I am so behind on my trash TV watching and blogging! If I don’t get caught up now it is only going to get worse since my biggest addiction, Big Brother has begun! Let’s see what the Ladies of London are up too! OMG! Juliet’s kids are so adorable! Juliet’s husband is awesome and supportive!
Thanks, Bravo, for reminding me of these ladies’ names. Annabelle and Caroline get together for tea and shade. The shade is for ridiculous American, Caprice. But there was some left over for Juliet as well. Caroline calls Juliet to tell her to apologize to Annabelle for making a scene on the street. Frankly, I don’t see why she should, but I am American.
Caprice is trying to prepare to go the US to birth her baby and pick up the spare one from the surrogate. But first, she has a lot of horse races and hat parties to go to.
Juliet is having a hat party. I am in love with Pip, the milliner and her dress, and her hats. The rest of the ladies dresses are a bit…um..different. I want the headband hat. Please have it sent. Thanks. I shall wear it with sweats on the sofa. I’d also like a piece of that fudge. At the party, Caprice seems angry with Caroline for not being angry with Juliet over the fight with Annabelle and makes an early exit.
Noelle and Scot are still hunting for a place to live. This place is much nicer than the last place and a mere $10K a month. Scot is “bankrupt” until the divorce is over and he can stop hiding his money. Allegedly. 
Annabelle is doing a fashion show in an underground tunnel which has sprung a link. Mentions of McQueen so far, 1. Annabelle presses on leaky roof and all. It’s one of those ridiculous avant Garde things where everyone pretends the clothes are “cutting edge” and yet totally wearable. The only person I can envision in these clothes is Boy George. How is Boy George these days anyway. I seem to recall he was having some issues. Alexander count 1. Have we addressed Annabelle’s sexuality yet? Because, I’m starting to think she swims in the lady pond. NTTAWWT.
Tamara learns a new word. Caroline says to Caprice, “Why should we all jump in and act like fishwives?”
fish·wife ˈfiSHˌwīf/ noun plural noun: fishwives
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I love this term and will be using it repeatedly from now on. We will probably need to make it the TT drinking game word here soon. Caroline was supposed to be having a baby shower for Caprice, but Caprice said she can’t manage to get her friends all the way to Caroline’s house. Caroline live 30-40 minutes outside of London. Caprice wants to have it at a restaurant in town instead. They have a passive aggressive disagreement with any weave pulling or table flipping and both leave angry with each other. It was all quite a refreshing change from the Real Fishwives of Atlanta. heh. I warned you. 🙂
Noelle and Scot were supposed to move into their apartment, but somehow Scot has failed to mention a delay in moving to Noelle. They are not getting on well. Noelle and Scot go wine shopping, and a lovers quarrel breaks out. Scot asks Noelle if she really wants everyone overhearing this. Noelle tells him no one is listening. And she is probably right, no one is, except the guys with the cameras. Noelle goes in on Scot telling him he needs him to man up and take care of his responsibilities. Then, ten seconds later they kiss and go upstairs for wine. It was like a pop up shower, it seemed threatening, but quickly blew over.
Off to the races! Marissa and Juliet are the only ladies who end up wearing hats. In the limo on the way over, Caprice brings up the Annabelle v. Juliet event at the 4th of July party. Caprice is being a bitch. Did I mention she is very pregnant. Stop being a fishwife, Caprice! As soon as the ladies get out of the car, Juliet and Caprice hug it out. Wow, these emotional storms don’t last five minutes on this show.
Who is this Julie person? Is she a friend of? Or have I forgotten about her? Anyway Julie’s husband will be the next Earl of Sandwich. She’s invited the Ladies to go to her estate. And next week they all take a trip to Sandwichville or wherever.
I like this show, which means no one is watching and it will be cancelled.
i just have to say i love love love this show, but im worried because the ratings havent been that great. maybe they will be able to pull off a southern charm and pull in higher ratings later.
im probably going to say this every week, but i love caroline sometimes i feel i should be offended by her ( like when she says americans have no tradtion) , but she’s so funny. annabelle is still bleh for me this week. juliet is growing on me, but i swear caprice just gets worse every episode i cant stand her, noelle is such a brat i was hoping scot was going to leave her. as for julie maybe this is really vein, but for her to be a countess she has really terrible hair.
ps. have you seen caroline’s house who turns down her house to have a baby shower in a restuaraunt. oh and noelle is such a brat, i was hoping scot was going to leave her.
