Happy holidays to us! Freeform is taking us back to Cyprus Rhodes University to reunite the Kappas and the Zetas for their five-year class reunion! The network announced during...
The doctor is in...and so is the devil! Fox has renewed two if its freshman dramas, Rosewood and Lucifer, for the 2016-17 TV season, the network announced on Thursday. Rosewood, which...
Are you as mad as we are that Animaniacs went off the air? Yes, we still miss it. There's a slapstick comedy-filled hole in our hearts for this show. We have some good news...Tiffany Hendra, one of the stars of Real Housewives Of Dallas, once lived in LA as a model and actress. She’s since returned to her Texas roots with her Australian rocker husband, but she is now facing allegations of a secret past as an adult film actress!
Confronting the rumors head-on, Tiffany explains that no, she didn’t star in any pornos – she just went the Scheana Marie route by acting in a Skinemaxxx After Dark series. Tiffany openly admits to going topless for some “love scenes” in the network’s 2004 series Black Tie Nights, but insists she went no further – not on Cinemax, or anywhere else!
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“My nudity rider said that they couldn’t show below my belly button or below the top of my butt,” explains Tiffany. “I do own the fact that I knew I was taking my clothes off,” she adds. Tiffany’s husband Aaron was not only supportive, but was in her dressing room “to make sure everything was cool.”
Tiffany declares that she has “no regrets” about her steamy past, because “I was hired for my acting ability.”
She has since retired from acting, and now is devoted to empowering women rather than shaming them. A message that’s very important to her given Tiffany’s own past as a sexual abuse survivor.
“I was sexually assaulted when I was 16, but kept it a secret until I was 31. I felt shame,” Tiffany shares with Us Weekly. “All the pain that I did go through, I use that for a purpose now. Helping women love themselves — that is my intention.”
Well I’m glad Tiffany isn’t hiding her skeletons in the closet and hoping the door is never opened – if you’re gonna be on reality TV it’s best be honest and open about anything that may pop up!
With that said I cannot wait for the premiere of Real Housewives Of Dallas on Monday, April 11 at 10pm
TELL US – ARE YOU IMPRESSED THAT TIFFANY WAS UPFRONT ABOUT HER PAST? ARE YOU EXCITED FOR RHOD?
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Katie Rost finally got what she’d been begging for all season on The Real Housewives of Potomac: a proposal from boyfriend Andrew. Now the self-proclaimed “ball and gala girl” opens up about how the debut season of RHOP ended, and where she and Andrew are at today.
Despite rumors that the couple is on the outs, Katie claims everything is just perfect, perfect, perfect! Before getting to her scripted outline take on the engagement, Katie first breaks down Gizelle Bryant’s messy “Come to Jesus” luncheon. When invited to lunch, Katie admits, “My cynical side DID assume she just wanted to have a dramatic ‘attack session’ style luncheon where perhaps she did some of the following: 1. She wears a dramatic hat that just screams, tolerance, style, subtlety. 2. She says dramatic things while sitting back, arching an eyebrows waiting like for someone to allow her to launch truly fascinating stories about examples of behavior that are either very White or very Black (but NEVER are they EVER– any mixture of to two!) 3. She does dramatic stuff like jump up from a table, pointing and screaming, when Katie dares to say ‘obviously I’m a black woman, I’m also bi-racial!'”
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Katie sarcastically adds, “I mean the fact is, I was just plain old psyched to not only be invited to lunch… But to find that all of my wild mental assumptions were completely, utterly and entirely unfounded.”
But Katie didn’t let the lunch drama bother her because she was in her bubble of love, after all! She reflects on Andrew’s proposal in the aptly named “Vortex” on her farm. “Andrew proposing to me was perfect. It was magic and romance and love and just perfect. The perfect place, perfect proposal, perfect moment in time and I’ll never forget that amazing day. We laughed and cried and the cows at my farm didn’t mind our rated xxx make out sessions which followed the proposal.” Um, eww.
Although Katie’s love bubble was temporarily burst at Gizelle’s luncheon, she wants to make a few points clear about exactly what went down. “First, it was Ashley [Darby] who called Gizelle and Robyn [Dixon] bi-racial, not I. For some reason people keep saying it was me, it wasn’t. But I still took on the fight, because who cares who said it. They kept going there for months with the ‘this is a white thing, that’s a black thing’ comments. I simply responded.”
RELATED: Ashley Darby Calls’s Gizelle’s Luncheon “A Session of Ridiculousness!”
Katie accuses, “If any white person ever dared to say ‘White people don’t do that, why are you acting black or, is that a black thing’ I shutter to think of the backlash.” (I think she meant shudder, but I get her point!) She adds, “People who listen, who have ears to hear, will hear the point I was making. People who want to be hardened to listening, won’t. I’m over it. I believe in equality. If you don’t, that’s your problem.”
Possibly alluding to this coming week’s RHOP reunion, Katie warns in her blog that the drama is far from over! “I was disappointed with myself that I cared to get sucked into negativity,” she writes, “But I’m human. I forgive myself and everyone else. At least, until next time…”
Interestingly, in the reunion teasers, Andy Cohen calls Katie out on not wearing her engagement ring, which is followed by a shot of her breaking down in tears. While this may be salacious editing, one has to wonder whether Andrew’s proposal was just for show, or if it’s the real thing. Stay tuned!
TELL US: DO YOU THINK KATIE AND ANDREW’S ENGAGEMENT IS ON OR OFF? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF KATIE’S ASSESSMENT OF THE OTHER LADIES AT GIZELLE’S LUNCHEON?
