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I don't think so...Rosie is done. She's at a very tumultuous fork in the road. She lives a simple life. She'll live an even quieter one now.

RHofBH Kyle: The frustration and rage with "It's not about youuuu Lisa!!!" as she could see the spotlight dimming from her in the confrontation with Brandi was hilarious. Yet again, Kyle threw a tantrum as Lisa was able to quietly remind the viewer, and Kyle, that she backed the wrong horse last season with her alliance with Brandi...all the finger pointing and "I warned YOU!" was ridiculous. Kyle and Kim were "perfect" the previous day? What the hell? Kyle is such a bitch, trying to make it seem that she warned Lisa about Brandi, no she did not! Squealing at that lunch with Eileen and Kim...good lord, she is like a jack in the box, ready to pop. Kyle is just brimming with rage and indignation and fury. She resents the hell out of Kim, resents that she's never going to be the star, never going to be the rich one, never going to be the relevant one. She's infuriatingly average. And it just kills her. Eileen: Sitting in icy judgment of Kyle at the beginning of the episode. Twas delicious. She and Lisa Rinna are so on the same page about everything. It's like they made a pact before the show started that they were friends of 20 years and that those daytime bonds would NOT be broken...very smart. "I love the red carpet at the Burbank Film Festival. It's like a bathmat." It's interesting to see how mature Eileen is about life and what's worth fighting about and what's not worth it. So sad to hear of her sister's failed attempt at a homeopathic cure for breast cancer. Eileen has seen real life and she knows the truth. Lisa Rinna: Oh, she is a smart one. So smart. So honest. So raw. She nailed the addict part of Kim to the wall. Yes, Lisa, YES, everyone close to Kim, that's YOU Kyle and YOU Brandi, are enabling her addict behaviour. And yes, Brandi is like a 3 year old, she just wants attention. "Raising daughters in Los Angeles, trying to..." hilarious! Lisa, like Eileen, has enjoyed enough success to be confident, but has seen real life and remembers who she used to be and isn't afraid of real life. She lets the light in. Whatever happens with Brandi and Kim, Lisa Rinna will emerge victorious. Lisa V: Heartbreak at the liquor display. The stuff with Max and Pandora saying "But he's ours!" was so very sad. That's the tragedy of adoption, despite that fact that Lisa very likely rescued Max from a certain doomed future, particularly when she said to Pandora that Max's biological parents wouldn't likely get involved in his life, which said to me that she knows a lot more about them than she's ever going to say publicly, that child still wants to know who they 'are'...As an aside, Max needs to shave, he looks TERRIBLE with that awful facial hair. Lisa has something going for her that's very English: her steeliness in the face of uncertainty. She is able to think of England and just go for it. She's being brave. Fortune favours the brave. Kim: She doesn't cry. She leaks. She's got the voice of a crack whore. Kyle's intentions are a little mixed up? Listen, I'm a fierce critic of Kyle, but when we get right down to brass tacks, she hasn't done too wrong by Kim. It seems she's kept Kim stable and functioning for a very long time. Kim feels like she's always in the middle? Get off the pills or the bong or the pipe or the glass and get a reality check...self entitled bitch! AND THEN she says "Oh Eileen, just stay out of this, I don't like people talking about people I love"...what a piece of sh*t Kim is. She is a FILTHY ADDICT and a FILTHY narcissist. She should be ashamed of herself. Yolanda: Brandi: "Like maybe West Africa in that city where ebola started"...what a classless pig. Dragging Yolanda's daughter into things? Idiot. You're not mean Brandi? Really? Then what are you? Bitter. Tacky. Aggressive. Vindictive. Temperamental. Selfish. Stupid. All of the above. Brandi has really burned her bridges on this show. I don't see where she comes back from this. She has destroyed her reputation. Stick a fork in her, she's done.

Damn! If that article is true they want Whoopi out badly... Interesting that Cindi Berger, Rosie's publicist of around 20 years, was the one to discourage Rosie staying on with The View. She was right to do that. That's loyalty.

Scheana's wedding...what a trashy wedding dress. She'll regret that one! Absolutely tasteless. Otherwise, a beautiful ceremony and venue. But she made an ass of herself from top to bottom with her dramatics and theatrics. Totally unnecessary. Stassi and Scheana can both go. They're irrelevant. And nobody needs to see Jax swinging his rent boy dick around and he's barrelling towards 40, Really, VP is ripe for a reboot. Can Stassi, Schena, Jax...keep Sandoval and Schwartz, Katie and Arianna, upgrade Vail, Peter and find a new drama queen and king to keep things popping off.

