We feel alive right now. Do you feel alive right now? We have never felt this alive. The Bachelor just premiered with Peter Weber at the helm, the first season since, you could argue,...The Bachelor season 24 started with what would usually be the final episode, flashing forward to a surprise Chris Harrison has in store for Peter Weber.
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Chef Kevin Dobson is bound to have a tough time on tonight’s episode of Below Deck. There’s a charter guest who happens to be a professional chef. She has a lot of criticism for Kevin’s work. Will this affect the crew’s tip at the end of the charter? Most likely. Apparently, Kevin spirals out of control in response to the criticism. Insert some cliche about getting out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat.
Meanwhile, Kevin isn’t the only one facing some tough feedback. Bosun Ashton Pienaar urges Captain Lee Rosbach to fire Rhylee Gerber. But, why? She actually wants to work. She knows what she’s doing. But, oh yeah, she’s just not a part of that boys club. Or maybe it’s just some residual hate from Rhylee rejecting Ashton’s sexual advances last season. Let’s not forget that, folks. Ashton has been screwing up left and right and we all know Captain Lee isn’t Rhylee’s biggest fan, so I’m curious about how that’s all gonna shake out. Will Captain Lee fire her? Or will she continue to battle Ashton for the rest of the season? Speaking of bothering Ashton, Kate Chastain is back. Watch out, Ashton. You bit off way more than you can chew with this feud.
It seems like we have an Ashton-heavy episode on the horizon. The bosun gets involved in a photoshoot with charter guest Molly, who happens to be model. Clearly, she hasn’t seen the Smashton footage because she’s actually interested in the stripper-turned-reality-TV-star.
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TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT KATE CHASTAIN STORMING OFF AFTER DRAMA WITH THE CREW? ARE YOU TEAM RHYLEE GERBER OR TEAM ASHTON PIENAAR? WILL ASHTON END UP HOOKING UP WITH THE CHARTER GUEST?
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Even though NeNe Leakes thinks she is is the queen on Real Housewives of Atlanta, she’s barely been a part of this season. For the most part, she’s had thirty seconds of screentime per episode, if she even appears at all. The most screentime she’s had this season is during the cast trip in Toronto, Canada.
She’s been begging to get back in the Housewives’ good graces to save her job, I mean “regain her sisterhood.” She started by sending some cheese and cracker platters to Cynthia Bailey via lapdog Marlo Hampton. Along with the trays, was a super sweet card, that NeNe probably did not write herself. Somehow, the exact words from that card made it onto the blog Love B. Scott. Who leaked the note? Was it NeNe, Cynthia, Marlo, a member of production? Will we ever know. Of course, NeNe blamed the leak on Kenya Moore. Now, Kenya is clapping back and insisting that NeNe is the one who has a longtime relationship with the blogger who posted the card.
According to a screenshot from iRealHousewives, Kenya posted, “I hung out w/@lovebscott in Miami w/@NeNeLeakes There r MANY receipts they r friends. The cameras are on us 100% of the time. I saw that card once. Why would I try to make her look good? Her “people” sent it in and clearly wrote it too bc Nene is an illiterate liar #RHOA.”
According to that same screenshot, B. Scott responded to a fan who asked, “Can @lovebscott tell us who leaked Nene’s note?” B. Scott replied, “Let me ask you this — who benefits the most from this positive note of encouragement from NeNe Leakes being released?” As a self-proclaimed Real Housewives historian, the first name that comes to my mind is NeNe Leakes.
TELL US- WHO DO YOU THINK LEAKED THE CARD THAT NENE SENT TO CYNTHIA?
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Brandi Redmond is definitely one of those Real Housewives who isn’t afraid of letting it all hang out. During the first seasons of the Real Housewives of Dallas, she and BFF Stephanie Hollman often engaged in goofy escapades, sometimes amusing, sometimes not. This season, for the most part, Brandi was a little more reserved and her behavior was not as overtly attention-seeking.
Somehow, Brandi even managed to maintain a cordial relationship with messy LeeAnne Locken. Considering their track record, this was nothing short of miraculous. By Part 1 of the cast reunion, their relationship had soured and in upcoming previews, Brandi appears to call out LeeAnne for her racially-tinged comments directed towards Kary Brittingham in Thailand. Recently, however, a video surfaced of Brandi engaging in some inappropriate behavior of a similarly questionable nature.
A Twitter user shared a video of Brandi in which she appears to mock Asians. In the video, Brandi is in her car with her children. The video seems to be a few years old as her daughters look a bit younger than in the current season. Brandi is filmed speaking in what could be described as a “stereotypical Asian accent.”
