I received an email with a link to this interesting BlogSpot with exactly one entry today. It’s an open letter to Gina Liano from the Real Housewives of Melbourne written back in April. It seems the show was over and the reunion had been filmed and someone *cough* Lydia *cough* was butthurt over editing. Lydia, er, I mean the anonymous author, says the post is not an attack on Gina and then she goes on to insult her hair, her make-up, her pot-nah, her friend Chyka, and her job as a barrister. She seems to think that being a defense attorney is the worst thing in the world. She also calls out Gina for smoking despite having cancer and wearing cheap perfume to cover the smell. No, that is not an attack at all. That’s just being helpful and keeping it 100. Right?
These girls are just green with envy over Gina’s barrister status. Apparently, she represents the lowly “sample people” and ruins lives. The blogger is obsessed with this saying, ” Onto brains, you are a brilliant legal mind! You roped in Foxtel and everyone involved into a neat little contract where you get to behave badly, feed your ego, literally ruin lives and then tell producers…WAIT HERE IT COMES…’I’m a barrister, edit that out or it will ruin my career as a BARRISTER.’I was on the other end of a call the first time I heard that neat little trick. Isn’t that fun? You took responsibility for hundreds of lives the day you forced your hand with that contract. Cast members, staff, down to the person who runs to get coffee on set. That’s cute; you just swooped in and made it your show. Care to deny it?” Yes, dear. She made it her show with pancake makeup and stilettos something you could not do with all the airplanes and cars and helicopter rides in the world. And you’re butthurt. We get it.
Thanks to the commenter who emailed me this, and Michael, I’m not sure if this was on your required reading list or if this is news to you. I filed your email under “important source material to get to ASAP” and now that I have a minute I can’t find it! Anyway, click the link for the whole blog, and/or enjoy the excerpt below with my thoughts and then let’s chat in comments!
Oh the show itself, this little franchise of horrors indeed. So you had some friends it seemed. They all behaved badly (Thank you Foxtel/Arena for the editing job that is so poor if you freeze frame and replay minutes of dialog at a time from multiple episodes you can in fact get the real filming for most of the cast). Well you didn’t like anyone who wasn’t interested in you. They aren’t interesting either day in and day out so no loss.
The new girl was mean (no she wasn’t…”Dave” is powerful and has money, sluts love that, so blame “Dave” not the angel lady who sees shit). It’s not what defines her…….
Wait, she is defending Jackie by saying Dave has sluts? Jackie is an angel who isn’t mean? Did we just imagine all the passive aggressive shit stirring? I could come around to liking Jackie, but she’s hardly an angel. Perhaps just an ally to the author of this “anonymous” missive.
Your ex-friend the skincare queen, well she just loves her fucking self and is making a list right now. So you decided she was the best bet to shit on. I know having a husband and father of her three babies (wait where’s yours?) is upsetting for the mother of a few men’s offspring (children are off limits according to you, so I’ll move on.)
This doesn’t even make sense. Is she trying to say that Gina has kids that we are not being told about?
By the way, Amazon sells a little thing called a micro camera, you should’ve thought long and hard at who you spent time with when we got that little bit of footage! (Bad Gina, talking nonsense.)
Seriously? Secretly taping Gina for some “dirt” is supposed to make GINA look bad?
Oh there’s the moron who married money. That’s alright, Gina, she was your friend but you were a little boring by episode 3 so you shit on her too, that was fun. I think she actually called you family but we know that’s a lie because you barely knew her. Oh well she’s probably getting her car repainted and flying in her husband’s plane. Stupid “sex” fiend. I guess you hate that you lease your Benz and “Dave” sends you a Qantas ticket when the local US whores get boring.
Lydia, Lydia, Lydia, you are losing your transparency here. If you could go five minutes without bragging about having an airplane and a fancy car you might have had a shot at pulling this off.
Your oldest on all front’s friend, the diamond baron cougar, well she loved you a lot but she’s a bit old and forgets and she forgot to back you up after a long day of filming, so you had it with her. Wahoo to her, she’s free of you.
It’s saber toothed tiger to you Lydia. And you don’t seem like much of a friend to her either.
Am I off basis yet? You know the recorded phone calls are fun too. Those may not be legal but people on set look at you for a reason, Gina.
Lydia, you sound so desperate. You illegally recorded your cast mate who is a lawyer and played the tapes for production? You probably should not brag about criminal activity in a way that sounds threatening online. This little blog is not as anonymous as you think. Oh and it’s off base. It’s a baseball term.