I also enjoy this show, and I thus far believe that Caroline probably is my favorite, though I I too was somewhat off put by her errant “no tradition” comment, until I recalled that she openly admitted (to her aesthetician that she had no certain knowledge about our USA Independence Day, nor about how Americans memorialize and celebrate it, in other words she was clueless about our July 4th traditions. I also acknowledge the
we Americans naturally would appear way more loosely strung compared to Caroline, who is a citizen of perhaps the most tradition, ceremony, pomp and circumstance laden nations on the face of this earth. Example: UK’s “Changing of the Guard” at the Palace vs. the shift change for guards at our national ‘palace’, our White House. So, I consider the source of criticism, its context and Caroline’s seemingly sincere desire to maintain an open mind, befriend her American peers, understand them and their ways, and to also quietly teach her American peers, to make their assimilation to life in the UK less awkward, embarrassing and painful.
I also agree with your characterizations of the other British cast members, BUT I think that you may be far too kind to/about Lady Annabelle the Awful, who seemingly is proud of an ancestor, an Italian national, who became a (hardly noble) nobleman by murdering someone to please a horny Swiss queen for gain. Annabelle strikes as a stalker-ish, McQueen-obsessed, angry, passive-aggressive, well educated British version of Tamra Judge. Yes, she is that awful; mean spirited in fact.
Totally agree with both your characterizations, Vanessa and Tasos – and for Vanessa, methinks weirdly angular faced Caprice wants a public restaurant so she can invite the paparazzi and end up in the tabloids – she is a media whore.
One reason I love a show such as this is getting to see what they wear, their surroundings, and what they buy. So it was great fun to see the darling baby shop, and hear Caroline list the little treasures she’d once had, but has since given all, all away.
Shades of Vanderpump telling Stassi, ‘We fishwives got together to pile up our old couture, and then we gave it all away. You just missed that by a few days, Stassi. And I didn’t call you, even though I am so terribly fond of you, darling, and I know your dream is a career in fashion, and that you even have a fashion blog for US magazine.’ Tough teabags for you.
In contrast, we brash Americans are much more direct. If we don’t like you, we will Tell You. Some of us, sadly, are less evolved, and pull chickenshit manouvers like ‘Turn up the mechanical bull,’ and then lie about it. But I like to think American women are getting better and better at finding and using our voices.
Back to LoL, the subtext is Caroline is fed up with Caprice. Caprice who, like Madonna way back when, wants to be an English Rose.
I can’t stand her slurping that Annabelle. Homely and mean. Caprice is hard to look at: her eye-area is a mess. I loved her bug dress, and her undies look fab. She could be okay if she’s stop her crush on Annabelle (who I think shows up next time with an LV bag. ?! Can we spell conformity?)
I wish they’d run into the Made in Chelsea stars. Talk about ab fab telly!
I’m enjoying this show as well. It appears they get over their issues quicker than some reality wives we know; so the show is refreshing. I just can’t stand Noelle and her boyfriend with the alleged hidden millions. It’s so transparent what they hope to achieve with the show, which is to appear to be struggling financially.
I feel like Noelle isn’t really trying to hide the fact that she wants to be famous. I don’t know what exactly you feel she and Scott are trying to achieve on the show, but I certainly feel that Noelle is pretty transparent about her goals and intentions–consciously, even if not wisely–she definitely “owns it”. I don’t know what exactly she does in fashion, but she straight up says that she wants to learn how to be in the press all the time and she wants to emulate Caprice’s “path to stardom”!!!
So far I like Julie (she’s the generally pleasant one with the Restaurateur husband right?) and Annabelle. Yes, Annabelle is still living in McQueen’s contrail but so may people who had links to him like London fashion stars, Isabella Blow or Daphne Guinness seemed to rather deify him, especially once the early death locked in the “tortured genius” vibe.
Still, she’s the only truly stylish person on this show—and NO unwalkably high, stripper shoes, lashings of overdone makeup, and buffed up gloss to the nth degree don’t exactly spell “style”. Money, yes but style, no.
Juliet is on my nerves with the whole “loud, pushy and outspoken are virtues” bit. No, sometimes they are unnecessary and annoying.
I like how this program pits the reality TV American idea of female “strength” of personality as being measured in decibel level against the English version that values self control and not feeling your only road to being recognized as worthy lies in showing your guts to everybody and his or her dog.
Now Julie is the lady of Sandwich one. You’re thinking of Marissa. I like her too. I am sort of warming to Juliet, but I suspect it may just be that her husband is fabulous and he children are drop dead gorgeous.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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And Juliet’s kids accents are ADORABLE!!!
I agree that Annabelle has a quiet subtle beauty that struck me all at once. I am also fond of much of her styling choices.
