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But first, because this is The Real Housewives of Dallas, Brandi must discuss the peeing! And the pooping! She explains, “Peeing in a solo cup is one of my hidden talents and I’m sure I will do it again some day. LeeAnne’s reaction was ridiculous considering her poop in a bag story. I actually didn’t believe LeeAnne when she denied it because Tiffany [Hendra] had already confirmed the story. So, all I could think was whatever, poopy pants!”
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Although Brandi enjoyed her conversation with LeeAnne about PTSD (how ironic that LeeAnne would basically inflict trauma on everyone else later that night!), Brandi was all about partying at her Austin home. She jokes, “I know I had a little bit too much to drink, especially when I chose to do a roll on the table. What was I thinking? Um, well Cary [Deuber] always stands on her head and does these amazing tricks and I wanted her to do one on the table. She declined so I volunteered myself. I was definitely in Brandi Land and I’m thankful I didn’t break the table. Watching it I know I was a HOT MESS to say the least.”
Hot mess or not, Brandi was not too inebriated to hear the throwdown that LeeAnne decided to start with Marie later. Brandi describes in her blog, “After the roll I went to bed right away and woke up to screaming. Stephanie [Hollman] and I had our door shut and I started hysterically crying because I didn’t understand why LeeAnne was going to gut Marie ‘Carni Style.’ I wanted to be sober so bad so I could comprehend. Stephanie and I were holding each other shaking.”
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“The next morning when I realized what was going on I understood that LeeAnne felt hurt because Marie apparently shared her story. However, this gives no one an excuse to threaten someone’s life. It was disturbing and I felt like LeeAnne once again needed help. It’s not rational to argue with what was clearly crazy. Her continuing to use her past as excuses for her behavior really does bother me. So she should take her own advice and quit labeling herself as the victim. I think her apology to Marie was to move on and not necessarily genuine being that they are no longer friends.” Yup. Agree!
At dinner that night, Brandi attempted to confront Tiffany about her idiotic loyalty to a psychotic person LeeAnne, but quickly gave up out of sheer exasperation. She defends, “I was trying to understand why Tiffany is always supporting LeeAnne and contributes to her excuses. I also brought up the fact that Tiffany contributes to Marie and LeeAnne’s fights and realized it’s not worth it. So I walked away feeling frustrated.”
Brandi also calls out LeeAnne on walking her talk, which is ALL about “charity,” as we know. “I want people to walk in their own shoes and not make excuses for their behavior. When we don’t live up to whom we say we are, it makes affirmations and our heart for charity seem like a joke. By no means am I discrediting anyone’s good deeds but live by what you claim and the rest won’t be so toxic.”
TELL US: IS LEEANNE USING HER PAST AS AN EXCUSE? OR DOES IT EXPLAIN HER VOLATILE BEHAVIOR?
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I cannot believe that I subjected myself to watching a Real Housewives of Dallas episode that centered around rumors that LeeAnne Locken pooped in a bag. I feel like I was supposed to feel bad for LeeAnne since Marie Reyes obviously betrayed her by spreading this story around, but every time I start to like LeeAnne, she makes it pretty difficult for me to come through on that one.
I don’t get why LeeAnne keeps bringing up this story line since she is only making it worse for herself since she talked about it a lot during the episode, but now she is talking about it even more and strongly hating on Marie.
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The fact that there has been more than one poop-related story line during the first Real Housewives of Dallas season is beyond weird to me and LeeAnne also seems like she is over it as well- which I get since a lot of the shit talking (pun intended) revolves around her. LeeAnne took to her Bravo blog to lay into Marie- the most camera thirsty “friend of the Housewives” since Kim D on Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Would Marie even be on this show if she wasn’t backstabbing LeeAnne? Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure that her daughter getting cheer tips from Brandi Redmond was not going to make the cut on its own. Even though I can’t stand LeeAnne (when I don’t even know her at all), I do get why she would be mad at Marie for exploiting her just to get camera time. LeeAnne wrote, “When I found out that Marie had told my ‘little secret,’ I looked her straight in the eyes and you could see her reaction. She fell back on her usual tactics, which is to LIE. That’s her native language. The bothersome part about her response was the that she looked so unconcerned about about the fact that she had been caught. She didn’t even care.” Well yeah, of course Marie did not care. She just wants to get on TV since she was not cast as a full-time Housewife. I don’t know anything about Marie aside from the fact that she has been “close friends with LeeAnne for twenty years” and that she has no sense of loyalty.
Sure, I wouldn’t want to be best friends with LeeAnne either, but it really doesn’t make Marie look good if she’s spending all of her free time talking shit about LeeAnne– no matter how annoying LeeAnne actually is.
Then LeeAnne does more than state the obvious when she reveals why Marie is such a bad friend: “I was so upset with Marie because THIS wasn’t her first betrayal, and for the last year, I had been denying her betrayals. So I have had to come to terms with the fact that this IS Marie. This is what she is to me: A Liar.” She forgot the part where Marie is clearly desperate for attention and will do anything to be on the show.
