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Here's a little information from the Bravo site on the women who will be hopefully providing us with oodles of snarkalicious goodness: Susanna Paliotta, Mrs. Nation USA 2013 and Mrs. Massachusetts Perfect Woman, is a pageant mom to her two daughters as well as a participant. Shelley Carbone, a wholesome mother of four, won the title of Mrs. Connecticut 2010 before going on to win the title of Mrs. America 2011. Lynne Diamante, who has a law degree and runs a multi-million dollar eyewear company, is a pageant lifer who was crowned Mrs. Rhode Island 20 years after winning Miss Rhode Island. Vanassa Sebastian, whose marriage into a casino dynasty funds her pageant addiction, was Mrs. Connecticut 2012. Leha Guilmette, Mrs. Rhode Island 2013, is currently preparing for the 2013 Mrs. America Pageant. Lori-Ann Marchese, who holds the title of Mrs. Connecticut 2013, will face-off against Leha in the 2013 Mrs. America Pageant. From the article at Bravo TV: http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/bravo-announces-new-show-game-of-crowns

Greetings, Ubi!!! It's like old home week around here (in the best possible way!) Yes, it's still open. LabLover27 (known on this site as LabLover now) lives very nearby CUnT Fitness and, as far as I recall, she has posted that it's still open but the parking lot is usually glaringly empty and that there are now a few other workout studios/gyms opening up in the immediate area but in better, more trafficked locations. Tamra's been making noise about opening up another CUnT Fitness for Rat-Faced Ryan to run but...Yeah, considering Tamra's statement that the gym is apparently just breaking even at this point (a statement which I highly doubt), I don't know that a second location will ever come to fruition.

Probably one of the most easily forgettable "one and done" housewives, I never cared enough to check into what she was up to after her unceremonious dumping by Bravo. I stumbled on this today. Love the part about her banking (hehe) on her friendship with Jill Zarin to carry her through several seasons of the Real Housewives but not surprised to hear she's closing up a bunch of those waxing salons she was opening up at warp speed. The article is from 2011, but is really interesting reading so I thought it was worth sharing. http://www.realitytea.com/2011/12/01/former-housewife-cindy-barshop-in-financial-distress-forced-to-close-several-spas-wants-her-own-reality-show/ An excerpt from the pretty lengthy article:

I contrast George's behavior to a 90-year-old man, Clarence, for whom my sister provided housekeeping services. This 90-year-old gentleman was quite the ladies man. Effusive compliments, very kind to ladies of all ages, even dancing at weddings with every lady he could all whilst using his cane. Never any sexual innuendo or anything remotely inappropriate, but one could tell he was probably quite the hit with the ladies in his younger years because he was so charming. Everyone just loved Clarence and he was the hit of every party. Sadly, he passed from prostate cancer when he was 93 but what a full and lovely life he led. Then I look at the 80-something-year-old George's behavior and it's all the more reprehensible and disgusting to me. He really is the epitome of "dirty old man," and I don't mean that in the typical joking type of way. I can actually picture the old bastard running around Miami alleyways wearing a trench coat and nothing else, exposing his horny goat weed-enhanced dick to every unsuspecting woman who passes by and deluding himself into thinking the women love it. Ugh.

That was quite a story she pulled out of her racist ass, wasn't it? I actually laughed at her ludicrous bullshit...Poor long-suffering Jessica, just trying to get her sex on with a black dude and black women everywhere she goes antagonizing her and hating on her. I think she was even trying to squeeze out a tear like it was her goddamned job. OMFG.... *eye roll* I used to write Jessica off as just being a flat-out ignorant clam but, after seeing those texts and her statement about being able to "deflect" and "no one would suspect...," I think the bitch is just straight up racist and those comments I wrote off to total ignorance are in fact a reflection of her true feelings. Yeah, Jessica, black and white girls don't mix when one of the girls is a straight-up racist, as you have now revealed yourself to be. I hope she gets her bony ass off of my TV after this season and never returns.

I'm really glad I watch this on the DVR so I can fast forward through anything to do with George on the upcoming episode. I just can't deal with that twisted wooden-toothed weasel after last week's episode.

I didn't particularly care for Jessica before this entire incident. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt that her racially-charged comments were just borne of ignorance and perhaps she had no idea how offensive those comments were. I've revoked her "Benefit of the Doubt" card after hearing those texts. What a stealthy racist bitch. I hope VH1 boots her after this season and that she never graces my television screen again. (ETA: I burst into a fit of giggles when Drea said, "So she can have black penis but she can't have black girlfriends???" Absolutely hilarious moment, thanks for that, Drea!)

I freely confess that sometimes her blogs just drive me batshit crazy. Way too many metaphors for my brain when I'm struggling to wake up with a cup of coffee and perusing all things housewives. I wish she would stop trying to make them so clever and just stick to the facts, ma'am, just the facts.

I'd love to see Bethenny dealing with that creepy George. Hell, I'd pay to watch that shit go down on a Pay-Per-View Event.

What a relief to see I wasn't the only one who caught that! Sonja also posted up a video on her social media of her playing basketball outside when, she claims, was literally right before she walked inside the house, the video being her attempt to prove to viewers she wasn't "drunk" when she went into the house. And she had on that PANTSUIT IN THE VIDEO, TOO!!! I dunno. Looks to me Sonja must have had that cotton dress (which looked very nightgown-ish to me) stuffed into her purse to change into later...But where, Sonja? On the basketball court??? Behind foliage outside of the house? There wasn't enough time between that front door shutting and her stomping off for her to have changed in a foyer. Totally bizarre. Between that change of clothes and the bedhead, looks like Sonja might have been doing the Walk of Shame when she came home from Siri's.

