The Bad Girls Club (season 7)
Encyclopedia
Bad Girls Club: New Orleans is the seventh season of the Oxygen
reality television
series, The Bad Girls Club. Originally scheduled to air on July 11, 2011, the date was pushed back to August 1, 2011. Filming began in February 2011 in Kenner, Louisiana
, a suburb of New Orleans. This is the second season to take place in a different location from Los Angeles
, California
; the first being season five
, which was filmed in Miami, Florida
.
's, former Hornets basketball coach, house in Kenner, Louisiana
for the then called, "Bad Girls Boot Camp." Interim Code Enforcement Director Tamithia Shaw said "[she] understands the site will be used for four months but that pre-production work apparently has been going on for two or three weeks." She also said that the cast was not there. It initially caused an outrage from the neighbors. The house is located on 100 Chateau St. Michel Dr.
In March 2011, the cast modeled House of Lounge lingerie at New Orleans Fashion Week.
reported that production was banned from at least eight clubs due to the clubs "not wanting to be associated with the show's bad image." The cast were also not allowed to Pierre Thomas
's Mardi Gras
party at the The Metropolitan Night Club.
On April 12, 2011, cast member Tasha Malek went to an on-duty cop outside the Bad Girls house to make a formal complaint on fellow cast member, Nastasia Townsend. Malek told the cop that Townsend was placing her personal belongings into a garbage bag while telling her "she needed to leave the house," which escalated into a physical fight as they wrestled to the floor. The two were issued summons
by the police for disturbing the peace
and disorderly conduct
.
A group of seven rebellious women, who are between the ages of 21 and 27, moves in a mansion who try to co-exist with different personalities, lives
, race and sexual orientation
s and above all they must try to adapt to the frequent changes of mood
s and behaviors of their roommate
s. The bad girls must also obey all the rules that were given to them prior to moving in, such as no physical violence
towards anyone including the producers. The girls must not intrude a "bad girls" production room
and must tolerate various interviews
in their diary rooms. During the show, some girls may divide the house into cliques, create havoc to satisfy oneself, book parties and hook-ups in clubs, groceries shopping which they try to maintain, including their personal lives. The girls are allowed to contact their families and their personal relationship(s), the girls are given either a laptop
or a big screen TV
that features a home computer
.
Above is the Bad Girls Club creed
, which was introduced in the third season of the Bad Girls Club
.
No television sets were included in the Bad Girls House in this or any of the previous seasons. The girls are also allowed to have frequent visitors to visit them. The girls in the house are there to co-exist with each other to accomplish specific goals and must tolerate situations in order to "make it" at the end of the season; they accomplish this by staying in the show without being removed or voluntarily leaving the show. Bullying and tag teaming are seen throughout the series of the Bad Girls Club. At the end of the show, some girls change their ways, looks at life in a different perspective, builds a back-bone, or becomes a role model
which are the key results in the show. In each season, when a "bad girl" is removed or leaves on her own terms, a collage of memorable videos of that "bad girl" is played shortly after her leave. The memorable videos are a collage of situations that the "bad girl" was in or was most notable as.
, and Alexis Karpf the set decorator
. Upon entering the house, Eyser announced that the production group had given the house a more "darker" and "sexier" direction then the previous season
. At the grand foyer, usually a place where the girls can interact with each other without communication, are pictures of the "bad girls" this season and were given a New Orleans twist to them, such as copper pipe. In the phone room, which was taking a jungle-like and a green house
turn, was turned into an eco-friendly place where the girls can contact love ones' such as their family and/or personal relationships. In the main room of the house, the girls are welcomed to an in-door bar
, a home computer
, and a contemporary living room
that are influenced by Mardi Gras
. They also have an in-door hot tub
.
