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Agree. Not only that, but I don't find that the assertion that everyone had a problem with Kenya to be true. Kenya hadn't done anything to Kandi or Cynthia. There was the couchie-crack incident, but that wasn't directed at Cynthia and it really wasn't that serious to begin with. She had a screaming match with Porsha in season 5, but they made up in Savannah, so there was no reason for Porsha to go into the season 6 reunion gunning for Kenya. Kenya was wrong in the Walter situation, but I don't see what her fake relationship with Walter has to do with any of the housewives. Why hate Kenya because she brought on a made-for-tv boyfriend? That doesn't personally affect any of the housewives for them to be angry about it. Really, Kenya only deserved to have 1.5 enemies in the cast - Nene only counts as half because the worst Kenya did to Nene is throw a charity gala in her honor (oh, the horror!) and evite Nene like she was a regular guest. Catty? Sure, but c'mon. Kenya didn't have real beef with anybody but Phaedra. But Kandi is loyal to Phae and Cynthia was loyal to Nene, and it has been surmised that Porsha is dumb as rocks and easily led, so it became the cast against Kenya. In the last episode, we saw how deep those loyalties lie. Kandi protected her loyalties with Phae ("this is the face of a friend") over reassuring her husband that she would be there for him if he went to jail. It became the cast against Kenya not because Kenya is this awful, whoring, no count, bitch of a woman - it was due to loyalties and alliances. Phae and Nene decided that they had a bone to pick with Kenya and everyone else went along for the ride.

Instagram Theory I: This Instagram bullshit seems like it has nothing to do with Instagram. What a coincidence that Vince couldn't be found for 45 minutes, then he created a big blowup over nonsense, right when he was scheduled to go on camera doing yoga. I think that Vince was insecure about his body (wasn't he wearing a long-sleeve shirt in the pool and Shawn made fun of him?), but Vince was too childish and egotistical to verbalize those insecurities, so he had a tantrum to get out of the situation. As a former fat girl, I can tell you that public exercise and public eating were situations that I avoided like the plague - and I sure as hell wouldn't have done any of that on camera. It had nothing to do with Tamar's mouth or Instagram or Tamar being "disrespectful" - she hadn't said anything for her mouth to be the problem and his blowup was far too big for Instagram to be the cause. Vince has insecurities and he needs to deal with them instead of destroying his marriage and abusing Tamar. Instagram Theory II: Honestly though, I'm thinking that Vince is creating drama for the show. This feels real for Tamar (I don't think she's that great of an actress to show hurt like that), but Vince was smirking and smiling when LaShawn went chasing after Vince the first time. When Vince came in the house to confront his wife, she apologized multiple times, yet the man who is usually quick to cut short conversations tried to drag the shit out. Then, Vince was sitting in the golf cart with his luggage waiting for LaShawn (or someone) to come out after yoga class and chase after him again so he could have his dramatic "driving his golf cart off into the sunset" moment. I think Vince is boosting drama for ratings. Vince might have had those feelings about wanting Tamar to be all about the three of them in that moment, but that is exactly the problem. He is controlling. He thinks that his vision of how Tamar should behave, speak, walk, dress, socialize, and mother her child is the only way - and if she doesn't do it exactly how he wants, then she is being disrespectful and he feels justified to catch an attitude and publicly belittle Tamar. If Tamar were doing this to Vince, people would be all over her case saying that she is emasculating him. He defines disrespect as disobedience - and any man who thinks a woman should obey him is a controlling and abusive man.

Those lyrics were fun to read, but the song itself was shit. Will needs to stick to acting - rapping was never really his thing. The article says that Sheree is going for spousal support. I don't quite understand that. He made his football money before getting with her, and since marrying her, he's been a pastor at a small-ish church while she's made reality show money for the past couple years. Shouldn't she be paying him spousal support? I knew this marriage wouldn't last. Terrell wanted a dutiful Church wife and Sheree wanted the baller life. Being on a reality show just gave her the financial independence and courage to leave the Church life and pursue the Hollywood life she wanted. I saw the changes through the seasons. She went from wearing minimal makeup, being covered from head to toe, and talking religion all the time to becoming that Hollywood chick: bleach-blond extensions, heavy eyelashes, and cattiness. It's not necessarily bad - everyone has the right to live the lifestyle they want - but this divorce was so obvious because Terrell was not down with supporting his wife through this experience.

