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Ugh I know I want to watch Melbourne so badly!

The last few episodes have been so enjoyable. Stassi is actually a false note this season, she isn't needed and ratings have been very good without her - no drop off at all from last season. I am definitely on Schwartz's side when it comes to Katie's career. She never made it as an actress or model, she never booked anything, while he has, so there's no comparison between their careers. Katie was illogical saying "it isn't about what's on your resume!"...actually, yes it is. That's exactly what it's about. I do find Schwartz's adoration of LVP endearing. And saucy LVP with her topless photo in Ken's dressing room - very glamorous. The thing with LVP is that she is rooting for Schwartz, she clearly likes him. Schwartz and Sandoval have such a nice friendship when they were singing along in the car. Ariana amuses me with how frustrated she is with how stupid 75% of the cast is. When Jax was discussing Britney's breast implants he looked so sweaty and high/drunk and bloated. And then he confronted Schwartz and Sandoval he was a mess. "I'm the number one guy in this group!"...what a nutjob. He's a 36 year old loser.

BH Yolanda conveniently didn't draw the distinction between Munchausen and Munchausen By Proxy. Lips never mentioned Munchausen By Proxy. Once she was fully confronted she folded. LVP nuked Yolanda with logic. And once LVP highlighted Yolanda's inconsistencies and then exasperatedly said they all hope she gets better it was game over for Yolanda. Next week looks interesting, the LVP is the villain edit isn't going to work. They've had way too many seasons attempting it and it failing consistently.

I am enjoying Sheree so much in this season. She deserves a peach and a raise. She has brought it this season. Kenya is a deluded, stupid bitch. All she could do was try to belittle Kim's efforts when everyone universally praised her - which clearly drove Kenya's ass crazy. The comment she made about Kim's husband was homophobic and I hope she catches heat for it.

That was extremely disappointing. She even claimed she wasn't a liar, which last I checked when you blatantly lie, you're a liar. Exactly. That's where Erika's really lost me. Had she just said "Yes, I lied, it was MY night and I didn't want to deal with any of the women being hysterical" I could have accepted that easily. But Erika didn't do that. Instead, she took the position that she did not lie, when it was blatant that she did. She blew her credibility to smithereens.

The unfortunate thing is Erika's blog this week does nothing to rationalize why she didn't admit the truth. It's defensive and doesn't serve her position at all.

Lips's Twitter is INCREDIBLE and she better not back down because she's making all the sense in the world and you know what that means: she's telling the truth. Lips has salvaged herself for season two with a flurry of tweets. She's gutsy enough to call out Yolanda's crap. Yolanda was practically gleeful and salivating with venom when she started in on LVP, mid characterizing the entire dispute and what Erika told her - the bitch. LVP handled it like a pro when she declined those "medical records"...she didn't take Yolanda's bait. I really enjoyed Eileen this episode. She was hilarious. That's the Eileen I want to see. When Eileen is fun she's wonderful - when she's being an overly sensitive snivelling fool she's making all the wrong moves. Kyle remains the biggest baby on the RH franchise. The woman couldn't handle being confronted by Portia, let alone a fire breathing BH Housewife. She just folds and whines and doesn't accomplish a damn thing in making a cogent argument. Kathryn was relatively irrelevant this episode (I sense a trend) but it's obvious she hit the jackpot with Donnie. The guy is a prince. Erika really disappointed me. She is a liar and a pus$y (if you've read her blog title you'll understand my vulgar choice of words). She flat out lied and denied because she didn't want to deal with any heat. That was crap.

Agreed. He's 50, she's 50, they look happy - at that age, what the hell!

I'm very happy for LuAnn - they've known each other for 9 months and were introduced to each other by Dorinda. Frankly, if Dorinda were my friend and she introduced me to a friend of hers, I'd know she'd vetted them. I don't think she's going to give a damn about losing her countess courtesy title - last season demonstrated that LuAnn shook off those countess inhibitions and is her own woman. And this is the ring, 8 carats, canary diamond centre flanked by white diamonds, LuAnn scored:

In Real Housewives of Cheshire news Dawn Ward was in court yesterday defending against a criminal charge that she assaulted the 80s singer Sinitta. The case continues in June. This article also revealed that Dawn put her mansion up for sale in September. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431554/Real-Housewife-Cheshire-punched-Sinitta-hurled-napkin-Belgravia-restaurant-row-friend-s-affair.html