Eyser also confessed that everything in the main room, such as the in-door bar, were all custom made. The walls in the main room and much more are decorated with New Orleans artist Sarah Dunn's vibrant and contemporary botanical paintings. The dining room, which is a small-blue room that has a large painting of New Orleans during the early 20th century
, is an open room with no doors. The kitchen, which features a marble
table, includes furniture from Ikea
. Unlike previous seasons where all bedrooms were not similar, this season, Eyser and Karpf made it so that every bedroom had looked equivalent of each other. The make-up room features early 20th century furniture. Karpf believed that the make-up room is, not only her favorite, but "has an industrial
-feel to it". In the same room, the girls were given Voodoo dolls that resembles themselves. In the champagne room, the girls were given very dark furniture of a mixture of red and black pillows and sofas. In the middle of the room, the girls were given a stripper pole. In the back yard, the girls were given a pool table, moderate size pool, lounge chairs. and an accompanied pond.
and season four
of the "Bad Girls Club". In every season of the "Bad Girls Club" only seven "bad girls" enter the mansion on the first episode. During the show replacements enter the house after an original "bad girl" leaves, usually only one replacement enters the show, however, season one, Bad Girls Club Miami and season six has had three replacements, which is the highest number of replacements to date in the series.
This season was the first to feature a fan favorite contest, which allowed viewers to vote for their favorite "bad girl" every week. Ultimately, Tiara gained the most votes and was named the Bad Girls Club: New Orleans fan favorite.
, physical fighting, or will leave on their own accord, which then gives the producers a chance at a new "bad girl" who arrives to the house in a day or two to replace the fellow bad girl.
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...
reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
series, The Bad Girls Club. Originally scheduled to air on July 11, 2011, the date was pushed back to August 1, 2011. Filming began in February 2011 in Kenner, Louisiana
Kenner, Louisiana
Kenner is a city in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and a suburb of New Orleans. The population was 66,702 at the 2010 census....
, a suburb of New Orleans. This is the second season to take place in a different location from Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
; the first being season five
The Bad Girls Club (season 5)
Bad Girls Club: Miami was the fifth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fifth season moved filming from the previous location in Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida in an area on North Bay Road, between 41st and 64th streets...
, which was filmed in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
.
Production
On February 16, 2011, it was reported that production was being done at Byron ScottByron Scott (basketball)
Byron Antom Scott is a retired American National Basketball Association player and current head coach of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. He was formerly the head coach of the NBA's New Jersey Nets and New Orleans Hornets. He attended Arizona State University, but left school in his junior year to...
's, former Hornets basketball coach, house in Kenner, Louisiana
Kenner, Louisiana
Kenner is a city in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and a suburb of New Orleans. The population was 66,702 at the 2010 census....
for the then called, "Bad Girls Boot Camp." Interim Code Enforcement Director Tamithia Shaw said "[she] understands the site will be used for four months but that pre-production work apparently has been going on for two or three weeks." She also said that the cast was not there. It initially caused an outrage from the neighbors. The house is located on 100 Chateau St. Michel Dr.
In March 2011, the cast modeled House of Lounge lingerie at New Orleans Fashion Week.
Controversy
On March 13, 2011, TMZ.comTMZ.com
TMZ.com is a celebrity news website that debuted on November 8, 2005. It was a collaboration between America Online and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. However, it is still affiliated with AOL News and has the AOL News logo affixed in...
reported that production was banned from at least eight clubs due to the clubs "not wanting to be associated with the show's bad image." The cast were also not allowed to Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas (American football)
Charles Pierre Thomas Jr. is an American football running back for the New Orleans Saints in the National Football League.- Early years :...
's Mardi Gras
New Orleans Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a Carnival celebration well-known throughout the world.The New Orleans Carnival season, with roots in preparing for the start of the Christian season of Lent, starts after Twelfth Night, on Epiphany . It is a season of parades, balls , and king cake parties...
party at the The Metropolitan Night Club.
On April 12, 2011, cast member Tasha Malek went to an on-duty cop outside the Bad Girls house to make a formal complaint on fellow cast member, Nastasia Townsend. Malek told the cop that Townsend was placing her personal belongings into a garbage bag while telling her "she needed to leave the house," which escalated into a physical fight as they wrestled to the floor. The two were issued summons
Summons
Legally, a summons is a legal document issued by a court or by an administrative agency of government for various purposes.-Judicial summons:...
by the police for disturbing the peace
Disturbing the Peace
Disturbing the Peace is the second studio album by Alcatrazz, and is the only one featuring Steve Vai on guitar. One of the singles, God Blessed Video, can be found on the fictional radio station, V-Rock, on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Weeks on Chart: 7, Peak: #133...
and disorderly conduct
Disorderly conduct
Disorderly conduct is a criminal charge in most jurisdictions in the United States. Typically, disorderly conduct makes it a crime to be drunk in public, to "disturb the peace", or to loiter in certain areas. Many types of unruly conduct may fit the definition of disorderly conduct, as such...
