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On 7/21/2022 at 11:06 PM, Juneau Gal said:
Damn, Dorinda truly is delusional. I wonder what she was thinking when she watched these episodes? Did she still think she made it nice? Everyone was all lovey dovey the last morning because they were LEAVING. It’s that surge of euphoria you get when you have survived an horrendous experience and are looking at it through the rear view mirror.
What a truly lousy 8 days for these women; they had nothing to do but breakfast, lunch, and dinner and try to not be the one currently receiving Dorinda’s wrath. Whoever came up with this particular “trip” idea should be fired. It wasn’t good for either the participants or the viewers.HA! I think it was Andy's idea.
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I know I've posted so many times about Dorinda's atrocious decorating choices, but that bedroom of hers at BSM. Looks vulgar as a Hong Kong brothel. But hey, maybe that's the look she was going for. In which case - well done Dorinda!
Quote of the Episode
Phaedra: Dorinda, you are so bad! You need a spankin' don't ya?
hahahahahaha!!
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On 7/14/2022 at 9:18 AM, NoWhammies said:
My theory is Andy "paused" Dorinda so he could continue to exploit her as needed. He should be ashamed of himself for putting someone so unwell on TV, but as we know, Andy has no shame. (The fact she is unwell does not excuse Dorinda's vile behavior.)
My theory is a little different. I think Andy told Dorinda she was "paused" because he knew Dorinda would refuse accept it if he said "fired". So he strung her along with the word "paused" and the possibility of a come-back. Then he tossed off this cheap little UGT show and knowing Dorinda's need for cash, using her house to shoot a show featuring fired housewives desperate for another chance to be on TV. This way Andy gets a cheaply produced show and gives all those ex-wives what they've been begging him for, and he can now wash his hands of them all, having granted them their second chance.
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On 7/4/2022 at 9:32 AM, Emmeline said:
I didn’t mind Dorinda breaking down the lobsters so much. Seriously, haven’t these women ever had a whole lobster before, but the licking the fingers, UGH!
Personally I lost my appetite for lobster after seeing Dorinda's gross display -- plus the licking of her fingers while doing it -- UGH!!
Some folks don't realize that it's the New England lobsters that need all that pulling apart to get to the meat in the claws. But Pacific lobsters are all tail. They don't have claws, and all that ripping and tearing and licking is unnecessary to eat them. Just run a blade down the middle of the tail and all that beautiful tail meat pulls right out.
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On 7/2/2022 at 5:31 AM, 65mickey said:
I don't believe that fans have been clamoring for Dorinda's return. On Dorinda's last reunion with housewives she was skewered by production. She was shown over and over as an out of control crazy drunk. Andy looked like he was done with her. She did herself no favors on this show and especialy on WWHL the other night. She demanded that Andy say she was paused and that Vickie was fired. She is lobbying hard to get back on housewives. I do not think he appreciated the way she was speaking to him.
Dorinda has not changed at all. She is still full of anger and bitterness. Like another poster said Dorinda is a mean woman and alcohol does not cause her anger but fuels it. She derives satisfaction from mistreating others and this for some reason makes her feel a little better about herself.
There's a word for that - sadist.
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On 7/1/2022 at 2:57 PM, Baltimore Betty said:
It is the crater across the bridge of her nose that puzzles me. Remember seasons ago when all the BH HW's went to Hawaii and Brandi wore a micro bikini to the beach, it was dental floss and a handkerchief sort of thing, she looked a model now she looks like she was ridden hard and put away wet. She is getting quite a gut too. I can say those things about her because you know, I am perfect, lol.
Tamra is aging too but she does still have a good butt.
Vicki has always had a hard time with her face, putting more stuff in it just does not help at all, Jill got it right with her doctor though.
Do we think Dorinda watches herself on the show? Is so she has got to see what we all see and hear, the slurred speech, the nastiness towards her guests, maybe her daughter watches it and can tell her how she comes across. Andy has her on permanent pause, no way she could clip, clip, clip herself back on the show.
Ha! Hannah probably knows better than anyone that it's useless to try to talk to Dorinda about anything. Dorinda knows all, and if you question her, she'll never shut up telling you all about it.