'Exposing' LVP is FANFICTION You don't bring someone like her down easily. Or at all. That's what it is. Pure fan fiction. These women have tried to bring her down for five seasons and have failed. Move on. It ain't happening. Not in this lifetime. Absolutely agree - it's fan fiction. LVP will not succumb to the likes of anyone. BH How does Kyle not comprehend that her undying loyalty to the Morally Corrupt Faye Resnick is not going to inspire joy in LVP? And let's be frank: the reason Kyle didn't want LVP flipping through her phone is because she's talking crap about LVP via text. Yolanda hasn't walked in 9 months? Give me a [!@#$%^&*] break...oh and then she hasn't been to the beach in a year? She can't keep her story straight within the same scene! She's a bad actress with her mock shock about Anwar and Bella. I loved Erika's house. Pasadena is an old money, old school, California classic with beautiful mature trees and lush landscaping. It's got so much more character than Beverly Hills and Erika lives beautifully. And she can sing classically. Eileen and Vince's scene was very boring and very staged. Eileen is a talented actress, she made that scene WORK...Vince, on the other hand, is about as believable as a faked orgasm. Lips backtracked like a MACK truck...Yolanda was working Lips hard and Lips cracked like a piñata. Yolanda pretending she doesn't know about Munchausen disease? Give me a [!@#$%^&*] break. Lips shouldn't feel guilty. Yolanda is a walking contradiction. Kathryn had a good line with "I'm doing Halloween where all the sluts get a day pass"...but boy do I see the age difference between her and Donnie. He is incredibly polite. Kathryn isn't wrong about Faye and Kyle spluttered like an old car when confronted. Kyle really is an unskilled debater and all she can do is whine like a highschool bitch and demand that LVP side with her - which LVP wisely sidestepped. Erika's reaction to Kathryn telling her not to use the C word was hilarious. She is unflappable. Next week looks GOOD!

YES. Looks like another incredible season.

I've been dabbling in RHOA this season after taking a break a few seasons back...and I only have one comment... How can anyone like Kenya? She's a deluded, stupid, bitch.

BH It has taken me a lot of time to gather my thoughts about this last episode and the season as a whole. Kyle: despite my sympathy for Kyle stemming from her coming from a truly messed up family (Big Kathy seems evil the more I've seen of the Hilton/Richards sisters) I cannot like Kyle because she's a high school bitch and isn't going to change. Her praise of Faye (a shady ho I enjoy greatly for the basic premise that she is what she is and doesn't bother to hide it) while she baits LVP about Anwar and Bella is ugly. Eileen has lost me a bit this season. She's too overly sensitive and isn't enough of a big girl to own the fact that she and Vince were both married to other people, had an affair, dumped their spouses and lived happily ever after. She will always be judged for it. And whether she likes it or not it's something that is very easily judged because it was a selfish act. It's not to say people should judge her, none of us is pure, but Eileen should not be surprised that she is judged. And she needs to get over it. Erika: enjoyable. She is similar to LVP in that she only lets us see what she allows us to see. And frankly that's smart. It shows that Erika has control over herself and her ego. She is dry and witty and reminds me of a character Morgan Fairchild would play in a 90s sitcom like Cybill. She seems to be a tough, intelligent woman whose loyal. And she's unapologetic which can be pretty winning in the right hands. Lips is undergoing classic Season 2 syndrome. She's playing to the camera and what she thinks the audience wants to see and then backtracking when the heat gets turned up and ends up being one huge contradiction. I still enjoy Lips and think she's a very good addition to the cast. But she's clearly grasping to manufacture storyline at times and that's a shame because the scenes I have enjoyed Lips the most this season were those involving telephone calls to her parents and working at QVC - her real life. Yolanda is, in my alleged opinion, a filthy liar. She is a nobody who is incredibly bitter about her irrelevance and always being someone's arm candy and I feel she has manufactured much of this illness and followed every quack she could spend David Fosters money on. She is the one who brought her kids and their health into this mess, not anyone else. There are so many rumours about Lyme and who does and doesn't have what and Yolanda's non-answers and unscientific claims ring hollow. Kathryn: we really don't have a lot of information on Kathryn other than she did not evicerate Faye Resnick in a way I can respect. Someone brilliant on Tamara Tattles said she reminds them of Aviva with a splash of Knots Landing era Michelle Phillips - bang on. LVP...I am ride or die for this lady. Everyone who has a problem with LVP over the years fails to recognize the recurring theme of LVP: she isn't going to change. It's like all the women who've disliked her want her to be like them (the Hamptons dinner party featuring Kyle demanding LVP offer up what keeps her awake at night like they all do is an example) but LVP doesn't play that game. She doesn't need to. And that irks some of them (Yolanda) who have to bend because they aren't in positions of power like she is. LVP is a basically nice person with a sharp tongue and a very good sense of humour who doesn't tolerate disloyalty. And she's the one in control and doesn't kid anyone otherwise: that's another thing several of the cast don't seem to like: that they aren't in control with her. It all comes back to my first conclusion: LVP isn't changing. She's never pretended otherwise. Why these women fight that is beyond me.