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Chloe's performance skills have improved, but her technique has declined a bit. Her feet aren't as beautiful as they used to be and she still doesn't know how to use her back to be expressive (which is essential in contemporary work). It may just be that contemporary/modern dance isn't her thing. She's always been a bit rigid in her dancing - which makes her great in ballet-esque lyrical numbers, but not so much in everything else. We'll see in a few years, but it looks like Chloe is one of those dancers that is precocious at an early age and then stalls. That's unfortunate because I was really rooting for Chloe to win at this.

I don't understand the Kate hate. It's not that "I don't like your personality" hate that many celebrities get from the public, it's become vitriol for Kate. I saw a few episodes of Jon & Kate, and yes she was a shrill and had some childish meltdowns, but she had 6 kids in diapers and a husband that was utterly useless. I'd be a bit shrill as well. What has she done that was so wrong? There are entire Facebook groups on hating Kate. For what, her dramatic personality? A man can literally leave a woman with twins and sextuplets and go off stuffing his penis into every 20-something he sees after cleaning out the family bank account and not pay child support and still never get the kind of hate Kate has gotten for being a bit bitchy. Kate's not going to win because she's a reality show celebrity without the Hollywood rolodex needed to win Apprentice, but I'm all in for Kate going as far as she can (I think contestants get checks for each week they stay on) if for no other reason than the world seems to have unfairly persecuted this woman.

That sounds like a fictitious story planted by violence-condoning Kenya haters who want so desperately to see Porsha win for no other reason than the fact that Porsha was the one who pulled Kenya's hair. That gossip of Porsha getting her own spin-off is just unfathomable given Porsha's lack of storyline to be 1/6th of a show; but now she's supposed to have enough storyline to carry a whole show on her own? Does not compute. Plus, Porsha doesn't seem to have any peripheral friends/family that she's introduced on the show. Nene could do a whole show because she has Marlo, Greg, her sons, Greg's kids, and a host of other interesting people in her world. Kandi had her mom and aunts, Todd, Riley, and her industry people. Same with Kenya, Phae, and Cynthia - they all have their little circle of people who are filled with drama and camera-ready. I don't see that around Porsha. Porsha has her sister and her mom, but neither of those women have shown themselves to be interesting enough to be supporting cast for a Porsha show. This isn't Porsha hate, I honestly just don't see how this would happen for her.

Bless the pool water because it has homosexuals in it? Really? Lashawn's homophobia wasn't funny the first two seasons, and the shit still ain't funny now. I'm really disappointed in Vince for not calling out his friend for that bullshit. I used to like Vince, especially after he softened toward Tamar after that heart attack, but this season I find myself hating him every time he opens his mouth. Even his compliments to Tamar sound like they have a "but" at the end of them - as in "Tamar has a great talent, but she needs to listen". Vince is just as much a drama queen as Tamar - the difference being that Tamar is louder, but Vince is more mean-spirited and controlling. What Vince does is far worse, yet Tamar gets all the hate from people? I guess a man can do and say whatever he wants, but don't let a woman speak too loudly.

I can see how their friendship developed. I watched Toni's 2003 documentary and Tamar was Toni's BFF - traveling with Toni, being with Toni during her pregnancy, emotionally supporting Toni as she split from Arista, throwing Toni baby showers and birthday parties, etc. Tamar was spending a lot of time with Toni during that time and Vince had to have been around Toni was well given that he was her manager - which meant that Tamar and Vince spent a great deal of time together. I think they are friends - and I'm sure that Vince's career and Tamar's looks were taken into consideration as well when they chose each other. Vanity, career aspirations, friendship, materialism, superficiality, and love all went into this union coming together. Hardly ever do people choose a mate because of just one thing.

The dishrag personality is contagious in this family and makes this show really hard to watch sometimes. I've only seen personality from 2 people in this humungous familiy: Nonie and the little blue eyed 5-6 yo girl who talked about smores and hating packing in her TH. Everyone else is boring white bread. The best of Sister Wives were the teens. They gave life to the show. The teen in this Williams' clan don't quite seem normal - no lives separate from their families, I don't hear about their dreams and aspirations, no rebellion, no fun/laughing, nothing. They remind me of cookie cutter houses in the suburbs - quiet, identical, neat, and boring.

