I’m trying to take the day off today. I’m just a bit overwhelmed by everything and just want a day of hiding under the covers and having a pity party. But I am going to make a few brief comments on this show and I promise to be back to my old self soon.
The casting tapes from 2007 are amazing to watch. Jill and Luann basically looks the same but everyone else looks different.
Jill refused to be interviewed for the show.
Lots of Alex and Simon bashing.
Bethenny looks gorgeous in her interviews.
Luann regales us with Countess stories. The others prefer regular Luann.
I sort of miss Kelly Bensimon. I love the I’m up here, you’re down there crap. This playback of Kelly putting down Bethenny is almost identical to the things Bethenny said to Ramona at the beginning of this season.
I’m not sure why I am even watching this.
Andy met Carole at a dinner part at Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelous’ house.
Bethenny got Aviva on the show.
Much discussion about the breakup of Jill and Bethenny. Bethenny says she was really excited to host the Today show one time and when she arrived producers told her that Jill had called demanding to know why Bethenny was chosen over her. Jill would go out of her way to sabotage Bethenny’s appearance. I imagine Jill is probably going nuts on Twitter but I think I have her blocked.
Bethenny talks about how Jill waited until they were on camera to really come for her and try to get the fans to hate her. Jill tried to take her down and it backfired. Bethenny says of Jill, “Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.”
Next Avivia’s leg toss. Carole is such a cunt satchel. Aviva admits the preplanned throwing the leg. Luann says that was her swan song.
I love the segment about traveling with housewives. Kristen says that Ramona would stand up and go into the overhead during take off. Luann loved Morocco. Heather loved Montana. Ramona did not like Montana. Kristen LOVED Montana and thought Ramona was ridiculous there. Ramona loved St. Barths. Lots of discussion of Luann and the Pirate. Luann lies a lot again about the pirate. The gig is up Luann. Luann says that Jacques made her watch the episode with him. It did not go well.
Scary Island! Kelly still doesn’t see that she was crazy. Which is crazy. I wish I had jelly beans. Luann agrees that Kelly was bullied. Really? Ramona says she called Jill off camera and said that she needed to meet Kelly at the airport. They thought she needed to be committed. Kelly said her friends ostracized her after the episode. She says she could have lost her kids. Bethenny takes no responsibility for Kelly’s damage to her reputation. Should she?
Luann cries talking about how here marriage was the best time of her life. She loves that some of that was captured on the show. Ramona talks about divorcing Mario. She says she had a great marriage for over 20 years. She says he turned 60 and something snapped. I have seen that happen with men turning 60. It comes to the point where they realize that life is not forever and they still have things they want to do and obligations no longer matter to them. Ramona says she doesn’t know the man he is now
Oh dear GAWD. This is a two hour show? I can’t.
They all agree the reunions are horrible. Dorinda says her first reunion went better than expected. Ramona falling asleep during the reunion was epic. Apparently, Ramona was the first person to walk off of the reunion. Ramona says she walked off over some of Alex’s nude photos. Her daughter was in a very prestigious school and she thought her participation in the conversation would get her kicked out.
Ramona thinks New Yorkers are savvier than the rest of it. Andy admits that the promotion and branding was out of control. Bethenny blames herself. She talks about being poor and driving the Skinny Girl car. Bethenny cries and credits Andy for all that she has. It really was touching. I kind of needed to hear everything she is saying right now. Aw, Andy is like Bethenny’s gay best friend for real. It’s really hard not to like Bethenny.
The girls all impersonate each other. Carole regrets telling on Sonja for getting butt fucked by the pirate. Aviva regrets calling Sonja and Ramona white trash. Aviva got her first really bad bashing in social media for that. Ramona regrets attacking Bethenny on the Brooklyn Bridge saying she is a press monger with no friends and suggests that she will fuck up her relationship with Jason.
Okay the last half hour is Andy counting down his top ten moments. I’ll let y’all fill me in on that. I’m going back to bed.
love you feel better T.T that’s all we want!
Thanks for the recap, TT. Sending you love from DYT <3
Well, I don’t know that the show will live up to the recap! Hope you feel better. Take a long weekend, you deserve it!
#3 of Andy’s favorite moments was a montage of Sonja being an ass. I couldn’t take anymore. Now I need to curl up in my bed and try to forget that mess.
Good grief, the #1 was the Countess singing. Be glad you missed it. I hope Banjo hasnt gone rogue again, get some rest and we understand that you work 7 days a week.
Wait, I missed this. What did Carole do to make her a cunt satchel? Can someone tell me?
I wanted to know what that was all about also. I’ve gone back and forth on Carole, but I like her right now. Why the cunt satchel reference? BTW, I’m sorry TT is so worn out. Take care.