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Bravo's first ladies of the Big Apple are finally back! If you thought last night's season premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City was maybe a little light on the drama...After less than 3 months on the air Kocktails With Khloe has been canceled.
Confirming the news, Khloe Kardashian tweeted, “Hi my loves. I’ve enjoyed every second of shooting #KocktailswithKhloe. Your support each week has meant more to me than you could imagine, and I’ll continue to make time for our weekly chats.”
“There are SO many exciting things coming up for me that I can’t wait to share with you…,” Khloe added. Khloe’s show will not even finish shooting its first season, although the remaining completed episodes will air.
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As for what went wrong, a production source dished that due to Khloe‘s lackluster performance as a host, network execs were no longer interested in investing more time and money into the show.
TMZ reports that both the FYI Network and Khloe were unhappy, and it was a mutual decision to cancel Kocktails With Khloe. Khloe is interested in pursuing “other jobs” (not “working” but filming Keeping Up With The Kardsahians?), while network execs complained about her obviously “checked out” on-air demeanor.
In a statement to Page Six, the network officially announced the cancellation, “FYI and Pilgrim Media Group appreciate everyone’s great work on the series and are pleased that the show brought new viewers and significant numbers to FYI’s linear and digital platforms. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Khloé and thank her for her hard work and unique voice that she brought to the series.”
Season one was originally slated to run through June, but the final episode will now air April 20th, which features guests Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, and Kimye (with their Kimye Fashinsanity, I presume).
Personally I always thought the show was a lower-rent ripoff of WWHL.
TELL US – ARE YOU SHOCKED KOCKTAILS WITH KHLOE LASTED LESS THAN ONE SEASON?
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To quote my favorite now defunct VH1 show, Kathryn Dennis may be having the Best Week Ever. Not only did the unfiltered, controversial Southern Charm star look stunning on Monday’s Watch What Happens Live–I’ll refrain from commenting on all of the hair flipping, except for this sentence :), but she’s gaining support of fans who once just loved to hate her.
On the heels of this week’s Southern Charm premiere, the mother of two-year-old Kensie and five-month-old St. Julien with on-again-off-again-WAY-OFF-AGAIN boyfriend and old school scoundrel (I mean that in the most charming of ways) Thomas Ravenel is opening up about the duo’s tumultuous relationship. And this time, she’s not airing her dirty laundry on various forms of social media with snarky tweets and passive aggressive status updates. Instead, Kathryn is articulately discussing why she and T-Rav just don’t work. Is our favorite little strumpet maturing into a force to be reckoned with? I’d say so!
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Speaking to Bravo’s Daily Dish, Kathryn admits, “I know I’ve said that a lot, but we are definitely, officially, over,” joking, “Taylor Swift said it: ‘We’re never, ever, ever getting back together.'”
She shares that she gave up on the hope of her relationship with T-Rav working out after the birth of the couples’ second child. Kathryn recalls, “Well, it was a long time coming. I think what really motivated it was that I had Julien in November, and I had hoped that having two children, something would fall into place somehow, magically,” adding, “[Thomas] was talking about marriage in the hospital. He really wanted to make it work. And then he just flipped a switch, changed, and I don’t know. I kind of was just realizing my kids were more important than the way I feel about him romantically.”
While the pair isn’t in the best place, Kathryn is hoping that the two will be able to co-parent over time. She tells the site, “It’s a work in progress. I’m confident that we’ll reach a place in time where we can peacefully do that.”
The reality star also touches on her very public fights with T-Rav over social media, and she cites he’s quick to publicly air their dirty laundry. Kathryn asserts, “I will be honest. There’s been questionable behavior. I’m sure people see it on social media, every platform he blasts me on, so that’s not been fun, but you know, hopefully he’ll get over that.”
She also addresses one of her infamous Twitter rants about Thomas’ parenting skills (and lack of child support) after he posted a picture of himself with a mystery woman on Instagram on Valentine’s Day. Defending herself, Kathryn states, “I didn’t even see that [photo] before I posted [the tweets]. Someone sent that to me after I tweeted. I feel like I’ve been so lied about publicly by him that I don’t know, I just kind of caved, and I don’t even remember what I tweeted, but I tweeted something finally. I felt really stupid afterwards because I don’t like to stoop to his level, but it’s hard to be lied about, especially when it’s parenting and children.”
Of her allegations that T-Rav is still ducking his financial responsibilities, Kathryn continues, “I’ve gone without electricity. I’ve gone without heating and air. He doesn’t even ask me if I’m OK. He doesn’t care at all, but that’s fine. I’m gonna make it work on my own. I always have, and I’ll figure it out.”
Responding to Thomas’ claims in a Charleston City Paper interview that she won’t allow him to see their children, Kathryn says that he used to visit Kensie and Julien every two weeks. However, Kathryn confirms that she hasn’t let him spend time with the kids in over five month. She explains, “It’s not because I’m trying to be mean to him. It’s not motivated by my own personal hatred. It’s motivated by the simple fact that I don’t know if I feel comfortable trusting him alone with them right now, given his behavior and the company he has.”
To recap that interview, Thomas accused, “Here are the facts: I don’t have the right to see the kids. She won’t let me see them. I’m paying child support, even though I don’t have to. I’m not using the power of the purse. She’s using the power of the kids by not letting me see them, ruthlessly and to their detriment.”
Giving a statement to the Daily Dish immediately following the City Paper piece, Thomas reiterated, “She refuses to respond to my offer of $4,500 per month with my paying 80 percent of all medical and education costs and we’d split custody 50/50. This would be court ordered which means it would protect her in that if I didn’t pay I’d be thrown in jail. Also, she has rejected three mediation dates claiming that SHE would be out of town. She is also on her third attorney.”
