Assured of Acquittal, Trump Makes Case for a Second Term

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Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Doctor and Girlfriend in California Assault Case

Prosecutors said an exhaustive, monthslong review of the case determined there was “no provable evidence” that the couple “committed any sexual offense.”

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'Married at First Sight' couples slam Michael for alleged ultimatum to Meka and how he handled things afterwards

Married at First Sight's prior couples have slammed Michael Watson for his alleged sex ultimatum to Meka Jones and how he handled things afterwards.

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Assured of Acquittal, Trump Makes Case for a Second Term

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Lego Masters: a review of Fox’s Will Arnett-hosted competition

Lego Masters is firmly in Will Arnett’s sardonic grip, but it’s still a dazzling display of talent, creativity, and multicolor spectacle.

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State of the Union Updates: Trump Adds Reality Show Flourishes to Address

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Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Alum Kim Richards Will Publish Memoir In April; Says She Is “Unafraid And Unapologetic”

Kim Richards is the former Housewife who keeps popping up like the Energizer Bunny. Not the gifted stuffed bunny that she refused to accept from Lisa Rinna for her grandson, however. Kim has reportedly filmed for season 10 of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, so it is a safe bet we will see her on when the show returns.

We all know Kim has led a life of drama, which has often been showcased on RHOBH. Issues with alcohol and a few run-ins with the law are just the tip of the iceberg for Kim. The ugly feuds with her sister Kyle Richards were a major storyline when Kim was a Housewife. Last fall, it was announced that Kim was writing her autobiography, which always seems fitting for a former child star. Now, more information is coming out about the book–and it doesn’t look like Kim is holding anything back.

Kim’s new memoir, The Whole Truth: The Reality of It All, will be released on April 28th. Us Weekly reported a statement about her book that Kim made through Harper Collins Publishers. She declared, “I’ve come to learn that holding onto secrets is like holding your breath. Finally, I feel strong enough to speak my truth. I am unafraid and unapologetic. I am ready.”

Yes, Kim may be ready to speak her truth, but is Kyle? How about Lisa and Harry Hamlin? Will we learn the truth about the alleged dirt Kim alluded to about Harry in Amsterdam?

 

RELALTED: Lisa Rinna’s Daughter Is Dating One Of Kim Richards’ Relatives

 

The Harper Collins statement goes on to describe Kim’s book, revealing, “The Whole Truth is the harrowing, all-too-real and ultimately empowering story of a woman who has been through hell and back, endured, grew strong and learned to become her own fiercest advocate.”

Certainly, Kim has had a difficult life. From child stardom to a fiancé who was murdered while she was talking on the phone with him, Kim has been through the wringer. Often of her own making, it could be said.

 

RELALTED: Vanderpump Dogs Gala Photos- Lisa Vanderpump, Kim Richards, Shannon Beador, Ariana Madix, & More!

 

So far, the book sounds like it might be like other celebrity memoirs. But the Harper Collins statement gets a little more interesting. It goes on to promote Kim’s book as, “The soul-baring confession of a woman revealing what it was like to be treated like a show pony as a child star, as a disposable object as a wife, a whipping post as a sister and as a tabloid commodity as a celebrity.”

Take a guess as to which part of that statement will cause a huge dust up with Kyle! Yes, “a whipping post as a sister” is probably not going to go down well in the Umansky household, considering Kyle’s often contentious relationship with Kim. I doubt that the sharply-pointed dig is directed towards Kathy Hilton.

 

RELALTED: Kim Richards “Never Really Liked” Camille Grammer’s Ex Kelsey Grammer

 

Don’t fret that Kim’s book will be all doom and gloom, however. The Harper Collins statement goes on to tease, “But above all else, it is a triumphant tale of a determined woman who refused to be broken — a fierce, loving and relatable human who is strong, flawed and real.” The memoir is further described as, “unvarnished, painful and authentic.”