I don't know about that. "Team Too Much" is an easy refrain for the sisters to tout when piling against Tamar, but I don't think it holds water when it comes to Tamar's interactions with Toni. Tamar has been Team Too Much toward Towanda and Traci in seasons 1 and 2, but Tamar has never been Team Too Much toward Toni. No one, including Tamar, has ever said a bad word about or to Toni - and there's a lot of material to use if Tamar ever wanted to shade Toni, but she hasn't. In fact, I noticed that Tamar would change her tone and volume when talking to Toni. Tamar talks to Toni like Tamar talks to Evelyn - with respect. I don't know that Toni has a leg to stand on with that one. Damn, there's some hard truth that I hadn't thought of. But not only that, Toni also didn't start talking about a family album until everyone had made serious moves with their solo stuff. When no one had anything going on and everyone was begging Toni to join the family album, Toni couldn't be bothered. Toni didn't even want her sisters as background singers, saying that she wanted her career to herself. Now that everyone is starting to stand on their own and not look to Toni for their careers, Toni then wanted to pull everyone back in with this family album idea. I remember how exasperated Traci said she felt in a TH for being pulled along like this after finally getting her solo stuff going. Wait, what? Did Toni ask to be signed to Streamline Records and Vince refused? I never heard that. Interesting - and the plot thickens!

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I honestly don't know if Toni is jealous. It was strange for Toni to not reach out to Tamar when Love&War hit. She eventually took Tamar out for an English tea, but it felt like Toni was trying to put on a show for the cameras to show that she supports Tamar. I didn't mark that as jealousy at the time, but there have been more events since then. It was suspicious of Toni to blow up at that therapy session where Tamar and Towanda/Traci were going back and forth about being jealous over Tamar's success. Toni says that no one's jealous and Tamar responds "Are you sure?". Clearly, Tamar was talking about Towanda and Traci as that is who she was just fighting with about claims of jealousy, so why would Toni get butthurt and storm out of the session thinking that Tamar was talking about her? Guilty conscience? Then, there's the general cattiness that Toni now piles onto Tamar. In seasons 1 and 2, Toni was largely impartial, if not defending Tamar a bit when she got into arguments with the middle sisters. If the middle sisters came for Tamar, Toni was there to explain Tamar's feelings and she was largely neutral in these spats. Lately, Toni has joined the mean girl clique. She's now siding with the middle sisters against Tamar. She won't even admit the most blatant of facts to support Tamar such as the Traci bucking situation. I really don't want to believe that Toni is jealous, but everytime she sides with the middle sisters when they are clearly wrong, another piece of her credibility is chipped away. As of late, I've spoken a lot about how BFV isn't good for Tamar, but to be honest, continuing on this show may not be good for Toni either. Her reputation is going to shit the more people see of her. She needs to go back to being a private celebrity because her true personality is not exactly likeable. On a related note: I'm glad that Tamar went back to the table and defended herself regarding the "Toni paved the way" argument. As loud as she is, Tamar isn't great at articulating herself or defending her position. Some truth needs to be told. Being Toni Braxton's sister didn't help Tamar for 20 years. Toni shared a lot of her career in the 90's with her sisters, but all of that sharing did very little for Tamar other than introduce her to someone (Vince) who would invest in her career 10 years later. Moreover, Tamar made it big while Toni is in a downturn in her career, so it wasn't the Braxton name or Toni's influence that produced Tamar's success. Toni is in the "Dancing with the Stars" phase of her career. It may be Toni's name that greenlighted BFV, but Tamar put it together and she has been the driving personality that kept people interested. Toni tried for a reality show type documentary back in 2003, but it didn't produce an uptick in record sales or pop culture interest in Toni (it's on YouTube and it's worth a look). So, Toni's name is responsible for the pilot being funded, but Tamar is responsible for BFV going strong for 4 seasons. If Wikipedia is to be believed, Toni hasn't had a hit single since He Wasn't Man Enough in 2000. To be honest, Tamar made Toni relevant again because nobody was checking for Toni Braxton. That hurts to say because I'm a Toni fan, but Toni, Trina, and Towanda need to pump their brakes on those "Toni made you" flavor of comments to Tamar.

Her outspokenness is the reason why Nonie is my favorite. Yes, she bitches and moans and acts a plain fool, but that is really the only way a woman has any power in this lifestyle. Even though they left their church, the wives don't seem to have left their beliefs (I'm not so sure Brady ever had those beliefs beyond the having multiple women allowance) so the wives still see Brady as the one and only family decision-maker in all things. So when these women do anything to grab at some control or power in their lives from Brady, I'm excited. Plus, I'm not Brady's biggest fan, so I take a little pleasure in watching Brady have to deal with Nonie's tantrums.

