Good God, Giuliana, for this you leave your baby? First Leann Rimes, now Nene Leakes. Fine, I know I am watching. Already you are showing the “glamorous homes of St Marlo Country Club.” What Yankees don’t know is the Atlanta housing market is in the gutter. You can BUY a McMansion there in the 300s. Nene RENTS. Despite the latest laughable accounts by OK magazine, Nene is NOT paid a million dollars a year by Bravo. I know you all don’t want to believe me, but she’s not. I have been contacted by several magazines trying to get me to divulge sources and figures on the housewives. And even when I tell them I know some things and not others they encourage me to make shit up. It ain’t happening. I am not giving my secrets to the paper tabloids, either you know about this blog or you don’t.
Moving on with this fiasco.. Giuliana arrives for the interview. Nene is very casually dressed. It’s clearly going to be a hard knocks story. Which is definitely true. Nene has had it rough in life, as many have and come out on top, so good for her, on that.
Nene changes into a outfit that says “George Washington” which I suppose is better than George Jefferson, but George Jefferson would have been more appropriate.
Nene is already lying chile, she says she married a guy with money. Sigh. Just look back in my Nene archives people. She was all over local news for all kinds of things when RHOA premiered and NONE of those stories indicated she was wealthy. In fact, quite the opposite. Go on with that, girl.
Giuliana addresses the rumors of bankruptcy and plastic surgery as if Nene is the victim of tabloid journalism. Her financial issues where all over the local news when she came on RHOA! She was a local JOKE! And is Giulana really going to sit there and pretend that Nene did not have eleventy billion surgeries? I tried really hard not to hate Giuliana after the Leann Rimes puff piece but this may be too ridiculous for me to even blog.
ROFLMAO. Nene claims that rhinestone incrusted blanket she posed under for the Ebony cover had millions of dollars of diamonds and there was security on set and everything! This interview is just so laughtastic. Then again, Nene wants us to believe that her jobless husband bought her a 15 carat diamond engagement ring instead of a house. This is all while she is talking about how “good with money” she is. Hi, Nene, it’s me Tamara Tattles, I am good with money. I paid cash for a house I could afford, albeit in the ghetto. Also, as a teacher I managed to travel a lot and still have enough money saved to quit my oppressive job and support myself (more or less with some help from my friends) for nearly three years. You are NOT “good with money” you are good at spending money and pretending you have more than you do.
Oh look! She mentioned her brother. Nene regrets getting a DNA test on Curtis. She says she has never had a birth certificate. How is that even possible? She did eventually did find a birth certificate under I think her mother’s last name.
Nene wanted to be Janet Jackson on Good Times.
Did Nene just say she went to Morris Brown? Clearly, she did not graduate. I cannot ABIDE Nene’s ebonics on twitter. Even when she retweets me she changes with to “wit.” WHY?
Nene discusses an abusive relationship with Bryson’s father. It’s very sad.
Here is an example of Giuliana Rancic’s interview style:
Nene: I was at Freaknic (old school Atlanta thing) and he showed up and took me out at gunpoint.
Giuliana: So this was against your will.
Me: So really, you get paid to interview people?
Nene is VERY well-spoken in this interview. Which just goes to show, she is putting on an act for RHOA. She does know proper grammar.
Nene blames Creative Loafing for her stripping career. LOL. I do not think she stripped at 
The Gold Club from a Creative Loafing Ad. lol. OMG! She says when she was hustling in the club she was putting her kid through private school. RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU THINK BRYSON HAS HAS THE BENEFIT OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL EDUCATION? Chile PUHLEASE. No one is buying this hooker with a heart of gold bullshit. Nene swears she was not a prostitute. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I can’t with this show. It’s all complete and utter bullshit.
Oh God. I am only halfway through. Please let this end. Now Gregg is going to claim he met Nene somewhere besides a strip club. Did Gregg just say he was a single dad for ten years? Nene met Gregg at a strip club, probably not the Gold Club as Nene wishes WHEN HE WAS MARRIED! WTF Bullshit is this? I can’t with this.
Okay, we have officially entered bizarro world.
I do totally relate to Nene’s scene being cut from a movie. I did a lot of extra work, and have invited family to the premeire (YEARS AGO) only to find out that the ENTIRE SCENE was cut. However, I don’t believe her sob stories. It was EXTRA WORK. If any of you aspire to be an extra, particularly in a movie, DON’T do it, No matter how much you think you will “like the experience ” YOU WON’T! Just trust me on this. LOL at Nene traveling back and forth for work with two kids. It is like I am watching an interview from BIZARRO WORLD. What has anyone ever seen NENE in before housewives.