As of now, neither LeeAnne nor Marie are coming off as being likable on this series. And I really can’t deal with it when LeeAnne is constantly trying to act smarter than she is with all of these original metaphors that she devises. LeeAnne wrote, “Marie is like a tornado and I’m like a small town of 60 houses, and she has just plowed through, destroying every single one without a care.” That was an oddly specific comparison, but it playing up the dramatics seems to be classic LeeAnne.
Then my curiosity was really piqued when Leanne wrote, “For me to have to finally face this fact after everything I’ve done for her, the secrets that I have kept for her, the lies, the tracking devices I’ve purchased for her, the meetings I’ve kept quiet, the trips to Mexico where I’ve talked her off the ledge, all of it. I’m flabbergasted. Shocked. And it all came out with 100% hurt and pain, which for me (as you all know by now) comes out in 100% anger.” What does any of that mean and why was it not featured on the show? Why on earth did Marie need tracking devices? What the hell was she doing in Mexico? This sounds a million times more interesting than any of these poop-related story lines.
Then LeeAnne tried to get rid of all responsibility when it came to her freak out against Marie when she wrote, “The next morning when I tried to speak to Marie, I had actually texted her asking her to please come downstairs to talk. She said she would be right down, but she never showed up. SHE SET ME UP 100 %. She wanted everyone in the house to believe she was the victim. I applaud her for her first class acting job and for her strategic, but childish game-playing. I mean, she really thought everything through, move by move. That shit wasn’t checkers, that was chess.” I’m not really sure how Marie not coming through on a text message at all constitutes “setting up” LeeAnne to go batshit crazy, but okay, LeeAnne…
Then LeeAnne misused yet another metaphor when she wrote, “To her, friendship is just a game and I wasn’t aware that she knew how to play chess or I might have been better prepared. She’s only in it for a prize.” Alright, LeeAnne.
LeeAnne also continued with that annoying AF tornado comparison when she wrote, “Even though she was the tornado, she somehow made into her being the victim. It’s like she was saying, ‘Well, you little town of 60 houses, it’s your fault that I had to come sweeping through and destroy everything. Sorry not sorry.’ The conversation was going exactly the way she wanted. She wanted them all to take her side, and each and every one of them did.” In all honesty, Marie sharing that story about LeeAnne (whether it was true or not) was not cool to do, but it’s hard to remember that when LeeAnne creates a new controversy by going on a screaming rampage.
LeeAnne also decided to give alcohol credit for her craziness: “I’ve done so much for Marie over the years, which is why I got as mad as I did. I don’t care what anyone’s judgment is. I’m not proud of the words I chose or the octave at which I delivered them. I admit that I should have sobered up before ever confronting and upsetting situation like that. I never would have even had the courage to do it without the alcohol.” It’s unclear if she is saying the alcohol consumption was good or bad, but LeeAnne really has no scope of how her behavior comes off to others. I figured that being on a reality TV show would be good to help her reflect on her actions, but that is clearly not the case.
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It's every woman for themselves when Sisterhood of Hip Hop returns for season three next month. Hip hop icon MC Lyte is getting the drama started when she offers veterans Siya,...After allegedly being fired from Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills over Housenmouschenmanipulation Yolanda Hadid took off for a healing vacation in Tahiti. While spending time absorbing nature, it seems Yolanda also planted a story claiming she will be returning to the show, but Bravo refused to let her live her Lyme truth. (<cough! cough! bulls–t! Time to head into Yolanda’s treatment room for a little recovery!)
Apparently one vital step in the Lyme healing is to flaunt your bikini body while celebrating freedom. I too am celebrating freedom from Yolanda monopolizing Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills – hold on imma get my bikini and my iPhone. Anyway, while off frolicking in Tahiti, a curious story popped up alleging that Bravo presented Yolanda an ultimatum if she hopes to remain on Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills: No Lyme Disease, or lose your job. Since Yolanda has integrity, y’all and living her journey as a warrior for victims of silent diseases… Oh wait – no she’s not; she wants to be famous, so Lyme? What Lyme?!
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A source says Bravo decided they and the viewers are “tired of hearing about” Lyme Disease and demanded Yolanda go in a different direction.”Lyme disease is off the table for her storyline,” claims the insider. “Instead, Bravo gave Yolanda an ultimatum — her storyline this season will be looking for her next victim love since she is now single.”
“Yolanda didn’t want to expose that part of her life to the public,” continues the source, “but in the end, [she] caved in to Bravo’s demands because she wanted to be a part of the show.”
Naturally, “Yolanda was very unhappy about the turn of events,” because “she wanted to raise awareness about Lyme disease and producers understand her position,” the source tells In Touch Weekly.