In the video, Brandi says, “Oh, everybody ask me…uh…uh…what Asian I am cuz of my eyes, they squinty.” Brandi is obviously using grammatically incorrect English and is playing with her hair throughout the short clip.
So many questions. Why did Brandi choose to make this offensive video in the first place? Was it related to the mutual animosity she and D’Andra Simmons had for each other during season 2, at one point D’Andra even stating that Brandi often looked like she was asleep? Why did she film the video in front of her daughters? And why did Brandi share the clip with other people?
When celebrities and reality stars are caught with her their pants down, so to speak, they generally have three modes of response. Ignore it. Issue an apology. Double down. Guess which approach Brandi took?
If you guessed option number three, you are correct! In response to being called out and questioned about the appropriateness of the video on Twitter, Brandi responded, “I was referring to myself And being Asian. Cheers.”
As I don’t believe Brandi is Asian, how can she refer to herself as Asian? And why would she think it was acceptable to do so? There really is nothing funny about the video. Such stereotyped images were not appropriate 50 years ago and they are certainly not appropriate in the 21st century. Brandi has since deleted her comments, but thanks to the wonders of technology, screenshots exist forever.
Of course, Brandi continued to respond and try to explain herself. In another post, she stated, “It’s a good impersonation if I do say so myself and there was no harm done. I would do it again for a damn good audition. Have a great day.”
Any time racial stereotypes are perpetuated, harm is done Brandi. What is possibly most disturbing about the video is that Brandi filmed it in front of her daughters. And she wonders why her oldest daughter acts out sometimes. Connect the dots Brandi, connect the dots.
Considering that Brandi was highly offended when Kameron Wescott referred to her behavior as “trash” during the cast Mexico trip, you would think that she would be a little more sensitive to people from different races, backgrounds and cultures.
Over the weekend, Brandi tweeted, “A video resurfaced of me from three years ago which at the time I had posted and quickly deleted and then immediately apologized for my insensitivity . I would like to once again sincerely apologize for my offensive actions.”
It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out for Brandi. Will the video impact her role on RHOD? At the very least, I would hope she would use this as a learning opportunity. Maybe she and culturally clueless LeeAnne can get a group rate for a badly needed sensitivity training. Do better, ladies, do better!
TELL US–WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BRANDI’S BEHAVIOR IN THE VIDEO? DO YOU THINK SHE WILL TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HER ACTIONS?
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Tamra Judge may declared herself the “hottest Housewife in Housewife in Orange County” when she joined The Real Housewives of Orange County way back in Season 3, but could she be the darkest one too?
In a new interview, the reigning queen bee of RHOC (sorry, Vicki Gunvalson) looked back on how the show has changed over the last 12 years, and opened up about her impact on the direction of the franchise in its earliest days.
“Coming on my first season, I thought that I was going to be on one year and that was it,” Tamra revealed during the RHOC Aftershow. “We just were documenting our life and having fun, and then it just got dark. I probably made it dark, probably.”
OG fans will remember that Tamra became a full-time cast member in 2008, replacing Jo De La Rosa in the circle of OC ‘Wives that then included Vicki, Jeana Keough, Lauri Waring Peterson, Tammy Knickerbocker and fellow newbie Quinn Fry. (Fun fact: in her day-to-day life, the pint-sized firebrand went by “Tammy” but changed her name since there was already another Tammy on the show.)
“I think I was the first one to ever come on and challenge anything or call anybody out,” she continued. “I was a little bit more edgier in my conversations and it was just a different show. When I started it was just, really, going to lunch and having fun. I remember the first dinner I had with all the girls, I said something political and they all went ‘[gasp] Oh my god, she did not just say that! You do not know what you just did.’ And their heads went down and I’m like, ‘What the f–k? What’s wrong?'”
She’s not wrong. While Tamra‘s rookie season was relatively tame by today’s standards, RHOC morphed into the show fans know and love during Season 4 when she accused nemesis Gretchen Rossi of cheating on her much-older then-fiancé Jeff Beitzel, who was dying of cancer during filming. Today, Tamra shouting, “Did you go to Bass Lake?” while pointing a finger across the table at Javier’s goes down as the spark that kicked off the first real feud — and storyline — in OC history. (Ironically, Javier’s is the same Orange County eatery where Heather Dubrow and Shannon Beador would get off on a “scary angry” wrong foot over a chair five years later.)
