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I think it's dangerous & frankly intellectually lazy to label someone as a racist. As I understand it, racists believe that they are superior to others simply by virtue of their race. I don't necessarily think LeeAnne thinks she's better than Kary because Kary is from Mexico. I think LeeAnne would have disliked Kary regardless of her national and racial heritage. Personally, I would call LeeAnne an emotionally unintelligent woman who used (uses?) racially charged language. Very much like I would say Brandi is a dumbass, but not necessarily a racist. I think most everyone would be hard pressed to stand up & swear, so help me God, that we've never said something that could be considered racially or morally offensive. It doesn't make it right, but at some point there has to be room the be human and make mistakes. The bigger issue to me is that LeeAnne doubles down and has no remorse for what she says or does but is terribly terribly sorry to think there will be consequences. As far as Jeremy and D'Andra go, the VA is a complicated system. Someone may have various issues that cause them to be varying classifications of 100% disabled. My dad received a 70% rating for 1 issue and a 40% disabled rating for another, yet still wasn't classified as 100% disabled even though is individual disabilities added up to 110%. I would imagine Jeremy's 100% rating is probably from PTSD given that he's done 5 tours and it's not surprising that D'Andra would go with sleep apnea rather than PTSD to speak about publicly.

I think the “Mauricio swiped agents/clients” thing is always blown out of proportion. Agents are 1099 not W2 employees and in many markets switch brokers pretty fluidly. And clients are the client of the agent, not the broker, so they tend to move with agent - most don’t care what sign is in their yard so long as the house sells.

BH is on the West Coast. Yes on Kyle!

I don't get why Kyle can't just say, "you came in to my home and insulted my sister at a family event and that is offensive, regardless of if you said it as Lisa Rinna, Erika Jayne or Big Bird." Oh wait, yes I do, because then we couldn't have a whole scene of Teddi on the verge of tears, Dorit rolling her eyes, Erika looking pissed and Rinna giving us bullshit about how the Erika Jayne persona gave her the confidence to speak up for herself.

WTF is with these women and their damn well-done beef??

I'll probably watch. I'll have an infant when the next season airs, and what the hell else will I have to do and it provides a nice opportunity to drink wine and talk shit on people I don't actually know. However, I am not that pumped about the idea of Kathy Hilton joining. It makes me uncomfortable when family members are on - one of the reasons I couldn't watch NJ. The Kim/Kyle dynamic was bad enough. I just hate to watch people who actually do love each other and have a real tie to one another be able to see how the other talks shit on them when they're not around. For me, the ideal scenario would be for next season to drop Teddi, Rinna and Denise (I just find her kind of gross- like maybe she doesn't bathe regularly- and anyone who is friends with Brandi is a pass for me). Keep Kyle, Camille and Dorit (I'm just waiting for her to get an eviction notice like Lynn & Frank and then she can go), cast 2 new women and somehow entice LVP to film as a friend with the two newbies and then have some sort of big arc where she makes up with Kyle and Dorit and returns in the heavy friend of capacity for following seasons like Camille has been previously.

Totally agree! To be honest, I hate when women bad mouth their ex's in general...to me, it only makes them look stupid because they were willing to put up with that shit for however long. They had a tough divorce, everyone knows it, but if she's happily moved on, then she needs to move one - not talk shit about 50% of the make up of her kids' DNA.

Andy has said they’ve asked her to come back full time every year, but she has always declined for one reason or another.

Agreed, however, she doesn't have to drag LVP through the mud with her. She didn't have any direct contact with Lisa about the dog story and her proof is a few weak text messages from John Blizzard who doesn't seem like the brightest crayon in the box. Teddi doesn't need to own being a mastermind, but she does need to own that she willingly chose to behave in a way that she now regrets without trying to qualify that she only acted that way because LVP influenced her/manipulated her in to it. The cute "oh because I wouldn't go through with your plan" and back and forth "i feel betrayed by you" at Camille's birthday party just goes to show that Teddi isn't owning anything, she's saying her hands aren't clean, with the implication that they aren't clean because LVP made her put mud on them.

