Welcome to television's unchallenged authority on wealth, prestige, and success. It's another episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Meet the stars of show business and big business. Discover how life's winners live, love, and spend their fortunes. Enter their dazzling world of luxury on privileged tours of the fantasy palaces they call home. Your host is Robin Leach, who circles the globe to uncover the stories America will never stop talking about.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was a long-running American series (1984-96) hosted by Robin Leach, with that showcased the lives of various famous athletes, business moguls (like Donald Trump), and celebrities (like Liberace).
This series provides examples of:
- Big Fancy House: Extravagant showcases of the featured guest's homes and all their furnishings was the show's bread and butter. It's noteworthy that many of the show's
Spiritual Successors hone in on the 'house tour' aspect rather than the 'lifestyles' part.
- Reality Show: A very early example of the "follow someone around in their daily routine" show, predating COPS by five years.
- Signing Off Catchphrase: "Wishing you champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
- Spiritual Successor: VH1's The Fabulous Life of.... Also, MTV Cribs was and still is described as a "millenial Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous".
- Snooty Haute Cuisine: The Signing Off Catchphrase is "wishing you champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
- Stock Shout-Out: "Lifestyles of the [X] and [Y]" is a common reference, to the level of perhaps obscuring the show that originated that phrase.