Yeah right! Rumors have circulated for years that Yolanda is impossible and production finds her exhausting. Last season it seems that after they caught her hiding her divorce, they decided to seek revenge by revolving the storyline around speculating that her Lyme Disease was an attention ploy.
Personally, I find this story to be BS. Multiple reliable sources have speculated Yolanda was fired, or stated that no one can confirm she’s been offered a contract. I personally doubt we’ll be seeing more Lyme next season. Especially with Lisa Vanderpump and Mohamed back to BFF status… and honestly how believable is it that Lyme just disappears from Yolanda’s life and is never mentioned on TV again? This story reads damage control from Camp Yolanda, or a desperate ploy to entice Bravo back.
Photos of Yolanda Bikini Healthies are below!
TELL US – DO YOU THINK BRAVO GAVE YOLANDA AN ULTIMATUM? DO YOU WANT TO SEE YOLANDA ON RHOBH WITHOUT LYME DISEASE?
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Stephanie begins, “I found the events surrounding this episode shocking and life changing. I grew profoundly aware of the necessity to push beyond my discomfort with conflict and speak up in the group for what is right and challenge unhealthy bullying behaviors. I remember the events of this episode just like it was yesterday. I was left with a very clear picture of what I believe to be a triangulated destructive, abusive relationship often referred to as 15-20 year ‘friendship(s).'”
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Despite the “pooping in a bag” story (am I really typing that!?) that came up on the way to Austin, Stephanie had high hopes for the trip. Plus, Brandi‘s drunken somersaults seemed to lighten the mood! But as darkness fell, the quiet trip to the country turned into more of a Cabin In the Woods situation!
Stephanie describes the scene in her blog: “After going to bed, Brandi fell asleep immediately. I was almost asleep when startled out of my daze by ranting and blood curdling screaming. Next, I heard glass breaking and Marie hysterically crying and apologizing. It took me a few seconds to fully awaken and grasp what was happening. LeeAnne was yelling at her and I clearly heard her threatened Marie with, ‘Do you know what happens when people mess with me? I kill them! I slaughter them! I destroy them!’ ‘I will gut you carnie style!'”
“I was terrified and didn’t know what to do. Brandi woke up to the screams and was hysterically crying. I prayed for the madness to stop and for Marie‘s safety. We wondered why Tiffany wasn’t going in to try to calm LeeAnne down. I had my phone in hand ready to dial 9-1-1 for help when the yelling stopped.” (According to Stephanie’s twitter last night, they were all texting production as well! H-E-L-P!!!)
Stephanie explains, “The room LeeAnne and Tiffany shared was located directly outside the kitchen where the threats took place. It is located next to the room Brandi and I shared. I heard LeeAnne and Tiffany talking quietly for a while. I could hear Marie sobbing as she walked up the stairs. Cary [Deuber] came downstairs to make sure Brandi and I were ok. She and Courtney were awakened and startled by the screaming. They heard everything too. It was a terrifying experience for all of us and we could not imagine how Marie must have felt. This is the first time I have ever felt unsafe and terrified in my own home.”
Yet, the next morning Marie seemed too shell shocked to process the event for what it was: Batsh*t Crazy! Stephanie says she “was stunned as Tiffany and LeeAnne nonchalantly talked about the event as though this was normal and there was something wrong with rest of us for being upset. In the special land of LeeAnneville, ‘I am going to kill you, slaughter you, gut you carnie style’ actually meant ‘I am disappointed in you and am washing my hands clean of you.’ Yeah, right.”
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Tiffany claims she didn’t hear a peep, though, Suspicious? Oh hell yes! Stephanie explains, “It was also interesting to all of us that while everyone in the house was awakened to this outrageous episode, Tiffany claimed to be sleeping soundly the entire time. Really? Brandi was intoxicated beyond belief and it woke her. Cary and Courtney were upstairs on the other side of the house, it woke them and they talked about what they heard LeeAnne ‘say’. I have no doubt that we ALL heard it. It was a glass throwing, a gut wrenching, screaming, vehement threatening, outrageous outburst at someone responding with tearful, wailing, pleading apologies. It was like living through a horror movie scene. It was terrifying!”
Then why did Marie and Tiffany kowtow to LeeAnne the next day, despite her outrageous attack? Perhaps they’re used to it. Perhaps they’re scared sh*tless of her. (Probably, it’s a combo of the two!) In any case, Stephanie says she had to speak up, “I believe Marie was too scared to defend herself and LeeAnne and Tiffany were trying to make light of abusive behavior. The truth is that Marie’s life was threatened! She was trembling, shaking and scared.”
She continues, “Regardless of what happened during the course of the friendship, no one deserves the abuse Marie endured at our house that night. LeeAnne blaming her past and trying to sweep it under the rug the following day was exactly what I expected. Tiffany minimizing her actions and trying to prove her friendship to LeeAnne was typical, as well.”
