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The Sonja one is incredible and could be an actual tagline. Same with Lu's. The Potomac mid-season trailer is everything I hoped it would be and more. Looks like Monique bows out the balance of the season, I just hope Gizelle and Robyn finally get their comeuppance.

Rupert is a really excellent memoirist. Dame Joan did a photoshoot for the latest HELLO! magazine talking about life in St. Tropez during the pandemic:

RHOP delivered like I didn't know any show could deliver in a single episode. Talk about a franchise firing on all cylinders. And it all feels authentic and real. The producers must have been filled with glee as filming this season unfolded. It was truly a perfect storm. Monique vs. Candiace. I am not fan of Candiace, but Monique was like a rabid dog and she was totally in the wrong with how she acted. When she bolted from the producer and ran outside it was clear she had lost her ever loving mind. However, I hope Candiace realizes that her mouth is writing cheques her ass can't cash. All of her perceived verbal might was nothing for Monique's fists. Ashley and Michael were also riveting to watch as Ashley started negotiating Ashley's New Deal...get your money, honey. Michael is such a disgusting pig, it boggles my mind why she's in this farce of a marriage, but she may as well take her sweet time planning her exit. Karen and Ray. Whew...that was a tough final scene where Karen was so obviously devastated that Ray basically pulled a Prince Charles with his "whatever in love means" statement. That had to hurt and feel humiliating in a sense that after 23 years of marriage, bailing his ass out when the IRS came knocking, that he couldn't be definitive. Marriages go through rough patches, but for her sake I hope they're on the upswing. Gizelle, Jamal, their kids, and her Father...for me this was absolutely the highlight of the episode when Gizelle's father had his steaming hot mic moment. He kept it exquisitely real once the camera was off him. 6 or 7 baby mommas! He hates Jamal like only a father of a wronged daughter can.

Dr. Fauci is rightly mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist, a physician, should be absolutely ashamed of himself. He has contracted COVID-19 himself. He is a fool and a whore who has sold himself to the devil.

You couldn’t make up the timing. Mellencamp’s spawn gets fired right as Mauricio (and Farrah) gets the listing for the sale of her house and act for her in the purchase of a $6.5 million pile in Encino.

I feel so relieved that she's out. Thank you Bravo gods!

Selling Sunset is a sensation - Season 3 premiered this summer and it really caught the zeitgeist. Chrishell is the 'heroine' of the show and comes across well. You see her marriage to Justin Hartley implode in the latest season (he doesn't appear in it).

Nene is the David Caruso of reality television. She always bites the hand that feeds her and is apparently quite difficult with production from what we have seen. She really did appear to burn her bridges on RHOA last season, so this isn't a surprise and the show will not suffer from her absence. I have not yet seen the RHOBH Part 2...but it sounds like it's what I've expected given the way the season has progressed.

I absolutely agree. Leah was over hyped.

Definitely. The restaurant industry in the United States is sort of shocking in the way employees are treated (though in California it is required to pay actual minimum wage, rather than what most states allow for tipped wages). If LVP and company did take those loans, I can't really fault them however they spent them, whether it was employee wages or on rent. Commercial leases are absolutely brutal to tenants and are usually personally guaranteed by an individual (like LVP or Ken or Guillermo or Nathalie), so I can't fault anyone whose going to put their own personal interest ahead because a commercial lease on a space on Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood is worth millions of dollars as a liability that would bankrupt most people. Agreed that everyone is decimated - I'd only hope that the smaller family owned restaurants are being supported by their local communities, as appears to be the case where I am, and that they're able to do takeout in an economically feasible way. If these stories had come from elsewhere, I'd have ignored them, but we've already seen Villa Blanca fall, and those two sources are more 'plugged in' to what's going on in LA on the ground level.

It's a good point about the PPP loans...but restaurants, especially high end restaurants, usually operate on a knife's edge of profitability that would render her businesses gutted. And the PPP, the little I know of it, isn't a never ending source of money (it's got a 24 week cap on it) and as California has had long lockdown periods that start, stop, and star again as Covid-19 cases surge, it would hardly make a dent in the losses between rent, supply contracts, insurance, and employees. Really, the hospitality industry is the #1 economic casualty, and LVP's type of restaurant is atop that heap.

I can't speak to what the rules are right now in Los Angeles, but I don't think takeaway or delivery would make any sense for LVP's restaurants. Delivery and takeaway is hard for even a modest restaurant to make money on, but the cost of producing food, at venues that were always better known for the drinks/atmosphere than the food, would wipe out any income production because of staff and ingredient costs alone. Vanderpump Rules also remains an unknown entity. The recent interview with the Bravo executive certainly made it seem like Bravo is looking at retooling or resting the show, if not canceling it outright, despite its ratings/demo success. LVP herself has said it's been a struggle on Lala and Randall's podcast, but I don't doubt she's going to minimize what's really going on. If her house goes up for sale, as Dorit and PK's has, we can be sure all is not well financially. Hopefully she will be well with her personal finances.