Kathryn maintains that their passionate love story suffered from many more lows than highs, and she’s learning from their relationship and trying to better herself. She concludes, “Thomas is very troubled, so he’s a lot to handle. Whenever I was with him, it was always constantly placating him, constantly being his therapist. I gave everything to him, literally. I devoted myself completely to him, whether or not people believe that I loved him genuinely or not, I truly did, and I will stand by that until I die. In that same period, I forgot what I loved to do, what I think. I had to kind of always conform just so he wouldn’t have an outburst. I lost myself. I stopped painting, I stopped modeling, I stopped caring. Now that I’m not with him, I’m realizing things I love again.”
Is Kathryn growing up or is she just learning to keep her cool and bite her tongue in interviews? We’ve got the entire season ahead of us to make that call!
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The Walking Dead's season six finale had a very special guest appearance: Tausha Kutcher, Ashton Kutcher's sister! "She was one of the zombies!" the AMC hit's star...Last night was the season premiere of Real Housewives Of New York. We met new Housewife Jules Wainstein. The original B of Bravo, Bethenny Frankel, also returned, and whew, was she some kinda mouthy! Bethenny apparently sees herself as the reverse fortune teller of RHONY; she won’t tell you your hopeful future, but with condescending judgement she will point out everything that’s wrong with you, your life, your past, and your overall way of being.
Bethenny is also the ‘Party Police’ this season – obviously replacing the woman she once loved to hate, Heather Thomson, who gathered her big-girl shaping panties and fled this Skinnygirl bar.
Things begin in Bethenny’s new apartment. Hurrah – she’s no longer homeless! The new place is nice, but in that blandly generic HGTV design show sort of way. Dorinda Medley visits to gawk over Bethenny’s Traum Safe, as if it’s something Dorinda couldn’t afford to install in her own pad. Bethenny and Dorinda have become close, but there is one major issue: Bethenny doesn’t approve of John. Like at all.
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Bethenny also doesn’t approve of how much Dorinda drinks – which is why she serves her wine (Skinnygirl wine). Dorinda announces she ‘quit’ drinking. Like a cleanse. I mean she did it for like 1 day so that counts, right? To intentionally misquote and terribly rework Mark Twain, ‘Beware of friendships that require you to curb your natural appetite for partying and booze!’
They’re planning a brunch and going over the guest list. Carole Radziwill is axed. Bethenny complains that Carole has grown distant since becoming connected at the hipbone to Adam, her much younger hipster. More on those two later.
Dorinda has a substitution – this friend Jules, whom Bethenny has met. Dorinda believes Bethenny and Jules will get along famously, but serves Bethenny one warning: don’t mention Jules’ husband’s height.
Over in the Land of the Ramona, it’s Dating Season in PinotTown. Lock up your pinots!
Pinot’s boobs have mysteriously grown fuller, but her Turtle Time remains the same. I personally think the implants are too big, but I mean, I’m not trying to get my prowl on among the hot AARP crowd in over-priced cocktail lounges. But Ramona is – oh Ramona is! Now Avery is legally able to drink and supervise the Turtle Time. Oh, poor Avery!
Ramona, Ramona, Ramona… Pinot can’t pronounce the bartender’s name, confusing her with one of Sonja Morgan‘s interns, she calls her Radish, Roku, Radiccio, Rascal, Raindance – whatever (her name is Rokia). Avery looks on, cringing and sitting beside her friend, who Ramona doesn’t remember even though the girl spent a whole weekend in their Hamptons’ house. Poor Avery – it’s always Freaky Friday opposite day in her world.
In other bizarre situations, Luann de Lesseps has temporarily moved in with Sonja! Luann is downsizing her NYC apartment and Sonja’s daughter has gone to boarding school. So, here we have RHONY’s real-life version of AbFab.
Sonja is sad discussing how her daughter left, but alas, what kind of life is it for a teenage girl to be roaming around Sonja’s crumbling townhouse? Where the remains of the day rumble through the rooms like a subway train, knocking loose more plaster that won’t be repaired, as Sonja’s interns scurry around, red-faced and harried, responding to her demands to do business in the bathtub where Madame Morgan demands a Sharpie, a guest list, a cocktail and one of their friends on Tinder. In short, no teenage girl wants to play Estella to Sonja’s Ms. Havisham!
Since Sonja doesn’t like to admit that change has come and the present is sweeping in and engulfing the past and tossing it into the future, she puts Luann up in Quincy’s bedroom – an odd choice given the prevalence of guest rooms! Sonja warns Lu not to bring men back “to my daughter’s bed,” but it’s perfectly fine to go into detail about blowjobs.
Lu has an extra set of teeth bones, behind her teeth, a throwback to her Eskimo lineage. Good lord – Luann’s an Eskimo, an American Indian, a Countess! What’s next the missing daughter of the Flying Walindas, who escaped the circus-life by hiding in the trunk of a visiting ex-pat fleeing Romania and his own gypsy, but royal roots courtesy of his mom’s affair with a prince? Let’s hope! Anyway, Sonja’s only comment about Lu’s extra chompers (all the better to bite you with a snarky comment, my dear) is to worry how Lu accomplishes blowjobs. Sonja then demonstrates how blowjobs work, and what parts of the mouth are most essential. Luann warns if she’s not careful the poor man could end up with “railroad tracks.” Why do I think there is some sort of fetish porn for this type of thing, and some sort of knock-off porn version of Sonja and Lu’s convo called Crass With The C-ntess will emerge?
