Dear Andy Cohen,
Fans of the Housewives franchises have a bone to pick with you about Bravotv.com. I know that little attention is paid to the comments and approving them is clearly a negligent process over at 30 Rock. We fans deserve better! Without fans, your shows wouldn’t be on the air and we feel that we are taken for granted.
If a fan takes the time to read a housewives blog, sign into your site and leave a comment, doesn’t that fan have the right to see their comment posted on the blog? Who are these people that choose what to post and what to throw away into cyberspace? I’d sure like to have a word with them.
It’s clear to me that some of your comment nazi’s have decided which housewife they like, and which they hate. Is this an attempt to manipulate fans into liking the housewife that you want to promote as the good housewife? Then there are days when the comments show positive toward a housewife that were all negative the day before. Is this because a different intern is manning the site? Why is this process so subjective? Why not post them all?
Let’s talk about not only how biased the comments can be at times, but it is not funny at all when the comments all contain misspellings and improper grammar. I have seen lists and lists of comments on blogs that every single comment has either blatant misspellings or horrible grammar. Is this funny to you people? Is this supposed to be a joke? It appears as though you’re trying to make a complete fool of your own fans!
What about Teresa Giudice being allowed to post a blog that contains a “secret” message to fans, a message that reads FuckHaters? This is acceptable to Bravo? This foul mouthed, disgusting excuse for a human being with four young children is allowed to treat viewers this way?
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/blogs/teresa-giudice/felicitations
It is time you started to pay some attention to your web site, it is your connection to the public, the fans of Bravo and fans of the shows on Bravo, why is it so unprofessional? Why do you allow people who don’t give a damn to monitor the comments? Why are there hundreds of thousands of comments that never get posted?
Some examples of comments that you DID allow to be posted:
From Ashley’s blog:
“I know and I would have don what you did because you are suppose to do what you did and she should let up off of you.”
“ashley why wont you stop doing little kids mistakes and consentrate on school or other activities your mom is just trying to look out for you. and doesent want for anything to happen to you. learn from this stupid mistake you did and try not to do it agin. never know what could happen the next time you do something like that.”
And messages for Teresa:
"Theresa, no one is jealous of Jersey girl, we enjoy watching you, but everybody has their own very special state people. We love your hooker/stripper/table throwing Italian attitude. I am pure german what you did to Danielle is nothing compared to what a german would of done. Don't let no one tell you that you're too abrasive, because speaking your mind is a good thing in this world. I've been told I have no tact, I would of never of let someone like that in my home. Keep up the good work there girl!! You're children are beautiful by the way. Please don't take what I say as a downer, you just have more patience with trash than I do!”
“U are one amazing mother, and they are ALL BEAUTIFUL lil ladies!! CONGRADS on the edition!!”
"teresa ur an amazing prsn and i luv ur posotive energyy. ur great with kids and a total fashionista. thts y other ppl r so jelous of jersey gyrlss!! i love love love u! ur bellaaa!!!! i give botchy 2 u and ur family”
Now I’m not knocking these fine people who post comments on the sites, if this is what they want to say to the Housewives, go for it. These are just a very few examples of comments that make it through your stringent, selective process. Why Andy Cohen, can’t you also post the comments from those of us who spell properly, aren’t typing as if we’re texting, and use proper grammar? That’s all I’m asking! We want to be heard too!
At times your people also choose some really inappropriate posts, Bethenny received a few about her baby, about her father and about her weight loss that were really below the belt, your professional comment posers decided to let those through, then later deleted them. Get it together over there!
Please pay a little more attention to the crack heads who comment and the crack heads who approve and post these comments. Allow good and bad comments to be shown, and for goodness sake, get the inappropriate ones off the board!
And while I have your attention, if you wouldn’t mind dumping Teresa Giudice from your Housewives line up, I would be forever grateful. After all, if Bravo is like most of American companies, you should have a zero tolerance policy for physical violence. Her screaming in Danielle’s face and shoving you down into your chair was completely unacceptable and inappropriate for anyone, let alone a mother of four little girls. Naomi Campbell notwithstanding, Teresa is no role model, but then again, neither is Naomi Campbell!
Sincerely,
LynnNChicago
For those of you interested in the understated, sophisticated style of Caroline Manzo, she now has an advice column. If you’re interested in how to downplay your mob connections, raise your children to play the ham game or just pretend like you’re the all-knowing, all powerful matriarch of your family, I suggest you go to Caroline’s site for her wise advice. Go to CarolineManzo.com, there you can join her fan page, read her advice column and learn how to be the Puppet master of your very own circle of friends. Learn to control your in law’s, talk over and interrupt your foes to win every argument and dress like you’re 25 years old.
Last night I was having a little fun on Twitter and Teresa Giudice’s name came up…here’s what I Tweeted:
LynnNChicago: @bravoandy Wondering if you have an employee handbook? Physical violence is okedoke with @bravotv huh?
Just moments later, I received a PRIVATE Direct Message from Mr. Andy Cohen himself, the rare tweet from the man himself (note: he rarely tweets to us regular folks):
BravoAndy To what physical violence are you referring?
As you probably know, you can’t respond in kind (privately) unless the other party is also following you on Twitter, but I gave it a shot and responded:
LynnNChicago: Teresa shoving you down is physical violence, don’t you have a zero tolerance policy?
No luck, of course he wasn’t following me! LOL I did find it interesting that he didn’t seem to know what I was talking about, but don’t you think he probably really did? Maybe he doesn’t consider that physical violence?
Until Next Time…..
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Housewives Comparison Chart
New York /New Jersey /Orange County /Atlanta / DC
Jill / Caroline /Vicki / NeNe / Lynda = Controllers
Bethenny /Jacqueline /Gretchen /Kandi / Staci = Good Girls
Kelly / Teresa / Lynne / Lisa / Michaele = Dopey Girls
LuAnn / Dina / Alexis / Sheree / Cat = Mean Girls
Ramona / Danielle /Jeanna / Kim / Mary = Behind the Back Girls
Here's my take on each of the housewives and how they compare in each of the different franchise's - for example, I think that Jill, Caroline, Vicki, NeNe and Lynda are all the "controllers"
The next line are all the good girls, then the dopey or not so smart girls, the "pretend to be nice but are really mean girls", and finally the "talk behind the back" girls.
What do you think? Where would you put them in these categories?
Jill / Caroline /Vicki / NeNe / Lynda = Controllers
Bethenny /Jacqueline /Gretchen /Kandi / Staci = Good Girls
Kelly / Teresa / Lynne / Lisa / Michaele = Dopey Girls
LuAnn / Dina / Alexis / Sheree / Cat = Mean Girls
Ramona / Danielle /Jeanna / Kim / Mary = Behind the Back Girls
Here's my take on each of the housewives and how they compare in each of the different franchise's - for example, I think that Jill, Caroline, Vicki, NeNe and Lynda are all the "controllers"
The next line are all the good girls, then the dopey or not so smart girls, the "pretend to be nice but are really mean girls", and finally the "talk behind the back" girls.
What do you think? Where would you put them in these categories?
I Hate Jill Zarin RHONJ Final Wrap Up September 12, 2010
Well, I looked around, I think it’s safe to say we’re completely finished with the New Jersey crew, no lost footage, no “extra” hour long episodes on Teresa’s bad behavior this year. Gone, but not yet forgotten. Teresa continues to stay front and center in the public eye with her front page In Touch Magazine piece and endless interviews that all include the same quote. “You can’t believe everything you read”. She’s right, the dollar amounts that are quoted are typically rounded off so she can say it is not true and be accurate.
Andy Cohen asked her at the reunion and again on Watch What Happens Live, it is like they’ve preplanned the entire interview, Andy will round off all the numbers which leaves the door open for Teresa to deny deny deny and no one can say she’s lying. Those crazy dollar amounts that she owes to Nordstrom and Bloomingdales all wrong, the $250,000 that she failed to mention on her income disclosure probably had a few dollars and cents at the end making it perfectly acceptable for Teresa to say, “Nope! Not true!”
Bravo has released a video of “extra time with Teresa and Stacie” from their appearance on Watch What Happens Live. Did anyone else notice that Teresa’s demeanor and attitude on the show were extremely poor? She barely smiled, answered with very short and abrupt answers and was seemed very unhappy, even more so than during the live airing.
Even times that it would have been appropriate to smile (even though most of us found Ben Weiner creepy) Teresa didn’t smile and she didn’t applaud for the kid. Could the rumors of Teresa’s beef with Bravo be true? Rumor has it she was upset with the show for not showing more of her book on the show. She apparently filmed many segments of testing recipes and writing the book and none of that aired on the show. (Thank you Bravo!)
Additionally, she is said to be angry about the filming of her sister in law for the show who is apparently going to appear on the third season of the show.
Teresa certainly did not seem like her usual loud, obnoxious and laughing self. The only time we see her smiling and become more talkative is when Andy does bring up her book, after having brought it up three times in the half hour show, he again goes into the book discussion in depth during the extra footage.
Ben Weiner is back in this extras film and answering questions from fans. *eye roll*
http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live/season-2/videos/more-time-with-teresa-and-stacie
Remember Teresa on WWHL with Jacqueline by her side, what a difference a few weeks makes. There is no doubt in my mind that Teresa has an issue with Bravo and Andy Cohen, there is also no doubt that Andy sucked up to Teresa, mentioning her book no less than three times and then plugging it again extensively during the after show.
Andy Cohen, I say let her walk!
Do you want to be even more sickened? Here is a clip that Bravo posted from the reunion that didn’t make it to air. Apparently what offended the majority of the Jewish community, didn’t offend Jewish Andy Cohen. Another example of Andy calling out Danielle on every little thing but letting Teresa off the hook! After airing the footage, instead of immediately going into the comment about Jews that Teresa’s daughter Gia made, Andy immediately asked Teresa about having more children, and then ended the conversation asking about Teresa’s hair. This really is disturbing! Teresa doesn’t even know what she’s talking about, how is she supposed to teach her child about the Jewish religion? Take a look…
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-2/videos/gias-jewish-comment
Some of the Bravo blogs are up, not surprisingly Danielle has not posted one, for all we know her access to Bravotv.com and blog posting has already been suspended. Her last few blogs have been nonsense anyway, so I don’t think we’re missing much.
Caroline makes no excuses for her horrendous behavior on the reunion show, her constant interruptions, her screaming in Danielle’s face to “answer the question” so loud that she can’t hear that Danielle IS, in fact, answering her question. None of that was acknowledged by Mama Manzo, they all downplay the fact that Caroline was extremely agitated with Jacqueline for burying the hatchet with Danielle. Too bad Mrs. Matriarch Puppet master, you’re no longer pulling the strings, Jacqueline does have a mind of her own. We know she’s too soft for her own good, Iron Hand Jacqueline, Iron Hand.
I suppose Caroline would like nothing more than for Jacqueline to continue acting like a spoiled child, yelling at Danielle for things that are simply none of her business. Fans left Caroline dozens of comments, mostly in support but everyone knows that Caroline has many critics as well, very few of their comments were represented. A select few did call her out for her comments about Danielle’s daughters, but Bravo posted over 1,300 comments for Caroline, how dull to continuously read how awesome she is, for anyone but her!
Jacqueline’s blog is a load of malarkey as well, she goes on and on saying the same nonsense she’s said all season. More fans sucking up to her in the comments, it really is just all ridiculous!
Teresa begins to say that the rumors are so insane that she doesn’t even want to address them, then she goes on to address them. Her brother, whom she loves, and his family were invited to all of the events that Teresa held this past season that she couldn’t afford to pay for. Her brother’s photo is even in her book, according to Teresa. I wonder if her brother’s wife is in the book too. She doesn’t say.