RH of Cheshire Magali finally clicked with me this episode when she calmly, firmly and without any bullsh*t settled things with that idiot Leanne. Magali just doesn't have time for some idiot to mess with her and she is clear, to the point and no nonsense. I finally got her. I'm glad the women piled in on Dawn, she had it coming and she just doesn't shut up about her hysterectomy. The women are right, she's 41, she has 4 healthy children, she should be grateful for that, pack it in and sit down. Leanne is VILE. She is so nasty and petty and stupid. She tried to tangle with Magali and the minute it was clear that Magali wasn't backing down, she cracked like a cheap vase. Tanya...I could not care less. She has had too much done for a 33 year old. Ampika...whatever. She really should come crawling back to that ex-husband of hers. He seems like a nice guy. Lauren. LOVE. Love Lauren. She is wonderful. Fun, nice, light and deliciously outspoken. That's the confidence that comes from being born into money, nobody impresses her, she likes who she likes and has given everyone a fair shake. And when she thinks someone is being a moron she says so! Way to go Lauren!

Rosie hasn't lived in Manhattan as a home base, ever...she's either lived in Connecticut, New York state or New Jersey. Her current base is in tony Saddle River, New Jersey: Miami has long been her vacation home spot because Rosie isn't a big traveller, this is her former home in Star Island, which she sold after RH of Miami Lisa Hochstein bulldozed an old mansion on the island and made the neighbours crazy: I hope she finds a beautiful new home in the sunshine soon.

Well, there's Rosie's answer. And it's a relatively complete answer, so this is not going to be a big PR deal for her, she's going to be fine. She's sold some Manhattan real estate at a profit, is selling her Sarasota mansion (she's moving back to Miami) and will be fine. Good for her! The View is still a disaster. It's time to fire everyone and start over or just pull the plug.

No, they didn't mention it. Didn't touch the subject.

Absolutely! The thing about The Rosie O'Donnell Show, like The Young and the Restless, is that it ran, successfully, on a single vision. Micromanagement and too many cooks in the kitchen is a show killer.

The Yahoo article is startling in how sympathetic it is to O'Donnell, who has so often been subject to public lashings. It's obvious the show is an absolute mess behind the scenes and it's time to pull the plug.

Meredith's show is doing well, plus the money is incredible compared to the salary she was paid during The View. Lisa Ling is a "serious journalist" now and lives mostly in Chicago with her doctor husband, last I heard, so I don't see her returning.

I don't think the grind of a talk show and her relationship status have anything to do with the other. Throughout The Rosie O'Donnell Show she was with her partner (later wife) Kelli Carpenter, it's just that it wasn't public knowledge. Rosie's on medication for depression for sure. She may be on other medications related to blood pressure or cholesterol, but her gastric sleeve surgery has been a mammoth success and she's lost a huge amount of weight and is likely far healthier than she's been in 20 years.

I like Rosie O'Donnell, she is a personality who has evolved and that evolution shows how the entertainment business doesn't always treat human beings as flawed people. She's right to quit The View. It is what it is. I just hope she's got enough money lined up to secure her future.

I must say I loved seeing Faye too. She is a shady, haughty, nasty bitch, but she's far more stylish than dumpster diver Brandi and her diction is impeccable. I do hope she makes a further return.