I love this show too! It’s just a fun little confection and it’s so enjoyable to watch a silly reality show without all of the darkness and dysfunction of the housewives series. So yeah, it will probably be cancelled. I also love Caroline, but honestly she seems just as shady as the rest! I mean, Kazakh oligarch husband? Does that not scream, “My entire lifestyle is financed via a Central Asian’s dictatorship, repression of his people, and exploitation of that nation’s natural resources.” Is that just me? Not judging, I’m just sayin’. Anyway, I think Caprice is one of the most awful things to come across my TV screen in awhile. Her long hair is so age inappropriate, her rhinoplasty was so over-aggressive I’ll bet they had to scoop out part of her brain to get that bridge to go that far inwards. Maybe they had to put a famewhore into the mix who knew the ropes of reality tv to make sure that the whole producers manipulation could be done more easily. Juliet really annoys me, I can’t stand midwesterners and particularly screechy ones at that. Noelle seems so off, everything about her just screams escort who works in five star hotel lobby bars for a living. Her whole schtick about working in fashion rings so false, with the overly long extensions in those barrel curls, now tell me “Where dey do dat?!” Yes Annabelle seems like a skinny little lezzie, and a very grumpy boring one at that. I mean honestly, if that were my muse for my designs I would have killed myself long long ago. She has pure platinum fashion street cred, but I have a feeling her personality was exactly the same before Mcqueen’s death. Marissa seems very sweet, but I feel a little bad that she seems to live in fear of embarrassing her English husband, that must make you feel bad after a while that being your natural inherent self would cause embarrassment to your partner. Having said that, I certainly have to edit and tone down myself in social situations with my man because of the new surroundings I find myself in, so maybe that’s why it sticks out to me. Thanks for recapping this Tamara! Love you, you and your writing are wonderful!
Caprice is pretty awful. Someone offers to throw you a baby shower and you insult their house. Absolutely horrible. Had I been Caroline I’d have rescinded the shower instantly.
That’s pretty much what Caroline did. Next week Caprice can’t figure out why Caroline is ignoring her in the Land of Lord and Lady Sandwich….
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I’m English and remember when Caprice first arrived in the UK. She was really skinny wIth huge fake boobs and bony shoulders so she looked gross. Agree her nose job is so exaggerated and that with her trout pout gives her an ugly profile. Liked someone’s
comment about Scott looking like a homeless person (I think a shave would help). I think Annabelle was unjustifiably horrible to Juliet and very rude – she obviously just cant stand her, for whatever reason – she is just a snob with a stick up her skinny arse.
Imagine me saying this in a really screechy Midwestern voice.
Fuck you, you insufferable boor.
Guess I hit a nerve there! I’m so glad I stick to the coasts, but seriously I can’t stand midwesterners.
Thank you for that.
One with “Horticulture” in their handle probably should quit insulting the nation’s breadbasket.
As your coastal housewives would say… “JUST SAYIN”.
I’ve (accidentally) been watching the show and I’m still not all in. Kind of like the feeling you get when you eat something that doesn’t quite agree with you, but not enough for you to be ill.. yeah, like that.
I love Caroline and think she’s elegant and as nice as any of the girls. Caprice is so full of herself I can’t get a clear picture of who she is, other than very taken with herself.
Noelle and Scott are nauseating-she’s a wannabe, and a mistress demanding shit from a married-but-divorcing man who is trying to cover his ass and she’s whining… pleeeeeaseeeeeee make her stoppppp! You cannot tell me that Caroline just happened to have one ticket to the party–that was soooo not real.
Like I said on Twitter, Annabelle needs a good balanced meal. I get so cranky and ugly when I am hungry and act exactly as she does. Who cares if she was McQueen’s muse–what else do you have sista? Because you and Noelle seem to be in the same sparse boat of accomplishment.
Juliet–beautiful kids but meh as a character.
LOVELOVELOVE Marissa! VERY refreshing and seems to be the only one that is friends with everyone. No fronting there!
I suppose I’ve been a fishwife and my crankiness is showing. Must find that chardonnay bottle and accost it!!
TT you are not alone..I like this show too. The Brits are more comfortable with themselves. Is Carolyn a hautey bitch….yep, she knows it and owns it. Is AnnaBelle a punk….yep and quite frankly she doesn’t give a shit about your opinion. Caprice is the fame whore Nicole wants to be when she grows up. Juliet is loud and obnoxious as a means of fighting against the constraints of Brit society her husband is mingling in. Then there is my girl Marissa, she loves her husband and the life they are creating in a country different than hers. She is managing to fit in…and be true to who she is. Cause I am a hautey punk….I find myself liking the Brits.
