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A new era of Vanderpump Rules is upon us. The “kids” we’ve been watching for seven seasons are all grown up. Well, sort of. When Season 8 kicks off, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are planning their wedding and getting settled in their new home.
Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz invite everyone over to celebrate their new house. Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix abandoned their apartment for a house as well. But, the new season isn’t all about real estate and maturity.
Even though it’s only episode one, we already begin to see the cracks in Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute’s friendship. And, quite frankly, we also see the cracks in Kristen’s friendships with Katie and Lala Kent as well. And it all comes back to Kristen’s kind-of-sort-of-ex-boyfriend Brian Carter. They aren’t together, but she’s still funding his life and hooking up with him. Lala, Katie, and Stassi are sick of hearing about it and just seem to be tired of Kristen’s shit in general.
Lisa Vanderpump makes an appearance this episode as well, but surprisingly, not for the Kristen bashing, which we know she enjoys. Instead, she talks with Lala about Lala’s sobriety. I wish she showed up for Katie and Tom’s party instead. That would have been hilarious to see her out of her element among the hard partying and drunken drama.
Jax and Tom Sandoval have tension over their new houses and Tom skipping out on Jax’s “pre bachelor party.” I just feel bad for Schwartz. I feel like he’s gonna be stuck in the middle of this bro on bro drama all season long.
And then there’s the arrival of the new cast members. Scheana Marie has a past with Max Boyens, the Tom Tom general manager. Max has a present with new cast member Dayna Kathan, who is probably gonna argue with Scheana at some point this season. Scheana also clearly has something going with new SURver Brett Caprioni. This is gonna be good. I can feel it.
It sounds like we are in for a lot of drama and overlapping relationships this season. I’m so ready.
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TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT KRISTEN’S FEUDS WITH THE OTHER CAST MEMBERS? ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW PEOPLE JOINING THE SHOW?
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Real Housewives of Dallas Season 4 vacillated back and forth from being a total snooze to a total downer with some heavy content. It’s not quite over since the reunion is still playing out, but there’s always some RHOD chatter on social media.
Both fans and cast members have been outraged about LeeAnne Locken’s comments about Kary Brittingham’s Mexican heritage. There’s no doubt that LeeAnne’s remarks will be a focal point of the remaining reunion episodes. Now, in the off-season, a video surfaced of Brandi Redmond seemingly making fun of Asians. Wow, Bethenny, wow. No one expected these headlines on a show that focused around a “poop hat” for all of its first season, yet here we are. Recently, Mrs. Highland Park herself, Kameron Westcott, shared her two cents on her costars’ recent controversies.
Screenshots of Kameron’s Instagram Stories (with a pink background, of course) show us what Kam thinks about all of the recent drama. It’s unclear if she deleted the IG Story or if it simply expired after twenty-four hours. Thank god for screenshots. Let’s dive in!
Anyway, Kameron began, “I was comfortable calling out LeeAnne as a friend for her comments, and I am comfortable calling Brandi out as a friend as well. None of this is ok.” It really isn’t. Not OK at all.
Kameron said what a lot of us have been thinking: “I can’t believe we even have to go over these things in 2020.”
The Nicole Kidman doppelgänger continued, “I will not take part in humiliating anyone, but I have to say that these things will not fly and I am not going to sit and say nothing about it either.”
Ultimately, Kameron concluded, “I hope we can all learn to be accepting and love one another.” That would be the ideal situation, but something tells me that’s much easier said than done. The social media mudslinging seems to escalate day by day. Will this trickle into Real Housewives of Dallas Season 5? Time will tell. And so will tomorrow night’s reunion episode.
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT KAMERON’S COMMENTS? DO YOU THINK BRANDI AND LEEANNE HAVE LEARNED FROM THESE SCANDALS? OR ARE THEY JUST TRYING TO REHABILITATE THEIR IMAGES WITH APOLOGIES AND DEFLECTIONS?
