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Boy, Megan is fuming, isn't she? She was going to be the pretty one who turned it all around, recruited less-likely-to-succeed friends to join/stand in comparison to her... only things didn't turn out like she expected. Obviously time will tell, but I can see Vanessa's side - by not acknowledging her success, she's as much as saying "It wasn't supposed to be YOU that succeeded." "I'm the Mary, you're the Rhoda" syndrome.

Not sure how I feel about Bronwyn. I actually liked the red coat (for this specific occasion/themed party), but she definitely falls on the costume-y side of fashion. Like Sutton from RHBH, designers see her coming a mile away and offload stuff marked way up that they know they couldn't otherwise sell at half price. But they leave happy and ego-stroked, and the designers make back some $ they otherwise would have lost, so... win/win? That said, I think she's smarter than many and some of her reaction shots revealed a quick assessment of needing to contain a natural reaction and proceed with caution because she's on national television. I admire wariness in a new housewife, especially if you get a genuine glimmer of her real feelings first. Hoping they re-signed Mary because they're anticipating another raid/indictment. She does occasionally have a great quip, but the prosperity gospel/cult stuff is foul.

Sometimes not speaking is the most polite thing for everybody involved, even if there is no danger of arguing. There was no shortage of guests for them to interact with separately, so if people were uncomfortable because they were deprived of the main event they were hoping for, that's on them. (But maybe this view is because I come from a long line of people who are perfectly capable of ignoring one another entirely at events. We consider that good manners ;) ) I think the main awkwardness here was caused by nobody really wanting to hang with Robyn and Kody, which appears to have carried over into other family events since then (prior to the funeral). I don't think Christine can be blamed for that - they're ALL mad at them. It's got to be awkward to be making small talk with Kody while you hear laughter and fun coming from Christine's side of the room and you just want to hang with your siblings but *somebody* has to include Dad.

He's just lying to fit the concept that he never knew love until he met Robyn and therefore everybody before her was forced upon him/out of his hands/not meant to be. Along the same lines as Robyn's portrait of Kody with her very young children. As I recall, he and Meri used to jet off on vacations without the others, didn't they? Seemed like she was the favored wife for quite a while. I can't help but think if he'd never caught the polygamy virus if they might have made a nice monogamous marriage. She probably felt that way. I chalk a lot of it up to the fact that they're on tv and she's being directly asked questions about it, therefore having to supply her opinion. Not clear to me that Janelle's irritation at it isn't as much from watching the show and seeing these answers as whatever Christine has actually said in person. I noted this a while back. On social media at one point when they were losing the weight initially they were doing keto or carnivore and would post pictures of their meals. It clearly was working for them. Which isn't to say they didn't add the medication at some point along the way also.

I don't recall for certain, but didn't they say the theme was "Las Vegas"? Maybe not. But to me it seemed like a shout out to a better time in their lives.

It may have been a combination of never calling her, calling her only to complain about her siblings and looking for sympathy for himself/Robyn, bragging about being a loving grandfather on tv while not taking any interest when the cameras aren't around, etc. Sometimes you just grow up and realize who a parent really is, vs who you hoped they were deep down.

Guess Amy got over her dislike of flying. I applaud Tammy for the staggering weight loss, but I don't think Amanda has much to worry about vis a vis the family beauty pageant. I'm sorry they appear to be as badly behaved as ever in public, but I will say that the producers have gotten off cheap - they've had multiple seasons of episodes with the biggest "reward" being things like going to a county fair/renting a nice cabin. The cast -- and all of us -- deserve a change of scenery. Hope Chris' wife got a nice trip out of it.

Let's be fair to Kody - he couldn't go gallivanting around the country when at any moment one of Robyn's kids might have needed earrings.

I loved Nick's recurring joke about how many Advil he needed. I hope his last years were good ones.

I'm in Massachusetts, and the Jersey Italian Americans featured on this show have a lot in common with Boston area Italian Americans in terms of family dynamics. While most people hate their kids leaving the nest, there definitely is a trend in Italian American families here for adult children to remain in their parents' home until they're married. You don't get the same percentage of 25-30 year old Irish guys living at home. It's definitely a thing to skip moving out on your own or with a roommate. I'm sure there are other ethnicities who do the same, but against the other major predominant ethnicities in their area, it's a behavior that is way more common in their group. Filler messes up your lips, whether because it literally botches the wet/dry transition, or it feels so foreign to begin with they lick them and then get stuck in a pattern of HAVING to lick them because they've chapped them.

They need to watch out for this sort of thing. I remember in the dark ages Debby Boone got in trouble for hawking some acne product, and the (failed) defense was "I was just selling it, I never tried it or said it was actually safe or anything."

Catherine Deneuve said that at a certain age, you choose your body or your face. They've chosen their body (more specifically the "fashion" they can now fit into). The Tracy/Hepburn relationship was a beard for both of them, so I'm not sure that's a great parallel for Dolores. I think she's just attracted to unavailable men, with a splash of having a horrific temper that scares them off a full commitment. A few years ago she flipped the switch once and it was terrifying. I don't recall the circumstances, but at the time I thought she was off the charts dangerous to know. It's like seeing somebody out of control drunk. They may be perfectly swell sober, but you can't erase what you saw or how it made you feel.