Moving along, Jules is at home pretending to cook things. Her apartment is a little dark and musty-seeming, even though it’s huge, high-ceiling-ed, and new. Jules is a “stay-at-home mom” with a full-time live-in nanny and a housekeeper. But, still, she’s busy, busy, busy! Dinner for the family is essentially frozen stuff and spaghetti she tossed together just in time for the nanny to drag the kids through the door, and her venture capitalist husband Michael swans in.
Jules parenting…. well, she says “bribery” is her most useful parenting tool. Not nannies? Speaking of nannies, Jules is half-Jewish/half-Japanese but claims she gets confused with the Filipino nanny when she’s carting her blonde daughter Rio around. Apparently other nannies, noticing her clothes, wonder about her salary. Oh Jules…
Jules and Michael were childhood friends, who re-met as adults. He’s 10 years older and was used to dating Eastern European models, but had to marry a Jewish girl, so he picked the most non-Jewish looking Jewess he could find – that would be Jules! With her hair that hangs flat and lank down her back like a cape. This ain’t no Kyle Richards hair, although Jules is already showing off her hair-copter and hair-flipping it with reckless abandon into people’s faces and food. I never thought we’d find a Housewife with more annoying hair-skills, but here we be!
Jules’ family dinner is basically insanity. The kids aren’t sitting at the table, her son, Jagger (5) was supposed to eat spaghetti, but is instead bashing a bagel and screaming, refusing to eat it, even though Jules promises he can feed half to the dog. Then he’s stole popsicles out of the freezer after Jules told him no. Michael barely looks up as he brags their 5-year-old is “negotiating.”
Oh my….
Carole is happy with Adam, and they are shitting their modern love story all over NYC. Carole had baby fever, which she dubs a “nesting urge,” so she adopted a puppy and named it “Baby.” All kindsa wrong misanthropic metaphor there. But Adam loves Baby as his own.
Carole and Adam take Baby with them to a camera store – even though it says “No Dogs Allowed,” but Carole jokes that Baby is a service dog. A service dog that’s not feeling well and is going to the vet, so Carole collected a poop sample and put it in a coffee cup, which she places on the counter of the camera store! Well, at least Adam bought a camera for his upcoming trip to Ethiopia (Bethenny will surely have to delete him on IG over that!). Meanwhile, Carole will be staying home, wiping Baby’s butt, and pining for his safe return.
Carole is still not over her issues with Luann as she berates Lu for maligning her character and announces that she will not have Adam in the same room with Luann, who makes them both “uncomfortable.” Uhhh… is Carole Adam’s mommy, or his lady?
Speaking of love, it’s John and Dorinda’s monthly anniversary, so he takes her out to dinner. He’s so happy, that walking through the door of an expensive restaurant, John hands a homeless guy $5 and seems impressed with his own generosity.
Dorinda is wearing a dress that zips up the front. John, “the chubby toddler” she is forced to lug around, can’t contain himself – or keep his hands to himself – as he zips it up for “Good Little Johnny” and down for “Naughty Johnny.” Dorinda – time for all of Johnny to take a perma-time out. Instead, Dorinda is wondering if John should move in with her now that Hannah, her daughter, is moving out.
In addition to a new apartment, Bethenny has a new office, but one thing remains the same – she’s still not divorced! The elevator smells like weed, and that is the only chill thing going on there. Bethenny barges in, lectures her staff about giving Skinnygirl a fresh, fierce look even if they have to screw their boyfriends on the desks to have a good idea, then she storms out after opening the electric bill from the apartment Jason is squatting in. Bethenny is, shall we say, in the weeds.
In between mating, Ramona is lunching. First she meets Bethenny where they lament the constant state of drunkeness that is Sonja. Ramona, who is now single, and has an image to protect on the dating scene and cannot go out with her. Ramona complaining that someone is embarrassing? Mmmmkay! They also bond over disliking John. Bethenny complains that Dorinda is constantly trying to convince them to like him, but she don’t do propaganda. Oh, so what the hell is all that Skinnygirl garbage propped up in every corner of every scene?
Next, Ramona has lunch with Carole, who literally says all of two things. First, when Ramona mispronounces reggae as “ri-gay” Carole corrects her. After several prompts, Ramona finally, triumphantly manages “ray-gay.” Ramona talks non-stop, rambling on, about anything and everything, until Carole wonders if Ramona behaves this way on dates. Carole advises, “Someone once told me: Talk less, smile more.” Was that someone Lee Radziwill, because that advice is straight out of 1880. Without missing a beat, Ramona cackles that if she and Carole combined themselves they’d be the perfect woman. I don’t know that there’s any combining Carole’s wannabe Carrie Bradshaw forever “Hot Child In The City” style with Ramona’s satin cocktail dresses, but I’d love to try it. We could create a fashion monster!
Finally Bethenny brings a date, John, (who DOES look vaguely like Jason!) to meet Dorinda, her John, Jules and Michael for brunch. John annoys Bethenny from the get-go: All he talks about is dry-cleaning, which he shamelessly self-promotes. Interesting that this bothers Bethenny. Someone once told me: “We dislike in other’s what we know is annoying about ourselves…” Aside from all that, John is annoying – he keeps pointing at Dorinda’s shirt like there’s a stain (there isn’t), then running his finger up to bop her in the nose, like one of those annoying grandfather jokes. “Ugh… ” groans Bethenny. Agreed.