Who’s left? Oh yes. The syrupy sweet catering queen. I like where you both bought, YES BOUGHT FOLLOWERS for social media from the same damn company so you achieved 10k+ status simultaneously. We’ve used the app, Gina we know you needed to look special and be a winner at Ginaville so you helped out your only ally. Did you tell everyone that you have dirt on your friend the queen of cake? It hardly seems fair that her husband has to take the fall if she stops filming with you. Applause for Gina!
So you didn’t get the memo to buy twitter followers like every other housewife on planet earth? Clearly production hates you. We know how you love to buy things. I’m sure you have rectified that oversight now. You can’t find an insult for Chyka other than she is nice so you have to imply that her husband has some nefarious secret that Gina is holding over her? So nasty, so rude.
So Foxtel, we can’t say much to you but we could ask Gina, which employee on the daily is threatened with legal action to get her way: from the President of the group to the poor bastard who cleans up her fake tanner. It’s always someone else’s fault isn’t it? I’m crying, hope my mascara stays.
Regarding these recorded calls and videos. Did you know one of your cast mates is so paranoid that she had a pinhole camera on her at the reunion? I hope you’re starting to feel a bit ugly inside. You have a special way of deepening your voice when you’re being crude. It must really be effective in court. Is it Gina?
So you even wore a camera to the reunion? This little missive was written in April. I wonder if Foxtel is aware of all of your online antics Lydia. Perhaps you will be sitting next to Andrea for season two?
WOW…that makes our housewives look like angels.
Geezus!
I was truly shocked by the other girls’ strong reactions to Gina being late, walking on the $40k tennis court and leaving a bit of mess ( and “debris”) in Andrea’s powder room. If you don’t want someone to use your “very expensive” French embroidered hand towels; don’t put them out for use (which makes them useless, as far as I’m concerned). If you don’t want to clean up your beach house because you have no “help” that weekend; don’t invite anyone over. If you don’t want someone with heels on your (can we mention it again here?) $40k tennis court, tell them the true reason why. Don’t make up some BS that they may get hurt. And last, but not least; if you know someone is perpetually late, either accept it or give them an earlier time to arrive. Gina didn’t commit any criminal acts. The other girls/women/infants are acting as though she’s the mass murderer of koala bear babies. Sheesh!
My thoughts exactly!
I know, it was just absurd the things these women had a problem with Gina over. It was just totally bizarre. I almost hate Janet the most, because she seemed to turn on her over NOTHING but Gina being late…a 20 year friendship?
Omg Koala’s are not ‘bears’! 😉
The viewer knows that production is involved in shooting times so why make a big deal about being late on a show like this? Either production held Gina back to give the other women time to bitch about her, or she was working on a legal matter and production knew she would be late, as did the other women.
I am loving this franchise! Not sure if it’s because I am so sick of all the others here. Juicy Juicy!
I did miss the first couple of episodes though. Is this the first season for them?
Yes, it is Melissa. Which is why it is so delightful. None of them really knew what they were getting into.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I wish bravo would scrap the cities airing now and start anew! Or just scrap them all together. I barely watch anymore and just read the recaps here.
so nasty and so rude……….. T you crack me up!
Did she call someone a slut with the way she was parading around in front of her stepson? Pot meet kettle!
Ah I remember this little gem. It was all the rage around the time the reuinion aired.
Lydia still entertains me though. She is so incredibly dumb yet completely unaware of it it is hilarious. Andrea is scum I don’t want on my screen, but Lydia I don’t mind.
Did it get mentioned on the reunion? I can’t remember if it was mentioned or just alluded to.
Michael. I am obsessive about keeping my inbox empty. So I have many folder to hold important email in. Like “”post ideas for later” “Source emails” “Get to this ASAP!” “Keep for later” etc etc. I’m sure it’s in one of them but resending would be helpful. 🙂
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Sent. 🙂
This is a new level of Housewife hate. Even so much ado about tanning, good thing this bitch writer is far removed from New Jersey HW faux tans. I delight in thinking of what litigation threats Jim Marchese would come up with for this crazy mess.
I’m surprised this letter only shows two comments in response. It seems all see Lydia as the guilty party. This behind the scenes circus would be better than the actual show.
I’d say that’s true for all of these shows. That’s why this blog is so much more entertaining than the shows. Here is where we get the REAL in the “Real Housewives”.
