Third season of The Cupcake Girls keeps Vancouver-based reality TV sweet

by Michelle da Silva on March 26th, 2012 at 12:11 PM

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Vancouver has long been the backdrop to popular movies and television shows, whether they’re meant to be “set” in Vancouver or not—and let’s face it, most of the time, our city is a stand-in for places like L.A., Seattle, and Forks, Washington (thanks to Twilight).

Recently, Vancouver has become a hotbed for reality television shows, including Top Chef Canada, Gastown Gamble, The Bachelor Canada, Family Cook Off, and The Real Housewives of Vancouver. Add to the list, The Cupcake Girls, a Vancouver-based reality TV show that’s about to embark on its third season starting April 4 at 8 p.m. on W Network.

The Cupcake Girls stars Heather White and Lori Joyce, owners of the retro-inspired cupcake store Cupcakes, which first opened in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood in 2002, and now includes seven locations across B.C. The reality series, which is produced by Canada's Force Four Entertainment, started in 2009 and won a Gemini Award for its first season, and season three features 16 new half-hour episodes.

In the third season, Heather and Lori must face lifestyle changes that have occurred in both their lives since they decided to go into business together a decade ago. At the start of the season, Heather has a new three-month-old baby and is planning her wedding, and Lori is pregnant with her second child. Meanwhile, these local entrepreneurs struggle to come up with new ideas for the business, while Cupcakes is planning for national expansion.

During season three, audiences will see Lori and Heather face the challenges of a very demanding sweet 16 party, plan Heather’s stagette and wedding, work on a charity event with Vancouver rocker Bif Naked, go through Lori’s pregnancy and baby delivery, and launch their brand in Toronto.

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Comments

29 Comments

why

Mar 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

... does this exist? Why do we care about this? Are our lives that boring? Surely we can find something else to do but watch this.

Leslie-Ann

Mar 26, 2012 at 3:23pm

I LOVE it!

Cherie

Mar 26, 2012 at 3:49pm

I like this show. Of course I love to bake so it is right for me. Will it be airing in the US anytime soon?

BeccaB

Mar 26, 2012 at 5:26pm

I would love cupcake girls on DVD

Yuck

Mar 26, 2012 at 8:37pm

What a horrid pair these two make.

I watched a few episodes: like a slow motion car wreck.

The poor, put-upon parents *still* have to put up with their spoilt brat; maybe that serves them right, dunno. I recall the other's parents getting the gift of a broken riding mower from their special princess.

I never could understand why these two would want to broadcast their ineptitude, their unprofessionalism, and their all round horridness. My original guess was due to needing extra money. Guess I was wrong about that, however it makes it even <b>more</b> puzzling.

Narcissism?

Kellwee

Mar 26, 2012 at 8:44pm

Why.... because it's not like the other baking shows who whine and BS about their lives. The Cupcake Girls focus on their product, and entrepreneurship.

Ekuy

Mar 26, 2012 at 10:36pm

Wow Yuke...I think the real loser is you. Let me guess...mid 30's, single, no kids and work a 9 - 5 job where everyone around you knows who you really are because I know who you are....

jade

Mar 27, 2012 at 7:17am

The worst thing on tv. Scripted b.s. All manufactured drama for viewers with iq,s below a dogs turd.

@Ekuy

Mar 27, 2012 at 7:59pm

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Wow Yuke...I think the real loser is you.
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Um, <b>you</b> brought up "loser", so that would make you one. An illiterate one (really, you cannot spell "Yuck"?!? Idiot!)

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Let me guess...mid 30's, single, no kids and work a 9 - 5 job
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No, no, yes, no. Idiot - none of that even matters. You have not addressed any of my points, just wet yourself in indignation. (Did I mention, you're an idiot?)

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because I know who you are....
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Apparently not. I've got you nailed though.

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The Cupcake Girls focus on their product, and entrepreneurship.
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That's not my impression - I saw them go on a disastrous (manditory) staff camping trip (where they tried to exclude the transgender staff person!), visit one of their parents' house (and crash the ATV/tractor), etc.

The other woman's father threatened to quit. The mother seems not to enjoy her job for the cupcake co.

Really, it seems like it's funded by the competition to make them look bad.