OK, I am reserving my copy now. If Kim is completely honest in the book as stated, her autobiography will be a page turner. I want to know all about notorious stage mama Big Kathy, Kim’s marriage into a billionaire family, how she really feels about her arrests–and what it is like to be a “whipping post as a sister.”

 

RELALTED: Exclusive BravoCon Interview: Kim Richards On Why She Wants Lisa Vanderpump & Kyle Richards To Make Up; Wonders If Kyle Felt Pressure From Other Housewives To Confront Lisa

 

TELL US- WILL YOU BUY KIM’S BOOK? DO YOU THINK SHE WILL REALLY BE HONEST ABOUT HER LIFE? 

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Live Trump State of the Union Stream

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Jax Taylor Regrets Having Tom Sandoval In His Wedding; Says Tom Did “Some Below The Belt” Things This Season

The Jax Taylor and Tom Sandoval feud is still going strong. Tom ended up serving as one of the best men in Jax’s wedding after Jax demoted him, but they’re clearly not on good terms these days.

And I’m sure it doesn’t help that Jax has been talking shit about Tom’s girlfriend, Ariana Madix, in interviews and on social media.

Jax and his wife Brittany Cartwright reflected on their wedding in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight. Jax confessed, “I did change my mind and allow him to not only come to the wedding, but to be in my wedding and do I regret that, yes.”

Jax also capitalized on major buzz word in reality TV (and in general): “bullied.” Don’t get me wrong, bullying is very much a real thing, but I don’t feel like some of these reality stars use it correctly. Nevertheless, Jax said, “I just wish I would’ve stood by what I said. I felt I was a little bit bullied into bringing him back in.” And was he “bullied” by production who wanted the highest tensions possible at that wedding? Or Sandoval himself?

 

RELATED: Ariana Madix Says Jax Taylor Is A Bullsh*tter, A Liar, & A Propagandist And Tom Sandoval Is A Really, Sweet Awesome Friend That Cares About People”

 

Then, Jax teased what we can expect from this feud for the rest of the season. He claimed, “There’s some things he did during this season that haven’t played out yet that were just uncalled for, absolutely uncalled for — below the belt, should never, ever happen to a friend — and I made my decision that I did not want him there. I don’t want to give it away but it’s really uncalled for.” I cannot wait to see what he’s referring to. But, this might actually be a legitimate grip since Brittany actually yes “f*ck off” at Sandoval at some point this season.

Brittany explained, “There’s things where … you would always expect your best friends to be on your side and have your back and not question your judgment or your character, and I felt like that’s what Tom did.”

 

RELATED: Jax Taylor Says Tom Sandoval & Ariana Madix Are “Glorified Roommates”; Thinks Their Relationship “Won’t Last Forever”

 

The woman that Lisa Vanderpump refers to as a “Kentucky muffin” continued, “That really upset me, because he knows us very well and he knows the type of people that we are and just to even, like, second guess us at all? It just was very disrespectful, and it really hurt my feelings, especially after how hard I worked to try to, like, keep them together.” And, again, I’m sure Jax talking shit about Ariana isn’t helping what’s left of their friendship.

TELL US- DO YOU THINK JAX MADE THE RIGHT CALL KEEPING SANDOVAL IN THE WEDDING? WILL THEY EVER BE FRIENDS AGAIN? ARE YOU TEAM JAX OR TEAM SANDOVAL?

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Petrix Barbosa é o segundo eliminado do 'BBB 20', com alta rejeição

Em meio a acusações de assédio, o ginasta Petrix Barbosa foi o segundo eliminado do “Big Brother Brasil 20”, com 80,27% dos votos, na noite de ontem. Ele encarou um paredão quádruplo com Babu Santana, Hadson e Pyong Lee. A disputa teve quatro nomes...