God I hate having to hate Giulana for this shit show.
Nene claims she was first cast for RHOA. She gave Kim Zolciak her part. Maybe she did, but I have a hard time believing that her broke ass was the first pick by Bravo. Though everyone in the ATL knew that they paid to rent her a house WHICH SHE STILL LIVES IN FOR FREE. um allegedly.
Nene then says she recommended Sheree, she was married to a football player and they lived “behind the gate,” MORE BULLSHIT, she hates Sheree why would she even tell that lie? Sheree lived on Long Island Drive at the time. Nice area. Not gated. Nene claims she put together the RHOA. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. sorry.
Nene regrets Bryson’s interactions with the law being on TV. He was just being a kid. Everyone’s kid gets arrested! Nene says that Brentt can’t make the same mistakes, because President Obama’s children cannot do that either. And she is right, Obama’s kid can’t steal from WAL*MART. So sorry Brentt.. you must bear the cross of not being able to shoplift because Mommy is famous. GOOD GOD,
I am not even going in to the housewive divorce theory here because we ALL know it was storyline to get Nene a wedding. Nene even says, she knew by what the producers said that they were going to file for divorce.
Nene says she is always going to be a dreamer. She wants to star in a major sitcom. And she wants her dream home… Good luck with that Nene, for real.
No tea and definitely no shade, but Nene in that first pic looks like a mix of Dionne Warwick when she was on the Celebrity Apprentice and Elsie the Cow from the Borden packaging.
Hahahahaha so ridiculous. Giuliana cannot walk away from crappy interviews like this and feel like she has accomplished anything. Right???? I mean come on any student interviewer can easily look up this “nene truth” and see the bullshit!!! Do they think we are that dumb?!?
Yep, but hey, this is E News right?
So true. Giuliana thinks she is a serious journalist. She’s not. She reports on showbiz gossip, showbiz news…that’s it. There’s nothing wrong with what she does so I don’t ‘get it’ about her acting like serious news journalist. That she interviewed Nene just speaks volumes about what she is all about.
It’s a shame Nene has to twist and turn the truth to make herself look like something that she’s not. I admire women who take a small window of opportunity and run with it to make a better life for themselves. I think Nene did that. So it just seems odd that she doesn’t want the public to see her story as a rags to riches type of story (ok, maybe not rags to riches, but yall know what I mean)…..
OMG! That was too painful to read…
I think this Giuliana should interview TT, as just reading some of TT’s posts are WAY more interesting than the rehashed Nene story.
I agree!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me to hear that Giuliana does soft interviews after what I saw happen on Fashion Police.
I used to like Giuliana Rancic and watched Fashion Police with Joan Rivers all the time – until Kris Kardashian – oops Jenner – apparently found a way to infect that show. They used to make fun of the times Kim K wore idiotic clothing that made her butt look huuuuugggggeeeeee…just like they do everyone else.
I remember the first time Giuliana stuck up for an awful Kim K outfit and Joan just sat their in shock with her mouth open. Then a couple of shows later, Joan put up another picture of Kim with an even more hideous picture and Giuliana didn’t join in the banter. It was obvious that she had been “befriended” by Kris and/or the girls.
After that, Kim K wasn’t brought up again. Well, maybe she has been by now, because I quit watching it soon after that happened.
I lost a lot of respect for Giuliana after that. I realize that out in Hollywood they have to “get along” with celebrities, but when a reporter/host appears to have been bought, they lose all credibility. Such a shame. The sadder part is that I don’t think she even sees it.
As for Joan Rivers, I’m hoping she didn’t go along with it.. I’m just hoping she didn’t put anymore Kim K tacky pictures up because of how Giuliana reacted.
Loved your recap. I will not watch a show with Guiliana on it…sorry, can’t do it. I think her IQ is slightly less than her weight. NeNe wishes that she had stripped at the Gold Club.
I didn’t know Nene’s life was so complicated lol. Hey TT you really think she can’t buy a house? I mean don’t she have some kind of money to buy a one? She’s working right.
Worst interview ever. Nene’s outfit and hair was so bad. George Washington I agree is what Nene looked like. I thought it would be about Nene getting roles on TV shows at least.
Back in the day, you really didn’t need a birth certificate. The school took your word. We live in a different time and now you do have to verify the information to the school before the child is enrolled. A social security card is required now. My mom thought she had my original birth certificate until I applied for my social security card at age 16. The SS office said it was not a valid birth certificate.
She’s gotten married. Even 20 years ago you had to have a birth certificate to get a marriage license.
