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Is Camryn Grimes on leave? Is that why we don’t see Mariah squirming, bound and gagged or tied to some bed with Stitch as her masked caretaker, in some abandoned cabin somewhere? JG might be overestimating how much we’re invested in these “reveals.” He’d be better off showing his hand.

What’s the point of Nikki right now? She’s the matriarch of the show’s leading dynasty, which actually has big story, and she’s basically “the help.” We see MTS quite a bit; they just aren’t giving her anything substantial to do.

Arianne Zucker has her Emmy reel.

Where was Nicole’s bestie Ava? Did they fall out? (I know everyone can’t be present.)

Yikes at Andy’s neck beard.

Mike, a producer for Morning Joe 🇺🇸

Exactly.

I *wish* she had fücked off to DAYS circa ‘98 or so to avoid her trash OLTL and GH stints (which weren’t her worst work ultimately but still she shouldn’t be anywhere near a “traditional” soap).

And they’re putting him in scenes with Ava to capitalize on RH’s old rapport with MW. It’s just kinda lame because even though the part is different, they are slotting him into familiar places. And they aren’t acknowledging him as a Franco lookalike in spite of some odd exchanges of glances with Liz. I can imagine someone who hasn’t watched GH in a while being really confused.

He loves to drop F-bombs on this show and gets away with it (Connie Fückin-hairy).

Is it just me, or did I hear Maurice Benard say, “We’re gonna fûck this cancer together!”? It sure sounded like that.

Oof. Yes. Bershan is in there only once? Twice—heard her voice with the penis comment, then saw her face later.

LSV’s triceps tho. I see a lot of people commenting on the Quarter age difference when there’s just around 14 years between RS (born ‘68) and LSV (born ‘82).

Naomi on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. (Her marketing/PR team is putting in work!)

Because whoever he is…

BTS just replaced themselves at No. 1!

I can imagine Claire leaning into screwball comedy with Jack/Carly. She loved hijinks between a crazy, kooky wild woman and a tsk-tsking man (like Lucy/Kevin or Lois/Ned—even though Jack wasn’t coded as strait-laced as those two.)

Stephen Jack, a personal trainer 🇺🇸

Mike Manning won an Emmy:

Demetrius, a model from Los Angeles 🇺🇸

Very off-topic but I thought it was relevant to Housewives, considering how closely we parse character motivations and dynamics on these shows:

B&B has done some relatively recent location stuff: Australia in 2017 for the last Liam/Steffy wedding, I believe.