Jules arrives and gets right to the business of explaining that her job, as a mom with nannies, is harder than Michael’s job. Luckily she does get a paycheck since she has a credit card. Bethenny forms an instant dislike for Jules and sneers about Jules being one of those ‘kept women’ who thinks money comes from the money tree and earns her funds by reaching for Michael’s wallet. There is something off-kilter about Jules, and I’m just gonna say it: I don’t like her!
Since Betheny is in a bad mood over the whole Jules thing she starts passive-aggressively making comments about Dorinda getting way too drunk at a party in the Hamptons. A weird scene occurred where John literally carried her out. Bethenny seemed to be hinting it was absuive. “I get emotional when I drink,” Dorinda acknowledges, trying to minimize the situation. She’s embarrassed Bethenny brought it up, because it discredits her in front of friends, and makes her look bad. Bethenny’s poor date! I hope he was compensated handsomely from the Skinngirl Safe.
There’s something else – Jules reminds Bethenny of her mother. Particularly her thinness. Bethenny, who declares that she owns the expertise on being naturally thin (since she – shameless plug! – wrote a book), knows when someone is unnaturally thin. Someone like Jules. Bethenny knows this because although Bethenny never had an eating disorder (didn’t she tell us repeatedly about her bulimic past?!), her mother did.
Bethenny whispers her eating disorder speculations to Dorinda. Then Jules plops down next to Bethenny, swinging her hair in Bethenny’s face. Bethenny suggests that Jules be Princess Leia for Halloween, and Michael could be R2D2! She laughs hysterically while Michael looks crestfallen – being sensitive about his height and all – and Dorinda cringes. Maybe Bethenny and John – Dorinda’s John – should just get together since they both have zero social couth!
TELL US – FIRST IMPRESSION OF JULES? IS BETHENNY TAKING HER MEAN STREAK TOO FAR? ARE YOU LOVING LUONJA AS ROOMMATES?
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Rest easy: There is no sophomore slump for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. How do we know? Because we know TV and also because the hilarious exclusive clip featuring Jane Krakowski and Anna Camp...Kathryn Edwards is disappointed that the Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills trip to Dubai and her birthday were hijacked by drama being “rehashed” over and over again. Her advice to her co-stars: get over it, move on, and accept that there are two sides to every story, not one truth. Speaking her own truth, Kathryn doesn’t hesitate to call out Lisa Rinna‘s duplicitous motives nor Kyle Richards‘s refusal to own her feelings.
On Kyle being caught between two Lisas, Kathryn is exasperated and wonders, “How could all of this be such a huge issue when the two people it concerns aren’t concerned?” Enter: Eileen Davidson and Lipsa.
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On the topic of Eileen, Kathryn is exhausted by her Apology Quest. “It’s nails on a chalkboard to me, and I want to let out a silent scream when I hear this topic anymore.”
“It’s so obvious that there is a difference of opinions on the topic, and as much as I understand that, there are two sides and these two sides will never make a whole, so again, please, let’s move on…” beseeches Kathryn. “I’m begging at this point.”
Kathryn’s birthday may have turned sour and thorny by drama, but the “bright spot” was connecting with Erika Girardi. “We put the past behind us, and it felt like we finally forged a real friendship. While the others argued, we found our way.”
Unfortunately the others drifted further and further apart and dragged everyone else down with them.
“I thought that we’d all be able to reconnect and have some shallow conversation over shopping and purchases – because that mall was fabulous – but no,” laments Kathryn. “The cold shoulders and tension between Lisa R, Eileen, and Lisa V were palpable.”
Kathryn hoped that possibly visiting the Burj Khalifa “could scare some of us into forgiveness and acceptance and make everything else seem petty compared to the long way down?” Not quite!
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Of course things only sunk further on the yacht. Kathryn says her birthday dinner “will go down as one of the biggest wastes of what could have been a great night.” It had all the elements: gorgeous scenery, deluxe accommodations, perfectly chilled champagne, designer outfits, the view, great friendships… Oh wait. Nope not that!
“I was trying to keep spirits up and act like I didn’t notice the ice between them, but I don’t think I was very convincing.”
“It’s all the same thing, rehashed over again,” sighs Kathryn in her Bravo blog. “You all know the story…” [Kathryn gives a Cliff Notes version, but we know what went down – we’re over it. What a coincidence, so is Kathryn!]
Exhausted by the negativity during the “dinner from hell,” Kathryn blames Kyle for circling the drain and not fessing up to her feelings. “I wanted Kyle to verbally say that she believed Rinna and just put an end to it. There was so much hemming and hawing and we are all smarter than that. I prefer the directness of the truth. Say it, own it, move on.”
And no one needs to take Kathryn’s advice more than Lipsa:
“Rinna made the Munchhausen comment. I don’t buy the manipulation accusation whereas Rinna wouldn’t have said it if she wasn’t goaded by Lisa V. Sorry, I’m a big believer in accountability. Rinna is a smart woman who has maneuvered Hollywood and much bigger sharks than Lisa V. I believe that Rinna made the conscious choice to engage in the conversation and then wanted to fess up to Yolanda to clear her conscience. Sh–, would Yolanda have ever found out that Rinna’s hairdresser was talking about this if Rinna never offered the info up to everyone?”
#EPICREAD
“Maybe I’m naive but I don’t see the master manipulator in Lisa V,” continues Kathryn. “Maybe I don’t come across as someone who will follow, but nonetheless, personal accountability has to be first and foremost.”
Finally Kathryn recognize Kyle‘s efforts to try and salvage her birthday with cake and Chanel. “I was really sad that this was the way the evening turned out,” she admits. After the boat Kathryn and Erika had champs and cake in their suite, so the night ended on a pleasant note.