Before she goes into whoring out her book and everything else she’s trying to sell, she says, “Oh, and I’m NOT claustrophobic”. This was in response to reports that she will suffer greatly in jail because she’s claustrophobic. Good thing Teresa, because it may be put to the test someday! A girl can dream!
Now that The Real Housewives of New Jersey is finished, Bravo seems to have nothing to put on the air on Monday night, so according to their schedule, they are re-running old episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County, you know, the same show that NBC will also begin running from the beginning at Noon on Monday afternoon. I really wonder what NBC is thinking by doing this, the first season of RHOOC was actually pretty dull in comparison to New York, Atlanta or New Jersey. If they are trying to lure viewers to their series, wouldn’t they begin by airing some interesting series?
The Video Music Awards were held Sunday, September 12th and our very own Bethenny was in the audience with her husband Jason. She was in Los Angeles on business and she was invited to attend, it was also Jason’s birthday so I’m sure it was a treat for him to attend an event like that for the first time! Bethenny tweeted what was happening as the night went on: (as always timeline is bottom to top)
@Bethenny OMG I just realized it's only 9pm&we're going home.WHO AM I?but I love it.
@Bethenny Mommy and daddy at rosa mexicana!no after party.we miss bryn:) http://twitpic.com/2nypxl
@Bethenny our car blew us off,so now we're walking aimlessly in downtown LA-all dressed up.gonna get a skinnygirl at rosa mexicana or trader vics
@Bethenny Wow!the @linkinpark was the best performance yet &it wasn't even here!they showed the video.
@Bethenny @usher @eminem. Damn that isn't pink!!!!!!RT @stephanie04: @Bethenny what performance has been your favorite so far tonight?
@Bethenny BOB is great&I see my all time favorite @pink who is coming soon!
@Bethenny Ok,I'm going to buy drake's album& see for myself.lots of you love him,so there must be something there.I trust u guys.
@Bethenny Don't know who drake is,but he sounds like a knockoff of other artists. @maryjblige could make cookie a hit.
@Bethenny People were talking during-like it was a commercialRT @erinking81: @bethenny Dying to know what people thought about Taylor's song!?! Share!
@Bethenny Oh no,now I don't like it.people r now openly talking about popping pills like it's cool.scared for bryn to grow up:(
@Bethenny Sitting w @paul_icon from the hard times of rj berger.u guys know it?
@Bethenny I can't enjoy this w/o sharing w u.@justinbieber was awesome.I get it now.@usher next. correct mw if I get twitter names wrong.tres fun!
@Bethenny I feel old and young at the same time! So fun!
@Bethenny Omg I live for @eminem! Soooo good.also I'm sitting next to mark burnett. Haven't seen him since apprentice!
@Bethenny This is what the room looks like.such a fun vibe.it's our date night! http://twitpic.com/2nx972
@Bethenny Gonna have to shave my legs in the car.so classy.
@Bethenny RT @JenHicks7: @Bethenny aren't the vma's in LA though?yes!I ended up having to stay in LA for work,so I decided to go at last minute.fun!
@Bethenny How r y'all?I just got invited to the vmas.I think jason will love it!how fun?it's been nice b'day w/e for him.
Kelly spent the weekend in South Caroline for her parents 50th wedding anniversary, details Kelly, more details…
@Kikilet There's an outlet mall in north charleston. Wooooooooooo. Icecream and a little shoparama
@Kikilet In south carolina with my fam for my parents 50th. My niece is soo cutie. Slumber partyyyyy
@Kikilet Mornin. South carolina is so pretty. With the entire fam. Happy anniversary, mom and dad
@Kikilet They use cinnamon on everything, even my caesar salad here in sc. Yummmmm
@Kikilet http://twitpic.com/2nrxw1- Happy sunday. My beautiful family celebrating my parents 50th. Woooooo
@Kikilet Usually I can't wait to get home, but in SC my girls and I never want to leave. Byeeee
@Kikilet Boeing is building a big hanger in Charletson. New jobs, woooooo
@Kikilet We have waited for over 45 mins for luggage. Is american airlines kidding me?
@Kikilet So happy to be in ny. Where's our luggage the girls have school early in the am. Ahhhh
It’s like you were there with her, wasn’t it?
She also had a rather strange conversation with one of her regular’s:
TO @kikilet ? do you think your too much to handle for any man or just most men
TO @hamptonskevin haaa. No man I have ever been with/ loved would ever say I was too much to handle.
TO @kikilet it was a ? to be honest i don't think anything but you are alot stevie wonder could see that
TO @hamptonskevin do I think I am too much to handle for any man? I love this, I am the opposite to what you think.
Here is an interesting Tweet courtesy of @Real_Housewives:
real_housewives #RHODC Dr Navin Singh is suing @MichaeleSalahi 4 not paying bill for 'procedures' $500 suspected to be botox, VA court 9/17/10
I’ve been asked to write a blog about Patti Stanger of Millionaire Matchmaker and I think it’s a great idea, I’ve written a few blurbs about her before, but look for a new blog about Patti in the next few days.
If you haven’t checked it out already, please take a look at the photos provided by Wall St Lady, her tribute to September 11. Thank you WSL for sharing those photos with us! You can view them here:
http://lynnnchicago.blogspot.com/2010/09/photographic-tribute-to-sept-11-from.html
Follow me on Twitter @LynnNChicago
Until Next Time…..
Well, I looked around, I think it’s safe to say we’re completely finished with the New Jersey crew, no lost footage, no “extra” hour long episodes on Teresa’s bad behavior this year. Gone, but not yet forgotten. Teresa continues to stay front and center in the public eye with her front page In Touch Magazine piece and endless interviews that all include the same quote. “You can’t believe everything you read”. She’s right, the dollar amounts that are quoted are typically rounded off so she can say it is not true and be accurate.
Andy Cohen asked her at the reunion and again on Watch What Happens Live, it is like they’ve preplanned the entire interview, Andy will round off all the numbers which leaves the door open for Teresa to deny deny deny and no one can say she’s lying. Those crazy dollar amounts that she owes to Nordstrom and Bloomingdales all wrong, the $250,000 that she failed to mention on her income disclosure probably had a few dollars and cents at the end making it perfectly acceptable for Teresa to say, “Nope! Not true!”
Bravo has released a video of “extra time with Teresa and Stacie” from their appearance on Watch What Happens Live. Did anyone else notice that Teresa’s demeanor and attitude on the show were extremely poor? She barely smiled, answered with very short and abrupt answers and was seemed very unhappy, even more so than during the live airing.
Even times that it would have been appropriate to smile (even though most of us found Ben Weiner creepy) Teresa didn’t smile and she didn’t applaud for the kid. Could the rumors of Teresa’s beef with Bravo be true? Rumor has it she was upset with the show for not showing more of her book on the show. She apparently filmed many segments of testing recipes and writing the book and none of that aired on the show. (Thank you Bravo!)
Additionally, she is said to be angry about the filming of her sister in law for the show who is apparently going to appear on the third season of the show.
Teresa certainly did not seem like her usual loud, obnoxious and laughing self. The only time we see her smiling and become more talkative is when Andy does bring up her book, after having brought it up three times in the half hour show, he again goes into the book discussion in depth during the extra footage.
Ben Weiner is back in this extras film and answering questions from fans. *eye roll*
http://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live/season-2/videos/more-time-with-teresa-and-stacie
Remember Teresa on WWHL with Jacqueline by her side, what a difference a few weeks makes. There is no doubt in my mind that Teresa has an issue with Bravo and Andy Cohen, there is also no doubt that Andy sucked up to Teresa, mentioning her book no less than three times and then plugging it again extensively during the after show.
Andy Cohen, I say let her walk!
Do you want to be even more sickened? Here is a clip that Bravo posted from the reunion that didn’t make it to air. Apparently what offended the majority of the Jewish community, didn’t offend Jewish Andy Cohen. Another example of Andy calling out Danielle on every little thing but letting Teresa off the hook! After airing the footage, instead of immediately going into the comment about Jews that Teresa’s daughter Gia made, Andy immediately asked Teresa about having more children, and then ended the conversation asking about Teresa’s hair. This really is disturbing! Teresa doesn’t even know what she’s talking about, how is she supposed to teach her child about the Jewish religion? Take a look…
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-2/videos/gias-jewish-comment
Some of the Bravo blogs are up, not surprisingly Danielle has not posted one, for all we know her access to Bravotv.com and blog posting has already been suspended. Her last few blogs have been nonsense anyway, so I don’t think we’re missing much.
Caroline makes no excuses for her horrendous behavior on the reunion show, her constant interruptions, her screaming in Danielle’s face to “answer the question” so loud that she can’t hear that Danielle IS, in fact, answering her question. None of that was acknowledged by Mama Manzo, they all downplay the fact that Caroline was extremely agitated with Jacqueline for burying the hatchet with Danielle. Too bad Mrs. Matriarch Puppet master, you’re no longer pulling the strings, Jacqueline does have a mind of her own. We know she’s too soft for her own good, Iron Hand Jacqueline, Iron Hand.
I suppose Caroline would like nothing more than for Jacqueline to continue acting like a spoiled child, yelling at Danielle for things that are simply none of her business. Fans left Caroline dozens of comments, mostly in support but everyone knows that Caroline has many critics as well, very few of their comments were represented. A select few did call her out for her comments about Danielle’s daughters, but Bravo posted over 1,300 comments for Caroline, how dull to continuously read how awesome she is, for anyone but her!
Jacqueline’s blog is a load of malarkey as well, she goes on and on saying the same nonsense she’s said all season. More fans sucking up to her in the comments, it really is just all ridiculous!
Teresa begins to say that the rumors are so insane that she doesn’t even want to address them, then she goes on to address them. Her brother, whom she loves, and his family were invited to all of the events that Teresa held this past season that she couldn’t afford to pay for. Her brother’s photo is even in her book, according to Teresa. I wonder if her brother’s wife is in the book too. She doesn’t say.
Before she goes into whoring out her book and everything else she’s trying to sell, she says, “Oh, and I’m NOT claustrophobic”. This was in response to reports that she will suffer greatly in jail because she’s claustrophobic. Good thing Teresa, because it may be put to the test someday! A girl can dream!
Now that The Real Housewives of New Jersey is finished, Bravo seems to have nothing to put on the air on Monday night, so according to their schedule, they are re-running old episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County, you know, the same show that NBC will also begin running from the beginning at Noon on Monday afternoon. I really wonder what NBC is thinking by doing this, the first season of RHOOC was actually pretty dull in comparison to New York, Atlanta or New Jersey. If they are trying to lure viewers to their series, wouldn’t they begin by airing some interesting series?
The Video Music Awards were held Sunday, September 12th and our very own Bethenny was in the audience with her husband Jason. She was in Los Angeles on business and she was invited to attend, it was also Jason’s birthday so I’m sure it was a treat for him to attend an event like that for the first time! Bethenny tweeted what was happening as the night went on: (as always timeline is bottom to top)
@Bethenny OMG I just realized it's only 9pm&we're going home.WHO AM I?but I love it.
@Bethenny Mommy and daddy at rosa mexicana!no after party.we miss bryn:) http://twitpic.com/2nypxl
@Bethenny our car blew us off,so now we're walking aimlessly in downtown LA-all dressed up.gonna get a skinnygirl at rosa mexicana or trader vics
@Bethenny Wow!the @linkinpark was the best performance yet &it wasn't even here!they showed the video.
@Bethenny @usher @eminem. Damn that isn't pink!!!!!!RT @stephanie04: @Bethenny what performance has been your favorite so far tonight?
@Bethenny BOB is great&I see my all time favorite @pink who is coming soon!
@Bethenny Ok,I'm going to buy drake's album& see for myself.lots of you love him,so there must be something there.I trust u guys.
