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10/3/2024 Katie Ginella's dramatic dinner party comes to an end. Preview: https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/season-18/videos/jennifer-pedranti-on-tamra-judge-shes-not

I don't think Gina is that dumb, but her cutesy New York gal in OC schtick, voice and inflections, and the way she waters down and exagerates EVERY THINNNG she SAYYYS..... LOL, Haha..... EVERY.... time, takes long pauses between what she finds to be building a punchline and smirks and laughs at her pretty basic comments makes her seem dumb. If she just talked and didn't try to be so hard to brand her voice and mannerisms and be an OC Fran Drescher, she would be so much more likeable. I think Gina and her Matt are still banging. She's just a little too friendly and a little too "happy" about their wedding. It seemed more like digging disguised as fake support. I noticed Matt seemed way more engaged with Gina (he finds her funny! Good sign) and very interested in her than his fiance at the meatball tasting thing. She definitely looks a million times better now that she has some money than she did at the beginning of her runs on the show.

Tigerlily has 50 million???? If she's still single, I'll date her! When Faith was saying that it is hard to find a man that respects her because she is trans, I was like, "Lady, it's the struggle with being a woman. Men can suck, and finding a man that respects women is a real thing." Being trans maybe complicates things, but the male ego is REAL.

Wasn't Shane and Emily going to bring pot? LOL. That was a really sad dinner party. The food looked so unappetizing and boring in those little foil pans. They didn't have any appetizers or snack items either-- really easy to get drunk without nibbles. Whenever there are drinks served, there should always be food served as well. Always. And water.

Of course she is! On EVERY SINGLE OUTFIT. LOL.

To be fair, she had a REALLY bad day. INTERESTING! The dress that Alexis and Emily were wearing is now for sale, and they feature models wearing a size 4 and a size 12. LOL!!! https://sbxhd.com/products/little-black-dress-with-belt?variant=48843750048043 The measurements seem pretty normal/ true to size to me. Maybe even a little big for the sizes? The models wearing a 4 and 12 could have easily worn smaller sizes and looked fine. https://sbxhd.com/pages/little-black-dress-with-a-belt-measurement-chart

DWTS has had many controversial "stars" competing. I think what bothers me about Anna on the show, is she is ONLY famous because of her crimes. She's not really redeeming herself because she wasn't anyone beforehand to anyone. So she has nothing to redeem, unlike other stars that need redemption, like Paula Deen and Tonya Harding. That said, I think that some of the controversial stars that were on had MUCH worse crimes than Anna, where people were seriously injured and the crimes were violent. Paul Deen made racist comments, which, to me, hate crimes are inexcusable, even if what she said wasn't a crime per se, her comments came from a place of hate, which is IMO, not redeemable. Floyd Mayweather plead guilty of domestic violence. Others just aren't well liked, like Sean Spicer. But Anna is really only famous for being a con artist. Very weird casting. She isn't a celebrity, has no personality, no charisma, and nothing to say. She has no experience with winning over audiences and being likable.

That's pretty much what she implied. Heather should have read her mind and torn out the tag or replaced it, given she knows how hard Emily has worked to lose weight. It's slightly ridiculous. All the clothes they were wearing were pretty blah and basic, and I guess that is the schtick for the clothes line-- basics. Heather should have had more than one person wearing jeans though.

Taglines for next season! Shannon-- "I've weathered all the storms. Sue me!" Tamra-- "I may get drunk and regret it, but I don't ever drive." Emily-- "Biscuits and tacos serve me. Size 12 can screw me." Gina-- "I'm making hybrid single a thing." Jen- "My trash takes itself out." Ryan-- "If I wasn't relevant, why would the FBI investigate?" Katie-- "Talk to me about golf, don't ask me to play it." Heather-- "If it makes me look good, I'll do it. Admonish that."

I love how accepted Archie is on this show. LOL.

That's the best part of Ryan! She kind of wants him and she has spinned it that he wants her (seeing her in the gym and telling a buddy that he was going to f# her), but I think it's the other way around. Or, if true, maybe got Tamra really interested. Who knows, but she is kind of obsessed with Ryan and it's weird. He didn't even say much, and refused to comment on her parenting, but I think she likes having a reason to talk to him. It doesn't seem like Eddie is much of a conversationalist, and Ryan will talk your ear off. He's very engaged. Eddie-- not so much. He didn't even do anything until Jenn pretty much begged him to stop Tamra. Katie is kind of like Jenn-- pretty much a wall flower, but maybe at her realty show school they taught her to gasp and hold her hands to her mouth with wide eyes (which is all she ever does) and thankfully for Jenn, Ryan is stepping in to create some narrative and storyline, because Jenn easily fall to margins, given her propensity to be nice. Plus, she's pretty quiet. She needs Ryan in her storyline to keep her interesting. And Ryan willing to go up against Tmara is VERY interesting.

