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It’s a week of milestones for the ladies of Real Housewives of New Jersey as they celebrated proms, graduations, and birthdays galore.
Teresa Giudice sent Gia off to prom wearing lots of shiny, sparkly makeup. Cause obviously no Giudice is compete with out an orange glow! Gia at prom though – what an OMG moment! Is she really this grown up?!
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Gia has literally lived a lifetime on Bravo, and she seems to be the only level-headed, adult member of the Juicy clan, so at least Teresa has done that right. Gia looked lovely and happy. Sadly her dad Joe wasn’t there as he lingers in prison pumping iron.
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Dolores Catania‘s son Frankie also went to his senior prom where it appears he kept his shirt on and wore a suit. Then the entire family headed to University of Delaware to watch Dolores’ daughter Gabby graduate. Congrats.
Siggy Flicker‘s beloved obsession Joshua escaped her clutches and managed to sneak his girlfriend out. No doubt Siggy cried, chased the limo down the driveway waving a hanky, and then threw herself on the ground in a fit of bawling because her Joshy is grown up and left her alone with only wine for consolation.
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Siggy had her own big event to celebrate – her birthday – and Dolores posted a gushing tribute to her BFF and RHONJ savior.
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TELL US – CAN YOU BELIEVE OUR GIA IS SO GROWN UP?! DO YOU THINK SIGGY CRIED OVER JOSHUA GOING TO PROM?
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Phaedra Parks‘ divorce from Apollo Nida is far from over, but her love for him sure got a proper Phuneral By Phaedra. With her Real Housewives Of Atlanta career also dead, Phaedra is moving on and opening up about her complicated divorce process and being a single mom.
Of course, just when Phaedra is emotionally done with all things Apollo, she’s forced to confront him again in court with a re-divorce. “[The divorce] was finalized last year in July so of course that obviously made me assume I had regained my independence and a new start,” she admits. “So to be placed back into a position where I have to do it all over again … it’s disheartening, but it’s a process and I can’t obviously change it.”
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Phaedra has “made some motions” to contest Apollo’s claim that he was blindsided by the divorce filing and his recent request to have their prenup considered invalid because it was signed before Phaedra was earning a Real Housewives paycheck.
Phaedra denies that Apollo was ever “out of the loop,” insisting, “He was very active throughout the process.”
I believe the only reason Apollo is fighting for more money is because he owes more than $2 million in restitution, but considering the he’s not contributing any child support while locked up, you would think he’d be gracious about the whole thing. This seems to have been his plan all along. Lie down with criminals, wake up conned I suppose!
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Being “basically at the beginning part of the divorce” again is “very frustrating” for Phaedra. “It’s very expensive, it’s very emotionally draining and quite time consuming. It’s a very difficult process and it’s unfortunate that it was overturned but it is what it is and so I’ll go through the process again and we’ll see what happens this time.”
Phaedra adds, “Hopefully it won’t take as long as it did the first time.”
In other Apollo news, recently he’s been out of contact with their sons because he’s reportedly in solitary confinement. Perhaps he’s saving those phone calls for his new fiancé Sherien Almufti?! Ayden and Dylan’s relationship with Apollo has certainly suffered from his incarceration. Phaedra reminds us that Dylan “was barely a year old” when Apollo went asunder “so he doesn’t really have the recollection of Apollo like Ayden has.”
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“Ayden of course has very fond memories of his father,” Phaedra tells Us Weekly. “He realizes that he’s in New Jersey, but as far as specifically, Apollo told them, but I don’t think they appreciate really what being incarcerated means. Because they are at such a tender age, that’s not something I’m really honing in on.”
Phaedra is considering bringing the boys to visit Apollo this summer but hasn’t committed.
For sure, though, Phaedra is returning to Flint, MI, for another year of her summer camp, but this time she’s taking the boys with her instead of Kenya. They’re also taking trips to Florida; Utah, to see some national parks; Arizona, for the Grand Canyon; and Italy for a week. Oh… how the other half lives… the Real Housewife half that is!
TELL US – DID APOLLO DO THE RIGHT THING IN CONTESTING THE DIVORCE? DO YOU FEEL SORRY FOR PHAEDRA?
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This week, Real Housewives of Potomac showcased a fight between Ashley Darby and her husband Michael Darby.