I love Carole. She’s bohemian like me. We have our feet firmly planted in mid-air. I’m not surprised that people don’t get her, but I am surprised that she garners such dislike. She’s not harming anyone by living by her own rules. She has the freedom, the means and the carte blanche that we all wish we did, so what exactly IS the problem? I don’t get it.
I’ve always liked Carole, too. I’ve never understood what the hate is about.
Count me in as another fan of Carole!
I like the laid back Carole and how she lives her life happily.
Was it the Sonja in the butt, thing?
My guess is TT could have been referring to how Carole still rips on Aviva. I love laid back Carole and the idea of her lifestyle. But, sometimes in reality she’s not laid back (think about her following Heather around as she storms the Turks and Caicos house). And, I think she showed some real mean girl colors to Aviva. She distanced herself from Aviva in a really condescending way and never seems to own her own over reactions.
I loved it! It was great going down memory lane and having the real inside stories being told, and the HW’s commenting on their thinking at the time. Twas way better than the reunions, where we are wanting a climax and have to go to sleep with blue balls 😀
@JeJune-you NAILED it! Climax vs blue balls-lol ?
That’s great recap for long ass show
Anytime I can rehear Bethenny say “That’s the point, ya dumb drag queen.” is a good day.
I would love a special showing Bethanny and company’s best one-liners.
Im not a Bethenny fan, but when she talked about gratefulness to the show, I flipped and now like her a little. She appeared human and approachable and humble.
Thank you for recapping this, just couldn’t bring myself to watch and chose Project Runway recordings for more relaxation. Channel surfed and heard Andy mention Jill showing up on Scary Island when everyone was mellowing out getting pedicures as one favorite moment.
When Jill showed up expecting everyone to ignore her vile behavior, and they pushed back it was a beautiful thang. Her crying to Bobay that “they are so mean!” and him enabling her in her narcissistic tantrum was everything I needed to know about Jill.
Huh? It was his Top Ten WWHL RHONY moments. Did I miss a convo about Jill on Scary Island somewhere?
I enjoyed it… had forgotten some of the old stuff. Anyone else catch Ryan from Million Dollar Listing New York checking out Sonja’s ass when she forgot her pantallets? (sp?) Kelly is still nuts beyond belief. She now claims that she was worried about her “reputation” – well, accusing someone of trying to murder you repeatedly and going after your kids could be damaging to that person’s rep.
Will watch Andy’s top ten after Project Runway. 🙂
Satchels of gold….lmao
A few years ago on WWHL Ryan admitted that he and Sonja had a short-lived fling.
Thanks for the recap! Feel better/normal.
I checked Jill’s twitter after you wrote about her going nuts. Amazingly she’s been quiet about RHONY a lot lately, it’s all about NYFW and her narcissism as usual.
Maybe Kelly should focus her ire at Bravo. If she’s sane like she believes, then it was editing. Because I saw a looney-tune on that show, one that got away with quirky behavior in her daily life. But like Bethenny said, Kelly wasn’t cut out for reality tv and the combative style they’re set up to play with their characters. Her contradictions were weird; pose in Playboy but act puritanical and above-it-all with the housewives. She was so baiting with Bethenny (you’re not a chef), she asked for some of the heat she got from the other housewives.
Hugs to you Tamara, you deserve a long nap damn it. Maybe some herbal tea with dong quai.
Does Kelly ever take responsibility for her own actions? Huge eyerolls over her comment regarding being a single mom and her children’s sole provider. Ummm isn’t their father the very famous Gilles Bensimon?
Yes, he is. Maybe Kelly meant that she’s the one who buys their shoes! ‘Sole’ provider!? 😉
I really need to be fully awake before I post LOL. ?
She’s in her $10 million dollar apartment crying into her bag of jelly beans-this after selling her Hampton’s abode for almost $6 million. If a RHOA housewife had been called, “Crazy” repeatedly or told to, “Go to sleep!” she’s put it on a t-shirt and sell it for $40 bucks.
She still doesn’t understand that it’s not OK to jog in the MIDDLE of a street. They showed her running in a traffic lane, obnoxiously oblivious to the cars, cabs, buses, etc. piling up behind her. It’s a wonder that she hasn’t been run over yet. NYC has plenty of parks and places in which to run, but Kelly just has to be Kelly.
Kelly is still crazy if she thinks her behavior on that vacation wasn’t psychotic. She was the aggressor with Bethenny, not the other way around. (Didn’t she even call her a “cook” instead of a chef?)
Kelly called Beth a cook over and over and over. She just could not let it go.
