Quinta Brunson's Emmy win came with a side of history. The Abbott Elementary creator's victory for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series made her just the third Black writer and the second...It’s been a few months since season 2 of Bling Empire ended. But before it even finished airing, Netflix was hard at work filming season 3. So what can we expect?
As reported by E! News, season 3 will premiere on October 5th. And according to the teaser, Bling Empire is picking up right where it left off from season 2. Anna Shay will receive a “shocking visit from someone in the past,” which viewers noted was Andrew Gray. If you forgot all about Andrew, you were probably blocking him out. He’s the former boyfriend of cast member Kelly Mi Li, who had a hard enough time getting rid of him. The two dated on and off for 5 years but seemingly broke up for good in March of 2021.
Kane Lim, who spent last season being a pot-stirrer, “books a major fashion campaign and surprisingly starts a whole new career.” As for his one-time best friend, Kevin Kreider, he’s rekindling “an old romance.” After being hung up on Kim Lee, I can’t wait to find out who it is.
Naturally, the seasons long rivalry between Anna and Christine Chiu continues. The show’s description teases, “Nearly everyone gets pulled even deeper into the feud between Christine and Anna. How can they bring peace?”
Photos from back in February showed Christine shopping for castle in France, bringing Kevin along with her. They also attended Paris Fashion Week together. Were they there to support Kane? And according to Christine, season 3 will be lighter than past seasons. She said back in May, “There’s so much more and there’s light at the end of the tunnel. There’s light in the form of international trips that are filled with heart and laughter and bling. It was a rocky period. Season 2 is a rocky period and we kind of get our footing back in Season 2. So, to be continued…”
TELL US – WILL YOU WATCH BLING EMPIRE SEASON 3? ARE YOU TEAM ANNA OR CHRISTINE?
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It takes a lot to shock Erika Jayne. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is best known for her shock value in everything she does. Turns out, her estranged husband, Tom Girardi, is the one leaving her shook. And not because of the billions of lawsuits against them.
As reported by Page Six, Erika recently learned that Tom allegedly gave his mistress, Tricia A. Bigelow, $300K in misappropriated funds. The money was supposedly used for a beach condo during their alleged affair.
Erika took to Instagram to express her surprise. She wrote, “Wow. I knew about jewelry, shopping sprees, and plastic surgery but this really threw me for a loop.” The picture she posted with the caption is from a new Los Angeles Times article. The headline reads, “A judge’s affair with Tom Girardi, a beachfront condo and a $300,000 wire from his firm.”
Court documents obtained by the publication claim that Tom used settlement funds form his victims to give Tricia the money. The wire transfer took place in 2015 to help her buy an oceanfront condo in Santa Monica. Those funds were purportedly owed to cancer victims and residents of a polluted Inland Empire Community.
Tricia’s attorney, Alan Jackson, maintained in the piece that the former judge didn’t know Tom was supposedly using client money. He insisted that the transfer “was NOT marked as coming from a [Girardi Keese] trust account.” Alan went on to say claim that Tom “never shared anything with her regarding the source of any gifts.”
According to the report, Erika was only made aware of the large monetary gift when she was in court earlier this month. She stated, “F—k me,” then her team told her not to curse. She added in disbelief, “No way. No way.”
But this isn’t the first time Erika has brought up Tom’s alleged affair(s). One month after she filed for divorce, she called out Tricia on social media. She wrote on Instagram, “This is Justice Tricia A. Bigelow. She was f–king my husband Tom Girardi and he was paying her Saks bill and paying for her plastic surgery.”
Then in a 2021 episode of RHOBH, Erika told her stunned castmates that Tom had been cheating on her for years. She remarked, “I knew a lot because it was so hard to hide and, you know, he was sloppy.”
It’s worth noting that the Los Angeles Times is the same publication that Erika previously slammed for writing an expose on the downfall of the Girardis. It was featured on RHOBH when she left a cast trip early, claiming she was blindsided by it’s release. Erika referred to the article as a “hit piece”.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK ERIKA WAS REALLY SURPRISED? SHOULD TRICIA BE FORCED TO GIVE THE MONEY BACK? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ERIKA ON THIS SEASON OF RHOBH?