@Bethenny Don't know who drake is,but he sounds like a knockoff of other artists. @maryjblige could make cookie a hit.
@Bethenny People were talking during-like it was a commercialRT @erinking81: @bethenny Dying to know what people thought about Taylor's song!?! Share!
@Bethenny Oh no,now I don't like it.people r now openly talking about popping pills like it's cool.scared for bryn to grow up:(
@Bethenny Sitting w @paul_icon from the hard times of rj berger.u guys know it?
@Bethenny I can't enjoy this w/o sharing w u.@justinbieber was awesome.I get it now.@usher next. correct mw if I get twitter names wrong.tres fun!
@Bethenny I feel old and young at the same time! So fun!
@Bethenny Omg I live for @eminem! Soooo good.also I'm sitting next to mark burnett. Haven't seen him since apprentice!
@Bethenny This is what the room looks like.such a fun vibe.it's our date night! http://twitpic.com/2nx972
@Bethenny Gonna have to shave my legs in the car.so classy.
@Bethenny RT @JenHicks7: @Bethenny aren't the vma's in LA though?yes!I ended up having to stay in LA for work,so I decided to go at last minute.fun!
@Bethenny How r y'all?I just got invited to the vmas.I think jason will love it!how fun?it's been nice b'day w/e for him.
Kelly spent the weekend in South Caroline for her parents 50th wedding anniversary, details Kelly, more details…
@Kikilet There's an outlet mall in north charleston. Wooooooooooo. Icecream and a little shoparama
@Kikilet In south carolina with my fam for my parents 50th. My niece is soo cutie. Slumber partyyyyy
@Kikilet Mornin. South carolina is so pretty. With the entire fam. Happy anniversary, mom and dad
@Kikilet They use cinnamon on everything, even my caesar salad here in sc. Yummmmm
@Kikilet http://twitpic.com/2nrxw1- Happy sunday. My beautiful family celebrating my parents 50th. Woooooo
@Kikilet Usually I can't wait to get home, but in SC my girls and I never want to leave. Byeeee
@Kikilet Boeing is building a big hanger in Charletson. New jobs, woooooo
@Kikilet We have waited for over 45 mins for luggage. Is american airlines kidding me?
@Kikilet So happy to be in ny. Where's our luggage the girls have school early in the am. Ahhhh
It’s like you were there with her, wasn’t it?
She also had a rather strange conversation with one of her regular’s:
TO @kikilet ? do you think your too much to handle for any man or just most men
TO @hamptonskevin haaa. No man I have ever been with/ loved would ever say I was too much to handle.
TO @kikilet it was a ? to be honest i don't think anything but you are alot stevie wonder could see that
TO @hamptonskevin do I think I am too much to handle for any man? I love this, I am the opposite to what you think.
Here is an interesting Tweet courtesy of @Real_Housewives:
real_housewives #RHODC Dr Navin Singh is suing @MichaeleSalahi 4 not paying bill for 'procedures' $500 suspected to be botox, VA court 9/17/10
I’ve been asked to write a blog about Patti Stanger of Millionaire Matchmaker and I think it’s a great idea, I’ve written a few blurbs about her before, but look for a new blog about Patti in the next few days.
If you haven’t checked it out already, please take a look at the photos provided by Wall St Lady, her tribute to September 11. Thank you WSL for sharing those photos with us! You can view them here:
http://lynnnchicago.blogspot.com/2010/09/photographic-tribute-to-sept-11-from.html
Follow me on Twitter @LynnNChicago
Until Next Time…..
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Photographic Tribute to Sept 11 - from Wall St Lady
Images sent from Wall St Lady 
Taken on 9/11 WSL
This is from last year & will shine tonite where the towers stood. - WSL
I visited Coney Island 2 weekends ago. This is the wall dedicated to all who
died. It is not complete. There is an Ihrie 'in my opinion, hologram like
picture of each person. The picture is very detailed. WSL
Thank you Wall St Lady for sharing your photos with us... LynnNChicago
Saturday, September 11, 2010
I Hate Jill Zarin Blog September 8, 2010
I Hate Jill Zarin Mid-Weed Update – Breaking News September 8, 2010
Breaking news! Danielle Staub is innocent….I know, I was shocked too but Twitter never lies, here is the link to Danielle’s tweet in response to the sicko birthday boy who wanted Ashley Holmes to commit suicide, if you click on the “In response to” right under the tweet you will see what Danielle was responding to…
http://mobile.twitter.com/daniellestaub/status/19913473414
She did respond to the same guy, but she wasn’t responding to his sick tweet about Ashley! She’s innocent! Let me be the first to officially apologize because in yesterday’s blog, I did say that I saw Danielle’s tweet and I assumed the worst as well, so Danielle Staub, I apologize!
Hopefully Caroline, Teresa and Jacqueline will also extend their apologies once this truth comes out! (don’t hold your breath)
Here’s an interesting article, Danielle doesn’t hold back now that she’s no longer part of the Bravo family:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/09/exclusive-nj-housewife-teresa-giudice-ape-says-ex-co-star-danielle-staub
Yes, there are tons of rumors floating around the internet about Teresa Giudice as well. She is refusing to return to the show because she wants more money and more perks, she’s refusing to return because her sister in law, Melissa is a new cast member, there are rumors she refuses to allow production to film any of her bankruptcy issues, and that she’s afraid to let them film in case they catch Juicy Joe cheating.
http://www.etidbits.com/teresa-giudice-playing-hardball-with-housewives-producers=211
http://www.realitytea.com/tag/teresa-giudice/
Oh the rumors, Teresa tweeted this yesterday…
@Teresa_Giudice: I know there are tons of rumors today. Don't believe everything you read. (Except my "In Touch" cover story. That really was me!) xx
Jacqueline, true to her word is taking a break from Twitter and has been silent since September 5. I hope that she apologizes to Danielle when she returns.
Breaking news! Danielle Staub is innocent….I know, I was shocked too but Twitter never lies, here is the link to Danielle’s tweet in response to the sicko birthday boy who wanted Ashley Holmes to commit suicide, if you click on the “In response to” right under the tweet you will see what Danielle was responding to…
http://mobile.twitter.com/daniellestaub/status/19913473414
She did respond to the same guy, but she wasn’t responding to his sick tweet about Ashley! She’s innocent! Let me be the first to officially apologize because in yesterday’s blog, I did say that I saw Danielle’s tweet and I assumed the worst as well, so Danielle Staub, I apologize!
Hopefully Caroline, Teresa and Jacqueline will also extend their apologies once this truth comes out! (don’t hold your breath)
Here’s an interesting article, Danielle doesn’t hold back now that she’s no longer part of the Bravo family:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/09/exclusive-nj-housewife-teresa-giudice-ape-says-ex-co-star-danielle-staub
Yes, there are tons of rumors floating around the internet about Teresa Giudice as well. She is refusing to return to the show because she wants more money and more perks, she’s refusing to return because her sister in law, Melissa is a new cast member, there are rumors she refuses to allow production to film any of her bankruptcy issues, and that she’s afraid to let them film in case they catch Juicy Joe cheating.
http://www.etidbits.com/teresa-giudice-playing-hardball-with-housewives-producers=211
http://www.realitytea.com/tag/teresa-giudice/
Oh the rumors, Teresa tweeted this yesterday…
@Teresa_Giudice: I know there are tons of rumors today. Don't believe everything you read. (Except my "In Touch" cover story. That really was me!) xx
Jacqueline, true to her word is taking a break from Twitter and has been silent since September 5. I hope that she apologizes to Danielle when she returns.
Real Housewives of DC / Jill Zarin Memories
I Hate Jill Zarin Real Housewives of DC / Jill Zarin Memories
Thanks to @lakeshordrive for her guest blog on the DC Housewives, here is my take on this week’s show:
The show opens with the same scene we ended with two long weeks ago. By the way, I think it was a bad idea for Bravo to skip airing the show last week, the show needs to gain momentum, not annoy the few fans it’s got.
So Tareq, Michaele, Mary, Stacie and her husband Jason are enjoying a nice meal with a whole lot of wine at Oasis Winery. Slurring his words, Tareq decides to bring up an issue that it turns out was 2 years prior and accuses Mary’s daughter Lolly of being involved in a car theft that also included some polo gear.
I think that in the end, there clearly wasn’t any evidence of Lolly’s involvement, but in any case Tareq was out of line bringing it up at this dinner while the cameras were rolling. It looked as though he was waiting for just the right moment to bring this up in front of Bravo’s cameras for more attention.
Both Michaele and Tareq tried to tell us that Mary was pushing the issue and asking Tareq if something was bothering him. Clearly Tareq was chomping at the bit to bring this up so Mary asked him one time if he wanted to say something and through his wine induced haze blurted out some nonsense about the FBI and Facebook. It’s just a shame that they didn’t just laugh at him and continue talking about the weather!
Michaele and her idiotic comments reminded me so much of Kelly it made me want to turn it off immediately, but alas, something made me leave it on and continue with the fiasco. I think that everyone at the table had a bit too much wine which is why Mary began to cry and Stacie and Jason got a little too worked up over something that didn’t involve them at all. In the end, Tareq looked like an absolute moron….again!
Lynda must have had excellent foresight skipping the winery tour but instead took her family on a tour of their new home. Moving from the city to the suburbs is something I can certainly relate to, for your family, you’ll do just about anything that is best for them and while her kids are a bit older, moving into a larger home was the right thing to do. It certainly wasn’t my style but Lynda seems to love it and that’s all that matters.
Edwina Rodgers wants to be a housewife, huh? It sure seems like she does, with the horrible bright red lipstick and the hats with the string around her chin like a birthday hat, I doubt she’d ever be considered. It isn’t about being republican or democrat with this woman. I really find it hard to believe that she is a lobbyist. She couldn’t even hold up to Cat’s questioning. Cat was just being Cat and asking legitimate questions. Yes, Edwina the cameras were rolling so what better time to get up on your soap box and convince the world that you’re on the right side of this issue? Not a great time to freeze up, stutter and stammer your insecurities.
Edwina’s “Health Care” party looked like a business meeting with alcohol, it seemed to be held in one of those meeting rooms at hotels where we’ve all been dragged to for team building and corporate meetings.
Watching Cat with her two daughters trying to choose an outfit was pretty funny, I think after seeing what Cat wore to her wedding, I’d like to see the wedding photos. Those two girls are so cute and natural in front of the cameras. In the end, I didn’t really understand why Cat chose to dress up as Sarah Palin, but it certainly did breathe some life into that rather dull party. Cat agrees and adds that there are more tables than people at this party.
Cat was the only one who brought any interest to this party whatsoever. Michaele apparently felt the need to bring her rude assistant to the party, no idea why, but Cat decided she was going to call her out on her “bitchy” comment at the winery.
Michaele’s assistant reacts just as inappropriately as she did at the winery and apparently Michaele is ok with her behavior. What Cat should have received was an apology, instead the assistant from hell calls Cat bitchy…again! Cat went pretty easy on this girl, I think she’s got it in her to really let her have it but she held back and instead insulted Michaele’s shocking pink dress. Michaele seems to make a habit of dressing inappropriately for any event.
Only Lynda and Michaele have posted blogs on Bravotv.com, we haven’t heard from Cat for a few weeks now and what a horrible surprise to see Jill Zarin blogging for RHODC as of last week!
Lynda talks about Tareq, again, ok Lynda, we get it you hate Tareq and blame him for the change in your beloved Michaele. I’m not buying any of that, Lynda clearly never liked Michaele. I cannot stand when Lynda is all fake and tells Michaele she loves her and cares about her, then behind her back says she isn’t attending the winery outing because she wants to spend time with people she cares about. HUH?
