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Well, Bravo Is Launching “Aprés Ski” Reality Show With Lyndsey Dyer

Pop culture has always had a hard time covering the snowbound lifestyle. There's some Hollywood producer saying like "Snow? No go!" and we don't know how many years it's even been since John Cusack charmed the nation's hearts and its collective funny bone in Better Off Dead. "Do you even know what the street value of this mountain is?!?!?" I digress.

Anyways, Aprés Ski is Bravo's latest attempt to fill screentime with trivial drama and inconsequential bickering between privileged adults, and covers a company called Gibbons Life, a Whistler-based hospitality company that owns several popular restaurants in town but has more recently started its own ski vacation concierge service. 

RELATED: Colter Hinchliffe on Aspen moms, legal weed, and gapers carrying skis

The show features a nominally diverse cast of reality TV show characters, including the wild tattooed guy, the nerd founder, a girl with passion for music festivals, more ethnic diversity that we're used to skiing in most ski towns. and–gasp–pro skier/"Gibbons Life Concierge" Lynsey Dyer, who will undoubtedly be showing one percenter clients how best to burn Jet A fuel and torch the planet while flying around in a helicopter to have fun on skis (yes, we're quite guilty of the Jet A addiction here at TGR, too). 

Early highlights of the custom itineraries these concierges produce include giving a guinea pig a massage with coconut oil, falling while using selfie sticks (justice!), having a private dinner on the Peak to Creek gondola at Whistler, elaborate burning shot-in-shot cocktails, and, when you bore of that, entertainment via sneakily observing Dyer's relationship with a co-worker they're attempting to keep hidden on the side. 

The season premiere is on November 2nd, so come join me in my living room while I play nice while suffering through the season premiere of Vanderpump Rules with my fiancé in order to secure the dubious reward of watching the first ski-themed show on a major network in... forever?

DUNFEEEEEEEEEEE!

is that an invite to come watch Bravo at your home?

 

Way to spell her name wrong in the headline.

This article is totally fair but I find it weird how Dyer is getting so much condescending snarkiness in the social media comments and that blurb on powder.com (and the TGR forums) about ‘selling out’ for an ‘embarassing and trashy’ show. “Can’t believe she sold out, so sad! Oh no, the credibility of women’s skiing is buried! There goes my cupcake, thrown to the depths of reality TV! ‘Core’ skier girl sleezing it up! Shame, cause I liked the girl in person!”

It’s like people see her as a cute, button nosed, wonderfully non-threatening and therefore entirely supportable champion of cute, button nosed skier girls who need someone to tell them that it’s okay to wear a tutu if they want to wear a tutu. God forbid she ever do anything other than look generically attractive on social media and be happy and bubbly on camera (occasional, tasteful bikini pictures are fine because they show that strong is beautiful)!

In an interview with mensjournal.com (of all places) there is an interesting quote from her: “I love shooting photographs but I find that my followers respond a lot better to pictures of me rather than the work I really like and I’m proud of. So I end up giving the people what they want, instead of sharing more of my personal work…” Yeah Lynsey, those pictures of skiing and mountains, the artsy graphic design and the inspirational quotes are okay, just don’t forget to throw in the occasional shot of you looking adorably up at the camera with tousled hair coming out form underneath your beanie in that natural, just-so way!

Oh and Lynsey, did you see that hilarious interview with Colter Hinchcliffe that TGR did? You know, the one that opens with a picture of him naked in a gondola? Where he jokes about pro hoes and the MILFs in Aspen who keep things fit and fun? Funny right? Make sure you never do something like that.

I mean you can make a few mild fart jokes if you want (OH WOW, HAHA, such and edgy girl posse, joking about farts!), and that rainbow farting unicorn was a nice touch, but please don’t ever allude to maybe having casual sex with the fit and fun DILF next door. Actually, best not to allude to anything sexual at all, ever. Flirting in a hot tub? On camera? God no! Because, you know, that would be pretty trashy and embarrassing and not funny at all.

If someone asks you if you want to be on a TV show, offering you money and exposure for your sponsors, remember not to do it because that would make you a sell out. Have you thought about taking up crochet? You could make yourself another cute beanie and post a selfie on instagram! Or maybe share your favourite smoothie recipe? 

Please don’t develop any actual ambition! You don’t need money or fame, we will happily donate ten dollars on kickstarter so you can make another ski movie with your little girlfriends! We do so love to help a good cause!

Sincerely,

your fans.

    Oh man I just saw this. Great comment, Lea!

YES Lea! You should have your own TGR article about this issue!

This show is horrible. For so many reasons! They hired two black party planners that have zero clue about the ski world. A hideous gay man so skinny he doesn’t look like he could pick up a sock. Here’s the kicker blacks don’t ski nor do they live in Whistler. I would never hire this team.

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stash member Ryan Dunfee

Former Managing Editor at Teton Gravity Research, current Senior Contributor, current professional hippy at the Sierra Club, and avid weekend recreationalist.