Anything but typical was just how firmly Stephanie laid down the LAW with Tiffany and LeeAnne at dinner! She describes how she was feeling, and how everything changed for her in that single moment. “I looked around the table at dinner and realized that not one person was untouched by LeeAnne’s behavior. Yet she sat there silently while we bickered. How very sad. That night changed me.”
“I remember hearing that people only have the power we give them. I realized that we had all given her too much power because she demanded it. LeeAnne will bully to get her way. This has worked for her for a very long time but, it’s unfortunate that the one who brags about all the good she does, has a legacy of tearing down those who do not agree with her or that she cannot control along the way. I do not believe her to be an evil person. This is her perceived survival mode.”
Because she’s the bigger person, Stephanie does express compassion for this crazed lunatic LeeAnne. She closes with empathy, yet wisely maintains her boundaries: “My heart aches for her. While she was a victim of the circumstances of her childhood, it cannot be the excuse for victimizing others. I pray she seeks help. She has many strengths that she can use to help others as she heals.”
Agreed. LeeAnne needs help. Desperately. But these chicks need to protect themselves in the mean time. Girlfriend is getting scarier than Kelly Bensimon, circa Scary Island, vintage RHONY!
TELL US: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF STEPHANIE’S TAKE ON LEEANNE’S MELTDOWN? DID STEPHANIE GROW A BACKBONE LAST NIGHT?
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Last night was the season finale of Teen Mom 2. Jenelle Evans’ relationship with her mom, Barbara Evans, continued to deteriorate as David Eason took more control over Jenelle and asserting himself more as a self-appointed father-figure for Jace. Leah Messer got to a better place with Corey Simms, but her relationship with Jeremy Calvert hit a bump in the road when he prioritized his new girlfriend’s daughter over Addie. Chelsea Houska settled with Adam Lind and got Cole DeBoer’s wedding ring. And, finally, Kail Lowry and Javi Marroquin talked divorce.
Jenelle, David, the boys, and Maryssa are in the car headed to go fishing. Kaiser is screaming as usual and Jace joins in. David yells at Jace that he’s six years old and shouldn’t be screaming like a girl. I bet he also tells Jace not to do things that seem “gay.” By the time they get to the lake, Jenelle and David are both irritated with Kaiser’s squealing. Jenelle points her finger at him and yells at him to stop screaming, which obviously doesn’t work. David says he takes after his daddy, Nathan Griffith, who’s a “little screaming bitch.” Sounds like a more apt description of Jenelle. Jenelle swears they’re never taking Kaiser with them on the boat again because they can never do anything with him around. Did she expect that a toddler was going to be able to sit on a boat for a few hours and care at all about fishing?
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On the boat, Kaiser screams “dada.” Let’s hope this isn’t his new name for David. When they get back to dry land, they grill up some hot dogs – Kaiser Roll’s favorite – and Barbara calls Jenelle. She needs Jace home by 6. Jenelle says they’re eating and will be leaving soon and the call ends without incident. Then David steps in. He wants Babs to meet them on their way home in a place called Leland, so he texts Babs. When she texts back that she can’t meet up, David refuses to let it go and texts her back asking why not. It’s none of your business, David!
On the way to drop off Maryssa, Jenelle has gotten worked up. She’s pissed off that she can’t have Jace back and thinks Babs is just trying to control her. David texts Babs that she’ll have to meet them in Leland or come to their house; he refuses to drop Jace off, even though Jenelle already said they would.
While David is out of the car handing off Maryssa, Jenelle thanks Jace for his help with Kaiser and tells him that she’s fighting with meme. She explains that when he was a baby, a judge told her that because she didn’t have a house for him to live in, he had to stay with meme. So now, she has to take meme to court to ask a judge if she can have him back. “Does it make you sad?” she asks. It does make Jace sad because he never gets to play Call of Duty, an answer that evidences he’s not ready for this conversation. Yet, she keeps going, telling him that it hurts her that meme won’t give him back to her. She waited a long time to have this talk with him, but wanted to wait until he was old enough to understand. He’s not.
Babs calls Jenelle and tells her to bring Jace home. Jenelle demands to have a reason why she can’t have Jace back. Babs gives her a reason: David. He’s controlling Jenelle and Babs will not let him have control of Jace. She points out that this is between her, Jenelle, and Jace – not David. If she gets rid of the crazy boyfriends, maybe she can get Jace back. Jenelle defends David by calling Babs an idiot then tells her she had to explain to Jace why she can’t have him and that they have to go to a place called court. Babs accuses Jenelle and David of brainwashing Jace (I’m sure they are) and takes a big swig of wine (probably why she didn’t want to drive to pick him up). Jenelle claims she has a stable environment for Jace, but Babs disagrees: “You take off every other week and dump your kids off with other people.” Thank god someone FINALLY called her out! “Um, no, I’ve been going for medical reasons,” Jenelle counters. “Spring break is medical?” Babs asks. #sipstea
The arguing continues back and forth and Babs finally asks why Jenelle can’t just bring Jace home. Jenelle refuses to drop him off. She’s going to wait at the BP station in Leland for Babs. Babs concedes defeat, but swears it will be a long time before Jace goes back to Jenelle’s house again. “You hear that, Jace?” Jenelle asks. He has heard the entire argument because he’s been in the backseat the whole time. Poor kid. David gets back in the car and of course has to get a word in. “He needs to be in a more stable environment,” David snarls. “He needs to be in a more stable environment,” Jenelle repeats to Babs before quickly saying bye and hanging up. They’re right, he does need to be in a more stable environment – he needs to not be around David or Jenelle when she’s under David’s influence.
