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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.

BH I'll keep it simple re Yolanda: she is milking everything for sympathy and I think it's a bad decision. That scene at the end with her will was done purely for dramatic effect. And implicating two of her kids as Lyme disease sufferers: maybe they are/were but that's their personal health information and I don't like that she disclosed it on television. LVP has known the kids and Mohammed for years and she had no idea. Why? Because if they do/did have Lyme their father has the sensitivity not to talk about it, even with a close friend. Erika: I'm still very on the fence with her. I like how she is calm and seems sly and intelligent and hard to rattle. And she was certainly eyeing LVP up and down (Yolanda's obviously given her opinions in advance), but she also doesn't seem dumb enough to take someone else's opinion as gospel. She seems hard, but not bitter. It'll be interesting to see how she develops. That Cartier panther ring was incredible. Eileen: I hope she was having a glass of the driest-white-wine available when she spilled the beans on Lips talking about Yolanda. She didn't throw Lips under the bus of course, given that it seems she and Lips made the wise decision to forge a blood pact about having each other's back, but she seized her moment to keep her hands on a diamond. I liked the peak into the Y&R set, if anyone watched Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback it's funny how Eileen's dressing room is just like Valerie's was: tucked away in the middle of nowhere. Kyle: not much from her this episode aside from 'working' in 'her' shop. Lips: that was one of the funnier waxing sessions in Housewives history. She is always hustling, that Lips is. Her waxer could have been the mother of NY's Sonja's facialist. Very gossipy. Lips was wise to run off to Ontario and catch some family time. LVP: she's a better person than I am. If a swan bit me I'd break its neck. That shows some level of patience I just don't have. She definitely gave Erika a light grilling as the 'new girl' and she's territorial, but she's been bitten before by the likes of Cedric and Brandi, so it's not a surprise she's a lot more guarded these days.

Martha Stewart vs. LuAnn de Lesseps. It's so ridiculous it's funny: http://pagesix.com/2015/12/22/nasty-war-of-words-between-luann-de-lesseps-and-martha-stewart/

I am on the fence about Yolanda. Clearly, something is wrong with the woman...but it may not be what she thinks it is. It may not even be physical. She may just be mentally ill. But it's contradictory to be on a beautiful trip in Vancouver Island on a yacht and then posting selfies of being miserable. At the same time, that might just be Yolanda having moments of stoicism. I can't fault Lips for talking about the issue because it's a blatant issue for everyone on the show to deal with. LVP is an animal hoarder - but she has the space and the money and the love to give. Frankly, I'm not an animal person at all and I couldn't stand one animal, let alone her ark of multiples, in my home. And why shouldn't LVP be pissed that Dim Richards is slagging her off on Entertainment Tonight? I didn't find the scenes with Kyle and her daughters getting their ears pierced endearing or sweet. They're spoiled brats. They either wanted it done or they didn't. The hysterical theatrics just go to show that Kyle is raising a pack of drama queens. Erika...hmm. Still on the fence about her. She's clearly smart and crafty. Eileen and Vince are an interesting pair. I think he spoke to her quite rudely.