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This season of Below Deck is toxic in the extreme. Every single episode is like Game Of Thrones — with shammies and champagne. I need Xanax to even get through an episode of trying to figure out who’s the double-agent villain or the actual heroine.
I love Kate Chastain, and I cannot imagine enduring what’s happening on that boat with such a stiff upper lip, let alone rising above it, but I think we can all agree it was out of line for Kate to repeat to Rhylee Gerber that Ashton Pienaar blamed her for the fishing episode. Should Kate have spoken to Captain Lee Rosbach to disavow Ashton’s claims? Absolutely, but sharing it with Rhylee directly, when the situation is already so irascible, smacked of Kate wanting to enact some revenge. Ashton deserved it, but the fall guy (or girl) here is now Rhylee.
So Kevin Dobson has an inferiority complex as massive as his bald spot. After a breakfast of overly salty eggs, Kevin is the most overly salty egg on board! Charter guest Justine came to him “chef to chef” to ask him to “step it up” for dinner. Kevin bristled with rage at being confronted. I’m not sure if Kevin has an issue with women, or with authority? He surely doesn’t respect the women on board (although he now seems to be able to work fairly well with Simone Mashile and Courtney Skippon, unless looks are deceiving?), but Kevin has also been openly dismissive of his BOSS questioning him.
Kevin’s biggest problem seems to be that he’s disorganized. Like he almost puts cream cheese in the sushi for lunch until Courtney reminds him (again) that some of the guests are dairy-free. KEVIN – THE PREFERENCE SHEET IS HANGING ON THE WALL. Thank god this guy didn’t go into the medical profession!
To be fair, Justine had no business saying anything to Kevin about the food given that the primaries were so happy with the fare (and even mentioned it in the tip hand-off), but the way Kevin responded to even the slightest pushback was deplorable. Also, Justine was right: that breakfast was a total M-E-S-S.
Meanwhile, Rhylee is once again butting heads with the deck crew. After the disastrous fishing expedition (which I blame on Ashton) Rhylee learns from Kate that Ashton went to Captain Lee, embellished the story to claim the authorities found their boat fishing in illegal waters thus upsetting the guests, and now Brian de Saint Pern is barely speaking to her while they’re setting up the infamous toys, aka the deck crew rage traps.
Brian just wants to avoid another situation with Rhylee, who is turning everything into an argument. I really like the relationships Rhylee seems to have with the women on board, and she is definitely a hard worker, but she 100% has issues with men and or authority. She’s like Kevin, but in reverse. Rhylee misinterprets every single redirection or suggestion as a criticism. She is the lowest person on the pecking order so she needs to suck it up to a degree! I don’t know if the the guys are outright ignoring her suggestions, but it certainly seems like Rhylee can be very impossible to work with. Like when Ashton was trying to teach her knots last episode and she freaked out about being singled out — even though Tanner Sterback was also being taught the same knots.
The larger problem is that Rhylee knows Ashton doesn’t like her. Maybe with good reason? Rhylee also knows Ashton doesn’t want her on his crew (with good reason?), but instead of handling this like a leader, Ashton has cultivated a culture of us vs. Rhylee among the deck crew. He should not, under any circumstances, be engaging in complaining about her with other crew members. He should not be allowing Brian to vent about not wanting to work with her. Instead, Ashton should be reaching out to Captain Lee to see about arranging a team-wide meeting to get to the bottom of their communication problems.
One person who is finally having some success is Simone. It seems that without a crush on Tanner to distract her, Simone can actually be decent at her job. The guests love her, she seems more confident with service, and Kate rewards her by having Simone assist on the beach picnic. This is a coveted prize in yachting, which is all you need to know about how grueling and thankless the job is. Yachting is like motherhood but you can’t drink wine whenever you need to cope, and you’re raising forever babies. Like Jamie, the guest who refused to share a room, thus necessitating that Captain Lee gave up his own quarters to accommodate a bed-less guest.
Courtney and Brian also appear to be doing rather well. Brian even mentions the cursed ‘Where will this go after the season ends?’ question. Which you know means in heartache and with a secret girlfriend being unearthed from Thotland on the isle of Instagram.