Corey plays teeball with the girlses while Leah dishes with friend Kayla over froyo. Leah got the new custody order, which grants 50/50 custody to her and Corey. I thought that’s what the original order said, but she seems satisfied. She recognizes that it was Corey’s lawyer who was pushing to have the language in the order changed from “joint custodian,” so she’s cool with Corey (for now). Kayla asks about the video situation and Leah said it turned out to be a good conversation. She throws a little shade, blaming Corey for misinterpreting what she said, but everyone agreed that the most important issue was addressing how Ali felt.
Leah’s on cloud nine after finally resolving custody with Corey, being in a good place with him and Jeremy, and reaching her one year anniversary out of treatment, so she’s going to throw a BBQ at her house to celebrate.
Later, Leah sees on Facebook that Jeremy’s in a relationship with a girl named Brooke, whom he dated right after they divorced. She’s a single mom with a little girl and Leah decides she won’t disrespect Brooke the way she disrespected Miranda. Obviously, Leah still has room for improvement, but this is a good indication that she’s maturing. When she drops Addie off with Jeremy, she introduces herself to Brooke, is very cordial, and leaves without incident. Hopefully she can keep this up!
The day of the cookout, Jeremy texts Leah that he dropped Addie off with his mom because he had to pick up Brooke’s daughter. Leah’s pissed. Addie only gets to spend so much time with the twins before they go to Corey’s house. She says Jeremy needs to stop worrying about someone else’s daughter and worry about his own. Leah’s sister starts to get the crazy rage eyes, but Leah decides she’s not going to let this ruin anything. Her sister calms down and offers to pick Addie up.
Leah tells her brother-in-law about all the improvement she’s made over the past year and recalls times when she just wanted to give up. But thinking of those three little girlses’ faces forced her to push through. Before the twins leave for their daddy’s house, Leah sits with all three girls making s’mores together and tells them how much she loves them.
Chelsea hangs out with her friend Britnee for an Adam-bashing sesh. She hasn’t heard from him, but she has heard from his lawyer, who offered a settlement close to what the child support referee had recommended. Chelsea agreed to settle and is relieved to be done with court for a while. Unfortunately, she’ll always have Adam in her life. He has been posting about the child support situation on social media, saying “I guess she needs the money.” Chelsea points out that the child support is not for her, it’s for Aubree, and it’s not like he pays it anyway, so he should STFU. She also adds he’s a narcissist, victim, and hasn’t grown up. Agreed.
Chelsea’s content – the child support matter is settled and she can move on with her piggy and her man and, eventually, her house full of babies. On a lunch date with Cole, they talk about exactly how full that house will be. Chelsea wants seven! Cole’s thinking three is enough.
Later, Cole’s ring arrives in the mail. He’s loves it and Chelsea knew it would be perfect for him. It’s made of antlers, gold, and wood and fits right in with Chelsea’s lumberjack wardrobe. They joke about Pete the Pig being the ring bearer, who walks around with the ring box on his back. He’s perfect for the job! When Aubree comes home from Adam’s parents’ house, she gives her approval of Cole’s ring. Turns out, she’s going to be Chelsea’s maid of honor and she’ll walk down the aisle with Cole. So cute. The three give each other a big hug and Aubree tells Chelsea and Cole she loves them.
Kail FaceTimes Javi and unenthusiastically asks how his day was. He has nothing interesting to tell her about, so she fills him in on her trip to New York. She warns him that things are going to change a little bit. Everything has been about Javi’s career, but now it’s her turn to focus on her career, she asserts rather aggressively. “I’ve been thinking about where my professional goals are going to take us — take me.” The shift of focus to herself is telling. Javi reminds her that she has to think about their whole family, but she’s on her own path and Javi can either tag along or take a hike.
Kail, who leading up to the deployment repeatedly said it would be no big deal, has decided that it’s been harder than either of them had imagined and questions whether they’re strong enough to last. Javi says they need to decide if they’re willing to give each other everything to make it work, because right now they’re just going through the motions. He also wants to feel like a priority in Kail’s life. Kail admits she has struggled with making him a priority because of the miscarriage. She didn’t have much time to process it and hearing that he blamed her for it right before he left made it that much worse. Javi says they need to make a decision on what to do because if things go back to the way they were when he gets home, the marriage will not work.