It can't be coincidence that this episode hinting at Tamar's exit airs a week before season 3 of Tamar & Vince premieres. BFV runs for 26 episodes a season, and we are only on episode 7 - which means that season 3 of T&V will run for the rest of season 4 of BFV. And they air on the same night (Thursdays) back to back. Tamar wouldn't risk over-exposure by being on both shows, plus, no one has enough going on in their life to carry storylines for 2 reality shows. I think she's backing off of BFV - and good for her. And I like the way she's doing it. By having T&V at the 9pm slot leading into BFV, there's a better chance that BFV won't be cancelled with the exit of Tamar since it won't really feel like she's gone. Everybody wins. Tamar is making coin on 2 shows, but gets to back away from her sisters who treat her poorly. BFV will continue so the sisters will make their coin - plus, if Tamar is really the center of all their problems as they say, having Tamar step back is something they should welcome. I'm excited for this change of events. I'm so over seeing Tamar always apologizing and reaching out and nothing being reciprocated (except Trina, of course). She seems so desperate for her sisters' support that it becomes painful to watch. And the more desperate she gets, the more withholding the middle sisters are and Tamar gets even more desperate - which just feeds a destructive cycle. Tamar has the power to break that cycle if she would stop acting so desperate for their attention/approval/support/respect/friendship and let them come to her. It looks like she's finally doing that with T&V.

Agree - those dynamics were set as children/teens before they recorded their first family album. Even with Traci, she felt left out because she had a child early and decided (probably through family and religious pressures) to settle into a family life instead of going for her career. She has that suburban housewife regret that I see in so many of my high school friends that settled down - that has nothing to do with the music business. Tamar would've probably still been the diva that married well and Towanda would have found some reason to play middle-child victim and continue to hate on Tamar. Toni will always be the older sister that everyone looks up to and Trina's personality is to be peacemaker. The sisters seem to be in secret competition with each other about who does better at life. I don't see that changing if they were all in different occupations. Money and fame probably play a factor though - both of those things heighten existing issues, but I agree in that I don't think money or fame created this dynamic.

I think Nene would be shaded. Elise has been known to go after the big dogs around this issue of reality stars taking roles from actresses. She went after Tyler Perry for casting Kim Kardashian in his Temptations movie. If she would go after a reality star as big as Kim, then Nene sure wouldn't get away unscathed.

I disagree. Performing is not a "job" per se, it's a form of artistry. Tamar is an artist expressing herself and the sisters had no right to alter the artistry that Tamar wanted to present to her audience, no matter if the audience liked the sisters' flashdance or not. If people want to pay Tamar to view her art, then that's great for her, but that doesn't mean that the sisters can do whatever they want during Tamar's show as long as the audience likes it (which I don't necessarily know that they did love the sisters. They were most likely screaming for Hot Sugar as that is a highlight of Tamar's show and Tamar sets up Hot Sugar with this big monologue to amp up the crowd. It's just like Towanda's ego to think that a crowd who paid to see Tamar is somehow screaming for her. That crowd didn't get any louder after the sisters came out than they were before). Moreover, Tamar has made it perfectly clear that she likes to present a certain image to her fans - which is snatched and clean choreography, vocals, costumes, and appearance. Everyone knows this about Tamar, so there is no way the sisters didn't know that this is what Tamar desires for her shows. A flashdance where Towanda specifically changed the choreography and got costumes that didn't match the real backup dancers was a clear and intentional middle finger to Tamar. There are no good intentions in those actions.

My bad if somebody has already posted Traci's music video, but I'm just finding out about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQwSDsxbee4. It looks like her team did the best they could for her, but she just doesn't have it. The video itself has a tried-and-true concept and gorgeous production quality, but her overacting makes it uncomfortable for me to watch and I'm mad at the auto-tuning. There's something about her in this video...it's like she's trying to be someone other than who she is. She's trying to pull off that sexy diva thing that Tamar and Toni do, but she's clearly too uncomfortable in her own skin to do that. The sisters were talking about Traci's album in the last episode - I hope Traci hasn't autotuned the whole damn thing. I like her natural tone. She sings with much more ease than any of the other sisters. Her use of auto tune and her lack of confidence pisses me off cause I am really rooting for Traci and she's sabotaging her big break. When she's not bucking on Tamar, Traci is my favorite Braxton. Damn.