Lynda seems to really like Cat, Mary and Stacie and they seem to like her as well, so I’m trying to find something likable about Lynda. I did appreciate what she said in her blog about racism and she is clearly a great advocate for equality in this country and I have to give her props for that!
She loses points for her constant comments like this week’s, “there is special etiquette for DC’s political parties”. I disagree, I think proper etiquette is required for any event, anywhere! Either you know how to behave properly in any environment, or you don’t.
Just a bit of advice for Lynda, a 5-page blog that ends in a poem of inspiration is a bit over the top, you’re a housewife on Bravo TV!
Michaele’s blog is clearly full of shit! Sorry but she is, one of her first paragraphs includes this:
“I was very sad that Mary kept asking Tareq about what was on his mind and probing him to say what it was.”
She was sad? Mary kept asking? What a crock! If something was on the man’s mind all day, something that happened two years ago then he is an absolute moron! He has seen Mary and even Mary’s husband several times over the past two years and suddenly on this day after drinking heavily all day, he needs to get this off his chest? Does anyone believe that Mary really cared what was on Tareq’s mind?
All of the housewives were cordial to the Salahi’s at the beginning of the season but it seems that one by one Michaele and Tareq have alienated each of the other housewives and their families.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when I started the blog and why I started the blog.
Part of it was the extreme frustration with Bravotv.com’s housewives blogs. I remember posting time and time again on blogs for Vicki, Tamra and Gretchen from Orange County. It seemed as though no matter what my comments said, they wouldn’t get posted on the blogs. I tried everything from being nice to being mean to even writing directly to whoever the behind the scenes person was that was deciding what to post. Possibly 1 of 10 would get posted over the course of several weeks.
I later found out that Bravo doesn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to the blogs and at times it is an unpaid intern who will review comments and decide what to post. It is probably a different person every day and based on their own feelings about any given housewife, they’ll post the ones they want to post with no set criteria or rules.
I can just imagine the hundreds, possibly thousands of comments that come into the blogs every day, some could be several paragraphs long, others are just a few words and everything in between. Is it even possible for someone to read them all every day? Since this is a low priority job for someone over at Bravo, most likely they read the shortest ones and post the few that they like. At times you can tell someone with a sense of humor is approving comments because every single one will have misspellings or improper grammar. The next day you may see all supportive comments and the following day, all negative toward the housewife. It just depends on who draws the short straw and is put on blog duty that day.
For a time I thought that the author of the blog would at least have the opportunity to read all of the comments sent into Bravotv.com for their writings, but I was wrong once again. The housewives see only what is posted just like the rest of us.
And so I decided the only way I was going to get my thoughts and feelings about these shows out of my system was to write my comments anyway and post them on a blog. I knew that there had to be people out there who felt the same way that I did. Reading the comments was always so frustrating because more often than not, they were so agreeable and positive toward the housewife who wrote the blog. This couldn’t possibly be representative of all of the fans of the shows!
I wrote my first blog and it was printed as a guest blog for Terry Ally, a great guy that I met on Twitter. @RawVeggies He has a great sense of humor and I noticed that he had some similar thoughts about the Real Housewives of New York as I did. I asked him if I could guest blog for him about the show and he was great about letting me do a few. I named them right off the bat, “I Hate Jill Zarin”.
The rest is history, literally.
Jill Zarin
I think we all also need a reminder of why we hated Jill in the first place because before we know it, Bravo will begin airing the Real Housewives of New York and we need to be prepared!
Season three really brought out the ugly in Jill Zarin but in reality, she showed signs of the real Jill back in seasons one and two.
Remember Jill storming out of a fashion show because she didn’t have front row seats?
How about Jill having a fit over not being invited to Ramona’s dinner party?
What about Jill talking to the press and saying that Simon was a drunk?
Remember Jill making a fool of Alex and Simon for vacationing in St. Barts in the summer while she and her friends were in the Hamptons? (“We go during the winter when prices are double what Alex is paying”)
The many nasty things that Jill has said about Ramona and Alex are too numerous to mention, but we’ll get into detail in future blogs.
The real Jill Zarin came out in season three when she didn’t have Bethenny by her side to soften the blog of Jill’s punches.
Season three started with Jill’s horrible behavior at the party that Ramona held on a yacht. Jill added fuel to the fire of the argument between Luann and Ramona, called Ramona cheap (to one of Ramona’s best friends) then expected a free piece of jewelry, made fun of Ramona behind her back and gossiped about Bethenny telling everyone about a 3month old voice mail message.
That was tame and just the beginning…
Jill focused the majority of her horrible behavior on Bethenny, but no one was safe, Ramona, Alex and even Sonja got caught in the Jill rampage of Season Three.
From the rude snub during fashion week to her hanging up on Bethenny while Luann sits quietly listening in on the phone conversation, to the discussion at Ramona’s house where Bethenny practically begged Jill to be her friend again, Jill has been a horrible person! All season Jill would bring up the one thing she could point to in hopes of getting sympathy, her husband Bobby’s cancer scare. No one is doubting that it was a scary time for the Zarin’s but Jill using it to try to get sympathy and lying about the extent of Bobby’s surgery backfired on Jill. At the end of the season we learned that Jill never told anyone initially about Bobby’s condition and admitted that there was no way that Bethenny could have known the extent of his illness.
Months after the season filming was complete, about 4-5 episodes had aired on Bravo showing Jill’s horrible behavior and Jill’s book was being released. This was the week that Jill chose to publically beg Bethenny for forgiveness and even asked fans on Facebook how she should go about trying to apologize to Bethenny. Seriously Jill? Don’t you think the smart fans can see right through you? This facebook plea came just two weeks after Jill bashed Bethenny, once again, in her Bravo blog.
Off screen, Jill told her cast mates not to film with Bethenny, started the rumor that Alex was being let go from the series, we had Amazongate, banning her gay boyfriend Brad, recruiting other Bravolebrities to join Team Jill (Patti Stanger, Teresa Giudice, NeNe Leakes and others) and turn them against Bethenny. Talk about a puppetmaster, Jill was pulling the strings of both Luann and Kelly ensuring that they were firmly on Team Jill.
Jill didn’t just persuade people to be on her team, she also had to turn them against Bethenny to the point where these people would go onto the social networks bashing Bethenny.
Teresa Giudice was a guest blogger during Season three of the RHONY and her first blog was entitied ‘Team Jill”. Patti Stanger took to twitter with her disgusting mouth saying, “any cow can push out a baby”. A video released also included Patti talking to Jill on the phone and calling Bethenny a “C U Next Tuesday” which is vile! Not once did Jill even attempt to defend Bethenny, whom she called her friend.
Never forgetting Jill’s nasty comments about Sonja Morgan, who Jill admittedly didn’t even know and met only very briefly at her Kodak event. Jill told Sonja’s friend to stick his tongue down Sonja’s throat then maybe she’ll let him join her table. Jill, you’ll never be funny, you’re just rude and crude!
Over the next few weeks as we wait for Atlanta to air and New York to begin filming, I think we need to follow Jill’s off air antics and have some reminders of her past behavior in preparation for her debut next season.
Our favorite @GingerZarin is back for more fun! From Twitter:
Mommys life on the D list ~> RT ‘Jill’s Choice’ at Olsen Twin Karaoke: Jill Zarin had a dilemma on her hands, and it wasn't just figuring... http://bit.ly/bWlQNR
notice @jillzarin refused to stay behind and let both nieces go backstage. Noooo if mummy caint go ain't nobody goin. Tantrums didn't work either.
As today is September 11, I wanted to share with you a really sweet tribute to those who passed on that tragic day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yfivS8SWs
Thank you to @Prettyplusmore for sharing it with me.
Until Next Time….
Thanks to @lakeshordrive for her guest blog on the DC Housewives, here is my take on this week’s show:
The show opens with the same scene we ended with two long weeks ago. By the way, I think it was a bad idea for Bravo to skip airing the show last week, the show needs to gain momentum, not annoy the few fans it’s got.
So Tareq, Michaele, Mary, Stacie and her husband Jason are enjoying a nice meal with a whole lot of wine at Oasis Winery. Slurring his words, Tareq decides to bring up an issue that it turns out was 2 years prior and accuses Mary’s daughter Lolly of being involved in a car theft that also included some polo gear.
I think that in the end, there clearly wasn’t any evidence of Lolly’s involvement, but in any case Tareq was out of line bringing it up at this dinner while the cameras were rolling. It looked as though he was waiting for just the right moment to bring this up in front of Bravo’s cameras for more attention.
Both Michaele and Tareq tried to tell us that Mary was pushing the issue and asking Tareq if something was bothering him. Clearly Tareq was chomping at the bit to bring this up so Mary asked him one time if he wanted to say something and through his wine induced haze blurted out some nonsense about the FBI and Facebook. It’s just a shame that they didn’t just laugh at him and continue talking about the weather!
Michaele and her idiotic comments reminded me so much of Kelly it made me want to turn it off immediately, but alas, something made me leave it on and continue with the fiasco. I think that everyone at the table had a bit too much wine which is why Mary began to cry and Stacie and Jason got a little too worked up over something that didn’t involve them at all. In the end, Tareq looked like an absolute moron….again!
Lynda must have had excellent foresight skipping the winery tour but instead took her family on a tour of their new home. Moving from the city to the suburbs is something I can certainly relate to, for your family, you’ll do just about anything that is best for them and while her kids are a bit older, moving into a larger home was the right thing to do. It certainly wasn’t my style but Lynda seems to love it and that’s all that matters.
Edwina Rodgers wants to be a housewife, huh? It sure seems like she does, with the horrible bright red lipstick and the hats with the string around her chin like a birthday hat, I doubt she’d ever be considered. It isn’t about being republican or democrat with this woman. I really find it hard to believe that she is a lobbyist. She couldn’t even hold up to Cat’s questioning. Cat was just being Cat and asking legitimate questions. Yes, Edwina the cameras were rolling so what better time to get up on your soap box and convince the world that you’re on the right side of this issue? Not a great time to freeze up, stutter and stammer your insecurities.
Edwina’s “Health Care” party looked like a business meeting with alcohol, it seemed to be held in one of those meeting rooms at hotels where we’ve all been dragged to for team building and corporate meetings.
Watching Cat with her two daughters trying to choose an outfit was pretty funny, I think after seeing what Cat wore to her wedding, I’d like to see the wedding photos. Those two girls are so cute and natural in front of the cameras. In the end, I didn’t really understand why Cat chose to dress up as Sarah Palin, but it certainly did breathe some life into that rather dull party. Cat agrees and adds that there are more tables than people at this party.
Cat was the only one who brought any interest to this party whatsoever. Michaele apparently felt the need to bring her rude assistant to the party, no idea why, but Cat decided she was going to call her out on her “bitchy” comment at the winery.
Michaele’s assistant reacts just as inappropriately as she did at the winery and apparently Michaele is ok with her behavior. What Cat should have received was an apology, instead the assistant from hell calls Cat bitchy…again! Cat went pretty easy on this girl, I think she’s got it in her to really let her have it but she held back and instead insulted Michaele’s shocking pink dress. Michaele seems to make a habit of dressing inappropriately for any event.
Only Lynda and Michaele have posted blogs on Bravotv.com, we haven’t heard from Cat for a few weeks now and what a horrible surprise to see Jill Zarin blogging for RHODC as of last week!
Lynda talks about Tareq, again, ok Lynda, we get it you hate Tareq and blame him for the change in your beloved Michaele. I’m not buying any of that, Lynda clearly never liked Michaele. I cannot stand when Lynda is all fake and tells Michaele she loves her and cares about her, then behind her back says she isn’t attending the winery outing because she wants to spend time with people she cares about. HUH?
