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Real Housewives of Orange County Season 14 is coming to a close tonight, well, sort of. We do still have the reunion ahead. The finale episode is on tonight and it centers around Vicki Gunvalson and Steve Lodge’s engagement party. That’s just so ironic that the season ends with an event centered around Vicki during the only season when she’s been a part-time cast member.
Shannon Beador uses the special occasion as a date night and she brings a familiar face (to the longtime viewers, anyway), Duff Evans. Yes, Tammy Knickerbocker’s ex. Only the longtime viewers know who I’m talking about, but it doesn’t really matter anyway since Shannon is dating someone else at this point in real life.
And then there’s a storyline that none of us are attached to: Emily Simpson helps Gina Kirschenheiter pack up her Coto house. We’ve never seen Matt Kirschenheiter, in this house or anywhere else. Gina wasn’t honest about their relationship right from her very first scene. It’s so hard to be invested in all this. Yes, people feel bad that Gina is struggling, but we don’t know Matt Kirschenheiter from a hole in the wall. I don’t want to see Gina packing up some tacky home decor and crates of metallic eyeliner and ratty hair extensions.
We will get to see the awkward tension between Braunwyn Windham-Burke and her mom, the Great Value Betsy Johnson, better known as Dr. Deb. The mother/daughter duo continues to skirt around their issues with some weird yoga session tonight. Am I the only one who just isn’t here for Dr. Deb? She tries way too hard for someone who has no shot at holding an orange. If Braunwyn returns, production needs to majorly cut down on Dr. Deb’s screentime.
Emily gets a surprising medical diagnosis, which I’m assuming has something to do with her recent hip surgery. Hopefully, it’s nothing more serious.
And, of course, the big event of the episode is Tamra Judge’s meltdown at the sight of Kelly Dodd. I mean, the big event of the episode is Vicki and Steve’s engagement party. Tamra actually runs away in the preview, giving me flashbacks to Tamra’s meltdown in Bali. Classic.
Watch Real Housewives Of Orange County tonight at 9 PM on Bravo. Comment throughout the episode on this post. Tweet us with your thoughts. Follow us on Instagram. Like our page on Facebook. And make sure to check our site tomorrow for our Real Housewives Of Orange County recap! Oh, and there’s an extra episode this week. Part 1 of the reunion airs tomorrow night at 10 PM on Bravo.
TELL US – WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE ISSUES BETWEEN BRAUNWYN AND HER MOTHER DR. DEB? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TAMRA HAVING A MELTDOWN AT VICKI AND STEVE’S ENGAGEMENT PARTY?
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It feels like a whole lifetime ago to remember this, but technically, Lisa Rinna joined Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as a friend of Lisa Vanderpump’s. She knew Kyle Richards too, but LVP was the “in” they sold us on the show itself. Meanwhile, we all know that she signed on to sell more of those Lisa Rinna dusters on QVC.
From that point on Lisa and Lisa were frenemies at best, going back and forth with their playful jabs. At worst, they accused each other of some bad things and continually shaded each other in the most public ways possible. That’s why it’s super surprising that Lisa Rinna’s husband Harry Hamlin has nothing but good things to say about Lisa. Don’t come for us, Stans. What I’m saying is that I just assumed Harry would go along with his wife’s opinion, but he actually has very opposite thoughts. And it’s just nice to read something, well, kind for a change.
In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Harry remarked, “I’ve always been very fond of Lisa and [her husband] Ken [Todd]. I’m very fond of them both, and delighted by them both, whatever issues they had with other people.” And by “other people,” he does mean his own wife. That is either incredibly evolved and mature or, on the other hand, it could be viewed as insensitive toward his wife.
Nevertheless, Harry never seemed to care about the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills drama. He makes minimal appearances on this show just to make Lisa happy. He has no interest in getting involved in the drama and that’s actually pretty refreshing.
TELL US- ARE YOU SURPRISED THAT HARRY HAMLIN IS SO FOND OF LISA VANDERPUMP AND KEN TODD GIVEN THE ISSUES BETWEEN THE TWO LISAS? DO YOU WISH THAT HARRY FILMED MORE FOR REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS?