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Eliminado do 'BBB20' e acusado de assédio, Petrix denunciou treinador em caso de abuso sexual

Eliminado do "Big Brother Brasil 2020", com 80,27%, Petrix foi um dos atletas que denunciou o técnico Fernando de Carvalho Lopes de abuso sexual. Dentro da casa, o ginasta acabou sendo acusado de assédio e terá que prestar depoimento na Delegacia...

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Ivy e Daniel são os escolhidos da Casa de Vidro para entrar no 'BBB 20'

A casa mais vigiada do Brasil volta a ter 18 participantes, como no início do reality. Ivy e Daniel entram no "Big Brother Brasil 20" após ficarem desde sexta-feira confinados na Casa de Vidro, localizada no Via Parque Shopping, na Barra da...

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The Miami Drama Continues Tonight On Vanderpump Rules

The bachelor/bachelorette party “fun” continues tonight on Vanderpump Rules; i.e. the cast will continue to get drunk and argue in Miami.

The guys dress up as old men because, well, Tom Sandoval coordinated this party and it’s hilarious.

Kristen Doute reminds Katie Maloney that she was there when Tom Schwartz was “f*cking around on her for years.” DAMN, Kristen. She really went there. And, of course, Stassi Schroeder is there to back up Katie in this ongoing/annoying feud.

And, of course, all three of them continue to talk sh*t about each other. Wow, what a fun vacation! I’m so jealous I wasn’t there. Even Brittany Cartwright complains that she’s “getting tired” of this feud.

 

RELATED: Vanderpump Rules Star Katie Maloney Says It Was “Poison” To Support Kristen Doute

 

Back in West Hollywood, Lisa Vanderpump is preparing to celebrate PRIDE at her restaurants. James Kennedy FINALLY returns (or at least he’s mentioned), and once again, he’s begging Lisa to let him DJ for a major event. He’s hoping to spin at TomTom for the pride event.

 

RELATED: Lisa Vanderpump On Why She Gives Vanderpump Rules Star James Kennedy So Many Chances

 

Meanwhile, manager Danica Dow “warns” Dayna Kathan that Max Boyens is a womanizer and tells her some story about how he hooked up with her friend, led her on, and ghosted her. Is that a surprise? I don’t think Dayna is shocked by that revelation. Also lol at Danica pretending she actually cares about Dayna all of a sudden. We all see right through this, girl.

 

RELATED: Stassi Schroeder Shades New Vanderpump Rules Star Danica Dow & Charli Burnett; Compares Them To Scheana Marie

 

Watch Vanderpump Rules 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. Check our site tomorrow for our Vanderpump Rules episode recap!

TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE MIAMI DRAMA? DO YOU MISS SEEING MORE OF JAMES KENNEDY ON THE SHOW? DO YOU CARE ABOUT DAYNA’S DRAMA WITH MAX?

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Sydney Hightower slams accusations she had lied to 'The Bachelor' star Peter Weber

Sydney Hightower is slamming accusations she had lied about being bullied in high school during her one-on-one date with Peter Weber that aired on The Bachelor on Monday night.

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Victoria Fuller and Peter Weber's 'Cosmo' cover scrapped due to 'The Bachelor' bachelorette's "White Lives Matter" affiliation

The Bachelor bachelorette Victoria Fuller's cover photo with Peter Weber will apparently not be published on Cosmopolitan's digital issue after all.

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Dentista Vânia Peres faz sucesso nas redes com informações sobre harmonização facial

Você sabe que a gente aqui do Treta Show ama garimpar histórias. Desta vez, você vai conhecer a cirurgiã dentista Vânia Peres, do Pantanal sul mato-grossense. Em meio a uma crise financeira após a construção da clínica dos seus sonhos, ela decidiu...

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Tom Girardi & Erika Jayne Slam $3 Milion Lawsuit As A “Publicity Stunt”; Want Lawsuit Removed From Public Eye

Another day, another legal issue among the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast members. As you may recall, Erika Jayne and her husband Tom Girardi are facing a $3 million lawsuit over an unpaid loan.

The latest? Mr. and Mrs. Girardi have fired back with legal documents of their own.

