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From listening to dating woes to facilitating apologies between foes, Lim is the playful conscience of Bling Empire. Adopted from Korea and raised in Philadelphia, Kreider is a model from modest beginnings.

What he lacks in funds, he makes up for with fun and flirtiness, often serving as the voice for viewers at home. As a new member of the group, who grew up a part of a white family, Kreider spends the season learning more about where he comes from and how to navigate the world he finds himself in, where the dinner parties come with a server for every diner.

With her husband, plastic surgeon Gabriel Chiu, being a descendant of the emperor of China during the Song Dynasty, Christine embodies both words in the show's title. Discussion of a sibling for their princely miracle child, Baby G, reopens old wounds between the couple, though, throwing Christine off her game heading into an impish rivalry with the group's other queen bee.

In her 20s, Li lived the kind of jet-setting life many dream of — until she was blindsided by her then-husband's arrest for running one of the largest cyber scams in American history. It speaks to their excitement about Bling Empire that the show turns out the way that it did," Panaligan says.

Kevin Kreider, a Pennsylvania transplant looking to kickstart his modeling career in L. Kevin clearly does not share the other cast members' lavish lifestyles. Scene after scene, he's as glitter-eyed and slack-jawed as most of the audience. And that's the point: According to Jenkins, he's meant to be the "everyman" of the group, or an audience stand-in.

Kevin came on board through his prior friendship with Kelly Christine says she's known Kelly for a decade, by the way and formed a connection with the other cast members in the year between pitching the show in and filming in Jenkins says Kevin and Kane Lim became "best friends" the week they met.

Kevin wasn't the only one who bonded with cast members. Christine Chiu says she's genuinely become closer to certain individuals in the cast. We are plotting the marriage of our children," she jokes. She even notes that she and Shay, who are rivals on the show, have had two dinners together without "Anna's claws coming out. She has time to come up with games. The latest and most exciting addition to its roster is Bling Empire, a show that makes its luxury property reality series Selling Sunset look as if it were filmed on a very tight budget.

Not all that glitters is TV gold, but Bling Empire looks likely to be. The show follows a group of super-wealthy friends — people who appear to be friends in real life, as opposed to the usual setup of strangers brought together for our entertainment, like a band on The X Factor. But despite its similarly shallow premise, there is a touch more depth. Most of the work involves distributing the payments devices to local merchants.

Enrollment is limited for now, says co-founder Meyer Malka. Consumers can sign up for the service at participating merchants and eventually through the web.