Later, Kail, Jo, Vee and the kids are playing at a bounce house. It seems like the co-parenting triangle has been rebuilt. Isaac says he misses Javi, but at least there are six of us. Kail points out that there are three boys and three girls and Isaac notes that when Javi gets home there will be four boys and three girls. Don’t bank on that, kiddo.
The next day at Kail’s house, she tells her friend that she and Javi got into a huge fight the night before over having more kids. She feels like a single mom with Javi gone and when he gets home, she wants to focus on her career. It’s not realistic to have a third baby right now and, besides, things haven’t been good with Javi and she doesn’t want to bring a kid into that situation. But Javi doesn’t want to stay with Kail if she’s not willing to have more kids. She claims to not want a divorce, mainly for the sake of her kids. However, it’s more important for them to see her happy and supporting herself as a single mom than in an unhealthy, unstable relationship.
Kail rounds up the boys and they FaceTime Javi. Isaac rats out Lincoln for being bad today. That kid’s a live wire and I love it, puta. The boys fight for the phone a little bit before Kail sends them upstairs. Javi thinks he and Kail have cleared the air after deciding they have no future. He wants more kids and if he stays with her, he’ll resent her forever if she doesn’t change her mind. This sounds like a complete bullshit excuse to me. If they didn’t already have a kid, I would understand Javi’s position, but he has his own biological kid, he’s helping to raise Isaac, and Kail didn’t say she NEVER wants another baby, she just doesn’t want one right now. If they wanted to be together, they could make this work. I think Javi just wants an easy way out that he can blame on Kail. Then he tells her they need to decide if they’re going to get divorced now or wait until he gets back. He offers to have his dad pick up his stuff so he doesn’t even need to come back to the house. It’s left unresolved for now, but we’ll see how this played out on the reunion show.
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Big Brother 18 cast members, and future hopeful Houseguests, should listen up to some great advice being dished out by season 17 winner Steve Moses. The unlikely ‘hero’ of last season, Moses has a lot to say about how to play the game to get to the finale, especially when it comes to make decisions based on your ‘heart’ versus your ‘head’.
In an exclusive interview with our friends at BigBrotherNetwork.com, Steve Moses urges the new Big Brother 18 cast to “take every last drop out of the experience, and enjoy each individual part as much as you can.” However, he cautions those hoping for fame and fortune from their time on Big Brother not to burn any bridges back home before they step into the house.
“You need to be ready to come back to the same life you’re leaving,” Moses says. “Stay on good terms with your employer or university; you’ll need them again in a few months… It’s all very fleeting, so it is essential that you get each last drop of enjoyment you can out of the experience. It will be over before you know it.”
One of the most important bits of advice Moses has for current and future Houseguests is to “never make a game decision based on your personal feelings.” Instead, he says players have to focus solely on what moves are going to give them the “best odds of going furthest” in the game. He also urges Houseguests to approach Big Brother in a way that plays on their strengths, and avoids their weaknesses.
“For example, I was an engineering student, and I was comfortable with logic and probability,” Moses tells BBN. So he worked hard at making strategic decisions and winning intellectual challenges. However, he is “bad at holding small talk, and I’m not very charismatic in a dialogue,” so he wasn’t going to do well if he tried to manipulate and persuade people in the game directly. “Think about what you do in your life,” he says, “and what skills it would translate to in the game.”
For the full interview with Steve Moses and all of his awesome insight into playing the game, head on over to BigBrotherNetwork.com for more.
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Only on Real Housewives could a lake house turn out to be a palatial mansion, and a trip to the Four Seasons be all your worst high school nightmares. On last night’s Real Housewives of Dallas, the ladies traveled to Austin for a birthday weekend only to end up the subject of their own horror story – narrated by LeeAnne Locken, of course! Is LeeAnne the new Danielle Staub, or what?!
Since Cary Deuber, Stephanie Hollman, and LeeAnne all have similar birthdays, the weekend is supposed to be a three-way birthday bash to hopefully mend fences. Oh, it was a bash alright!
Stephanie has apprehensions that Brandi Redmond blindly followed her Lord Jesus Juice when she invited LeeAnne and Tiffany Hendra to their lake house. Stephanie and Brandi’s husbands built the house together, so their families co-own it. I think Brandi and Stephanie are cute. I love their genuine friendship and that their families are so close. Also, Stephanie grows on me weekly – she’s far from ditzy, but instead is insightful and holds her words until she’s thought through what she wants to say.
