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  1. On 8/18/2023 at 7:30 PM, ZettaK said:

    Bethenny's Bravo pilot was not exactly shelved (it could still be considered), so I don't think her attacks on Bravo have to do with this, it is mostly about self promotion.

    From what I've read, Bethenny pitched Bethenny: The Next Chapter about her and Bryn in Connecticut. She described enough of her life and community in Connecticut that Bravo was somewhat interested. They had tried for years to get a Real Housewives of Connecticut off the ground. They realized with Bethenny and some other people they were sincerely interested in, they'd have a new franchise. So Bravo began contacting some of the people they were interested in. Bethenny found out and was livid. She wanted a solo show. Bravo wanted a franchise and was adamant that Bethenny could not carry a show on her own. It's pretty much a dead project and pitch.

    On 8/18/2023 at 7:44 PM, ww92 said:

    They also brought up how Bethenny has always been very vocal about how she owns her content, she controls everything, etc. They said they'd love to see the contracts the contestants had to sign to appear on that show she had several years ago (the Big Shot show) to see how fair they were to the  contestants. Same with Bethenny  Ever After, she was a producer on that show too.

    Bethenny doesn't have a producer credit for Bethenny Getting Married, Bethenny Ever After, or her Bethenny (the talk show). I suspect this is part of the reason she's just manic and fanatical about all of that crap now.

    On 8/18/2023 at 7:44 PM, ww92 said:

    They speculated that Bethenny's real end game is to start her own network and bring some of the Bravo/reality talent with her.

    Before the mess that was Bethenny Frankel presents a Bethenny Frankel Joint The Big Shot with Bethenny, I would have absolutely believed that. But that show was just Bethenny's narcissism writ large during nearly ever single second on the screen. And everything she's done since then just proves that she's incapable of stepping out if the spotlight.

    And if Bethenny had truly wanted to build a network, she would have approached all of this with research and much more methodically than she has. There were 2 near sexual assaults on Below Deck Down Under 2 weeks ago. There have been rapes on The Real World and The Challenge; one of them was on camera. There have been some serious injuries and deaths on other shows. There are real concerns about background checks, compensation, access to health care, domestic violence resources for the cast, and children's working hours. These aren't huge concerns on Bravo, but TLC and We are very vulnerable on those issues. I'd believe Bethenny was coming for everyone if she'd approached this with any level of professionalism and thoughtfulness. She just doesn't have the money for it. At the very least, I would have thought she was trying to sincerely build her own production company.

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  2. On 5/29/2023 at 2:31 PM, itsadryheat said:

    . . . (allegedly) "Raquel had been in a mental health facility recently, but typically such facilities restrict the use of phones. The screenshot is evidence she may be out by now."

    I wish people would stop quoting this because it's not true as a blanket statement from state to state, facility to facility, or patient to patient. I literally wrote the laws and administrative regulations in a couple of states for use of personal patient phones in inpatient mental health facilities. What I wrote covers states whose combined populations exceed 40 million.

    Raquel may not be in a real mental health facility, but saying that her access to her cell phone is proof is really wrong.

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  3. 14 hours ago, hoodooznoodooz said:

    I had never heard the expression “dip out” or “dip” before last week. And now Sandoval is using it constantly.

    I was very well acquainted with it, which is why Sandoval's continually vague use of it was maddening. It's why everyone who is familiar with it asks follow-up questions whenever Sandoval says something weird and incongruous. Dip out means you have left a place. One doesn't dip out of the living room to use the bathroom or get a drink from the kitchen. This has actually allowed to use his flaky scenester persona to lie to people's faces. 

    14 hours ago, glowbug said:

    Lisa Vanderpump: “You will learn how to deal with your problems as you get older.”

    My husband: “Aren’t these people pushing forty?”

    If they haven’t learned by now…

    When they're the age of the Real Housewives, I'd say they'd stop fucking each other, but there's Brandi and throwing drinks in each other's faces, but there's Brandi and Tamra, and screaming in each other's faces, but there's ALL OF THEM!

    Katie was making a massive mistake trying to remain "friends" or be friendly with Schwartz. Schwartz never liked Katie enough to not be an asshole to her. First, he's living with and possibly dating Jo (Kristen's former friend and Vanderpump Rules hair stylist). Second, is whatever is this nonsense with kissing Raquel/Rachel at the wedding and Bayou. It's quite clear that Schwartz was never going to comply with that don't date anyone in the group.

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  4. 43 minutes ago, bravofan27 said:

    I think she was an idiot for getting rid of Randall. She should have stuck it out, got married, and then taken away a huge chunk of money. Then she wouldn't be forced to hang with the bottom feeders of LA.

