Kandi Burruss: Atlanta's Own Willy Wonka

[KnotsLanding]

Not only would Bravo have approved of Kandi going on Big Brother, but the reunion wouldn’t film anytime soon either. We’re only at episode 13 this week and by the time CBB is over we’ll probably only be at 15-16. I don’t know how those rumors started when everybody does side projects from Apprentice to Dancing with the Stars. 

[HunterHunted]

I don't know what's underlying Andy's weird animosity towards Kandi. He's been coming for her for quite awhile. I hope someone clues him in that no one likes him or his obnoxious show. The ratings are often garbage even with great guests. He's been coming off like a straight up misogynist and bigot for quite some time.

I read somewhere that Bravo ok'd Kandi's participation on Celebrity Big Brother because True Entertainment and the executive producers were supposed to verify that CBB wasn't going to be airing against Real Housewives of Atlanta or another Bravo show that had similar demographics. True Entertainment and the Exec. Producers said that CBB wouldn't be competition and that turned out not to be true. I'm sure Bravo laid the smackdown on True Entertainment and Andy if true. Rather than be an adult or professional, Andy resorted to calling Kandi names on national tv.

[cooksdelight]

27 minutes ago, HunterHunted said:

I don't know what's underlying Andy's weird animosity towards Kandi. He's been coming for her for quite awhile.

She has more money than he’ll ever dream of making at Bravo.

I was channel flipping and saw Kandi on BB, she’s like wallpaper compared to the rest of the characters. I guess she’s waiting to grit her teeth and go gangster on someone.

[HunterHunted]

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/689703447/tlc-no-scrubs-20-years-american-anthem

[NotChristine]

Variety interview

[druzy]

It's Riley's birthday. She's accepting gifts!

[Marley]

Is that for real her asking for money? Tacky and gross if true.

[cooksdelight]

Good lord no!!

[Brooklynista]

3 hours ago, druzy said:

It's Riley's birthday. She's accepting gifts!

No money. Just a "G" wagon🙄

[biakbiak]

Okay that’s tacky as fuck! Is that a thing kids are doing?

[link417]

That makes me sick. Didn’t Toya on Married to Medicine do the same thing for Eugene? I can’t fathom begging strangers to send me money.

Instead if the RHO franchise losing Bethenny, I wish Kandi had been the one to quit.

[Marley]

The more I think about that bday money donation thing the more it annoys me. Her mom is a multi millionaire and Riley is just being a greedy little jerk asking for money. Such a bad look.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Marley

[cooksdelight]

It screams of Kandi being an absentee mother, and her child sees Mom being all about the money day in and day out.

[dosodog]

Apparently Kandi is perfectly okay with it.  She sent it out from her account too.

I'm dumbfounded. I really am.  My parents were lower middle class.  When I turned 16, I got a job at Wendy's. When I was 17, because I had savings, a job and good grades, my parents matched funds for a car.

Kandi is a multi millionaire.  She cosigned off her kid asking the rest of us to send her money.

CLOSE YOUR WALLET TO GREEDY MILLIONAIRES.

Cause she could buy Riley a used car.  

[link417]

4 hours ago, dosodog said:

CLOSE YOUR WALLET TO GREEDY MILLIONAIRES.

This is genius! 🤣

[Cocoa Puff]

10 hours ago, dosodog said:

Cause she could buy Riley a used car.  

What happened to the Porsche SUV that Kandi got Riley for her 16th birthday?

Also yes Kandi's money is hers and her daughter isn't entitled to it but I'm sure that Riley is getting some sort of income from being on the show and posting her cash app info is just tacky because of the fact that her mother is successful musician. 

But I see folks posting their cash app info all the time on Instagram so 🤷🏾‍♀️

[cooksdelight]

Next thing you know, Riley will be calling herself a “internet influencer.” 

Makes me wonder how many shady deals Kandi might have made during her career.

Is there a way to respond to Riley’s request for money? I am not familiar with the site. Maybe tell her to sell that Porsche if she needs money.

[Hiyo]

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Makes me wonder how many shady deals Kandi might have made during her career.

Not sure I see the connection.

[cooksdelight]

15 hours ago, Hiyo said:

Not sure I see the connection.