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On 7/1/2022 at 1:34 PM, ichbin said:
I daresay worse! I hope this wasn't a calculated move on her part to make herself seem more interesting and needed back as a regular on whatever happens with RHoNY. She's making herself seem more unhinged than in her last season. Does she have a particular issue with trim, attractive blondes? I wonder because Tamra and Tinsley are somewhat similar in looks.
When the cameras close in on Brandi's face...whatever she has had done resulted in turning her into a Madame puppet/Jocelyn Wildenstein hybrid. She is like an obnoxious child. On a show where most of the cast proudly wears their designer fashions it was startling to see her wearing that plaid bodysuit with woefully mismatched seams which screamed cheap. Does she really think that hyping booze and sex makes her interesting? She's the human embodiment of an insect buzzing around.
The best bit of casting for this season was Phaedra and Eva. Imagine how it would have been without them and only the remaining cast.
Jill can be a lot at times, but she can also be correct. I have a feeling her assessment of Dorinda missing being Mrs. Medley is probably on the money. Let's face it, the chances of her landing in a relationship with someone exposing her to a similar world at this point is probably slim to nothing.
QuoteThe best bit of casting for this season was Phaedra and Eva. Imagine how it would have been without them and only the remaining cast.
Jill can be a lot at times, but she can also be correct. I have a feeling her assessment of Dorinda missing being Mrs. Medley is probably on the money. Let's face it, the chances of her landing in a relationship with someone exposing her to a similar world at this point is probably slim to nothing.
I never watched Atlanta, but I have to say I'm really enjoying Phaedra and Eva, and completely agree that the show would have been pretty much a bust without those two fun ladies. Their THs were what kept me coming back.
LOL if Dorinda thinks she's ever going to have a man in her life ever again. Unless she's paying big money to keep him, that is. But I'm thinking she can't afford that anyway if she's having to hire out Bluestone Manor like it's an Airbnb.
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On 7/1/2022 at 10:25 AM, Ms Blue Jay said:
It wasn't Richard, it was her first husband. The character of Susan Sharon on Sex and the City is based on her.
Oh - Mr. Lynch, Hannah's father.
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I am convinced Andy cooked up this show to make Dorinda look absurd in every circumtance.
Fishing for more compliments (there are never enough for Dorinda) she wonders aloud why nobody has yet mentioned her talent for lobster dissembling. The only one who has more of a look-at-me persona is Jill. Surprise! Poor Jill - I laughed so hard when she says "crickets?" in her TH. Yeah, nobody was thrilled. I cracked up when Eva said "I thought it was mimosas!" What happened to Dorinda - when we saw how fresh faced she looked in the Season 10 clip of Dorinda at Jill's Anti Bullying Fundraiser.
They're all finding out that this Bravo show ain't like the one they were fired from (Jill: "They get Turks & Caicos and I get Bluestone Manor. What did I do wrong?")
Is everything Dorinda wears 15 to 20 years old or what? At breakfast she wore those blue pjs with the feather cuffs (I'm sure those scream elegance to her). The black embroidered atrocity that she wore at the sound bath has to be 40 years old. That pink caftan reminds me of something Endora would wear. Then the camo track suit during the manipedis, and the dreadful sparkly flapper dress -- I swear she has the world's strongest love of tacky.
Then we get the sound bath guy. Put a long wig on him and I'd swear it's the shaman from that wigwam in Mexico where Emily faints and has to be taken out? Then the spooky house with ghosts -- I really didn't realize Dorinda's love of the woo-woo. Nobody is digging this and I don't blame them. Boring.
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Suffice it to say that Dorinda's taste differs greatly from mine. For all the trouble she takes inside the house, do you think she could manage to hire a guy with some black gloss paint to go over that entrance gate once or twice? Looks like it hasn't been painted in 20 years. And what is Dorinda's deal that each room should have a completely different style from the others?
For all her efforts, Vicki finally got herself back on TV, and I can tell she's disappointed that all it got her was sent out to be a captive guest at Dorinda's. Brandi is just as sloppy and uninteresting as ever. I never watched RHOA but I'm enjoying those ladies more than I am anyone else.
