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I absolutely did not intend offense. And I didn't mean to imply that Marlo's. .(see here's where I got into trouble. I was going to say 'ponytail' but the point i was trying to make was the excessive length, especially Eva, so I went with 'horsetail ') hair was made of anything other than human hair. We're going through an extended record breaking heatwave in Australia atm and just seeing all that hair gave me hot flushes. However, I do want to know why it is offensive? Seriously. I want to understand so I'm not making ignorant statements anywhere. I had braids done many years ago at a West African salon. Some were real hair, some was fake. The Ghanian hairdresser told me she had clients that traveled from interstate to see her. There are very few salons catering to anything other than caucasian hair here, is my point. Since then, I've absorbed some of the issues with cultural appropriation and I have some understanding of those issues. But again, only from the periphery of mainstream popular culture. Most of what I was saying was directed at Eva because those braids were excessively long and heavy looking to me. Marlo's hair drew Kandi to comment as well. Apart from her luggage being lost, Marlo also said something about her hair being an issue that resulted in her lateness with Nene and Shamari for the temple trip. There's obviously a lot of maintenance that goes into these wigs and hair pieces. And probably very little local assistance or understanding in Tokyo, either, probably less than there would be in an Australian capital city actually. Anyway I apologise for making a comment that was in any way offensive. That wasn't my intention at all and I'd like to ensure i don't do it again.

Gregg's illness is why she's so pissed. Nene gave a kind of scrambled account of the phone call, where Gregg didn't say goodbye like they traditionally do when either of them flies somewhere. I do recall Nene having flying issues at some stage (or was this yet another of KimZB's excuses not to film?). Main thing is that something is seriously wrong between Gregg and Nene as Gregg goes through this illness. It got lost between Eva's Grandfather, Porsha's pregnancy, Marlo's baggage disappearance. Nene WAS FUMING. All those comments to Tanya about her husband were Nene shading her own marriage. Tanya and the rest of the group took it as an attack on the veracity of Tanya's marriage / 3 year engagement. This is why Nene acted out. We got as foreshadowing from production, a huge montage of Nene's insistence on punctuality, for example, then Nene being one of the late offenders the next day. (Because of the phone call to Gregg). I think next episode, Tanya earns her peach for drawing Nene's fire. We see Nene late and left behind and her rageful ratchet language at the table. She's screaming inside for attention but she's not going to ask for it. Speaking of, Eva going to Kandi for consolation was SO uncomfortable. Kandi just can't do it. It was so cringe, I began to wonder just how much of an alcoholic Eva must be to put Kandi through that (morning breath doesn't explain it ). Eva could have gone to Nene or called room service for sake. I don't get her choosing Kandi. I was living for Marlo's epic extended sulk and stank face deprived of her pop up traveling boutique and ostentatiously designer branded luggage. She was PISSED. Marlo's sulking has taken on a life of its own for me this season, I'm actually hoping for it. So Nene's inability to deal with her husband's health is apparently what's going to deliver us a way more interesting season than we've been anticipating up until this episode. Anyone have a clue what Nene's issue could be? Is she just constitutionally unable to deal with sickness in her partner? Does she utterly disagree with and resent Gregg choosing to refuse chemo? She made a comment about love and marriage being 2 different things, does she have NO feeling for Gregg unless he's useful to her? I'm not even judging (yet! !) but I'm seeing FURY in Nene, and she's about to go HAM on Gregg via proxy. Or proxies. Those being the rest of the cast plus production. I'm finally looking forward to Atlanta next week. 1 final question : WHAT is with Eva and Marlo and the 4 foot long hair? How heavy must Marlo's sewn/glued on horsetail have been? And surely all those braids Eva was flinging about must be even weightier? IDGI. Long is lovely but there are limits.