TELL US – DO YOU THINK TAMRA MADE THE SHOW DARKER WHEN SHE JOINED? WOULD RHOC BE WHAT IT IS TODAY WITHOUT HER INFLUENCE?
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The Repair Shop—a BBC series that’s available via Netflix, and on which objects are restored—is charming, warm, and set in a barn. In other words, it’s perfect.
Days before the new season of Vanderpump Rules wows us with train wreck lifestyles, Lisa Vanderpump’s trendy hotspot Pump will be under construction. Nothing says this is going to be an excellent year like picking glass out of your hair! Lisa’s restaurants are often the site of multiple drunken arguments, finger-pointing, and the occasional body-shaming comment, now the crew can add a new destructive element to the list.
I’m not sure this is the kind of publicity Lisa wants heading into the Pump Rules premiere tomorrow night, OR IS IT? I’m certain nothing would surprise us at this point. That said, brunch patrons at Pump got a little more than they bargained for on Sunday. Thanks to a driver with a questionable turn radius, Lisa’s staff suddenly found themselves cleaning more than the remnants of mimosas and desperation from the tables.
Kristen Doute, do you have a Ferrari? Just kidding! Though I wouldn’t be surprised at the lengths some people may go through to get a good table at Pump on a Sunday, this is a bit much. Either someone was REALLY craving a Pumptini, or they need to visit the local DMV.
According to Page Six, Lisa’s establishment was involved in a nasty little accident during prime brunch action. Pump is located in WeHo on Santa Monica Boulevard, in a busy section of town. So busy that maybe drivers get distracted and ram their automobiles into, you know, buildings…
A high-end sports car mutilated the patio seating area and shattered the front door. A representative for Lisa confirmed, “the vehicle ‘slammed through’ the patio — which features a glass wall — just after 2 p.m. on Sunday”. In all seriousness, that is some scary stuff but it could have been much, much worse.
Lisa took to her Instagram to share a photo of the Ferrari literally sitting in the entrance of her restaurant. And because Lisa has that cheeky British humor thing going for her, she captioned the shot, “No. We are not a Drive-Thru. Thank God no one was hurt…” Current reports show the driver was attempting to make a left turn and jumped the curb.
Photos show glass strewn on the car, tables, chairs, and one woman who will probably be rich soon was, “slightly injured and taken to the hospital with cuts.” Drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the accident and the driver was not injured. The crash is under investigation and while Pump closed for the remainder of the afternoon, doors will not shut due to this incident. Probably because the doors are gone now…
Let’s all breathe a sigh of relief that no one was seriously hurt and business will not suffer. It’s time to saddle up and get ready for Vanderpump Rules to conveniently come back tomorrow night at 99 PM on Bravo.
TELL US- ARE YOU SURPRISED MORE DAMAGE WASN’T DONE? ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RETURN OF VANDERPUMP RULES?
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Last night’s episode of Married to Medicine concluded with the third installment of the reunion. Mariah Huq expressed her frustration with the show’s editing. She feels like her family life is not really shown on the show. In her opinion, they aren’t respected because they are different. I guess it has nothing to do with her being painted as the villain for years. At least she got more camera time this year!
All of the couples join Andy Cohen onstage. Damon Kimes is on the hot seat about his actions in Cabo. Aydin Huq and Mariah defend themselves. The ladies hash out old and new issues trying to come together as a group. Let’s get straight into the Married to Medicine recap!
The second installment of the reunion ended with an explosive fight between Simone Whitmore and Heavenly Kimes. When Contessa Metcalfe returns with Heavenly, it leads to yet another argument. Toya Bush-Harris believes that Heavenly doesn’t know how to treat her friends. I definitely would agree, but instead of “friends,” I would say people in general. Jackie Walters flees to get away from the drama.
Surprisingly, Heavenly and Simone end up agreeing to keep the husbands out of their beef. They agree to take baby steps to work on their friendship. Something tells me there aren’t enough steps in the world to fully work through all of their issues.
When all of the couples hit the stage, Mariah finally reaches her breaking point. Mariah was raised as a Christian and Aydin was raised Muslim, so they blended their beliefs. She found it offensive that the discussion about Quad Webb-Lunceford was the only thing shown during her family celebration of Ramadan. Mariah claims she didn’t want her family to discuss Quad at all. Of course, Quad believes Mariah is so obsessed with her that she encouraged the conversation.
The dinner was three hours long, yet Mariah’s family life was never shown. Quad keeps interrupting Aydin while he tries to give his side. Andy tries to take control of the situation while Aydin tells her to be quiet.