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Sutton's dating conversation with Kyle - Kyle mentions that Erika isn't on dating apps, but is getting set up with dates, and Sutton sniffs, "I don't care if they're rich - I don't need money in order to make myself feel better" seems disingenuous when Sutton raked off big time from "dating rich" or did she just forget that part?
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Not surprising those two didn't stay together. She was so demanding of affection and understanding yet dismissive of him at the same time - way to go attempting to save a marriage with that attitude.
Good luck to her if she thinks she's getting more than 50/50 custody when he's been the SAHD for years, and LOL if she thinks she's going to avoid paying spousal support to Ryne -- he'll likely get it if he asks for it.
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On 4/21/2022 at 4:30 PM, Polliwollidoodle said:
Seems kind of shady?????? :) . Beyond........ummm I don't think she could be more contrived if she tried. She is a trainwreck that I can't not watch but she is really horrible and a total wreck. (in my old lady opinion). Even if she is as wild sexually as she broadcasts,,, WHO broadcasts that? Not anyone I know, and certainly no one who is battling custody arrangements.
I don't think Noella has anything to worry about when it comes to child custody. That guy left town for months without even asking about the kid. I think she's safe there.
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On 4/21/2022 at 6:29 AM, Cosmocrush said:
Ahhhh so that explains why Shannon had the only dress that didn't look like a 9th grade design fail but did look like it belonged to a 25 year old. Yikes, I don't remember a reunion where everyone looked like they got dressed without a mirror - including Andy. Corduroy suit Andy, really?
Hard to say who looked the worst but Emily's dress looked like a ruffled cape closed at the waist.
Shannon did get lucky with a decent looking dress after seeing her clearly distraught call to production about her dress not working for her. I read somewhere they went to Bloomingdale's or something and bought it off the rack. Shannon has graduated from flattening the body bloat with multiple pairs of spanx to the much more attractive option of wearing a waist cinching corset. There are some photos of her standing where you can see the curved outline of the corset on her lap area.
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Shannon seems to have a penchant for twisting other's words just a little bit. This whole thing about Gina saying Shannon has no friends. It's not what Gina said.
Re-watching Ep. 11, what Gina actually said was "how many best friends to you have?" And Shannon answered "I have a small, very close knit -- " and Gina said "At some point you have to look at that". At no time did Gina ever say "You have no friends", yet Shannon keeps repeating that story in episode after episode when it's truly her twisting Gina's words.
She wants a reason to drag Gina, and John is her yes-man reacting to Shannon's word twisting and propping up the delusion, saying "That's beyond mean. It's cruel. Where does she get off saying that?". In that episode early in the season where Shannon and John were on the boat, I thought he might be good for her, but hearing John feed into her hysteria over it makes me re-think that.
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Poor Shanny and her pity party. They just don't understand how she's trying to be a single mom with her kids 100% of the time (2 high schoolers). She's running a company with zero assistants (your daughter and people helping you in the previous episode don't exist). And no nanny! She gets no more than 5 hours of sleep a night. She had a party that she had to start preparing for at 8 am. Her entire family helped her. My gawd the woman is never anything besides insufferable.
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John's quick "No" to Heather asking whether is going to change the name of the boat from Revelry to Shannon might have been due to boating lore that it's bad luck to change the original name given to a boat.
That being said, I really enjoyed seeing how Shannon and John's relationship has developed. They worked so well together, and I know from personal experience it isn't always easy being the first mate to your SO captain. From what we saw, Shannon handles it beautifully. We don't often see this side of Shannon and it makes me think her relationship with John has been good for her.
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On 2/4/2022 at 12:52 PM, Hedgehog2022 said:Quote
The New York housewives all have done charity work and attached themselves to various well known foundations and organizations...even the Jersey wives have done some charity work...
I think those HWs are all involved in charity work because it's such a society/status thing there. It's not like that in SoCal - people are involved here, they just don't make a thing about it (well, except LVP but then she's not from here).
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1 minute ago, BrownBear2012 said:
I have to give credit to my husband for that one...many years ago when our daughter was a young teenager and seemed to be spending her allowance on frivolous stuff and would ask for an advance, my husband called her a vacuous spendthrift...how ironic that my daughter now lives in the OC!
