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Well if anyone has experience with being an asshole on camera to another HW, it'd be LVP.

Brian Moylan's recap on Vulture was a pretty spot-on assessment of Dorit: I don't necessarily think Dorit is jealous of Erika, but I do think she resents that Erika isn't reacting the way she automatically assumes everyone should/most people do to her.

I feel about Dorit the way I do Gretchen on RHOC. They're both sort of entertaining in a harmlessly clueless, self-absorbed way. And they'd be so much easier to watch if their significant others weren't on-screen.

I had wondered about them doing Olivia and Joan too, but I'm guessing they thought two feuding actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood would have been too familiar territory to mine two seasons in a row.

Nancy was always an excellent technician but a stiff mover who benefited from Vera Wang outfits to give off the illusion of elegance, so I don't quite see her having a leg up the way past skaters have had on this show, but we'll see. There was a documentary and interview with her during the Sochi Olympics that I'd recommend checking out. She came across as painfully shy and prone to foot-in-mouth syndrome, but not entitled or conceited at all. During Lillehammer, she said her biggest fear was that all the other athletes hated her/didn't want her there for creating a media circus. And she said the Disney parade comment was about having to wear her medal not about Mickey Mouse (the actual quote was "this is so corny. This is so dumb. I hate it."), which is a complaint I've heard of other Olympians who don't like parading their medals around to every post-Olympic event.

I have one wish for the rest of the tournament, and I'll gladly accept most any other result. My one wish is that Venus dismantles Coco in the semis. I cannot stand Coco's fake bravado and her utter classlessness. (There's some articles floating around the internet about her antics, and you can even see a YouTube clip of her from 2014 saying "fuck that bitch" after she beat Muguruza in a grass-court match.) And she supports Trump. Beyond that, I'd be A-OK with anything else that happens. I'd love a Fedal final, I'd love Grigor making the finals. I'd love an all-Williams final, I'd love Lucic defying the odds and winning. I can accept pretty much any other result except Coco.

I hate when "Lisa Vanderpump" autocorrects to Erika, too!

Camille Grammer! Season One. Never forget.

Brandi's complaint wasn't *really* that Lisa was mothering her, though. Especially after it was pointed out that Yolanda was also guilty of mothering Brandi, too. The real beef Brandi had was that Lisa was pretending, on camera, to care about her (the "mothering" part), when off-screen she had basically washed her hands of Brandi following the tampon pics. Whereas Yolanda had been in contact with Brandi even when the cameras had stopped rolling. I hate being a Brandi apologist here, but Ken even admitted at the reunion that they had pulled back from Brandi, which LVP wouldn't even admit at the time. Lisa has a long list of detractors saying that she portrays herself as one thing on camera, proclaims to be such an open book, but is anything but off camera. That, and she's petty as fuck, and stealthily goes after any and everyone who dares speak out against her. Good grief, look at all the accusations she leveled at her "good" friend Kyle when public sentiment had turned against her in S2. LVP was more than happy to paint Mauricio as a cheater and his/Kyle's support of the Maloofs as one of convenience. Lisa can play dirty with the rest of them. I don't think that's nitpicking, I think that's just game recognizing game. The only difference is, LVP is the one HW who cops the least to her dirty deeds. I'll give Kyle credit for frequently and repeatedly owning up to her mistakes in a way Lisa never will. People are free to like her, but I don't think the complaints about her or her establishments are coming out of thin air. Plenty of people have had unpleasant interactions with her, so why people have a difficult time believing anyone could have a legitimate gripe about her is beyond me.

She's definitely in the 6'-6'1" range. I've seen her play in person a few times, and she's definitely a gorgeous Amazonian. She seemed like such a sweet girl. Which is probably why her mental game could never quite match with her ball-striking abilities. In many ways she was a millennial Sabatini. Heralded player with an all-court game, chronic serving woes and issues with nerves. One slam to their resume, and largely remembered for their beauty and inability to make good on initial promise. There was that brief period in 2007-2008 (when she made three slam finals and a SF), where I thought she was going to be another challenger to the throne. Best of luck to her in her post-tennis life, she seems to have plenty on her plate.

Apparently I'm on Team "PK is an asshole," because that's how I interpreted the scene too. Rinna put the blame for last season on herself in that scene (and probably more than she should have, but this is LVP's show, so good luck trying to call a spade a spade with that one). It was PK who wanted to keep grinding the pieces of Rinna's words into a fine dust. And I don't really understand why Rinna "shouldn't have gone there" apart from the fact that Vanderpump's a vindictive old woman who never met a grudge she couldn't choke the life out of. Rinna didn't say anything particularly damning in that clip, but PK seemed to think her rather neutral words were deserving of extra fingerwagging and scorn for her having gone against La Pump last season.