Kathryn even found something kind to say about Yolanda Foster‘s picnic with Kim Richards and Brandi Glanville. “I don’t question their friendships…it’s not my place…just like we shouldn’t question the friendship between Lisa V and Kyle. If it works for them, why should anyone care what the bond is formed over.”
Initially I found Kathryn annoying, but as she’s settled into her own, I’m liking her more and more. Maybe she can hear better and that’s giving her more confidence? Or maybe she’s relaxed in front of the camera and with the women? I found her one of the most enjoyable women on the Dubai trip – she actually wanted to have fun! I also appreciated that when Kathryn and Erika agreed to get over their disagreement, they meant it and embraced the opportunity to start over and get to know each other. That’s called “adult friendships” ladies – try it!
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On the heels of last week’s bar fight, Christy McGinity Gibel and Terra Jole have nowhere to go…but to the tabloids? The ladies of Little Women: LA sure know how to celebrate good news! After Briana Renee dropped the bomb announced that she’s having Matt’s baby, all hell broke loose between Terra and Christy over Christy’s perceived lies and backstabbing.
We pick up right where we left off: with glasses and accusations flying. Christy is crying in the corner, claiming she’s been injured. Briana tries valiantly to comfort her – with napkins. But dreams of juicy settlements are already dancing in Christy’s head. Jasmine Sorge and Tonya Banks are just trying to sort out what just went down. Jasmine doesn’t quite believe the public throwdown that just occurred. She counts herself lucky that it didn’t happen on her watch in Mexico. But Elena Gant, pregnant with twins – and strangely cool as a cucumber right now – defends Christy as just wanting to get back in Briana’s good graces. Thus, why she hasn’t been #TeamTerrable lately.
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Outside the bar, Christy tearfully asks Briana why she didn’t call to tell her the pregnancy news first? Mealy-mouthed Briana just mumbles something about being under Matt’s total control not calling anybody. Given the scene that just went down, Briana is done with Terra. She advises Christy to follow her lead, and Christy is in a vulnerable enough place right now to cozy up to her old friend. And to give Matt another chance!?!? Yikes. This is called the-enemy-of-an-enemy-is-a-friend syndrome. Now look what you’ve done, Terra! Christy’s tears then suddenly turn from anger to sadness – and jealousy – about not being pregnant. Why? Why? Why!? Christy’s tears over not having her THIRD child are wasted on the pavement. Oh, and her head hurts. Cue the ER visit in 3…2…1
At Tonya’s house later in the week, Elena and Terra come over to desperately transform this group’s image talk about some charity work. Tonya says they all acted like basic b*tches at the bar. But now they shall be charitable b*tches! Tonya wants them to donate to the food bank. Not two seconds after discussing their #MadCharitySkillz, Elena announces that Christy went to the hospital with a concussion after the fight. Terra’s like: OH HELL NO! She threw first! What does that have to do with a concussion, one wonders? Well, nothing.
To clear this up, Elena and Tonya call Christy on speakerphone to confirm this news. Yip. She claims she has a concussion, and sounds kind of garbly on the phone. Terra is still not apologizing – concussion or no. She wants an apology from Christy first. Because Terra apologizes to no one first! Or second! Or third!
Parents-to-be Matt and Briana are out discussing their wedding plans. Christy is still in wedding guest limbo, but after the other night, she might be closer to getting in. Briana tells Matt that Christy wants to give him another chance, to which he admits he “probably” has some things to apologize about as well. Good for him. He also points out the irony of everyone claiming he’s the violent one, yet he’s not busting bottles upside anyone’s head lately. Okay, okay, Mr. (recently dubbed) Ericson – slow your roll. Just be glad there weren’t cameras following you around when you were out there doing your dirt years ago!
Back at the OB office, Elena and St. Preston of the Future Best Father on the Planet (yes, I’m a fan of this dude!) are getting an ultrasound to check out the babies. They see little hands and hear little heartbeats, and all is well! Woohoo! Elena has gained about 15 pounds so far, about twice the amount she should have gained (given the half pound a week estimate). Upon hearing this, she freaks out, not for vanity (let’s hope) but because a lot of weight on a little person is a much different story than a lot of weight on an average sized person. Elena vows to watch her diet from now on.
Checking out their snowy wedding venue, Briana, Matt, and matron of honor Jasmine chat about options. This potential mud pit, once the snow melts, is not going to cut it. They talk about the guest list. Matt thinks Terra is nasty and evil – so the feeling between them is mutual. Jasmine admits she wouldn’t put up with someone talking constant smack about her hubby Chris, so she gets why their walls are up. “What does she want from me?” wonders Briana about Terra.
Jasmine’s next stop on her alliance building tour is Elena’s. She brings over some new mommy gifts, which is very sweet and thoughtful. It seems these two have put their issues behind them, a truly miraculous feat on this ratchet mess of a show! Alas, they move quickly past mommy talk to pull up the TMZ story about Christy’s concussion and “brain contusions” after the fight. Did Christy leak this info to the tabloids? If so, party foul! Elena and Jasmine smell a rat here. Christy may be trying to throw Terra under the bus in the court of public opinion – and later, in actual court! – but her friends (and the entire viewing audience) now know that it took two to tango in that glass-hurtling fiasco.
At home nursing her concussion, Christy complains that there’s not enough medicine in the world to relieve her headache. She has “acute concussion syndrome” and two lesions on her brain. If it was bleeding out, Christy claims she would be dead by now. (Cue the violin. I’m sorry – this just seems like 3 parts melodrama mixed with 1 part headache and 100 parts guilt. But, I could be wrong.) Christy somehow summons her feeble strength to threaten Terra though: “Karma is a b*tch!” she seethes as she plans her next move.