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My favorite part of the Real Housewives has arrived! It’s reunion time. Such is the case for Real Housewives of Atlanta, season 14. After a long day of football at my house (yep, it’s back), a reunion is the palate cleaners that I need. The ladies all show up in hot pink to a Jamaican themed set. Complete with exotic birds who aren’t close enough to poop on anyone’s food. Let’s dive in to my takeaways from the reunion.
Ok, to me, everyone showed out. Minus Sanya Richards-Ross. What on earth was she wearing? It was like a combo of two dresses and neither worked. She had some kind of sports bra on one side and a mesh bedazzled overlay on the other. It was just as confusing as her issues with Drew Sidora, but we will get to that. I loved Marlo Hampton’s dress with he overflowing tulle. It’s definitely something I would expect from Marlo. What I didn’t expect was for her to wear her hair how she does all the time – pin straight and parted down the middle. Could she have at least gotten an updo and some showy earrings?
Sheree Whitfield looked stunning with blonde highlights and a formfitting dress, boobs on full display. Kenya Moore came with a lion’s mane of curls and I loved it. Drew had a thigh slit that was almost full exposure when she came on set. And Kandi Burruss rounded things off with a velvet and bejeweled ensemble. All in all, a fine showing.
There seems to be an ongoing fight for who is the Bone Collector now. Sheree might be the original, but producers putting up a shady bone count of all the ladies in their playback montage showed that many bones were collected from all. Although no one seems to want to claim the title. Certainly not Sanya, who said she doesn’t want to fill Sheree’s shoes when it comes to bringing all the tea.
Kandi believes that Drew is the new Bone Collector and Drew uses that moment to try and shade Sanya. But much like all of Drew’s reads, it falls flat. So flat that the producers cut to a silent couch and the birds chirping. Just like crickets would be chirping if they had them. Can Drew please get some help if she’s going to stay on the show? I can’t take much more of the cringe when she tries to land a dig.
Speaking of, Drew was ready to rumble, even if her delivery is tragic. When it comes to her strained relationship with Sanya, all Drew can say is that Sanya is a great runner. Host Andy Cohen admits that he was bummed to see the fallout between Drew and Sanya. Which if I’m being honest, I don’t truly understand to this day. Sanya is accusing Drew of betraying her trust and Drew is accusing Sanya of being a clout chaser.
But Sanya maintained that 1) she doesn’t need clout (debatable) and 2) that she was up front with Drew about when she talked behind her back. But Drew is unwilling to move on. Sanya then goes on to say that the fun, jovial Drew that she first became friends with disappeared when she got around the women. That Drew was all about fighting and and being confrontational. Which is the only way she is going to keep her job so what is the problem here? Sanya is showing what a rookie she is and it looks like she’s in over her head.
Drew goes on to fight with Sheree over Drop It With Drew and how she represents health and wellness. She asserts that she has had 3 kids (ok, this is news to me!) and a hysterectomy so therefore, she is the perfect person to represent Drop It With Drew. I’m not seeing the correlation, but that happens a lot with Drew. Once again, we cut to birds chirping, which is what she deserves, quite frankly.
Most of the season revolved around Sheree and her return to the show. She By Sheree dominated her story line and even garnered more airtime than her tumultuous break up with Tyrone Prison Bae Gilliams. Sheree admits that she thinks he was using her for camera time. And that he was big mad when she wouldn’t sign off on paperwork to get him that camera time. Oh, and that he sucked in bed. All of the things I wanted to know!
But Sheree is resilient, which I guess you have to be to pursue making a line of joggers for 14 years. Andy makes sure to ask Sheree what’s going on with her website and don’t we all want to know! The reunion is obviously taped before the finale, so Sheree is still blissfully ignorant about what’s to come. And what comes is that her website crashed immediately after launch. When it did come back up, fans were stunned at the nerve of her selling a $150 hoodie. They also noted that a lot of her designs looked very similar to what you can find on Shein. Very similar.