When he failed to support her plan for a more American-friendly menu for their struggling Australian-themed restaurant Oz, Ashley told Michael she was sick of him treating her like a child instead of an equal partner. Then she threatened to leave him. In her blog, Ashley admits that she should have given Michael more notice about her plans for the menu reveal event. “It was the beginning of a miscommunication that snowballed,” says Ashley.
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Ashley explains, “I assumed Michael would agree and we would have a killer event that would prove all of the naysayers wrong. In hindsight, I could have taken a different approach and discussed my rationale for planning the dinner with Michael further in advance.”
About the fight in the parking lot, she shares, “The air between Michael and me was already sour because we had been going back and forth on the logistics of the evening for a couple of days. In addition to the anxiety of hosting influential food bloggers, I was arguing with my right-hand man, putting my anxiety at a higher level than I’ve ever experienced. I hate arguing with my husband – life is hard enough game without battling your teammate. Because both of us care about Oz so much, it was hard to go into the night without our usual solid foundation.”
Ashley acknowledges that both she and Michael are guilty of having “egos that get in the way” of their relationship.
“And on that night my bruised ego caused me to say horrible things to the man that I love. I winced when I heard myself talk about massaging his feet and rubbing his back – those are the two things I miss doing the most since we shifted our focus and energy to the restaurant. As the night went on, I think our shared love for our first ‘baby’ brought our relationship back into focus. It pains me to see that we ever got to that point, but neither of us is perfect, and neither is our relationship. What it boils down to is, finding our unity even through this storm, and we are a constant work in progress.”
About apologizing to Charrisse, she insists, “I am genuinely sorry to Charrisse Jackson Jordan. In my anxiety I misdirected my anger toward her when I needed to concentrate on what was actually bothering me – the frustration of finding balance and peace in my personal life.”
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“Part of the experience of being a Real Housewife is being able to see yourself for who you truly are because we share the intimate details of our lives with the world,” reflects Ashley. “These ladies are on the journey with me, so I want to aim to help them understand me as best I possibly can. I give them my true self – they can take it how they please.”
Ashley admits in her blog that threatening to leave Michael was a knee jerk reaction – one that she didn’t mean – to their fight.
“That ultimatum came out of a paramount amount of frustration. Michael and I had gone through ebbs and flows with the restaurant up to that point, so I was not in a good space. Even though I was upset, it was not prudent for me to say something as drastic as threatening to end my marriage because of a business. One of the things I am working on (with the help of a professional) is saying what I actually feel versus what I think will get the most reaction. My true feelings are far more important than leaving a mark.”
In the end, Ashley says that Oz is in a much better place these days, but sadly, her marriage is still a work in progress.
“Oz is doing much better now that we have found our groove, but we are still working through the toll it took on our relationship. I would be lying to you if I said we were back to the crazy, doting couple we used to be. We still love each other and the connection that Michael and I share is very powerful. I am optimistic that we can overcome these hurdles and be stronger in the end, but even if we can’t recover and decide to part ways, I will always cherish him.”
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On last night’s Second Wives Club, a gobsmacked Veronika Obeng continued to wrestle over what to do with her marriage, Shawna Craig was the girl who cried broke and couldn’t afford more head shots, and Tania Mehra tried repair all the relationships she sunk.
In Katie Cazrola‘s world, she refuses to be Walter’s trophy wife, because she actually wants to be his sugar mama! Walter is on board with this: he’ll sit home tinkering on his piano with big dreams of making it in music, while Katie runs two successful businesses and pays the bills.
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After last week’s disaster with Hi Societea, Katie is refocused, and contrary to Tania’s accusations that she doesn’t do modeling or TV, Katie films an appearance promoting her nail salon and nail polish collection. Wearing a bike helmet festooned with Christmas decorations,while running an obstacle course, Katie shows off her”Red Bottoms Up” nails. That color reflects the after affects of Katie’s wine consumption. Of course it’s better than ‘In The Red’, which is where her finances stood while she was living in her car.
Which is kinda where Shawna is finding herself these days. After her first attempt at head shots were dismissed by her agent he’s demanding new ones, except with no job except being Lorenzo’s fourth trophy wife – the one left over after all the alimony has been consumed – Shawna can’t afford them. Like the chicken or the egg – does the head shot or the acting job come first? Lorenzo is off in Vegas, and he resents that his wife is trying to live his failed dreams in LA. He expects her to get a job and contribute to building their house.
