Thursday, October 12, 2023

Bachelor in Paradise Season 9, Episode 3 Recap: A Crappy Situation

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Welcome back to the beach! This week on Bachelor in Paradise, the power has flipped. The ladies will be giving out the roses, and the men will be at their mercy. Here’s everything that went down during Bachelor in Paradise Season 9, Episode 3!

Love is a wild ride

12 hours after surviving the first Rose Ceremony, the couples are feeling cozy together. But here comes trouble. Host Jesse Palmer greets Tanner Courtad at the top of the stairs. Tanner admits he is hoping to make a connection with either Kat Izzo or Jess Girod. Jesse arms him with a date card and sends him down to the beach.

When Tanner comes trotting down the stairs, the ladies greet him with huge smiles. Kat had his name on her list, so she’ll be happy he wants to meet her, too. The guys, though, are not so excited to welcome the competition. As Sean McLaughlin says, “We’re f*cked.”

Tanner wastes no time pulling Jess. Jess says Tanner was Number One on her list, so she’s thrilled he’s here. As they walk off to talk, he compliments her on her blue swimsuit.

“Thank you,” she says. “I was bloated today so I put a one-piece on.” You’re over-sharing there, Jess. TMI.

When Tanner pulls Kat, their main topic of conversation seems to be Brayden Bowers, who gave Kat his rose the night before. They agree that Brayden is a great guy.

But in the end, Tanner chooses Kat and asks if she’d like to go on the date with him. Hell, yeah, she would! She jumps up and walks off hand-in-hand with Tanner, without so much as a glance at Brayden. Yikes. That was cold.

So Kat and Tanner trot off to go horseback riding on the beach, while Brayden spends the rest of his day in a deep pit of depression. Is that a knit scarf he’s wearing? I realize he likes to make a bold fashion statement, but it’s about a thousand degrees and humid. Who wears a fuzzy scarf in Mexico?

Choose the person who lights you up

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Despite Brayden’s spiraling, everyone else is “vibing” with their rose partner. Will Urena is happy he gave his rose to Mercedes Northrup last night. “There’s nothing you could do to ruin my day,” he declares happily. Oh, Will. It’s like saying the name of Voldemort. You just gave the producers the perfect opening to ruin your day.

‘Cause here comes Tyler Norris down the steps with a date card. He first pulls Rachel Recchia to chat, and then Jess, who again shares that she’s “bloated.” Come on, Jess. TMI.

Finally, he sits down with Mercedes, who fills him in on the couples scoop. She says that even though Will gave her a rose the night before, they’re both “very open” to exploring relationships with other people. Um, maybe you are, Mercedes. Will, not so much.

So of course, Tyler chooses Mercedes to take on his date. And again, without a backward glance at Will, she goes off hand-in-hand with Tyler. Poor Will.

“This dude has just been put through the wringer here,” Sean says. “At this point, any guy that comes into Paradise is gonna go on a date with Will’s girl.”

Kat dumps Brayden (surprise!) for Tanner

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Finally, Kat and Tanner return from their date. At this point, I’m just noticing that the producers are having some fun with people’s name titles. As Sean talks about Brayden and Kat’s situation, his name title says, “Sean, Age 26, ‘Should Be Worried About His Own Relationship.'” LOL.

Brayden wants reassurance from Kat that everything is okay with them. Sadly, she basically tells him that she has a stronger connection with Tanner than she did with Brayden. At least she didn’t beat around the bush and told him straight up.

She says she just “listened to my feelings” and “you’d be a great person for someone else.” Okay, then. Good talk, and she walks back to the group.

Brayden is stunned that Kat was “warm one second” and then “just cold as ice.” He can’t make sense of it.

There’s just something wrong with Kat. For someone who works as a registered nurse, she seems to have a complete lack of empathy. She gets defensive and angry when anyone tries to get her to acknowledge another person’s feelings. Brayden tells Aaron Schwartzman that there was “no emotion at all in her voice” when she broke up with him.

“I just feel like I got played hardcore,” Brayden admits. You did, buddy. Move on and find someone who has some human emotions. BIP production sees what I see. At one point they showed her name title as reading, “Kat, Age 26, ‘Cold As Ice.'” You’ve got to pay attention with this show. It’s the little things that make you laugh.

Meanwhile, Tanner – whose name title says, “Tanner, Age 30, ‘Very Handsome'” – is wondering what he walked into. Ironically, he seems to have more empathy for Brayden’s feelings than Kat does.

