Michaele and Tareq Salahi became celebrities overnight after crashing Barack Obama’s first state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week. Why did they do it? Because Mrs. Salahi wants a slot on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of D.C.” reality show.

Uncle Jay has a new theory on how the couple bypassed presumably tight security for the event: “Like everybody who’s trying to get a TV reality show, they admitted that they were just hiding in the White House attic the whole time.”

But the Salahis’ plan to make a small fortune from their publicity coup may backfire. The Secret Service is considering criminal charges against the couple.

“It’s not totally clear how [a government prosecution] would play out, as that could depend on the facts of the misrepresentations that the couple had to make to gain access to the dinner,” blogger Orin Kerr wrote at The Volokh Conspiracy. “But I think one thing is clear: Crashing a White House state dinner, and then bragging about it on Facebook, is really really dumb.”