The trailer for Foxtel’s upcoming series The Real Housewives of Sydney has dropped. There are dark sunglasses, dancing, lots of lipstick and cocktail glasses.
However, one of the “housewives” has a bone to pick with her porrayal.
Lisa Oldfield — media commentator, business woman, former co-host of Channel Nine’s daytime television program The Catch-Up — has been introduced in the show’s trailer as a “politician’s wife”.
Oldfield is, indeed, the wife of One Nation founder David Oldfield. But she is also much, much more than that. (Post continues after video.)
She has written, for example, about the horrors of domestic violence for Mamamia. She spoke out against the former Leader of the Labor Party Mark Latham for suggesting violence only occurred in disadvantaged communities.
Oldfield posted a screen shot of the The Real Housewives of Sydney trailer to Instagram, commenting on being labelled a “politician’s wife” after an “enormously successful corporate career.”
“Never mind that my husband left #politics 10 years ago ! I think I just became a #feminist at 41.”
