There is a lot of great programming on Bravo aside from the Real Housewives franchise. Below Deck Mediterranean is going strong during its third season. Million Dollar Listing New York just started up again on Monday and the drama is already good.
Captain Sandy Yawn and Fredrik Eklund visited the Bravo clubhouse as Andy Cohen’s guests on Watch What Happens Live and there was a lot to discuss.
Andy asked Captain Sandy, “Is there a danger with making the guy in charge so young?” She explained, “Well, when you’re really young and you’re bossing someone around that’s older than you, that’s difficult. I’m not sure how much experience that Conrad [Empson] has, but you can see there was a little rivalry. I didn’t see it.” Of course she didn’t. They are all smart enough to hide their personal drama from the captain. Unfortunately for them, she gets to watch it all when the episodes air.
Andy hit Fredrik with a hard-hitting question: “What do you think of Steve Gold’s haircut? I like it. I was with him all day doing press for our new season and he’s so freaking handsome. He was sitting in the interviews, open showing his chest hair.” Andy interjected with a surprising comment: “He’s gotta calm down with the chest hair.”
Fredrik told Andy, “I mean, I like it. It’s different. He can’t be me and Ryan [Serhant]. It’s good to have someone different and he’s so freaking attractive.” Yes, he is. Andy said, “I agree, but he’s gotta button the shirt though.” Fredrik responded with, “I like it.” Same here. Steve Gold can pull off any look. Andy concluded, “It’s a little too much” and I can’t help wondering why Andy has such a strong opinion about something so inconsequential.
Andy asked Fredrik, “How do you and Derek [Kaplan] find time for romance?” Fredrik confessed, “Our sex life is actually really amazing.”
Fredrik elaborated, “There was a period right when they arrived where we were a little overwhelmed by life and them, but now it’s such a sexy thing seeing him with the kids. Him holding the babies is like… Like I said to you before, he’s getting hotter and hotter. He’s getting really good looking.”
Switching gears to Below Deck Mediterranean, Andy asked Captain Sandy, “Is it me, or are the guests tougher this season?” She admitted, “Honestly, I had no idea. I wish the crew would come to me and share this with me, but they don’t. So how can I help them?”
Then Captain Sandy addressed the budding romance between Conrad and Hannah. She said, “It’s not Hannah’s fault. He was just in Hannah Land and that was his demise.”
Andy switched back to Million Dollar Listing New York. He asked Fredrik to weigh in on the “joke” Steve made during the Season 7 premiere episode about Ryan’s employees leaving his company. Fredrik told Andy, ” I feel like I’m the old, sweet guy this season. I’m not bringing a lot of drama this season. I’m not fighting.” Fredrik added, “It feels good.”
Andy asked, “You’re just happy to be out of it, is what you’re saying?” Fredrik admitted, “Yeah.”
Steve may have thrown Ryan’s company under the bus, but Fredrik almost did the same thing to Ryan’s spin-off series Sell It Like Serhant. He was asked, “Have you watched Ryan’s new show and what do you think?” Without hesitation, he admitted, “I have not watched it.”
Andy joked, “Well, that’s kind of you.” Fredrik claimed, “I don’t watch a lot of TV.” Andy asked, “You had no curiosity about watching your costar?” Andy was really stirring the pot last night.
Fredrik said, “If Ryan’s watching this, I’m sorry. I’m going to watch it.” Andy told him, “No, you’re not.” Yikes.
A fan called in to ask Captain Sandy about the fight between João Franco and Hannah Ferrier on the bus. The viewer also wanted to know if Captain Sandy thought it was right for Hannah to play the chief stew card during the argument.
Captain Sandy said, “I think alcohol has a lot do with it, so I would think that no, neither one of them are correct. Hannah is a Chief Stew. She has a position. João is the Lead Deckhand and has a position. We don’t do that on a boat. There’s one hierarchy and that’s me: the captain.” You tell them, girl.
Andy pointed out, “You seem a little tougher this season.” She started to say, “I learned last season….” Andy cut her off and said, “You were very nice last season.”
Captain Sandy explained, “Yeah, but kindness isn’t a weakness. This year with Adam [Glick] and Hannah, I just wanted them to know that I was gonna keep an eye on them. I’m all about forgiveness and resetting, but there’s a point where you just go ‘enough’ and that’s where I am.”
