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Wait up... her blog is called "Nene apologizes for her behavior." Where's the apology?!

I like your post though I don't agree with everything that's in it. And I appreciate that while you like Lisa you don't have crazy stan-love for her. But first thing's first: Brandi needs to get the heck over this Scheana thing. She has come face to face with her, what, two times? One was going into episode 1 of VPR, and clearly this was a contract thing which Bravo enforced. The second was Lisa forcing the issue with the engagement. You don't think production should be used as an excuse here, so I won't. Lisa looked ridiculous insisting on this. But Brandi looks just as ridiculous harping on about this all. The. Damn. TIME. She is looking for ant tits! This is an excuse to pick at Lisa and is not the real issue between them. IMO, the real issue is that Lisa and Brandi were enamored of each other quickly and suddenly last year when they were feeling a little lost and ganged-up-on by the others. But just as suddenly the heat of that initial love has burned out and they realize that they just don't like each other the way they used to and probably don't have that much in common any more. And it's hard. It's not easy watching a friendship you really valued evolve into just 'meh.' Personally, I think the real friendship (or frenemyship) here is Lisa and Kyle. There is something more than just "we were acquaintances" there, and Lisa is still stung by what happened at S2 reunion. Obviously Kyle cannot get over not being the center of Lisa's orbit, either. Even if I hate Kyle, I am into this K/L friendship. Weird. Is Lisa playing to camera? Sure. But phony? If anything, they are pissed with her because when they start bitching about her, she doesn't pretend not to hear or put up with it. She cuts them out of her life. In some ways, that's more upfront. Obviously, she'll make digs and throw shade but that's the RHWs for you. Even the way Lisa got up in everybody's face about Necklacegate is telling. I honestly think it's because she sensed the coldness from Brandi, Kyle, Yolanda, etc., and she wanted to be included in the necklace thing. "Me! Me! Don't forget about me!" It's as simple as not wanting to be left out of the group and trying to take control of the situation. Even if it meant pissing them off (which I'm sure, deep down, she realized it would). Controlling, defensive? Sure, she is all those things. But IMO this is what makes Lisa more human. Because she actually cares about these women liking her and she wants to be seen as the person who gets people talking again (like with Carlton and Kyle. She really defended Kyle to her). Yolanda is honest and blunt but she, just as much as Kyle and Lisa and all the others, has a brand to sell, and that brand is Lifestyle. So there is lots of "He-LLOOOOOOO my love!!!" and "here's a lemon tart I made earlier" and "here are my beautiful kids and our amazing extended family." I mean, I love all of it and believe it for the most part, but some of it is surely not all "diamonds and rosé." And with regards to the other women, Yolanda can be bitchy and stir the pot. She just likes to pretend that she's not bitchy, but it's ok. I will still love her. IA that this season should have been cut by at least 4 episodes. I would have cut six and made Boyce and Carlton friends of.