But if you love overpaying for things that Housewives make, you’re still out of luck. While I’m writing this, the She By Sheree website is still down. There’s a note saying that they are excited to refresh and relaunch very soon. So around 2036 then.
One of the most surprising parts of this season was the look we got into Marlo’s personal life. Even though she’s been a friend of for years, this is her first turn as a housewife. And I was expecting a whole different storyline. Gone was the Marlo that was there to fight and shade her castmates left and right. Instead, we got a softer, more vulnerable Marlo.
She shared everything from her running away from home at the age of 10, to the abuse that she suffered both at home and in the foster care system. Marlo admits that she doesn’t want to be defined and has always wanted to belong. Which she explains to Andy why it was such a big deal for her to get a peach.
What struck me about this was that the rumors of Marlo not being full time have always suggested she didn’t want her private life out there. And all she gave us was her most private life. It seemed like she wanted to be on RHOA all along and confessed that she always felt like she wasn’t good enough when she got passed over.
I’m shocked that Marlo, who is always so full of confidence and bluster, is revealing just how badly she wanted to get that peach. Marlo is understandably emotional during this whole segment and her castmates admit that they didn’t realize how much she had been through. But Kenya isn’t ready to forgive Marlo for hitting her below the belt when bringing up her soon-to-be ex-husband.
It’s a shame because I think Kenya and Marlo have so much in common. They both want love and acceptance but they can’t seem to get there with each other. While I was originally against the idea of more Marlo on RHOA, maybe another season is what they need. Because an alliance between those two would be what the fans truly deserve.
TELL US – WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE FIRST PART OF THE REUNION? ARE YOU TIRED OF DREW AND HER DOGGIE BONES? DO YOU WANT TO SEE MARLO BACK NEXT SEASON? WHO WAS THE BEST AND WORST DRESSED?
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Welcome to September. The first month of Fall! While many people are trying to fit in their final Summer adventures, reality TV fans are busy enjoying the finale and reunion episodes of their favorite guilty pleasures. The seasonal turnover in programming may be making you feel like there’s a shortage of content enjoy, but grab a PSL and join me for what I’m watching this week!
On Dated and Related contestants spend time in a luxury villa in the South of France looking for love and maybe even a cash prize. The previews for the Netflix dating show are giving Smothered meets Love Island. This series asks if “your sibling could be the key to finding love.” Weird. Essentially, contestants go through various island romances with their brothers or sisters in tow, checking in with them for approval or for tough love. If you’re into birth order theories, confusing family dynamics, or just a bikini-filled dating show, this one might be for you!
Watch on Netflix now.
Anchor drama ahoy!! Last weeks episode left us without a preview of what to expect in episode 10, but the adrenaline of watching Storm Smith wrestle with an anchor chain underwater is still with me. Below Deck Mediterranean has it all, but my primary interest is the slow yet steady decline of chief stew Natasha Webb. Does that make me a monster? Maybe. But after that wine pairing buffet fiasco, I’m at peace with it.
Watch on Bravo at 8 PM ET. The episode is also available to stream on Peacock the next day.
I’ll be honest and say that this show was low on my priority list based on the crumbs of intrigue Selling Sunset has offered us over 5 entire seasons. I changed my mind after reading some “negative” google reviews that complained of the instant drama between the Orange County-based Oppenheim group. After watching the early episodes of Selling The OC, I can confirm this one has it all. Evil twin-like figures, a pick-me villain, and of course, impeccable homes on the California coast.
Watch on Netflix now.
W O W. We have arrived. The mini preview for this week’s Aspen episode could stand alone. There was Kyle Richards screaming “Fuck off I don’t care” at Dorit Kemsley, Dorit defending Erika Jayne to Crystal Kung Minkoff, and Kathy Hilton storming off when Kendall Jenner’s tequila is mentioned on camera instead of her own. I’ll be on my couch wide-eyed with an edible a la Lisa Rinna for this one.