A fan asked Fredrik, “What’s the hardest thing about working with Bethenny [Frankel]? Would you work with Bethenny in the future?” Fredrik said, “I honestly don’t think we’re gonna work together. We’re cool. We’re friends.” Then he looked at Andy and asked, “Why are you smiling so much?” Andy continued to smirk and said, “because.”
Fredrik concluded, “Her and I are cool. It was a lot. We had a lot of fun too. A lot of fun.” Emphasis on “a lot.”
TELL US- DO YOU THINK BETHENNY WOULD BE TOUGH TO WORK WITH? ARE YOU SURPRISE THAT FREDRIK DOESN’T THINK HE WILL END UP WORKING WITH HER AGAIN? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE CURRENT SEASONS OF MDLNY AND BELOW DECK MED SO FAR?
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It's time to let Hannah go. 13 Reasons Why is saying goodbye to Hannah Baker, with Katherine Langford exiting the hit Netflix drama ahead of its recently announced third season....
Excited for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom? Chances are that, even if you are, you're not nearly excited about the sequel's imminent release as Jimmy Fallon is. In honor of the...It is fair to say that Luann de Lesseps’ popularity is at an all-time high. Luann is more revered than ever before after her divorce, drunken arrest, and rehab stint.
It can be said that Luann made a “comeback,” but was she ever really down for the count? She just bounced back so quickly with the cabaret show and sobriety-induced weight loss. It really doesn’t seem like she ever missed a beat.
Luann has moved on pretty quickly since that divorce/arrest/rehab scandal, but she does have to relive it all when the Real Housewives of New York episodes air. The former countess reflected on her rough patch in a Bravo blog post.
Even though most of the cast is at odds these days, it does seem like they’re there for each other when it is most important. Luann wrote, “You really know who your true friends are when you are going through a rough time. The girls reached out to me after my arrest in various ways, from texts to phone calls, and I appreciated everything they did to make me feel better.”
Luann explained, “Palm Beach is a small town, and I found myself going to all the same places I went to with Tom. I was arrested at the same hotel where I had a brunch that concluded our wedding weekend. Although I knew before I left NYC that I hadn’t processed my emotions about my divorce, I didn’t seek professional help.”
She even admitted, “Instead, I was self-medicating to kill the pain…never a good idea! I hit a wall in Palm Beach, and the impact of my actions made me realize that I had better deal with my issues before I hurt someone or myself.” This is a far cry from the woman who was in a deep Tom-induced denial the last two seasons.
Luann wrote, “I know it’s weird to say this, but I’m incredibly thankful for what happened, because it made me come to a full stop so that I could take care of myself, which I was not doing.”
She emphasized, “Also, I’m truly sorry for what happened during my arrest, and I want everyone to know that I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Palm Beach police department and for all first responders.”
TELL US: DO YOU THINK LUANN IS TRULY SORRY FOR WHAT HAPPENED DURING HER ARREST?
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Uh oh. Bravo may be on the hook for airing footage they shouldn’t have, and in this case, they might have to pay up big time. On Flipping Out last season, Jeff Lewis and Gage Edward witnessed the birth of their baby girl, Monroe, via surrogate, Alexandra Trent. The birth itself was filmed, along with snide remarks from Jeff about Alexandra not “waxing” before the event, and Gage admitting he was freaked out at his first sighting of a woman’s vagina.
Now, a humiliated Alexandra claims she never consented to this footage being aired, and is suing Bravo for damages.
While Alexandra did agree to be featured on Flipping Out, she allegedly did not want the actual birth filmed. According to Variety, “the producers agreed to that condition, but then filmed it surreptitiously from behind a curtain” in the delivery room.
Although there were some tender moments filmed after Monroe’s birth, such as Gage whispering “Thank you” to Alexandra, the comments from Jeff during her labor left her “humiliated and distraught.” Alexandra claims to have not watched any of this footage until recently, after a “business associate” informed her about it.
RELATED: Jeff Lewis Discusses Shannon Beador’s Divorce
The lawsuit expresses outrage at Bravo for using Alexandra without her consent. It states, “In their quest for ratings, Defendants have deeply damaged Trent and have caused incredible anguish, self-loathing, contempt and depression.” The suit is accusing Bravo of “unlawful recording, invasion of privacy and fraud.”
Jeff also recently got himself in hot water with Bravo after talking to Real Housewives of Orange County’s Kelly Dodd. Apparently, Kelly spilled some hot tea about Vicki Gunvalson that Bravo was NOT too happy about. Jeff has also been reading David Beador’s private texts to Shannon Beador on the air in an effort to out David as, well, an a$$hole. (Shannon and Jeff have been long-time friends.)
