California has more than its fair share of crazy, delusional attention whores. Twitter has more than its fair share of crazy, delusional shut-ins with no life who enjoy watching the crazy, delusional attention whores in California. Both of these things in isolation would not be a problem were in not for the attention whores in California deciding to mix with the twitterverse. What the crazy delusional attention whores don’t get is that there is a subset of the twitterverse that spends their days and nights trying to cause pain to the attention whores. Perhaps because they are getting so much attention.
Some of the twitter people start hate blogs specifically to defame and harm others. Until recently, when Jill Zarin was fired by Bravo, there was quite a large website whose mission it was to harass Jill and spread hate. While that site was the largest, it was not the only hate site for housewives, there were other smaller ones for Bethenny Frankel and other bloggers who focused the majority of their blogging time hating Taylor Armstrong. While it is true that the majority of sites that discuss reality TV poke fun at the cast of misfits who are cast, most do so by pointing out the scripted stupidity. We mock people who choose to put their atrocious behavior in the public eye. Part and parcel of being on a reality show is the judgement of the public. We disagree with each other. We argue over who is the victim and who is the shit stirrer. We talk amongst ourselves about who we like and who we don’t. Who we love and who we love to hate.
But just as some bloggers cross the line and become obsessed with timelines of lies and send letters to the reality cast members businesses and troll other sites who dare to like the cast members they hate with vitriol, there are twitter people, as Nene Leakes would call us, who go beyond tweeting their friends about how ridiculous so-and-so’s hair looked last night, or how deluded a housewife may be about her husbands infidelities and they start tweeting the cast member directly.
The difference in the behavior is the difference between gossip and harassment. When I talk here about Teresa Giudice being dumber than a box of rocks, or Nene needing a more supportive bra (she finally listened btw, and now she wears it everywhere! And it looks much better! You’re welcome, Nene!), or Kim Zolciak being evicted, or Cynthia needing to grow a back bone, or whatever we are talking about each day. We are gossiping. If you like gossip, there are lots of sites, like this one, where you can grab a cup of coffee and share your opinions. Sometimes we discuss serious issues like custody battles and divorce and evictions and deaths. And we do it here, in a public place amongst ourselves where the parties discussed are free to listen in or ignore us.
But some people tweet vitriol to the cast members. I first blogged about this back when I was starting to firmly believe that a group of bloggers and tweeps were going to literally harass Taylor Armstrong to death. People at that time had gone beyond harassment and moved right on to death threats. Over a person on a TV show. As I discussed on that blog, some of the cast members on these shows have emotional problems. Often, that is why they are cast. A lot of times those emotional problems are what drives the need to be on reality TV in the first place.
One might say they are crazy and delusional. Which of course leads us to Leann Rimes. After sort of falling out of the public eye, Leann burst back on the scene not for her talents or even for a reality show, but for having an affair while married with someone else’s husband. She then became obsessed with Brandi Glanville the wife of her now husband at the time of her affair. She tweeted pictures of her with Brandi’s children saying she was out with her boys. She tweeted pictures of herself in bathing suits exactly like Brandi’s in very similar poses. She lost a lot of weight to look more like Brandi. It was all very single white female. Once Brandi was on RHOBH, and constantly complimented by cast members for her bikini body, Leann tweeted perhaps hundreds of pictures of her now unattractively thin body in bikinis. Clearly, she was …um.. going through something.
Enter the subset of tweeps that are themselves…um…going through something. Now we have crazy people setting up hate blogs like lunaticleannrimes on blogger. We have crazy people tweeting obsessively, not to their friends (perhaps they don’t have any) but to Leann herself telling her what a colossal ass she is making of herself. When rumors surface that her husband, who she began a relationship with while both parties were married, may now be out cheating on her, the tweeps gleefully tweeted her this information as if she herself could not read the same sites. They name-called and harassed her, no doubt at all about it.
So Leann turned off twitter and focused on the hot guy she is married to and enjoyed a new beach vacation every week. She went shopping for cute clothes and ate at fancy restaurants and abided by the motto, “Living well is the best revenge.”
Oh wait. She didn’t do that at all. She encouraged a pack of her supporters to harass Brandi Glanville. She and her buddies tweeted rude things. She engaged the crazy tweeps in twitter wars and she escalated the bikini pictures. And then she began CALLING THE CRAZY TWEEPS! On her phone. In a public restaurant. On speakerphone. So the crazy chick recorded the call and it made its rounds on the Internet. It’s a tough call who sounded crazier on that call. Both of the crazies involved by the way are step-mothers, at least for now. So the crazy got flamed on all sides. And then someone finally suggested that Leann go to the looney bin, or rehab, or Club Med, or wherever she landed for a thirty-day treatment (with weekends off for attention whoring, natch). There she will still have her phone, and her twitter while she receives professional help.