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Sometimes a Real Housewife brings an entertaining relative with her; i.e. Teresa Giudice and her daughter Milania, Tinsley Mortimer and her mom Dale Mercer, and Melissa Gorga’s husband Joe Gorga. Other times, the “extra” people are just not needed. I may be in the minority, but I’m not craving additional scenes with Kyle Richards‘ friend Faye Resnick, the Kandi-coated clique, or Tamra Judge’s son Ryan Vieth. I’m not gonna lie I feel the same way about Braunwyn Windham-Burke’s mom Dr. Deb. And considering the tension between the two of them and the constant unfollowing and then following each other on social media, Braunwyn is picking up what I’m laying down. At least sometimes.
Someone else who doesn’t want Dr. Deb around is a shop owner in Mexico. Dr. Deb was accused of stealing 5,000 pesos worth of merchandise, which is about $264 given the current exchange rate.
A woman posted security footage of Dr. Deb along with these words: “We need your help!
This lady and her husband came today at 6pm to my mother’s store and left without paying a total of 5,000 pesos, the store was packed and she got confused and a minutes later when she found out they left without paying, they were nowhere to find. If anyone knows them please let me know.”
It’s not as if Dr. Deb’s look is low key. She wasn’t able to lay under the radar for long with her colorful locks. Real Housewives of Orange County viewers recognized her and said so in the comments.
However, Dr. Deb had a different story when an Instagram user asked about it. We typed up her (poorly punctuated) explanation and blurred out the Instagram user she responded to. Dr. Deb claimed, “We were vitcims to a common scam where they take your credit card pretend to run it while they distract you, follow you back and get soem family to post things on social media to shame you, and get their family on the police foce to back them up, and use intimidation.” That sounds so elaborate. Not that I’m in into criminal activity, but what does the store have to gain from this public humiliation? Sure, they can sue and get some money (maybe). However, this just seems so elaborate. Why not just overcharge on a credit card swipe?
Dr. Deb continued, “Luckily we had a lot of support from the local people in town that knew the store and the scam, we only lost $40 instead of $500 they were demanding for a few pillow cases we had purchased- lesson here- always have them HAND YOU THE RECEIPT! Don’t turn your back and have them tell you it’s in the bag! Always ask for you receipt!”
That is…well, interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing the comments section on this one and Dr. Deb’s explanation about this “common scam.”
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS ALLEGED INCIDENT? WHAT ABOUT BRAUNWYN’S MOM’S EXPLANATION? HOW MAD IS BRAUNWYN RIGHT NOW?
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Lisa Rinna was the first famous actress to join the Real Housewives universe. This changed the game for sure. She definitely paved the way for Denise Richards and Garcelle Beauvais. Sorry Kim and Kyle Richards, but you weren’t exactly household names from childhood acting roles and being Paris Hilton’s aunt. Then again, Rinna wasn’t necessarily an A-list star, but anyway, my point is that it was an unexpected move and a bit of a risk when she joined the cast of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Her husband Harry Hamlin wasn’t down for her delving into reality TV, not that we necessarily see much of him outside the occasional pie baking and family barbeque. He was afraid of the reality TV divorce curse, which is a fair thing to fear when he had already been divorced twice.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Harry admitted that his first response when Lisa mentioned RHOBH was “I have my divorce lawyer on speed dial, and I do.” Apparently, he even moved his phone toward the interviewer to demonstrate that this is true.
Harry elaborated, “I have had three opportunities to use him; once with Ursula, and two of my ex-wives. It’s the same guy every time. We send Christmas cards to each other every year.” By “Ursula,” he is referring to Ursula Andress, someone he never actually married, but has a child with, hence the need for a lawyer.
Harry recalled, “I said to Lisa, ‘You can’t do this. Everybody who does that show gets divorced. It’s a horrible, horrible thing, to do that show.’”
That’s when Lisa brought in Bethenny Frankel, who also did this show and got divorced. Is that a coincidence? You be the judge. Harry shared, “Bethenny convinced me from a branding point of view it would be a good thing to do. Then I was open to doing it on my own terms.” And he barely films. As I said, we see him for one meal scene and a pep talk per season and then Lisa just does her own thing the rest of the time.
