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Interestering that Porsha didn't want to hear what Shame about wanted to say, even though Shame about was coming to her in friendship. She just didn't want anyone to point out that she's a fool.

This is kinda off topic but I just arrived in Rome (for work unfortunately) and at the airport EVERY ad involved either Gigi or Bella. Yolanda is definitely working her girls hard! She also showed up at the Met Gala with what looks like a face-lift and Anwar. Gigi and Bella were of course already invited. This family fascinates me, even after the Lyme disease mess. And the Fyre Island mess! I wonder if Yolanda is the mastermind behind her girls' modeling/fame careers. I'm not sure Lisa Rinna can match her for cunning when it comes to promoting her own girls.

Seeing this, all I can think is: "The girl's freaking obsessed with me. I don't know if she wants to be me, or skin me and wear me like last year's Versace." One day Erika is going to unwittingly break Eileen's heart, and the aftermath won't be pretty. The day Eileen goes Danielle Staub on Erika'so ass is the day I want the Bravo cameras to be filming.

What part of the RHoA Reunion was this? For some reason, my brain convinced me it was the final part but it must be Part 3 if we get the real meat next week. I'm kind of annoyed we had to sit through 15 prequels of nonsense to get to the last 5 minutes. Everything -- up to and including Drunk Peter -- could have been compressed into one or one-and-a-half episodes. Did Porsha really just defend her 'journalistic' integrity on national TV? And did she have the nerve to shade Andy for not being a proper journalist? I guess this is what they mean by #FakeNews.. This woman thought the underground railroad involved a locomotive, and threw false rape allegations at Kandi and Todd, and is now fronting like she's Christiane Amanpour checking her sources. I am ready for her impending fall next week. I can't unsee PElvis now. Phaedra looks super-high. She must have known this public collapse in her image was coming because she seems completely jacked up on anti-anxiety meds. Anne! That's it! She's a QUEEN with great lines, asides and insight. What's interesting is her lack of shadiness when she's being shady or passing judgement. She is very matter-of-fact and straight-up about her opinions. Angela "My name may be Stone, but everything I touch turns to gold." What kind of self-delusion....? Who IS she?? What does she do??? This is some fake-ass non-job pyramid scheme built on a house of cards! She's a freaking giantess, and the way she smiles psychotically when attacking the other women ("runt" to Gilda was borderline racist, let's be real) is the scariest thing I've seen since... Russell Armstrong? Andrea on RHoMelbourne? Apollo waving a chainsaw at Phaedra? Maybe even scarier. #FreeLea!

Pettifleur was good her second season, but her emotional growth was just an act for the audience. At Reunion it was clear she had regressed, has no humor or insight about herself, and was still blindly supporting that lame-brain Lydia. After Dubai, I kind of would get surprised at seeing Pettifleur in scenes, like 'Oh yeah, you're on this show too." Melbourne has a very colourful cast of characters as it is, and Pettifleur was always trying too hard to be seen. IMO Gamble has been the breakout newbie of season 2, not Pettifleur; Pettifleur knew it and it rankled her. BTW, I know I'm behind the times but Real Housewives of Auckland is currently screening where I am. Omg i am OBSESSED. Angela Stone is like a smiling psychopath! Michelle is amazing, so is Gilda, so is the rich older lady who wants to free Angela's poor French intern. Julia is a tryhard bitch. They are about to board a yacht in Australia and I just KNOW something major is going to go down next episode.

Holy sh*t. Phaedra went above and beyond. And I it me, or did Andy seem like he knew about this? His reaction to Kandi was a little... unshocked.

I just watched a bit of WWHL with Dorinda and John Oliver. I may have to rescind my initial support of Dorinda. John Oliver was a class act as usual, but Dorinda was interrupting him and abrasive and still going in on Sonja. I hope she cools it a bit because it wasn't a good look on Bethenny last year and it's nagl on her.

By far the best moment of the episode. I am Team Dorinda in that I understand where she is coming from. Both Dorinda and Sonja are Sagittarians (like me). Both keep things in until it builds up and they explode. And then they forget about it because the act of exploding cleared the air and let the toxic feelings out. And so it has proved to be in this case. Dorinda's tirade went on too long, and went too far (as houseguest Glenn classily pointed out in his toast), but it needed to be confronted. Sonja forgave Bethenny after Bethenny EVISCERATED her last season and tried to force her off the show. But Sonja still won't let go the fact that she wasn't invited to the Berkshires last year? Get outta here. Sonja needs to pick her battles. This isn't one of them. Plus Dorinda got to bark that epic line "How ya think I'm doin? NOT WELL, BITCH" in front of Candace Bushnell no less, who needs to become a FOH with a talking head -- STAT. I 100% understand why Bethenny did not go to Ramona's party after what Ramona said about her and her daughter. But her lurking outside on the phone with Carole was Gurl, if you want to be part of the action so bad, just bust your way inside.