Why does she need treatment? You may assume it is for a personality disorder, a substance abuse problem *cough* Adderall *cough*, or anorexia or some other issue of a mental health nature. You know, something to fix whatever causes her to behave the way she does. Perhaps a good therapist to help her get to the root of her issues. You would be wrong. Today TMZ reports that she is suing the crazy and delusional twitter girl for recording their crazy and delusional conversation. Her “treatment” is to help her develop some “coping mechanisms” other than tweeting her twat all day as that did not seem to be working for her. She needs help in dealing with a phone call she made to a crazy person.
Her attorney takes umbrage with the fact that the Internet now finds her crazy and delusional and blames the shambles that her former career is now in on the twitterverse and hate blogs. Clearly the therapist won’t suggest that twitter is not for everyone and that perhaps Leann should find another hobby. Nor will they dare point out that her behavior can cause people to dislike her. Or that gloating about being with someone else’s husband and kids can be off-putting to the public. No one will explain the concept of Karma. No, what they will do is coddle her and let her play the victim while her attorney begins the daunting task of keeping the billions of people on the Internet from saying anything bad about her, or pointing out how crazy and delusional she is.
Good Luck with that Stanton L. Stein.
She is so incredibly unattractive. What is she gap famous for again? One song when sh was 12 that sounded Patsy Cline-ish? Where does she get the money to live well?
Oops. I just did what you were taking about. Didn’t I? I think i am compelled to post this kind of crap because I find it is unbelievable that people can be so increadibly unselfaware. That’s not a word is it? Oblivious to the way they are portraying themselves? I know lots of people bash celebrities because it makes them feel better about their shitty lives. I just do it for a reality check. Like, am I crazy or does Leeann look like a circus clown in most of those photos? Or am I the only one who thinks her mother should be pistol whipped for not teaching the child how to apply makeup?? Or, someone should put out an APB on her upper lip.
Stuff like that.
I don’t have a problem with people saying mean things about people in the public eye, OBVIOUSLY. lol Feel free to discuss her make-up issues, her tennis ball tits, etc. As well as her absolutely insane behavior on twitter. If you start tweeting her directly everyday and talking to her on the phone, then I will put you in the crazy pile.
P.S. I am disappointed you didn’t comment on the title, which was practically a fucking TRIBUTE to you. Bitch!
Hahah! I didn’t get it. Aderrrrr. Senile and stuff.
Sorry Tam, I am about sick of ppl giving you a hard time, I really am. You’re a nice girl just merely giving your opinion. These bitches can open their own damn blog and give theirs. If you want, delete my comment.
TC I think your so unselfaware, look att what this crazy bitch LeAnn did. http://twitdoc.com/view.asp? id=32218&sid=OUY&ext=PDF&lcl=Leann-Rimes-Encourages-Friends-to-Taunt.pdf&usr=MissyMacDD&doc=76097658&key=key-8j3k6i9k8vhjhh5up5i
After u read that TC I bet u’ll be your narcissistic self, come back and make it look like we are crazy because you can’t find a way condone behavior like this but u’ll find a way too b/c ur a sick one like LR
Tams , girl u have more patience than a saint, keep up the good work. Sorry, I misunderstood the whole TMZ/KIM DRAMA
This girl is mentally ill, and I’m not even making jokes. She really needs help, because she is obsessed with Brandi. To quote Dina Manzo, “I don’t know if she wants to be me or skin me and wear me like last year’s Versace…” Someone needs to take control of her Twitter and force her to eat, to try to keep her mind off Brandi.
I agree that she is mentally ill. I don’t think this “rehab” she is in is going to provide any help though.
The funniest part is that Brandi is not wrapped too tight herself. She is a nutbar too. I houses we know Eddie’s type. But who the hell is Eddie. Seems like these three people are just semi-famous for this batshit love triangle.
Thank you for a fine piece Tamara. You pointed out the harsh truths without resorting to going for the jugular which, to me, adds to its credibility.
Let us hope that her choice of rehab will not coddle her or promote less than constructive therapies.
I heard that one of the defendants in this suit is a teacher. Please let that be a nasty rumor.
The crazy chick that posted the crazy conversation with the other crazy chick is allegedly a teacher. As a former teacher, I can assure you that there are way more crazy teachers than I’d like to admit. The large most teachers are good at what they do. The crazy ones, especially if they have a Y chromosome generally become administrators. Sad but true.