Instead Shawna has been gathering sticks and trying to make a little home away from Lorenzo, but he huffs and puffs and demands she run all the way home and blow her dreams down. Shawna isn’t ready to give up. So she’ll cry into her FroYo until someone else comes along and saves her. Might that be Morisa Surrey with her magical chicken burritos? Made with breastmilk?! I mean honestly what was that woman even doing?
At Shawna’s “crash pad” she and Tania were lamenting that no one likes Tania anymore and no one wants Shawna to win at head shots and life when Morisa shows up with “lunch”. She’s carrying a couple just pumped vials of mama’s milk and a grocery bag full of tortillas.
Meanwhile over at Shiva Safai‘s magical palace of magical realism, she and Mohamed enjoy a gorgeously arranged fruit salad sitting on the lanai at their formally-laid garden table. I personally think Mohamed should ditch Shiva and marry Pat Atschul. Those two are soul mates, but he hasn’t realized that yet as he gently dabs away the infinitesimal fleck of blueberry stuck in Shiva’s teeth.
Back to sad-reality, Morisa was inspired after learning to cook at Veronika’s BBQ and decides to make lunch. Which means dumping 10 tortillas in a frying pan, lighting every burner on the stove because she can’t find the the oven, then absentmindedly patting the tortillas with a spatula until they’re burned. It’s kind of a euphemism for Shawna’s life actually. I mean, Lorenzo has lived four fantasies and threw Shawna into the frying pan just when his life was starting to burn.
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I really don’t get Shawna – does she think she’ll get head shots and everyone will be like, look – a Unicorn! Give this girl a major motion picture and an Oscar?! Shawna is so desperate for money she jokes about getting on the pole. Tania shrugs like, Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! If the former Miss India Laguna Beach Mall can do it and find her prince Dean-ing anyone can. Except Katie… she doesn’t do runway. But it’s probably a recipe for success even Morisa could master, right?!
Ugh Tania. Tania recognizes she’s being iced out of the ‘good group’ and better fix things lest Shiva stop inviting her to fancy parties.
Well, let’s talk about Veronika for a while. Michael is avoiding her like she’s the one who cheated. Even weirder, Michael hopes to save the marriage and wants Veronika back . Yet the only thing he shows his wife is his backside as he scurries out the door for forever long hours at the ‘office.’ Veronika’s sisters chastise her for letting him get off easy. They expect her to handle this problem like Katie would, with a little wham, bam, poisoned manicure, ma’am! But Katie has her hands full – literally. She’s so busy she needs to hire another assistant, because her previous assistant turned into her office manager.
Walter suggests Katie search for a butler named “Fortisfoy,” who naturally comes attached to a little bell Katie could ring whenever the dog needs letting in or out, or the friends do. Maybe Shiva has a butler to spare? Katie and Walter yell “Fortisfoy” into the air – cause if you call them, they will come. But the halls of The Painted Nail remain barren of butlers. So Katie is reduced to putting an ad on Craigslist which yields such stellar results as a person who claims “philanthropy” on their resume, yet doesn’t know what philanthropy is.
Another candidate is an older woman who raps (from home) and is only applying in the hopes of getting free mani/pedis. Later, when Shawna comes over to bemoan that Lorenzo is grounding her for missing curfew, Katie takes it as sign to hire Shawna as her on-call personal assistant. Considering that Shawna can’t brush her hair, put on makeup, or find a cheap photographer on Facebook, and her only skills appear to be patting Lorenzo’s ego while marveling at amazing newfangled inventions such as the Range Rover, I wouldn’t trust her to manage anything of mine. Immediately Katie regrets her decision.
While Katie is perhaps pouring money down the drain when she expects Shawna to pour wine in her cup til it runneth over, Veronika goes to see a man abut some money. More specifically she goes to see a financial advisor about what her post-divorce life could look like. In the cold stark reality of black and white, she’s told that no, a $5,000 per month shopping budget is not “frugal” and that she’d need to earn $4 million per year to keep up with the Michael’s. Veronika doesn’t know if she can do med school online, so she decides to write music instead. After all, it worked for Walter! Maybe he could turn her into the next Mariah.
I love Walter! He’s so sweet and seems genuine, kind, and really fun. I think he and Katie are actually happy, which is nice.
Anyway, clutching her trusty composition notebook, Veronika tiptoes through Walter’s door for her first music lesson. Her nerves are all aflutter! Walter is patient and is basically like, you have to start by actually singing, but here have this cocktail until you figure out the basics of when mouth opens, loud sounds must come out. Kind of like yelling, only more genteel. Veronika vows to practice and practice she does – on Tania.