The BH reunion ended on a light note, but this season was another missed opportunity for me. Last season was so mean and toxic, and this season that meanness was just under the surface of all the forced jollity. People have said that LVP and Erika are jostling for the 'throne' of BH, Game of Thrones-style, using the other cast members as their proxies and pawns. If only that were the case! It would make for a more interesting show than pantygate, cocainegate and bunnygate. I am so over the bunny thing. Kim looked spiteful, Rinna milked the whole thing and then she came back 're-energized' and was just as mean as before. @Nothin'ButAttitude, @DaytimeFan , Rinna wasn't wrong about Kim needing Rinna to get back on the show, but she is just as toxic as that drug-addled delulu. Both need each other to stay 'relevant' on the show. Neither are a side I would ever willingly choose. The hard and fast rule of these shows seems to be "get the newbies to trip up, then blame them for it." I'm disappointed that Rinna did not get held to account for her own actions (lying in Mexico, cocainegate). She tried to turn it on Dorit numerous times. If you are confused about whether it was Dorit or Eden who implied that Rinna slips Xanax in her smoothie, the answer is: neither. Rinna bragged about it on camera, and when Dorit repeated it, she tried to smack her over the head with it. Rinna has probably trademarked #Xanax in a Smoothie by now so that she can hawk some statement T shirts on QVC. I am disappointed in the entire left couch. They are humorless and hypocrites. They have not changed from last season when they were Yolanda's very own Spanish Inquisition, interrogating and pointing the finger of blame at everybody. They bitch about everyone and when they get caught, they belittle the other person ("Bye! Buh-bye!") and tell them to get over it. Woe betide if anybody says anything about them, because like a rottweiler with a child's leg, they can never let it go. I am disappointed that her ride-or-die defence of Rinna is tarnishing Eileen Davidson for me. I am especially disappointed that the left couch is making me root for a couch with Vyle and Kim on it. BH has not been truly enjoyable in a couple of years. I don't think Andy realizes this, but BH needs an overall, even bigger than the one NY had after S4.

Yeah, it was a depressing and stressful time and it's not fun to relive. I guess Andy is hearing this criticism because he basically said last week that the election would be dealt with early on in the season, and then we can get back to HW drama. But given that this episode was the last weekend before the election, it does seem dragged out into next week's episode. lol and yeah Carole's got nothing. Not even that unwashed chef who should have "30 Years Younger" tatooed on his forehead because that's all Carole talks about when she mentions him.

@Antoyne @DaytimeFan Bethenny is growing on me too. She totally didn't let Ramona's 'porn' assertions get to her. Ramona is perfect for reality tv, but she is -- and always has been -- an awful person. She had the nerve to get mad, too, when Bethenny didn't react the way she wanted. What got Bethenny riled up was seeing the Ramona-Luann alliance in motion. In fact, the whole lunch smelled of a set-up between LuMona. Bethenny had it coming after the way she trashed Luann last season, but at the same time, Ramona and Luann are just too thirsty with this fake-ass fight. Sonja needs a wake-up call. She has been clinging to this resentment of Dorinda like a life-raft. IMO a lot of it is displaced anger at the others for shutting her out last year. The fact is that Sonja's delusions have chased everybody away. No-one wants to hear anymore about partying with John-John on the Yacht and the lifestyle brand projects that don't exist. Tinsley looks 1000% over it, too. Sonja is going to get eviscerated by Dorinda next week. Don't get me wrong, I could never vote for Trump or his ilk. However, Carole reminds of her candidate who didn't really like mixing with Rust Belt proles and preferred coastal elite types who blew smoke up her ass. Carole's VT when she snooted: "Ramona, like most people, is uninformed about politics" was kind of ugh. I am so dumb. All this time I thought Tamra & Eddie were a great marriage because he finally got her, supported her, and wasn't a Perry Wright in the making like Simon was. I feel bad for Eddie if he wasn't in the know. And wow production must REALLY despise Tamra if they want to publicly expose her like this. You know the co-star Tamra was accusing of leaking this has got to be Vicki.