I disagree on some of this. Teddi only "owned it" if Lisa did, in fact, plot to out Dorit by using Teddi- something, that while we may think happened, we don't have any actual evidence occurred. I think I would give Teddi more credit if she said, "I heard about Lucy, and given my issues with Dorit, found I was more than willing to gossip about it and judge her. I feel badly and I'm sorry." By trying to say that she only acted this way because LVP wanted her to, she's not owning anything, other than the fact that she's an easily influenced, immature person. And the fact that she's hell bent on making Lisa admit that she masterminded the whole thing is just another way she's trying to deflect from her own participation.

I disagree. I think she was saying "I don't know him" meaning she wasn't socially acquainted with him. Of course she knew him an professional capacity, he mans the front desk and coordinated the smaller fundraiser events, but that doesn't make him someone she "knows". I also don't think he needed to be fired...she employs mostly 20-somethings in the restaurant industry and at a non-profit, not exactly places where she's really paying the big bucks for top-notch talent. At the time she had the conversation with John, it looked like everything was going to blow over (the article hadn't come out), so true to her personality, she gave him a scolding and moved on.

To be fair, it was Nigiri which should be eaten by hand or with chopsticks. Her restaurant probably doesn't have chopsticks and eating with her hands may make her uncomfortable, oh well. Ken comes on strong, for sure, but I think my husband would have my back in this sort of situation, too. I think a true friend gives another friend the benefit of the doubt in the absence of any legitimate proof. Just "thinking" that it must have been Lisa who gave the story, or someone in her camp, isn't proof. I'm not saying they need the sort of proof that holds up in court, but something more than a group consensus is necessary, in my opinion, to accuse a friend of something like this. If Kyle and Dorit are truly the friends they claim to be, they could have asked her if she leaked the story, or knew anything about it, and when she said "no" then that needed to be the end of it. Again- why is everyone letting Dorit, the domino that started this whole chain of events, off the hook? I don't blame anyone for realizing that pet ownership isn't for them, or wanting to remove an animal they feel is a threat to their children, but she knew the best option was to return Lucy to VDP Dogs and she chose not to do so, this is all on her.

I don't think that's confirmed? Maybe I missed it? I also would like for Erika and Dorit to get their comeuppance, but I think I could handle them just not being on the show, instead. Erika is totally boring to me, like watching paint dry, so if she's not going to get a season with a "bad edit" then I'd just as soon she was off my TV all together.

I photograph everything, even my clothing, and keep it all in a file labeled with where it was purchased, when it was purchased and how much it cost. I also photograph receipts and put them in with the item pictures. All it takes is one homeowners claim to make you paranoid about ensuring you get the full value of anything lost. I have special riders for my expensive jewelry, fur coat (left to me, not purchased), etc. but I also want to document anything else I bring in to the house. We had a flood a couple of years ago and I was shocked by the amount of proof they wanted and the detail we needed to go in to in order to receive replacement compensation. I even wound up claiming some toilet paper and an old set of hot rollers, yes, petty things, but I paid for them and could no longer use them - the little things add up and if you're paying all this money every year for insurance, why not be able to get the full value of the loss?

I think that was only the one they were living in together- when they moved up to the two bed. She paid for the one bedroom and I assume that once they gave up the two bed and she moved back to a single she's paying again.

Teddi has confused the concept of being set up with being a coconspirator. She willingly went along with everything & then got pissed LVP left her holding the bag (allegedly). Now she’s spouting off about proof...but her only proof is that she was gossiping with a guy who claimed LVP gave him the go-ahead. John Blizzard could have said the Pope told him to tell Teddi, but it doesn’t make it true. The texts don’t serve as legitimate proof. Teddi made up her mind that she must have been taken in by LVP’s evil plot & she’s betting everything she has on it because she doesn’t want to admit that she could willingly agreed to do something she now feels bad about without being coerced. Do I think LVP more than likely wanted Teddi to get the info, yes. But no one can prove it.