Thanks for the recap. I watched a few minutes of the interview but quickly grew tired of it. Nene is just too much. She is annoying to watch. IMO, This interview is part of the plan to make Nene into a ‘personality’ to extend her 15 minutes, esp. since acting isn’t working out as planned. It will be fun to watch how it all plays out.
I turned from this mess in the first 5 minutes. I will not waste my time looking at this crap.
I didn’t bother to watch, but thanks for the recap. If GR is going to do an interview why not interview Vin Diesel with no shirt on. I will watch that all day!
I thought Sheree live in the big mansion with the private gate – Season 1.
I tried reading this entire blog, but Nene is just so full of it, I couldn’t take anymore. Sorry TT.
Yep, Nene be frontin’ all the time. I never believe her “bullchit”.
I’m sure I couldn’t have watched it (Nene grates on me, fast), so I appreciate the recap. I haven’t read a lot about her pre-RHOA life, but I am more curious now.
It’s been too long since I read it, but I thought Andy said in his book NeNe was the first RHOA cast and she brought on/suggested the other ladies.
As for the birth certificate, you have to have one to get a marriage license or SSN card so I don’t believe she doesn’t have one.
She said she found one after she looked under her mother’s maiden name. She went by Curtis’s last name at first I think.
Nene and her brother were adopted, so she had her birth certificate from that. Nene used a different name in school. Her aunt did not have her original birth certificate. Nene’s mom would never give it to her.
I have not been a fan of Nene since Season 2 of the RH so it was not hard for me to turn of the interview after she said her first son’s father use to beat the crap out of her but she stayed with him because in her mind that’s what she thought love was. Can you see Nene being a victim of domestic abuse for years and years.
Tina Turner doesn’t look like a victim of domestic violence, but she was.
I can, actually.
The funniest part of the interview was Nene’s account of the Ebony bathtub scene. All those diamonds going everywhere even in her ears and the guards who were standing around guarding the diamonds. Its very possible from the look on Rancic face she was controlling herself from laughter. Of course she cannot really admit to it.
I am on the floor laughing at this recap. Sheesh.
After initially being dumbstruck that Nene got 1-hour special on E! – now I see why – it was a paid advertisement for Nene’s manufactured bio?
I get the impression that Guliana thinks she’s also a Reality TV HW/Personality instead of an entertainment reporter. This Nene puff piece (and a long list of her other interviews) are the stuff of paid advertisements on late night cable – I think of Cindy Crawford’s beauty serum.
I think Guliana prefers to be besties with these personalities rather than being an unbiased entertainment reporter. She’s being quoted by other media on her opinions of these people, gets in petty feuds with them on Twitter etc. and then that being reported, then hosts these types of pillow soft exclusives. Even Ryan Seacrest isn’t that obvious!
I think Guliana and Nene are both on the Star Search ladder trying to climb up and are overreaching. I agree with whoever said above that the recap was much more entertaining than the show and no commercials;)
JoJo, my beloved….
I get that I write a blog about people in the entertainment industry. They are being paid big bucks (except bravolebs) to entertain us. So it is okay to mock them all the live long day.
I am everso grateful for you being here.
That said. Is there anyone you like? I get it, they are all attention whores with problems. But, honey. It’s CHRISTMAS! I have to read every post on this site and you UNRELENTING negativity is harshing my mellow.
Could you at least TRY to get into the Christmas spirit? I know some people get down this time of year, and I am sorry if you are sad. But if this fat, unmarried woman of a certain age can enjoy the carols, the shopping and all that there is….
CAN YOU AT LEAST TRY? Just try. It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Merry Christmas JoJo.
xoxo
tt
Merry Christmas. I guess I didn’t take the hint yesterday. I’ve read your blogs and commenters for over year now, and I misjudged, thought most commenters were kinda’ funny snarky/negative.
Didn’t mean to cross some line.
And, although this has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote about strangers exposing themselves in a reality TV show, yes, I do look forward to the Holidays being over for the last 10 years now.
I like NeNe’s personality but no one is perfect and I also call BS on many of the same things you did here. In particular, that kids’ steal from Wal-Mart or that they can’t do bad things only because a parent is in the media. I was a kid once, never had any thought of stealing anything, doing drugs, or any other illegalities cross my mind. Her statements about her son’s behavior were downright stupid and what she implied was even worse, that these things are normal. NOT.
At the end of the interview, Guilianna said to Nene, “you’re a good woman.” What?! Where was Guilianna coming from with that? The woman was a stripper! And all that gushing her husband was doing. Wow! Did Nene coach him or is he genuinely that much in-love? He said he had a burning desire for his wife and that nothing was too good for her.