Tyler and Mercedes’ Date

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Over at the Vidanta Resort in Nueva Vallarta, Tyler and Mercedes are walking to dinner when they see a shooting star. The camera crew must have missed the shot because the one they show is obviously CGI. Mercedes thinks it’s a sign, “That’s the universe telling us something.” They do make a cute couple, and they both seem like genuinely nice people.

Tyler admits he was hoping to meet Mercedes in Paradise, and he’s thrilled to learn that he was Number One on her list. It was meant to be! Not only did they see the shooting star, but they also saw a raccoon, which they think is some kind of a sign. I think the raccoon is just looking for the garbage cans. They’re cute, but they’re pests. They can also carry rabies, so don’t try to pet him. They bite.

Tyler leans in for a kiss, and the Disney music swells, as poor Will walks the beach, sobbing, back in Playa Escondida. And then there’s fireworks. Olivia is giddy. She feels like she’s in a “rom-com.”

“Everything right now just seems really perfect,” Oliva says. Uh-oh. Don’t say that, Olivia. That’s really tempting fate on this show. Nothing is ever perfect.

Samantha has a serious medical issue

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Samantha Jeffries hasn’t pooped in nine days. The doctor has been to see her and told her she has until sunrise tomorrow morning. If there’s been no action by then, she’ll have to have surgery to remove the blockage, which he called, basically a “poop baby.”

At the bar, Wells Adams attempted to “scare the crap” out of her, to no avail. “She has to evacuate her bowels or evacuate Paradise,” Wells says, “which is also the weirdest way anyone has ever left here.”

Sam and Aaron S. have been hanging out, so she pulls him aside to explain the embarrassing situation. But guess what? Aaron is a firefighter/paramedic. He’s dealt with sh*t like this before (pun intended). He’s not even phased. He tells her, “It’s not your poop baby, it’s our poop baby. I’m gonna get it out of you!”

He runs off to prepare her a meal that will move things along, so to speak. He returns with a tray of coffee, salad, shots of olive oil, taquitos, burritos, tacos, chips and refried beans, along with a big bottle of hot sauce. Yum! What a guy! They are really a cute couple. I hope they get married.

“Cheers to making sh*t happen,” he tells her. “Literally.”

Next week on Bachelor in Paradise, more men arrive. And finally, we’ll see the Paradise Truth Box, which Oliva Lewis predicts “will destroy at least one couple.” Bring it!

Bachelor in Paradise airs Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC.

TELL US – DO YOU THINK SAM WILL DELIVER HER POOP BABY IN TIME TO STAY IN PARADISE? OR WILL SHE GO HOME? IS KAT A SOCIOPATH?

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy Will Never Return to DWTS

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Former Dancing with the Stars pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy quit the ballroom after Season 25. He competed in 17 seasons. During Season 18, Maks and his partner, Meryl Davis, took home the Mirrorball trophy.

Maks married fellow DWTS pro Peta Murgatroyd. The couple welcomed their second son in June 2023.

He did return as a judge in later seasons. But now he is bidding a final goodbye to DWTS. Excuse me while I cry into my coffee.

It’s time to say goodbye

Maksim told Heavy, “This is a great show, great group of people. You know, look. If there’s a Mount Rushmore of that thing, Dancing with the Stars, I’m probably a couple of spots on it,” he stated. I love his modesty.

“But I feel like we’ve written a book on how to do Dancing with the Stars back in the day. And, you know, I’m that fan. I’m a fan of the original version. The way it was,” Maks explained. “The way everybody fell in love with the show.”

But Maks isn’t planning a DWTS return. “I don’t have plans to be part of the show,” Maks said. “Having said that, I’m always part of the show. There’s a wife. There’s a brother.” He added, “There’s a sister-in-law. I’m there with my kids, supporting our fam.” Besides his wife Peta, Maks also roots for his brother, Val Chmerkovskiy, and Val’s wife, pro dancer Jenna Johnson.

DWTS is embracing its roots

He added, “I don’t have any plans for physical participation.” Still, he wants DWTS to continue. He just hopes that it stays true to the original show. “What I love now is that it’s coming back to the old days of original content. The way it was meant to be, where it’s about celebrities and their partners having this journey and this experience and so forth,” Maks said.

Maks served as a guest judge on DWTS and once expressed interest in being a permanent member. But now Maks has decided to leave the show behind.