Neither Bravo nor Jeff has offered comment on the recent lawsuit, but something tells me we’ll be seeing this play out in the media – or more specifically, on Jeff’s radio show. Many fans of Flipping Out were outraged at Jeff and Gage’s crass commentary during their surrogate’s labor and delivery. Despite Jeff’s flare for incendiary snark, they saw it at crossing the line.
Baby Monroe was born in 2016, with the footage of her birth airing in August of 2017.
TELL US: DOES THE SURROGATE HAVE A CASE? WHY IS SHE JUST NOW WATCHING FOOTAGE FROM LAST AUGUST?
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Last night’s Below Deck Mediterranean was a Las Vegas all you can eat buffet from guests who treated Adam Glick like a short-order cook instead of a professionally trained chef! (Have I ever felt bad for Adam before? Did he deserve it after last season’s blatant disregard of guests’ wants?)
Anyway, the whole thing made me glad my puny microwave is the only automatic chef in my house!
I get it. These people, led by “Honey“ (the name of a stripper whose act is ‘baby spice’), are hungry and they are hungry in a very specific way, like for TOASTED buns and French fries with their steak dinner (that’s pomme frittes to you, mister!), and I understand they become hangry if their food isn’t perfecto, but they needed to drop anchor on their overly-entitled gullets.
So, it’s Honey’s birthday. And it’s appropriate that someone who has presumably never internalized the expression “Money talks, wealth whispers” chooses to be incredibly rude and self-absorbed during her Great Gatsby-themed birthday party. First, it took Honey and her group FOUR hours to prepare for the so-called party, which was only attended by the 7 people in their group. Their magical costumes consisted of some cheapish looking prom gowns and Farrah Fawcett hair. Does not compute… I also noticed that one of the guests was wearing giant platform heels on board but Hannah Ferrier didn’t THROW herself, sobbing, on the shoes remembering the torturous night she spent scraping shoe marks from the carpet until she had blisters! BLISTERS!
While the guests were staring into their mirrors, telling themselves to search for the green light at the end of the dock where the fairest man around awaits them, Adam was waiting on dinner. And waiting… and waiting… and waiting… until it was after 11 pm and he had essentially stood around picking boogers into the truffle mac and cheese (I hope!). Hey, he said he was picking his nose!
Adam blames Hannah for not hurrying the guests up – like she should have stormed into their cabins making stabbing motions with a curling iron? Instead, Hannah revamped herself into a French maid who speaks Luann de Lesseps “française” and is wandering around wearing a giant feather on her head.
Brooke Laughton is frustrated – she went all out for this party and wrapped the table in a giant satin bedsheet before sprinkling it with jewels and giant sequined “G”s. I think Brooke was confusing Fifty Shades for The Great Gatsby. And her centerpieces, just like the food and the main character of these books, went unloved.
The guests finally sit down, ooh and ahh for 15 seconds, and immediately demand french fries! Cause they must find complaints to justify the puny tip we all know they plan to leave. But how ’bout the speed in which Adam produced those perfectly fried and crispy fries. I was drooling. No wonder he’s so good with the ladies. French fries are the way to my heart.
Since the guests needed to travel to Cache Boutique (remember that place?!) and back to procure their Gatsby outfits, and that whole time Adam had to babysit dinner, Captain Sandy Yawn ordered pizza for the crew, which makes Jaoa Franco cranky. Apparently, he doesn’t enjoy all the fresh pizza Italy has to offer and it’s ADAM’s job to cater to him and his whims… Just like Joao caters so well to Conrad Empson? Also, if Joao doesn’t get his way, Joao starts announcing that he should take over people’s jobs. So have it, bro!
Things go from french fries to french fires when the guests demand sparkler candles for Honey’s birthday cake, and Hannah, after 30 years under the sea as the chief stew to the wannabe stars, apparently doesn’t understand how fire alarms work. Although I was assuming an actual fire happened – like Hannah dropped a sparkler on the carpet where the synthetic fibers reacted badly with the acrid fragrance of dryer sheets and foie gras making the mess burst into flames. But no, in her delirium of serving people food for 15 hours Hannah just lit them inside and the alarms went off.
Captain Sandy LIT UP, as if there were a fire! She literally pulled Hannah from cake service to lecture her on how badly she f–ked up. The guests barely noticed – they just wanted their cake. However Honey mentally made a note to detract $1k from their tip for slow candle action and fire alarms ruining her birthday song.