If she thinks it’s cool that her daughter is asking the public for money, when she has everything a 16 yr old could want .... would Kandi put on a show of needing money in a deal when she really didn’t? Just to get more money from people? I keep thinking of demands from her mother and how she’d do anything for her, Kandi’s disdain at times for Todd’s mother, deals made to get the Old Lady Gang happen.

[link417]

2 hours ago, cooksdelight said:

If she thinks it’s cool that her daughter is asking the public for money, when she has everything a 16 yr old could want .... would Kandi put on a show of needing money in a deal when she really didn’t? Just to get more money from people? I keep thinking of demands from her mother and how she’d do anything for her, Kandi’s disdain at times for Todd’s mother, deals made to get the Old Lady Gang happen.

I’m not sure this would be considered shady. When it comes to a business deal like OLG, it’s considered smart business to reduce your downside risk and solicit other people’s money to put down on the risk. However, smart businesspeople will not assume risk without getting a greater share of the reward, so I guess the idea is that it all shakes out in the end. 

[Hiyo]

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If she thinks it’s cool that her daughter is asking the public for money, when she has everything a 16 yr old could want .... would Kandi put on a show of needing money in a deal when she really didn’t? Just to get more money from people? I keep thinking of demands from her mother and how she’d do anything for her, Kandi’s disdain at times for Todd’s mother, deals made to get the Old Lady Gang happen.

Yeah, I still don't see the correlation that this could show that Kandi is somehow shady with her business deals. Tacky, yes. But shady? Not so much.

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it’s considered smart business to reduce your downside risk and solicit other people’s money to put down on the risk. However, smart businesspeople will not assume risk without getting a greater share of the reward, so I guess the idea is that it all shakes out in the end. 

Yeah, that is smart investing.

[biakbiak]

17 hours ago, cooksdelight said:

want .... would Kandi put on a show of needing money in a deal when she really didn’t? Just to get more money from people?

Business deals aren’t based on how much money you need.

[Empress1]

Kandi and Todd's surrogate delivered the baby, a girl named Blaze.

[Baltimore Betty]

25 minutes ago, Empress1 said:

Kandi and Todd's surrogate delivered the baby, a girl named Blaze.

Blaze?  All I can think of is Blaze Starr, she was an exotic dancer and owned a club on "The Block" in Baltimore way back in the day or a nick name for some who smokes a lot of weed.

[link417]

2 hours ago, Empress1 said:

Kandi and Todd's surrogate delivered the baby, a girl named Blaze.

Terrible baby name, period, but especially for a girl. 

I am disappoint.

[Hiyo]

Blaze Tucker, y'all.

[nexxie]

[Misslindsey]

I do not mind the name. I do not love it, but I do not hate it either. Though I am pretty easy with whatever names people choose for their children. Generally if it is not something ridiculous I am cool with it. I am slowly getting used to different spellings of names as well.

Edited November 25, 2019 by Misslindsey

[Marley]

I’m so over babies having Instagram it’s stupid. A couple are kind of funny.

[cooksdelight]

Well... a picture speaks a thousand words, I guess....

 

[Hiyo]

I mean, look, I like Kandi quite a bit, and good for her for embracing and making coins off of her kinky side, but still...at least keep it real and be the one smacking Todd's ass!

[politichick]

2 hours ago, cooksdelight said:

Well... a picture speaks a thousand words, I guess....

 

I like Kandi, but this is tacky as fuck. And Blaze is a stripper name. And she needs to proof her stupid posts. I bet Riley is mortified!

[SuprSuprElevated]

Rut ro...

 

[link417]

32 minutes ago, SuprSuprElevated said:

Rut ro...

 

Shallow side note: I am not a Kandi fan, but she looks gorgeous in that picture.

[SuprSuprElevated]

7 hours ago, link417 said:

Shallow side note: I am not a Kandi fan, but she looks gorgeous in that picture.

I agree!  When she doesn't torture her hair and her breasts, she looks goood!

[NowVoyager]

Gunman shoots 3 at Kandi Burruss' restaurant in Atlanta before fleeing https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8006721/Gunman-shoots-three-Kandi-Burruss-restaurant-Old-Lady-Gang-Atlanta-fleeing-scene.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

[Stats Queen]

The Night Angel just won The Masked Singer and it was none other than Kandi Burruss!