Thank GOD they are filming at Mohammed's estate again this week. Some badly needed luxury! Oh, man, what a classy girl Gigi is. What a sweet and moving speech to her parents and stepfather. I wish we had seen more of her this season and less of Carlton, Boyce, stupid Kyle and sour-face Brandi. LOL @ YoLemony practically smacking the cake away from Gigi's paw. Yeah, this is what a lot of European moms do. It's fine. They smother. They micromanage. And they are obsessed with their kids' health and that extends to eating patterns and weight. I went away to college and came back having packed on 15 pounds, and my mom literally sat me down and told me "Chérie, if you're happy as you are, I won't say another word, but if you're not, you need to listen to me when it comes to eating properly and taking care of yourself." Yolanda is obviously trying to preserve Gigi's modeling future (even though modeling is a crazy world) but she is also holistic and truly believes that food can change your health (which it can). "He-LLOOOOOOO my love!!!" We know when David has entered a room, don't we? Yolanda really wants you to know that David loves her Just As She Is! Side-note: I am totally loving Mo's fist-bumping butler Khalish. Brandi's mouth and tongue swelled up from an allergic reaction to... aspirin? LOL. Ok. I have nothing to say about Carlton, except that clearly Kyle's jinxed screensaver is a caftan-inspired fakery, and Bravo already have her halfway out the door if they're not letting her go to PR. Tits on an ant time! Obviously I am talking about Trashbox and Cousin It vs. Evil World Mastermind Lisa. Lisa really should have kept her nose out of this boring necklace story if only because it was so obvious that Trashbox and Cousin It were going to jump on it as PROOF!!!!!! that Lisa is an Evil Mastermind GENIUS!!!!!!!! Brandi: "Lisa is super smart." Well, she would know, right? What a twit. Lisa got Cedric deported, not the US government! Lisa poisoned her box of "aspirin" (in my country, we call that "funky realtor dick")! And Lisa knew Scheana when she was Eddie's mistressssssssssssss! Before she knew Brandi but hey, nevermind. Let's not let logic get in the way of a good rant. Obviously Evil Mastermind has been plotting against Brandi in the years before she even met our poor, put-upon, spunky heroine! Still, Trashbox doesn't want to confront Evil Mastermind just yet because she's waiting until the finale to roll out that "Checkmate, bitch!" line she's been practicing in the mirror for months. Meanwhile, Cousin It is still crying about Lisa's joke about Mauricio and Portia. It is really interesting seeing Vile go in on Lisa in the VTs, but when they are at Mo's party and they think nobody can hear them, both ladies talk to each other like really relaxed, comfortable friends. I hope they bring this up at Reunion. I also hope Trashbox and Cousin It got called out once and for all on their crazy jealousy. Hey, did anybody notice that Kim wasn't at the party but nobody even mentioned it? Yeah, me neither! Next week: I don't know if I have the heart to watch Lisa got ganged up on. Oh what am I saying? Of course I will watch. But I will be devastated about the way she and Ken are treated. Kim needs to STFU and sit her gin-soaked, prescription-pill-pooping, dog-chewed ass down!

I miss the early season taglines of NY and NJ! These were tags that they actually took from stuff the women said. Like Danielle's "You either love me or hate me. There's no in between with me." And LuAnn's "I never feel guilty about being privileged." My favourite tag from Lisa is "In Beverly Hills, it's who you know -- and I know everyone." But the diamonds and rosé line is pretty good. I am watching RHoBH right now. Going to post soon! Hope DF does too in the next few days.

LMAO. You mean the two BH besties are now turning on each other? Say it ain't so! The best part was Brandi saying she went on a website and paid $9.99 to get the information. A close second was Puff Brandi 'hoping' that one day she and Lisa might be pals again. After you trashed her almost daily for the past five months? What a backpedaling idiot. Bravo should create a 'When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas' award just for these two.

That coke sniffing heifer? Lea Black better reclaim her crown from that whining usurper.

PLEASE let that Loveliest Locks award be true, and PLEASE let Boyce win it. And then PLEASE do an extreme close-up of Vyle Richards face as she watches Boyce go up on stage to receive said award and exclusively announce that she is now the face/hair of Pantene. "All thanks to you, Bravo!"

Yeah, which one is Barbie's Dream Whore? I thought you were referring to Gretchen or Tamra, but wrong franchise.

Agreed Aviva's is the best because it is tongue in cheek. And Bravo knows the sight of that false leg lying on the floor in the teaser got everybody talking. The other taglines are so lazy. Kristen, Carole, Ramona and Sonja's especially. They all sound meaningless and ridiculous, and Kristen sounds downright embarrassed to be saying her's out loud. At least Carole sounded convincing with her "ass" read, god knows why. Ramona and Pinot Turtle Time? She might as well have recorded one that said "I'm a wino, y'all. Hic!" I have no clue why Ramona, as the last OG standing, is not in the center of the shot holding an apple. And why Aviva isn't trying to beat it from her hand with her peg leg. LOL, I don't mind Holla! anymore. I know it's dated but I like Heather, so...

They need to come up with better NY taglines fast. These are awful. Re: Atlanta, I don't think that production assistant is going to get fired. I think he leaked with the full blessing of True Entertainment and probably Bravo. This was to counter criticism coming their way about the episode and to shut Nene down who seems to be spiralling downward at a record rate and losing some of her ffriends in the process.