    Randall was pretty financially abusive. Additionally, there have been hints over the years that Randall's finances were a house of cards that was about to collapse. His company owes $30 million that they seemingly can't pay. He also has millions in personal debt, much of which is from side chicks that he promised to pay if they signed NDAs. He never paid. He put his house on the market. It started at $6.3 million; it's been reduced to under $5 million. He's trying to reduce some of his child support to Ambyr's kids. He just doesn't have the kind of money Lala thought he had.

    Lala's big mistake was actually having a kid with him. Kim Zolciak and Marlo Hampton were A+ sugar-babies. They didn't have kids with their dudes either.

    Wig's big problem was that she couldn’t curtail her spending. Both of them left their sugaring arrangements with paid off townhouses, paid off cars, jewelry, plastic surgery and designer clothing, shoes, and handbags . Marlo also ended up with substantial savings and an investment portfolio. This is what Lala should have done.

    She should have had him buy her a nice little $500K - $1 million condo in Sherman Oaks or Studio City in her name and give her a paid off car. He could have bought her the shoes, jewels, bags, and clothes. But she's facing 20 years of going back to court as Randall keeps trying to reduce his child support payments. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, ZettaK said:

    A lot of confessionals are filmed after under normal circumstances anyway. We know that the cast filmed again after the scandal broke in early March. The regular season filming wrapped on the 18th of September per Raquel's IG. Production normally continues though with confessionals, and editing. 

    They are, but they usually don't like to extend more than a month after wrapping principal photography. By mid-October at BravoCon, James was still talking shit about Raquel and Schwartz. I really think this a new confessional from March 2023. We know that Scheana, Kristina Kelly, and Katie filmed some confessionals in March.

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  6. 16 hours ago, KenyaJ said:

    He actually found out from Lisa. Here's the sneak peak from next week's show, where it's all explained: https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vanderpump-rules-raquel-leviss-admits-to-sleeping-at-tom-sandovals-house.

    I'm 100% convinced that scene and the scene of Lala telling James about Raquel sleeping over are pick-ups filmed after the affair came out. Whereas as the scene where Raquel is 1.5 hours late is possibly from principal photography. It was likely intended to catch Lisa up on the drama of the beach day.

    I think the bagel truck scene is a pick-up. There's also one of James' confessionals that is probably a pick-up. It's after Raquel made out with Schwartz. James says, " I don't care if she makes out with Peter, Oliver, Tom Schwartz, or Mr. Buzz Button." A buzz button was an ingredient that Sandoval insisted be included in one of the drinks at TomTom.

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  7. On 3/16/2023 at 9:32 PM, bichonblitz said:

    he told me he was in the process of divorce so didn't want to be on the show at the time because it would upset his kids.

    No one who knows even a little bit about Randall could believe that Randall would voluntarily stay away from the cameras. He was a child actor, who had booked some local commercials in Florida. He went to a performing arts high school. When he went to film school in New York, someone must convinced him that he'd never make it as actor. He switched to film production. You can tell he's never gotten over it. It's why he kept telling people that Turtle from Entourage was based on it; he wasn't. He once hired a camera crew to film him for a week. It was for a sizzle reel for a reality show about him and Emmett Furla Films. He kept pitching it. Obviously, there were no takers. He has premieres for far too many of his nonsense films. George Furla rarely attends them.

    If he was so concerned about protecting his kids, why would he not do anything when Lala was publicly trashing Ambyr.

    Lala is a liar and hypocrite.

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  8. On 2/26/2023 at 1:09 AM, RealHousewife said:

    Couple questions about Sonja. 

    She's mentioned modeling in a few times on the show, which surprised me. Don't get me wrong. I love her looks actually. She's a beautiful woman with a great face and figure. But she talks about modeling in Europe, being on go-sees, I thought that kind of modeling required one to be more statuesque. Sonja herself said she was "tiny" compared to the "so tall" LuAnn. I suppose there are exceptions like Kate Moss. Anyone know about Sonja's modeling career? These days any pretty girl can be an IG model, but I don't think it was as easy back then.

    Sonja is likely greatly exaggerating her "modeling career." Sonja is a delusional fabulist. All of her stories need to be double checked. You can't take anything she says on face value. She might have been a fit model like Carole was for Jordache Jeans. She told a story about living abroad for a year with her wealthy European boyfriend during one of the rare times we actually know where she was. It was her senior at FIT and she was working at that boutique on the Upper West Side, Arlequin.