Tamra and Eddie like Jenn but despise Ryan. Ryan despises Tamra and Eddie. Jenn likes everyone. Going to be bad news for Jenn. Tamra-- if your husband is telling you to stop drinking, tells the host to stop giving you drinks, and you do things you have to apologize for later because of your drinking, you have a drinking problem. It's not being dumb when drunk. It's a pattern and it's a huge problem. Ryan has earned his orange. Matt is probably wondering what the heck he is doing with these people and reevaluating his life and choice in a wife who invites this in. I sort of think Tamra and Ryan have the hots for each other.

1000%. Excellent observation. Heather has always, in the very few alone time she has had with her kids (I"m thinking 2 instances with Nick when he was little), she was dismissive and annoyed he was there. This season is all about her kids, although they are nowhere around or included in any of the events. She's the yin to Tamra's yang. They both use their kids as storylines, the kids are noticeably absent, but in Heather's case she is the saint and in Tamra's she's the Jesus. Unfairly persecuted.

There are two things going on here, and I see Emily's side on one, and on the fence with the other. First, it was 100% wrong of Heather to ask Emily to wear jeans for the last runway when all the other ladies had on the designer's bottoms and they all were black. It made her stand out, it did give, "she's the big girl" feels, and I think any of those ladies would have felt a certain way if they were singled out and asked to wear their own jeans and no one else was. Maybe it was because they didn't have pants that were in a size that would work with Emily's measurements-- she's got and ass and hips (and the bottoms all did look very slim fitting). Who knows. In that case, Heather should have worked with Emily to tailor them, IMO. And she is smart enough to know that. So yeah, it was not an oversight-- she took the opportunity to put in a bit of a dig. The dress thing though-- Heather was truly shocked at that complaint. And to me, it made sense that Heather had them both in the same dress since they have similar figure types or body shapes and the dress was for curvier ladies. I'm sure it was a shock to Emily when she saw the dresses side by side, how much bigger hers was, and felt like it was a joke on her, because she is NOT a size 12- is a little nutty. HOWEVER, it was VERY cold and unnecessary for Heather to stress that the dress not only fit but was tight. Heather could have just said that the dress was sized based on the numbers Emily provided. But she didn't. However, that jab was not part of the party, THANK GOD, or Emily would have blown something up. She was PISSED. I remember a long time ago; my friend lost a ton of weight for her wedding. The girls at the dress shop told her she could never fit into the dress she wanted, and she was bound and determined to prove them wrong, and she did. She felt like the thinnest most beautiful person ever on her wedding day in her perfectly fitting dress that no one thought she would ever be able to fit into. This is her reality, not the real reality though. So I’m over with my husband at the time, and she’s feeling a little insecure because she gained all her weight back, and I’m this skinny rail thin person, and I think she wanted to show everyone that she was once really skinny too. So she dragged out this heavy elaborate wedding dress and made me put it on in front of all our friends (clearly, we were a really close friend group). It was huge on me. I didn’t even need to unzip it, I just stepped in through the top and pulled it up. Friend was DEVASTATED. Her husband is trying to console her, and she is like beyond upset. In her mind, she was the thinnest most slender creature on her wedding day, and to see how big the dress was on someone thin, really shattered her reality, made her think about what her size was on that day in a different perspective, and also, messed with how she felt about her current body weight. To this day she insists I am anorexic and that is the ONLY reason the dress was big. I let her, as I know it’s just a psychological strategy she is doing to self soothe. I think something similar happened when Emily saw the difference between her and Alexis dress sizes. It made her so uncomfortably aroused she needed to find something to blame it on because looking at the reality of it was too emotionally challenging and traumatizing. Heather, given it was her party and she orchestrated both situation Emily was in, could have done a lot more to not be a prick.

