Ghosts of Housewives Past: Jill Zarin, Alex, and the Rest

[SuprSuprElevated]

Since dating in the coming years is undergoing a sea change, it only stands to reason that one's private parts/lady bits will be examined for color and hue.  "Bleached or unbleached" will become a part of your social media profile.

[Rap541]

Imagine the conversations between the aliens that abduct us.

"Xlar, you won't believe this! The last human I probed had a bleached anus!"

"Cywert, it is a real trend down there! I don't know whats wrong with humanity but we need to keep downchecking them for contact. I mean my god, first reality tv and now this! They'll never be ready for us!"

[Reality police]

54 minutes ago, Rap541 said:

Imagine the conversations between the aliens that abduct us.

"Xlar, you won't believe this! The last human I probed had a bleached anus!"

"Cywert, it is a real trend down there! I don't know whats wrong with humanity but we need to keep downchecking them for contact. I mean my god, first reality tv and now this! They'll never be ready for us!"

You slay me. 100 💕

[walnutqueen]

On 12/14/2018 at 9:39 PM, Rap541 said:

I'm not really judging anyone who looks but... who looks? 

Maybe your gynecologist?

And, for the record, just EEEW.

[Starlight925]

On 12/15/2018 at 5:00 AM, SuprSuprElevated said:

Since dating in the coming years is undergoing a sea change, it only stands to reason that one's private parts/lady bits will be examined for color and hue.  "Bleached or unbleached" will become a part of your social media profile.

I'm 56, and I remember when I first heard that women were "supposed" to shave down there.  It was only about 20 years ago.  Look at any Playboy or Hustler magazine from the 70's....au naturel.

This bleaching trend (which, OMG) is the next thing "everyone" will be doing.  Pretty soon, there will be bleaching services offered at all waxing places.

And yes, dating is undergoing a sea change, as I am (unfortunately) in the dating world now.  You are considered a pariah, you might as well be banished to Siberia, if you have more than a strip down there.

[walnutqueen]

Good thing I've been celibate for a very long while (and had tolerant partners before that), because it's always been the 1970s "down there".  :-)

Heck, I've never even had my eyebrows waxed, much less indulged in a manicure or pedicure.  If I live long enough, au naturel will make a comeback, and I can teach hipsters how to file their own nails, pluck their own eyebrows, and properly groom the pubes.  

[Rap541]

Walnut Queen, I suspect you are lying! SHOW US YOUR BLEACHED ANUS AND BEDAZZLED VAG!!! SHOW US!

[walnutqueen]

13 hours ago, Rap541 said:

Walnut Queen, I suspect you are lying! SHOW US YOUR BLEACHED ANUS AND BEDAZZLED VAG!!! SHOW US!

First of all, watching all these ho'wives has turned you into a fucking pervert.  Welcome to the club.

Second : you'll have to seek out a dirty foreign magazine from the 70s to find some crotch shot taken by a creep hiding in the woods overlooking the nude beach for me to prove I am neither bleached nor bedazzled.  I wore gold chains and nothing else.

There may, or may not, also be a picture of my cervix in some gynecological book from the same era; I seem to recall a specialist asking if she could take a picture of it while she was taking a biopsy ...

I am camera phobic, so very few picture of me or any part of my body exist.

I miss the good ole days, when the Real Housewives were a pleasant distraction (I guess, Season 1 of the RHoOC).

[SuprSuprElevated]

Ah dear Jill.  The latest victim of a serial heavy-handed browmeister.

[teapot]

3 hours ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

Ah dear Jill.  The latest victim of a serial heavy-handed browmeister.

wow, she really *does* "run with a fabulous circle of people"!!!

[SuprSuprElevated]

7 minutes ago, teapot said:

wow, she really *does* "run with a fabulous circle of people"!!!

Yeah, another Bravo reject.

[crgirl412]

Jill's eyebrows are really just too, too much.  Rachel Zoe looks good.  I liked her show and would be happy about a reboot!

[SuprSuprElevated]

"but he wanted me to move on... find love again..."  I realize that she did move on quickly, but boy, our culture sure has put a guilt trip on women who "move on", hasn't it?  No one thinks twice when men start dating again, usually within weeks or months of losing a spouse.