I don't think Tamar really believes what she said in that moment. She was backed into a corner and she was trying to fight her way out. Trina was invalidating Tamar and her experience in the business. Tamar was making very valid points about how this album/single should be made and put out, but the sisters would never take advice from Tamar, so instead of refuting the ideas Tamar had by bringing better ideas (which the middle sisters couldn't do because they have little experience and Tamar's proposal was solid) Trina instead tried to invalidate Tamar as not being worthy of giving an opinion by saying that Toni is the veteran who paved the way for Tamar and thus Toni's proposal should be used. That would infuriate me too because Trina wasn't saying that Tamar's idea was bad, Trina said that Toni paved the way in order to make the argument that Tamar herself wasn't good enough to have an opinion. If cooler heads prevailed, Tamar could have responded to Trina's invalidation of her by saying that the sisters should think through which proposal would give them more coins, not which proposal came from the more experienced or the more novice artist. But in the anger of feeling invalidated, Tamar lashed out and denied Trina's very true assertion that Toni paved the way. This has been a long time coming. The sisters have been invalidating every suggestion Tamar has made about this album and really, Tamar has been right so far. She suggested that they get a producer first and find some direction while Toni wanted everyone to come together and write first and then let the direction creatively find itself and then hire a producer. What did they do? The took Toni's advice and got a house to write together and nothing got accomplished. When the middle sisters were together for a month, they did nothing, and when they all got together, they did nothing but fight. They needed a producer to lead them. Tamar is also right about the label/independent thing. Toni sat at that table and said that the label pays for everything, but that's not true. They essentially give you a loan and you pay them back - plus more. Tamar needs Vince around. First, the sisters can't pull that "you're on that new new" shit to invalidate Tamar if the proposal is coming from both Tamar and Vince because clearly Vince is a veteran. Second, Vince has a way of calming Tamar down so she can respond to situations with a cool head instead of lashing out with anger when she feels disrespected. Like the model fitting last week, Tamar felt disrespected - like what she had to say about the dancers' costumes wasn't being heard and it was her show. Her natural instinct is to lash out in anger but after talking to Vince in the car, she came back with a cooler head and was able deal with the situation. This! I don't think Tamar's reaction was over the top at all. If they flashbombed my show, they would be lucky if all I did was throw some water around and have someone escort them out of the building. Not only did they mess up her show, but they did it early in the tour when nerves are high for the artist and the kinks hadn't been worked out yet, so a lot is going on in those first few performances. On top of all that, they decided to pull that shit in Atlanta - which everybody knows is the Black Hollywood, so playing the Atlanta crowds for an R&B artist is playing to the core fan base. And it is Atlanta, so I'm sure that there were industry people in the audience - producers, label execs, other artists, etc. To put the cherry on top, the Braxtons have a lot of family and close friends in Atlanta given that most of them lived there at one point. Who wants to deliver a janky show to family and friends and have to hear them talk shit at every gathering? That was a high-stakes tour stop for Tamar and Towanda knew it.

In S1 when Toni would whine about not having anything to herself and wanting to go out on her own, I would roll my eyes at the screen. I really didn't get it. How much of a burden could it possibly be to hire your sisters as background singers? Hell, you need background singers anyway, why not use your sisters. It's a benefit to Toni as well since she had people behind her that could blend with her voice perfectly because they had been harmonizing since childhood. I really didn't get it. Now I get it. It's not that Toni's middle sisters wanted a bit of help in starting their own careers by earning money as background singers and being introduced to people in the business (that seems to be all Tamar wanted), they wanted to share in Toni's shine. I watched Toni's Vh1 Behind the Music, and the sisters were put up in the good hotels like Toni instead of the regular hotels like the band. They were Toni's opening act for a while. They flew first-class with Toni instead of coach with the band. When Toni walked the red carpet, the sisters were right there. Tamar seems to have always wanted her own shine, but the middle sisters seem to always want to share in Toni's (and now Tamar's) shine. While Tamar has always worked toward a solo career, I believe that the middle sisters have always wanted and dreamed of being a Mary Wilson in a Braxton girl group. They don't have the confidence, charisma, or the creative talent to do it on their own. The rental house situation proved it. I haven't heard of any of the middle sisters writing songs in their entire careers, which is why their time in the rental house was wasted without the creative input from Tamar or Toni. Evelyn makes the whole situation worse for Toni. She inserts herself in their sisterhood and their careers and pushes her agenda for the sisters to be in a group together and have equal success - which puts a lot of pressure on Toni who doesn't want to disappoint her mother, but also doesn't want to be responsible for grown ass women or be in a girl group with them. I know I've said it before, but it can't be said enough - fuck that quack "Dr." Sherry. She ain't doing shit but making the bickering worse by validating mean girl behavior and the mean girl's sheep. Their sisterhood is not going to get any better until they 1) fire Sherry, 2) have the courage to tell their mother to back off, 3) have Tamar disappear for a while so they can't use her as their scapegoat for their problems, and 4) have Toni disappear for a while so she can't be their savior and their worlds can't revolve around her. I do and I don't want her to come back next season. It's probably best for Tamar that she doesn't come back. She's gotten all that she's gonna get out of this series. She has a successful career, a booked tour, a talk show, and all the attention she will ever need to transform her 15 minutes of reality fame into a lasting career. Tamar has played the reality show game like a boss and she's come out better than any other reality personality (well, maybe not better than Bethanny Frankel, but close). She doesn't need this show anymore. If she wants attention for her next album, she can do another season of T&V. On the other hand, for purely selfish reasons, I want Tamar to stay because I doubt this show will be picked up for another season without Tamar and I want to see Traci grow professionally now that she is finally stepping out there and I want to see Trina work through her issues with Gabe and grow her Bar Chix business and maybe get her band back together. These storylines aren't compelling enough on their own for a network to greenlight another season, so they need Tamar (Toni's interesting, but she's too private to fuel the show).