CavalryEileen riding in to Rinna's defense! Telling Kim "You don't know what you saw" smacked a little of "You're crazy, Kim." At least she admitted that what Rinna said was "messed-up wrong" but quickly deflected the blame onto Kim. Glad Kim pointed out that Rinna and Eileen stick together like a little gang. Looks like us two are not the only ones to have taken against 'Queen' Erika. The fake Lee Radziwill Twitter account doesn't love her either! She also had this one about Rinna:

LOL Eileen following Rinna out to blow smoke up her ass was "Whine whine that was SO MEAN." As mean as Rinna telling Eden that Kim was on the brink of death and her family knows it? IA that Dorit has been great. She knows she's a newbie and takes the lumps, but neither is she a pushover. She also doesn't resort to tears when people gang up on her. One of the best moments was everybody (including Left Couch) complimenting her on her swimwear line and urging her to get back into designing. Dorit's face lit up like a child. Also loved Andy name-dropping Erika Kane, and Susan Lucci getting a few seconds on the show lol. I'm sure Erika is laying low and licking her wounds rn but whether she will take her experiences this year constructively is anybody's guess, especially as she is surrounded by servile Yes men (the Glam Squad, Eileen, Rinna). I'm hoping Rinna gets dragged next week. Otherwise she is going to keep throwing out any old harmful allegation that putters into her pea-brain. The coke allegation is the meanest thus far, and the fact that Eileen still defends her for saying that... She's gotten a free pass and, up until bunnygate, still hadn't bought a clue when it comes to Kim. There is absolutely no reason to mention Kim for two years straight -- she is OFF the show. Now Rinna has virtually guaranteed Kim's return to BH in 2018.

I am surprised at how good that LVP clip is. I thought she spoke meaningfully about Max looking for his birth-parents and how she supports him, and you could see the left couch struggling to remain hard-hearted towards LVP -- and failing. Even Eileen and Rinna looked grudgingly moved. I didn't find LVP's tears for show either. The left couch is really winding me up with their smugness. Especially when Kyle and LVP were arguing. Erika's brain was ticking over how they can get Kyle over to their side next season. I don't know if you've been keeping up with Tamara Tattles, NBA, but she has been pro-left couch for a long time (I enjoy her blog a lot regardless ). She really loves Erika and, indeed, has been watching DWTS for her. Interestingly, she talked about spending time with family at Easter and watching DWTS with them, and the almost universal opinion was that nobody liked Erika on DWTS. They found her arrogant. I'm not surprised. Erika believed the hype and forgot that DWTS viewers may not necessarily have watched her and fallen in love with her personality on RHoBH. She thought -- on both shows -- that she had it in the bag. She certainly is making the most of pantygate. I cannot with her expecting an apology from PK to Tom. He should apologise for his gross jokes (which he did), but not for catching a glimpse in the first place. I also am having trouble delineating where Erika Girardi ends and Erika Jayne begins. When she's EG, the HWs must kowtow to her husband's wealth, but when she's EJ they can joke about c***s and ladyparts with her? It is all very arbitrary. This 'two people' persona is very contrived. Last year she was more relaxed about melding the two and laughing things off. This year she seems so uptight and uppity. I felt a bit sorry for Rinna when Kim was all forgiving and positive and then, at Andy's urging, whipped out the bunny. But lawd she milked that solitary tear and walk-off for all it was worth. I love how Bravo had that weird little table with the flowers set up so that Rinna could drop the effing bunny there -- in order for Kim to pick it up again. Then the camera follows Kooky Kim down the halls of the studio carrying the bunny to 'explain.' What kind of staged ridiculousness....? Rinna should be THANKING Kim for giving her an excuse to play the poor attacked victim. Because up until that point, the questioning was about why she was making up malicious stories about people! I hope we never see Eden again. She is literally the human manifestation of wallpaint. And she's not all there.

RHoA: They couldn't do a two-hour Reunion this week and another two-hour Reunion next week? I want to see Phrick & Phrack get their beatdown NOW! I can't believe the hubris we are seeing with those two -- the smug triumphalism, the high-fiving. They must feel mighty secure on the show if these liars are blatantly accusing Kenya of all the nasty-ass things they get away with. I was lowkey mad when Phaedra told Kenya that she, the fragrant, delicate southern belle and responsible attorney that she is, would NEVER get fucked in the back of a truck. Kenya should have fired back "Yeah, you like to screw felons with ankle bracelets on a dirty mattress in the projects!" Watching Kandi's face, I can see she is biding her time, waiting for the right moment to expose these two. Kenya seems to be in the know and playing along. So now we should 'celebrate' Porsha for getting off her back and being dragged to anger management by Bravo? How about she take some accountability for beating up her assistant/trying to smack Kenya with her own megaphone/forcing her knee into Cynthia's chest?? Porsha is in no way sorry about violently attacking people, and this AM story is a crock. She clearly has switched from physical abuse to verbal, and was blaming Kenya for 'provoking' her, like every wife-beater on earth. She is an awful person. Couldn't care less about Chateau SheBroke vs Moore Manor. We've had two seasons of this! Enough. I will say that everybody is looking stunning. I **LOVE** Kenya's hair with a passion, and Porsha's short hair looks good on her. Cynthia is living proof that this woman can wear ANYTHING. Even that hair.