For me it actually is. I love how the perception was that Gina would not be a fan favourite and that Lydia and Andrea would rise to the top and sell their books for millions. Australia loves underdogs and can’t stand when a group gangs up on an individual. Not that Gina can’t handle herself. Love how she applied makeup at the table.
Lydia to me seems more than just dumb, but really, REALLY slutty – in a way that is not cute (let’s face it, sluttiness is often par for the course in U.S. Housewives franchises but something about Lydia rubs me the wrong way, for lack of a better phrase). Her eerie whorish smile when describing her ‘conjugal contract’ creeped me the eff out, especially in context of the rest of her presentation on camera (appropriate innuendo with stepson, non-stop gold digger-esque statements with footage of husband telling her to keep paws off airplane controls, etc). *shudder*
There is a show that is a parody of the housewives franchise, called Hotwives I think. The ‘Lisa Vanderpump’ character in that is just like Lydia. So hypersexualised in an annoying and aggressive way. See that seen where she went shopping with her stepson?
I’m confused did you lose my email? I can resend it if you did :). Firstly just have to say that Lydia is back next season and it wouldn’t surprise me if she sucked up to Gina alot. Secondly, Foxtel denied the authenticity of this blog and stated it was not from one of their employees/producers etc. Finally, Lydia was the first housewife to retweet the link to the blog, which is why I think it was her who wrote it. Even if it was Andrea or someone else (doubtful), Lydia by retweeting it obviously agrees with its horrible content.
I am not on twitter myself, but wanted to do some investigating after this letter/blog was posted. One of the photos on Gina’s page is a snapshot of a message board post in which someone essentially outs Lydia as responsible for it – Gina’s caption was something to the effect of “disappointing when the truth comes out” or something like this.
HAHA! I hope they discuss it on season 2. It is doubtful though. Why do they avoid discussing the most important behind the scenes fights? They are the really juicy ones.
Psycho
I get the feeling this is Andrea’s letter with Lydia’s help. Hummm…..
Very easily could be. I doubt that one did it without the other’s input/knowledge. If it really was a Foxtel employee they would have been fired by now. They must think we are thick.
Hahaha whoever wrote that blog attack just doesn’t get that folks are Team Gina based on: Gina is fabulous and calls herself the ultimate drag queen. Gina is self deprecating. Gina asked that if you have a problem with her, address it one on one privately. That’s it. No fancy editing was necessary. Also, the piling on her was just ridiculous. Gina really hasnt done or said much in the episodes I’ve seen except be mild, and be calm and collected when attacked by harpies. So whoever wrote that asinine Gina attack should Calm Down, and Take a Xanax! We were never going to like you, hon.
Omg. Did you just use the ‘c’ word? Never tell a woman to ‘Calm Down’. That is asking for trouble ;).
Real cute-the real C-word is calm…
Just wanted to say I came across this site the other day, and I Love Love Love it! My new favourite! Keep up the great work! Thank you Tamara!
She is amazing. Keep commenting so she will show us aussies the love with more witty posts. Plox.
I had an issue with Gina when she went all “demonic” on Jackie, not so much because I believe in psychic ability but just that, she had asked Jackie a direct question about her partner and Jackie said, “What do you think?” She didn’t actually say he was cheating and Jackie even said she didn’t want to do any type of impromptu reading when first meeting the ladies. They resolved that and Jackie seems like she can truly get along with anyone, look how much fun she seemed to be having with Gina at the pool at the resort. I have a theory why Lydia and Andrea and then in turn Janet have such a burr up their ass about Gina is that she just looks so ridiculous that she makes people physically mad when they look at her!! I mean Gina jokes about being a drag queen but Rupaul is looking at her and saying “Too much gurl, just TOO. MUCH!” I know women who use too much makeup like that and I have to wipe the phone down before I use it or the makeup transference from the headset gets all over my skin and my clothes. I bet she is lovely under all the pancake and eye shadow and she has a hot little body plus a FAB career, but you can tell she must actually be very insecure in that sense because she is always adjusting her hair, just relax! I did appreciate how she let Andrea just rant about how much busier, smarter than Gina she was, that kinda shite just shows exactly how ignorant you are Andrea! She does argue and fight in such a mature (read not like the other HW’s who just shout nonsense over each other) way that I have to give her respect for that as well!
the comment about “i know its upsetting to the mother of a few men’s offspring” is a dig at GINA saying that her two son’s have different baby daddies!!