Getting their mommy bonding on, Elena and Briana are shopping for baby goods. They take a break to discuss the more painful event in Briana’s future: her wedding. She invites Elena and Preston on the spot, which Elena is not impressed with. Thanks for the week’s notice on finding a maternity dress, yo! The ladies don’t know what to make out of Christy’s ER visit or the TMZ story, but Elena calls straight up bullsh*t on Christy claiming she wants to give Matt another chance. As for Terra, Briana is drawing the line. She’s attacked her long enough. And perhaps the glassware at the wedding is uninsured?
At lunch, Joe schools Terra on the grave mistake she’s made: i.e., throwing a glass at the biggest liar and opportunist out there. Of course Christy is going to claim she’s near death from the fight, selling stories all over town to smear Terra’s image! He argues that they have a lot more to lose (cough, cough: production rights on LWLA, their little spinoff, etc…) than Christy, whose main struggle in life is “trying not to suffocate under Todd’s fat ass.” Ah, Joe. Always the poet.
Terra agrees, knowing she shouldn’t have taken things so low. Especially with the vindictive Christy. She vows never to do such a thing again, and goes as far as saying she is done with Christy forever after this. If Christy presses charges, they’ll press charges right back. Joe celebrates the dissolution of #Terristy, which has been a nonstop tornado ripping through both of their lives since season one. If Terra goes to jail, Joe also promises to visit her. With Penny. Whose hand he’ll place on the glass to say hi to #MessyMommy.
After lunch, Terra joins Elena and Tonya at the food bank. Bwahahaha! Sorry, but this juxtaposition of Terra the bar fighter vs. Terra the charitable is freaking hi-lar-i-ous. She no sooner enters this space of selfless service before she’s going off again about Christy. Christy is milking this story! All of the tabloids have grabbed hold of it! No one knows the #TRUTH! (Is there some sort of food bank bouncer available here?) “Troll, please!” says Terra, sick to her stomach watching her reality TV world come crashing down around her.
Tonya vainly tries to march forward with the task at hand: gathering food for the needy. But as soon as Briana and Jasmine join the group to help out, Terra barks (squash in hand, held overhead), “So, WHO has been talking to the press!!!??” These ladies do not need to be food-banking it right now. They need to be in a full militarized paint ball death dome – with the concussed Christy in attendance – to get all of this sorry sh*t out of their systems. The pregnant ones can keep score. Joe and Todd can be decoys. Preston will officiate. (Because no one shall hurt Preston!)
Briana claims her lips have been sealed. She’s told the press nothing! Everyone else claims ignorance of the stories’ sources too (um, it’s Christy). But the coincidence of Christy posting on social media that she’s back in the hospital today and “feeling scared” at the exact same time this group is all together is not lost on Terra. Jasmine just wants peace, and Briana doesn’t want to talk behind Christy’s back anymore. So they leave with Terra to go on a side mission with one of the food bank organizers while Tonya and Elena hang back.
As they silently stack items, Jasmine asks Briana and Terra how they’re doing now. Briana claims she’s not mad, but still hesitant about their relationship. Terra feels ignored by Briana, but Briana says she was just being cautious. The Matt-Hell-Spiral has dismantled their friendship to a point beyond repair, in Terra’s opinion. If Briana doesn’t care about her, then deuces, beeyotch!
Briana thinks this finality from Terra is being delivered out of spite. Which, yeah. OF COURSE it is. This entire situation is the equivalent of tit-for-tat times 1,000 (rinse, repeat), so how is any of this behavior surprising? Jump off the seesaw and let it slam already. Or find your balance. This up and down “friendship” is exhausting, and it’s going – literally – nowhere.
Moving on to their next wedding venue option, Matt and Briana fall in love with the secret garden feel of this final stop. Wait, I thought they were going for Cemetery Chic? No? Well, garden party it is, then! Of course, they rehash the guest list. More pointedly: Is Terra invited? Is Tonya invited? No, and no. Briana calls this the easiest decision she’s ever made.
As for Christy, she may be on the road to mending her friendship with Briana, but she’s not there yet. So Briana can’t invite her either. Maybe months down the road, things might be different. But right now, it’s just too soon. Plus, Christy’s at death’s door, ya’ll! Remember? <side eye>
TELL US: DO YOU THINK CHRISTY IS EXAGGERATING HER INJURIES TO THE PRESS TO GET BACK AT TERRA? IS BRIANA MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION TO NOT INVITE TERRA, TONYA, AND CHRISTY TO HER WEDDING?
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There is so much we'll miss as American Idol bids adieu during tonight's series finale. The big talent. The inspiring stories. Oh, and remember all of those over-the-top...Kenya Moore was a guest on AfterBuzz TV this week. On the show, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star talks Glen Rice Jr, the lengths her co-stars will go to vilify her, Porsha Williams, and more.
Kenya says “of course” she influenced Beyonce‘s “twirl on them haters” lyrics.
“She quotes me and my ‘gone with the wind fabulous’ after she came off of the Super Bowl when she did it a few years back,” continues Kenya. “I was just like, ‘My life is complete. I can die now. Beyonce used my signature phrase.’ I live for her. She can do no wrong. It is an honor to see that our show reaches such a vast audience including superstars and icons.”
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On staying true to yourself on reality TV, Kenya shares, “I think anyone who watches me knows that about me. It may not be the popular thing to say or to do or to behave but I’m always living my own truth. And I don’t back down from, ‘Yeah, I said that’ or ‘Yeah, I did that,’ and I can apologize if I’m wrong. I guess for me it’s easy because I feel like I’m a truthful person.”