YES! Good lord, when Kyle pretends to be stupid so that someone has to repeat themselves and keep an issue alive - and this isn't the first time she's done this - it irritates me to no end. The Morally Corrupt Faye Resnick really didn't impress me. She knows what she wrote about Kathryn and she knows how full of crap she is and what a rancid bitch she was 20 years ago. Lips is being messy as hell, but I still like watching her because she makes her scenes happen. I am really enjoying Erika's commentary. She is sarcastic and dry and has a sense of humour about herself. POTOMAC I'm two episodes in and the biggest take away I have for the show is how dated and tired Karen's kitchen is, how her whole house is. Considering she's the wife of the "Black Bill Gates" of such an esteemed family, I expect better interior design.

Ross Kemp is back for Dame Barbara Windsor's last episodes: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/grant-mitchells-eastenders-return-confirmed-7196711

Dame Barbara...I understand her want to have closure on Peggy Mitchell...but oh, what an end of an era.

You're most welcome. I just can't haveErika's incredible shade being thrown against the wrong lady, especially Empress Lisa who I dare say Erika really understands. A great cocktail waitress understands human behaviour. Just as Erika understood her customers, she seems to be able to read the other wives - a quality she shares with Lisa. They're both very in control, and seem to understand that they won't be able to dominate the other.

That shade was to Bethenny, not Lisa.

A lot happened in this episode... Scheana is a disgusting selfish cow. She's still talking about her effing teeth. She's so bad to her husband (notice the "Don't ask for any!" when it was noted Max Todd was on good pain medication)...and every single moment has to be about her. She's the worst. She needs to GO. Kristin needs to realize not everyone wants to forgive a psycho and giving a speech out of Fatal Attraction to Tom is not going to help her case. Jax and his Kentucky Fried Girlfriend...he's a lying liar who lies. And he's old. And he's gained weight. Compare season 1 Jax to this season's Jax. He looks like hell. Tom and Ariana are cute and logical and I'm glad Ariana is on the show hating everyone and their stupidity. Tom and Katie...I enjoy their engagement. Lisa's son Max needs to recuperate from bashing out his teeth and he needs to shave. Badly. He also needs to get rid of James, Lala and Faith as his friends because they're clearly just using him. The sad thing about being the children of wealthy people is they are always susceptible to being used. Lala appears to be a hooker with fake breasts.

I cannot wait for Melbourne to return. Cannot. Wait. I have missed my girl Janet. And Chyka. And Jackie. And Gina. RHoBH This episode is really about two confrontations: Erika vs. Bethenny and Eileen vs. Lisa. Erika vs. Bethenny: Team Erika. Bethenny is a bitch. I loved Erika's reactions to everything, particularly "I don't know if she's being a bitch...or just jealous." Eileen vs. Lisa: Draw. Lisa shouldn't have kept digging, but Eileen should have been an adult and either told Lisa to stop asking her or accept the fact that when you meet your husband on the set when you're still married to Jon Lindstrom that people are always going to ask about how exactly it shook out. Otherwise, I felt the episode was somewhat of a filler.

That made my weekend. Absolutely hilarious.

I really dislike the filming in front of the green screens. I think it started when some of the wives were living in less than glamorous circumstances on Atlanta and NYC. BH seems to still use their own homes. Vancouver and Melbourne always did (you can see the natural light change). OC appears to have switched to a green screen. It's obviously cheaper and it looks it.

I totally agree. Kyle is the one who outed Dim as an alcoholic ("You are a liar and sick and an alcoholic!") in the first season so it's hypocritical for Kyle to now want to keep all that quiet and not talk about it as the dirt has gotten worse and worse, all at Dim's own doing. I really enjoyed the BH episode this week. It was equal parts light and dark. At least Yolanda finally went to a legitimate Doctor. That implant looked absolutely disgusting and was obviously a real problem.

Barbara Windsor was named a Dame in HM Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honours List for services to charity and entertainment.