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HARRY HAVING HIS DIVORCE LAWYER ON SPEED DIAL? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BETHENNY CONVINCING HARRY THAT IT WAS A GOOD CAREER MOVE FOR LISA TO JOIN THE SHOW?
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We all saw that video circulating on Instagram this past weekend, but now Robyn Dixon has officially confirmed that she and Juan Dixon are engaged, again. Real Housewives of Potomac viewers recall that they were pulling a Dolores and Frank Catania during Season 1: living together as exes. However, the Catanias were not sleeping in the same bed.
Slowly, their relationship shifted from just being co-parents to something more romantic. Before RHOP got started, Juan and Robyn divorced following infidelity on his part. However, the RHOP viewers didn’t see any of that. Instead, we’ve been rooting for Juan and Robyn to slowly inch their way back to husband and wife. I care a lot more about this than Robyn’s house flipping storyline.
Robyn confirmed the engagement to Bravo’s The Daily Dish. She told the publication, “Shocked and excited is an understatement to describe my reaction to Juan’s proposal! I could barely breathe!”
This isn’t even my relationship and I was both shocked and emotionally invested. I really thought it would take a lot longer for Juan to make this move. And it seems like Robyn felt the same way. She shared, “We had definitely discussed the topic and agreed that marriage was the next step for us, but I was not expecting it to happen so soon!”
She also opened up about the proposal specifics. Robyn revealed, “Juan gave the sweetest speech and set the whole room into an uproar when he got down on one knee! It was truly a special night and is definitely much sweeter the second time around. Oh, and he knows me well and got my ring just right!”
In an Instagram post, Robyn elaborated on the MASSIVE ring. She told her followers, “An untraditional relationship calls for a non-traditional ring! I told a little birdie that if Juan ever proposed, I didn’t want a diamond ring…that didn’t work out too well the first time, lol. I fell in love with the Pink Morganite stone because I wanted something with significance and meaning. Morganite represents unconditional love – something that our relationship exhibits and has relied upon.” She also included a wedding hashtag: #DixonsPartDeux, which I think is much cuter than #CHill. Sorry, Cynthia Bailey.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore commented on Robyn’s post with some red heart emojis. Robyn’s co-stars Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby, and Candiace Dillard commented as well. Hopefully, Karen Huger and Monique Samuels congratulated them privately. Maybe, Karen sent over a La Dame fragrance gift basket.
Oh, and rumored RHOP addition Wendy Osefo commented and she is the one who took the photos Robyn posted. I’m just gonna take this is as another confirmation that she’s a part of the cast.
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ROBYN’S COMMENTS FOLLOWING THE ENGAGEMENT? DO YOU LIKE THE MORGANITE RING?
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This season of Below Deck is a total and utter clusterf–k! The crew isn’t getting along, the guests continue to be disappointed by something each week, and now we can add equipment malfunctions to the lists. Good times!
After Kate Chastain sorted laundry on the crew mess floor in front of Captain Lee Rosbach, who seriously looked on as impassively as if he was an insomniac flicking through informercials at 3am, Ashton Pienaar blows a gasket about how Kate treating the crew so callously has created a culture where no one wants to work with her. Really?
Kate is so upset she bursts into tears and winds up falling asleep sobbing as Rhylee Gerber strokes her back and covers her. Which was sweet. Have we ever seen emotions other than anger for Kate? Have we entered a new dimension?
Exactly when has Kate alienated herself from the entire crew to deserve this sudden wash of hatred? It seems to me that Kevin Dobson treats the entire crew with disrespect, but when Kate has pressed back against him he’s retaliated by badmouthing her to the deckhands, thus creating that very culture of disrespect and animosity Ashton is complaining about. Anyway, Brian de Saint Pern is the one who called Kate a bitch, over what amounted to nothing, but at least he apologized.
Everyone goes to bed – in theory – but around 1am, Tanner Sterback texts Simone Mashile to come to his room. Of course Simone is just up and waiting for his call! This also gives Brian the opportunity to make-up with Courtney Skippon by sneaking into her room to apologize for being nasty when she took Kate’s side over his. As if there was a question there. At least Simone knows she is pathetic (and really she IS pathetic).