Y u never use ur real name on Twitter and then put where u work, a bitch will look u up & stalk/call u like LR did. I think SH said it best.. u can read whwtvshe wrote, I don’t have the link but I’m a bit up set with her..
basically thats why I shut down my facebook and don’t go on other sites or comment anywhere but here because I find so much anger and hate and some blogs are run so viciously that if you don’t agree entirely they either block you from commenting or gang up on you with their minions. you run your site pretty balanced and encourage other opinions. kudos!
as for Leanne, I actually have no opinion, she’s not on my radar even though I did read this post. I just can’t stand the crazy anymore. Unless it’s a bunch of semi rich women on a trip to St. Barths or my new obsession with Big Brother! hahaha 😉
Thanks. I love to poke at people with different opinions and argue with them. I only shut down the ones who are hellbent on getting me to change my opinion. 🙂 I try to just discuss my opinion about things that are actually happening IRL or shown on my TV. No hate. Just opinions. Sometimes things are stupid or mockworthy. Later I may say nice things about the same people. It’s what this blog is for.
I ignored the Leann Rimes thing too because she’s not really that interesting. Or wasn’t until now. lol.
well on to more important things than Leanne…wheres the BB14 recaps?! danielle is trying to convince us her boobs are real in the live feed while all the boys know they’re not yet they all seem polite enough to not to totally call her out while she sits there with the saline implants sitting right up under her chin they kindly tell her they are “perky” and just look fake. britt is gonzo. Ian has HOH. Jenn has somehow become a “player” due to her absolute luck that frank likes to cheat and threw his game to her. danielle’s been talking mad shit about britt since she left while covered in hives and bad skin pretty much this whole summer. shane has all but come out of the closet with his master skill of the hula hoop. danielle really wanted to pretend she was a great hooper but her cover was quickly blown when she attempted to show joe how to do it. her talent is lying not hooping, she’s well advised to stick to that. dans quite the puppeteer. but tell me…who’s gonna do what next?! I’m new to this game and depend on your recap to know wtf is happening! 🙂
Please post about BB in the BB posts. Not everyone wants to know what is happening on the live feeds and would not be expecting a commenter to make a random recap in the comments of a Leann Rimes post.
Finding those people close to her that will call it like it is.. Girl has mental and probably some substance abuse issues, is like looking for a needle in the haystack. They will enable her to death (same goes for Taylor Armstrong)…
As long as Leanne makes them money, they will keep propping her ass up and protecting her from the consequences of her actions… I never listened to the phone call (I will take your word that they both sounded nuts), but even if it was illegal to tape the call (one was in Cali,) Leanne cant really claim clean hands, (what the heck was she doing initiating the call to this ex fan of hers?) and you can bet if this woman was being harassed for months before this, that she will have all that documention… So maybe a judge would slap the defendant with a small fine, if it goes to jury and the jury gets to hear all the Leanne crazy? Hah.. thats not going to go well..
I agree too about the mental health of some of the twitterers, who spend their whole life wrapped up in attacking reality and even just other tweeters… Maybe its a product of my ADD, but I cant substain the kind of energy it takes to tweet, blog and freak out constantly, digging up “new dirt”….
I see that kind of behavior with Taylor (I just think she needs to work on her issues, and shame on Bravo for taking an emotionally unstable woman who has a drinking issue and keep tossing her into those situations) and fans of Teresa, who spend wayyyy too much time trying to dig up dirt on the other NJ ladies, in order to deflect from Teresas issues (they are all shady and bugnuts, People, get over it!)..
Great post – completely agree with you. Those twitter hater/harassers are pretty sad, and I also cannot believe a teacher and mother could get involved in something like this… If I were ever served with a lawsuit by a celebrity – no matter how ridiculous the lawsuit may be – I have no idea what my family and friends would think… I would be absolutely mortified.
Hopefully LR can get over whatever she’s going through and move on…. I can’t believe the mess she seems to have made of her life — it honestly must be a bit tough to deal rationally with that kind of online hatred though, especially if you’ve got any kind of narcissistic tendencies or insecurities (which so many people do).
Also I cannot believe that photo of her on the urinal!! Never seen that before – if that’s actually a working urinal, that is so gross………………….
You definitely nailed it with Single White Female. She needs to scamper off Twitter, but that means depriving herself of her daily asskissing… I mean, affirmation. Living well shouldn’t be revenge, and she’s shadowboxing with Brandi every day.
Her body is an insecure bag of bones, and not sexy.
http://lexgetsphysical.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/what-not-to-do-leann-rimes/
I dont get why people with big heads think skin and bones makes them look attractive.. The size of their body should reflect the size of their heads.. LR looks like a bobble head this thin.. Miley Cyrus is another one with a huge round head, and looks horrid so skinny.. We know they have a camera and twitter, but do they have a mirror???
This may be my favorite post ever. I HAVE A HUGE HEAD. Now I feel all proportionate and shit. 🙂