According to legal documents obtained by the website The Blast, The couple failed to pay back a $5 million loan and owe $3 million to Stillwell Madison. This guy accused them of failing to pay back the loan to “fund their lavish lifestyle” instead.

In the document, Erika and Tom state, “The current action was filed as a publicity stunt. Plaintiff filed in federal court using such highly charged language as ‘lavish lifestyle’ and ‘glamorous public image’ with the goal to try to use the Court system as a publicity campaign.” Maybe the guy just “allegedly” wants his money back, which would make sense.

 

RELATED: Erika Jayne’s Husband Tom Girardi Denies Claim He Owes A $40,000 Bill

 

Erika and Tom want the lawsuit to be removed from the public eye; i.e. away from the public court records and into arbitration. The couple also claimed that the contract with the lender stated that any disputes should be handled with arbitration instead of federal court.

Now, we are just waiting on a judge to make a ruling. It really is “XXPEN$IVE” to be Erika Jayne (and Tom Girardi).

 

RELATED: Erika Jayne & Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave Defend Dorit Kemsley When Fan Questions Her Accent During The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Panel At BravoCon

 

TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE CLAIMS FROM THE LEGAL DOCUMENTS FILED BY ERIKA AND TOM GIRARDI? ARE THEY BEING EXPLOITED FOR PUBLICITY? OR ARE THEY JUST STIFFING THIS GUY AFTER HE LOANED THEM SOME MONEY? DO YOU WANT TO SEE THIS LEGAL DRAMA PLAY OUT ON REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS SEASON 10?

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Bachelor Spoilers: How does Peter Weber's 'The Bachelor' season end? Who did Peter pick and end up with? (SPOILERS)

Bachelor spoilers revealing the spoilers The Bachelor viewers want to know about Peter Weber's 2020 season have emerged -- including spoilers which reveal who The Bachelor star picks as his Final 4 women, who Peter's Final 2 bachelorettes are, and how his Final Rose Ceremony ends.

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Report: Elizabeth Lyn Vargas Is Joining Real Housewives Of Orange County

Fans are wondering who will join Real Housewives of Orange County after the news broke that Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Judge are done with the show. Since nothing else has been announced, it’s safe to assume that Shannon Beador, Kelly Dodd, Gina Kirschenheiter, Emily Simpson, aand Braunwyn Windham-Burke will be back for Season 15. Nevertheless, it’s unclear if they’ll be full-time or if they’ll get demoted to a part-time role, like Vicki was for Season 14.

Most likely, nothing will be “officially” confirmed until Season 15 has finished filming and the network is gearing up to promote the show, but there is one name floating around about a possible new cast member.

According to the website TV Deets, Elizabeth Lyn Vargas is the show’s newest Housewife. No, I’m not referring to the Elizabeth Vargas, the A&E reporter and documentary anchor.

TV Deets reports that Elizabeth is good friends with Kelly and she is the Founder/CEO of Edge Music, which is a streaming service and digital music label. The site also shared that Elizabeth is in the middle of divorcing Bernt Bodal, so he will most likely not appear on the show. Then again, we have seen Margaret Josephs’ ex-husband Jan and Dolores Catania’s ex-husband Frank Catania on Real Housewives of New Jersey many times.

 

RELATED: Vicki Gunvalson Denies Trying To Turn Emily Simpson Against Kelly Dodd; Emily Jokes About Vicki Getting Fired From Real Housewives Of Orange County

 

Apparently, Elizabeth has already started filming aand she recently attended Braunwyn’s birthday. Elizabeth is following all of the RHOC cast members on Instagram. Kelly, Emily, and Braunwyn have followed her back. Meanwhile, Gina and Shannon have not, which is no surprise since Shannon has never prided herself on being a member of the RHOC welcome committee and Gina didn’t really give Braunwyn a shot last season.