Taking a break from his issues with Rhylee and Kate, Ashton indulges charter guest Molly, a former America’s Next Top Model winner, in an impromptu photoshoot. I don’t remember watching the Molly season of AMTM, but if she finds Ashton hot she’s crazier than Tyra in a smize-frenzy during the post-makeover photoshoots. Just yuck!
Following the beach party success (the high point of the episode), Kevin does indeed step it way up for dinner! Even Captain Lee is impressed. Horrid room thief Jamie almost missed dinner since no one – including her own cousin – cared enough to go knock on her door and wake her up.
While the guests are eating, Rhylee asks to speak to Ashton about what was said regarding the fishing expedition. She instantly reveals that she heard from Kate that she was blamed. This sets the tone for a conversation that goes from two people tensely speaking, to all-out yelling about respecting authority in about 30 seconds.
Ashton’s dislike of Rhylee is palpable and he hisses that he’s “tolerating” her, while pointing aggressively at her. Ashton also suggests that Rhylee “look within herself” to find out why she can’t get along with others. Um, might Ashton want to take his own advice??
Rhylee snaps that Ashton needs to stop pointing in her face (agreed – that is not how a boss addresses his employee!) so he rudely dismisses her from the conversation. Ashton needs to have that finger of rage cut right off!
As Kate will later say they are both at fault, but as bosun Ashton is the more responsible party. Ashton can’t manage Rhylee because he doesn’t want to. He went into that conversation annoyed and disinterested, and I think she was truly trying to keep calm and collected. Of course she doesn’t necessarily want to be managed. She wants more instruction, then bristles at getting that instruction. Rhylee also seems in denial that she is 3rd deckhand.
After speaking with Brian about his own argument with Rhylee, Ashton’s mind is made up that he would rather have one less deckhand than deal with her constant negativity.
The next morning, following another win with breakfast, Justine comes into the galley to apologize and thank Kevin, but he refuses to even look at her! Courtney reminds him that he’s spiraling into a pool of self-doubt and nobody likes a collapsed soufflé! Kevin is just plain rude, but he also needs one of those online shrinks I hear advertised on podcasts. Kevin ‘just breathe — it’s OK for people to ask you a question about steak…
Not a moment after the guests said goodbye, Ashton is requesting to speak with Captain Lee in his temporary quarters which resemble my living room after a Target shopping spree: bags of stuff everywhere and me digging through them surprised at what I find. Captain Lee is literally putting his cup of coffee on the couch, so his mood is shall we say, more negative than Rhylee’s. Ergo not the time for Ashton to come blazing in announcing that the entire crew hates Rhylee, so he wants to fire her and finish the remainder of the season one person down. Captain Lee is shocked given that they have SIX DAYS, or two charters left, but agrees to consider Ashton’s recommendation.
Captain Lee then calls Brian and Tanner into his office situation to get their perspective. They are both more than willing to throw Rhylee right under the anchor and call her toxic to the morale of the team. I believe Tanner compares her to “a cancer.” Then Lee requests an audience with Kate, who tells him she finds Rhylee lovely (and in fact would rather work with her than Simone), but Captain Lee knows Rhylee’s issues with authority and mentions that she takes no accountability for the issues she’s having on board. Again. I wonder if it would be different if Rhylee were working with a female superior?
Later as Kate is ironing away, Ashton confronts her about repeating private conversations to Rhylee. Kate feels no remorse for telling Rhylee what was being said in the so-called confidence of the leadership department. Ashton is furious, but is trying to act like he’s this rational person, totally in the right, and questions Kate about why she felt it was her place to meddle in the way he manages his team. Kate’s answer is simple: She doesn’t think Ashton can manage his team effectively. Touche!
I love (sarcasm!) Ashton’s revisionist history in pretending he has no idea why Kate has such an issue with him, and acting like her attitude – just like Rhylee’s – is the problem. Yet the second Kate is out of earshot Ashton calls her a “f–king bitch.”
