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NYC's Empire Hotel is a Victim of the New CW Show 'High Society'

Where: 44 West 63rd Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10023

Jules has words for the maid

Please tell us that you haven't started watching the sorta-new show High Society on The CW. Because if you have, then right about now you feel nothing but pity for anyone involved with the "stars," especially the housekeeping staff of Manhattan's Empire Hotel.

The show, which aired its third episode last night after the premiere of Fly Girls, continued to show the vapid lives of some thirty-something New York "socialites," but about whom no one in New York actually gives a crap.

After the jump, one of the socialites exhibits horrible hotel guest behavior

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Has Anyone Learned Their Lesson from Nicky O Hotels? It Seems Not

It's bad enough that we have a crop of celebrity  hotels popping up throughout the world, but do we really need a crop of socialite-fronted hotels?

The answer is no.

Which is why this recent article from the NY Times makes us wanna gag. Tinsley Mortimer, a Manhattan socialite known for socialite-y things like walking fashion runways for charity, wearing designer gowns at all types of parties and fighting publicly with any other rival socialites, has entered into a deal with developers to be the face of a condo-hotel on West 57th Street, off Fifth Avenue.

The developers' reason for picking this blonde with a slight family connection to Thomas Jefferson, "Tinsley is an authority on luxury living." Um ok. Also as a handbag designer, she is qualified to give the project a creative edge. Hmmm....

But what especially tugged at our gag reflex was reporter's Josh Barbanel's inclusion of Tinsley into this powerful group.

You know you've made it in New York when...you join the ranks of Donald Trump, Jacques Grange, Jean Nouvel and Ian Schrager, in providing branding power and panache to a new condominium development.

Excuse us for a second. [Barfing noises.]

Tinsley will be the project's Lifestyle Director and will advise the developers on layout designs, amenities packages and décor. Yet the plan is still very much in the early stages.

The developers haven't filed building plans for the site yet and are mulling a back-up offer from a big-box hotel chain just in the case the market keeps on tanking.

All we have left to say is this: Nicky O Hotels.