Hey that's pretty cool - she'll fit right in. What city?
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On 12/4/2021 at 8:24 AM, amarante said:
The editing that juxtaposed Shannon's current relatively modest home with her old home underscored her decline. Of course her current home is worth several million dollars but it is just a "nice" home versus the kind of showcase that she used to live in.
It is interesting that she had to downsize so drastically because when she was introduced we learned that her family were San Francisco socialites - weren't they owners of I Magnin or Bullocks Wilshire so I had assumed that even after a divorce she would have retained that money.
I guess the old "mansion" was just smoke and mirrors and mortgaged so when they divorced, there wasn't much equity to split up. Not that she is hurting for money by ordinary standards but she didn't get that much money considering she was a SAHM mother for most of the marriage. As I recall she got a relatively low settlement and a fair amount of child support.
Plastic surgeons - especially ones that are as *famous* as Terry do make an a huge amount of money because all of their procedures are elective so they can charge (and collect) whatever the market will pay. A face lift could be $50,000 from that kind of *famous* surgeon. And he also has significant income from Botched which has been running for awhile.
Selling houses in that price range is not that easy, even in SoCal. They probably had to cut the price substantially to get it sold in the time frame they needed. Plus, the divorce standards have changed even for the monied. Nowadays, regardless of the length of the marriage, courts are not awarding huge settlements where the parties are both able bodied, gainfully employed and the children are almost grown. So even though Shannon was a SAHM, she holds a high paying job and is financially well off herself, she was dealt the hand everyone else gets - meaning she'll be on her own and supporting herself without the benefit of a huge lump sum settlement or high dollar amount monthly checks from the ex. (And we saw how quickly she blew through that $1.2m settlement.)
On 12/4/2021 at 10:09 AM, oakville said:The witch's home was featured on Million Dollar Listing L.A. a few years ago. The couple divorced & the home was put up for sale.
Yeah - and I heard they took a bath on the sale.
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On 12/3/2021 at 1:08 PM, BrownBear2012 said:
Absoloutely! Terry is just as ostentatious and as big a vacuous spendthrift as his wife. My Dad was a physician...he never wanted to go into private practice because of these kind of doctors...guys that make a ton of $$$ and then throw it in everyone's faces with mansions, expensive cars, etc.etc...instead he went into epidemeology and pubic health.
Terry is arrogant and just as much of a show off as his vapid wife.
Haha - vacuous spendthrift. I live in OC and I'm going to use that one.
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On 12/2/2021 at 10:18 AM, chenoa333 said:
That's ok. We don't judge other posters, we're here to judge the reality TV "stars"!
And I can understand people liking Heather's home and having her back on the show. Without her this season wouldn't be even worthy of "hate watching."
Is Heather's new home in Newport Beach? I can't remember if that's where the Dubrow's built this waste of space. Do the Dubrow's still have their dogs?
Judging from the canyon views we saw, it looks to me like the house is in the Newport Coast neighborhood of Newport Beach, just south of Corona del Mar (another section of Newport Beach).
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On 12/16/2021 at 1:10 PM, Baltimore Betty said:
Sweet James and Noella share a child with autism, he cut off her credit cards and likely will not be paying any bills so how will Noella take care of getting that child the help it needs, schooling and therapy, etc...how will she put gas in her car and groceries in the fridge?
I divorced a judge, it took me four years with no money from him and we share two kids, the first thing I did was talk to every attorney in town so he couldn't. I did get a nice settlement, I hope Noella lawyers up fast, she should get woman who is a shark.
We don't know if Sweet James is incorporated or not, but I do know this from personal experience: divorcing a sole proprietor attorney is a whole lot different than one who gets a paycheck that can be garnished.
You can bet he's using his superior knowledge of the law to get over on her, for sure. But even if she gets a high dollar amount award for alimony and/or child support, she will play hell collecting from someone who knows the system and whose source of income isn't derived from an employer issuing a paycheck.