RHONY: "The whole crusty vagina crowd is up here at 3 o'clock in the afternoon dressed in pastels and florals." Apparently, we're going to be seeing a nicer, happier Bethenny on our screens this season. Not after that comment! Yes, Bethenny has a biting wit, but she clearly thinks she is sooooooo above these women. Because she has a "business empire." But not so far above them that she can't bring along a basket of Skinny Girl promotional sh*t and stick it in front of the camera at Sonja's! Sales must be flagging. I like Tinsley! I like that we have a newbie who isn't batshit crazy. *side-eyes Kelly Dodd and Eden Sassoon* I heard of Tinsley Mortimer way back in the early 2000s when NY socialites were the New Supermodel, and Anna Wintour kept featuring them in Vogue. Her fall from grace was pretty spectacular. After she had an affair in NY and asked Topper Mortimer for a divorce, she was shunned by the NY social world. She went back south to start again, and in Miami hooked up with a Fanjul scion (the Fanjuls are Cuban sugar money -- Papa Fanjul has mega bucks and mega power in Florida, and was not happy that one of his offspring was tangled up with an older scandalous divorcée). He was on drugs and violent, and she was probably on some of the hard stuff, too. There were arrests for domestic violence (him) and stalking (her), and I guess after the mugshot mess, her mom stepped in and got her sober. And now she's back in NYC, apparently on good terms with her ex-husband Topper and wanting to get back in with her old social circle, but I don't know how easy that is going to be if she hangs with real housewives at Boutique. We'll see; in the meantime, I wish her well and hope she shows us her 'authentic self' [(c) every Real Housewife in history] on this show. She was a young girl who get famous too quickly, and now she is older and wiser, and that is always interesting. I see Bethenny is giving Tinsley the cold shoulder and it doesn't surprise me. Last year B was jealous of Jules because she was skinnier than her, and jealous of Luann for getting a marriage proposal. Tinsley's social connections are probably a source of additional petty jealousy on Bethenny's part, as she feels she is slumming it in the reality tv pond. Not sure if Luann's marriage to Tom is really one for the ages like she pretends, but I can't fault her for wanting her friends to at least wish her well.

Omg Antoyne that's spooky. I am rewatching that very season at the moment, and it is completely GLORIOUS. Bethenny is fab, LuAnn is all "Don't be like UNCOOL" and Ramona, chastened by the end of her marriage, has NEVER been better! @Nothin'ButAttitude I almost felt bad for Rinna until Eden piped up about her [!@#$%^&*] crystals and Eileen decided to make it all dramatic. I smell a new RinLeen SL for next season! And did you catch Kyle making like a frightened little rabbit and chewing on her finger? @Cheap21 "I don't believe smearing cream on your face after a face-lift is a cure for wrinkles." OMG KENYA MOORE I LOVE YOU!! That, ladies and gentlemen, was a read and a half!

Last time I checked, I was real. aka the moment when I realised Yolanda was a lying hussy who lied that Ken 'laid hands on her' and then had to backtrack when she realized the camera footage said otherwise.

@Taoboi , @DaytimeFan, @Nothin'ButAttitude, in the most recent episode's previews for part two, Rinna runs out of there 'in tears' after Kim gives her back the bunny.

You know I've struggled with my LVP love last year and this. I was ready for Erika to snatch the crown, even though I feel ongoing loyalty to LVP. But you know what? LVP has been direct and owned everything in this Reunion thus far. She has owned wanting to see Rinna get in trouble with the others, and provoking Eileen. And she did it with charm, humor (yes, humor, that even Rinna, Eileen and Erika laughed at) and a fine understanding that you need to enjoy this business of being a reality tv star. And you need to not take it so seriously. And that what goes up inevitably comes down. Erika and Rinna want their cake and to eat it, too. They fear the bumps and hard landings and loss of popularity. LVP has been through all that and back. And I think this is what makes LVP the HW I still, somehow, ride or die for, 7 years later.