An insider told TV Deets, “Elizabeth is wild! She is bold, charismatic, and so open.” That sounds promising, yet vague. The website also pointed out that Kelly tweeted, “How is everyone’s week going?” a few days ago. In response, Elizabeth tweeted, “AMAZING” with a winking face emoji and some raised hand emojis. Could that be a hint that Elizabeth joined the show? Or is she simply having an amazing week?

 

RELATED: Real Housewives Of Orange County Star Shannon Beador’s Ex-Husband David Beador Is Engaged To Lesley Cook

 

TELL US- DOES ELIZABETH SOUND LIKE SHE WOULD BE A GOOD FIT FOR THE RHOC CAST

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See Everything's Gonna Be Okay's Josh Thomas Give His All in Epic Drag Performance

"Why does no one ever bring up my really beautiful drag scene," Josh Thomas, star and creator of Freeform's Everything's Gonna Be Okay, asked in a recent interview. Well, now...


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Patrick Dempsey Plots TV Comeback With CBS Political Drama

Patrick Dempsey is going from TV doctor to TV politician. E! News has learned the former Grey's Anatomy star will star in the new CBS pilot Ways & Means and also serve as an executive...


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Torcendo para eliminar Petrix, do 'BBB20', bar em Pernambuco cria promoção: 'Sai Petrix day'

No anúncio divulgado nas redes sociais, um bar da cidade de Garanhuns, interior de Pernambuco, faz um convite para o público: "Venha acompanhar o maior índice de rejeição da história" do "Big Brother Brasil". E na foto está Petrix, que batiza o...

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Tarek El Moussa Strikes Out on His Own With Flipping 101 Series on HGTV

Tarek El Moussa is going out on his own. A year after his solo HGTV pilot was first announced, the network revealed Flipping 101 w/ Tarek El Moussa is hitting the airwaves in March...


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'The Bachelor' recap: Peter cuts Alayah Benavidez and five more women, Tammy Ly and Sydney Hightower feud over startling Kelsey Weier allegations

The Bachelor featured Peter Weber sending Alayah Benavidez home, a feud between Tammy Ly and Sydney Hightower that began over startling Kelsey Weier allegations, and two Rose Ceremonies in which Peter eliminated five more bachelorettes during Monday night's special three-hour Season 24 episode on ABC.

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Just How Good Is Dex's Undercover Game on Stumptown?

Dex Parios is no more! Enter: Crystal. In E! News' exclusive sneak peek of Stumptown's Wednesday, Feb. 5 episode, Dex (Cobie Smulders) is going undercover with the help of Hoffman...


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Why The Bachelor's Peter Weber Says All the Drama Between Contestants Is a Good Sign

The Bachelor generally has no shortage of drama, but this season with Peter Weber handing out the roses, things seem particularly tense between his contestants. During an appearance on Good...


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Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season Premiere Recap: UnSmooth Sails Ahead

Welcome to Below Deck Sailing Yacht where there is the same drama, but in even more confined and awkward spaces! Also now accompanied by fun Pirates of the Caribbean music and some very weird super quick, out of focus camera zooms. Well this should be fun. Naut!

We are however switching from Thailand and motor yacht Valor, to Greece and Parsifal III, a motor sailing yacht where for the past 9 months Captain Glenn Shephard has been living in an awkward a-sexual menage a trois with couple Paget Berry and Ciara Duggan, awaiting the start of charter season.

One of the differences between motor yachts (like Valor from regular Below Deck) and sailing yachts seems to be that the captain and a skeleton crew always remain on board to keep the boat in shape, even when they aren’t in season.

Paget is First Mate and when the boat isn’t in operation Ciara is the sole interior staff, but for this charter season she’ll be joining Pagent on the deck crew. This is totally a producer manipulated scheme to destroy their relationship and with all their lovey-dovey ‘look at how perfect we work together/Ciara is a natural deckhand’ nonsense we reality TV veterans know these starry-eyed lovers are doomed. Their realatiosnhiop is weird anyway. Ciara is a homeschooled American, and when she was 15 her parents decided they would move the family to Spain to live on a 45-foot catamaran. Even though their only sailing epxeirnce had been a 3-day intro to sailing course. Probably taught by an 85-year-old amateur fisherman at the local YMCA and using bath toys.