Amen @MajorNelson. Josiah wasn't fooling. That gaggle of 'yasssss' gays really hit him. He was visibly shaken a few times and paradoxically, I think this is the only time he'd have donned that ridiculous gold outfit. Because he was overthinking. His initial reaction seemed to be a hard pass, beneath his dignity. It made no sense for this to be Josiah's gig. Why not Adrian, why not Tyler? Or most obviously because he's done it before and used to perform, why didn't Kate tap Ashton if it had to be done at all. Ashton has performed in every guest command performance. Josiah never. It went against his grain to accept the gig, but the history of fear he has with this kind of gay just boggled his brain. I think he suddenly felt like a good tip depended on him and dressing up in a tight gold lame outfit would maybe prove he no longer had issues with men like this. In any other circumstance, he'd have stood on his Butler school dignity and pointed at Ashton. I think he subconsciously wants approval from Charlie gays, we all want approval and acceptance, but hates himself for seeking it still. I felt for Josiah.

Josiah was a nervous mess with these guests. I don't think he was thinking clearly and felt 'tip pressured' as opposed to pressure from the guests to wear that outfit. Adrian needs to be called out for being skeevy. I'm also glad Ashton took it straight back to Adrian with respect to Laura. Adrian is very talented in the kitchen but very immature and unformed as a person. Cpts Lee and Sandy on Top Chef next episode! I made a loud sound of happiness when I saw their faces on the preview. No idea why cross show promotions tickle me so much. I read on Tamara Tattles that Below Deck is now overall Bravo's 3rd most popular show. Top Chef would have to be in the 1 or 2 spot, surely? I hope appearing on TC increases viewing numbers for BD anyway.

I read Fetty Wap has priors with minors, I can't remember because this all hit the blogs when the instastories hit social media back when it was being filmed. Teresa's parenting was being questioned along with her intelligence, which is low hanging fruit but still valid. Fetty Wap has song lyrics apparently about teaching his underage 'bitch', or whatever misogynist term he actually used, to cook crack for him. Teresa's so so ignorant, wilfully, shamelessly ignorant, that i very much doubt she knew or understood. or if she did, couldn't APPLY that information to Milania working with or meeting and appearing with, a person with this history and values. He's famous, isn't he? So it must be ok. Same logic I'm sure she applies to herself and Juicy. We're not *really * felons! Just on tv! We're acting in a reality tv show. I never underestimate Teresa's weapon grade ignorance and dull iq. She does have a certain survival level rat cunning though.

Danielle, in all her scenes actually, in the scene where Teresa visits cannot help herself looking miserable and put upon. Teresa asked 'how is married life?' and both Marty and Danielle looked like they were going to make her referee. Danielle had a huge stank face that continued into the kitchen as she served the meal, along with the smell of burning martyr, to her husband and Teresa. He jumped up so ostentatiously to pull out Danielle's chair and she continued with the face and the attitude. She's screaming behind her eyes to anyone she encounters 'I'm miserable! I hate my life and I hate this man and all my friends!'. It's so obvious. Mostly i think she hates herself.

I'm not all the way through yet, but I'm mesmerized by what's going on with Teresa's TH cleavage. She looks like Mary's nextdoor neighbour in Something About Mary.

My impression was that Quad stepped out on Gregory. This is getting confusing, and Christmas has happened between the first reunion ep and now. Someone clarify

I can't with what she's done with those a/b/c cups tonight! They look hitched up, smooshed and pulled so far that the nipples MUST be just on the hem! and then there's this invisi fabric stuff racked up between them. It's hideous. Small boobs are so elegant on a frame like Contessa's, hire a stylist. And then there's Mariah. She looks like she's been microbladed in violet. i couldn't work out what was going on with her brows. I've been pissed with Quad all season and last for basically ensuring that Mariah comes back full time. And Mariah unleashed the big gun 'what are you doing here?! You're not even MARRIED to medicine'. And Quad sat back and shut her mouth. In case Andy noticed, you know. Mariah may not be married to medicine either if Aydin has the aneurysm he looked like he was about to have in the preview, waving his file of 'receipts' around. Mariah, if you were really walking the walk and not getting down in the gutter, why have you brought a file of receipts with you? This kind just never learn.

And Ashton would like to wish us all: Ashton's accent in my head amuses me. he's such a boofhead. I'm glad he survived the accident though.

@walnutqueen, table for 2 for the unabashed smokers. I frequently laugh like Mutley during a Bravo binge. I'm an embarrassment to my children. But I too defend all our rights to the most cutting and immediate snark. Happy holidays everyone from Australia, where I've been trying to bake festive goodies in (goes to check thermometer to convert celsius to fahrenheit...) 102 degrees. Room temperature butter here is ghee. My alfajore and shortbread doughs became paste. I envy your white christmases, but I have no idea what that looks like. We'll be having cold seafood and charcuterie here. Be safe and be kind.