Finally, Lee calls Rhylee into his office area to inform her that there is a situation, but he hasn’t made a decision about her fate just yet. With less than a week to go, you’d think Ashton could just suck it up? Also after the way he behaved towards Kate, should Ashton really be questioning anyone else’s behavior. If only Captain Lee knew…
TELL US – SHOULD RHYLEE BE FIRED?
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Even though Lisa Vanderpump is done with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she still has another Bravo show to promote, and this one has her name in the title. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Lisa answered a bunch of questions about Vanderpump Rules Season 8 (which is back tonight, yay!), but, of course, some fans in the audience just had to slip in some Real Housewives-related questions.
Thankfully, no one mentioned Lucy Lucy Apple Juice or anything involving the dog adoption gone wrong. And, surprisingly, no one mentioned Lisa’s sworn enemy Kyle Richards. They probably weren’t allowed to. However, Kyle’s longtime pre-Real Housewives friend Bethenny Frankel did come up in conversation.
A member of the audience asked Lisa, “If you had to be locked in a room with any of the Real Housewives, who would it be, and what would you talk about to make the time pass?”
Initially, Lisa said, “That’s not fair seeing as I just left.” Then she realized that every Housewife was on the table for that question and she wasn’t limited to the Beverly Hills ladies.
Ultimately, Lisa answered, “I think probably Bethenny, but I probably wouldn’t have to discuss anything with her because I wouldn’t get a word in edgewise because she’d never stop talking!” She was laughing when she shared her thoughts. So was this shade? Maybe, but it was light shade at best, especially given LVP’s historical prowess for shade throwing. Hopefully, the Bethenny Stans aren’t actually offended by this. But, even if they are, the Lisa Vanderpump fanbase always has her back.
TELL US- WAS LISA VANDERPUMP SHADING BETHENNY FRANKEL? OR WAS HER ANSWER HARMLESS FUN?
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Even though Real Housewives of Orange County Season 14 just wrapped, rumors are already circulating about Season 15. I’m not even talking about the storylines. I’m referring to the long-awaited casting shakeup. Andy Cohen recently hinted that some major cast changes are on the horizon. We all know production isn’t afraid to make power moves after they demoted the OG of the OC herself, Vicki Gunvalson. She claims that she’s done with the show if she doesn’t get a full-time offer. And, of course, Vicki someone planted rumors that Vicki secured her orange for Season 15.
In the past couple days, social media snoops noticed that Tamra Judge *reportedly* removed all mentions of “RHOC” from her social media bios. To be fair, no one shared a screenshot of what her social media bios looked like before. It’s not completely certain that she even mentioned the show in the first place. Nevertheless, most of the some viewers are tired of Tamra’s snake-like ways.
I hope this doesn’t mean that Lydia McLaughlin is back in the mix, but she did recently answer some fan questions on her Instagram Stories. According to the Instagram account iRealHousewives, one of Lydia’s followers wrote “Thoughts on Vicki’s future on RHOC?”
In response, Lydia shared, “The cast doesn’t know who has been asked back yet so anything online is pure speculation.” I really hope she’s just saying this from her two seasons of experience and not because she’s returning to the show.
Nevertheless, the self-proclaimed “Paris Hilton rich” RHOC alum added, “I love @vickigunvalson and I think she brings a lot to the show. She is real and honest and I can’t picture #rhoc without her.” I can. I mean, we all saw the first few episodes of Season 14 sans Vicki. It wasn’t a major loss. However, let’s be honest: Vicki’s meltdown eclipsed the Season 14 reunion. No one else gave us something to talk about.
Lydia concluded, “There are a couple mean girls that I think bring the show down that I hope finally get the boot.” Who could she be referring to? Tamra obviously comes to mind. And we all know that Lydia couldn’t stand Shannon Beador.
TELL US- DO YOU WANT VICKI TO STAY ON REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY? DO YOU MISS LYDIA? WHO ARE THE “MEAN GIRLS” THAT LYDIA IS REFERRING TO?
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