    On 2/26/2023 at 1:09 AM, RealHousewife said:

    Second thing, I had no idea before watching the show she married into such a famous, wealthy family and that her husband was so much older! I was actually surprised he's still alive (92). How did she end up having money problems if she married so well? Was it bad business decisions with the money she got? I know she's kind of mysterious about what she actually does. Did she have a prenup that was crappy? I mean, to my knowledge it wasn't a Girardi situation where the husband wasn't as wealthy as he was portrayed and she spent money like it came out of tap. 

    Sonja's divorce settlement was pretty substantial, about $25 million in money and property. Unfortunately, Sonja was playing at being a movie producer. She claimed she had access to more money than she did. Because she was such a dilettante, she never realized the lead of a movie she was financing and producing had a pay or play contract. This means that the actor gets paid regardless of whether the film is made. It was $7 million dollars. She, first, tried to get some of her ex-husband's contacts to strong arm the other producers into dropping the issue of Sonja paying the $7 million. They implied that the other producers would never be able to get money from New York again. She got sued and lost. Next, she declared bankruptcy. She sold off most of the properties that she got in the divorce. She ended up taking a $3.3 million mortgage on the townhouse.

    Sonja is smart and dangerously charming. It makes her think she can get away with more shit than she actually can. That's how she winds up in trouble. I'm sure she was thinking the same thing when she stayed in the south of France rather than come home to be with her sick husband. Her friend swooped in and has been married to him longer than his other 4 wives.

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  9. 7 hours ago, Gharlane said:

    I don't get it. Who is Darrell? 

    Lala's attorney. Raquel's attorney sent cyst and decease letters to everyone to warn them to not share Raquel's sexual video. Everyone in the cast has legal representation. Raquel's attorney sent the letters directly to the cast instead of their attorneys. Lala was bitching about it, "Stop sending me this shit. Send it to Darrell." It's super dumb.

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  10. 17 minutes ago, 65mickey said:

    She is blaming this for the way her face looks.

    She looks more like Bernadette every single day.

    17 minutes ago, 65mickey said:

    She said that she is suffering from severe dehydration.  

    She's definitely severely dehydrated, parched, and ever thirsty.

    17 minutes ago, 65mickey said:

    Remember her fish allergy? She recently posted a recipe for a dip that she was making and she poured a bunch of worchestershire sauce in the dip.  Um Bethenny this sauce contains anchovies. Most people with fish allergies can't have this.

    I actually have a friend with a fish allergy who was inadvertently consuming a lot of anchovy products. She used Worcestershire sauce and loved Thai food. I told her both had a ton of anchovies in them. This was a surprise. She never had a reaction. I suspected that she might be allergic to flaky fish, but not oily fish or there is something about the fermentation of anchovies that eliminates the allergens.

    There's no explanation for the tuna.

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  11. Thanks! I'm good.

    Until relatively recently, Bryn was prohibited from being on tv and social media because of the endless custody battle. So she kind of missed the age to be an adorable precocious child star influencer. I think Bethenny is likely to push it in about 2 - 3 years. This is around the time Bryn would be finishing her freshman year of high school. I cannot think of a more dangerous time for this to happen. A teen going through high school and puberty with an oversharing mother with massive looks and body issues. This will likely lead to just bad things. It has the potential  to be as bad as anything Rinna or Kim Zolciak has ever done to their daughters.

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  12. On 1/3/2023 at 6:36 PM, peridot said:

    It's disgusting that he tried to murder random dancers of a competitor.  What a warped guy.

    A competitor started by former Chippendales dancers. He also put a hit out on a former Chippendales dancer who was putting out his own calendar. 

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  13. 18 hours ago, Alice Mudgarden said:

    What's crazy is that in reality, he didn't get arrested for another 6 or 7 years, and it took another (failed) murder for hire he commissioned at the start of the '90s to make it all happen. He could have gotten away with it if he hadn't had this complete inability to deal with anything that may affect his ego or his wallet.

    I recall reading that he'd considered taking a hit out on Bruce Nahin, his former attorney and minority owner of Chippendales, because Bruce told Steve the napkin contract was valid. Steve was pathological.

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  14. On 12/15/2022 at 12:58 PM, iMonrey said:

    It was fun seeing the recreations of 80s TV staples like Phil Donahue, Sally Jessie Raphael, etc. But it seems odd, if not unlikely, that none of those shows would have done the research or fact checking to learn that Steve was actually the owner of Chippendales, not Nick. Then again I'm not sure how much of this was factually accurate.

