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A new cast member comes out every two or three minutes, really giving the crowd their spending-no-moneys worth.
Mallory is by far the cleverest at this game.
She has a reference to yell at every Bravoleb leaving.
I just love these shows like its my life, she says.
Mallory booked her tickets to Vegas and hotel room before convention tickets were available.
Then they sold out before she could get ahold of them.
We had everything with an internet connection trying, she says.
And we still didnt get them.
Mallory is hardly alone in attending the stage door scrum but not BravoCon.
Renee Wilson is here from Atlanta with a party of five.
Like Mallory, she booked accommodations and decidedfuck it we ballwhen she couldnt get BravoCon tix.
I was realistic in knowing we were not going to get tickets, she says.
The crowd at the exit seems to be about half-and-half ticket-holders and those who werent so fortunate.
When we got here at nine, the line went on forever, says one actual ticket holder.
People were offering three times what we originally paid to buy ours.
Im directed to two women who came all the way here from Australia.
Ramonawas theironephoto op, a woman in the crowd tells me of the Aussies.
Now look at them!
In about an hour, the Australian girls get selfies with five Bravolebrities.
The definition of celebrity needs to be reevaluated for this crowd.
The Housewives glam teams are getting recognized.
I hear a woman yell, We know the hairdresser!
She yells, Hairdresser!
as she frantically waves.
The hairdresser does not come over for a selfie.
Felix is here from Vancouver.
Like Mallory and Renee, he booked a hotel room before not getting tickets.
The secret to his success?
Screaming and being manic, he says.
When I went to actual BravoCons, the other two times, I always get general admission.
But my screaming always works.
Theyre like, Whos screaming?
and will come to me.
Watching Felix work is something to behold.
Where Mallory personalizes her pleas, Felix simply yells, Come take a picture!
The shouts of one!
get higher and higher in pitch, until he sounds like one of those compilations of goats screaming.
Felix has found a hype man in Michael Wylie, whose family is all in thefuck it we ballcategory.
We made it a point to be here, he says, to show our support.
Michael and Felix take turns yelling for pics.
Its been really nice, he says.
No shenanigans, everybodys getting along fine.
One security guard doesnt seem to think this has been an entirely shenanigans-free evening.
As househusbands from New Jersey come out to greet fans, the fans rush past the barriers.
This greatly displeases an older gentleman with a suit on and a badge that just says Security.
He gestures for us to back up.
Lets have some ground rules, he says.
There are no ground rules!
a woman shouts back.
This man is old-school Vegas, in that hes actually old-school New York.
His accent is straight out ofCasino,and I wonder if hes left over from the Lefty Rosenthal days.
Some associates of Mr. Security bring new crowd barriers to pen the screaming crowd in further.
It seems like very little will stop these people from getting closer to their reality-TV pals.
The complex where were standing reeks of sewage, as space behind Las Vegas Boulevard doubles as adrainage culvert.
Mr. Security is having a hard time getting the Bravoheads to understand.
This is private property, you know!
They know, but they dont seem to care.
Its okay, he says to the crowd.
Were all crazy sometimes.