There is something about Erika that strikes me as a character that Morgan Fairchild would have played seriously in the 80s and then spoofed in the 90s on a sitcom. It will be interesting to see how she progresses because there were some promising soundbites: "If you're a poor as$hole you're just going to be a rich as$hole and if you're a sweetheart you're just going to be a bigger sweetheart"...and I like that her marriage has run 15 years, that says something...but she's friends with Yolanda and her alter ego makes me go hmmm. Taylor is so damn messy and she hasn't changed a bit. You'd think with everything she's gone through she might have calmed herself and started acting like an adult...but there were major shades of season 1 Taylor in this episode. The trip with LVP and Lips was great. While I know some people are going to criticize LVP for not taking that imperfect horse, the simple fact of the matter is when a horse has a bad leg that horse suffers incredibly and most horses who break a leg are shot immediately. LVP didn't need to make that kind of decision, she even mentioned the need of having to put the horse down so she made the right choice in not taking it. Those two were a hoot in the back of the limousine in their cowboy hats. Lips and Eileen showing up in matching leopard was awesome. And I liked that they let it fly with Kyle about that mess of a sister of hers. It was interesting that little confrontation in the park between Dim Richards and Lips was filmed. Clearly, Dim was off the wagon (has she ever gotten on? anyone?) at the time since she hopped over a retaining wall in a canyon park. I'm glad Lips cuts the bullsh*t and says Dim is dangerous because she is and continues to be, especially when she has an enabling sister like Kathy. Lemon Lyme and her vitamin drip. Did anyone else hear her say to Erika that she either goes for a colonic or vitamin drip every day? I hope she's exaggerating. That is just plain dangerous. I'm not even opposed to either of those treatments, per se, but with that kind of regularity the body can't cope. I adored LVP and Ken being whisked to Monte Carlo in Sir Philip Green's helicopter. Now THAT is how you do it. What I did not adore was Ken being pushed into the pool. The man has had a double hip replacement! That was just crazy of whoever that stupid guest was. Ken needs to be treated gently, he IS 70 years old regardless of how full of vigour he is.

Oh, wow, I was thinking the same thing! These are so beautiful. They really are so beautiful, particularly the second one, closeup on Dame Joan's smiling face.

I am LOVING VPR this season... Jax vs. James is so good because they're both loathsome! The Lauren/Lala/James storyline was so deliciously terrible and that it started, existed and concluded in a single episode was amazing. That stupid girl, thinking she could cheat on camera...incredible. Love when people rip off their mic thinking that solves the problem. Shay and Scheana...Scheana is so awful. She is disgustingly self centred, selfish and stupid. Shay is clearly struggling and his friends, the Tom Toms, are the only ones supporting his health. What's Scheana's position: "I couldn't be with someone whose 100% sober." Stupid bitch.

LVP picked up an award at the British Consulate's residence in Los Angeles alongside Dame Joan Collins.

Dame Joan received an award at the UK Consulate's residence in Los Angeles alongside Lisa Vanderpump from RHOBH. Not bad for 82:

RH of BH Yolanda: first of all, her story makes me sad for her because she's clearly ill...just not in the way she probably thinks. Yolanda is one of those people whose probably dealing with depression, menopause, empty nest syndrome, a bad marriage and ageing - and now she's made it into some kind of over the top illness. She's manifested a lot physically. But then she's made it so much worse by doing a wild ride of treatments that are bogus, California crap. Word to the wise, Daisy, her 'healthcare advocate' admits to being a former hooker on her website, among so many other professions my mind boggles. And let's be honest, being a former hooker might work on a soap opera (take a bow Karen Wolek!) but she has basically no formal medical training. That's just plain dangerous. That closet of vitamins and medications was just ridiculous. That many pills can lead to extreme liver toxicity. I really did not appreciate Yolanda reading, with a bottle of Patron next to her bedside, only to make herself look exhausted and tired once Lips and Eileen arrived - I just have to call bullsh*t on that. LVP: I loved seeing her in Tuscany and it's interesting that the Vanderpump-Todds are in LA because Ken likes it there. I am quite sure that, one day, Lisa will return to Europe, at least part time. She will go 'home' again, those English girls always do. Lisa was right to say that Yolanda is taking so many steps it seems that she doesn't know what's wrong with her anymore. That isn't mean or critical, it's a factual observation. Lisa looked gorgeous in her floating dresses and perfect hat. I also don't fault her for discussing Kyle's f*cked up family. It isn't as if the kids don't realize that half of them haven't been invited and that Mauricio is being treated like crap. Eileen: her trip to Palm Springs was sad and otherwise she put in a respectable appearance at Yolanda's condo. I love that Eileen drives a Ford (me too!). Lips: I love that she calls Harry "Harry Hamlin" and that she was showing off those beautiful earrings. That is so adorable. I do think Lips should keep in better touch with her parents. It's just laziness on her part that she doesn't. I loved her girls lunch with LVP, they are a winning pair. Kyle: she comes from a truly heinous family. We already knew this since we've seen Kim...but good lord Kathy Hilton, way to not control your PR image well. There is no positive way to spin "I invited my sister, then disinvited her, then invited her and kept half her children in the wedding party but left the other half and her husband out" in a positive way...I don't know what she was thinking. She could have just sat them in Siberia in the Kensington Palace gardens (that anyone can get married in by the way, they're open for rent!) at Nicky's second wedding. I do sort of feel sorry for Kyle as she can't seem to do anything right with her horrible family. Her mother failed them, despite Kyle's praise of her as some kind of amazing mother. LVP is right that Kyle should simply distance herself from her whole family for her own sake.

