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Be curious if that can be proven. That exhibit 2 seems to prove she said he did, not when (or if) he actually did. Pretty sure that would require greater meta-data. Fully granted I'm basically making up both legal AND technical stuff here, but that's why the internet was seemingly invented.

I wonder what sort of threat Ariana has leveled at Tom regarding any recordings of her/them? A very very serious one, I'd imagine. They were together a LONG time, I have to believe it occurred at some point, if not multiple. I thought this was kind of a funny time-frame, I wonder a bit how it came about. Just barely over three weeks; not that I'm any kind of expert, it just seemed odd. Maybe it's nothing, but I like to imagine weirdness behind the scenes - another casting canceled, some fan in a corner office somewhere enabling it, etc.

This is not an invalid point. I think the caveat would be that these events occurring at 18 months in a ratty apartment in your 20s is certainly different from them occurring at 10 years owning a house at 40, though. Yes, I did not check the tape and those are certainly estimates.

I fully agree, but she might be one of those caretaker/savior types who just can't escape.

Sure! I guess I wouldn't get why if chorizo's OK as opposed to Mexican sausage, but there ya go.

I did wonder about this. My grandparents and ten trillion Roman Catholic relatives seemingly never in their life referred to anything EXCEPT kielbasa. EDIT: Although the article already confuses me with it's first sentence - - which would vaguely imply that all Polish sausage could certainly be referred to as kielbasa. And then number 2 in the list of Polish sausage isn't quite a sausage? And a few of the other ones are even called kielbasa also. Anyhow, my purpose is not to be combative, just that I still found the whole thing interesting and consistently weird (to me) while watching.

It is their most popular show. Anyone at BRAVO suggesting it be cancelled would be rightfully fired.

Pretty sure the years of reality TV attention turned him slowly but definitively from an actually decent self-centered guy to one of those narcissistic evil "I'm a good guy!" guys.

This actually makes sense. It's LAME of the Brewers and even a little surprising, but it does make sense to use the same terminology that the stadium uses. Thank you! I'm a little surprised none of the chefs randomly referred to it as kielbasa, though.

I also really like Danny, but whining about this immediately after you had just won $20,000 seemed kinda over-bitchy. It made me wonder if we're getting a pre-villain edit.

Not a crazy thought, but it certainly doesn't seem so. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f977441fd745688c&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS982US982&sxsrf=ACQVn0_5Ji074VJUhP_U704KZLdyrMrt5w:1714657854136&q=kielbasa&tbm=shop&source=lnms&prmd=isvmnbtz&ved=1t:200715&ictx=111&biw=1370&bih=639&dpr=1.25 It's very weird to me (and maybe no one else) but it just seemed so weirdly purposeful, like there had to be some actual reason.

I wish I could have posted this last night, but I have what may be the most important question in Top Chef forum history, if not the most important question in the history of television itself. Why, why, WHY were they able to drop BRATWURST and CHORIZO, and even PIEROGI, but they refused to use, even once, the term KIELBASA? "Polish sausage"? What am I not understanding? Help me, please, you're my only hope. Dziękuję

On to the episode! First off, Tom Schwartz's hat DIDN'T FIT and just made me hate him even more than his idiot one-night-stand bullshit with Katy and his super coked-out conversation with Jo, who he made actually seem normal. Scheana's conversation with Tom really made Scheana seem very, very adult even if it went in one tone-deaf ear and out the other. And he may be a douchebag, but at least he knows how a hat fits. Lala was a great example of how reality TV life has warped the brains of those on it. Her face while Daniel Wa was acting like a normal, mature, adult human being was as if she was being asked to divide by zero or explan string theory. Utter, complete, massive disconnect. 999% team Ariana (her conversation with Brock was awesome), although I do think some day when it's not 6 months old she may understand how every last person she knows cannot be AS ANGRY as she is for as long as she is. (Noting this from the face she made on the boat and her talking head after, regarding Scheana talking about Tom.) I felt kinda bad she didn't see the part of the conversation where Scheana read Tom (before the trip) regarding Ariana doing nothing wrong. Sane. The word you're looking for is sane.

Meh. Disagree. The wharf is massively lame, and I'm among those former residents and frequent visitors who find the complaints kinda overwrought. YMMV. I'd move back in an instant.

I lived in the Castro, but I loved the ride to make up for the chocolate I just bought!

It was more a response to the idea that he actually said these things a year apart from the reunion. I think that it's difficult to get into the brain of a weirdo liar scumbag, but I'm sure he thought he was in love with R. at some point. I think him being such a clueless hypocritical selfish drama queen is pretty hilarious; but him being legitimately sad about it - of course, for the most self-centered reasons - I find no massive reason to doubt it. I didn't mean for my response to be a YOU'RE WRONG, just an alternate opinion with some timeline confirmation.

It fell flat, because he's a fucking gross idiot, but this may have been an attempt to reference the Solomon tale of how to solve the custody debate of a baby.

To be fair, the time between the reunion and this whatever from him is like four or five months? Counterpoint: Very VERY low bar, and it's not hard to find endless footage of James being a massive asshole.

I get this, but talk is talk, especially beforehand and with drunk people. I'm not saying I want film (har) I just mean this is what I remembered, and it qualifies to me as a drunken makeout/groping. Maybe I'm just off as far as what I consider "clear". Unlike everyone else who's ever ended up on these shows?

Agree, which I admit I found actually slightly odd. Worried? Or, something? First of all, I think I was never clear what actually occurred there. Did it ever come up what happened? I always had the impression it was a makeout session - a short one at that - and that was it. I dunno. I recall anger. But maybe. I was going to say this earlier as well, but didn't want to be too mean.

I can't stand Lala, but in fairness, her nails are not particularly unusual.

While "weird" seems to be a sad reason for her not to be on the show, the court must object to the implication that these people are somehow over a line of emotional stability that she is not. There have been a few episodes over the years where a surprising level of douchy anger and weirdness have shown through. He plays the game very well for the camera but is a complete worthless shit of a human.

Fair and stand corrected, thank you. Did not realize the story came from the confessional as opposed to another interview in February. This does not change my opinion that she could think that and still be furious at the person who she wasted all that time with and how it ended. Her current boy seemed to get it just fine.

Entertainment stories from an interview that occurred in February 2024.

The story of Ariana stating that Daniel had "opened [her] eyes" about possibly having children was her talking in February 2024, not summer 2023.