[chick binewski]

1 hour ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

"but he wanted me to move on... find love again..."  I realize that she did move on quickly, but boy, our culture sure has put a guilt trip on women who "move on", hasn't it?  No one thinks twice when men start dating again, usually within weeks or months of losing a spouse.

 

 

I do think there's more shaming of widows but maybe more eye-rolling at widowers? But I do believe there's still a prevailing viewpoint that men don't do as well alone.

I get a little uncomfortable when people talk about moving on in the same breath as remembering the dead. But we view relationships & handle grief in different ways.

I AM flummoxed by the number of photos that feature Alex & Simon, who Jill attempted to eviscerate at every turn. Jason 1.0 also makes an appearance! 

[SuprSuprElevated]

37 minutes ago, chick binewski said:

I do think there's more shaming of widows but maybe more eye-rolling at widowers? But I do believe there's still a prevailing viewpoint that men don't do as well alone.

What I didn't express was that it seems she felt the need to tell us that Bobby wanted her to move on.  Like she had to explain it.  I agree that we don't expect men to do well alone, but mostly imo, it's because they don't want to take care of life's chores.  Cooking, managing a home, record keeping etc.  My husband has been in corporate management most of his adult life, but it stops at our front door.  If I relied on him to "handle" things, those things would be left undone.  Go figure.

[hoodooznoodooz]

That video should be slower. 

[Rosiejuliemom]

On 1/13/2019 at 10:56 AM, chick binewski said:

I AM flummoxed by the number of photos that feature Alex & Simon, who Jill attempted to eviscerate at every turn. Jason 1.0 also makes an appearance!

IIRC, Jill and Alex have actually kept in touch to this day. I think Alex said that Jill was the only one she still talked to regularly.

[SuprSuprElevated]

I'll play.  Play along if you wish!

I shilled...

• Anything and everything someone is willing to pay me to shill.

[ghoulina]

Is Alli engaged or married? Why is she pressuring her about kids? 

[ScoobieDoobs]

Just in case anyone especially cares, er, Kells is a real estate agent now-

https://pagesix.com/2019/03/04/inside-kelly-bensimons-life-after-real-housewives/

Silly me, I figured she'd been residing in a loony bin since she was on the show.

[ScoobieDoobs]

On 3/1/2019 at 3:26 PM, ghoulina said:

Is Alli engaged or married? Why is she pressuring her about kids? 

Sigh, poor Ally couldn't even seem to get a date.  Remember Jillzy pushing poor Ally onto the gross Patti Stanger?  Ugh, cringing hard thinking of that one.

Here's something recent on Ally & no, there's no mention of her being married. 

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/real-housewives-kids-then-and-now-w206895/albie-lauren-and-chris-manzo-w206898/

Would Jillzy push Ally to do artificial insemination just so she could be a grandmother?  Yeah, I could see Jillzy doing that.  Cringing again . . .

[gingerella]

Last night I was (mis)treated to an abomination on my television. I was getting ready for bed and had the TV on in the other room when I heard the cackle of a familiar crone. It was Jill Zaaaaarin, on some moronic Medium to the Stars show on BravHo. Firstly, I was shocked BravHo would put her back on their network on anything frankly. And second, she has not changed one iota since she was booted off RHNY. She is as famewhorey today as she ever was. When she said "people stop me all the time, asking me what I'm doing and if I'm on any shows and I tell them, I'm not on any TV shows right now and..." Oh.My.God. This woman is inSUFFerable. INsufferable. I remembered why I dislike her so much. Just, uch. And the way she whores herself out in the name of Bobby's memory, it's beyond distasteful. It's vulgar.