Oh Tania. A clueless one she is. Driving Dean’s Range Rover around L.A., she smiles that what’s his is theirs, and what’s hers…well she doesn’t have anything except her looks, so what’s hers is now everything that is his. And more! The only thing Tania doesn’t have is friends in high places.
Katie is still miffed that Tania belittled her success and complains to Veronika, who wants to avoid her troubles by hearing about someone else’s. Veronika informs Katie that if a homeless person called her “a junkie bitch,” she wouldn’t pay it any mind, so why care about a gold-digging THOT’s opinion of her nail empire? This reminds Katie of the time a homeless person thought she was Tori Spelling and Katie cried and cried and worried it might become true. Luckily it was Tania who snagged a Dean, not Katie – she got a Walter. Nevertheless, this PTSD flashback makes Katie feel worse and she accidentally reveals that Tania called Veronika “ratchet.”
Oops.
Later, while Veronika is visiting Shiva for perfectly arranged rosé, Tania calls to see if they can meet for chai to repair their friendship. Veronika only drinks coffee and doesn’t want Tania’s blessed day, but agrees to go anyway. Five seconds later, since she’s reading from a list of all the people she’s pissed off, Tania calls Shiva and recites the same invitation word for word: “chai, blessed day, positive energy, yada, yada, yada… ” Shiva accepts under the provision that Tania keep her hands where Shiva can see them and lets her do all the talking. Shiva does drink chai, but she doesn’t speak classless.
Then Tania wanders over to Katie’s office, where she witnesses Katie doing something Tania’s never seen before: work. Tania assumed Katie sat in that place all day online shopping and snapping selfies. What’s Walter’s is not Katie’s – by choice! Katie is not pleased by the unwelcome intrusion – where is Fortisfoy to keep the riffraff out?! But she and Tania manage to talk out what happened on the boat ride. Tania claims she misspoke, meaning that she and Katie are simply in different industries, not that Katie is an unskilled model who can’t possibly relate to the world of Paris Couture week.
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With one successful confrontation down, Tania meets Veronika for a walk but things, well, things go very, very badly. Within minutes, they’re yelling on a street corner about who’s more ratchet. Tania throws Veronika’s failing marriage in her face and accuses her of being jealous that she’s getting married. “To a D-list producer from the 80’s,” shoots back Veronika.
Somehow Tania has looked up Veronika’s real estate records and mocks her for owning only a $1.5 million dollar home. Veronika reminds Tania that she sleeps in a 1Br apartment, while she owns multiple homes. The nasty insults fly until Veronika decides to hightail it back to Bel Air and off these ratchet streets with their bad influences. She shoves her hand in Tania’s face to ward off evil, turns on her sparkly platform sneakers, and runs for the hills. Literally.
You are the company you keep, and Veronika doesn’t want to be keeping company with anyone who compares her to a yappy dog and reduces her to verbal brawling over frappuccinos! Well Tania, better luck with Shiva, I suppose!
TELL US – DID KATIE MAKE A MISTAKE HIRING SHAWNA? IS VERONIKA OVER-REACTING TO TANIA?
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The tension between Ramona Singer and Bethenny Frankel has been lingering for most of this Real Housewives of New York season. It pretty much all stems from when Ramona asked Bethenny if her six-year-old daughter was aware of a topless scene she did in a movie. Ever since then, Bethenny has wanted nothing to do with her…. other than the events they’re contractually obligated to attend as cast members of the same reality show.
Bethenny has been doing her best to pretend that Ramona doesn’t exist and Ramona mistook the (initial) lack of arguing as an indication of peace. Of all people to teach Ramona to be self-aware, it was Sonja Morgan who pointed out that Bethenny was still very mad at Ramona and then the episode ended on a cliff hanger with Bethenny and Ramona screaming at each other. This means that the feud will continue for the entire season at least another episode.
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Aside from priding herself on being a self-proclaimed older version of Cameron Diaz, a brilliant businesswoman, and an expert dater, Ramona considers herself to be a top notch friend and expressed her dismay about Bethenny’s comments for her last Bravo blog entry.
Ramona complained, “Wow, Wow! Really, really? Are you kidding me, Bethenny? How can you even say that I have not been a good friend? Totally shocked that you actually think that, let alone say that!” I mean clearly she was shocked. She asked “Are you kidding me?” 934938439483985 times during the end of that last episode.