Anyway, Ciara’s parents needed someone who knew what they were doing so they wouldn’t all drown and end up the subject of a Dateline Mystery, so they hired Paget. And low and behold, Ciara and Pagent became BFF, then roommates, and finally a couple who has been dating for 4 years! In other notables, Paget is British.

Ciara and Paget have been living on Parsifal year-round and putting up framed photos of themselves all around the interior. Captain Glenn is living in the storage cabinet under the stairs I assume? I feel like this is elder abuse and also some degree of trashing your parents house, because the interior looks like a frat party pillow fight took place. There are linens, trash bags, pillows of all shapes and sizes everywhere, plus the kitchen accoutrements are covering the counter in complete disarray. Basically the entire place looks ransacked– and the incoming charter season starts in 24 hours! Which means it’s time to break up this imperfect harmony by welcoming the instruments of destruction: the rest of the crew.

First up is old favorite chef Adam Glick, previously of Below Deck Mediterranean. Adam looks goooood. Healthy, robust – the man has been working out, and avoiding women by living in a van for the last 2 years cooking over an open fire for his dog. Now Adam is back among civilization and hopefully he left his dysfunction somewhere in the Mohave dessert covered in Saran Wrap and diced onions. Adam is not impressed by the state of the kitchen, but he is impressed with sailing (and himself).

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Then there is chief stew Jenna MacGillivray, whose ego is bigger than Adam’s, and approaches stewardessing like this the military and she must whip these little toilet brush wielding madams into shape. Unfortunately Jenna’s own life is kind of a disaster of failed relationship after failed relationship, which is why she immediately starts flirting with Adam. Another notch on the mast of heartbreak is likely headed her way. Right from the jump Jenna seems impossible to deal with. Immediately upon meeting her crew, Madison Stalker and Georgia Grobler, Jenna starts barking orders at them and warns them never to question her authority. Um, even cult leaders start with a more gentle approach.

Of course it does seem like Madison and Georgia need a firm hand. They have the maturity of rebellious teenagers and right away it becomes apparent that they’re treating Jenna with an Us. vs. You mentality and will team up to upend her very sense of laundry. Madison is basically an advertisement for unmedicated ADD and describes herself as an “energizer bunny” who can’t quit, won’t quit, doesn’t quit until she gives 324%. Evidently she did quit basic math. Madison is also an ex-figure skater who approaches all of life with that same devotional obsession needed to toe pick into a double-axel. Even drinking. Within seconds of meeting her new boss Madison brags about getting drunk tattoos with a guy she hooked up with on a former yacht and thinks this shows restraint because she stopped at 2 and didn’t continue dating him. Hmmmm…

Then there is Georgia, a South African with a fake British accent, who likes to party and will definitely be sleeping with at least one person this season. This girl packs a huge amount of baggage. Literally and metaphorically. Georgia just seems like she will be stirring up drama and discord. Also wherever Georgia was previously working as a stewardess she was by herself and learned all of her skills from Instagram and YouTube tutorials. Um… so white glove service ain’t gonna happen with this one. Also where was she working completely unstrained and unskilled –  the Staten Island Ferry?

The third member of the deck crew is an American named Parker McCown. I like Parker right away, because he seems really fun, is thrilled to be here, laughs at himself in an appropriately self-deprecating way, and  seems eager to work hard.

Another difference between Sailing and regular Below Deck, is that the engineer is one of the cast members instead of some invisible force that fixes things in the sly corners of the camera’s eyes. So rounding out the crew is Byron Hissey, who is crammed in a cabin with the Captain. YES – this boat is 120 feet and has a NINE person crew (including the captain) plus accommodates 6 guests. It is a tight squeeze and you can literally see the Bravo camera’s struggling to film and not being able to adjust the aperture in time.