On the positive, the crew was so exhausted from playing step and fetch all day they slept through the fire alarm. Even Kasey Cohen, because her arms ache from loading the washing machine over and over… with Hannah’s delicates. (psssttt.. Hannah if you have such particularities about your ‘designer’ wardrobe wash it yourself – you’re sounding like the guests you profess to hate!)
Finally at 3 am Hannah retires, but Brooke and Jamie Jason are forced to stay awake until 5 am cleaning up the tacky Gatsby detritus and probably eating the cold, stale French Fries. I’m sure they got BLISTERS!
The next morning Kasey is on breakfast duty, which you just know will be the equivalent of the sparkler candles lit inside a confined space with no ventilation. She is so befuddled by making a Bloody Mary, that even Google recipes can’t help her so she has Joao wake up Hannah for backup. In the meantime, Kasey deploys the pageant skills of thinking of convincing solutions to world problems on the spot with a smile and a nod and decides to pour some vodka into a glass of tomato juice in the hopes the guest is too hung over to notice. FAIL.
Why not ask ADAM? Who is literally standing 6 inches away. Hannah, groggy and dreaming of sparklers stabbing her in the back, is furious that her sleep was interrupted for two guests and one elementary cocktail (the other wanted a glass of cold water which took Kasey 15 minutes to ‘make’) because Kasey can’t read The Google.
Ergo Hannah decides Kasey disgusts her like puked up pizza from seasickness. Even worse, Hannah starts having suspicions that perhaps Kasey’s resume is as obviously phony as the color of her hair…
At least Sandy apologized for freaking out over the sparkler. Citing PTSD from a fire a few years back that almost ruined her career, Sandy panicked. No one has time to dwell, however, because The Veruca Salts of the high seas have 32,000 breakfast demands – including FRIED RICE! – and then they want all day water sports! They want it, and they want it NOW, Han-nah!
The guests spent the day in bucolic bliss, insisting that every water toy be deployed so they can then glance at it witheringly, then rejected it while screaming “SPRITE” from the middle of the ocean. This requires Brooke to actually wade out to sea with a tray of drinks. That must become an American’s gladiator’s challenge!
Brooke, who is usually one emotion short of any sort of personality, is less reactively dull than usual as she monotones that she’s super upset about missing her sister’s wedding. No wonder she is feeling all sorts of “somebody PLEASE love me!” towards Adam – and tablescapes.
The other problem is that Captain Sandy has noticed that Conrad is distracted. He can barely make sentences and he’s just sort of staring off into the distance while Jaoa paddles out to sea delivering hovercrafts and deep sea disco suits. Sandy, who overheard Conrad and Hannah chatting at night, has suspicions that something is up. Basically Sandy doesn’t trust Hannah, she can’t say that so instead she warns Conrad to get his head out of the Hannah clouds! Meanwhile Sandy gives Joao the wet dream he’s been looking by praising how hard he’s been working. Next Machiavellian Joao will shove Conrad overboard and yanking on the bosun polo!
After screwing up breakfast, Kasey is shoved back into the laundry room where Rapunzel dreams of letting down her chemically orange golden hair and escaping Hannah’s delicates. Because yet again Kasey put them in the dryer! Hannah is enraged because her expensive designer wardrobe is being ruined!
Predicting that lunch will be another cluster f–k of toddler-like demands, Adam decides to literally cook everything PLUS the kitchen sink (which he deep-fried with umami and squid ink) in the hopes of shutting these guests up. Hilariously the one guest, a greasy gigolo type who was rejected from The Situation‘s entourage, starts complaining that there are no buns or hamburgers AS Hannah is setting them down. But alas – they got her; they found something wrong: no mayo! Also, Adam doesn’t have a ledger indicating what is vegan and what is kosher and what is made of pure solid edible gold so your poop glitters!
As Hannah is fetching more soda after soda the guests realize they’ve never once said “Thank you” so they invite her to hang out next time she’s in LA, where they promise to have their maids and butlers do all the fetching! Hannah can’t decide what’s worse: their proposition, or hanging out with Kasey in the laundry room instructing her for the umpteenth time NOT to put her delicate ponchos in the dryer! (Or watching Kasey run water over the same plate for 15 minutes.)
Also, this “lunch” is taking place at 3:30p and the guests still expect dinner. Specifically a Shabbat dinner.
