have affected them at all.
“We’re having fun, we’re being fabulous. We’re all on the island all the time,” Yellin told Page Six. “It’s none of their business, really. They just want to latch on to our coattails.”
