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AuntieDiane6

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  1. I never felt the reverse was true. After all, she had her twin sister and the other books about her only mention Carole in passing because she was the one who got the call from the Coast Guard.
  2. AuntieDiane6

    Gymnastics

    He was the first male gymnast whose gymnastics excited me. I remember that he was never close to the other US guys (Bart, Mitch, Tim) but no one ever denied his accomplishments. It was devastating to me when we boycotted the Moscow Olympics.
  3. I doubt it as she married a lawyer and lives in Colordao. I'd bet it's BRANDI GLANVILLE.
  4. Why not? I'm not sure what it means since I'm boycotting twitter... He needs a gun for protection from looters?
  5. Jay's own show is a CAR show, so that's why Bill hasn't been on it. BTW, Jay is Bill's neighbor.
  6. Based on what I hear from a family member in Shanghai, most of the seamstresses today at the couture houses in Europe are Chinese. They are incredibly good and they work cheap. THAT'S why we don't see them--everybody thinks they are little old French ladies, but they're not. (That's why MILAN was hit so hard with the virus. Seamstresses brought it back from China after the holidays.) Well, he picked the wrong field then. Criticism is part of the game. The only worse profession he could have chosen is football quarterback.
  7. OH YES! I genuinely enjoy the show and it has never been more relevant than this week with the tragic death of that young black man in Minneapolis. I keep remembering that sad speech that the African-American dad (forgot his name! The TV anchorwoman's husband, I think) gave his son who had just gotten his drivers license. He warned him about the police and said, "You're a young black man driving a BMW in a white neighborhood." (IIRC) It was one of the most honest moments I've seen on a Bravo reality show and I think show deserves to be renewed for that alone as a representation of its value.
  8. I think Kaiseki is beautiful in that you consider every aspect of food--presentation, connection to nature, taste, subtlety. It's often compared to traditional Japanese theater. The beauty of it is that Japanese actually enjoy their food--unlike so many Americans who just want to shovel in bags of greasy food they get by hollering through a microphone at the drive-thru.
  9. Do you remember that Oprah episode when Oprah and Gayle went camping at a national park? Oprah said she had never been camping before and had no desire to, but she had gotten a letter from a black national park ranger who asked Oprah to promote camping in America's national parks because she never saw black campers and thought there were a lot of bad information out there. (Yes, there are real bathrooms there.) These moms probably all sent their kids to camp, so were very familiar with the concept.
  10. Andy, like Anderson Cooper, does not want to miss ONE MOMENT of TV time! He not only does WWHL, but he has a DAILY radio show on Sirius and is often the back-up host for such shows as Today with Hoda and Jenna and Kelly and Ryan. In addition, he is involved in production of various Bravo shows (such as hosting the reunions). Even Tamra Judge told him to slow down and spend time with his kid. He nodded, but acted like he didn't care. I think Ben is an accessory for his busy, busy life. Remember, Ben has no mother and Andy took AN ENTIRE WEEK of family live away from the cameras. (Of course, during that time "off," he posed for the cover story of PEOPLE magazine.)
  11. Sorta. It was a two-part movie with Meredith Baxter playing Betty. She was FLAWLESS in that role. Stephen Collins, who played Dan, also was very good--a tall handsome confident debonair lawyer. Christian Slater and Amanda Peet are woefully miscast. She's too thin and manic and Slater looks like a tiny weasely lawyer who nobody would kill to keep!
  12. Howard Stern took the opposite route: he said people didn't give his girlfriend, Beth, the proper respect they would a legal wife because far too many people have seen celebrities with multiple girlfriends. To me, to not legally marry just says to me, He/She is just not that into you. And all these women like Porsha WANT to have a legal relationship which is why they are all having babies with their FIANCES. We all know they will be split up before the baby is a year old ... As for gay couples, a company in my city offered gay couples spousal benefits when it came to health insurance. The day gay marriage was legalized, the letters went out to the couples that their benefits would end because they now had the legal options. In my family, my brother has six children with 2 wives, so the kids are legally half-siblings. They actually are very close and I have never heard them refer to each other as HALVES. Kroy legally adopted Kim's daughters so he actually IS their father. This issue became a TV controversy when Al Trautwig kept referring to gymnast Simone Biles' parents as her GRANDPARENTS because her grandparents legally adopted her. He got booted off the gymnastics commentary. (Terry Gannon now does it)
  13. I never read that he was divorced... Wikipedia said he married Valerie Combs in 2011. I believe she came to the family episode, right?
  14. C'mon, producers! Surely you knew she'd wash out... typical misogyny. Second, if I knew I was going to be on this show, I sure as hell would learn how to sew. Even Anya on Project Runway learned to sew well enough to win. I remember Mychal Knight visiting Sheree of Real Housewives of Atlanta ("She by Sheree!) and telling her that she needed to know construction and materials and sewing techniques to tell her seamstress exactly what to do. (The outfits she created were so awful, Sheree had a fashion show with no fashions.) Hey, remember Season 4 of Project Runway when they had that couture challenge? Christian Siriano and Chris March hit it out of the park with that 39-yards-of-fabric gown and their accessible outfit and even Jillian Lewis and Victorya made that gorgeous COAT in just two days.
  15. Just wait until Brynn's a teenager... Every teenage girl I know from a joint custody situation knows the way to get back at mom during those teen drama moments is to say, "I want to live with Dad."
  16. I was hoping to see an interaction between the seamstresses and the designers, but I am not surprised they were not shown. It's couture's dirty little secret that nowadays the seamstresses for all these great French and Italian houses are actually Chinese immigrants working for far cheaper wages than French and Italians. (A family member is Chinese and owns a business in Shanghai). My family believes COVID, for example, was brought back to Italy by the seamstresses even though Italy tried to spin the story that it was tourists... I'm also disappointed that we didn't see the BEST design--that white dress with the red cummerbund whose skirt was being held up with the big bridal gown-style arm loop. That looked amazing for the 5 seconds we saw it.
  17. If you take hormone replacement, you can get your period until you're dead. Lighter and only three or four times a year, but a period nonetheless. Ditto for Bethenny on RHoNY.
  18. That's why I genuinely enjoy Southern Charm New Orleans.
  19. I always wonder if there is some racism involved... the ladies of the other shows don't seem as desperate for it all to hang out. It's as if TPTB WANT people to ogle the jugs.
  20. Her Squatty Potty WAS a worthwhile idea but you don't need to replace them, so the initial idea has already worn off. It's pretty strategic to find more products in the same line.
  21. I always wonder why all these rich young women saddle themselves with a child with a man they don't love. The Kardashians, Gigi .... is something so wanting in that lifestyle that they need a baby for wholeness? Maybe they just deliberately choose sperm donors based on looks and not personal values.
  22. She has a very square, masculine body. Someone who didn't know her would think she had transitioned.
  23. AuntieDiane6

    Gymnastics

    Marta Karolyi always discouraged fancy mounts, saying they weren't worth the loss of points if you fell off right at the beginning. And remember, if a move becomes too prevalent, they can always de-value it and the move will disappear. I'm just upset that they valued one of Simone's beam moves really low so now nobody will do it. (I'm not up on the name of her moves)
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