Real Housewives of Toronto star Kara Alloway says she was offered a whopping $5,000 (£4,000) per week to be someone’s sugar baby – but turned the offer down as it wasn’t high enough.
The Slice reality star was best known as the villain of the series, but says most of that came down to editing post-production.
And she definitely gained some long-time fans from the experience.
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Chatting exclusively to Daily Star, Kara admitted: “One bizarre message – I had someone offer to be my sugar daddy for $5,000 a week.
“I was like, ‘Oh, it’s gonna cost a lot more than that, honey!’ That was a fun one.”
But Kara also had her fair share of cruel troll attacks, too.
She explained: “There were some really mean messages. I had one woman saying, ‘Your husband will leave you, something bad will happen to your kids, and you’ll get cancer’.
“I remember going, ‘It’s just a show! Why would you say that to someone?’
“Then there’s my mum telling me, ‘Kara, hurt people, hurt people’. But who goes and writes that out? You have to write that out, it’s not like you just blurted out something brash. You have to think it, write it, send it.
“This was just a show meant to entertain and provide some escapism.”
Kara said it was “challenging” to deal with “brutal” trolls at first until she managed to grow “alligator skin” and let the criticism roll off.
She even chatted to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Lisa Rinna about her problems and got some sage advice in return.
“She said, ‘You’ve got to let it roll off your back. You’re the lightning rod. Turn off your Instagram notifications!'”
Kara added: “There’s a great quote by a Canadian communications philosopher. He said, ‘If I hadn’t believed it, I wouldn’t have seen it’.
“That’s what it was – these trolls who were saying, ‘I saw that on television, I heard what you said, I know who you are.’ And I was like, that is not me!”
Kara has now written her debut novel, Most Hated, based around women who come together to film a reality TV show.
The book sheds light on what happens behind the scenes of a franchise as big as Real Housewives – and Kara is ready to expose some producer tricks that made her out to be the bad guy.
Citing one example, the star said: “I had a trunk show for the ladies, a dress sale out of my home. Everyone was invited.
“One of the participants in the show was a plus size girl, and I wanted to make sure we had dresses for everybody so I spoke to the designer’s assistant and said, ‘I need something to fit everybody’.
“Usually in a trunk show, they’re all sample sizes. But I had a feeling an eyebrow went up in production, like, ‘What a great opportunity to make Kara so evil!'”
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Kara went on: “We got a celebrity loan of a dress that had been worn by a really famous celebrity. They brought it to my house with all the other dresses. So when she arrived and everyone was trying on dresses, there was a dress for her to try on.”
But despite her best efforts, Kara explained that what played out in real life wasn’t reflected on screen.
“In the end, the edit made it look like I invited her to my home to humiliate her. They cut out the whole part of her trying on the dress.
“They filmed her having a conversation with the designer saying, ‘I don’t think there’s anything here that fits me’. And it was edited to make him say, ‘I wish I had known, I would have brought a dress’.”
Kara’s novel Most Hated is available to pre-order now.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