Edited March 29, 2019 by gingerella

[Kroliosis]

On 3/28/2019 at 1:25 PM, gingerella said:

Last night I was (mis)treated to an abomination on my television. I was getting ready for bed and had the TV on in the other room when I heard the cackle of a familiar crone. It was Jill Zaaaaarin, on some moronic Medium to the Stars show on BravHo. Firstly, I was shocked BravHo would put her back on their network on anything frankly. And second, she has not changed one iota since she was booted off RHNY. She is as famewhorey today as she ever was. When she said "people stop me all the time, asking me what I'm doing and if I'm on any shows and I tell them, I'm not on any TV shows right now and..." Oh.My.God. This woman is inSUFFerable. INsufferable. I remembered why I dislike her so much. Just, uch. And the way she whores herself out in the name of Bobby's memory, it's beyond distasteful. It's vulgar.

LOL I watch that Hollywood Medium show, but had to stop about a minute in when they showed Jill.  She wouldn't STFU and let the psychic talk!  She told her entire life story before he could do any medium stuff.  Absolutely insufferable.

[FairyDusted]

And she made him play tennis with her before the reading. She couldn't stop talking long enough to get a reading. Tyler must have left with a headache! 

[SuprSuprElevated]

What's this about? 

[biakbiak]

6 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

What's this about?

Based on the hashtag Aly used #shappilyeverafter I assume a family wedding.

[ScoobieDoobs]

Using Bobby's death as an excuse to get her mug back on TV is just so gross -- and yet it's just so Jillzy, ain't it?  I bet Bobby wouldn't care at all cuz he was so nuts about her.  But I think it's lowball & gross.

Is the older man in the pic above Ally's dad?  Ally looks cute.  What do ya bet Jillzy is giving poor Ally shit that it ain't her getting married?

Edited March 31, 2019 by ScoobieDoobs

[biakbiak]

55 minutes ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

Is the older man in the pic above Ally's dad?  A

Yes.

[ScoobieDoobs]

He has the same nose as Jillzy.  Did she marry her brother?  And Ally looks like neither.  Er huh?

Is it just me -- or did Jillzy look way more attractive with the bangs she had when the show started?  Man, that seems like a billion years ago.

[Reality police]

10 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Yes.

He looks younger than Jill. 

[ScoobieDoobs]

My guess would be a big fat NO.  Bobby is how she got to have her “fabulous circle of friends”.  She clearly didn’t wanna stay on Lawnguyland, married to this schlub.

[biakbiak]

10 minutes ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

My guess would be a big fat NO.  Bobby is how she got to have her “fabulous circle of friends”.  She clearly didn’t wanna stay on Lawnguyland, married to this schlub.

He owns a meeting space/conference building in NY so I assume he does fine for himself.  They were divorced a long time ago and before she met Bobby. He remarried (and divorced) and Aly has 3 half siblings.

Edited March 31, 2019 by biakbiak

[ScoobieDoobs]

Could this guy have led Jillzy to that “fabulous circle of friends”?  Doubt it.  Her Lawnguyland beginning was worlds away from the Manhattan snoots Jillzy so prizes to hang with now.

[AuntieDiane6]

Quote

IIRC, Jill and Alex have actually kept in touch to this day. I think Alex said that Jill was the only one she still talked to regularly.

I'm sure conversations go like this, "Alex, could you put in a good word for me to Andy/Bravo/Magic Elves?  Are they replacing anyone on the show?  Who's the new show runner?  Do you think they'll ever do Real Housewives of Boca?"

[hoodooznoodooz]

16 hours ago, ScoobieDoobs said:

Using Bobby's death as an excuse to get her mug back on TV is just so gross -- and yet it's just so Jillzy, ain't it?  I bet Bobby wouldn't care at all cuz he was so nuts about her.  But I think it's lowball & gross.

Is the older man in the pic above Ally's dad?  Ally looks cute.  What do ya bet Jillzy is giving poor Ally shit that it ain't her getting married?

Ally looks gorgeous!! I love her dress. Finally someone who dresses age-appropriate. 

[chewycandy]

The S2 reunion is gold, I was watching it today. The heated arguments between Ramona and Jill, and then Kelly comes in with “but who cares?” Which makes all the women exasperated, and Jill asks “why do you think we are having a reunion today??”

The confusion shared between Jill and Bethenny when Kelly says there is no price on cartwheels. Luann giving it to Kelly about how she turned her back on her at parties. Bethenny saying she had someone “special,” assume she’s referring to Hoppy? Sad. Bethenny was such a cool girl in S1 and S2.