Good kick, Cynthia! She hit that trash where she lives...

That lace front is fabulous.

I disagree about Liz. I loved the recent scenes with Liz dumping Tony and getting his shares of the Rovers, all the while still loving him, but being rid of him because it was the smart decision to do.

It's why I'm always hesitant with 'alternative' therapies when a medical doctor isn't involved. People like Yolanda jump from treatment to treatment like many people jump onto crash diets. That's just dangerous. All treatment takes time to work or be proven ineffective. The thing I've considered is that Yolanda is in menopause and is improperly diagnosed and treated. A lot of her symptoms (an "overheating engine" is how she describes herself) are very menopausal. And menopause is no joke: it decimates some women and can lead to real suffering. There's no denying Yolanda isn't well. Take one look at her. She looks awful. But there's a lot of other variables (ie: crumbling marriage, empty nest syndrome, general stress) that, combined with something like menopause and/or depression, could just slaughter someone. She is her own worst enemy in this by not having any discipline or patience in sticking with a treatment plan. Loading up her body with a zillion herbs, vitamins, stem cells in the Bahamas and Korea, non-regulated treatments, traditional medication - it's a LOT for the human body to handle. We are a delicate, yet tough, species. I wish Yolanda good health, but I also wish her common sense and none of the passive aggressive crap that's sustained her for years. Ken and Lisa, particularly Ken, showed a lot of compassion about Yolanda being ill at Lips' dinner...it's just that they aren't demonstrating it in exactly the way Yolanda wants to hear it. That is my biggest problem with her: everything is either her way or no way. She does not seek a happy medium in anything and if you aren't kissing her ass you're wrong.

Lemon Lyme's illness shouldn't give her a pass for all the crap she's pulled against Lisa over the years. It doesn't absolve her of all her bullsh*t.

BH They're baaaaack at last. Eileen: "So thanks for that...bitch." Sad for Eileen and Vince to lose his dad. Lips: I love that she's made her daughter get a job, at a deli no less, and then laughs and admits that the golddiggers who have it all are likely totally happy. "I almost feel like I don't deserve it...but I do!" Hilarious. She's still herself, thank goodness. Kyle's legs are too dumpy to wear shorts like that. Of course she's doing a show about her childhood in the 70s. No reason to come up with an original idea when you can mine your own history. For someone who claims to have grown up keeping things in the family she's done a good job at putting her business out in the street for everyone to observe. Lisa was brave to whip off that blouse, revealing a very imperfect tummy. But not bad for 55. I know people are going to say Lisa and Ken were harsh about how Lemon Lyme looks, but they were being honest. She looks so sick and everyone else is bullsh*tting them except Lisa and Ken and their blunt Britishness. Lemon Lyme looks like hell. There is no denying she's ill. Whether that's Lyme Disease, who knows. She very well may be totally mentally ill and it's manifested itself physically. When she says she has 'no brain function' that's just bizarre. She'd be dead if that was true. Is anyone surprised that her marriage to King David is over? Of course not. He's a jerk and she's an arrogant bitch. It was never going to work out. All of those illness selfies are bizarre, quite frankly. She should cut out all these alternative bullsh*t treatments, check in with a psychiatrist and get a full physical and start over.