I find this possibility intriguing. Way back on TWOP in the RHOC thread, we were discussing the infamous 1980s Bunco Party and how Vicki had stormed off in a huff, only to return a couple of minutes later to resume the argument. A poster at the time suggested that perhaps production had instructed her car to leave and she really had no choice but to go back in and continue the drama. I could totally see Sonja trying to leave and her car and driver had conveniently disappeared into the night. Of course, I guess we'll have to wait for next week to see what brings her back into the house. Personally, I'd have let the drunken fool take off. Unless she were going to pull a Juicy Joe Guidice and attempt to drive herself somewhere.

Especially considering to my eye she looked pretty proficient with internet skills and even deducing the "funeral" banner from the back of the car could be zoomed in on, the funeral home information gathered, and then calling the funeral home to get more information. I didn't see Nev and Max doing anything particularly challenging to find this girl. I would think had Tracie Thoms really wanted to find her, she seemed pretty resourceful and could have probably done it on her own. Maybe she has a new project she wanted some early publicity for, get her name and face back out there as a refresher? Hard to say what motivates people to be on this show. At least the last couple of episodes haven't been "You're catfish is a WHALE!!!" type of reveal. Those were getting really old, really fast.

What I find particularly interesting in this entire debacle of debauchery is no one of whom I am aware has come forward and 'fessed up to boning The Bloated One. I mean, what with his half-ass pseudo-celebrity status, most sleazy bitches would be crawling out of their rat holes to raise their hands and sell their stories to the tabloids (which would probably have paid top dollar, considering Tori's popularity with all things Lifetime and tabloid). I do believe he has probably had at least 5 affairs over the years he's been with Tori. His off-handed "because I didn't think I'd get caught" was mentally followed in my head with "because I'd gotten away with it before." I just find it all sorts of wickedly entertaining that not one single ho'bag has come forward and admitted she spread 'em for Dean-O.

I've been hankering for one of these babies since I saw it on Doomsday Preppers. Looks like it could definitely come in handy for a multitude of things.

Flashback to the mud race in which they competed in their first season on the show. As I recall, Terry was exceptionally enthusiastic when hosing down the mud from Tamra. Hmmmmm...

I wish there was a definitive statement on this from Kristen. I think it was Ramona doing damage control (honestly, a video of them watching and commenting on that episode...Since when do they do that???) and her #plasticnotglass hashtag crap, yet I've never heard Kristen refute that claim to say that it wasn't plastic. If I were Kirsten and it had been a glass-glass, I'd have been all over social media calling Ramona a liar face (thanks for that one, Vicki!) and disputing it. I'm hoping this comes out at the reunion and that Kristen validates it if Ramona still maintains it was plastic. I think glass or plastic is semantics in this case, since a nearly-60-year-old woman who claims to run in such impressive society circles should have sufficient self-control to not be throwing objects at another person, whether it's glass, plastic, a freaking canoe oar, or anything else. Well, except maybe water with the caveat that the person is actually on fire.

I believe that torrent of outrage was triggered by Carole's blog for this episode. Here's a link: http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city/season-6/blogs/carole-radziwill/carole-turns-out-size-and-age-m

*DEAD* You win the internetz today for that gem, LOL!

Actually Ramona did say it was plastic on her Twitter account right after that episode aired. She was doing some type of viewer Q&A fucknuttery and kept using the hashtag #plasticnotglass, for whatever that's worth. I don't follow her other social media so I'm not sure if she was touting this hashtag in other places. (ETA: I also read somewhere there was a video of her and Sonja watching the episode and pretty much laughing the entire incident off since it was "just plastic." Which obviously in their world must mean chucking that oar at Kristen's face was no big deal, either.)

Holy real shit, batman.... Dana Cody is ripping into Carole Radziwill via Twitter (George is retweeting all of them). https://twitter.com/TippietoeDiva/status/474084187071578112

It would appear Andy thought last night's episode, chock full of sexual inappropriateness courtesy of George, was "hilarious." So much for Andy cutting the old bastard off at the waxed balls, I guess. https://twitter.com/Andy/status/473994134315745280

I remember her Twitter account being glaringly absent of any comments or references to those things, too. I also find it curious that Bravo, known for focusing in on any bling within a mile radius of the camera, has yet to show a close-up of what is probably a bauble from Claire's or HSN on Dana's finger. Hell, even Alexis Bellino's paste jewels on RHOC got plenty of camera time. Cody's ring must look like the cheap prop that it is and even the low-life powers that be at Bravo are embarrassed to show it up close.

If I were the people living in that house whose windows were literally right on top of that fence line, Bravo would have had a whole lot of work editing my big-assed head hanging out of my window, watching these chucklefucks going after each other, a martini in one hand and my e-cig in the other. Best free entertainment EVER.

I would have loved for her to just own it in that moment and say, "Hey, I'm a brokeass, this is all I can afford to lose, ladies!" and laughed it off in her own special delusional sort of way. It would have been more endearing than that pretentious bullshit cover story she was trying to feed everyone.

Yes, because clearly her children will never be on the internet to Google this fuck-and-awe story and read everything on their own in just a very short couple of years. Or maybe Tori and Dean will have the internet scrubbed of any and all references to this trainwreck so as to avoid the children stumbling upon it on their own. That comment was probably the most ridiculous one to come from Tori's overly inflated lips during this entire shitfest. And that's saying something.