Mohammed shut down Yolemony Snicket gracefully and effectively, without even offending the mother of his children but also without conceding to what she was really trying to use their breakfast for. I keep watching with eyes peeled to gauge any HINT of Undercover Evil Mastermind (aka Lisa's) nefarious plot. Apart from super-shading Stassi about collecting the jewels and summoning her housekeeper Rocio to bring Prince Giggy to her, I just cannot see what the fuss is about. The inter-cutting between Lisa's glam photoshoot and Kyle and Brandi trashtalking Lisa was epic. Brandi saying that Lisa confided in her about how angry she was at Adrienne, but she really shouldn't have (no kidding!), because she knows Brandi has a big mouth and consequently was meticulously planting the seeds of Adrienne's destruction right then and there was just... OMG! Lisa was using Brandi's mouth as a weapon! Brandi had no control over her own body! Lisa willed her to do it! And Cedric has visa issues -- it must be Lisa's fault too! (It can't positively be because he blackmailed Ken for money, can it?!) I can't with this bullshit. Next week: Lisa is responsible for the polar vortex. SPOT ON. Worse, a willful ignorant pretending to be a sophisticate. She has no interests beyond being Mauricio's wife and hair grooming. The sad thing is, she knows exceedingly little but thinks she knows it all. A legend in her own mind. It is cringe-making to watch her smug it up over her own jokes/shade in her VTs.

Faye

We're just going to have to agree to disagree. If we're allowed to talk about production, point out when production is really obviously messing with stuff BTS, why can't Lisa, Brandi or anybody else? We all know it's happening, why pretend it isn't? As for VPR, Lisa probably realizes that she's staffed her restaurants with a bunch of airheads who keep stomping out in the middle of service over gf/bf drama and it is costing her money and making for more work. So she's over it. My comment was based on the opinion that Lisa looks amazing on VPR and tired on BH, but maybe that's the dark lighting at SUR. Wait, Stassi won't be back next season? That's a shame. She's the only one on the show who can string an interesting VT together. I hope Jax will be back though. Despite being a douche, I think he is hilarious. Like, legit funny.

Well, my first reaction to that last question was: refuse the chance to look like a victim? Brandi? Not on your life! But is production a valid excuse? Sure. Production's fingerprints are all over this! They were all over the first Scheana-Brandi discussion last season, too. This was a way to tie in VPR and RHoBH. VPR has been interwoven with RHoBH this season (from what I can see in the first three episodes), and that's a decision production consciously made. Brandi is boohooing about it but as you say, she could have refused and she didn't. Probably because she is contractually obligated to participate in both. Production is behind 99% of all those RH moments that makes us gasp in shock -- heck, RHoA just had one big production-made meltdown -- and at some point it has to be a valid excuse because it is at the root of so much mess. I mean, we could even stretch this by saying that back in S2, production got Kyle to kick Taylor and Russell out of the White Party, thereby ostracizing the Armstrongs. A week later, Taylor filed for divorce and later Russell committed suicide. As to who is in the wrong here, Lisa or Brandi, well, in all honesty, I think Lisa was probably reminded by production that VPR was riding on this, so she pushed the issue. Not classy, but certainly not the worst thing ever seen on these shows. Honestly, seeing Brandi complain about Lisa every single day on the show/blogs/PR releases like Lisa is some kind of Dr. Evil mastermind, responsible for all the bad things in the world and in Brandi's life, well, IMO that paints a worse picture of Brandi than it does of Lisa. But then you'd say "well, you're a Lisa fan, so of course you are going to think that." Sure. I can't help feeling turned off by Brandi's behavior and her (and the Richards') desperation to try and turn the audience against Lisa. Not only can I not see their point or exactly why Lisa is so bad, but it makes me dig my heels in and like Lisa more. RHOBH and VPR should never have been filmed at the same time. RHoBH feels shoddy and messily put together while VPR feels like The Hills. It has that X factor at the moment that BH has lost. Lisa is obviously stretched between two shows and seems to enjoy VPR more at the moment. The HWs are prob bitter that she's only paying RHoBH lip service and they're not getting more glory about their contribution to VPR. Lisa is getting all the spotlight and that must burn them. Maybe they feel she has left them behind without a second glance. IMO VPR's rise and BH's fall are directly connected.

LOL, I respect JP's opinion about BH and Lisa and he's pretty even-handed when it comes to her (more than I am probably!). But her response to the whole thing is better than any defense I might have so why not just quote it directly? No mean bloop! intended.

