A new reality TV series from the Bravo network is poised to bring glitter, backstabbing and catfights to the Texas Hill Country town of Boerne.
And residents of the San Antonio bedroom community are less than thrilled.
Bravo announced the launch of the new series Secrets, Lies, Texas Wives on Monday, revealing it will take place in Boerne and follow the lives of a “tight-knit circle of glamorous women.”
“This series follows their lives as they raise families, run ranches and farms and manage sparkling social calendars in a town rooted in rodeos and tradition,” Bravo officials said in a Monday press release. “Behind the polished smiles and Sunday sermons, however, there are intimate relationships and forbidden romances that test loyalties and marriages, jeopardizing the town’s pristine image and proving that perfection is far more complicated than anyone could imagine.”
Bravo didn’t disclose when the show will appear on TV screens, nor did it reveal the names of its cast members.
However, names circulating in the online buzz mill include Big Brother Season 15 star Aaryn Williams, South African-turned-New Braunfels transplant Annari and Boerne-based social media “star” Ashlee Nichols.
Other possible cast members, according to social media speculators, include Emily Miller-Reaser, daughter of Bill Miller Bar-B-Q honcho Balous Miller, and Tamara Strait, the daughter of country music great George Strait.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Boerne residents aren’t exactly thrilled that a show about scandalous local wives is set in their community.
“None of us moved to Boerne for Hollywood to descend upon us,” Dondi Voigt Persyn wrote in a . “They have Austin — can’t we just keep it that way?”
Group member Robert Garza cautioned that the reality TV show is “not gonna be a good look for Boerne,” while others in the forum said they just wish the production would “go away.”
“Boerne isn’t about that,” MJ Payne wrote. “We don’t want Hollywood trash here.”
Word of the Boerne-set series comes scant months after another local reality TV show, Socialites of San Antonio, was scrapped after its primary investor reportedly pulled out funding.
It’s also not the first time Bravo has taken an interest in the San Antonio area.
In 2019, the network debuted Texicans, a reality TV show, that followed the adventures of a group of Mexican American socialites in the Alamo City. It was canceled after a single season, however.
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