RHoBH Kim: She is an a$$hole. I really don't see how she took the interaction with Kyle and Brandi the way that she did. Brandi must be passing her pills or sneaking her booze. She has some of the most easily hurt feelings for an adult woman on earth. She is pathetic! Brandi: She and Kim have "been through more"? Really? I did laugh at "Kyle is an attention seeking whore, horrible sister, [bleep] of a bitch"...she also remained much calmer, sharper and nastier in the confrontation with Kyle. Brandi's a dirtbag, but at least she can keep it together when she's sober and really go for the jugular. I don't like Brandi at all, she's heinous, but she's met her match in Kyle. Kyle: She's got this bad habit of squealing with hatred when she isn't getting what she wants. Kyle is furious that she has taken care of Kim, she resents the hell out of her for it. Kyle can't apologize to save her life. Her keen sense of melodrama and that frog croak of a voice she has when things get heated is a real treat. Kyle gets BIG when she gets angry and it's sort of like an overwrought child exploding into a tantrum and it's unintentionally hilarious. Her perfectly timed sigh of devastation when Brandi said Mauricio doesn't want her. You couldn't have written a performance better than that. Lisa V: She broke my heart. It's the unspoken sadness of an adopted parent when they know that, deep down, in the heart of the child they've raised, those adopted parents aren't quite enough. And that's not wrong of Max to feel, but it's hard for a parent to bear. Particularly when she scooped him up and out of foster care, one of the uglier systems in the world, and gave him a beautiful life. She's handling it the right way, and Ken was right to add some levity with the "Well, your father was Japanese and your mother was Nigerian..." because it's a touchy subject. You could see how giving Max the information about his biological parents was the last thing separating him from total independence and being an adult. And that has to hurt. As an aside, she looked chic as hell in that black dress at the gay mixer. Yolanda flies off to Italy. Whatever. Eileen: She said it, it wasn't the time or place for Kim to try and "break the ice" between Kyle and Brandi! I love how Eileen and Lisa R are quiet comrades. Those daytime soap stars know to stick together and they really say nothing at all, as if they had some kind of blood pact when the show started, if so, that was damn smart of them. She makes me laugh with her common sense: "What do you do? Do I get a hose and hose them down?" Lisa R: She's being kind when she describes Kim as sick. She's kind when she attributes Brandi's behaviour to being hurt. Lisa R is kind and fun and self effacing. I dig her.

Tom and Katie...sigh. Those two should not be together. Tom is too old to be pulling this crap with cheating on Katie and then whining and being full of false apologies. Jax is bizarre. He's clearly a sicko. His app? Bitch, please. Speaking of sickos...Kristen, at last, she was fired. At last! The victory dance of Ariana and Sandoval was great and hilarious. Another Stassi free episode. Time to can her!

Wendy recently celebrated the show's 1000th episode, and here's a look back:

RH of Cheshire... So I have finally watched the first three episodes and I've enjoyed it a lot, like Vancouver and Melbourne, the production values are slick and the casting is compelling. The show has really captured the essence of Cheshire. Magali: She's alright. She's forthright and very Dutch. I'm not her biggest fan though, she doesn't seem to be able to just shrug off the petty crap some of these women hurl at her and wants to have it out, though to her credit she wants to have it out to their faces. I don't really believe what she's saying about the tickets to Dawn's event...if she already had tickets and was offered others why would she have to ask if they're complimentary...drawing the distinction between complimentary and free seems like a bit of a reach. Dawn: A very hard, tough woman...but I don't see her as a bitch. She's a very typically hard Northern Englishwoman. I don't feel sorry for her regarding her hysterectomy either, but that's because I don't think Dawn plays for sympathy at all. She's very hard. That's how Northerners are in England. She got over her crap with Magali very quickly. She definitely puts her foot in her mouth regarding her daughters (stupid) band. Lauren: I like Lauren, she reached to Magali and plays fair. Plus, she clearly looks down on Tanya and spends real money. Leanne: I HATE Leanne. Now this one is a total bitch who likes to get involved in everything except her own life. Ampika: Meh, whatever, she's dating a commitment avoiding guy after dumping her nice guy ex. Her son had impeccable manners, so well done to her there. Tanya: I HATE Tanya. She is trash. Stupid, uneducated, WAG trash. And her face does not move one inch. That is some extreme Botox going on.

Dame Joan had dinner with John James and Jack Coleman and tweeted that she enjoyed reminiscing with her "favourite Dynasty men"...