Oh, I could tell you stories... They only lightly touched on it, but his main issue was that he got a breathtaking advance and never delivered. Year after year the pressure increased and he couldn't give the publishers anything. He was writing articles for Rolling Stone and anything else that would bring in a few bucks. So he just was dug in deeper and deeper and desperate enough to use what he had to save himself. Not that that excuses what he did, but it seems to have been more something that he resorted to than a whim. I don't think it's ever been revealed. But the auction only had a portion of them. They were initially split between Joanne and Jack, and then most of her share was buried at the Westwood cemetery, supposedly in the space Peter Lawford had occupied except his bills weren't paid and he got evicted (either by the Kennedys or his wife at the time). Joanne kept some of them and that was what ended up being auctioned (after her death). I was a child at the time, but he was on EVERY talk show (back when talk shows were in the morning and afternoon). What he contributed was way above my understanding at the time (I just thought of him as that weird guy), but he clearly delivered, even if towards the end it was a train wreck sort of thing. Part of what I think he delivered was a certain kind of bitchy gossip that was novel at the time. People were so much more guarded in public - he came out and said things that made people gasp, and I can see that appealing to the society folks because he dished the dirt on people he knew they already despised. I think he made them feel modern and racy and liberal and cool, and he satisfied their mean girl streak, never suspecting that he'd do the same to them.

It will be interesting to see how the GLP-1 drugs will affect these shows (and these doctors' practices). In fact, a lot of these patients will have qualified for them based on diabetes alone. And given that they are now first line therapy for patients who start to regain after sleeve and bypass surgery, there should be fewer failures post surgery. The big sticking point is insurance, which many/most participants seem to lack - the cost per month for Zepbound is ~1200/month so the population studied on these shows may be stuck with surgery.

There's always Homeless but not Toothless.

Even better, started and informed her that she did not show up for the reunion per her contract and was being docked by the missing minute. And that she would be seated (and paid) beginning at the next natural break, and not necessarily when she deigned to show up. I think what folks are missing in the whole "attacked" episode is that Garcelle was sharing a deep hurt and feeling of betrayal over the way her son's treatment was treated as a joke (and the social media firestorm that followed). And Dorit's reaction was basically "I don't know how you can say that, it really hurts my feelings, in fact, it feels like an attack." And that plays into the whole "white woman's tears" phenomenon where a Black woman standing up for herself in any way is twisted into the sin of having made a white woman uncomfortable. And that discomfort suddenly becomes the high priority issue that everybody wants to relieve, not the situation the Black woman was addressing in the first place. In the moment, as I recall correctly, Dorit's reaction was to immediately scold Erika - she was rightfully offended and made it known. And she wasn't the one whooping it up at Kyle's dinner party. So I don't even think Garcelle was particularly irked at Dorit so much as Kyle/Mauricio. What Garcelle reacted to was the hijacking of her expression of vulnerability into a demand to make Dorit feel better about herself.

Just watched the Cary (Elvis impersonator) episode and the man was melting down in such a visibly painful way there is no ethical reason why this continued. On Hoarders they've called off a cleanup for far less visibly disturbed people. This man needed psychiatric help (including meds), not a therapist and an organizer, and he needed both immediately. As in transport him to an inpatient facility right now. I used to think this show was less about the drama than Hoarders, but yikes.

Fond memories of tween me belting out (and dancing to) "YMCA/In the Navy/Macho Man," as well as Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff". Going further back, Lady Marmalade! I could buy that Louise would be wary, despite her politics. She's the only one in the family that seems to have any grasp of needing financial security.

I think a big issue is that they work backwards - finding celebrities willing (or likely) to participate, and then working their family trees to find interesting stories. And statistically speaking, the barriers imposed by slavery and colonialism narrow the possibilities even further. Spain appears to have kept/maintained better overall records in their colonies, so people with roots in Latin America appear to have better paper trails to follow than those in English/French colonies. I don't have access to the UK version, but I wonder if they have better luck finding records for their celebs of African descent or are the roadblocks the same?

I'm built like Amanda (though considerably shorter) and I lost 50 lbs before anybody noticed - only went down 1 bra size! Then the next 5 lbs I lost 2 bra sizes and all of a sudden everybody noticed. You lead with your boobs, I guess!

A week or two ago she posted a photo of her kids with a motorized toy car on instagram (I think), thanking "Grandpa" and tagging DAVID. I figured that signaled a MAJOR shift in the family tectonic plates.

I was kind of hoping it would be Janelle's brother.

To be perfectly honest, there have been multiple occasions when Kody has been measured and fairly reasonable when one on one with Christine talking about the dissolution of their marriage. There was a huge disconnect in the early post-breakup episodes between the tenor of his discussions with Christine in person where he seemed resigned and regretful but not hostile and the rage displays in the talking heads. I came to assume that in the intervening period he had been fed the poison of "I can't believe she DID this to you, to us, do you know how that makes you look, do you know how it makes ME look, the world is going to blame it all on ME!" He's a jerk, absolutely, and I don't generally blame men's behavior on their partners and don't even blame Robyn 100% because of course he has choices in how he behaves. But I think a lot of his crazy behavior is wrapped up in his idealized vision of his marriage with Robyn and the toxic masculinity/victimization stuff he's been absorbing and perhaps she's been coddling. Early season Kody is quite a different animal altogether.

They should have called this episode "Et tu, Caleb?" Loved Janelle's snipe about rocking chair/porch/grandchildren, and the parade of littles at the beginning of the wedding shows David and Christine already have that. Indeed, the "Brown family" remains intact. Of the 13 original children, three wives and Kody, only one wife and Kody are out of the picture. I do feel bad for Sol and Ari and I hope that as they grow older they are incorporated into the greater circle as has been stated they will be.

I think she's having a mental health crisis, and it's painful to watch. That being said, she was gone a month, and had Michael sued for divorce the moment she left, she surely would have been notified, wouldn't she? So they both waited and around the one month mark, and he decided it was over (probably especially since filming had begun and she hadn't sought to film with him). Like Amy, he probably has more competent people in his life guiding him, and I hope his mother is one of them if she is going to be caring for the kids. I hope Amy's family and the show producers are also aware of how airing her breakdowns may affect custody matters. Not a case I'd want to handle if I were a judge.