Quad accuses Aydin of disrespecting her and he apologizes. Aydin talks about how it was never shown how the kids and everyone fasted for Ramadan. Mariah becomes emotional because she feels the show and cast don’t respect her family’s beliefs. Quad, Contessa, and Heavenly deny this. I will admit the show doesn’t show Mariah’s family life much anymore. I’m not sure if it’s because of their beliefs or just because drama between the ladies is more interesting.
Contessa and Scott revisit their issues. She has decided to go back to school and will be graduating soon. When asked if she regrets leaving the Navy, she breaks down in tears. She left for Scott after he moved to Atlanta to be with her. He didn’t want to continue to keep moving.
The reunion concludes with the women discussing the group’s future. Contessa, Quad, Heavenly, and Jackie say they are hopeful about repairing relationships, Simone doesn’t seem too convinced. Mariah says she has forgiven everyone and is open to repairing things. All in all, the third installment of the reunion was not necessary. I also don’t believe these ladies are truly open to repairing their friendships. I suspect the next season of Married to Medicine will have just as much drama.
TELL US –DO YOU THINK MARIAH’S FAMILY ISN’T SHOWN BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT? HOW LONG DO YOU THINK HEAVENLY AND SIMONE’S TRUCE WILL LAST? IS THEIR HOPE FOR THE LADIES TO REPAIR THEIR FRIENDSHIPS?
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Last night the Real Housewives Of Atlanta continued their trip to Canada to celebrate Carnival. Maybe soon we’ll actually get to see this famous Carnival?!
Tanya Sam is full of surprise guests (and other unwelcome surprises) on this trip to Canada, isn’t she? First Nene Leakes crashes the rooftop happy hour for a 24-hour wham, bam, no-thank you, ma’am drama causing. Then Tanya hides Dennis McKinley in her suitcase so he can re-propose to Porsha Williams against their counselor’s advice.
NeNe strolls onto the rooftop just as Cynthia Bailey is confronting Kenya Moore about trying to ruin her surprise proposal. It’s a tense moment that completely overshadows what NeNe clearly hoped was her big entrance. HAAAA!
And it should come as no surprise that Kenya denies any ill-intent and keeps insisting she just ‘had a feeling’ Mike Hill was gonna pop the question that night. Cynthia has no choice but to believe her. Kenya didn’t outwardly do anything wrong, necessarily, but I think everyone knows she totally wanted to snatch that moment.
No one acknowledges NeNe, so she just sits there awkwardly slurping her drink until Tanya announces that its time to hit the next portion of their evening which to watch the King and Queen of Carnivale pageant, featuring costumes literally as big as a house.
Once everyone is back at the hotel NeNe has Kandi Burruss, Yovanna Momplaisir, and Marlo Hampton over to her room for a little bitch session. The bitchiest thing was NeNe devouring all those snacks and not offering any to her friends!
Yovanna truly is NeNe’s bitch – playing fetch to all of her mistresses demands. Kandi wonders if this extends to Yovanna secretly recording Cynthia. Yovanna insists she is not the snake. Yovanna does know who is, though, but she’s not telling.
NeNe also denies that she leaked the thank you card she sent Cyithia. NeNe insists she doesn’t speak to the blogs, even though her most recent vlog appearance caused major drama when she called Cynthia meek and was a setback in her friendships. Instead NeNe blames Kenya for ‘borrowing’ the card, then contacting the blogs. I think NeNe was sending Kandi warning signals with the way she was chomping those chips, constantly baring her teeth…
The next morning the ladies all meet to try on their Carnivale costumes. These are like a Victoria’s Secret Fashion show on steroids. Think 10 lbs of glitter and sequins, plus belts and wings.
Kandi bravely goes first in putting on a skintight, rhinestone-covered leotard. Despite being hairier then a snake situation down there, Yovanna also bravely puts hers on. All while complaining that she needs Nair. Newsflash: Yovanna NO ONE uses Nair under the age of 14!
NeNe and Eva Marcille are both present for the fittings, but will be missing the event due to prior commitments. Nene channels that boredom productively by asking Eva if they can talk. NeNe seems confused about why Eva is upset with her as if she can’t remember the whole of last season – 50% of which was recorded on TV for all posterity.
To refresh everyone’s memory when Eva was dealing with her midnight move to flee from her abusive ex, she asked to speak to NeNe off-camera, but NeNe purposefully wore a mic, thus ensuring that their conversation made it onto the RHOA.