Great assessment! Erika has flashes of coolness and I want to love her so! But she is milking pantygate for all it is worth. I get that PK and Dorit ran with this joke for fuckin EVER and look like absolute idiots. I get that PK is a gross, sweaty blob of perving flesh. I even get that Erika may feel victimized by his gross gaze. However, before PK rolled on set, she was acting like Jane in Big Little Lies coming face to face with her assaulter. And not to sound like those awful people who think that women wearing short skirts are 'asking for it,' but... she shouldn't have left the house without Spanx on. The no-knickers thing was tacky when Paris Hilton (you must be so proud of your niece, Kyle) and Britney Spears did it, and it is tacky now. There is no reason for it, not with aircon and breathable shapewear available. Anyway, I wish the whole issue would die a death, mainly because Erika is taking herself sooooo seriously as a result. She lacks a sense of humor -- not necessarily about pantygate, but about herself. She cannot laugh at herself. ITA, she thinks she's better than the other women and top of the heap at Bravo now. And her disdain for others is obvious, not least on DWTS when she couldn't believe she was in the Bottom Two this week. People pick up on unspoken tells, and it is those tells (rather than anything Erika has actually said and done) that stop me from embracing her as her Official Fan Club Chairman and Secretary Lisa Rinna and Eileen have done. Dorit got hard done by by Andy. I feel like Andy loves PK more than Dorit. You may think Whineleen 'can't bitch about LVP anymore,' @Nothin'ButAttitude, but by God, that didn't stop her in this episode! LVP admitted she was being provocative and Eileen barfed up her 'this is why I don't trust you. Nasty, nasty' trope from last season. Sigh. Just when I had hoped you'd rediscovered your sense of humor, Eileen! Rinna is so [!@#$%^&*] annoying. God forbid we ever forget she is on this show! Everytime she pipes up, I am reminded of this Yes gurl, just like you wanted to Pat The Puss at last year's Reunion and Yolanda shut your thirsty ass down. We know you want to follow in Yolanda's footsteps and be a model momager for your two snotty crotchfruit. We know you want to be Erika with the no-panties announcement at Reunion. Does this woman ever have an original idea? Everything she does is always one year after everybody else did it. Stop trying to do the most! You are exhausting to watch, and you know who else was exhausting? Brandi Glanville. I have to say that vid you posted of Kim giving back the baby gift and one Katherine Kelly Lang-esque tear rolling down Rinna's face was B&B-at-its-worst perfection!

Amen! I never liked that lazy-ass two-cent hooker who only ever did a day's work on her back. She is a liar (implying she wore wigs because of cancer) and user of people (Nene, Kandi included -- she did Kandi SO wrong). If you are in doubt about the kind of ratchet she is, check out her Twitter/IG, where she has turned Brielle into her rubber-faced mini-me. Or catch up on her and her crotchfruit running around Italy complaining about the food until they hit up the local McDonald's. ThirstLo and Kim Thirstyac were doing the most this episode to try and be relevant -- they looked [!@#$%^&*] ridiculous. I was pleased to see Dwight though! I feel like this season of RHOA has been a LONG, HARD slog, and I can't believe there will be 4 parts to Reunion when nothing really happened this season apart from the Kandi vs Porsha stuff. Yeah, I know, Cynthia's divorce, Matt smashing Kenya's windows, Sheree & Bob's marriage... All these things could have been condensed into a season of under 10 episodes imo.

Honestly though... I don't see what's wrong with it? It's big and wavy and Mahogany-esque and brings out Cynthia's bone structure. Her hair in this upcoming Reunion looks like a rat chewed through it. This is funny tho: This is what ultimately undermines Eileen. I believe she is a straight shooter who values truthfulness to a degree. But she constantly excuses Rinna and brushes her unacceptable behavior under the carpet. Rinna whaled on Kim this season just for a SL and made up the most shocking rumor against Dorit AND belittled Eden horribly last episode. And Eileen backed her the entire time. It's like Yolanda saying "That's just Brandi being Brandi" in seasons past. It makes her look like a complete hypocrite. As for Eileen's crush on Erika, I think Eileen is slowly getting her heart broken by the Ice Queen, who just wants her as a minion, not a friend.

...which I loved lol

@Nothin'ButAttitude thanks! Kandi literally looks like she has been sobbing her eyes out 5 minutes before this was filmed. She also looks completely DONE with everyone, Andy included. Perhaps most shocking of all is Cynthia"s hair. I literally have no words. And I usually live for Cynthia's Reunion hair, even when she goes full editorial.