No reports of Ross threatening to kill a Law Enforcement Officer yet. I don't think that helped the LuAnne situation. BUT. I doubt Ross is a US citizen. He's from New Zealand, although I think he said the mother of his child lives in the States with their child. This could be pretty ugly for him if he is denied entry in future. How likely is that? And why, for the love of all that's holy, was it not Joao? Ross has never come off as an ugly drunk. Whereas Joao... remember 'Jezebob'? He certainly does get nasty. Maybe Jezebob reared its head and it got heated between him and Ross? Because the cops came initially because they were 'horseplaying' (code in boy's world for fighting, but now we're busted it's totally all in good fun) and Joao and Ross get handcuffed and taken to the pokey (I think they both did) yet Ross gets some major charges? Joao is such a little bitch.

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

Ross was out drinking with Joao of all people and this happens: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ross-inia-from-below-deck-is-arrested-in-west-palm-beach.html/ Another Christmas, another Bravolebrity in the can for battery on a police officer. Why Ross? Why?

It's Christmas and a Bravolebrity goes to jail in West Palm Beach : https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ross-inia-from-below-deck-is-arrested-in-west-palm-beach.html/ the battery on a police officer was the charge LuAnne had the most trouble with last year, wasn't it? Oh Ross, choose your drinking buddies more wisely

exactly. You never know where Jeff Lewis might turn up..

The scene where Ashton sat Ross down to discuss their special moment? Ross looked really uneasy for some of that, like he was about to bolt. It felt like Ashton was about to propose to him! Production have been giving us all sorts of little cabin interactions between these 2 all season, like the dressing scene this episode where Ross comments on Ashton 'going commando'. The idea of these 2 having what is apparently referred to as 'bud sex', only whilst on ocean going vessels, makes me giggle.

Caroline was a guest on Heather McDonald's Juicy Scoop podcast this week. And she didn't show. She was invited to talk about 'her side' given she's not attending the reunion. The reason she didn't show? Something about missing court dates because her dog attacked a neighbour's dog. She has a rescue pitbull that she says is 'not socialised', took it outside off leash at a time she thought was 'safe' and it saw the neighbour's dog. Why she's missed court dates isn't so clear. Also on twitter she's still screaming in caps that 'someone' is impersonating her and asking for money. And if you see one of those tweets to send it to her immediately (I'll spare the forum all the caps). So, that's Caroline's week as far as I know. I still think they should video link her in for a section of the reunion. I didn't notice any Mazels today for Andy becoming a father, she was pretty quiet on that topic!

I DO remember!!! And i remembered it too, this episode. How 'out there' Danielle was to the rest of the group, and how she really forced it. Remember her meeting some guy in a bar and i think Dina and ?? spying on her? The guy didn't show up. And Caroline Manzo's instant and life long hatred for this woman. A Manzo can spot the trash. Out of this came one of Danielle's triggers revisited this episode: being dismissed (as trash). I think that's what triggered my memory of 'Steve' (I couldn't remember his name, just Danielle relishing telling the other girls about the arrangement). Those poor kids of hers!

The 'red flag' is Danielle going from nought to 100 over the issue: "but I command RESPECT". Wow. She's been in 2 other marriages. Where is the empathy? She would have had to negotiate new men in her daughters' lives and all the pitfalls and nuances of that, so how can she possibly believe that handling new step children, even if they are adult, in this manner is in any way healthy? I mean ffs, her own daughters were having dinner with Marty's children while these animals were being filmed at dinner. Danielle definitely has The Crazy. The look on her face! She's going to be one of those Italian nonnas I grew up with all in black with the really scary faces that are rumoured to have the cursing ability. She should run with that, it's a role made for her. Joe with Melissa's toes made gave me reflux too. There is NO way, NO WAY he'd be coming anywhere near my 'facial area' (RHOA Eva trying to do phone sex as a dare last episode) with that tongue. I'm surprised it was Danielle that had a hole burned through her tongue, actually. Somehow Joe Gorga's action shapeshifted its way to Danielle's head. How do you bite your way through your own tongue eating cantelope (sp?) anyway? The woman has some serious issues. I bet she's a teeth grinder. I'd like to see Danielle and LeeAnne Locken together! I found Danielle's behaviour so bizarre and offensive that it HAS to be for the cameras. Surely? But then you see how uncomfortable Marty looks and we know it's already ended with mutual restraining orders, and Danielle claiming 'squatters rights' in the Blue Room House while he tries to evict her, and the house back on the market. Those poor girls are going to be retraumatized after this season. I can't see Danielle coming back unless Teresa has that much juice on the show and wants her back. The alliance between Teresa, Dolores and Danielle is also screamingly ridiculous given Dolores and Danielle both foam at the mouth when they spot one another.