Oh wow, Bravo can change the name of “Real Housewives of Atlanta” to “Real Fishwives of Atlanta” I like it, it’s “catchy” lol
I don’t get Annabelle. In the last episode she said she was once married to a Rothschild. But she mourns McQueen like she’s his widow. What as their relationship dynamic? Her extended mourning period makes no sense. Maybe misery and macabre are the new black in haute fashion circles in London. Then while watching the scenes with her and the ingenue fashion designer I really felt like I was watching a totally obvious quid pro quo seduction attempt.
Noelle doesn’t even try to hide the fact that she’s a gold digger and she definitely gives off the grifter vibe. I bet dollars to donuts she’s got some skeletons in her closet. You know, the kind of skeletons that would embarrass others if they were let out.
Totally agree! I think the fact that she wishes she could be more like Caprice just sums up everything about her right? If her and her boyfriend have a great relationship and it’s worth waiting his divorce out to her, then more power to them. Subjecting themselves to the scrutiny and judgement of their relationship by being on television seems like the last thing I would do in that situation. You know the old saying; gold diggers are like hookers only smarter, well when you don’t have the smarts that means you’re just a hooker.
I like your last line!
I like this show, but this episode was a bit blah. The only thing, besides Caprice being an ungrateful bitch to Caroline over the baby shower, I remember is the horrific shoes the models were wearing at the fashion show. OMG, to say they were unattractive is an understatement. It was kinda funny though, one of the models didn’t have hers on (as they all did the very last walk around the cat walk) but she walked it on her tiptoes, as if she was still wearing them…lol.
Let’s have some tea ladies and gents. I like the show but have to admit it isn’t brilliant. That being said, I love seeing inside London and will be watching.
LOVE this show. Fabulous locale, the delivery rivals the shade of you southern women-face it, the rest of the US does not know how to deliver in a funny, yet superior way. The thing I find MOST refreshing, is that the women are not outward trash, with fist a cuffs and all the drama that people actually look for in these housewives shows. I liked RHOBH the first season, because I thought they would not stoop to the bitchfest level of OC or ATL. So wrong was I! So, keep the scenery, the pomp, and the relationships of women real. You can fight in a limo, and hug a few moments later. That is called being an adult-not an uneducated fame seeker. Elevated reality TV? Perhaps I wish I were royal…
Yes! There are fun, pleasant scenes, but also that Caroline-Caprice rivalry hidden behind manners; a lot of exaggeration of the British women’s “horror” at the Americans various taboos, but it’s a fun show! Like you said, they fight but kiss and make up a few minutes later!
But Caprice is a massive bitch! Her friends must not like her that much if they won’t drive half an hour out to Caroline’s for the baby shower. And Caprice is so pathetic: “Have you talked to Annabelle??? Is she alright? Tell me how she’s doing, etc.” Okay, it’s not like Annabelle got beat up. Annabelle threw a fit over lingerie and then appeared unfazed when Juliet yelled at her. SHE’S FINE, CAPRICE!!!
Caprice’s first thought in any situation: “How can I get the paparazzi to cover this??”
I think that’s why she wants to have the baby shower at a restaurant – how could paps take shots inside Caroline’s house?? Also perhaps why she is cozying up to Annabelle – the aristocrat and MUSE to what’s his face…
She’s as transparent as the wind.
Sooooo this is petty – but am I the only one who gets aggravated by Marissa’s tendency to talk out of one side of her mouth with this perky yet pained smile (especially during her talking heads) – anyone? Anyone? It has kind of ruined her for me.
But Caprice is the WORST. Truly.
Yes, totally agree!! I don’t know why she talks like that, it looks bizarre? Other than that, I like her.
Love this show & this post.
Caprice annoys me, but I don’t have the hate for her like a lot of ppl here have. Esp when it came to selling her story to the tabloids.
With family in the UK (lotsa Londoners too), it’s nice to see a show in a city that I consider one of my homes, but I haven’t been in years, and it’s kool to see a London that is not at all my own. Completely different circles. None of these bitches in Lewisham or Croydon, I’ll tell you that.
Marissa I like a lot cos she’s genuine. Yeah, I think Annabelle’s scissoring Conchita. I want more of Annabelle’s nan. That was a precious old haughty woman. Juliet is brash, but I like that her brashness is not out of being antagonistic — it’s just who she is. Caroline reminds me of a coworker who at my last job was known as “That Bitch Barbara Karn”, acerbic but still willing to have fun and smile if you get to know here. I thought I’d hate her in the beginning, but I don’t.
