Jo De La Rosa

The Real Housewives of Orange County is a reality television program on the Bravo network. It is the first installation in the The Real Housewives of... series. Created by Orange County producer and Coto de Caza ("Coto") resident Scott Dunlop, with music by Chuck Hammer, the show was initially set primarily in the gated community of Coto and followed the lavish livestyles of five "housewives" and their families who resided within Coto McMansions, with the exception of one housewife (Lauri Waring, later, Peterson), who lived in comparatively reduced financial circumstances in a Ladera Ranch, California townhouse. This housewife exception-to-the-rule was used in season 1 as a foil to the (then) extravagant lifestyle of the other four housewives, who lived "behind the Coto gates". However, the show has since expanded its filming locations to include Rancho Santa Margarita, Ladera Ranch, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Costa Mesa, and Newport Coast, and downplayed the exclusivity of living behind the gates of Coto. For example, the opening credits removed the commentary saying, "There's a mystique of living behind the gates." The construction-real estate crash, the beginning of which coincided almost exactly the first seasons broadcast, has since trimmed the housewives' lifestyles, with job losses, evictions, mortgage defaults, foreclosures, and marital stress -- all recorded in progressive seasons of the show.

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