Ramona claimed, “At least I know that from the bottom of my heart, I have tried. You shut me out and shut me down. You said that there was an elephant in the room? Behind my back you talk about me being crazy and creepy and that I was coming into your space?”
Even by Ramona standards, she definitely seemed a little off during the episode to a point where almost all of her costars questioned her behavior during the on-camera interviews.
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Refusing to take Bethenny’s criticism, Ramona dished it back at her: “Well maybe you were the one who wasn’t a good friend. Maybe you were the one that closes the doors on people, and I react.”
Ramona continued, “I own up to everything I am. You all tease me and call me The Apologizer. I take it all! You don’t see me shutting people out. And I am not apologizing!”
She preached, “I know who I am. I love who I am, and people who really know me love me.” And after several seasons of shitting on Sonja for no reason, Ramona suddenly cites her as a best friend reference: “As Sonja said, we roll with it. I look at life in a positive way! So does Sonja, which is why we have our forever special connection.” Does this “forever special connection” include constantly judging everything Sonja does, or is that irrelevant while the focus is on this Bethenny feud?
Ramona summed it all up: “The Berkshires sure brings out the strangest things in all of us!” That’s for sure. Poor Dorinda Medley’s dinner party got ruined again. I have no idea why she keeps inviting these people back to her home… other than the story lines.
TELL US – WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON: RAMONA’S OR BETHENNY’S? DO YOU THINK RAMONA IS A GOOD FRIEND?
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Ariana Grande's One Love concert is coming to the United States. The benefit concert, airing Sunday, June 4, will air on ABC and Freeform in the United States. The anchors on Good Morning...Terra Jole’s blog this week makes about as much sense as my Twitter feed, which is to say, none at all. In an attempt to disparage Christy McGinity Gibel once again for making a video years ago in which she lip synced to a spoof song using the word “midget,” Terra has been roundly called out far and wide for her own past appearances on film and TV in which she embraced the “midget” persona as well. Yet now, the Little Women: LA star claims Christy is still vile, offensive, and wrong for making a buck while Terra is totally justified in her dubious choices.
First, Terra discusses her book title, Fierce At Four Foot Two, which caused some drama among the ladies. Briana Renee (egged on by Jasmine Sorge), self described “fierce mama” on social media, may feel like Terra is stepping on her toes, and her “word.”
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Terra wonders, “How can someone claim an adjective? I’m lost as to why Jasmine is constantly fighting other people’s battles. Briana is also the farthest thing from fierce! Her hashtag should be #littletimidmama or #lilconfidencemama.”
Claiming that she never thought Christy would sign a book release (which would allow Terra to publish stories about Christy in her tell-all), Terra justifies, “That’s why I felt it was imperative to call her out on all of her hypocritical behavior.”
Then Terra breaks down the list of reasons why she is totally different than Christy! And why her brushes with the “m” word in past gigs don’t make her a bad person at all! But Christy’s use of the same word makes her garbage!!! <eye roll>
Seriously. Here is the list.
Terra concludes, “The word “midget” is extremely offensive to me and I will always stand up for what I believe in.”
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So, let’s get this straight. Terra can earn a paycheck in whatever way she’s sees fit, and if anyone questions her on it, she can freely defend herself. But if Christy earns money in similar ways, she is forever deemed a terrible person who hates herself and the entire little people community? Okay. Got it.
Terra also calls out what she sees as Jasmine’s hypocrisy, noting, “Jasmine gets upset that I bring up the crude Christy video to all of the girls, yet she’s starting battles that Briana wasn’t even attempting to fight without her confidence booster, Jasmine, by her side. The hypocrisy!”
Finally, in her sit-down with Briana, Terra served up some hard truths to the wannabe model. In her People blog, Terra says Briana needs to stop feeling bad for herself.
Terra snarks, “Let’s cut through the crap. There have been multiple times that Briana was able to sing on Little Women: LA. One time she knew about her singing event weeks in advance, and yet she said that she decided to write this song in her car on the way to the event. (In the car, really?) She’s never prepared no matter how many opportunities are given to her. I think it’s safe to say that talent without hard work equals d—. You’re never going to be handed opportunities, you have to work for opportunities.”
Well, if there’s one point I can agree on with Terra, it’s definitely that one. The Christy stuff, though? Horse manure.
TELL US: SHOULD TERRA LET THIS VIDEO THING DIE? DOES BRIANA HAVE PRIOR CLAIM ON THE WORD “FIERCE?”
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