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I could not agree more :wub: Now that seriously makes my life! Bring it on Eric83, Soapboy, Cheap. Bring. It. ON.

RHOBH: OMG! They are going to my favorite country in the world -- France -- and my fave city -- Paris. My mom's hometown! Sigh. And the Hotel Lutetia is a pretty luxurious establishment. Can't wait for Part Deux. Yolanda did a great job with Mohamed's palace but I still prefer her and Lisa's homes stylewise. There is something very homey as well as luxurious about Yolanda's house, you can tell that this is where they raise their children and have friends over. God, I love all this home design porn. Brandi-Lisa-Yolanda seriously make my life. I love this friendship trifecta SO much. I hope they never break up. Ken's son and DIL are refreshingly down-to-earth and normal. It really says something about Ken and Lisa how even when they are around family, their personalities don't change. And the family treat them like family, with no pretensions at all. Ken looked so happy to be there with his son and grandson. Of course Sue was a Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me! Too bad Lisa never was because she certainly looked like she could have been one. I'm going to say it. I enjoy Taylor (even though it is clear that Bravo did not want her broke ass coming on the trip) and her fake fantasy world and drama and multiple identities. I hope she stays on next season.

:lol: OMG, no! I didn't mean in reference to you guys at all. I can see why it bothers people and when I first listened to it I was, like, woah. The sex stuff was a little TMI and I personally cannot help but think that by bringing other women into the bedroom and saying she needed to keep him "spent" before going to work, she was kind of giving Eddie the impression that he could eventually !@#$%^&*] whenever, wherever, whoever. And that he had this super-important libido that "needed to be satisfied" at all costs. However, I was making the point that Brandi has always been very TMI about... everything so as soon as I heard she was going to be on HS's radio show, I knew where the questions were going to go. I mean, a few years ago, Kelly Monaco was on there and she didn't hold back either on crude subject matter. I'm curious, though: do you think it is ok for her to put it in her book? And just not speak about it on TV or the radio? FTR, my friends and I don't sit around talking about taking it up the ass. . Or sharing our men with other women.

Brandi has always been blunt and very open about her sex life and what have you. She's that kind of girl; I have girl friends like that and it is so refreshing to hear it straight. Remember in Season 2 at Adrienne's part when she referred to penis as c*** and Kyle, Kim and Taylor collectively clutched their pearls in horror like a trio of vexed virgins? It was right after that that we had Game Night at Pam/TwennyFiveThouzind's house, and Brandi being treated appallingly by the Bitchards.

LOL, DaytimeFan is really irritated by her house! Prob because it is as basic as she is. RHoV should be about fantasy! Speaking of fantasy, Mary's apartment is stunning. And Jody and Ronnie both have my dream kitchens. I really love Mary and keep hoping that she and Ronnie find their way back to each other, lol. Damn @ that gangly OC girl's choppers.

Jody is like an evil pixie. Wanna know what happened to Tinkerbell after she got old, drank and racked up a few bad marriages? Look no further. Amanda -- OMG, what a basic bitch. A basic deluded bitch who thinks she can play ball with the big girls. I loved Ronnie (and her giant lip-glossed lips!) calling Amanda out on being a bitch. To her face. And not in a violent or initimidating way either. Amanda thinks she is all that and a bag of chips, and when another woman shows up with a bit of confidence and strutting her stuff, Amanda is all "What about meeeeeeeeeee? Why is nobody paying attention to meeeeeeeeeeee?!" She is the Alexis Bellino of RHoV. I believe that if that scrawny, ferret-faced twit hadn't outwalked a nervous Ioulia on the catwalk, there is no way she would have gotten too big for her boots and decided to piss on Ioulia and Ronnie at dinner afterwards. She really thought she was hot stuff after sashaying around in a bikini in the cold, huh? Ioulia really dismissed her outright and was far more interested in the food. Jody siding with Amanda was a surprise but as Mary said "Promises, promises." at Robin's face when Ronnie told her that she used table butter as well as olive oil to soften her dry skin. Ioulia's stepsons are cute. But Ronnie's boys are cuter, lol.

Revamping RHoNY turned out to be a blessing in disguise, I think. Personally I found it more watchable with Heather Carole and even that crazy bitch Aviva in it. Ramona and some of the vets just looked try-hard by comparison. I can't with Jill Zarin. What a vile human being. The only thing is that if she came back, do you think Heather and Carole would put up with even one iota of her bullying? No way. Also Aviva would go batshit on her. NJ is hell on earth. Until Danielle returns and blows it to smithereens.