“So, having said that, I gotta go. I moved on. The show is back to its sort of heyday; the production, the people behind it have returned,” Maks explained. “You know, I think that it has come full circle, and season 32 is a big number for any project from television, let alone prime time.”

If you need a Maks fix, he is appearing on Season 2 of The Traitors. The show is expected to stream on Peacock in 2024.

Dancing with the Stars airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c on ABC and Disney+.

TELL US – DO YOU MISS MAKSIM ON DWTS? WILL YOU WATCH HIM ON THE TRAITORS?

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Denise Richards Slammed for Collaboration With Daughter Sami Sheen on OnlyFans

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Denise Richards seems to be all about the collaborations lately. We first heard that she and Sutton Stracke would be working together on a clothing line. That might show up when Denise pops back in for Season 13 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Denise’s daughter, 19-year-old Sami Sheen joined OnlyFans last year. She was met with complete opposite reactions from her divorced parents. Her dad, Charlie Sheen, expressed blatant disapproval of Sami making money by stripping down for the site. This, despite his decades-long public persona being largely defined by both his general habit of debauchery and his love of sex workers.

Denise went in the complete other direction and joined OnlyFans herself in support of Sami’s efforts. She’s been pretty successful. Tori Spelling even dropped $400 in two days on Denise’s content. However, Denise is catching some backlash after recently teasing her latest collab plan. This would be her and Sami making OnlyFans content together. Apparently, this isn’t even the first time. It’s unclear how salacious their first collab was.

Denise proposed doing an OnlyFans collaboration with Sami … again!

A Reddit user posted a screenshot of a recent post Denise put up on her OnlyFans page. The post included a picture of her and Sami all dolled up and gazing at the camera. Denise also posed the question, “Should my mini me @samisheen and I do another collab?”

People were disgusted at the idea

Many were given the ick by the notion of a mother and daughter making content together that presumably wouldn’t be a mommy-and-me baking tutorial. The replies to the Redditor’s post were overwhelmingly baffled and horrified.

One reply read, “This is f*cking WEIRD beyond words and one of the sickest shit I’ve seen on this app. what does she even mean…. what do her and her dorter do on that app….”

Another said, “Mini me has undertones that I cannot support in this context. Do better Denise.”

“Creepy creepy creepy. In no world is this appropriate,” added another.

It looks like Denise’s outlook has changed a lot since she spent half of Season 10 furious about her daughter hearing Erika Jayne briefly talk about a threesome.

We’ll get to see what else Denise has been up to when she’s back as a friend-of for RHOBH Season 13. The show premieres October 25 on Bravo.

TELL US – DO YOU FIND DENISE AND SAMI’S ONLYFANS COLLABORATION DISTURBING?

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Rachel Leviss Is Selling Her Sandoval Junk For Charity, and We’re Here For It

Tom Sandoval, Rachel "Raquel" Leviss Vanderpump Rules
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Though she keeps a much lower profile these days, former Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss still knows how to get people talking. Earlier this week, Rachel announced she was auctioning off some relics of her affair with Tom Sandoval for charity.

The auction is still ongoing, but we’d say she’s already made good on her attempt to turn these Scandoval lemons into lemonade. We’ve got the details on what she’s selling and why we think this is an overall win for her.

How Rachel Leviss Is Using Her Notoriety for a Good Cause

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On October 10th, aka World Mental Health Day, Rachel announced the bidding on her Instagram. It was the first appearance on her grid since the birthday post that led to her blocking Sandoval.

Following her months-long stay in an Arizona facility, Rachel pledged to support mental health awareness. In addition to donating 100% of the proceeds from the auction, Rachel is also spreading the word about grassroots organization National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI.

Rachel explained her motivations for the auction in her Instagram post, where she called the items “triggering.” There was even more to be found in the very interesting (and slightly shady) product descriptions of each listing. “I can’t rewrite history,” the 29-year-old wrote, “but I can use something from my darkest days towards a good cause.”

The former pagent girl has two listings up on eBay, where her username is rachelwiththelights. This may be a reach, but makes us wonder if she’s poking fun at herself for those infamous galaxy lights. Could Rachel have developed a sense of humor in the past few months?

Item #1: The TomTom Sweatshirt

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In a move that only gets more bizarre with context, Rachel showed up to the 2022 BravoCon panel wearing nothing but a TomTom sweatshirt and a pair of boots. She claimed it was for “the comfy vibes” and to support both Sandoval and Tom Schwartz. And yes, this was the same look that Sandoval recreated last Halloween.