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Cary isn’t thrilled about having to spend the weekend with LeeAnne, who is spreading rumors that Cary stole Mark from his first wife. Cary decides LeeAnne must be jealous she didn’t get her mitts on Mark first – after all, he’s Cary’s chef, personal shopper, organizer, and sex slave so who wouldn’t want him?! #ME
Everyone mutually and subconsciously decides the best way to handle the trepidatious trip is with tons of booze and junk food. So, on the bus to Standi’s house they go! With all the champagne and gossip flowing it’s only natural that someone’s gotta go (Only No. 1 thank God!) – that someone is Brandi, who decides to pee in a solo cup while Cary holds up a blanket. Why can’t they stop?! LeeAnne sneers that Brandi is disgusting. So Brandi ebulliently reminds LeeAnne of that time she pooped in a bag while riding in a car! Shit in a bag is the new d–k in a box, apparently!
LeeAnne is livid, especially when Brandi reveals she and Stephanie heard the story by-proxy from Marie Reyes. LeeAnne doesn’t react in the moment – she’d prefer to watch her victims squirm, then savor her kill, (or Carnie-style gut). Marie is ready to shit her own pants after being exposed, but denies repeating the story. However, according to LeeAnne and Tiffany, only three people know it: LeeAnne, Tiffany, and… duh, duh, duh – MARIE!
So, you may be wondering how it happened that LeeAnne pooped in a bag!? LeeAnne decided to take a laxative before her birthday party to squeeze into a dress, but after a few drinks her bowels got as loose as her lips, so she wound up pooing in the back of a car, into said bag. AGAIN – CAN THESE PEOPLE NOT PULL OVER?! To the group, LeeAnne denies the story, claiming it’s scientifically and gravitationally impossible to aim poop into a bag while riding in a car. I don’t need the details!
At the lake house, which turns out not to be a lake house, but a big ole’ mansion LeeAnne is still fuming over PoopGate, which has Tiffany consoling her and Marie hovering anxiously like everything is fine, hoping LeeAnne will decide to let it go for the sake of the weekend.
Meanwhile, Brandi, predictably, is obsessed with the PoopGate. Eventually, after consuming more booze, Brandi decides LeeAnne and Tiffany are good drinking buddies and empathetic souls so she shares that her brother is back in the hospital. He’s suffering from PTSD, something LeeAnne can relate to because Rich, a police officer, also has it. LeeAnne actually behaved like a good and compassionate friend to Brandi. I think LeeAnne collects wounded people because she recognizes, on some level, she can manipulate them.
Likewise, LeeAnne must always have a target – a vendetta to cast her evil eye – and she chooses someone who seems powerful, but not so powerful she’d lose a vital ally (See: Dillon, Heidi). Since LeeAnne’s gotten into Brandi’s fun pants, all her ire turns to Cary. LeeAnne insists judgmental Cary is trying to destroy her. Over dinner, while the ladies are sharing, Cary admits she’s slow to let people in. LeeAnne immediately accuses her of judging others. Luckily, everyone ignores LeeAnne’s antics, because the personal chef is hot and Brandi is so drunk she decides to perform a back roll across the table.
Then, everyone heads off to bed … or so it seems.
They are awakened by a scream in the dark. Then a crash and some bangs. Followed by tears and shrieks. Cary grabs her phone to record the evidence … of LeeAnne eviscerating Marie over PoopGate. LeeAnne threatened to “gut” Marie and was slamming knives around and pointing them. Did anyone call 9-1-1? Nope, instead they lurked in stairwells recording LeeAnne’s rampage, or cowered under the covers. LeeAnne was so loud she awoke Brandi from her drunk coma, yet the next morning, Tiffany claims she slept through the entire thing.
Over breakfast, a shell-shocked Marie just wants to avoid the situation, but Tiffany encourages LeeAnne to confront Marie – calmly – about feeling betrayed and hurt that her friend repeated LeeAnne’s embarrassing moment publicly. Of course, this being LeeAnne, she blames the entire outburst on her childhood: She doesn’t do hurt, she does pain and blah, blah, blah… she is only human and was forced to react the only way a wounded and abandoned child can – by lashing out. Plus, they’re only words and words can’t hurt! Which is why LeeAnne was devastated by Marie repeating the poop story, right?!
LeeAnne needs to cut this bullshit (pun intended). Her childhood – of which there are sooo many conflicting stories (was she an abused carny kid or was she rescued by her grandmother into a safe and loving home at age 3?) told directly from the horses mouth – is an excuse to get away with bullying, aggressive, deranged behavior! We see you – so do Stephanie and Cary.
The other ladies are shocked and finally decide they have to confront LeeAnne. While LeeAnne is glowering over Marie – this is her in calm reflective “let’s talk” mode – Cary, Stephanie, and Brandi troop into the kitchen. Brandi is disappointed – she really wanted to like LeeAnne and saw a different side of her, but unfortunately it’s always Mrs. Charity Vs. The Carny Kid with LeeAnne’s personalities!