 Looking forward to binging S3 now. 

[walnutqueen]

"I'll just be in LaLaLand, with cartwheels ..."

Scary Island will never get old.

Al Sharpton

Satchels of gold

[Rosiejuliemom]

10 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

"I'll just be in LaLaLand, with cartwheels ..."

Scary Island will never get old.

Al Sharpton

Satchels of gold

Free to be you and me 1979.

Now I need some all-natural gummy bears.

[walnutqueen]

15 minutes ago, Rosiejuliemom said:

Free to be you and me 1979.

Now I need some all-natural gummy bears.

Because I don't eat processed foods.

Gimme my jelly beanz & gummie bears, because I have NIGHTMARES about you killing me with a knife.

[Rosiejuliemom]

2 hours ago, walnutqueen said:

Because I don't eat processed foods.

Gimme my jelly beanz & gummie bears, because I have NIGHTMARES about you killing me with a knife.

[ghoulina]

On 3/31/2019 at 4:03 AM, ScoobieDoobs said:

He has the same nose as Jillzy.  Did she marry her brother?  And Ally looks like neither.  Er huh?

I had the EXACT same thoughts. I figured it was an uncle. I see no resemblance between Ally and either parent. 

[SuprSuprElevated]

I'm pretty sure that's Ally's dad.  I actually think she does resemble him a bit, but no Jill in her at.all.

[ghoulina]

Either way, I'm glad to see that he and Jill have a good relationship. I'm sure that's made things easy for Ally over the years. 

[biakbiak]

It’s definitely Aly’s dad and he is tagged in the photo.

[sasha206]

On 3/28/2019 at 1:25 PM, gingerella said:

Last night I was (mis)treated to an abomination on my television. I was getting ready for bed and had the TV on in the other room when I heard the cackle of a familiar crone. It was Jill Zaaaaarin, on some moronic Medium to the Stars show on BravHo. Firstly, I was shocked BravHo would put her back on their network on anything frankly. And second, she has not changed one iota since she was booted off RHNY. She is as famewhorey today as she ever was. When she said "people stop me all the time, asking me what I'm doing and if I'm on any shows and I tell them, I'm not on any TV shows right now and..." Oh.My.God. This woman is inSUFFerable. INsufferable. I remembered why I dislike her so much. Just, uch. And the way she whores herself out in the name of Bobby's memory, it's beyond distasteful. It's vulgar.

I refuse to watch that show and it annoys me that these charlatans are given a platform!

[sasha206]

On 12/17/2018 at 8:49 PM, crgirl412 said:

Jill's eyebrows are really just too, too much.  Rachel Zoe looks good.  I liked her show and would be happy about a reboot!

I'm looking forward to the huge eyebrow trend to go away.   It's one thing to see them on Instagram where they look big and perfect and another thing to see them in real life where people have obviously overdrawn them.  Sonja has the big eyebrows now and it doesn't look good on her either.

[Giselle]

On 4/1/2019 at 12:09 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:

I'm pretty sure that's Ally's dad.  I actually think she does resemble him a bit, but no Jill in her at.all.

If Jill was going  for oomoaloompa with the orange tan and big eyebrows she succeeded.

[gingerella]

On 4/1/2019 at 12:09 PM, SuprSuprElevated said:

I'm pretty sure that's Ally's dad.  I actually think she does resemble him a bit, but no Jill in her at.all.

The placement of her ex's tennis raquet handle butt is GIVING ME LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LemonSoda]

I missed quite a few seasons and haven't had time to go back to get caught up. What happened between Jill and Bethenny? Or is it too complex to fully explain? Not one thing but a million things combined? I've tried searching but all I can find is a bunch of different incidents and opinions. 

[WhoaWhoKnew]

1 hour ago, LemonSoda said:

I missed quite a few seasons and haven't had time to go back to get caught up. What happened between Jill and Bethenny? Or is it too complex to fully explain? Not one thing but a million things combined? I've tried searching but all I can find is a bunch of different incidents and opinions. 

I've watched from the beginning, I do frequent rewatches, and I have no fucking idea. I don't think we ever got a concrete reason.