The next morning everyone is so hungover they can’t breathe and Kate worst of all. Of course Captain Lee wants to talk first thing. Ashton whines that Kate always gets a pass from Captain Lee, but as Lee explains it, Kate has been working for him for 5 years with little incident, and so they’ve built up … um, maybe you could call it “respect”! Anyway, Kate is contrite, and Captain Lee warns her never again – until next week!
Then it’s time for Kate to start doling out her revenge. First she is sweeter than honey to Kevin. The exhaust fan is suddenly broken in the galley and I keep wondering if Kate calmly and cooly took one of her many wine openers and nail files to viciously stab it until the only thing it emits is the stale air of a hangover fart.
Next Kate hands Courtney her second stew stripes… right in front of Simone. I can’t tell if Simone was demoted, or there are now just two second stews. Simone is stewing (*ha*), but she’s figured out that two can play this game, so she says nothing then uses her break time to call her mom to whisper-vent, AMSR-style, about how passive-aggressive Kate is. Is Kate passive-aggressive? Sure, but Courtney and Rhylee are the only people treating her with respect, so you gotta rally your troops.
Later things get worse for Simone when she is trapped in the laundry and Tanner informs her that they’re keeping things casual. Simone agrees, but reminds him that casual still means treating each other kindly. So Tanner immediately goes to Ashton to grumble about how she’s trying to trap him in a relationship. Tanner thinks it’s lame that Simone got jealous of him bumping and grinding with the pool floozy at the resort. Ashton, of course, completely agrees. These guys are such TOOLS!!
Lastly Kate has a tense meeting with Ashton, where she presumes he will be apologizing for provoking her and not addressing Brian’s disrespect of her seniority. Instead Ashton whines that Kate and Rhylee take too long getting ready and therefore she deserved his Smashton tantrums.
I basically think Ashton is pissy with Kate for being so nice to Rhylee when he doesn’t want her back. Also Ashton wants to be pissed at Rhylee for taking eons to get ready, but it’s not worth poking that bee. In fact Ashton is terrified of that hornets nest – no honey comes out there – so he’s projecting onto Kate. Or who knows? Remember when we all loved him last season?
Then it’s time for the charter – featuring Master Pearson from last season! He was the precocious little boy who ate five-star food like a trained monkey. Look I don’t really care about cute kids or a charter catered around cute kids acting like mini-adults, but sure these kids are adorable. This was also the group that got Chandler fired after he dropped one on a cement dock, and didn’t clean up a broken glass, resulting in Pearson cutting his foot. Anyway, the pressure is on to wow to redeem their experience last season, but right from teh start things aren’t going well.
The only thing that can be done about Kevin’s broke extractor fan is putting up a good old fashioned menopause-relieving oscillating fan in the galley. At one point Kate is holding one, pointing it like Kevin as if she’s a PA on a late-80’s hair band music video. Pour some oscillating air on me… in the name of hate! Anyway without an extractor, Kevin is limited to what he can cook, which is a problem considering that these guests expect Michelin Star!
Also the primary’s parents live in Thailand, where he was raised so his wife is sneaking the parents on board for a surprise beach party and dinner. Which means the crew needs to accommodate both children and the elderly. Well, we all know this will go phenomenally! NOT.
Seconds before the guests arrival Captain Lee gets an email from the resort about the crews rowdy behavior – specifically someone doing cannon balls in the pool, accusing them of damaged the DJ equipment. Now they want compensation. This is all SO set-up and ridiculous. Of course the drunk buffoon doing cannon balls was Ashton. He promises to pay for it, and it’s done and dusted. Ashton didn’t even seem upset and neither did Captain Lee. Also what sort of beach resort doesn’t have a water shield around their DJ equipment, or have the DJ on a raised platform? Please see Las Vegas (or Vanderpump Rules) for how to handle pool parties.