^^ IA about Atlanta. i want to love it so hard but I just... can't. Kenya is trying hard but she can't work this alone. The show is a bore and TBH it's kind of been that way for a couple of seasons.

I love Brandi and believe that every word she said in the Howard Stern interview was 100% the truth. I love how she has a sense of humor about herself. LeAnn is so royally pissed because she assumed that nobody would give a [!@#$%^&*] about an unknown like Brandi Glanville whereas she was the big recording artist. She thought she could spin it to the press that she and Eddie were the Greatest Wuv of All Time and Brandi was in the way of all that. It must really burn that after all the PR money, the "surprise" pap shoots of her frolicking with Eddie's kids on the beach, walking hand-in-hand with the skeeve, that Brandi totally pulled the rug from under them by telling the God's honest truth! TBH, I hope they don't ax the RHoBH cast too deeply. I'd keep most if not all of them. Kim can go. Obvs Brandi and Lisa are untouchable. I love Yolanda and hope beyond hope she carries on. I mean, her scene in Vegas where she totally called Kyle out on her BS has been the scene of the season thus far. I have always liked Camille and wouldn't mind her around. TayShanna has grown on me this season and I think this crazy ho has it in her to start drama where none previoously existed. Even the ones I despise -- Kyle, Adrienne, Faye -- I want to stay on because they create necessary conflict. Uber Mean Girl Kyle needs to stay. She still hasn't been called to the carpet enough for my liking.

Damn at that Brandi interview with Howard Stern. Howard does make me laugh, though.

I love the way Ken and Brandi "love" each other. And how Lisa is not threatened about it at all. It's one of the sweetest things about RHoBH, I think, this L-B-K friendship. And for GorillaPaul to fall back on that lame "They hang out together all the time! That means something must be going on!" spiel was just ugh. Adrienne and Gorillaback were awful in last night's episode. That tall black lady who went to speak with Adrienne was very pretty and very self-possessed, I thought. Even when Dwarf Nassif and Dwarf Maloof were going nuts. WTF? No apology for leaving self-tanner all over somebody's furnishings? First of all -- get the spray tan done the day before an event, that way you won't smear it all over your clothes and people's stuff. Secondly, offer to clean the furnishings as it is your fault they got soiled! Really! I missed Yolanda, too. And I didn't mind TayShanna in this episode! Crazy.

I know, I can't believe she is 26 either. Her voice and dress sense make her look like very "woman." At 26 I was still shaking the kid out from me! I'm not sure whether Ioulia is lying Wig-styles or whether she IS really 26 but an early life of Russian toughness could make her seem more mature than her peers. Her husky voice also makes her seem older. I'm going to throw 34 out there.

RHoV: It's only the second show and the season is taking time to build (as it should). However, I am already done with Amanda's inability to get over herself. She sounds like a little girl trying to be a big girl "confronting" Robin. Robin smoothly nipped that one in the bud by killing her with kindness. Warming to Ioulia and to Robin in a big way. Still hate the Wicked Witch of the West. Nice scenes between Ronnie and Remy.

That was my question. And while I understand the reasoning re: why Teresa could get away with a gag order on Bravo but not Adrienne, I think that if Teresa DID threaten/blackmail Andy Cohen with legal aggresssion similar to what Adrienne has done, she should be equally punished. Yes, Teresa is the driving force behind RHoNJ. She is the breakout star (and, unlike Andy Cohen, I think she could front her own cooking/lifestyle show and make it a success, unlike Dina Manzo's House Party) but RHoNJ is a horrible toxic monster now and if it were put out of its misery now, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. I don't "buy" any of it. It's clear the whole thing is a sham, right down to Caroline's family relationships, Jacqueline's sanity, Teresa's marriage and Melissa's fake martyrdom/victimhood. RHoBH is totally scripted, too, but I think some of these rivalries, friendships, threats and mega-money are 100% real, and that's why I am invested.