Lynda seems to really like Cat, Mary and Stacie and they seem to like her as well, so I’m trying to find something likable about Lynda. I did appreciate what she said in her blog about racism and she is clearly a great advocate for equality in this country and I have to give her props for that!
She loses points for her constant comments like this week’s, “there is special etiquette for DC’s political parties”. I disagree, I think proper etiquette is required for any event, anywhere! Either you know how to behave properly in any environment, or you don’t.
Just a bit of advice for Lynda, a 5-page blog that ends in a poem of inspiration is a bit over the top, you’re a housewife on Bravo TV!
Michaele’s blog is clearly full of shit! Sorry but she is, one of her first paragraphs includes this:
“I was very sad that Mary kept asking Tareq about what was on his mind and probing him to say what it was.”
She was sad? Mary kept asking? What a crock! If something was on the man’s mind all day, something that happened two years ago then he is an absolute moron! He has seen Mary and even Mary’s husband several times over the past two years and suddenly on this day after drinking heavily all day, he needs to get this off his chest? Does anyone believe that Mary really cared what was on Tareq’s mind?
All of the housewives were cordial to the Salahi’s at the beginning of the season but it seems that one by one Michaele and Tareq have alienated each of the other housewives and their families.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when I started the blog and why I started the blog.
Part of it was the extreme frustration with Bravotv.com’s housewives blogs. I remember posting time and time again on blogs for Vicki, Tamra and Gretchen from Orange County. It seemed as though no matter what my comments said, they wouldn’t get posted on the blogs. I tried everything from being nice to being mean to even writing directly to whoever the behind the scenes person was that was deciding what to post. Possibly 1 of 10 would get posted over the course of several weeks.
I later found out that Bravo doesn’t really pay a whole lot of attention to the blogs and at times it is an unpaid intern who will review comments and decide what to post. It is probably a different person every day and based on their own feelings about any given housewife, they’ll post the ones they want to post with no set criteria or rules.
I can just imagine the hundreds, possibly thousands of comments that come into the blogs every day, some could be several paragraphs long, others are just a few words and everything in between. Is it even possible for someone to read them all every day? Since this is a low priority job for someone over at Bravo, most likely they read the shortest ones and post the few that they like. At times you can tell someone with a sense of humor is approving comments because every single one will have misspellings or improper grammar. The next day you may see all supportive comments and the following day, all negative toward the housewife. It just depends on who draws the short straw and is put on blog duty that day.
For a time I thought that the author of the blog would at least have the opportunity to read all of the comments sent into Bravotv.com for their writings, but I was wrong once again. The housewives see only what is posted just like the rest of us.
And so I decided the only way I was going to get my thoughts and feelings about these shows out of my system was to write my comments anyway and post them on a blog. I knew that there had to be people out there who felt the same way that I did. Reading the comments was always so frustrating because more often than not, they were so agreeable and positive toward the housewife who wrote the blog. This couldn’t possibly be representative of all of the fans of the shows!
I wrote my first blog and it was printed as a guest blog for Terry Ally, a great guy that I met on Twitter. @RawVeggies He has a great sense of humor and I noticed that he had some similar thoughts about the Real Housewives of New York as I did. I asked him if I could guest blog for him about the show and he was great about letting me do a few. I named them right off the bat, “I Hate Jill Zarin”.
The rest is history, literally.
Jill Zarin
I think we all also need a reminder of why we hated Jill in the first place because before we know it, Bravo will begin airing the Real Housewives of New York and we need to be prepared!
Season three really brought out the ugly in Jill Zarin but in reality, she showed signs of the real Jill back in seasons one and two.
Remember Jill storming out of a fashion show because she didn’t have front row seats?
How about Jill having a fit over not being invited to Ramona’s dinner party?
What about Jill talking to the press and saying that Simon was a drunk?
Remember Jill making a fool of Alex and Simon for vacationing in St. Barts in the summer while she and her friends were in the Hamptons? (“We go during the winter when prices are double what Alex is paying”)
The many nasty things that Jill has said about Ramona and Alex are too numerous to mention, but we’ll get into detail in future blogs.
The real Jill Zarin came out in season three when she didn’t have Bethenny by her side to soften the blog of Jill’s punches.
Season three started with Jill’s horrible behavior at the party that Ramona held on a yacht. Jill added fuel to the fire of the argument between Luann and Ramona, called Ramona cheap (to one of Ramona’s best friends) then expected a free piece of jewelry, made fun of Ramona behind her back and gossiped about Bethenny telling everyone about a 3month old voice mail message.
That was tame and just the beginning…
Jill focused the majority of her horrible behavior on Bethenny, but no one was safe, Ramona, Alex and even Sonja got caught in the Jill rampage of Season Three.
From the rude snub during fashion week to her hanging up on Bethenny while Luann sits quietly listening in on the phone conversation, to the discussion at Ramona’s house where Bethenny practically begged Jill to be her friend again, Jill has been a horrible person! All season Jill would bring up the one thing she could point to in hopes of getting sympathy, her husband Bobby’s cancer scare. No one is doubting that it was a scary time for the Zarin’s but Jill using it to try to get sympathy and lying about the extent of Bobby’s surgery backfired on Jill. At the end of the season we learned that Jill never told anyone initially about Bobby’s condition and admitted that there was no way that Bethenny could have known the extent of his illness.
Months after the season filming was complete, about 4-5 episodes had aired on Bravo showing Jill’s horrible behavior and Jill’s book was being released. This was the week that Jill chose to publically beg Bethenny for forgiveness and even asked fans on Facebook how she should go about trying to apologize to Bethenny. Seriously Jill? Don’t you think the smart fans can see right through you? This facebook plea came just two weeks after Jill bashed Bethenny, once again, in her Bravo blog.
Off screen, Jill told her cast mates not to film with Bethenny, started the rumor that Alex was being let go from the series, we had Amazongate, banning her gay boyfriend Brad, recruiting other Bravolebrities to join Team Jill (Patti Stanger, Teresa Giudice, NeNe Leakes and others) and turn them against Bethenny. Talk about a puppetmaster, Jill was pulling the strings of both Luann and Kelly ensuring that they were firmly on Team Jill.
Jill didn’t just persuade people to be on her team, she also had to turn them against Bethenny to the point where these people would go onto the social networks bashing Bethenny.
Teresa Giudice was a guest blogger during Season three of the RHONY and her first blog was entitied ‘Team Jill”. Patti Stanger took to twitter with her disgusting mouth saying, “any cow can push out a baby”. A video released also included Patti talking to Jill on the phone and calling Bethenny a “C U Next Tuesday” which is vile! Not once did Jill even attempt to defend Bethenny, whom she called her friend.
Never forgetting Jill’s nasty comments about Sonja Morgan, who Jill admittedly didn’t even know and met only very briefly at her Kodak event. Jill told Sonja’s friend to stick his tongue down Sonja’s throat then maybe she’ll let him join her table. Jill, you’ll never be funny, you’re just rude and crude!
Over the next few weeks as we wait for Atlanta to air and New York to begin filming, I think we need to follow Jill’s off air antics and have some reminders of her past behavior in preparation for her debut next season.
Our favorite @GingerZarin is back for more fun! From Twitter:
Mommys life on the D list ~> RT ‘Jill’s Choice’ at Olsen Twin Karaoke: Jill Zarin had a dilemma on her hands, and it wasn't just figuring... http://bit.ly/bWlQNR
notice @jillzarin refused to stay behind and let both nieces go backstage. Noooo if mummy caint go ain't nobody goin. Tantrums didn't work either.
As today is September 11, I wanted to share with you a really sweet tribute to those who passed on that tragic day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yfivS8SWs
Thank you to @Prettyplusmore for sharing it with me.
Until Next Time….
Friday, September 10, 2010
Real Housewives of DC Guest Blog / Watch What Happens Live
I Hate Jill Zarin Guest Blog Real Housewives of DC / Watch What Happens Live September 10, 2010
Thank you to Katherine for her guest blog on the Real Housewives of DC:
Katherine from Lake Shore Drive (http://lakeshoredrive.wordpress.com) (@lakeshoredrive_ on Twitter) is this week’s guest blogger…
Lots happened this week. Thankfully, Bravo decided to pack in the drama, since we have gone an entire two weeks since the last episode.
Things pick up where we left them at the vineyard and Tareq, wearing his blue Heathclif Huxtable (“Cosby Show”) sweater, slurs out those fateful words: “I’m just going to say something…”
He goes on to explain that his “$90,000 car” along with “over $25,000 in polo equipment” (was there a horse in there?) had been stolen. He then continues to explain to Mary that her daughter was involved, citing a post her daughter had written on Facebook.
According to Tareq, the FBI had been investigating and monitoring suspects for the last 6 months. (Really, Tareq? I’m pretty sure the FBI has better things to do.)
Thankfully, Jason didn’t buy it, either. Stacie and Jason were stunned, Michaele looked confused, poor Mary was in shock and crying, and Tareq…WTF was that on your face? A red wine moustache and matching cold sores?
Poor Mary. Just as Jason said, it really was a “sucker punch”. To hit her with such an outrageous claim (a) with no warning, (b) in a group of people, (c) with no tact whatsoever – Tareq’s behavior was really inexcusable. Then, as if he wasn’t obnoxious enough, Tareq goes on to say “I care about what happened to that gear…It’s not about what happened to poor Lolly.” Saying the injustice has been towards the charity and the polo players, Tareq continued on his misplaced drunken rampage.
Thankfully, Jason jumped in, saying that because he doesn’t have a daughter, Tareq doesn’t get it.
“I am so uncomfortable with this line of conversation…if anyone was talking about my daughter I’d be over the top of this table on your ass so quick…” Jason said.
Tareq, unfazed by Jason’s mortification, goes on to say that Lolly had incriminated herself and it was “plastered all over Facebook…” He continued on, saying, “There’s a Federal Investigation going on…and everybody’s going to jail.”
The cameras flash over to Michaele looking tired, old and confused. Not sure if it’s OK to keep drinking her champagne, she feebly asks: “Are we done?”
Yes, Michaele. You are definitely done.
Back in the limo, poor Mary is still crying and Stacie and Jason agree that it was strange for Tareq to end a good day with something from left field. They all agree that this claim could simply be a lie made up about Lolly.
Spa-Time Summations
Next, we see Lynda, Cat and Stacie at Red Door Spa as the Stacie tells the ladies about Tareq’s accusations. Lynda doesn’t seem surprised but does say: “Would you do that in public…who does that? He is a whack job.”
Cat agreed, saying “This is quite a below the belt thing to do. In some ways I wish I had been there to look after Mary because it sounded hideous.” We all wish you would have been there, too, Cat. Odds are that Tareq wouldn’t have said a thing.
Lolly’s Reaction
Next, we see Mary and her husband, Rich, discussing the accusations with Lolly, 23. I have to say that I really wish I would have seen a little more outrage from Lolly. Obviously, this wasn’t the first time the parents discussed the claims with their daughter, but I would have been a little more upset about this had I been in Lolly’s shoes.
Mary does admit, “Lolly did post something on Facebook” but that it doesn’t incriminate her. (What?)
My favorite part of this discussion was when Rich referred to Tareq as having broken “man rules” by attacking his wife and daughter without him there. (Yeah!) Adding a dose of fuel to the fire, Mary asks if Rich wants to handle it. After thinking about it, Rich replied that his reaction would be relative to his alcohol consumption.
Mary does say “We’re going to make some calls to the police department and make sure these claims are false.”
A few minutes later, we see Mary and Rich talking, and no one was surprised to learn that after checking with the authorities, Rich was unable to find any type of investigation or charges with Lolly’s name. “It’s all made-up,” he says, as Mary agrees that “they make sh!t up to deflect their own sh!t”.