I forgot about the you’re not a chef bit! Ugh Kelly. I think I’ve seen a lot of bullying type behavior on these shows, but Kelly’s case isn’t one of those. If I hadn’t seen those seasons, I’d have the idea from Bethenny’s interview that Kelly was just too fragile. I think you could say someone like Shannon (OC) is too fragile…but not Kelly. She was dishing it out mean girl style herself and then couldn’t even come close to Bethenny’s wit and comebacks.
I can’t remember the top 10 except on no. 10, Amy Shumer was funny as Ramona. I don’t like Carole either. She is just too holier than thou.
Very funny! So tired of these rich women saying they are single Mom’s. Yeah with a nanny for each child, chefs, trainers, assistants. The nerve !
I love Bethenny! She’s the ultimate underdog turn top dog.
Sometimes Bethenny bugs me, but I basically do like her and think she is brilliant.
Hi TT. Glad you watched and recapped. You didn’t miss much on the Top ten.
Cuddle up under the duvet. Have a nice soft weekend!
Off topic Demetria McKinney on GDNY with a stellar performance off her debut album. Wow what a voice.
I never liked Bethanny until I actually watched her on Real Housewives (never watched her talk show or spin off) but it is hard to not like her. And how did Carole know Sonja took it up the ass? Did Sonja walk in and announce that? Was Carole in the bushes?
So you didn’t like Bethenny despite never seeing any of her shows? And then you DID see a show, and then — LIKED HER?! Sounds like a kindergarten level lesson in judgment imo.
LOL
I recall Sonja who was quite drunk for most of that trip stating that after LuAnn had her night with the pirate, Sonja was going to have her turn. Either Sonja or Ramona announced that she took it up the ass. She referred to taking the back end the second night. It seem implied by either Sonja or Ramona
I like Bethenny. She is tough, sarcastic, and driven. She owns it! You could see how thankful she was for Andy and Bravo. She took the platform they provided her with and ran with it.
Me too, she’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I like how she owns her flaws and is accepting of them instead of trying to cover them up and/or please everyone.
Better to be your genuine self and have some people dislike you than be a fake. I respect her business sense immensely.
Everything Tara and Shae said plus I think she actually has heart. When all the Jill stuff started going down I sensed genuine tears and hurt that later turned into anger then dismissiveness (rightfully so). She really was betrayed.
And, her tears this season were totally understandable too. Can’t decide if I’d love her as a friend or if she’d drive me crazy. Maybe both. I’m drawn to some tough cookies that other people tend to misunderstand, but I wouldn’t suck up to her like some of the ladies. She needs friends that can give her a hug (not Carole) but also call her on her shit when needed.
They showed the line from the first season that made me love Bethenny.
Alex reports her husband is trying to decide between the black or brown boots and has called to discuss.
B’s instant response ‘oh my god tell your husband he’s in the midst of a deep homosexual panic. ‘. And the scene cuts to Simon trying to casually pose leaning against a light post with the boot displayed for all to notice.
Pure comedy gold, my friends!
Bethany’s one-liners can be pure gold, but while I find her great television, I don’t think I could have a friend like that. I think while it may sound funny when she makes a dig at others in a very comical way, I wouldn’t want to be the recipient of her wrath.
I give her many props for joining a show where she wasn’t a housewife, mother, rich, and didn’t have any significant income. Her tenacity and drive is what makes her a winner to me.
I’ld love Betheny as my friend, her remarks would be beneficial for me once I stopped laughing.
Plus she eats street food from trucks and carts. My kinda’ girl.
Um, Bethenny doesn’t eat. Or um hold it down. She’s a size FOUR. as in TODDLER SIZE FOUR.
Too boney marcaroni. Love the picture with Kyle in the archives when Bettheny was better fleshed out. An angular bone structure would benefit by soppin’ with a biscuit from time to time. Found BF’s humble, heartfelt gratitude very touching. The edge is back. Thank’s for bringing it.
Carole isn’t just a cunt satchel, she’s a biggo’ lying- phony- cunt satchel -without -a -conscience. to borrow a phrase, “Go back to the cabinet you came out of. Witch.”
Watching Bethenny’s emotional and heartfelt “thank you” to Andy made me like her even more. I loved that she had a chance to show some of Jill’s attempts to make Bethenny look bad. Guess some of that bit her in the butt.
Andy showed the moment when I began to dislike Carole – when she elected to reveal on national TV that Sonya had anal sex with the pirate. It was a rotten thing to do, especially to a woman with a young daughter. It made me realize that Carole isn’t as nice as she appears. Opps my ass.
That was sweet with Bethenny. Seems like things are coming together for her, finally.
As for Carole, eh, that was a dick move and it surprised me at the time. Glad she owned it and felt ashamed of herself for making it.
I know I am not of the majority here, but I disliked the way that Carol treated Aviva. I have a lot of my own anxiety and while not to the degree of Sonya, I felt like the ladies treated her like shit. Carole’s finest moment to me was when she met the Father at the church in London. She looked animated and at peace, albeit melancholy to speak about her husband. Her face glowed and was full of expression.