I hope this show gets a second season.
@kkarlmcf – I’m from Croydon!
Hi Gabriella!!! Yay a local watching the show!
A little late to this party but I just binge watched all 4 episodes of this. The definition of fishwives really cracked me up even though I have heard or read the word being used before!
I’m not really sold on any of the ladies, but just looking at her house Caroline is FILTHY rich. It might not be that obvious to Americans but to get a house like Carolines is an extreme rarity. Lisa Vanderpump couldn’t afford to buy or maintain a house like that near London believe me.
Annabelle’s house is so beautiful, even though she is a nasty woman herself. I love how warm and grandmothery and British her living room is.
The show’s storyline is a bit cheesy though, the whole “society” thing is a bit hard to get into or believe. Nobody with a couple of intact brain cells would judge people solely on their nationality. Then again Juliet is kinda proving me wrong..
Can’t wait to see the beautiful estate next week. Love those old stone buildings surrounded by super green grass. Why is the grass always so green in england..
Din,
My husband is a CFO at a bank, and we lived in London 7 for years. Caroline’s magnificent home did not escape this American… She is EXTREMELY AFFLUENT.
Am I too old for DJ to adopt me?
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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The other housewife shows need to look at this one to see how it’s done correctly. This one is so fun to watch. I hope they don’t cancel it.
Yes, Tamara’s blog and the commenters here have pulled me into watching. I have Brit friends and relatives to watch with and answer obtuse questions so I think it’ll be fun, haha.
Caroline is my favorite. She’s straight to the point and does not deal with B.S. She knows her worth and can care less who likes her or not. That’s a strong woman who can take it and dish it. Then we have Julie who by far is the most composed of all the ladies, who ironically is American! Annabelle is a hard person to read. She wants to present herself as a “artist” who has a daring “F-U” attitude, yet she’s still a prude whose aristocratic experiences takes over when handling 1st world issues like “knicker gate”. Juliet is a little firecracker. She is a 21st century American girl. She’s brash, abrasive and does not like conformity, especially when it’s warranted by the British ladies. As brash as Juliet is, she is the definition of what a real woman is in America. She wears her heart on sleeve and like to attack problems head on, instead of sneaking them under a rug. I admire her actions on the show when pertaining to standing up for herself and speaking how she felt. I feel like a lot of people tend to not speak up on their true emotions, which then those problems will fester and eat inside. Marisa is like that happy-go-lucky girl you’ve always ran into in high school whose always giddy about something. She’s in love with her husband which shows, yet it does seem in some way like she is more fascinated about British society even more so than those that were born in the country. Her always positive outlook can get under the skin of the other girls, yet I respect Marisa because quite frankly, she’s a girl obsessed with “British society” so being on this show and living in London would be very fitting. Plus she carries herself MOST of the time with class and dignity. Noelle is considered a filler for all I know. I wanted to love her, when there were sneak peeks shown prior to season 1 starting on bravo, you get to hear Noelle talk about what fascinates her about “British society” as well as being apart of the fashion world. I expected a fun American girl who was going to take London by storm. Unfortunately, she was a bit of a bore. She’s a pretty girl, yet those come a dime a dozen. You can’t expect to wow people on a reality show with just a pretty face and no personality. Noelle came off on the show as an opportunist with no originality. She also seemed very bratty when discussing her relationship status and drama. Noelle should be more of a “friends of the ladies of London” then an actual castmate. I wish I could say that was all, but then we have caprice. What can I say about caprice that hasn’t already been said by everyone this post!?! I’ll give credit where credit is due. I respect caprice for making it in London, and pretty much that’s it. She’s boring, she talks SOOOO slowly as if to be a lady, yet it makes her sound so dumb and SLOW. She walks, talks, and acts like everything she does is such hard work. Granted, I’m sure a lot of editing and cameras haven’t shown caprice in true form when she’s “really working” or whatever she does, besides sighing, feeling uncomfortable or restless. Granted I’ve never had to experience a pregnancy, but come on now?!?!? Get out of your warped sense of reality that everything going on in your life soooooo stressful! Every time I see Caprice, I feel like parts of my brain cells have been depleted and that the time spent watching her on t.v., I will not be able to get that precious time back. I would love for her to just not be on the show period. I even feel like I’ve wasted my brain cells even speaking about her!!! Alright everyone thanks for taking the time to hear me out! I hope some of you relate to how I’m thinking. I love this show and hope for a second season (without caprice that is…)
If you want people to read yoru comment, (I didn’t) then try using capital letters and breaking thoughts into paragraphs. Your wall of words is unbearable.