Dinnertime Drama
Next, we’re treated to a dinnertime meeting between Michaele and Jen, her assistant – but let’s just call her “DC (Kim) G” for short. Immediately, the two begin bashing Cat. Of course, Cat was being snippy that day at the vineyard, but calling Tareq a control freak (like calling the grass “green”) didn’t warrant DC G calling Cat a bitch.
Michaele seems to be trying really hard to be cute and chatty in this scene and she really just ends up looking old, wrinkly and confused. Michaele then goes on to rant to DC G, saying that she has done everything to be nice to the ladies and they are all just rude.
Clearly only believing what Tareq has told her to believe, Michaele did go on to say that it was Mary’s fault the whole incident came to conversation that night. She said Mary “pushed for what it was” and that’s why the situation was brought up at that moment.
Uh, no, dumbass. Your husband brought it up.
Bipartisan Brunch
Next, we see Cat meeting Edwina Rogers, Republican Lobbyist, at the Mayflower for lunch. After a few niceties and small talk, Edwina starts with rapid-fire questioning to Cat. “I heard you’re writing a book? That must be exciting. Does he (Cat’s husband) get to fly on Air Force One?”
The thing I love about Cat is that she’s almost impossible to fluster. Cat takes Edwina’s questions in stride, ignoring most and only answering a few. But she can make even a seasoned Washington Lobbyist uncomfortable, as we saw in her next dialog with Edwina, who brings up healthcare reform. Cat replies that a Republican working on healthcare reform is really an “oxymoron”, and goes on to reveal that she already has over $23,000 in medical bills, saying that the United States healthcare system today is “verging on criminal”.
The camera shows us a red-eyed, uncomfortable Edwina, who answers, after a long pause, “I know. We’ve got to fix it…is that a cucumber sandwich?” (Ah, my favorite political move: distract them with the finger food. It works almost every time.)
But poor Edwina’s discomfort doesn’t come to an end. Cat can’t be distracted by a cucumber sandwich. Instead, she goes on to ask Edwina about the last election. Edwina admits, when Cat asks if she voted for McCain, that she voted “a straight Republican ticket.”
Not satisfied with Edwina’s answer, Cat asks what Edwina thought of Sarah Palin. Now, let’s pause for a moment here… Even if Edwina thought Palin was a gun-toting, Russian-watching lunatic, she’s a Republican Lobbyist on national television. And Cat realized this, too, with a smirk, when she asks if she thinks Sarah Palin would have made a good vice president. We see another uncomfortable shot of Edwina saying, yes.
“Do you really?” Cat says with a laugh. “Well, there you go…”
Trying to move away from Cat’s line of questioning, Edwina invites Cat and her friends to a benefit she’s having. Cat, not ready to put down her guns, makes no hesitation in telling Edwina she has no interest in being a Republican. Edwina doesn’t seem to care at this point – she just wants to run for the door.
Uncomfortable Ramblings at Dinner
Next, we see Lynda and Ebong joined by Jason and Stacie at dinner. After small-talk about Lynda’s upcoming move to the suburbs, Stacie tells about her search for her birth father. She explains that her birth mother is white, but unwilling to reveal her birth father’s identity, since he doesn’t know that Stacie even exists. Stacie mentions to Ebong that her birth father is Nigerian, too, and he proclaims, “He’s my brother!” but she’s discouraged to hear that her birth father is a member of the Igbo tribe, one of the largest tribes.
Lynda surprises Stacie with a utopian story about how much her birth mother must have wanted her and longed to see her all these years. Stacie pretty succinctly sets the record straight, saying that her birth mother really denied her existence for a long time. Next, Lynda goes on to talk about how it was because of the race issue and that she, also, has experienced “reverse racism” in Georgia, even being refused service at restaurants because she is white.
Stacie and Jason both try to hide the surprised and not-quite-believing-it looks on their faces when Lynda talks about reverse racism. In his typical down-to-earth manner, Jason does ask about Lynda and Ebong as an interracial couple. He admits that if he didn’t know them and walked into the restaurant and saw them for the first time, he’d be surprised.
Lynda started saying something about “if you close your eyes” everybody’s the same. (Cue “We are the World” background music. Release the butterflies.) But then she makes a comment that once she feels Ebong and the “nappy hair on his chest” she’d know it was him. (W.T.F.?!?) This really surprised me, as it seemed like a pretty ignorant and, frankly, disrespectful thing to say. But no one else seemed to be taken aback by the comment and the dinner seemed to go smoothly.
Clean the Pool in McClean
Lynda takes her kids to McClean, Virginia to see the new house and show her plans for renovations. Not a whole lot goes on here, but I’m still a little curious about why she needs a big house for so many kids when they’re all seemingly older and on the way out the door. Maybe it’s a last-ditch effort to avoid the empty house?
Lynda shared her concern with the security of the home, since there isn’t the type of security she’d become accustomed to in the city. I wasn’t as worried about security as I was about the pool. Did you see that water?!? I kept waiting for an alligator to jump out of that swamp and take a chomp at her dog. Forget the security – get a pool boy STAT, Lynda!
Going to the Ball
I actually really enjoyed the next sequence, showing Stacie and Jason getting ready for Edwina’s event. As the cameras took us back and forth between Stacie and Jason, along with Cat and her daughters, it was fun to observe their confused and snarky moments as they decided what to wear. Jason commented about “stuffy conservative blue suits” but this didn’t surprise me as much as the vision of Cat pulling the silver trousers from the hanger as her daughter danced around, singing “get funky! Get funky!”
Cat and her daughters really are adorable together…mostly. But just when I start enjoying this warm, fuzzy mother/daughter(s) moment, Cat’s daughter suggests she wear an “insanely inappropriate wedding dress”, holding up a hideous pink, sequined dress. (Hey, Cat – the Ice Capades called. They want their dress back.)
Stacie and Jason both admit that they’re nervous about seeing Michaele and Tareq. Stacie sums it up, saying “We’re just going to rise above the drama.” Thankfully, the two do just that.
Edwina’s Party
Tareq and Michaele are the first to arrive. I was disappointed we didn’t see them floating in on a hot air balloon or escorted by the FBI (since they’re so busy investigating their stolen car). Stacie and Jason arrive later and Jason diplomatically says something about the food to break the ice. Next, Michaele and DC G join the group and they act as if nothing had ever happened last time they were together at the vineyard.
We were treated with an anorexic (sorry, Michaele – Lynda was right) interpretive dance number performed by Michaele, as she floats, bobs, dances and grooves around the party, still unable to fill the bust of her dress with its circa-1950 (empty) pointy bra effect.
Cat arrives a little later, dressed not in the Ice Capades dress, hot pants or granny bra, as she discussed with her daughters. Instead, she’s dressed in a stuffy suit and “Alaska” lapel, wearing thick black glasses and a wig. Yes, Cat showed up at a Republican event dressed as Sarah Palin. This is the point where the novelty of Cat wore off on me and she became ridiculous. It was rude. I still think DC G was out of line calling Cat “bitchy”, but the Sarah outfit was just in poor taste.
Of course, Michaele and DC G had something to say about Cat’s outfit. “It might be better for her to go undercover,” said Michaele.
“People might like her better,” cackled DC G.
Poor Stacie, who was observing the junior high lunchroom conversation between the boss and her assistant, admits later that she saw the “biting” side of Michaele for the first time.
Next, we abruptly saw Edwina being taken away on a stretcher and driven away in an ambulance. Her staff explained that “something extremely important unexpected arose and she had to leave”. (I think poor Edwina lost her lunch when she saw Cat’s outfit.)
Mean Girls: The Showdown
My favorite part of the party was when Cat saunters up to DC G who looked scared and lonely without Michaele next to her.
“Were you at the vineyard the other day?” Cat asked. “Were you the one who was saying I was being bitchy?”
“Oh, it’s just a bitchy comment,” said DC G.
“I made a bitchy comment?” Cat asked.
“Yeah,” she said, fake smile and scared shitless, eyes darting around for Michaele.
Cat says that she didn’t really appreciate the comment, especially since DC G doesn’t know Cat. DC G replied: “…you know what? It’s all in good fun. You should really relax.
“I didn’t say bitchy…I said it was a bitchy comment” DC G said. “You’re really taking it way too seriously.”
Michaele came over and joined the conversation. Armed with Michaele’s presence, DC G sprouted some confidence and explained to her boss, “She’s really upset about my comment last weekend, when I was protecting you.”
(Now, this was my favorite part…)
“Did you have a brunette wig on?” Michaele asked Cat, with absolutely no transition.
Cat: “Did you just have a shocking pink dress on?”
Michaele: “I’m still in it. Where’s your wig?” (nervous laugh)
Stacie (in interview later): “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Cat (in interview later): “You’re so full of shit, Michaele”.
The End
Can’t wait to see next week’s episode, as it’s promised to show Michaele’s “for better or worse” with Tareq being put to the test.
So, for now… Thanks, ladies, for an evening full of drama and comic relief. Thanks, Stacie, for being level-headed. Thanks, Cat, for keeping things interesting. Thanks, Bravo, for putting these ladies together in the same room.
And thanks, Lynn, for letting me share my thoughts on this week’s episode!
Watch What Happens Live By: LynnNChicago:
Last night marked the return of Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live with his guests, Teresa Giudice of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and Stacie Turner of The Real Housewives of DC.
I don’t know who told all of these housewives that the one shoulder look is attractive on them but they’ve been sadly misinformed. Obviously they all think it is in style right now but you have to have a certain figure to pull it off and it is rare that it comes off as elegant on a woman. Teresa’s one shoulder black number with the sparkling crystals all over was passable, not great but she could have avoided the worst dressed list, just barely.
Stacie, on the other hand needs to avoid that style altogether. She’s a beautiful woman and I’ve seen her look really stunning on her show but the pink number she was sporting on WWHL last night was not attractive at all!
Andy’s three things that he’s obsessed with this week were asinine as usual, Kim G’s mother of the bride dress from the New Jersey reunion along with the 46 second hug that Danielle gave to Jacqueline. (yes, he timed it) and Cat dressing like Sarah Palin at the Republican party during last night’s episode of the Real Housewives of DC.
Not completely ignoring the fact that he was man-handled by Teresa Giudice on the reunion, he jokingly made her wear a seat belt in her chair and joked about it, even allowing Teresa to say, “I would never push you Andy, I love you”. Yet there it is on tape, Teresa pushing Andy down. Repeating the question that many viewers have asked Andy, why he did not eject her from the show, his answer was that he just wanted to get through the taping. Still no consequences for Teresa. Andy Cohen must be one of the very few people who find this funny! Bravo is setting the standard for which they must remain consistent. Congratulations Bravo, you’ve made it acceptable for housewives to become physically violent, I hope the others are paying attention.
Even with a 6-week break, Andy hasn’t improved the show in the least, even a phone call from Naomi Campbell was of poor quality leaving viewers barely able to hear what she was saying. Not so surprisingly, Naomi was just fine with Teresa shoving Andy into his chair saying, “That’s what you get!”. With allegations Naomi has faced, I can see why she would be ok with physical violence:
In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant
In March 2005, Campbell allegedly slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beat her around the head with a BlackBerry personal organizer.
On 30 March 2006 in New York City, Campbell was arrested for allegedly assaulting her housekeeper with a jewel-encrusted mobile phone, resulting in a bloody head that required several stitches, On 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her housekeeper Ana Scolavino.
On 3 April 2008, Campbell was arrested inside Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after one of her bags had been lost.
On 2 March 2010, Campbell’s limousine driver filed a report with the New York City Police Department claiming that Campbell had slapped and punched him. She then allegedly fled the scene.
