It doesn’t take a president with a fixation on gold to know that Leach was on to something.īut for Leach, the show also inspired people for the better. In 2000, MTV Cribs took Leach’s concept from “caviar dreams” to bodacious bling The Simple Life sent rich kids Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie to live among the hoi polloi Keeping Up with the Kardashians launched in 2007 and we’re still living in its luxe shadow. Yes, that’s 80s-era Donald Trump featured in the show’s opening in a clip of him with Michael Jackson. ![]() More than a decade before Survivor and all the rest, Leach anticipated the ascendency of reality television and further fueled Americans’ fascination with wealth and fabulousness. Literally as the cork flew off, Jeff and I looked at each other and said, ‘It’s staring us right in the face.’ Being a connoisseur of drinking large quantities of champagne over the years, the best thing to eat with it is caviar.” Thus was born “champagne wishes and caviar dreams.” “We ran out of British beer and I opened up a bottle of bubbly. “For the life of us we could not come up with one that was short, powerful, and potent,” Leach recalled. The phrase that paid a million times over was uncorked one drunken midnight weary of trying to come up with a catchphrase with writer Jeff Samuels that would encapsulate the show and that people would talk about at the water cooler. ![]() “When you saw the Carringtons with 20 Rolls-Royces, that was a typical scene from Lifestyles.” “We documented bigger wealth than was ever dreamed up for the Carringtons,” he said. In a 2016 interview, Leach told me with pride that Joan Collins, who portrayed Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, told him that the cast would gather to watch Lifestyles and pilfer lines of dialogue from the people Leach profiled for their show. But Lifestyles left the fictional Ewings and Carringtons in the dust. The 1980s, dubbed “ the Decade of Greed,” was defined in large part by voluptuous images of conspicuous consumption and the nefarious and heedless wheelings and dealings of the 1 percent as played out on TV series such as Dallas and Dynasty. Greed was very, very good to Robin Leach, who, as host of the phenomenally successful syndicated series, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, took greed and turned it up to 11. It will be a long time, if ever, that I find a friend as giving, forthright and protective.Greed is good, as Michael Douglas’s amoral Wall Street character, Gordon Gekko, proclaimed in Oliver Stone’s era-defining 1987 film. Despite Robin’s carefully self-created image of being a curmudgeon he was generous and kind to a fault. Kellner's statement continues, "While most people will remember Robin for his iconic television show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, his friends and family will always remember him as the most generous and loving father, friend and mentor. "To echo his son’s Steven’s sentiments 'Despite the past 10 months, what a beautiful life he had.'" ![]() “Our friend Robin Leach passed away peacefully this morning at 1:50am PST having fought a graceful battle after having a stroke in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on November 22nd, 2017," the statement begins. Saville Kellner, the CEO of Revenue Media Group and a close friend of Leach, also released a statement on Friday. “Everyone’s support and love over the past, almost one year, has been incredible and we are so grateful. Our Dad, Grandpa, Brother, Uncle and friend Robin Leach passed away peacefully last night at 1:50 a.m.," the statement reads. ![]() "Despite the past ten months what a beautiful life he had. Leach’s family members - Steven, Greg and Rick Leach - released a statement to ET following news of the TV star's death. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.
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