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With the boat a mess and the first guests on board in less than a day the crew immediately leaps into working nonstop. The first guests are a former Apple employee, his wife, their daughter who just graduated from college, one of her friends, and another couple who is celebrating something of a honeymoon. The second couple is flying from Vegas where they got married the day before. Thankfully these guests have no weird preference sheet demands, and their only request is wanting to have a fancy champagne dinner their first night. Also they like sushi.

Miraculously the boat is semi-together when the guests walk up the dock. Instead the trouble is with the guests — namely that 2 of them are missing! The newly married couple pulled a no-show and will be arriving, later – no one knows when or how. The present and accounted for guests are lovely, low-maintenance people who just want to relax and watch the ocean. How on earth did Bravo convince these people to be part of the show?

Shockingly the guests quarters are insanely spacious compared to where the crew lives. Also there is an enormous hot tub… which has been sitting cold and unused for 9 months but still no one thought to test the heater before the season started. The oven also sat un-used, so thank god for Byron coming to the rescue with his magical ability to flip the ON button. Seriously Paget never checked the hot tub and didn’t even know how to work the heater — and then the guests wanted to get in it. Oops.

Luckily the raising of the sails will distract from a lot of things. Bad service, slow food, cold hot tubs… raise sails and instantly impressed. Also there is no annoying slide to relentlessly put up and take down like there is on Below Deck, but instead there are sails. And sails can cause even more trouble. On their first time up one of them comes off the track, which is called a “donkey,” because, according to Paget, the track is basically like a big giant donkey schlong up to the sky. This is a huge hassle to fix and Captain Glenn won’t be able to deal with dismantling everything until the guests are no longer on board, so they can’t raise that sail for the duration of the charter (I think… Frankly sailing confuses me. I need to take the class Ciara’s parents took so I can then put my children’s lives in danger by recklessly moving onto a sailboat, then realizing I can’t actually sail after watching a YouTube video)

For the first lunch Adam adheres to the preference sheet and serves sushi. He may complain about Captain Sandy Yawn‘s micromanaging (which is beyond annoying), but Adam did learn to follow the guests requests! And the guests love the sushi!

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Paget and Ciara are already having difficult reconciling dating with being professional. Namely Ciara wants to still act like a couple and like she’s the guest; sitting with the engineer (who becomes captain when Glenn is away from the steering wheel) and trying to kiss Paget when guests can see. Paget is not OK with this breech of conduct – and warns Ciara that she shouldn’t be sitting in front of guests. I agree with Paget, but Ciara immediately appeals to Byron who tells Paget to back-off. So this should be veerrrrrrry interesting!

Then there is another snafu, as Adam is preparing steak for dinner the stewardesses realize there are NO STEAK KNIVES. Except for the cheap silverware the crew eats with which they are forced to use that in the place settings for the guests. This is Ciara’s fault for not managing supplies better.

And of course, just before dinner is to be served, here come the missing two charter guests, arriving via water taxi. And surprise!  They never got married! It turns out they missed their flight to Vegas, because some president made an appearance (from what country we’re not sure) so instead of getting married they drank tons of double gin & tonics, then missed their transportation to the sailing yacht departure, and now here they are, uber drunk, Uber-attention seeking, Uber-not married, and Uber-confusing. So Jenna has the brilliant idea to suggest that Captain Glenn marry them! He’s not even sure he has the authority to do so (or that these two actually want to get married!). These two 40-something adults sound as reckless as Madison. Also what shitty friends to corrupt and disrupt a vacation someone else paid for!

So far I am super intrigued by Below Deck Sailing Yacht. What do you think?

TELL US – ARE YOU WATCHING BELOW DECK SAILING YACHT? ARE YOU GLAD TO SEE ADAM AGAIN? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NEW CAST MEMBERS?

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