Naomi seemed impressed with Teresa’s ability to care for her home and her family without any help, as Teresa continues to claim. Apparently Naomi hasn’t been reading about Teresa on the internet or she would know that Teresa has plenty of help in the form of her parents, who live in their home yet are hidden when the cameras are rolling.
Teresa is traveling all over the country promoting her book and the show, obviously she has help!
Naomi also wanted to ask Stacie why she was told Michaele that everyone was talking about her, obviously stirring up a firestorm over in DC, Stacie simply said, “I like to keep it real”. Okay!
Andy’s need to promote the fact that a 13-year old boy is a huge housewives fan was sick and wrong, just sick and wrong! The visual of Andy handing the child $50 bills didn’t improve the scenario. The fact that Ben Weiner could answer the housewives trivia questions better than the housewives themselves, was creepy, he really does watch the shows! I’d love to have a chat with his parents, not to mention the person who was yelling out the answers to the Housewives trivia game! Andy didn’t seem too happy about that either, was he afraid little Ben was going to wipe him out of cash?
Andy seemed to be trying to make up for the fact that Teresa’s book wasn’t highlighted on the show as was promised to her, he mentioned her “best-selling” book Skinny Italian three times in 27 minutes.
The “Mazel” of the week went to a 7-year old boy from Memphis named Peanut who liked to rap, Andy was sure to tell the audience that he didn’t think the kid had much talent but gave him the Mazel because he was named Peanut. Maybe you should go back to getting viewer suggestions Andy?
Teresa told viewers on Watch What Happens Live that Caroline was angry with Jacqueline after the reunion show for her truce with Danielle, Caroline couldn’t let that pass without response:
CarolineManzo: I was never annoyed with @jaclaurita, I understood where she was coming from and I told her that… ) love her, always will.
Jacqueline also tweeted responses to Teresa’s comments on Watch What Happens Live:
@JacLaurita: Honestly, Caroline asked me to come to dinner with her right after the reunion but I was too exhausted! My head hurt! Lol! I went to sleep.
@JacLaurita: I don’t think T lied,she misunderstood where C’s anger was directed. C couldn’t believe the act by D & wasn’t buying it.Mad,yes, at me? NO!
We all know that is a load of bull, Caroline told Jacqueline to be strong and to stop it when Jacqueline began talking about letting everything go with Danielle. It still isn’t clear why Caroline hates Danielle so much. Caroline accused Danielle of threatening her and every member of her family including Teresa and her family. No one called Caroline out on those charges why wasn’t she required to prove those accusations? How exactly did Danielle threaten them all? Is she still referring to the comment that Danielle made about showing up at their door, and not being alone? That was already brought up and spit out last season on the reunion show.
This year all Danielle threatened to do was “speak louder” when she was shushed. I don’t know about you, but she scared the hell out of me!
Next week’s Watch What Happens Live will feature Ramona Singer of the Real Housewives of New York and Cat Ommanney of DC. As of now only two blogs are up on Bravotv.com, Lynda and Michaele have posted.
http://www.webofdeception.com/whitehousepartycrasher.html
An older article that explains the background of the feud between Tareq Salahi and his mother from the Washington Post:
http://j.mp/9fJT9m
Another Washington Post older piece on the Salahi’s regarding their gate crashing and mounting debts:
http://j.mp/94ZoOB
A few days back I included one of Kelly’s tweets about everyone being obsessed with her hair, apparently I’m not the only one who noticed:
@NaughtyNiceRob: Off to bed! But laughing so loud that @kikilet told people everyone was obsesssed with her hair! Her PR people pitched that story! We passed
@Kikilet: @NaughtyNiceRob awww cutie. dont hate the player, hate the game. Xoxoxoox
@Kikilet: i love @naughtynicerob he just wants some attention for his magazine. its all good. i still like him. freedom of voice, gab away
Oh Kelly, you never fail to do something annoying enough to make it into the blog, but I’m sure that’s your goal so…way to go!
Until Next Time….
Thank you to Katherine for her guest blog on the Real Housewives of DC:
Katherine from Lake Shore Drive (http://lakeshoredrive.wordpress.com) (@lakeshoredrive_ on Twitter) is this week’s guest blogger…
Lots happened this week. Thankfully, Bravo decided to pack in the drama, since we have gone an entire two weeks since the last episode.
Things pick up where we left them at the vineyard and Tareq, wearing his blue Heathclif Huxtable (“Cosby Show”) sweater, slurs out those fateful words: “I’m just going to say something…”
He goes on to explain that his “$90,000 car” along with “over $25,000 in polo equipment” (was there a horse in there?) had been stolen. He then continues to explain to Mary that her daughter was involved, citing a post her daughter had written on Facebook.
According to Tareq, the FBI had been investigating and monitoring suspects for the last 6 months. (Really, Tareq? I’m pretty sure the FBI has better things to do.)
Thankfully, Jason didn’t buy it, either. Stacie and Jason were stunned, Michaele looked confused, poor Mary was in shock and crying, and Tareq…WTF was that on your face? A red wine moustache and matching cold sores?
Poor Mary. Just as Jason said, it really was a “sucker punch”. To hit her with such an outrageous claim (a) with no warning, (b) in a group of people, (c) with no tact whatsoever – Tareq’s behavior was really inexcusable. Then, as if he wasn’t obnoxious enough, Tareq goes on to say “I care about what happened to that gear…It’s not about what happened to poor Lolly.” Saying the injustice has been towards the charity and the polo players, Tareq continued on his misplaced drunken rampage.
Thankfully, Jason jumped in, saying that because he doesn’t have a daughter, Tareq doesn’t get it.
“I am so uncomfortable with this line of conversation…if anyone was talking about my daughter I’d be over the top of this table on your ass so quick…” Jason said.
Tareq, unfazed by Jason’s mortification, goes on to say that Lolly had incriminated herself and it was “plastered all over Facebook…” He continued on, saying, “There’s a Federal Investigation going on…and everybody’s going to jail.”
The cameras flash over to Michaele looking tired, old and confused. Not sure if it’s OK to keep drinking her champagne, she feebly asks: “Are we done?”
Yes, Michaele. You are definitely done.
Back in the limo, poor Mary is still crying and Stacie and Jason agree that it was strange for Tareq to end a good day with something from left field. They all agree that this claim could simply be a lie made up about Lolly.
Spa-Time Summations
Next, we see Lynda, Cat and Stacie at Red Door Spa as the Stacie tells the ladies about Tareq’s accusations. Lynda doesn’t seem surprised but does say: “Would you do that in public…who does that? He is a whack job.”
Cat agreed, saying “This is quite a below the belt thing to do. In some ways I wish I had been there to look after Mary because it sounded hideous.” We all wish you would have been there, too, Cat. Odds are that Tareq wouldn’t have said a thing.
Lolly’s Reaction
Next, we see Mary and her husband, Rich, discussing the accusations with Lolly, 23. I have to say that I really wish I would have seen a little more outrage from Lolly. Obviously, this wasn’t the first time the parents discussed the claims with their daughter, but I would have been a little more upset about this had I been in Lolly’s shoes.
Mary does admit, “Lolly did post something on Facebook” but that it doesn’t incriminate her. (What?)
My favorite part of this discussion was when Rich referred to Tareq as having broken “man rules” by attacking his wife and daughter without him there. (Yeah!) Adding a dose of fuel to the fire, Mary asks if Rich wants to handle it. After thinking about it, Rich replied that his reaction would be relative to his alcohol consumption.
Mary does say “We’re going to make some calls to the police department and make sure these claims are false.”
A few minutes later, we see Mary and Rich talking, and no one was surprised to learn that after checking with the authorities, Rich was unable to find any type of investigation or charges with Lolly’s name. “It’s all made-up,” he says, as Mary agrees that “they make sh!t up to deflect their own sh!t”.
Dinnertime Drama
Next, we’re treated to a dinnertime meeting between Michaele and Jen, her assistant – but let’s just call her “DC (Kim) G” for short. Immediately, the two begin bashing Cat. Of course, Cat was being snippy that day at the vineyard, but calling Tareq a control freak (like calling the grass “green”) didn’t warrant DC G calling Cat a bitch.
Michaele seems to be trying really hard to be cute and chatty in this scene and she really just ends up looking old, wrinkly and confused. Michaele then goes on to rant to DC G, saying that she has done everything to be nice to the ladies and they are all just rude.
Clearly only believing what Tareq has told her to believe, Michaele did go on to say that it was Mary’s fault the whole incident came to conversation that night. She said Mary “pushed for what it was” and that’s why the situation was brought up at that moment.
Uh, no, dumbass. Your husband brought it up.
Bipartisan Brunch
Next, we see Cat meeting Edwina Rogers, Republican Lobbyist, at the Mayflower for lunch. After a few niceties and small talk, Edwina starts with rapid-fire questioning to Cat. “I heard you’re writing a book? That must be exciting. Does he (Cat’s husband) get to fly on Air Force One?”
The thing I love about Cat is that she’s almost impossible to fluster. Cat takes Edwina’s questions in stride, ignoring most and only answering a few. But she can make even a seasoned Washington Lobbyist uncomfortable, as we saw in her next dialog with Edwina, who brings up healthcare reform. Cat replies that a Republican working on healthcare reform is really an “oxymoron”, and goes on to reveal that she already has over $23,000 in medical bills, saying that the United States healthcare system today is “verging on criminal”.
The camera shows us a red-eyed, uncomfortable Edwina, who answers, after a long pause, “I know. We’ve got to fix it…is that a cucumber sandwich?” (Ah, my favorite political move: distract them with the finger food. It works almost every time.)
But poor Edwina’s discomfort doesn’t come to an end. Cat can’t be distracted by a cucumber sandwich. Instead, she goes on to ask Edwina about the last election. Edwina admits, when Cat asks if she voted for McCain, that she voted “a straight Republican ticket.”
Not satisfied with Edwina’s answer, Cat asks what Edwina thought of Sarah Palin. Now, let’s pause for a moment here… Even if Edwina thought Palin was a gun-toting, Russian-watching lunatic, she’s a Republican Lobbyist on national television. And Cat realized this, too, with a smirk, when she asks if she thinks Sarah Palin would have made a good vice president. We see another uncomfortable shot of Edwina saying, yes.
“Do you really?” Cat says with a laugh. “Well, there you go…”
Trying to move away from Cat’s line of questioning, Edwina invites Cat and her friends to a benefit she’s having. Cat, not ready to put down her guns, makes no hesitation in telling Edwina she has no interest in being a Republican. Edwina doesn’t seem to care at this point – she just wants to run for the door.
Uncomfortable Ramblings at Dinner
Next, we see Lynda and Ebong joined by Jason and Stacie at dinner. After small-talk about Lynda’s upcoming move to the suburbs, Stacie tells about her search for her birth father. She explains that her birth mother is white, but unwilling to reveal her birth father’s identity, since he doesn’t know that Stacie even exists. Stacie mentions to Ebong that her birth father is Nigerian, too, and he proclaims, “He’s my brother!” but she’s discouraged to hear that her birth father is a member of the Igbo tribe, one of the largest tribes.
Lynda surprises Stacie with a utopian story about how much her birth mother must have wanted her and longed to see her all these years. Stacie pretty succinctly sets the record straight, saying that her birth mother really denied her existence for a long time. Next, Lynda goes on to talk about how it was because of the race issue and that she, also, has experienced “reverse racism” in Georgia, even being refused service at restaurants because she is white.
Stacie and Jason both try to hide the surprised and not-quite-believing-it looks on their faces when Lynda talks about reverse racism. In his typical down-to-earth manner, Jason does ask about Lynda and Ebong as an interracial couple. He admits that if he didn’t know them and walked into the restaurant and saw them for the first time, he’d be surprised.