Dolores at the shelter? those poor women. When Dolores talks about her divorce, it sounds like it happened yesterday. How long has it been? I was skeeved at this sequence. Dolores flat came out and said it: going to the women's shelter makes HER feel better. There's something a bit tone deaf about that. I'm actually a bit surprised they even let the film crew in there. None of the women looked comfortable. And I felt she was pressuring them to 'tell their stories'. If you're in a shelter, it's raw, it's immediate and it's chaotic. It's not something I found at all entertaining. Story telling so that you know you are not alone is fine, in a private setting. I wished one of those women could have stood up and told her to fck right back off to her big empty house and her big empty ex husband. As long as Frank's around, btw, any new suitor is going to pause or move on. That's also part of the answer Dolores put as to how Danielle can keep pulling fiances: there's no other man hanging around in her house. I think when you leave Danielle, you get your skates on and never look back. Jennifer's other brother, the one not getting married in a 90 Day Fiancee type deal, is a mouth breather. And that daughter of hers is growing up thinking she's adorbs. I thought she was rude at the table and the 'i'm learning to be a princess' line from last episode only seems to be encouraging her. I'm on Team NO MORE KIDS on Bravo. The older ones, I can handle. But I watch these shows as a guilty pleasure. Not interested in being triggered by screaming kids and domestic insanity.

i am browsing Cameo for my daughter's birthday, and I was considering Kate. If I saw this pic of her, I would NOT recognise it as the Kate Chastain we all know and love. I'm useless at working out why, but please, someone else tell me what is going on? I don't have the skills to copy just the pic over, but here is the link: https://www.cameo.com/kate_chastain Who is this woman? this season, Kate is definitely looking gaunt and her hair is everywhere. I get the hair due to the humidity in the South Pacific. But the long nights and maybe some of her rumoured entertainments are having their way with her facial features.

I think Danielle's wet dream would have been Mob Wives. Going head to head with Renee Graziano. Wow. The article I read, written by her daughter, about the deleterious effect of being Danielle Staub's child Danielle's RH experience, really softened my stance on Danielle. She's been given a golden ticket, another chance on this show. She got her wedding by Bravo. And yet she STILL can't keep it together. She and Teresa can leave anytime.

I just saw an article where Danielle accuses Marg of planning her tacky bachelorette party with 'malicious intent'. Spoken like a woman overfamiliar with the law courts. Oh lord, here it is. I know the site isn't exactly the NYT, but it's a funny read. Suddenly Danielle is horrified by the strippers? And accusing Marg of not taking into account her 'arthritis' during the performance where she was whirled around and upside down by that male stripper. Did ANYONE see Danielle looking in anyway uncomfortable during any of this shitshow? No. And suddenly she's also offended on behalf of her children. The delusion is very real. https://www.realitytea.com/2018/12/17/danielle-staub-says-margaret-josephs-planned-bachelorette-party-with-malicious-intent-crossed-the-line/

yup, that's what I heard and saw too. I was going to go back and check, so thanks for this. I was thinking when I saw it that it was maybe some West Coast Skateboi slang for something derogatory, cos Chef Unicorn was green with envy and hugging that pillow. And she made him repeat it like it was a problem. It looked like they were going to have an argument in this sequence as she is trying to get out and up to the Crow's Nest with Ashton and Adrian is making some kind of comment that pulled her up. Ashton was outside the door waiting and they kept going back and forth with the cameras between the cabin and Ashton outside.