Months later, on the same night Ariana Madix found THAT video, Rachel gave a TomTom sweatshirt to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live. She referenced this moment in the eBay listing as “the night everything blew up in my face.”

At the time, we thought she gave Andy the same sweatshirt she wore to BravoCon, but apparently not. Also, she’s auctioning off two sweatshirts, which makes us wonder how many she had?

We will note, however, that there was no mention of the initial drama behind her outfit choice. Rachel seemed to wear that sweatshirt just to bother Schwartz’s ex-wife, Katie Maloney. In fact, her actions towards Katie have been brushed over during the entire scandal. Here’s hoping she takes accountability for that someday.

Item #2: The Lightning Bolt Necklace

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One of the most ridiculous details of Scandoval was that the pair wore matching lightning bolt necklaces to signify their love for one another. Viewers saw Rachel pay for her own jewelry on a shopping spree for her birthday, which she now acknowledges was “cringe.” She spent about $800 on it. As a simple necklace with a tiny lightning bolt, we really didn’t see how it was worth so much. But as a piece of Bravo reality TV history, its value is much greater.

Rachel used the eBay jewelry listing as an opportunity to make it clear that she and Sandoval are never, ever getting back together. She called the necklace “symbolic of my devotion to another person who I allowed to have power over me. He no longer does.” Ouch! We’re sure Sandoval is off fake crying somewhere, ready to record his next podcast about how Rachel totally broke his heart, dude.

Just a few months ago, Rachel sent Sandoval post cards with lightning bolts on them. Now, she’s purging his favorite symbol from her closet altogether. She’s come a long way.

Rachel’s Bold Move Pays Off

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Many VPR fans want to move on from Scandoval, but considering how high the bids are, it seems the general public isn’t totally over it quite yet.

Rachel started the bidding for both items at $100. At the time of writing, the bids are up to the thousands. The sweatshirts have passed $8,000, while the necklace just over $3,000.

We’re sure the auction will earn scorn from Rachel’s former co-stars. But a lot of them profited from the scandal, so it’d be hypocritical of them to ridicule her. Of course, that hasn’t stopped them before.

TELL US – WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RACHEL’S MOVE TO USE HER NOTORIETY FOR GOOD? WHAT’S THE MOST YOU WOULD BID ON A PIECE OF REALITY TV HISTORY?

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Katharina Mazepa Denies Rumored Split From Lenny Hochstein: ‘Happier Than Ever’

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Uh-oh, it seems like someone might be a little unhappy with the rumors buzzing around. But Real Housewives of Miami alum Lenny Hochstein should be used to rumors, right? After all, wasn’t it just a rumor he was cheating on his wife Lisa Hochstein with fiancée Katharina Mazepa?

This week waves were being made because the streets heard Dr. Lenny and Katharina were on the outs. There’s speculation Lenny and Katharina have a “combative” relationship and the engagement is thisclose to being called off. Now Lenny and Katharina are hitting back against the gossip and swear everything is hunky dory. Let’s do it together – SURE, JAN.

Happier than ever!!

Katharina is coming in hot with a rebuttal and spoke to Page Six. They are still engaged, so we can all sleep better now. Don’t forget, she earned that diamond! “There is absolutely no truth to these claims and we are happier than ever,” Katharina said.

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The rep added, “Katharina has played a key role in organizing their upcoming Halloween party.” Then Lenny got big mad and called Page Six “clowns” because they requested a comment. Sounds like Lenny might need some cleansing breaths and a brief time out.

All of this comes on the heels of a revealing podcast by Cocktails and Gossip that has Lenny stomping his feet. The host had a source close to Lenny’s situation and is pretty sure they are on the road to nowhere.

Apparently Katharina has a rep, for what I have no idea, but she also made a separate statement. She advised that Lenny and Kath are “happily settled into their home, cherishing quality moments with the kids.” Hey, do y’all remember that one time not so long ago when Lenny denied marriage troubles with Lisa? I do too.

Or maybe Lenny had his feelings hurt when he ran into Lisa and her boyfriend at a Miami restaurant. Seeing his past move on without looking back surely could have stung a big, strong man like Lenny.

I know everyone is getting excited about Real Housewives of Miami coming back. It should return to Bravo in November 2023 and hopefully, Lenny will be in a better mood by then.

TELL US – DO YOU THINK LENNY AND KATHARINA ARE DONE? WILL THEY STILL BE TOGETHER BY DECEMBER?

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