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    'This is our Super Bowl': At BravoCon, a reality TV empire has its moment in the sun

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2019 5 minutes

    NEW YORK - There's a certain kind of celebrity capable of making a middle-aged woman lugging a tote bag climb frantically over a couch for a chance at a photo to flaunt to her friends.

    No, it's not a $20 million-a-movie megastar or the Emmy-winning headliner of the latest prestige drama. The inspiration for this Olympian-level maneuver is Brittany Cartwright, a cast member of the Bravo reality series "Vanderpump Rules." And she was hardly the only reality TV heavyweight to incite such fervor over the weekend.

    Welcome to BravoCon.

    Nearly 90 Bravolebrities - a nickname introduced by the network to describe the stars of its reality TV properties - and roughly 10,000 star-struck fans descended on New York City for the three-day convention, which had devoted Bravo fans running around like wind-up toys, frigid air be damned, for an opportunity to make a cameo in the life of their favorite reality

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