Yes, it's probably because you can't stand her. She did go with the gift and handled it pretty well, but Dorit kept reaching for more than was there. Or wasn't there in this case. Case in point, when Dorit kept saying it wasn't appropriate to discuss in front of the other ladies and that they should have a one-on-one. Ah yes, the infamous one-on-one. While I don't always buy that Erika's as cool and collected as she proclaims, I think she handled herself pretty well, said it wasn't an issue and that they didn't need to keep discussing the matter. Dorit's the one who wanted to keep talking about it. Or rather Lisa V--I mean the producer who was prodding her did. Speaking of producers, come on Bravo, give us something juicier than whether or not PK was staring at Erika's vagina. God, at this point, I think I'd even take another Richards sisters meltdown over this non-story.

It was one-and-done Dorit who was searching for the storyline. Keep looking, babygirl, cuz you ain't gonna find it in Erika's crotch.

I find it interesting (and revealing) that they *still* don't follow each other on social media. LVP does, however, follow Lisa Rinna. Although last night Erika posted a video on Snapchat of LVP and Kyle dancing at a club, so it would seem those three hang out even when they aren't filming. (I assume filming has already completed.)

Like I said, a viewer (who apparently saw the original leak of Kelly's cell phone), texted Kelly those Tamra IG conversation screencaps (which were also circulating on the internet). Kelly originally posted that tweet with the viewer's phone number, then she reposted it with the person's number cropped off.

A viewer texted screencaps of that Tamra IG conversation to warn Kelly that people were going to call in and ask about her affair with "Frank." Kelly thinks Tamra (and Shannon and Heather) were behind those WWHL callers because of that screencap the viewer texted Kelly. How did the viewer get Kelly's number, you ask? There were screencaps circulating on the internet of a group text that included Kelly and Michael where she mentioned "Frank," and that's how people got ahold of Kelly's actual number. TL;DR: Kelly's number got leaked on the internet, and I know way too much about these people.

Yeah, I don't like the use of gay as an implied pejorative, which, intent or not, that's how the comment came across. Plus, I didn't know haircuts had a sexual orientation.

While Kim seems like a rather sane individual for the world of elite gymnastics, I'm surprised she's in the running, considering she's still yet to have a competing athlete on a World or Olympic team.

Yeah, Torino was the only time they did OI. I read a Mary interview a while back (maybe during Vancouver?), and she said everyone loved doing it, but IIRC she said something to the effect of the network decided it was cost prohibitive and decided to reformat it into the usual news desk show. I vaguely recall this during the Vancouver games. So sad, I absolutely LOVED OI.

What concerns me is that Natalie seems like the type of person who feeds the drama, rather than mitigates it. I just contrast this with the way, say, Simone’s parents have handled the negative responses Simone has publicly received (i.e. when Ferlito and the head of the Italian gymnastics federation openly made racist remarks following her win at Worlds), and I think Gabby’s got a lot to deal with already. But then to add to it a mom who always seems to latch onto the negativity rather than push it away, that just makes it doubly difficult to navigate. It's gymnastics, there's always going to be some sort of drama attached to the sport, and unfortunately for Gabby it seems like her support system isn't a particularly stable or helpful one.

Terry Gannon also seems to genuinely enjoy figure skating, so he never feels a need to dramatize things. Al always has this air of secret disdain for gymnastics and a need to create drama because he doesn't think the actual sport is compelling enough to cover as it is. John Tesh was also overly dramatic, but I never got the sense that he hated the sport. I just think there was something inherently cheesy about him and his approach, which in highsight, I'd gladly take over Al and his unrepentant assholishness.

Variety reporting on a lead actor being fired from a show following an act of violence and outbursts is called doing their job, not rubbing salt in the wound. The network, studio and creative executives will all bend over backward to appease the actors. *Very* rarely will a lead actor actually face repercussions for his or her actions, unless it's either a long history of abuses (someone pointed out Charlie Sheen upthread) or a breach so serious that it cannot be swept under the rug. The fact that TG was fired for this makes it obvious he's been a huge problem behind the scenes, but I guess some fans would rather believe he's the victim of some conspiracy-theory scapegoating. The lengths that people are willing to rationalize what would otherwise be deemed inexcusable in any other context or industry is pretty staggering.

I just started following Simone on Snapchat, and today she posted a really cute video of herself in a waiting room before event finals. She turns the camera to Gabby, who gives an exaggerated eyebrow raise, then smiles and giggles, and then to Madison, who makes a goofy face. For all the allegations about her not getting along, isolating herself, being unhappy, etc. this was an utterly adorable, spontaneous interaction among the three of them.

Some people will overlook a lot, including the obvious, apparently, in defense of their favored ones. Even violent outbursts in the workplace. Thank god "the fandom" doesn't dictate behind-the-scenes personnel decisions.

I think kicking someone and resorting to physical violence on multiple occasions is way more childish than passive-aggressive, vaguely worded Instagram posts.