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Ahh ok - well at least she's happy and hopefully moving on. Btw, speaking of BH... anyone watch Million Dollar Listing LA? The new season started a couple of weeks ago, and Mauricio and Marissa have made a few appearances. Marissa is selling that home that was featured last season, where she got married. I'm surprised they didn't spend more time showing how wealthy she and her family is... that house and land is worth over $20 million, with bricks handmade in London.

After watching Miami's episode, I'm totally Team Lea. Adriana is ridiculous. BH's Taylor is now engaged... and one of the pics shows a crew member, so I wonder if it'll make Season 4: http://www.eonline.com/news/451893/real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-star-taylor-armstrong-engaged-to-john-bluher-see-the-romantic-pics

Lydia also surprised me - I didn't think I would like her, but I'm totally a fan now. Miami - WOW! I just watched the premiere and this show screams sex and glamour. They've upgraded the cameras or something, because most of those shots have this glossy look to them. I love how production is making this show into this rich, sexy, dramatic Miami soap opera. The long shots, wide shots, staged shots of the ladies getting out of the cars... it was hot and amazing! Kudos to them, really. Now, will they keep that up throughout the whole season... or was it just a premiere thing?

I also love that opening from Nene. If you think about the season itself, Brandi's opening line is actually pretty good. It's a direct hit at Adrienne.

Sad for Mama Elsa!!! Andy mentioned on WWHL last week that this season of NYC is bonkers and may be the best one yet. He was drooling over it... So that's a good sign!

Teresa will still film the reunion! Late August or early September... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/teresa-giudice-real-housewives-of-new-jersey-reunion-season-5_n_3691605.html

Update to the Guidices --- apparently they have been released on $500k bond and their passports have been detained and travel is restricted to NJ and NY. Crazy!! I guess we all knew this time was eventually going to come, but man... crazy! The reunion should be interesting... won't they be filming that pretty soon? Isn't the season close to wrapping?

I think the difference is Miami Season 2 was basically like their first REAL season and a lot of the viewers still didn't know these women (half of them were brand new to the series). With BH Season 3, with the exception of Yolanda, we knew all these ladies from prior seasons. It's harder to start a series with 7 housewives (and a bunch of supporting characters) than having 7 housewives on an established series. The Miami promo is awesome though and I'm looking forward to seeing their new season!

I was also randomly thinking today that I miss my NYC girls... I can't wait for Season 6!!!

Damn - Kenya Moore is making some serious $$ this season. I KNEW that Andy loved her and she brought infamous taglines and gave Bravo lots of merch sales... this is how you work the system! http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/real-housewives-of-atlanta-star-kenya-moore-gets-600000-for-season-six-2013247 I can't believe Phaedra still makes a measly $50K a season after being on 4 seasons thus far... especially knowing Kenya is getting $600K and Kim, Nene, and Kandi are getting at least $800K. Phaedra has to HATE that. Interesting they didn't mention Cynthia.

Will Sheree be back? http://www.wetpaint.com/real-housewives-of-atlanta/articles/2013-07-18-season-6-sheree-whitfield-petition

Anyone watch CNN tonight? Our very own, Phaedra Parks was a panelist discussing the Trayvon/Zimmerman verdict! Work it, girl!

Backstage photos of the OC reunion. Looks like everyone is getting along with Alexis now (except Gretchen)... interesting. I think Alexis looks terrible - she looks like she's wearing a ball gown designed for mature women. She needs to look younger and sexier, like she normally does. http://www.realitytea.com/2013/07/12/photos-from-the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-reunion/

NYC drama: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/n-y-housewives-must-seethe-tv-article-1.1388726

Heads up... Andy (for whatever reason) is bringing Kelly (NYC) back to Bravo tonight on WWHL. I wonder what her delusional ass has to say...

^Really though, I think that's happening on all these RH shows. About half of the coordinated dinners or meetings are staged - production has to get permission from the restaurant owners to film in their restaurants, and the coordinate the timing with the ladies and the whole thing is just set up. However, I don't think the dialogue is fake - I think that all comes out on their own without scripts. Ouch to NJ's latest ratings... this episode pulled in just barely over 2 million viewers. They haven't pulled low numbers like this in a long time. They do have highly rated repeats though after WWHL - so I guess that's still a good sign for Bravo.

That Kim D. is SO thirsty for drama - she cracks me up with how thirsty she is. I like the light side of having Fern around... she makes Caroline laugh and it's something new with her family. She looks exactly like Caroline though - only with blond hair. Crazy! I can tell this will be a bad season for Melissa. She's starting to crack.

Exactly... The fact that production never stepped in was the problem. In those others cases, it seemed like production told the cast to vote. Here, it was as if they had to come to the decision to vote on their own. Didn't production step in during Denver with the Tyrie and Davis fight? Didn't they force one of them to get a hotel for the night? My mind is foggy on that, but I know something stopped them and broke them up.

I mostly agree with you. I don't know what changed this season, but MTV and the production team allowed violence and premeditated assault. That's wrong and so different from what's been allowed in the past. Makes me wonder how this Challenge will be handled - will they allow violence and let the 'house' decide when to vote for people to go home? To me though, I still feel like there was a lot of faking and acting from Nia and perhaps even this Dom character. MTV knew they needed to amp up the drama after a lackluster St. Thomas season and what they originally had with Portland. Using the term 'turd' is totally acceptable - haha - it's used more when there is one visible piece of poop - it's called a turd. People also call other people 'turds'. It's like the singular form of poop or [!@#$%^&*]. LOL - I can't believe this is being dissected.

Another wedding -- Tamra and Eddie got married today. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20709177,00.html

Agree 100%! I love my crazy Vicki. I love that she HATES that 'hypocrite' word. She has told Gretchen so many times to find a new word... lol...

Just caught up on the OC... Things are heating up! I really enjoyed the Mexico trip and next weeks episode look really good too! Heather just doesn't fit with these girls. I like her but after a second season I'm just not feeling a good gel here. She's sort of like the mom, but in a tightass way. She needs to loosed up with these girls or go to BH. I cannot believe that Vicki peed on Tamras bed. Omg!!! That [!@#$%^&*] was gross but hilarious. Loved tamras reaction!

Totally agree - I was Team Nia, but then she totally went off the deep end. If I were Avery, I would have beat the hell out of her too once she brought the blow dryer out! Production usually always stops fights and steps in, especially when there is that much of a lag time. I couldn't believe they allowed Nia to keep going. Either they have changed and the cast agreed to allow fighting... or they knew that Nia was the only one giving drama this year. The ratings were TERRIBLE for St. Thomas last year bc it was so boring (not the cast's fault - they just couldn't go anywhere). I think production must have known this season would be equally boring thanks to the cast... so they brought in actress Nia to make some trouble. There's no other explanation! haha, reminds me of Kenya from RHOA.

Just wait until you get to this week's episode... girl has some serious anger/violence issues, but she still brought the drama this season. If it hadn't been for Nia, this season would have been BORING as hell. And that's why I'm so confused as to why they chose to bring Anatasia and Jessica to the Rivals Challenge this season... why not Nia/Avery, or at least make up some rival excuse to bring in Johnny, Jordan, Nia, Avery. Jessica and Anastasia will be squashed like little bugs in that Challenge and will be gone in the beginning (prediction - I haven't seen spoilers). Nia/Avery could give at least some competition.

Yeah, if she didn't want to come back bc the nasty turn the franchise was taking... her return now is NOT the way to do it. She's basically making it even nastier!