RHoA has been a chore for me to watch for much of this season. And yes, I love Nene. There just isn't enough of her! RHoBH captures my imagination because I absolutely love some of the women -- and some of the others totally drive me to anger. I am so ready for Adrienne and Kyle to be called out, publicly, on their [!@#$%^&*], it's not even funny. If TayShana can be called out in Season 2, so should these two hypocrites. It boggles my mind to think everytime Brandi is at an event, she gets raked over the coals and called "a really cruel person" (thanks, Faye!) for essentially saying the truth. Why is nobody calling Adrienne "a really cruel person" for suing a friend and calling her a liar when it is now clear she plainly is not? For trying to turn all the other women against her? Why is nobody calling her "a really cruel person" for accusing Lisa of selling stories to Radar? God knows Lisa was called out at Reunion on the Very Serious Charge of coining the phrase the Maloof hoof. Why is nobody calling Kyle out on the fact that she uses Faye as her own personal attack dog? I just worry that Adrienne will not show up to Reunion or will put a gag order on Andy and Bravo in order not to get any "difficult" questions. Yolanda's blog :wub: And she wants to do another season if they'll have her?! LOVE. Yolanda's words to Brandi in Monday's episode: Yolanda: You know, you've been great about it. You've been saying from the beginning 'Hey, I fucked up, I did something wrong, I apologize, now can we move on?' She's the one that doesn't want to move on so there's not much left for you to say. Brandi: She wants me to move on if I sign something saying I will never speak my mind again or say the truth or have an opinion which... I can't censor myself and why would I want to do that? It's a free world... Yolanda: It's ridiculous. Brandi: ...it's, like, if I do that, I will... will... implode. (laughs) Yolanda: It is ridiculous. But, I mean, you shouldn't worry, you know. Adrienne is... is, you know, a very insecure woman that is using her status to intimidate people. Yolanda (VT): Based on Brandi's experience with Adrienne, I just feel that, you know, Adrienne is using her little rich girl's powers to intimidate people in this group and I just do not think that's cool. Yolanda: If she had balls and felt strongly about her conviction, she would pick up the phone and talk to you and say 'Listen, woman, I don't like you did this, this and that.' But instead she calls a lawyer, you know why? Because she can and she has the money to do so. Brandi: Ugh. Yolanda: Because $10,000, you know, maybe doesn't mean anything to her! And so when you go to that tea party, just keep telling yourself that, and you can step back and look at it and go 'Screw you, who are you?" Really, who is Adrienne Maloof in this world? Brandi: Ugh. Yolanda: You know what I mean? In the big picture, she's nobody.

I cannot BELIEVE that is Faye. Really? It's a totally different person, no? I know there's been surgery and skin bleaching but... As for the RHoBH episode, Adrienne's has the face of a lying snake. She also has a "tell" when she is lying -- her mouth goes down on one side, almost like she wants to bite her lip. She was doing that when she kept saying that Brandi was lying and that she didn't threaten her legally. And sure, we can split hairs about whether Adrienne sent Brandi a letter asking her to cease and desist or actually filed a deposition against Brandi but the fact is, it is practically the same thing in terms of what Adrienne wanted to achieve -- threat and intimidation. A C&D is still an act of legal aggression by Adrienne against Brandi. The whole episode was set up yesterday so that Adrienne's cheerleader Kyle and Kyle's attack dog Faye would keep repeating over and over "She didn't file anything" as if Adrienne didn't actually threaten Brandi and Brandi is just imagining things and trying to sully Adrienne's spotless reputation. Go TayShanna in drunkenly exposing that whole sorry farce. Kyle is a fake friend to Lisa. I really get the impression that KR is the type of woman who will happily be invited to Lisa's restaurant, to her home and all her parties, take her free meals and gifts -- and then turn around and bitch about Lisa behind her back. Adrienne and Kyle are dying with jealousy about Lisa's popularity.Apparently, it was Kyle that went to Andy Cohen about doing a BH version of the RH franchise, she suggested which of her sisters, friends and acquaintances would be interested in joining the show. It must really burn to see Lisa, and not her, become the breakout star. I wish I had the time to transcribe Yolanda's conversation with Brandi because every one of her words were PERFECTION. For somebody so wealthy, Yolanda really has her feet on the ground and is full of common sense. "Adrienne is a spoiled rich girl who plays with power to intimidate her friends." Right on. Oh, I want Yolanda to stay on SO much next season! I am ok with all the ladies returning, actually, yes, even TayShanna, Camille, Marissa and Adrienne, because they all bring something to the table. Kim can leave, though.

I caught up with RHoV too! Ronnie is, like, the Queen of this show because all the women are vying to be her BFF. Mary-Ronnie-Jody is the triangle the producers are hoping will keep on giving. Obvs I am rooting for Mary and Ronnie to get past their differences but the previews don't leave me hopeful. I just can't deal with seeing Jody belittle Mary with her nastiness and everybody just stand there pretending they didn't hear anything. I mean Jody compared Mary to pestillence -- and this was the "nice" episode with Remington and everybody being civil for Remy and Ronnie's sake! This show seems closer to RHoBH than any other franchise in showing all the laid-back glamour of these women's lives and interiors of their houses. Like, Ronnie's house is crazy-amazing! I love all that stuff. Ronnie still seems a little shaken and fragile after what happened to her daughter. I just love that little girl Remy, though, who worked that party like a true hostess and welcomed all the HWs to her barbecue. OT but Ronnie's son Jhordan is gorgeous and I cannot believe she has a son that age. Mia's nose job is well done. She looks 100 times better. Out of the new housewives, I was surprised how much I warmed to Robin. I wasn't sure I would enjoy watching her but I did. Ioulia I knew I would like. Um, Amanda is not winning me over thus far. There is something a little "meh" and blank about her.

