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$30,000 millionaires wanted for reality TV show
By Sarah Blaskovich
sblaskovich@dallasnews.com
8:43 am on July 3, 2014
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If you're paying $15 for a martini and charge it on two credit cards, you might be a $30,000 millionaire.
Former KTVT-TV (Channel 11) reporter Jay Gormley thought “Dallas was the richest place on Earth” when he moved here in the late ’90s. He watched twentysomethings valet their BMWs and spend $15 on a mixed drink, only to learn later they were living on maxed-out credit cards and driving leased luxury cars.
“They live like rock stars on shoestring budgets,” Gormley said of this class of Dallasites he helped popularize as “$30,000 millionaires.”
Cue the potential reality TV show. Producers are considering candidates now for $30,000 Millionaires, according to this casting call.
Requirements: must make less than $40,000 a year; drive a “pimpin’ ride”; dress fashionably; and hit the clubs. A lot.
The show will be based at least in part upon a screenplay Gormley and co-writer John Venable penned in 2005. It came close to getting picked up for film but never made it through the final stages, Gormley says. The research and writing made Gormley and Venable students of the $30,000 millionaires in Dallas, however, and behind all the binge-partying and sparkly graphic tees is a larger story about personal debt, Gormley says.
“It’s more than just laughable. It was such a reflection of our economic times. Some of these guys were juggling five or six credit cards,” he says.
No word yet on if a network is interested in the show, though the casting call sheet claims the producers behind $30,000 Millionaires were involved with Jersey Shore, The Osbournes, Pimp My Ride, Punk’d and Jackass.
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