.
Format
- see also Bad Girls Club format and rules
A group of seven rebellious women, who are between the ages of 21 and 27, moves in a mansion who try to co-exist with different personalities, lives
Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...
, race and sexual orientation
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
s and above all they must try to adapt to the frequent changes of mood
Mood (psychology)
A mood is a relatively long lasting emotional state. Moods differ from emotions in that they are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a particular stimulus or event....
s and behaviors of their roommate
Roommate
A roommate is a person who shares a living facility such as an apartment or dormitory. Similar terms include suitemate, housemate, flatmate , or sharemate...
s. The bad girls must also obey all the rules that were given to them prior to moving in, such as no physical violence
Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
towards anyone including the producers. The girls must not intrude a "bad girls" production room
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
and must tolerate various interviews
Interviews
Interviews is:# the plural form of "interview"# a compilation album by Bob Marley & the Wailers, see Interviews # a C++ toolkit for the X Window System, see InterViews...
in their diary rooms. During the show, some girls may divide the house into cliques, create havoc to satisfy oneself, book parties and hook-ups in clubs, groceries shopping which they try to maintain, including their personal lives. The girls are allowed to contact their families and their personal relationship(s), the girls are given either a laptop
Laptop
A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device and speakers into a single unit...
or a big screen TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
that features a home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
.
Above is the Bad Girls Club creed
Creed
A creed is a statement of belief—usually a statement of faith that describes the beliefs shared by a religious community—and is often recited as part of a religious service. When the statement of faith is longer and polemical, as well as didactic, it is not called a creed but a Confession of faith...
, which was introduced in the third season of the Bad Girls Club
The Bad Girls Club (season 3)
Bad Girls Club 3 is the third season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The third season beat ratings and viewership from the previous season. For Season 3, Oxygen announced that the shows format would be expanded from a half hour to one hour. This is the season where the...
.
No television sets were included in the Bad Girls House in this or any of the previous seasons. The girls are also allowed to have frequent visitors to visit them. The girls in the house are there to co-exist with each other to accomplish specific goals and must tolerate situations in order to "make it" at the end of the season; they accomplish this by staying in the show without being removed or voluntarily leaving the show. Bullying and tag teaming are seen throughout the series of the Bad Girls Club. At the end of the show, some girls change their ways, looks at life in a different perspective, builds a back-bone, or becomes a role model
Role model
The term role model generally means any "person who serves as an example, whose behaviour is emulated by others".The term first appeared in Robert K. Merton's socialization research of medical students...
which are the key results in the show. In each season, when a "bad girl" is removed or leaves on her own terms, a collage of memorable videos of that "bad girl" is played shortly after her leave. The memorable videos are a collage of situations that the "bad girl" was in or was most notable as.
House
On July 6, 2011, the house tour was released for public viewing. The host of the tour were Jeff Eyser, the production designerProduction designer
In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...
, and Alexis Karpf the set decorator
Set decorator
A set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishings, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, and many of the other objects that will be seen in the film. Props and set dressing often overlap, but are provided by different departments...
. Upon entering the house, Eyser announced that the production group had given the house a more "darker" and "sexier" direction then the previous season
The Bad Girls Club (season 6)
Bad Girls Club 6 is the sixth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The series, Bad Girls Club, renewed its show for its sixth run before the air date of season five...
. At the grand foyer, usually a place where the girls can interact with each other without communication, are pictures of the "bad girls" this season and were given a New Orleans twist to them, such as copper pipe. In the phone room, which was taking a jungle-like and a green house
Green House
Green House, or variations such as Green Mansion, may refer to:*Green House , an innovative person-centered small long term care home.in Hong Kong...
turn, was turned into an eco-friendly place where the girls can contact love ones' such as their family and/or personal relationships. In the main room of the house, the girls are welcomed to an in-door bar
Bar (establishment)
A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...
, a home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
, and a contemporary living room
Living room
A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge , is a room for entertaining adult guests, reading, or other activities...
that are influenced by Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras
The terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday...