“You can’t know everything about a person in 45 minutes or in shooting in a four to five month period,” adds Kenya. “That’s kind of impossible. Is it honest? It’s honest at times; at times, it’s not. When you have other people on the show, other castmates, that are being narrators to your story, that is what changes what you actually see. You could see something and go, ‘Yeah, she was right in that.’ But then you see the confessionals – ‘oh, she’s a villain’ or ‘oh, this is Mike Brown’ – and you’re like what?! Some people fall into that trap, and other people that are thinking go, ‘No, that’s not what I saw.’ Then there’s editing involved too. You can’t see everything.”
Kenya uses Miami as an example and stresses that there was A LOT more to Glen‘s behavior than we saw on the show. “I did the right thing,” she adds about asking him to leave. “I protected everyone that was there. Again, it was so much you didn’t see. I was very uncomfortable and I felt like it was going to get worse.”
On why her co-stars said after-the-fact that Glen‘s behavior wasn’t a big deal, Kenya surmises, “It was them trying to vilify me. Had it been anyone else, they would have been in full support of my decision to ask him to leave. But they try so hard to make me the scapegoat or make people or viewers not like me.”
Kenya addresses the “one-eyed African preacher” nonsense Porsha Williams brought to the reunion. Laughing at the absurdity of the description, “I mean…really?!” On a more serious note, she says, “When you just try to make up a rumor in order to slander someone, it’s malicious.”
When the AfterBuzz host calls it “malicious shade,” Kenya argues, “That’s not shade. I’m sorry. You can’t qualify that as shade. That is a lie. That is slander. That speaks to someone’s character. When you sit and you profess yourself to be the Queen of Thotland, proudly, and when you admit that your car was purchased by some man and it was gifts and you qualify them as gifts, then why would you be sitting here talking about rumors about anybody else. Look at your own life. Your own life says what you are. The rumors about the escorting and the money and the bags and all that stuff, we all know what that is about. I don’t have to say it.”
Does Kenya have any Celebrity Apprentice advice for Porsha? “I don’t think she was chosen for her business acumen. <laughs> I think she was chosen for an entertainment factor, so just play up the entertainment factor.”
Kenya wishes she and Porsha were friends, so she could say to her, “When you have the history that you have – it’s like being a Kennedy – then you are part of somebody else’s legacy. Or your family, which stood for non-violence and civil rights, and you don’t simply admit that you did something wrong and that you didn’t make the right choice and you’ve embarrassed your family and that you will do better and you apologize for what you’ve done. I don’t understand why you can’t see that that is what is required of you. Why can’t you get that you, at the very least, should be apologizing? Regardless of the how, your actions are the why. You can make a choice. Regardless of what someone does – I mean, Martin Luther King, he would get spat on and slapped – you turn the other cheek. That whole platform was about non-violence.”
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“Attacking someone, now three times, there’s something wrong with that,” adds Kenya. “Before, it was an isolated incident and everybody said, ‘Kenya’s crazy – this is isolated – and she caused it.’ Now we are at three incidents, where we know of, that has involved violence. In two, she attacked someone. It’s sad.”
On her drama with Kim Fields and the commercial, Kenya claims, “I have far better ideas. Now, I respect her for having more experience as a director than me, but the commercial looked like an iPhone YouTube commercial. Let’s be clear: it looked horrible and it had nothing to do with luxury…beauty…it was so off-brand. It was a let down.”
Kenya blames Phaedra Parks for getting in Kim‘s ear and turning her against Kenya.
“If you really look at the footage, Kim said – in Miami with Kandi – ‘Oh wow, it could have gone left with that guy.’ Then, at the reunion, she said she wasn’t threatened. She’s the most inconsistent person on the show. She would talk about everybody being indecent, showing too much boobage, but Phaedra‘s slapping her ass in the camera. But, see, that’s her friend so she didn’t speak up about that.”
Kenya continues, “Porsha came for her husband twice. Not only did she do it when we were all as a group and she said something about him being delicate but then on the last episode she said he let his hair down with Phaedra. But did Kim come for her? No. That’s what I’m saying. It’s the gangs. It’s all these layers. You have to be a thinking person to get through them. Some people just refuse it. Like, ‘Oh we don’t like her, so we’re just going to take Kim’s side.'”
“Phaedra has come for me all season for no reason. At least give me that. This woman is not innocent. She’s gone on national talk shows… she went on Arsenio Hall and said I had asked her husband to give him fellatio. She had no facts, no proof, nothing. She didn’t even make a phone call to me. She went on national TV to happily report the story and never apologized for that. She never apologized for believing it and not even allowing me to prove to her that I never called her husband. It’s just so ignorant and so laughable how these girls dig so dirty and so low to try and take me down.”
Is there any unity within the group? “You feel that there is, but then you see the behavior and what people will go through to trash you. Then you lose your faith in those women.”
On the thought of NeNe Leakes returning to the show full time, Kenya says, “I think NeNe brings a lot to the show. She’s funny. She’s capable of breaking down. She’s capable of being emotional. She’s capable of really showing her life. So, yeah, I think she’s a great addition to the show. She’s the last OG. You can’t take away the fact that she helped to build this platform. Even as angry as I have been with her in the past and I felt like she really had betrayed me in the past, I feel like you cannot take away the fact that she helped to build the Real Housewives to where it is now.”
You can listen to Kenya‘s interview in its entirety on YouTube. She talks about her mother, the positive side to reality TV, her businesses, and more.
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