I want to watch RHoA SO bad! But I'm at work. I can't believe this thread blew up just like it did two weeks ago -- but even better, that nobody went BSC. This is prob why I love posting here. Even when I post dumb [!@#$%^&*] and am called out on it, it isn't mean or personal. That pic of Christopher grabbing Kenya right in front of Nene's eyes-on-stalks speaks volumes. I really hope Andy does not let any of these women duck from answering some tough questions about how acceptable it is for a man to lay hands on a woman. I mean, if the cameras and production staff hadn't been there, how exactly would this have gone down? Is production exacerbating the situation or acting as a break on some of these guys to really beat the [!@#$%^&*] out of somebody? I think one of the reasons I am so appalled at Apollo is that he was punching Brandon because Brandon was a stand-in for Kenya. I'm sure he was sore at Kenya for exposing his texts to the world and he was getting his frustration out on him. Lisa Vanderpump ‏@LisaVanderpump 8h Yes you're right @jennymccarthy, production orchestrated Scheana to be there,I objected & they insisted..it is what it is @BravoWWHL #wwhl Expand

Wow. They were implying it was from the one just filmed! And I got taken in! I am officially a bigger dumbass than Brandi.

LOL! Not that I wouldn't love to see Paul Nassif back on RHoBH. But I'd say he probably deserves better than hot mess Brandi. Did you know that Paul and Terry Dubrow are doing a new Bravo show together about mending bad plastic surgery? I think Brandi, deep down, is aware with how precarious her situation is. I think she's somewhat confident in her friendships over at Bravo to think she's staying on the show as long as she keeps showing out, but the side projects like "author" and "podcast host" are shaky. Certainly she has been alternating between trying to do damage control over Racistgate (that wonky home vid she put together) and throwing out increasingly desperate "secrets" to try and make this rivalry with Lisa stick. Kyle does look good. She tidied her eyebrows, got a well-done nose job and takes care of her best asset, her hair. Added to that some double-Spanx and a beautiful dress and colour on her, she looks glam. Obviously she has been preparing for this reunion in a big way -- shmoozing with Andy in NYC during Superbowl weekend, and probably eating little this week in preparation for the reunion. By the way, I got this on my instagram feed -- a snippet of the BH reunion. Looks like some of us were wrong about seating order. From what I can tell, it is Yolanda-Brandi-Kyle-ANDY-Lisa and then I presume Kim and then the two new bores. WHO DON'T EVEN FEATURE IN THE CLIP! http://instagram.com/p/kJIKYsK6X5/ In other news (also gleaned from instagram), RHoM got the green light for a fourth season. The rhom instagram keeps asking us which HWs from past seasons we want to see back on the show. I said Ana, Karent and Mama Elsa. Joanna can still go.

Exactly. That's my point. Lisa has never hid that the early days were lots of hard work (she works hard still! ) and it's difficult being in a speculative business like restaurants and bars. Her bio states they faced near bankruptcy when an earthquake demolished two bars in LA back in the day. Brandi looks like a dumbass for trying to make out like it's some big bad secret Lisa has been hiding from everyone. Kind of like when Camille went after Lisa with "You don't own Sur." Lisa was like "Yeah and? I own half." Brandi is showing her ass. God forbid she get off her butt to work. She's still milking her long-dead marriage for money.

It has been torture, IA, Antoyne.

Brandi is now saying that in her early years in LA, Lisa was broke and living in the Valley. But because she is an Evil Mastermind who controls her image more closely than President Obama's advisers, she doesn't want anybody to know her Deep, Dark Secret! LOL, Oh, Brandi. Honey you tried. Now just sit down. Come back Faye, all is forgiven. RHOBH filmed their Reunion yesterday. Apparently it was emotional, according to Andy. And 5 more episodes of RHoBH are left. Wonder how many of RHoA are left? And if they've already filmed their reunion? Seriously, BH's reunion is the one thing keeping me hanging on to this season. Tweets All / No replies YOLANDA ‏@YolandaHFoster 4h ❤️The truth was prevailed, some mistakes acknowledged & apologies were made! #RHOBHReunion #Happytomoveon pic.twitter.com/zBIEkMB6Zb Expand Reply Retweet Favorite Mor

Those dancers boogying behind Kenya, LOL. You better WERK! I suspect Phaedra's lawyers told her in no uncertain terms to keep away from WWHL. Which begs the question: will she attend reunion?

I hope Miami returns because the way BH is going, I miss the Miami ladies. Joanna can leave as she's boring. "Just fire me now." Yeah, definitely Adriana. Who hopefully is going nowhere!

OMG thank you. THIS!

Make it happen, Rosie!