Kelly Dodd is no stranger to controversy. In fact, the former Real Housewives of Orange County star has made a living off of it. While she was still employed as a housewife, Kelly made insensitive comments about the coronavirus and mocked the Black Live Matter movement with a silly hat. Both fans and Bravo had enough of antics. But that hasn’t deterred Kelly one bit. Since her firing, she’s become even more unhinged. She’s made transphobic comments on Instagram and even claimed that Heather Dubrow’s minor child gave her covid.
Now that Kelly isn’t under Bravo’s watchful eye, she’s free to be her fully offensive self. She started a podcast with her husband, Rick Leventhal, where they talk about….housewives. Yep, that’s her content. For someone who continuously made jabs about the network and how they treated her, she sure does love talking and profiting off it.
So of course, where there is housewives scandal, there’s Kelly adding her two cents. As reported by Page Six, Kelly took to a recent episode of her YouTube channel to discuss the firing of Jennie Nguyen. The now former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City newbie found herself in a firestorm of controversy after racially offensive memes from her old Facebook account resurfaced.
As far as Kelly is concerned, it comes down to vetting and background checks that Bravo should have done. Said Kelly, “Should they have better vetted Jennie? Probably. But that’s on them.” She then distanced herself from any comparisons. Kelly added,“This is about Bravo and Andy Cohen, not me. This is their brand and their business. If they feel they need to fire her, that’s their decision. I don’t work for them anymore. I did, and they fired me, and a lot of people think they fired me for the wrong reasons but that was Bravo’s choice.”
Kelly continued to make sure that no one gets her confused with Jennie and her actions. She stated, “Don’t lump me in with this chick. I don’t know her and I’m not getting involved in what she did or didn’t say. I don’t know if she’s racist but I do know I am not!” Kelly concluded, “I know what racism feels like. I grew up Mexican on the west side of Phoenix with a very diverse group of friends, and I still have a very diverse group of friends.”
TELL US – ARE YOU SURPRISED BY KELLY’S COMMENTS ON JENNIE? DO YOU AGREE WITH HER THAT BRAVO SHOULD HAVE VETTED JENNIE BETTER?
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We are snow excited about this season! On Jan. 26, CBS announced the all-new star-studded cast that will be heading into the Big Brother home for season three of Celebrity Big Brother....Raise your glasses high because Vanderpump Rules Season 9 is officially done. Both parts of the reunion delivered the goods, so I’m hopeful the story will continue in a tenth season. Part 2 of the reunion focused on Lala Kent and Randall Emmett’s demise. Raquel Leviss and Lisa Vanderpump were on fire! Raquel called out Lala for being Rand’s mistress and LVP spoke about the karmic fallout that comes with that. It’s about time Lala’s people reminded her of how she started.
The first part of the reunion was focused on James Kennedy and Raquel’s shocking split. Literally no one on stage saw it coming and their emotions were very real. The only person who wasn’t sad about James and Raquel’s break-up was Raquel’s dad! That man was so damn happy for his daughter to be free of James. It gave me the warm and fuzzies to see him pick Raquel up after filming, and say, with every ounce of confidence, that her life was only going to get better. Seriously, who can disagree with him? Well maybe, James, but it looks like he’s already seeing someone. And not everyone’s on board with it.
In an exclusive interview with E! News’ Daily Pop, Scheana Shay talked about filming the reunion and James and Raquel’s split. “It was a complete shock that they were breaking up.” It was definitely a shock to everyone on Pump Rules, considering the fact that the season revolved around their engagement.
Scheana continued, saying, “The fact that [Raquel] said, ‘We’re breaking off the engagement,’ I thought, okay, they’re just putting a pause on the wedding they actually hadn’t even started planning, and were just going to focus on their relationship, maybe do couples therapy or something. So, I was shocked that they called it off completely.”
Still, Scheana saw some “warning signs.” She told Daily Pop, “In hindsight when you really look at everything, it’s not that shocking.” Scheana apparently was “making reference to James “past behavior” and “how things had been going over the past few months.”
It seems like James is over the shock of the split because he “was just recently spotted holding hands with a new woman.” We don’t know her name or anything else, but, “a source told E! News” that James is only “casually seeing” this person. They asked Scheana what she thought about James’ new woman friend, but she said, “I don’t even want to give her, like, any clout.”
Then Scheana threw shade at James and his lady friend, “She’s a fan.” Haha! I love it so much. But it’s even better considering the fact that no one at the reunion believed Brock Davies when he said he didn’t know who Scheana was before they started dating. Something tells me Brock was a big fan of both Scheana and her bank account.
TELL US- WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT JAMES ALREADY DATING? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE SHADE SCHEANA THREW HIM? DO YOU THINK BROCK KNEW SCHEANA WAS FAMOUS BEFORE THEY STARTED DATING?
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Bill Pruin's daughters want to set the record straight. Bill died from a gunshot wound in 1995, three months before Iowa news anchor Jodi Huisentruit went missing. Though some...Next Tuesday will be the season premiere of the latest season of Real Housewives of New Jersey and we will get to see Teresa Giudice all loved up with her fiancé Luis Ruelas. Not to get too ahead of ourselves, but the next season after that could see us watching Teresa walk down the aisle (or could she get her own spin off?). Regardless, it seems like Teresa and Luis are in full on wedding planning mode and are currently nailing down the perfect location for their nuptials after getting engaged in October 2020.
The couple told E! News that they are currently considering two locations to host their big day – New Jersey of course, and Capri in Italy, a beautiful island close to where Teresa’s family originally hails from. Whilst the bride to be ponders about her location, it seems like the potential guest list is also on her mind.
Teresa teased about who she could invite including whether her co-stars would be getting an invite to the Bravo wedding of the year- “I mean, the way it’s looking I don’t think so. Some definitely, I don’t know about some of the others.” Can’t wait for season 12 to give us the tea as to where Tre’s allegiances lie. But it looks like we won’t be seeing Melissa Gorga or Dolores Catania as bridesmaids as the couple decided they won’t be having any bridal parties participating in the ceremony.
However, it seems that one person who I admittedly didn’t think would be in consideration for an invite could see himself scoring a seat at the wedding – no other than Teresa’s ex-husband himself, Joe Giudice. “Oh definitely, yeah, definitely,” Teresa shared when asked about whether he would be invited. “Of course, I have to invite him because our hometown is like 45 minutes from Capri” she added. Considering Joe was deported from the U.S. and cannot come back anytime soon, to have him there would mean the location would have to be in Capri.
It seems as though the blending of both families is going well with Teresa and Luis stating that kids from both sides of the family would play a part in the wedding, and that Luis and Joe get on really well. When asked about the father of her children getting along with her new fiancé, she said “Luis and Joe get along and we went to go see him in the Bahamas. Luis reached out to Joe, DM’d him saying we’re coming out there to pick up Audriana [Giudice] together, can we all have dinner together.”
Teresa continued, “So we had dinner together and it made my daughters really happy. And it really wasn’t my doing, it was Luis’ doing and I love him even more for that. He’s pretty amazing. It was really nice and it made my daughters so happy. I was so nervous about it but thank God it all worked out and it was a beautiful thing because my daughters were so happy.”
After the rough few years that Teresa had with losing her parents, serving time in prison and seeing the end of her marriage, this is the feel good stuff we always wished for her to have. It’s nice to know that everyone is playing happy families, but I still can’t see Joe Giudice watching them say I do…but maybe that’s the kind of TV we need for season 13.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK JOE GIUDICE WILL GO TO THE WEDDING? DO YOU THINK TERESA SHOULD GET MARRIED IN ITALY OR NEW JERSEY?
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