Lynda started saying something about “if you close your eyes” everybody’s the same. (Cue “We are the World” background music. Release the butterflies.) But then she makes a comment that once she feels Ebong and the “nappy hair on his chest” she’d know it was him. (W.T.F.?!?) This really surprised me, as it seemed like a pretty ignorant and, frankly, disrespectful thing to say. But no one else seemed to be taken aback by the comment and the dinner seemed to go smoothly.
Clean the Pool in McClean
Lynda takes her kids to McClean, Virginia to see the new house and show her plans for renovations. Not a whole lot goes on here, but I’m still a little curious about why she needs a big house for so many kids when they’re all seemingly older and on the way out the door. Maybe it’s a last-ditch effort to avoid the empty house?
Lynda shared her concern with the security of the home, since there isn’t the type of security she’d become accustomed to in the city. I wasn’t as worried about security as I was about the pool. Did you see that water?!? I kept waiting for an alligator to jump out of that swamp and take a chomp at her dog. Forget the security – get a pool boy STAT, Lynda!
Going to the Ball
I actually really enjoyed the next sequence, showing Stacie and Jason getting ready for Edwina’s event. As the cameras took us back and forth between Stacie and Jason, along with Cat and her daughters, it was fun to observe their confused and snarky moments as they decided what to wear. Jason commented about “stuffy conservative blue suits” but this didn’t surprise me as much as the vision of Cat pulling the silver trousers from the hanger as her daughter danced around, singing “get funky! Get funky!”
Cat and her daughters really are adorable together…mostly. But just when I start enjoying this warm, fuzzy mother/daughter(s) moment, Cat’s daughter suggests she wear an “insanely inappropriate wedding dress”, holding up a hideous pink, sequined dress. (Hey, Cat – the Ice Capades called. They want their dress back.)
Stacie and Jason both admit that they’re nervous about seeing Michaele and Tareq. Stacie sums it up, saying “We’re just going to rise above the drama.” Thankfully, the two do just that.
Edwina’s Party
Tareq and Michaele are the first to arrive. I was disappointed we didn’t see them floating in on a hot air balloon or escorted by the FBI (since they’re so busy investigating their stolen car). Stacie and Jason arrive later and Jason diplomatically says something about the food to break the ice. Next, Michaele and DC G join the group and they act as if nothing had ever happened last time they were together at the vineyard.
We were treated with an anorexic (sorry, Michaele – Lynda was right) interpretive dance number performed by Michaele, as she floats, bobs, dances and grooves around the party, still unable to fill the bust of her dress with its circa-1950 (empty) pointy bra effect.
Cat arrives a little later, dressed not in the Ice Capades dress, hot pants or granny bra, as she discussed with her daughters. Instead, she’s dressed in a stuffy suit and “Alaska” lapel, wearing thick black glasses and a wig. Yes, Cat showed up at a Republican event dressed as Sarah Palin. This is the point where the novelty of Cat wore off on me and she became ridiculous. It was rude. I still think DC G was out of line calling Cat “bitchy”, but the Sarah outfit was just in poor taste.
Of course, Michaele and DC G had something to say about Cat’s outfit. “It might be better for her to go undercover,” said Michaele.
“People might like her better,” cackled DC G.
Poor Stacie, who was observing the junior high lunchroom conversation between the boss and her assistant, admits later that she saw the “biting” side of Michaele for the first time.
Next, we abruptly saw Edwina being taken away on a stretcher and driven away in an ambulance. Her staff explained that “something extremely important unexpected arose and she had to leave”. (I think poor Edwina lost her lunch when she saw Cat’s outfit.)
Mean Girls: The Showdown
My favorite part of the party was when Cat saunters up to DC G who looked scared and lonely without Michaele next to her.
“Were you at the vineyard the other day?” Cat asked. “Were you the one who was saying I was being bitchy?”
“Oh, it’s just a bitchy comment,” said DC G.
“I made a bitchy comment?” Cat asked.
“Yeah,” she said, fake smile and scared shitless, eyes darting around for Michaele.
Cat says that she didn’t really appreciate the comment, especially since DC G doesn’t know Cat. DC G replied: “…you know what? It’s all in good fun. You should really relax.
“I didn’t say bitchy…I said it was a bitchy comment” DC G said. “You’re really taking it way too seriously.”
Michaele came over and joined the conversation. Armed with Michaele’s presence, DC G sprouted some confidence and explained to her boss, “She’s really upset about my comment last weekend, when I was protecting you.”
(Now, this was my favorite part…)
“Did you have a brunette wig on?” Michaele asked Cat, with absolutely no transition.
Cat: “Did you just have a shocking pink dress on?”
Michaele: “I’m still in it. Where’s your wig?” (nervous laugh)
Stacie (in interview later): “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Cat (in interview later): “You’re so full of shit, Michaele”.
The End
Can’t wait to see next week’s episode, as it’s promised to show Michaele’s “for better or worse” with Tareq being put to the test.
So, for now… Thanks, ladies, for an evening full of drama and comic relief. Thanks, Stacie, for being level-headed. Thanks, Cat, for keeping things interesting. Thanks, Bravo, for putting these ladies together in the same room.
And thanks, Lynn, for letting me share my thoughts on this week’s episode!
Watch What Happens Live By: LynnNChicago:
Last night marked the return of Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live with his guests, Teresa Giudice of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and Stacie Turner of The Real Housewives of DC.
I don’t know who told all of these housewives that the one shoulder look is attractive on them but they’ve been sadly misinformed. Obviously they all think it is in style right now but you have to have a certain figure to pull it off and it is rare that it comes off as elegant on a woman. Teresa’s one shoulder black number with the sparkling crystals all over was passable, not great but she could have avoided the worst dressed list, just barely.
Stacie, on the other hand needs to avoid that style altogether. She’s a beautiful woman and I’ve seen her look really stunning on her show but the pink number she was sporting on WWHL last night was not attractive at all!
Andy’s three things that he’s obsessed with this week were asinine as usual, Kim G’s mother of the bride dress from the New Jersey reunion along with the 46 second hug that Danielle gave to Jacqueline. (yes, he timed it) and Cat dressing like Sarah Palin at the Republican party during last night’s episode of the Real Housewives of DC.
Not completely ignoring the fact that he was man-handled by Teresa Giudice on the reunion, he jokingly made her wear a seat belt in her chair and joked about it, even allowing Teresa to say, “I would never push you Andy, I love you”. Yet there it is on tape, Teresa pushing Andy down. Repeating the question that many viewers have asked Andy, why he did not eject her from the show, his answer was that he just wanted to get through the taping. Still no consequences for Teresa. Andy Cohen must be one of the very few people who find this funny! Bravo is setting the standard for which they must remain consistent. Congratulations Bravo, you’ve made it acceptable for housewives to become physically violent, I hope the others are paying attention.
Even with a 6-week break, Andy hasn’t improved the show in the least, even a phone call from Naomi Campbell was of poor quality leaving viewers barely able to hear what she was saying. Not so surprisingly, Naomi was just fine with Teresa shoving Andy into his chair saying, “That’s what you get!”. With allegations Naomi has faced, I can see why she would be ok with physical violence:
In 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in a Toronto court to a 1998 assault on Georgina Galanis, her then assistant
In March 2005, Campbell allegedly slapped assistant Amanda Brack and beat her around the head with a BlackBerry personal organizer.
On 30 March 2006 in New York City, Campbell was arrested for allegedly assaulting her housekeeper with a jewel-encrusted mobile phone, resulting in a bloody head that required several stitches, On 16 January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless assault against her housekeeper Ana Scolavino.
On 3 April 2008, Campbell was arrested inside Heathrow’s Terminal 5 on suspicion of assaulting a police officer after one of her bags had been lost.
On 2 March 2010, Campbell’s limousine driver filed a report with the New York City Police Department claiming that Campbell had slapped and punched him. She then allegedly fled the scene.
Naomi seemed impressed with Teresa’s ability to care for her home and her family without any help, as Teresa continues to claim. Apparently Naomi hasn’t been reading about Teresa on the internet or she would know that Teresa has plenty of help in the form of her parents, who live in their home yet are hidden when the cameras are rolling.
Teresa is traveling all over the country promoting her book and the show, obviously she has help!
Naomi also wanted to ask Stacie why she was told Michaele that everyone was talking about her, obviously stirring up a firestorm over in DC, Stacie simply said, “I like to keep it real”. Okay!
Andy’s need to promote the fact that a 13-year old boy is a huge housewives fan was sick and wrong, just sick and wrong! The visual of Andy handing the child $50 bills didn’t improve the scenario. The fact that Ben Weiner could answer the housewives trivia questions better than the housewives themselves, was creepy, he really does watch the shows! I’d love to have a chat with his parents, not to mention the person who was yelling out the answers to the Housewives trivia game! Andy didn’t seem too happy about that either, was he afraid little Ben was going to wipe him out of cash?
Andy seemed to be trying to make up for the fact that Teresa’s book wasn’t highlighted on the show as was promised to her, he mentioned her “best-selling” book Skinny Italian three times in 27 minutes.
The “Mazel” of the week went to a 7-year old boy from Memphis named Peanut who liked to rap, Andy was sure to tell the audience that he didn’t think the kid had much talent but gave him the Mazel because he was named Peanut. Maybe you should go back to getting viewer suggestions Andy?
Teresa told viewers on Watch What Happens Live that Caroline was angry with Jacqueline after the reunion show for her truce with Danielle, Caroline couldn’t let that pass without response:
CarolineManzo: I was never annoyed with @jaclaurita, I understood where she was coming from and I told her that… ) love her, always will.
Jacqueline also tweeted responses to Teresa’s comments on Watch What Happens Live:
@JacLaurita: Honestly, Caroline asked me to come to dinner with her right after the reunion but I was too exhausted! My head hurt! Lol! I went to sleep.
@JacLaurita: I don’t think T lied,she misunderstood where C’s anger was directed. C couldn’t believe the act by D & wasn’t buying it.Mad,yes, at me? NO!
We all know that is a load of bull, Caroline told Jacqueline to be strong and to stop it when Jacqueline began talking about letting everything go with Danielle. It still isn’t clear why Caroline hates Danielle so much. Caroline accused Danielle of threatening her and every member of her family including Teresa and her family. No one called Caroline out on those charges why wasn’t she required to prove those accusations? How exactly did Danielle threaten them all? Is she still referring to the comment that Danielle made about showing up at their door, and not being alone? That was already brought up and spit out last season on the reunion show.
This year all Danielle threatened to do was “speak louder” when she was shushed. I don’t know about you, but she scared the hell out of me!
Next week’s Watch What Happens Live will feature Ramona Singer of the Real Housewives of New York and Cat Ommanney of DC. As of now only two blogs are up on Bravotv.com, Lynda and Michaele have posted.
http://www.webofdeception.com/whitehousepartycrasher.html
An older article that explains the background of the feud between Tareq Salahi and his mother from the Washington Post:
http://j.mp/9fJT9m
Another Washington Post older piece on the Salahi’s regarding their gate crashing and mounting debts:
http://j.mp/94ZoOB
A few days back I included one of Kelly’s tweets about everyone being obsessed with her hair, apparently I’m not the only one who noticed:
@NaughtyNiceRob: Off to bed! But laughing so loud that @kikilet told people everyone was obsesssed with her hair! Her PR people pitched that story! We passed
@Kikilet: @NaughtyNiceRob awww cutie. dont hate the player, hate the game. Xoxoxoox
@Kikilet: i love @naughtynicerob he just wants some attention for his magazine. its all good. i still like him. freedom of voice, gab away
Oh Kelly, you never fail to do something annoying enough to make it into the blog, but I’m sure that’s your goal so…way to go!
Until Next Time….
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