Anyway, yeah Smashton is an asston. He decides to personally apologize to each crew member, to show how a superior should behave in a difficult situation, and when Ashton gets to Kate she makes a joke that his cannon balls were just releasing pent up anger from waiting for her and Rhylee. Instead of laughing as he would’ve, you know LAST WEEK, Ashton takes this as another sign that Kate is an undermining bitch and whines about her to Kevin. Do we think Kevin is playing tapes in their room at night that repeatedly implant evil thoughts about Kate into Ashton’s dreams? Where is this sudden hatred coming from? Is it because she rebuffed him when he was drunk and horny? It all seems so… sudden.
Then the guests arrive, and it’s one fiasco after another. First, there are jellyfish, which means ocean activities can’t happen unless they install some sort of net barrier pool. The pool is impossible and requires all four deck crew working at a feverish pace and biting their tongues as Rhylee tries to boss them around. They finally get it into the water, and the guests use it for 45 minutes before the crew spends 2 hours putting it away. This is on top of all the other toys.
Brian is tense about all the extra work and makes a joke calling Rhylee “Captain Obvious” when she keeps warning him the pool is slippery. Now, the one thing bout Rhylee is she cannot CANNOT, ABSOLUTELY CANNOT, take teasing. Later when Brian gets snippy with her again over putting the pool away, and she almost bites his head off. Ashton warns Brian that he needs to do everything in his power to submerge his comments or he will be swimming in open water with Rhylee’s jelly fish stingers!
Rhylee unloads to Kate that she doesn’t understand how someone so fuckable – Brian – can make her so angry. She should just be able to stare at him and all her rage will dissipate, right?! I personally think it’s because Rhylee wants to fuck Brian, and he is not interested, that Rhylee feels so rageful towards him. Brian is a little snarky with her, but it seems no different than how he treats the rest of the crew – equal treatment being something Rhylee keeps insisting she wants.
Over lunch one of the guests finds a hair in their cheese. It’s not Kevin’s hair, so he blames the stews. Obviously.
Kevin is already frustrated that his cooking is inhibited by the fan and now knows he’s lost the guests’ trust with a bad first impression. For dinner a traditional Thai dancer is brought on board for a surprise performance, but that did little to distract them from their dissatisfaction with the main course. Kevin made pineapple fried rice in mini pineapples with pork skewers. Now I get what he was thinking: this would be fun for the kids, as well as simple and tasty, plus he’s working without a fan and trying to minimize smells and smoke. Sadly one of the guests, who considers himself a wine snob and foodie (cause people like that are always a blast), calls the food subpar. Kate informs Kevin that they want him to step it up. Why can’t they get someone in to fix the fan?!
The next day things do not improve. The plan for the day is the surprise grandparent, visit followed by a beach party. While the guests are out, Kevin and Kate will prepare a gourmet lunch served family-style, where the table will be heaped with tons of dishes for their return. It all sounds lovely.
The kids are thrilled to see their grandparents, and they arrived without incident. Unfortunately as Ashton was taking the first round of guests to the beach he decided against going through with the picnic citing high waves and a rocky shore. Ashton claims he’s worried about the kids and elderly grandparents getting hurt, but I think he just didn’t want the hassle of having to cater to all these extra elements. The guests are super disappointed. Captain Lee trusts Ashton’s judgement but Kate and Kevin are annoyed. Namely because now Kevin will be searing fish as the guests are on board, and also the peach party was on the preference sheet and letting the guests down equals lower tip!
The deck crew is also annoyed because they now have to rush to put all the water toys out – including the dreaded pool! Apparently Rhylee is using fishing knots to tie off lines, and at critical moments the other deckhands can’t get them undone fast enough. Ashton appears to have no patience in teaching Rhylee the correct knots. Basically everyone’s stress level is on DefCon 5, and it’s Ashton’s fault for canceling the beach party.
As the guests wait for both lunch and activity, the galley fills with smoke while Kevin cooks. Everyone freaks out about the smell and the discomfort. No amount of Kate oscillating can solve the problem, but what can Kevin do? It’s either less exciting food, or suffer through smoke inhalation damage? I actually feel sorry for Kevin on this point.
TELL US – DOES KATE DESERVE THE CREW’S WRATH? IS CAPTAIN LEE TOO EASY ON KATE?
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