Watch on Bravo at 8 PM ET. The episode is also available to stream on Peacock the next day.
This one is for Love is Blind fans who are curious about where the Season 2 pod romances landed. The special drops on September 16 and will include check-ins with Deepti Vempati, Shayne Jansen, Natalie Lee, Jarette Jones, and Iyanna McNeely. Shake Chatterjee will not be in attendance, despite his claims that the show “begged for him” to come back. Bye then.
Stream on Netflix starting September 16.
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Welcome back to another week of reality TV picks by yours truly. This is going to be one hell of a week between the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Aspen trip. And Bravo is trying out something new with the debut of Real Girlfriends In Paris. But I’m a sucker for reality TV competition and a good spin-off too. So take a look at what I’m watching for the week.
I know a lot of fans don’t care for them, but I LIVE for Real Housewives reunions. And it looks like our favorite peaches have forgotten all about the solidarity of the season finale and have the gloves off. Dressed all in pink, they look lovely. But the trailer features Drew Sidora claiming to be an investor in Sheree Whitfield’s long-awaited fashion line. If she is, can she update us on the website, please? Last I checked it still wasn’t working. Some other highlights include host Andy Cohen clowning Tampa Ralph Pittman about his penchant for massages and Kenya Moore calling out Marlo Hampton for using a fake name.
Watch on Bravo at 8 PM ET. The episode is also available to stream on Peacock the next day.
Ok so I have a confession – I love Naked and Afraid. Its now in it’s 14th season but has approximately 100 spin-off versions. Most notably the XL challenges, where the contestants have to survive in the wild for 40 days instead of the usual 21. The latest installment of XL drops 12 challengers in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Hence, frozen. They have minimal survival items. One being some kind of fur pelt shawl on top, leaving everything else below hanging out. So be prepared to see lots of blurring. The season is already over but Discovery plays the reruns NONSTOP. And I mean NONSTOP. So you can catch up whenever you want.
Watch on Discovery and full episodes are also available to stream on D+.
Bravo has decided to switch up the formula on this one a little bit. Seems like a test for the viewers who are tiring of Housewives. Monday’s episode will be the third of what I’m guessing will be a shortened season. As most new Bravo shows are. Real Girlfriends in Paris follows around 6 American twenty somethings who have moved to the City of Lights. They are forging friendships and looking for love. I admit that I might be aged out of a show featuring twenty somethings but Americans in Paris are always an intriguing concept. While the cast is a little, how do you say….vapid, I like seeing how Americans navigate Europe. The good, the bad and the ugly. This might be my newest hate-watch.
Watch on Bravo at 9 PM ET. The episode is also available to stream on Peacock the next day.
I wouldn’t miss this one for the world. After dragging out the RHOBH cast’s arrival in Aspen, last week’s episode delivered. With a capital D. Erika Jayne went completely off the rail and showed why she is a complete villain. If anyone had even an ounce of sympathy for her situation, that likely went out the window when she told her castmates that she only gives a f— about herself. And not in any context, here. She said it when talking about the orphans and widows that were allegedly bilked out of millions by her estranged husband. But Kathy Hilton is still due for her takedown and this week’s episode might actually give it to us.
Watch on Bravo at 8 PM ET. The episode is also available to stream on Peacock the next day.
Netflix’s hit Love Is Blind is back with the second installment of the show’s spin-off, Love Is Blind: After The Altar. While the first season’s spin-off caught up with contestants two years later, this one jumps right in to the relationships we saw play out on season 2. Sadly, we already know that Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones announced their break up. The only other couple to get married, Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson, recently did the same. Suspicious timing for sure but I’d like to see exactly what went down. So the publicity worked. Fan favorite Deepti Vempati wonders about the possibility of love with castmate Kyle Abrams.
Stream on Netflix on Friday September 16th.
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