Luxe for life: How Selling Sunset became TV’s most addictive reality show

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Netflix’s Selling Sunset – Chrishell Stause and Christine Quinn are facing off. “So many times you’ve brought toxic energy to me,” Stause tells her co-worker. “Every time I deal with you, you do something insanely, ridiculously hurtful.

Like telling all the girls not to like my Instagrams. Like when you had a party and you made fun of me on the drinks list to hundreds of your guests. ” It was a custom cocktail consisting of Hendrick’s gin, pineapple juice, tonic and lime, and called “Chrishell’s Two-Faced Tonic”.

As the two women lay out their feelings, the pair’s friends and co-workers watch from the sidelines, taking bets on who will get thrown into the swimming pool.

That tension-filled moment was an early highlight of Selling Sunset, which enters its fifth season on 22 April. A reality show documenting a fantasy land of extreme wealth, with stiletto-heeled agents selling luxury homes to the world’s richest buyers, the series has since reached a level of success and visibility beyond the cast and crew’s wildest imaginations. “It [became] this watercooler show,” Stause tells me. “People started watching it and then started talking about it.