Regardless of if Camille, Rinna or Teddi were told to bring something up on camera, I don’t really care. They’re all adults and knew what they were agreeing to was basically exposing something about a coworker on TV. When you agree to do something dirty, you have to own that responsibility & understand that you may get left holding the bag while your co-conspirator gets off free. I get that they’re pissed she didn’t hold up her end of the pile on, but they can’t try & blame shift when they’re just as guilty. LVP’s main fault is that she picks little soldiers who are willing to roll on her when they start to feel the heat. What I don’t get about Teddi, is that as soon as she saw that LVP wasn’t going to contribute at the dog center, she could have very easily dropped it & either let it die or let LVP figure out how to expose Dorit on her own. It reminds me of how she ran & told Rinna about Dorit & PK talking shit last year & went on & on about Dorit being late. She’s Miss Mountain out of a Molehill.

In the caption, she says she wore a helmet.

Maybe you've always noticed it, but because it's normal & no big deal, it didn't stick in your brain as something unusual to remember? I've always found Lisa R. a mildly amusing person who is easily lead and not afraid to be the source of drama and I appreciate her hustle, but she lost me for good with this.

Well, we get them every year, so yes. And I've never known of anyone to wipe them off and have definitely seen public officials, news personalities, etc proudly wear theirs for years. Even if I hadn't, knowing that it has to do with religion and not just a fashion choice, I would never make fun of it. Rinna CLEARLY knows ashes on Ash Wednesday are associated with Catholicism, which is why it is so offensive, it's not like she had no idea what was going on.

This is just ridiculous. Are they each getting a cut out of Teddi's business? Or Erika's makeup deal? Or did they each get a piece of American Woman? All of those came about because of the show. And let's be real- no one has even accused LVP of pushing the dog thing to make it a story line. Even if she DID tell John Blizzard to tell Teddi, Teddi is the one who is responsible for what she chose to do with that information. So far as we've seen on the show, Rinna, Teddi and Kyle have refused to let the Puppy Story drop, not LVP, so they're the ones who consciously chose to drive the story line. They all claim it's "unscripted", so are they now going to say production told them not to let it die?

You can on an iPhone. Just hold down on one text bubble, click "more" and then you can pick and choose which texts to delete.

After watching and reading the texts, I think it all went down something like this: I just don't see it as some huge plot to make Dorit look bad. If it was, then Lisa would have been more than OK with the others continuing to bring it up. You can tell by her body language that she's uncomfortable with people talking about it, 1. because of their longstanding relationship with PK and 2. because it makes the rescue look bad for placing a dog with a family who holds no regard for the contract they signed. Dorit is no victim here. If she doesn't want people gossiping about her and talking shit on her, she shouldn't have done something shitty. She was in NO WAY qualified to determine if the person she was giving the dog to was, indeed, an appropriate home for Lucy. If she was really concerned for her children's safety (which is a valid reason not to keep a dog) then it would have been JUST as easy to pick up the phone and have someone from VDP dogs come and get Lucy.

I found it a bit hilarious when all the "ladies" were pearl clutching over veal, yet I'm sure none of them are morally opposed to eating lamb. Hell, one of the rotating images on the Villa Blanca home page is their rack of lamb! Although, I did notice that they use short ribs, rather than veal, for their Osso Bucco, how charitable to give the cow at least a full year on earth. And really, if you're going to slaughter a cow and eat it, what difference does it make if you do it under a year old or over? As an unapologetic meat eater, I fully acknowledge my hypocrisy in having no problem consuming game and industrialized farm animals while shuddering at the thought of my precious dog facing even a moment of discomfort or discontent.

Wow. This post is so offensive. First, I don't believe Lisa has made the loss of her brother in to a story line. It's something that happened, she obviously has feelings around it and has acknowledged those feelings on the reality tv programs she is a part of. Just because she returned for work doesn't make it ok for her coworkers to come for her over a total non-issue story. I have gone back to work following the death of a close loved one and I didn't expect to be treated as the company punching bag. Additionally, it's been reported numerous times that she asked to take the year off and Evolution told her no. I also don't think it's fair to assume that just because we never saw them together that they weren't close. It's also not fair to think someone can't seriously grieve the loss of a sibling they weren't even that close to. Death can bring about many unresolved feelings- all of the "what ifs?" and "what were we even fighting over?" can take a serious toll. Not to mention, the loss of an immediate family member- no matter how close- starts to bring up the feeling that at some point, there may be no one left who knows your story- who knows the story of your family. Loss and grief are tricky emotions, and certainly don't deserve to be trivialized.