I don't relish writing this post...but in LVP gossip... There are two gossip sites/blog sources that have always felt more reliable to me than most. Crazy Days and Nights and Deux Moi are these two sources and both have troubling things to say about LVP's financial circumstances. The reports are that her empire is crumbling and in tens of millions of debt. Anyone who knows anything of the restaurant industry knows that it runs tight and there is usually very little money left in the business on a monthly basis after all obligations have been paid and owners have taken their profits out of the business. That is how it works and is usually OK, but Covid-19 has gutted the restaurant industry, with a particular emphasis on destroying the high end restaurant industry where the point is to see and be seen. The Deux Moi report is that none of the restaurants are reopening and that Tom Tom has been struggling financially. My sincere hope is that LVP has protected her personal wealth and that these business debts don't ruin her. This site summarizes the Crazy Days and Nights and Deux Moi reports: https://www.allabouttrh.com/2020/09/11/vanderpump-rules-season-9-is-lisa-vanderpumps-empire-crumbling/

Yeah...I'm not watching another season of The Coven. No ma'am. Good for Denise for quitting, breaking free, and putting herself and her family first. I hope Garcelle does the same. She's nabbed a spot on The Real, she doesn't need RHOBH. It was a major bomb and explained a scene from that previous season's trailer that had just been dropped and never explained. It made so, so much sense. And whew, Dorinda's anger was next level.

Carmen Duncan was absolutely wonderful. She should have won an Emmy for the reveal scene in the Chief storyline. She somehow brought 25 years of character history in that scene when she'd been on the show mere months. Although I thought Iris getting framed and sent to jail was an awful exit, Carmen made the absolute most of her scenes and I loved her last line: "Life is too short for regrets."

RHOBH Reunion Part 2... Knowing that Denise has quit, the reunion feels like a lot of "Who Cares?" and I know I don't really care anymore. I've never cared if Denise lied because I've never cared if she slept with Brandi. It's a big SO WHAT? Love Garcelle. Sutton was great too saying she's weird. Andy showed his cards when he joined the gaslighters saying Denise called Brandi a "good friend" when the footage didn't show that at all. Kyle's neck and décolletage skin is heavily damaged. She might want to look into that. Not bad for 51, but it doesn't match the skin on her face, so... I am now a Dorit fan. She did not back down to Kyle and I love her for it. Kyle is such a perpetual loser that she couldn't help but whine and moan and try to play the victim when referencing Dorit's comments on 'her' fashion show which were 100% correct. Rinna is a psychopath. She is uncomfortable to watch. Erika and Mellencamp's daughter contributed nothing. When you have to talk about your kid getting a piece of her finger chopped off and sewn back on...which had nothing to do with the season...you know you are literally useless. On a better note, I found a wonderful compilation of The Grande Dame dragging people:

Variety is confirming it - so it seems a done deal that Denise is out. I wonder what this means for Garcelle who previously said she’d return if Denise did... Such a shame that Bravo doesn’t have the balls to do what needs to be done. What on earth will next season be about?

The show has been fading for many years. According to the LA Times, the series peaked in Season 4 in 2010 with 4.8 million viewers while the latest episode had 800,000. NBCUniversal was not going to pay the kind of renewal that they did 3 years ago (less than the reported $100 million, but a substantial sum nonetheless). E! has been rudderless for years. When they cancelled E! News this year, after 29 years on the air, I started to wonder what, exactly, E! is meant to be?

Dorit and PK have listed their home in Encino (with the Agency, naturally) for $9.5 million - $3 million more than they apparently paid for it a year ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8706529/Dorit-Kemsley-PK-Encino-mansion-market-eye-popping-9-5-MILLION.html

One only has to look at Season 1 of the Real Housewives of Vancouver, which in my opinion is the single best stand alone season of any franchise - all down to the fact it had a beginning, middle, and end of the arc when Ronnie turned on Jody and Mary was proven right that Jody was selling used (or as Jody put it 'vintage') handbags at her store.

RHOP Another great episode full of fun and light drama. Gizelle is still awful for stoking the fires between Karen and Wendy.

Agreed on Jill's success at Jabot. I give Bell/Alden so much credit for allowing Jill to be a flat out success at Jabot - her pride at doing good work gave Jill added depth. The 1990 - 1994 Kay/Jill dynamic is interesting because it comes off Phillip's death and both characters seemed to down their weapons because they were united in their grief over his death and their mutual discomfort with Nina.

Not only that, but Chris Cuomo has had lingering symptoms, which is being dubbed 'Long Covid'. Emma Samms has experienced the same 'Long Covid' symptoms, 6 months after she was diagnosed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8630419/British-Dynasty-star-Emma-Samms-59-tells-six-month-Long-Covid-hell.html As you said so rightly, this virus is a wildcard. It's pathology is only just beginning to be understood, and if it is the inflammatory/vascular pathology that is now theorized, rather than a simple respiratory pathology, there are so many ways this virus can affect people negatively and lethally.

That is what I have always admired about Eileen. She is a very deliberate and focused performer who knows where she's going in every scene she's in. That may be so, but ES and MTS were very visibly supportive of Jess Walton, even as she ascended in success as Jill, winning her first Emmy in 1991 (in fact, it looks like the whole show was thrilled for her). The Scotts are seated directly beside Jess and her husband and look thrilled for her. I think ES would know that MTS, with the Nikki and Victor pairing, was secure as the leading lady of Y&R, even if she didn't always have the critical plaudits to prove it. Jess's Jill transitioned the character into an empowered woman of the 90s and beyond. I firmly believe that had BD stayed int he role, by the mid 1990s, she'd have been written out. Her acting style and what they were doing with the character was not sustainable. Jess's Jill is far more earthy and real.

100% agreed. Sonja deserves her spot on the show and is always a delight to watch. I'm glad Leah sees in her what many of us see in her. That's a very good point, it seems like once a HW exits and has a few months/years in the real world, their perspective on the show really changes and most would not contemplate returning for anything more than a cameo.