Eva definitely does not believe NeNe when she claims she had no idea how wrong her actions were and begs her apology, but Eva is a girl who can be sweet to your face for a long time. Some might say Eva’s mama raised her right!
The plan for the day is for the ladies to climb the CNN tower. Literally. Eva is forced to bow out due to pregnancy and NeNe is apparently afraid to fall from great heights. A allegory for her own meteoritic rise to fame and spectacular fall from her heels into hellish near obscurity.
NeNe and Eva take their refound friendship to the restaurant at the top of the tower to watch their fellow Housewives skuttle over the edge into an abyss. Over a seafood tower -another metaphor – Eva confronts NeNe about the situation with Porsha. NeNe is anything but apologetic, even though she plans to apologize for the sake of the show getting their friendship back on track. In fact NeNe actually thinks Porsha owes her an apology for leaking private text messages to the world on twitter. Private texts which show NeNe fat shaming Porsha days after she gave birth. NeNe likens it to a spurned ex-boyfriend posting naked photos on social media. Yes, she compared Porsha’s self-advocacy to revenge porn!
Isn’t Porsha disclosing Nene’s personal texts sort of like Nene sending a friend to record Cynthia in private…?
NeNe wasn’t fat shaming though, she was just letting Porsha know the truth: her weight has nothing to do with pregnancy since she was fat before. Eva has the good graces to at least give NeNe a look and tell her that isn’t nice. Meanwhile the rest of the women are strapped into industrial sized harnesses to hang off the side of the CNN tower. Kandi is the only one who isn’t afraid. The rest of the women are literally petrified and when it’s over and they’ve all survived, they do a big group hug and promise to always support each other. HAAAAAAA
That night Tanya is throwing a huge party to introduce her Toronto family and friends to the Atlanta ladies. While getting ready for the party there is a knock at the door and emerging from behind it is an ENORMOUS whack of roses is the bell boy’s hand, awaiting the tip that never comes because Porsha is otherwise engaged. Or at least she’s about to be!
Of course the flowers are from Dennis, who encloses a note using a hot dog reference to joke about his infidelity and being out of the dog house. Porsha isn’t impressed with the attempt at humor, but she is easily impressed by lavish gifts. This girl needs to grow up her love language!
Porsha calls Lauren who reminds her that per their counselor she and Dennis aren’t supposed to speak in between sessions.
Meanwhile, Tanya is receiving surprises of her own. First her fiancé Paul walks in through the door, and right behind him is Dennis himself, out of the dog-house and into the hen house. Tanya and Paul are thrilled to be orchestrating a re-proposal between Dennis and Porsha for selfish reasons: Paul and Dennis are friends.
See, I don’t get this. Tanya seems like a smart and savvy enough woman that she would advise her friend to not to so easily forgive a man who CHEATED ON HER WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT! I would be like Porsha’s sister, Lauren, and telling her to cancel Dennis for a very, very very long time, but Porsha hung up on Lauren’s sense and sensibility so maybe Tanya is just trying to meet Porsha where she is?
Of course Dennis has the upgraded engagement ring with him and this stone is big enough to need it’s own bun.
The plan is for Dennis to show up at Tanya’s party and pop the question again. Talk about stealing Cynthia’s engagement thunder!
At the party Porsha is too distracted to even suspect something even when Paul makes his appearance. Instead Porsha, Kandi and Kenya are hatching a plan to confront Yovanna about who the recording snake is. Hopped up on the liquid courage of Hennessey they decide to grill her, hoping she’ll either snap and admit it’s her or implicate the real snake. Kenya is still convinced it actually is Yovanna, but Kandi thinks it’s someone else. And Yovanna already admitted she knows who it is.
While NeNe is attempting to make nice with Cynthia, they call Yovanna over. She refuses to say a word, other than denying that it’ was her and confirming that it is someone in their group. That only leads Marlo — or some surprise double-agent who is working for both NeNe and Cynthia! Oh wait, that is Marlo…
Porsha is so mad at Yovanna’s refusal to tell that she snatches baack her cocktail. Luckily her anger is shocked right out of her when Tanya starts making a toast about love and Porsha turns around to find Dennis creeping through the crowd before dropping down on one knee in front of her. In my dreams she turns him down, but in my reality I know she’s already planning her televised wedding. Sigh…
TELL US – WHO DO YOU THINK IS THE SNAKE? SHOULD PORSHA FORGIVE DENNIS SO EASILY?
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