We’ve suffered through endless amounts of reality TV show starring people who are famous for simply being wealthy. From Filthy Rich Cattle Drive to Gastineau Girls to The Simple Life: despite their wretchedness, we watched, and the networks ended up with relatively high ratings.

Because of this, it made sense for MTV to give Tinsley Mortimer a reality show. Although most of the country is unfamiliar with Tinsley, the blonde socialite is well-known in NYC, and her faced is regularly featured in various society pages.

Unfortunately for MTV, though, having your photo taken on regular basis doesn’t make you interesting or cool. The network found this out the hard way after they were forced to pull the plug on Tinsley’s reality show because it was simply too boring for anyone to watch.

An insider said, “A Tinsley reality show was shot by MTV. But they couldn’t use any of it. It’s collecting dust. She looked good but she just got dressed and went to parties every day and didn’t have anything interesting to say. It was incredibly boring. The project is dead.”

So just how bad could the show have possibly been? Well, here’s a quote Tinsley gave at a Brooklyn Museum party for Takashi Murakami:

“I went outside yesterday and I was very tired but also happy because I could see a cloud that looked like my old hamster, Tim Daniels. He was named after one of daddy’s tennis friends who liked to go see musicals and sometimes he would take me and Dabney to get ice cream cones and I’d always spill but Tim Daniels would say it’s ok. He had a nice friend that he lived with named Arthur Meckleburg. We named our iguana Arthur Meckleburg. I was looking at the cloud for a while and then Guadalupe said ‘Meez Tinsley, you have been outside for hours!’ So I laughed and she made me some fishsticks and then I cried for a while and then she taught me how to do her Mexi-Dancing. It was a great birthday.”

And no, I didn’t really take that quote out of context… that’s really the kind of shit she talks about.

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