This is why I love Yolanda. She just reads Kyle like a book. "That's beautiful. That's great."

RHoNJ is so toxic that it will take an AWFUL lot for Bravo to revamp this show -- they need to revamp the mentality of all the people involved first and foremost. This was once the most authentic and real-feeling of the RH franchise, now it is so much fakery and bile that I can't keep track of it. RHoBH bleeped out Adrienne's entire reason for a lawsuit against Brandi and Bravo and that show is STILL easier to follow than NJ where all these women (including Dina and Caroline, two HW I really liked) selling their souls for D-list fame and doing backstage deals with different Bravo producers. RHoBH: Whenever I think of Kyle, I am reminded about what George Clooney once said about fame freezing your mentality at the very point you become famous. So if you became famous as a teenager, chances are that even as you grow older, your mentality is still in high school. Kyle "Witch Mountain" Richards is still in that HS mindset and it is really sad. Seeing her interact with her family, she does come across as a loving mother, a pretty solid mom actually, but as soon as she is with women her age -- bam! She needs to become Queen Bee. Yolanda I also love the Lisa and Yolanda friendship. It's not as evident as Lisa and Brandi's high regard for each other, but without even saying a word, you know Yol and Lisa have each other's back. It feels like a friendship of equals in that they don't feel the need to pander to one another. Lisa & Brandi are different; Lisa is very sisterly, almost maternal with Brandi, which is very sweet. BTW, I also liked how Yolanda and Lisa just threw themselves into the pole-dancing with very little fuss. Yolanda and Marissa looked and dressed for the pole dancing like it was an exercise or yoga workout. Adrienne looks worse and worse with each passing episode. And her knockoff business.

Sorry! I can't even take credit for it. It was D-Listed that referred to him as "Magilla Gorilla's midget brother" and since then I cannot unsee this:

I love both Camille and Miss Lisa. But it was interesting to me seeing how bent out of shape Camille got about Brandi making her look bad in Lisa's eyes. Lisa really is Queen of this set and even if they don't like her, none of the women want to be seen going against her publicly. I am surprised that Camille is even involved or that she may have taken Adrienne's side -- at Reunion she seemed to be distancing herself from Adrienne, Kyle and Taylor and happy to be sitting with Brandi and Lisa. The whole argument was so moot anyway -- 51% means that you don;t just co-own something, you actually have the majority stake. Best bits: Gorilla Paul having his back hair lasered off, and Ken making himself (and Giggy) two cocktails while Lisa was in Las Vegas. Yolanda is so fab to watch, she really does not tolerate bullshit. I am sad that she has been stricken with lyme disease and probably won't do another season of RHoBH. BTW, in the previews next week, does TayShanna seem really wasted or what?

I didn't know she was biracial either.

Adrienne on RHoBH has ruined her reputation by her own hand. She has really shown her true colors. I am SO excited to watch the RHoV again! I already adore Ioulia. And Ronnie and Mary look as stunning as ever. But Robin from Texas? Her hair is a disaster. I haven't seen an uglier hairstyle since the mullet.

So basically her entire reason for suing Brandi and trying to stick a gag order on her is bullshit?! Adrienne is nuts. I assume this Life & Style magazine interview was forced on her by the Maloofs and her legal team.

I was going to say -- most of the higher-end restaurants have some private equity fund backing them in part or entirely. The costs of starting up a restaurant and keeping it running seven days a week with the staffing, rent, food/drink costs and other overheads are huge. It is also a waiting game because some days of the week or even some weeks, there may be less diners, and you have to finance the fallow period before, say, the December party season or Oscar time when reservations go up. I can see that, and I like that about her -- Bravo doesn't own her. I could see her bowing out although I love the balance she provides as Voice of Reason and above the drama which contaminates HWs like Adrienne, Kyle and Taylor. I do think her blog entries are epic, though, and that is one thing that may entice her to sign up for another season -- the contact with viewers. She seems to relish giving advice and there are a lot of readers who do ask for it on her blog. Yolanda is like a Dutch-accented Goop.