Ingrid is really on point to be suspicious of Brian. He is so manipulative; I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is trying to act like he had no idea she thought he was 45, knowing very well he lied about it, thinking 5 years wasn't that much of a fudge. Trying to trick her into touching his penis on their first night was predatory to me-- saying he needed her help with the catheter and that his penis had to be hard to put it in, was GROSS, especially since he gave his true intention away by bragging about talking Viagra. Yuck. But Ingrid saying that he might still sell drugs if could walk--- that was COLD. And saying she was raised to not hang out with drug addicts (but earlier claimed her father was very ignorant) was all levels of meta ignorance to me. But I'm torn, because she dead on that Brian is being very strategic about what he says, when, and why, and what it is going to do for him. He's too old for her, has way too many problems, and needs to spend less time online dating and more time in therapy. I'm likely going to little to no appetite tomorrow after hearing Loren talk about his penis discharge.

Strange that John doesn't want to live with Alexis, even after marriage. Wasn't that the same complaint that Shannon had? That he never spent the night?

I got the GLAAD event and the gender equality event confused. When Alexis entered the get together in her giraffe outfit, Heather told her that she had really wished John was at the event. That sent Alexis into a trail of tears and despair. Maybe John didn't have anything to wear except the shoes and clothes Shannon bought for him, and he knew it would be a media event. Alexis could have bought him a nice outfit so he'd go. LOL.

I really like Katie's 1:1 conversations with her daughter. They seem truly very close and have a great chemistry and connection. I wonder if Tamra is ramping up the raunch this season as FU to Simon and/or Sidney, both who are critical of her being "embarrassing" on realty TV. Simon was always scolding her and rolling her eyes when she made raunchy comments/jokes when they were married, and at one time I heard a rumor he lost his job because of how Tamra presented herself on TV. She tried a lot of times to please him at first-- having the "naked wasted party" (which was supposed to be 1st class etiquette training for Tamra), kicking out Ryan, befriending Alexis and Jim who were fundamental Christian, then getting baptized and there was a season, maybe 2, where she was nice and sort of kind to people.

Sorry to not credit the poster that said this, but whoever said that Heather looks severe was right on. Everything about her is so perfected and intentional she seems like a character in a kids book or movie. Wicked comes to mind. I can't recall ever seeing Heather on camera having a 1:1 with any of her kids. They are usually in a larger group and Terry is there. I wonder if Heather if just hangs out Terry and gets updates from nannies.

When Heather told Alexis that she wished John had been at the GLADD, Alexis deflected big time. If Heather is going to hate on Emily because she should have put aside her discomfort and just be happy she was part of the show since it was for "family equality" you would think that John should have also put aside his discomfort and maybe showed up. Alexis didn't want to say why John wasn't there, but if this was so important to her and her family, John should have been there. It is the same show she did when Jim didn't go to Peggy's party with her-- Peggy asked where Jim was, and Alexis lost her mind and cried all night. She didn't want to answer why John wasn't at the gender equality event. She was embarrassed. She goes on about how they are so in love and ride and die for each other, and he wouldn't go to a charity event that was important to her. This relationship is NOT going to last.

I think she does it for attention. She's a toddler.

Heather is a b---ch who is so obsessed with diet culture she doesn't realize she is in a bubble. She's a total "you can never be too rich or too thin" person. It's so ingrained in her I don't think she can see it.

I feel for Emily. The spirit of inclusion apparently is only for smaller sizes, since Emily mentioned that she didn't have any of her sizes from the designer. Which is extremely ironic and very sad that Heather, who is so "smart" missed this obvious flag to invest in a designer that serves all women, not just the smaller ones. IMO.

Agree about the boomer behavior. My parents, born in the 40s, would occasionally do things like that, but not to punish, and not to teach independence. They just didn't know any better and it was a different time back then. I would lose my mom at the grocery store ALL the time, and it was ME that had to ask customer service to page her over the speaker to come find me. That would never be considered safe today to alert the wild public that a child was lost.

Yes! She is a very authoritarian parent. She gives me Ruby Franke vibes. As the kids get older, they are going to be more difficult to control, and she is big on punishment. There was also a time where she posted about sending her 7-year old Aspen down to a hotel lobby alone to get something for her. https://realityblurb.com/2022/01/31/rhoc-alum-meghan-king-says-she-was-in-denial-during-marriage-to-jim-edmonds-in-her-new-youtube-channel-plus-defends-herself-against-online-trolls-accusing-her-of-child-abuse/