Downtown Girls – Starcasm

Shallon Lester of MTV’s Downtown Girls explains how she handles sex in the city

ByStarcasm Staff June 4, 2010June 17, 2010

Just as the Sex and the City franchise is taken out behind the barn (or Moroccan desert) and inhumanely put down by writer/director Michael Patrick King, another group of sexy young Big Apple BFFs are ready to step up and take its place. Shallon, Gurj, Nikki, Victoria and Klo are the next New York City estrogeneration and the stars of MTV’s Downtown Girls, a “reality sitcom” that follows the lives of these five real girlfriends as they traverse the treacherous landscape of career, fashion and boys in the City That Never Sleeps.

At the helm of this friendship is Shallon Lester, a relationship blogger for Glamour.com’s Smitten and former gossip columnist for New York Daily News‘ Rush & Molloy and Gatecrasher. Just as this witty, pretty City kitty prepares to cross over from writing about celebrities to becoming one herself, she sat down with us to discuss dating, writing, why boys send girls penis pictures, and how hard it is for a girl to get everything she needs from just one guy.

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Who Is “Downtown Girls” Klo?

Bymariamargarita June 1, 2010

Of all the Downtown Girls (premiering tonight on MTV at 11 p.m.), Klo appears to be the odd woman out: it doesn’t look like she has a cool career, like boutique owner Nikki Laura, a hip career in music like Gurj, or a blogger like BFF Shallon. Klo gets to be the girl who is…

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Recycle or Reuse? Shallon, Victoria, Nikki and Gurj swap ex boyfriends on the premiere episode of Downtown Girls

ByStarcasm Staff June 1, 2010June 1, 2010

Tonight blogger Shallon Lester takes her turn at reality television with four of her closest girlfriends in Downtown Girls, airing at 11pm (EST). It’s a stylized “reality sitcom” that’s both more real and more constructed than reality shows it follows: The Hills and The City. The series also borrows heavily from the spirit of Carrie…

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Meet Downtown Girls’ Gurj Bassi

Bymariamargarita June 1, 2010June 21, 2010

Our coverage of Downtown Girls , premiering tonight at 11 p.m. continues! Next up: Gurj, the funny, music-loving Brit.

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Who is “Downtown Girls” Nikki Cohen?

Bymariamargarita May 31, 2010June 1, 2010

If you simply can’t get enough of watching spoiled women in Manhattan cry and complain about how difficult their privileged lives are, don’t fret: Downtown Girls is coming to MTV, where it premieres June 1. We were curious about Nikki Cohen, one of the women who will be followed on the series, and did a…

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