Alanna's strange and egotistical Pioneertown blunder, she's already tarnished her reputation. At first glance, Alanna added so much to the glitzy Los Angeles series. She brought a touch of runway-ready elegance to a real estate agency that's usually populated by bona fide fashion victims. Instead of wearing too much makeup and a neon micro-skirt, she came to the Oppenheim Group looking cool and professional. In fact, Alanna looked like a million bucks.
During Pioneertown, she acted like she owned the town. In retrospect, her conduct was bizarre. What on earth was she thinking?
This Was Such A Senseless Mistake
Pioneertown Officials Aren't Happy
Maybe she just got carried away, and although the townspeople didn't come after her with pitchforks, they weren't happy. She doesn't own Pioneertown - she does own some real estate there. By acting like a big shot, who's rich and powerful enough to own a cool town with a Western vibe, she became yet another Selling Sunset drama queen, just like diva Chelsea Lazkani. She talked about being the town's "sheriff" but that wasn't true. Onscreen, someone asked Alanna the price of the town. She clapped back:
“You guys don’t get to know that. You can’t have it, it’s ours!”
Maybe she was just joking around... then again, she might have been trying to give the impression that she was running the show in Pioneertown. It did seem like she was a cowgirl queen showing off her dusty kingdom, complete with tumbleweeds. She looked sassy in her cowboy hat, but now that Pioneertown residents are baying for her blood, she may feel like the proverbial drifter, steeling herself for a showdown at high noon.
Alanna's allowed to love Pioneertown but does it love her back? Not anymore.
While she was gushing about the town, the telegenic young women talked about buying a big piece of the town. Like a benevolent aristocrat showing her gracious "noblesse oblige," Alanna made it clear that she was the town's savior. She said she was on a mission to:
restore Pioneertown to its original vision and purpose.
This stuff is bound to rub people who've been preserving the town's character for years the wrong way. Her braggadocio isn't unusual in the reality TV realm, but this stunt seemed especially embarrassing because the first impression she made on Selling Sunset was actually good - then, she ruined it in a New York minute. City slickers and country folk tend to steer clear of grifters whenever possible.
Should Alanna Ride Off Into The Sunset?
Maybe She Should Leave The Show (& Pioneertown)
How can Alanna come back from this? Well, selling off her stake in Pioneertown wouldn't hurt. She's not going to be leading any parades there anytime soon. Most residents probably think she's living in a dream world. Some may consider her dumb for making it seem like she owned a town while the cameras rolled. So, what exactly did Pioneertown officials have to say? See their response to Alanna's apology, as per the Pioneertown Gazette at Instagram.
Before that, they really tore her apart, letting her know that they didn't appreciate what she said on the show - in fact, they lambasted her and the Selling Sunset production team, as Pioneertown's been around for 78 years now. They all managed just fine until a certain cowgirl moseyed into the town and called it her own.
C'mon Alanna... this is pure cringe. Leave this stuff to those shady Real Housewives who pretend to be rich when they really aren't (paging the often insufferable Dorit Kemsley...). Leave it to clowns like Jake Paul to entertain the peanut gallery with their lowbrow gaffes. You are supposed to be the "elegant" agent.
Alanna has style that's easy to appreciate, and she's a mega-beauty, but she needs to understand that Pioneertown residents have feelings. They have their pride. They aren't interested in the charade that was Alanna's faux dictatorship. Call it a rookie mistake, but people are never going to let the Selling Sunset star live this down.
Selling Sunset season 8 is now streaming on Netflix.
Source: Pioneertown Gazette/Instagram
Selling Sunset
- Release Date
- March 21, 2019
- Writers
- Adam DiVello
- Franchise(s)
- Selling The OC
Cast
Heather El Moussa-
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