    This is accurate. I've seen both of the documentary series. There is footage and Nick really was that brazen. The shows didn't investigate or research Chippendales because they weren't doing an expose of it. Those episodes were mostly about titillation. The one area where Steve was great at marketing, was that he constantly created media ready conflicts. He'd call nearby churches to get them to protest and then call the news. He might call feminist groups too. So by the time the talk shows covered Chippendales, the shows basically copied panelists from the news stories he'd invented. The documentaries also talked about how some of those groups would have audience tickets if they hadn't been included as part of the panel. People at Chippendales thought Steve or maybe Nick was tipping them off.

    Another issue was that the New York club was twice the size of the LA club and celebrities openly visited the NY club.

    On 12/15/2022 at 12:58 PM, iMonrey said:

    He didn't burn down that club because they were copying him, he did it because that guy disrespected him.

    He burned down multiple clubs.

    On 12/13/2022 at 11:32 PM, chocolatine said:

    It was great to see Irene call him out on his racism, but I doubt that actually changed how he felt. He'll just try to hide it better from her from now on.

    Spoiler

    He burned himself soooooo badly in real life. He excluded the law clerk of a federal judge. The resulting class action lawsuit nearly bankrupted the business.

    Steve has big time bought into respectability politics. He thinks because he wears a suit, owns a business, and is brown, but not Black that he'll be seen as better than basic Black people.

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  15. 46 minutes ago, MicheleinPhilly said:

    But she literally said that her friends paid for the shower out of their own pockets. Are we now saying that famous people can't have baby showers because "They're rich, they can afford their own stuff"?? 

    Someone in the Firm likely would have leaked that her long-time friends wanted to throw a baby shower, but she snubbed them because she wanted a "royal" baby shower. Thus cementing her as an attention seeking gold digger.

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  16. On 12/2/2022 at 10:43 AM, vibeology said:

    I don't think it sounds stupid but it does very much sound like a Rocky Horror rip-off. And considering the way the Chippendales went out of their way to not market to gay men, I'm not sure what the motivation would be for a man to create the perfect man?

    The Perfect Man actually was a regular part of the Chippendales show and was very popular. The dancers and patrons loved it.

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  17. On 11/23/2022 at 10:31 AM, pasdetrois said:

    I hated that they focused so much on Dorothy and Paul's story, which has been told multiple times already, in print, film and online. I think it was used for the shock factor, when I'd prefer that the focus be on Banerjee.

    The idea of making it a male strip club really was all Paul's idea. It really was Dorothy's idea to have the guys wear the cuffs and collars. However, the name change was because the club was filled with reproduction Chippendale chairs. I actually wished they had stretched some of the club founding out because Steve Banerjee and Bruce Nahin (the business partner who does not seem to be in this show) had already started to push Paul out of the club. Banerjee and Nahin had already put the guys in costumes and I think they may have even hired a regular MC. Paul had been banned from the Playboy Mansion. Dorothy had left him for Bogdanovich. And Chippendales was still giving him a percentage of the door, but didn't want him there and didn't want his input. Nick De Noia didn't work for Chippendales at the time and he didn't fire Paul. Nick De Noia was hired after Paul raped and murdered Dorothy and then killed himself.

    If the show had stretched the founding out, it would have helped to better explain why Banerjee and Nahin would go on to hire Nick De Noia. The business partners were already heading in that direction and why they'd give Nick a lot of control over the shows. It also would have help emphasize Paul's emotional head space. He discovered Dorothy, but she was leaving him behind. He helped create Chippendales, but they didn't want him either.

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  18. On 8/20/2022 at 5:55 PM, goofygirl said:

    Yep, I was hoping that one of those girls would actually go to college and have a career NOT in teevee.....  Seemed like Arianna was the one who had the brain power to achieve something besides big tits, big ass, big lips and whatever ELSE their Mom might offer.

    Apparently, NOT.

    She's gonna have to think of something because the house is in foreclosure and up for auction in a week.

    https://bravoandcocktails.com/2022/10/24/foreclosure/

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  19. On 10/5/2022 at 5:50 PM, realityplease said:

    What, Bethenny, no attention this week?  Over-reaching to get what you crave & live for?

    I take it that you're not aware of Bethenny's recent drama with TikTok and a TikTokker, Meredith Lynch. Bethenny has decided that Meredith discussing actual facts about Bethenny is somehow defamatory. Meredith discussed how Bethenny had trademarked a couple of phrases that Bethenny uses all the time in her TikTok makeup reviews. Meredith speculated that Bethenny might be getting ready to launch a makeup line. Meredith also talked about how BStrong isn't a 501c3, but a program within Global Empowerment Mission.

    These are actual verifiable statements. BStrong isn't a 501c3. There's nothing defamatory about that. Bethenny did trademark those phrases. Nothing defamatory about that either.

    https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/bethenny-frankel-meredith-lynch-tiktok/

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