Captain Sandy, hoping that she won’t have to promote Joao to boson then train him on how not to sexually harass the captain during docking, seeks to remind Conrad of the glory of the water over ummmm… wet pu$$^(?) by inviting Conrad onto the bridge to drive the boat. He feels that love, then Hannah commanders him for a smoke break and all of Sandy’s warnings end up on the bottom of the ocean. Don’t worry – Joao is ready to assume command! And no one will be eating pizza.
For dinner, Brooke sets the table with blue shells and other strange beads, then decides it doesn’t look “very Jewish” – she’s off her game with the sadness of missing her sister’s big day. Also, Kasey is no help whatsoever. None of that matters though because the guests are cranky that their steak is cold and make Hannah return it to the kitchen. Adam does a touch test and points out that it’s STILL HOT, but he reheats it anyway. However Honey worries she might not have gotten a kosher piece on the return journey and refuses to eat it, claiming it “wasn’t good.” The vegan guest is also convinced Adam is secretly slipping butter into his food. If you suspect “the help” is sabotaging your food then subconsciously you know you’ve been a horrible demanding twat who deserves it.
On their last morning, like sociopaths who enjoy watching their captives jump when they say jump, the guests eke out their power to wield control until the very last second. Unfortunately, Kasey is uncontrollable because she has no idea what she’s even doing – like she forgets to actually set the table before delivering the requested VEGAN French toast.
Conrad though, unexposed to Hannah yet on this fine morning, is back on his A-game so docking goes perfectly. Sandy is impressed and more determined than ever to steer Conrad the right direction.
As the guests depart Honey invites them all to call her in LA, then admonishes them for cold steaks and saying “absolutely” too often while making them wait a fraction of a second too long. The tip, predictably, is light.
With the guests FINALLY off the boat, Hannah heads to the bridge, which Kasey can’t locate without a guide, and investigates her resume. She learns Kasey hasn’t merely embellished, but flat-out lied about her skills. She actually listed “bartending” for instance! Kasey may not have that barista training like she claims, but the bikini pic attached to her CV was all the producers needed to decide she was right for the job!
Later on, the crew night out Hannah tricks Conrad into taking their relationship public when she starts kissing him and rubbing all over him in front of the crew. Conrad looks petrified and worries the crew won’t respect him now.
Meanwhile, Brooke drools all over Adam’s cold steaks and tries to entice him by letting her know she’s no uptight English prude – she gets freakier than a conch shell mixed with tulip in a table scape. Except this is why Adam lives in a van. So he can avoid complicated mismatched decor entanglements.
Finally, Joao continues his stalking of Kasey, but she seems to have transferred her affections to the lovely Colin Macy-O’Toole. Or maybe she just hopes he can keep her safe if Joao pounces. In the world of high-end superyachts, it’s a high-stakes game of hearts!
TELL US – WERE THESE THE WORSTS GUESTS YET? DID SANDY OVERREACT TO THE SPARKLER? WILL HANNAH RUIN CONRAD?
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Even though Season 7 of Vanderpump Rules just started filming, one major story line is very public. After a hellish Season 6, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright got engaged last week.
As of this moment, there’s no word on when the reality stars will tie the knot. Typically the show films each season for a summer, which means that they would have to plan it very quickly if they want to get married during Season 7. The timing may be unclear, but the location is set. And no, it’s not SUR…. or Pump… or Tom Tom… or Villa Blanca.
On June 11, Jax tweeted, “I can tell you this, the wedding will be in Kentucky!!! That’s all I know so far.”
Does this mean that they will get a second season of their spin-off show Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky? Will they bring the entire Vanderpump Rules cast to Kentucky during Season 8? Will they rush to make the wedding a part of Season 7? Will Brittany keep her same initials and become Brittany Cauchi (Jax’s given last name) or will she become Brittany Taylor? Will Lisa Vanderpump officiate this one too? Will they have beer cheese at the reception?
There are so many unanswered questions, but only one thing is certain: it will happen in Kentucky.
RELATED: Jax Taylor & Brittany Cartwright Celebrate Their Engagement With Vanderpump Rules Cast – Photos
TELL US- ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT JAX AND BRITTANY ARE GETTING MARRIED IN KENTUCKY? DO YOU WANT THEM TO GET A SEPARATE SPIN-OFF FOR THE WEDDING AND WEDDING PLANNING? OR SHOULD IT JUST BE A PART OF VANDERPUMP RULES?
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