I am really not into music type shows but I binged watched all three seasons of The Masked Singer, because- coronavirus- Had no clue who the other contestants were, but the first time I heard her I knew it was Kandi. Her voice Is unique and I recognized it immediately.

I am a Kandi fan in general because I admire her hustle and she seems more authentic than some of the others. However her supporting her nasty mother and constant defending of said mother over her husband is really messed up. She lost me a lot this last season when she just blew off, ignored, or excused Kenya’s crap.

Personally, I find it ironic that the the woman who has a million things going one and who has created a personal business empire is one of the most boring on the RHOA/reality TV.

I am glad she won - because - in your face Nene - however, it is yet another example of all the irons she puts in the fire that take away from her time with hubby and children.

 

[mbaywife123]

Love it that Kandi just won The Masked Singer!

I knew it was her eons ago just by her singing voice.

As my dear departed Grams used to say , I'm sure NeNe is "spitting nails" right about now.

[Hiyo]

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Personally, I find it ironic that the the woman who has a million things going one and who has created a personal business empire is one of the most boring on the RHOA/reality TV.

I wouldn't say she is boring...I still find her entertaining. And like you, I appreciate her hustle.

The one thing against her, and I do agree with you on that, is Joyce is a horrible person. I don't think Kandi needs to be cussing out her own mother on TV, but she shouldn't let Joyce run roughshod like she does. A middle ground should be found.

[Ellee]

I came to say congrats to Kandi for winning the Masked Singer, too.  
 

One could see that it meant a lot to her.  Way to go, Kandi

[goofygirl]

I  could tell that was Kandi pretty early on.  As someone upthread said, her voice is unique and UNFORGETTABLE!!!

See how that works, Moose??

[nexxie]

There are lots of adorable pics of Kandi’s daughter Blaze, but I just have to post this one - who else thinks she looks like Mama Joyce giving Todd the side-eye?

[NowVoyager]

Kandi & Kenya clarify some things on Kandi's YouTube channel. Kenya was going for the jugular. 

 

[luckyroll3]

8 hours ago, NowVoyager said:

Kandi & Kenya clarify some things on Kandi's YouTube channel. Kenya was going for the jugular. 

 

Of course Kandi already has a "Ms. Unforgettable" shirt!.  Lol!

I wonder how long it will take her to sell them.  Most of the other women could never match her hustle.  

[ShawnaLanne]

Kenya said on the video her haters could be tamed with some attention. No Kenya. I'm a big hater, stopping with the gutter blows at people and I'll stop hating. That woman gets down in the pig slop more than anyone else. Even Nene, but Nene is just plain unlikable at this point, there's no redemption for her.

Kandi, I knew from the first line she sang. She does indeed have an "unforgettable" voice.

[luckyroll3]

Man, Kandi just made me tear up during WWHL as she spoke about how her and Todd had to have conversations with Ace about what is currently going on and Ace being confused that the cops might be the bad guys, especially because he was just recently a cop for career day at his school. 

Me:

[qtpye]

Congratulations to Kandi and Riley. Woodward is a great school (some of my cousins went there).

This is why I would not put my child in the public eye because there is so much pressure about superficial things.  Riley had a glow up and now there are rumors and speculations. Hopefully, she will just continue to lead her best life.

[luckyroll3]

1 hour ago, qtpye said:

Congratulations to Kandi and Riley. Woodward is a great school (some of my cousins went there).

This is why I would not put my child in the public eye because there is so much pressure about superficial things.  Riley had a glow up and now there are rumors and speculations. Hopefully, she will just continue to lead her best life.

I agree.  I really wish people on social media didn't feel like they have to comment on everything, especially people's children.  I thought Riley looked a bit different, but I assumed she put a lot of the weight she had lost back on during all the quarantining. She still looks great though and I'm excited for her growing up and going off to college.  I did a rewatch a couple weeks ago and it's so crazy to see all the little kids so grown now!

[NowVoyager]

On 7/26/2020 at 6:07 PM, qtpye said:

Congratulations to Kandi and Riley. Woodward is a great school (some of my cousins went there).

This is why I would not put my child in the public eye because there is so much pressure about superficial things.  Riley had a glow up and now there are rumors and speculations. Hopefully, she will just continue to lead her best life.

Wow. Riley looks a lot different.

 

[NowVoyager]

17 years old.