Cary and Stephanie don’t mince words telling LeeAnne her behavior was inappropriate, frightening, and completely unacceptable. Stephanie, a former social worker, calls LeeAnne’s toxic behavior abusive, and she wouldn’t even let her clients speak to her like that. LeaAnne denies threatening Marie, because, to her, “kill” and “gut” mean “cut someone out of your life.” So what does waving a knife mean? #LeeAnntionary
Cary asks Marie how she interprets LeeAnne’s words. With LeeAnne staring her down, a shell-shocked Marie at first mumbles she knows LeeAnne was just angry, while LeeAnne nods at her good little obeying minion, but Cary pushes and Marie admits she felt threatened. Tiffany vehemently defends LeeAnne, and insists she was just using colorful language and vivid adverbs to express herself the only way she knows how. LeeAnne’s passionate, y’all!
LeeAnne then blames Cary’s meddling as the reason the women are turning against her. Of course. Cause that makes sense. “I’m only a person,” she seethes, comparing herself to Jesus being nailed to the cross and persecuted. For threatening people? For people overhearing those threats? Someone’s been sippin’ on too much Jesus Juice!
LeeAnne storms outside to call a cab to escape the mean girls. Tiffany, LeeAnne’s omnipresent babysitter and LeeAnne Mess Vacuum filter, stands by her side while LeeAnne rants that all she did was yell at someone, while Cary stole another woman’s husband. Tiffany suggests LeeAnne bring that up. OK – NO! LeeAnne is projecting and trying to push focus onto Cary to detract her own insane behavior. For Tiffany to enable and go along with LeeAnne’s seedy plan to then make this about Cary is equally deranged. Tiffany needs to extract herself from the co-dependent tentacles of this so-called friendship because she has sold her soul to the evil fortune teller at the carnival!
Stephanie recognizes that LeeAnne abuses Tiffany and Marie by making their friendship a vicious cycle of being afraid of LeeAnne’s wrath while coveting her “good time” love. Tiffany is LeeAnne’s mouth, eager to defend her and say whatever LeeAnne wants her to – lies or not. Marie is all too willing to literally ‘take it up the a$$,’ then beg for LeeANne’s approval that it was OK. It is sick.
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Brandi rationalizes that LeeAnne’s behavior, while awful, was motivated by hurt so she encourages LeeAnne to stay and work through the situation with the ladies. It doesn’t take long for Brandi to get out from under LeeAnne’s temporary spell, though – the cleansing spa treatments did the trick. And with that it’s time for the Four Seasons. Yaaaaay, said not a lady in attendance.
It turns out, Stephanie’s description of LeeAnne and Marie’s friendship is correct, because as soon as the other ladies aren’t looking, Marie tip-toes right back to LeeAnne to grovel and plead for forgiveness. Through her tears she begs for a hug. Cary vows to stay out of the dysfunction junction that is the caboose of what was supposed to be the birthday fun train, but even massages, facials, and manis can’t strip away the dirt LeeAnne mucked up.
Over dinner, the three birthday girls sit all in a row. One little piggy stewed silently daring anyone to reproach her or say boo. That little piggy turned into the big bad wolf who swore she’d blow all their houses down if they didn’t let her through the door and play by her rules. But two little piggies had not one, but two big brick houses and they had each other for strength, and one little piggy brandished a secret knife that was her sharp mind – so they weren’t afraid. And the other little piggy had scalpels and an operating table – all the better to dig in deep and see what’s underneath. And it ain’t beauty she found.
LeeAnne sulked silently at dinner, elbows on the table and hunched over the food she shoveled into her mouth. Cause classy socialite! Then LeeAnne interrupted the pleasant conversation to invite Tiffany to a last-minte charity function and Cary reproached her to put her phone away the way a mom would take a teenager to task. That was, of course, one of LeeAnne’s many, many, MANY buttons. This is all Cary being judgmental and LeeAnne being her victim.
Brandi wants to know why Tiffany always defends LeeAnne instead of forming her own opinions. Tiffany denies hearing LeeAnne’s outburst – which no one believes – and rambles about walking in others shoes to see their hearts. Brandi tells Tiffany to stop talking in circles and walk in her own shoes – considerably more comfortable flats compared to LeeAnne’s crazy clown shoes which don’t fit, look ridiculous, and are just a prop. Tiffany snaps that Brandi isn’t capable of comprehending her, so she has to “talk down on a level” which someone stupid can understand. Brandi, offended, leaves the table as Tiffany lectures everyone about having friends who bring her up. Stephanie asks if Tiffany is seriously putting LEEANNE into that category. “Let’s call a spade a spade,” she snaps, leaving the table to check on Brandi.
Tiffany complains that no one understands the depth of the love she and LeeAnne share. GAG me. And gag Cary too – she decides dinner is over and everyone should just go to sleep. And hopefully this time everyone will stay asleep and no one will be gutted with a broken wine glass under the full moon.
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