It airs on TV One - a somewhat new Black channel that is the sophisticated cousin of BET. The R&B Divas franchise airs on this channel. They mostly air re-runs of old Black sitcoms, which is why it has become my favorite late-night channel. Given that the network is a bit more sophisticated than BRAVO or Vh1 or BET, I would assume that Hollywood Divas would have more focus on these women's career like R&B Divas and less focus on flipping tables and cursing like Hollywood Exes and RHoA. This should be a much better fit for Lisa.

So full of truth! I've witnessed this about Evelyn, but she's never done anything egregious enough for me to have cause to call her out on it. She's real slick with it. I swear that Evelyn is living through her daughters and wants to be included like one of the sisters, but wants unquestioned authority like she thinks a mother deserves. Honestly, I find her wrong on both fronts. She's not one of the sisters, so she shouldn't be there for sister discussions/arguments, she shouldn't be asking to be included in the album, and she shouldn't manipulate the girls into doing an album/single by pouting and giving the silent treatment. On the other hand, Evelyn takes her authority as mother far too serious now that her girls are grown adults. Evelyn continues to expect that "seen but not heard" definition of respect for elders that children are taught, despite the fact that these are now grown women. As the sisters are no longer children, they are not being disrespectful everytime they have something to say. They have the right to walk out of an uncomfortable situation without being threatened to have the piss slapped out of them. Evelyn just doesn't know how to relate to her daughters as adults - she wants to be both sister/friend and authoritative/unquestioned mother and neither of those roles are appropriate. Funny thing, I find that her relationship with Michael Jr. (well, what we've seen of it) is an appropriate and healthy mother and adult son relationship. She seems to respect the fact that he is a grown man, but remains his mother instead of trying to be BFFs with him. Why can't she do that with her daughters?

I agree, Kalani is amazing and dances like a senior, but Kalani is also 2-5 years older than the ALDC girls. I don't think they can be directly compared. Even if they were the same age, comparisons in the teen years (11-16) can't really be made because these girls are going through puberty at different rates. Kalani has her adult body (or close to it), Maddie, Mack, and Kendall still have their prepubescent bodies for the most part, while Chloe and Nia are going through awkward changes at the moment. Kalani has the advantage of knowing and being comfortable in her body in a way that the ALDC girls haven't had the opportunity to do just yet. That said, Kalani does have another advantage of actually taking classes this past year instead of just rehearsing the same non-challenging routines every week. But getting to senior-level dancing first doesn't mean that she will be the best in 5 years. I've seen girls with bad feet and lack of gracefulness come through puberty and work through classes to become beautiful senior dancers. Kalani and Maddie are precocious - but the other girls may catch up if they aren't beaten down by Abby during this critical period.

Not winning. Porsha's no longer a housewife. Her peach was snatched and she will be labeled as a "friend" (probably "Friend of Kandi" or "Friend of Nene") for season 7. I would like to think that this is BRAVO's response to Porsha acting like a 2 year old throwing tantrums and pulling hair, but I doubt that Andy has such scruples and this demotion is likely because Porsha was boring as hell during filming. Now that the divorce is over and Kandi's play is done, all Porsha had left for a season 7 storyline was Kenya, and I'm sure Kenya was smart enough to not give Porsha that (it takes 2 to fight, and if Kenya refused to fight with Porsha in S7, then Porsha would have nothing). Kenya's winning!