I agree completely that Noella should lawyer up with someone who can go for the jugular for her, but there's no way it's possible to talk to every attorney in town in Orange County. Sweet James could just go next door to LA County, which is where I believe his business is located (his radio commercials only give an 888 number).
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On 12/16/2021 at 1:07 PM, amarante said:
Granted I have a black heart but I am somewhat unmoved by Noella's situation as - at least from what we saw on the show - her devastation seems to be based on economic problems rather than the loss of a spouse with whom one had deep emotional ties.
Both Shannon and Gina - whatever one's feelings are towards them - did IMO suffer a huge emotional loss in terms of their spouses publicly humiliating them with mistresses and I feel they also felt they had to deal with the emotional loss of their marriage to someone they once loved and assumed they would grow old with - to the extent anyone makes those assumptions.
Now obviously someone who is hit with news of tax liens and having one's credit cards cut off is going to have a major trauma attached to that but in my opinion it seems with Noella that it might be more equivalent to being fired from a job and losing one's salary. Gina suffered a loss of income/lifestyle and Shannon also to a lesser extent but I never got the sense that their mourning the death of their respective marriages was based solely or even primarily on loss of money.
Call me cynical but Noella had been married for only a year and her son was two years old. While many couples don't have separate accounts it should have been immediately odd to Noella that she didn't have access to bank accounts and she didn't have her own credit cards. To me that seems to be an indication that the marriage was an economic transaction between a gold digger and a man who wanted a trophy wife rather than a true partnership.
On an even more shallow note, all of the housewives besides Gina and Noella need to objectively look at their faces and realize they look deformed and not youthful. Jen is perhaps on the verge of doing it but at this point not quite over the edge in terms of fillers but my god - Shannon and Nicole look deformed. Emily has gone from a relatively fresh faced natural beauty to someone who looks over filled and over done. And enough has been said about Heather the Grinch as she moves into Joceyn Wildenstein territory
I just don't understand the aesthetic of this plastic surgery and why bloated faces and malformed lips are actually something women are paying to achieve. Is it like living in a house of horrors where you feel you look normal because everyone else you see is deformed?
Insightful observations and very well said.
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Erika Girardi/Erika Jayne: Let them eat cake
in The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills
· Edited by Anne Thrax
Breaking News in California: [Quoted from MyNewsLA Contributing Editor]
The State Bar is asking a judge to order a “confidential witness” to testify and produce documents in connection with an internal investigation into whether its own employees may have assisted troubled former attorney Thomas Girardi escape discipline over the years.
Girardi was disbarred earlier this year by the state Supreme Court and ordered to pay $2.28 million, plus 10% interest, for funds allegedly stolen from clients.
The State Bar on Jan. 10 had recommended that Girardi’s law license be taken away, in large part for allegedly misappropriating nearly $2 million that belonged to the minor children of air crash victims.
The only other discipline Girardi received was a private reproval in 1999. The State Bar has hired the law firm of Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP to find out why.
Because the investigation involves the handling of complaints by State Bar employees, including attorneys within the Office of Chief Trial Counsel, the chief trial counsel was recused from conducting the probe, according to the State Bar petition filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
During the investigation, Aaron M. May of Halpern May found out that a “confidential witness” likely has relevant information and so he issued a subpoena on July 11 directing the person to appear for an Aug. 11 deposition and bring the requested documents.
May cited authority for the subpoena power to an attorney for the witness, but the lawyer, without challenging the law given, argued it was barred on other grounds and the witness did not appear, according to the State Bar’s court papers.
“It is not disputed that confidential witness was served the subpoena or that he or she refused to comply with the subpoena,” State Bar attorneys state in their court papers. “As such, confidential witness is in contempt of the State Bar pursuant to (the state California Business and Professions Code.)”
The State Bar is asking a judge to issue an order to show cause directing the “confidential witness” to appear before the court at a specified date and explain why the person has not attended, testified or produced the documents per the subpoena. Both sides they are “generally available” for a hearing Oct. 28, according to State Bar lawyers.
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The State Bar needs a judge to compel a confidential witness to appear and produce documents at a deposition regarding this person's knowledge as to the identity of State Bar employees who assisted Gerardi in circumventing State Bar disciplinary action.