This was a great week on RHOBH...(and thank you all for the kind words!) Kyle: Obviously, she is very skilled at playing the victim and she can well up those tears at the drop of a hat. Brandi was hitting below the belt, but what I've noticed with Kyle is she gets loud and tearful the moment unflattering truths emerge about her...she hardly spoke to her sister till the seasons started? Ouch. No wonder Kathy Hilton gives her the death glare. The thing about Kyle is she is convinced she is special and that her conflicts are epic battles when the reality is she's a realtors wife who lives in a perfectly mediocre house that's in that prt of Bel Air an awful lot closer to the freeway and Sherman Oaks than it is to Beverly Hills. HOWEVER, Kyle popping off at Brandi was a welcome sight and her sense of emotional entitlement and keen sense of melodrama made all her whining and sniffling entertaining. It was interesting that Kyle's demeanour changed quite starkly when she was in the car with Lisa R. She pretty much blanked her. Lisa R: She is wonderful. So smart and ballsy and true. She calls it as she sees it and I think she sees it for what it is: there are two addicts on this show and only one of them will admit it. Her jewelry party was great to watch, one of those quintessential Beverly Hills events where women spend money under the guise of charity. Brandi: A drunk, a nasty drunk. This Valley Girl ex-wife of this generation's Troy Donahue really needs to check herself into rehab, but a small condo in Century City and shut the hell up. She was batshit crazy at Eileen's house and made a total ass of herself. She is Kim's enabler. There is no doubt about it. Those two slur together as the base of their friendship. And for her to get in Kyle's physical space was pretty dire. Like Nene, Brandi has the advantage of her physical presence, but unlike Nene, she can't manage a clever line to save her ass. Eileen: Our Beverly Hills (Malibu) Ice Queen. I love how frosty and direct she is with Brandi. She thinks Brandi's behaviour is terrible and she says so. It is quite refreshing. That said, she is talking to a brick wall. Brandi is such an entitled fool that she thinks she can get away with anything, likely because she has her whol life. It was hilarious to see her husband peek through the garage door windows to witness the carnage. Eileen and Vincent clearly view things similarly. They're both smart. Lisa V: A very easy, breezy season for Empress Lisa. I get the feeling she conducted herself very carefully this season and said No to events when she didn't want to be bothered. The simple truth is she is compelling to watch even when she's happy because her life is visually stunning. All those beautiful dogs. The house. Bonding with Eileen (who knows how to pick a winner). Yolanda: It dawned on her that she backed the wrong horse last season and she was clearly uncomfortable around Brandi. And she dusted off one of those spare children she keeps in her attic for a few scenes. Whatever. Kim: Pilled. Out. Kim is only worth watching when she's fallen off the wagon, sad to say, and she demonstrates a particularly sick narcissism when she said that Kyle and Brandi both love her and she doesn't know who to choose. A very typical child star: desperate for attention and oblivious to their own shortcomings. She needs really long term detox and rehab and a reality check. Everyone seems accustomed to bailing her out and she seems fine with others caring for her. In fact, she seems to love being a mess.

This week's episode proved that Stassi is totally irrelevant and unnecessary this season. Kristen is absolutely psycho. Her obsession is so weird to watch and her behaviour at the restaurant should get her fired. Miami Girl...she looks like an old hooker. Arianna was hilarious when she dismissed her cheap ghetto nails and her Pope like white lace dress.

John James has a puffy face, he's always carried weight in his face and that's why it looks heavy...but the redness is either rosacea or sun damage and in either case his face is screaming out for some Intense Pulsed Light treatments. I don't think John James ever had an issue with alcohol. Dame Joan's nickname for him was 'Dow James' because of his skill investing in the stock market, he has that bloated look that a lot of wealthy white men who've spent too much time in the sun have. Dame Joan tweeted the following: Obviously, Dame Joan and Stephanie Beacham look the best by a country mile but Maxwell Caulfield and Jack Coleman are looking good too. Leann Hunley has gained weight, but she's still pretty and Wayne Northrup looks rugged. The rest...well none of them look as awful as Bo Hopkins!

Dame Joan was at some Hollywood signing show with John James, her absolute best friend on the Dynasty set.

Peter and Vail's awkward date...ugh! Poor Peter, that was a bad one! Jax is a sociopath. His "I'm in love with {insert name here}!" just rings incredibly hollow. I don't think Jax knows what love is. Kristen is a nutjob. Thank goodness that awful James finally said he doesn't like it. Stassi is a loser. Worse, she feels entitled to anything from other people. It's about time someone told her it isn't all about her. Katie nailed it: Stassi thinks she's above them. And she's not. In fact, she's unemployed and a loser. Katie also nailed that Stassi wakes up with hatred and anger in her heart. Of course she does! She is one of the nastier pieces of work I've seen on reality television. She's got an ugly soul. Stass IS a crazy person for being affected by Katie's attempt to change. Scheana really needs to but out of every conversation that doesn't include her. That said, her melodramatic screeching will be welcome next week. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Sandoval next episode. The Miami Chick looks like a tranny.

I'd be fine with it. Y&R has been gutted from the inside out for a solid decade and DAYS is floundering badly. I would hate for the actors to lose their jobs, but I'm also realistic to the economic realities of putting on shows that don't make financial sense. The problem with an old skewing show: the audience dies and in daytime, the audience doesn't get replaced. I have an aversion to saying Moonves rewarded Julie Chen with The Talk or calling her a trophy wife, aside from the fact she's hot, she had a very nice life going with Big Brother (which she got prior to her relationship starting with Moonves) in the summertime and being a Beverly Hills housewife the rest of the time.