. They also have an in-door hot tub
Hot tub
A hot tub is a large tub or small pool full of heated water and used for soaking, relaxation, massage, or hydrotherapy. In most cases, they have jets for massage purposes. Hot tubs are usually located outdoors, and are often sheltered for protection from the elements, as well as for privacy....
.
Eyser also confessed that everything in the main room, such as the in-door bar, were all custom made. The walls in the main room and much more are decorated with New Orleans artist Sarah Dunn's vibrant and contemporary botanical paintings. The dining room, which is a small-blue room that has a large painting of New Orleans during the early 20th century
20th century
Many people define the 20th century as running from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 2000, others would rather define it as beginning on January 1, 1900....
, is an open room with no doors. The kitchen, which features a marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
table, includes furniture from Ikea
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
. Unlike previous seasons where all bedrooms were not similar, this season, Eyser and Karpf made it so that every bedroom had looked equivalent of each other. The make-up room features early 20th century furniture. Karpf believed that the make-up room is, not only her favorite, but "has an industrial
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
-feel to it". In the same room, the girls were given Voodoo dolls that resembles themselves. In the champagne room, the girls were given very dark furniture of a mixture of red and black pillows and sofas. In the middle of the room, the girls were given a stripper pole. In the back yard, the girls were given a pool table, moderate size pool, lounge chairs. and an accompanied pond.
Cast
Season seven is the third season, overall, that hasn't had two "bad girls" who were from the same city and state. The last seasons to do so was season threeThe Bad Girls Club (season 3)
Bad Girls Club 3 is the third season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The third season beat ratings and viewership from the previous season. For Season 3, Oxygen announced that the shows format would be expanded from a half hour to one hour. This is the season where the...
and season four
The Bad Girls Club (season 4)
Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California....
of the "Bad Girls Club". In every season of the "Bad Girls Club" only seven "bad girls" enter the mansion on the first episode. During the show replacements enter the house after an original "bad girl" leaves, usually only one replacement enters the show, however, season one, Bad Girls Club Miami and season six has had three replacements, which is the highest number of replacements to date in the series.
This season was the first to feature a fan favorite contest, which allowed viewers to vote for their favorite "bad girl" every week. Ultimately, Tiara gained the most votes and was named the Bad Girls Club: New Orleans fan favorite.
| Bad Girl | Hometown | "Bad Girl" nickname | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Bronx, New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... |
"The Bronx Bombshell" | |
| 21 | Olympia Fields Olympia Fields, Illinois Olympia Fields is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,732 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the prestigious Olympia Fields Country Club, and is also noteworthy as one of the wealthiest majority black communities in the United States... , Illinois Illinois Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,... |
"The Voodoo Vixen" | |
| 23 | Sacramento Sacramento, California Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,... , California California California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area... |
"The Powerhouse" | |
| 25 | Staten Island, New York New York New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... |
"The Staten Island Spitfire" | |
| 23 | St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St... , Missouri Missouri Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It... |
"The Lady Killer" | |
| 23 | Miami Miami, Florida Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625... , Florida Florida Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it... |
"The Posh Princess" | |
| 22 | Gary Gary, Indiana Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city is in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area and is 25 miles from downtown Chicago. The population is 80,294 at the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state. It borders Lake Michigan and is known... , Indiana Indiana Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is... |
"The Goofy Gangsta" |
Replacement Bad Girls
In each season of the Bad Girls Club, one or more girls will be asked to leave the house either from violenceViolence
Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
, physical fighting, or will leave on their own accord, which then gives the producers a chance at a new "bad girl" who arrives to the house in a day or two to replace the fellow bad girl.
| Bad Girl | Hometown | "Bad Girl" nickname | Replaced | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | Round Rock, Texas Round Rock, Texas Round Rock is a city in Travis and Williamson counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the metropolitan area. The 2010 census places the population at 99,887.... |
"The Texan Vixen" | Priscilla |
Duration of cast
| Bad Girls | Season 7 Episodes | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 | Episode 9 |
Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Season Finale | |||
| Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | Angelic | ||
| Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | Judi | ||
| Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | Shelly | ||
| Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | Tiara | ||
| Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | Nastasia | ||
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Cheyenne | ||||||||||
| Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | Tasha | |||
| Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | Priscilla | ||||||
Episodes
| Series # | Title | U.S. viewers (millions) |
Original air date |
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