Regrettably, I found her to be a real asshole to Aviva. Sure, Aviva was a bit jealous of Carol, but to say that Aviva was hurting the sale of her books and ruining her reputation were over the top. Sometimes, it is better not to respond to someone you don’t like. Ignoring Aviva would have been kinder. To walk out of Aviva’s house while telling her husband and ex-husband that she felt sorry for them was low, childish, and made her unlivable to me. jMO
As someone with my own anxiety issues, I had to stop watching (and more importantly recapping) RHONY as everyone piled on the Aviva bashing train.
I totally get that. I found it very disturbing to watch the way Aviva was treated and more importantly, mistreated. It made me very upset. I felt Heather and Carol were particularly cruel, not just mean, but cruel. I’m glad to see Heather exit the show.
@matzah60 you’re not alone. It was disheartening to see how many blindly, unempathetically hopped on the Aviva hate train. I get the same feeling I get now watching so many people rip on Brooks and Vicki (OC) and not see through others bad behavior and manipulation.
I also struggle with anxiety. Maybe one gift from that is it gives us a heart and understanding for others. Now, if Kelly Bensimon wants to see an example of bullying, she should watch Carole and Heather in action against Aviva which is a lot closer.
Sorry to hear about all your problems with the new site, Tamara. Hope things get easier each day. Thanks for the recap as I didn’t see this as I was driving back from DC from a visit with my brother. Hope there’s some way I can catch up on it. I hope it’s on demand
WOW! There isnothing better than having house wives behind the scenes with real thoughts. Thanks TT…because of you I watched today On Demand. One day I will have more than enough financially and it will be my pleasure to treat you.
I was waiting to watch the episode before I commented but the way I’ve lost interest in all the Housewives shows, I may never get around to it. 2 things:
1) If you’ve ever written anything remotely favorable about Bethenny or Ramona or have never publicly sung Jill’s praises – chances are you’ve been blocked by Jill. From what I’ve seen, most people (myself included) are surprised to see they’ve been blocked without ever having mentioned her name.
2) “Can we talk about this picture? Their faces are all priceless. Note where Luann is.” I was so preoccupied trying to figure out what Luann has near her mouth & how lit Ramona & Carole look, I didn’t notice Sonja. Then on further inspection, shiver me timbers – her breasts are exposed! (And it looks as if the photo was taken the second she realizes it & the split second before she does something about it). Look’s like it was one hell of a night.☺
When I look at that photo, pirate phrases come to mind:
♦ Batten down the hatches (the RHONY are in town)
♦ 3 sheets to the wind (all of them except Heather)
♦ Blimey (Sonya’s breasts are exposed)
♦ Heave Ho (Sonya – lift up your top) OR
♦ Heave Ho (you’ve got to leave LuAnn (Sonya’s turn is next)
♦ Thar she blows & Yo Ho Ho (no explanations needed) 😉
Ahoy matey! I can see why that pirate’s “Roger” was so jolly – he dropped anchor in 2 different lagoons that night / he fired his cannon in 2 different portholes / he had the barnacles scraped off his rudder by 2 different wenches. Okay I’ll stop.☺
I was waiting to watch the episode before I commented but the way I’ve lost interest in all the Housewives shows, I may never get around to it. 2 things:
1) If you’ve ever written anything remotely favorable about Bethenny or Ramona or have never publicly sung Jill’s praises – there’s a good chance you’ve been blocked by Jill. From what I’ve seen, most people (myself included) are surprised to see they’ve been blocked without ever even mentioning her name.
2) “Can we talk about this picture? Their faces are all priceless. Note where Luann is.” I was so preoccupied trying to figure out what Luann has near her mouth & how lit Ramona & Carole look, I didn’t notice Sonja. Then on further inspection, shiver me timbers her breasts are exposed (& it looks as if the photo was taken the second she realizes it & the split second before she does something about it). Looks like it was one hell of a night.☺
What are the odds, yesterday, Sept 19th was “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”!
Batten down the hatches (the RHONY are in town) / 3 sheets to the wind (everyone but Heather) / Blimey (Sonya’s breasts are exposed) / Heave Ho (Sonya – lift up your top) or / Heave Ho (You’ve got to leave Luann, Sonja’s turn is next / Thar she blows & Yo Ho Ho (no explanations needed) 😉
Ahoy matey! I can see why that pirate’s “Roger” was so jolly – he dropped anchor in 2 different lagoons / he fired his cannon in 2 different portholes / he had the barnacles scraped off his rudder by 2 different wenches. Okay I’ll quit. 😉
Wow, Jill really is an ass! She decides how far you can go and then gets mad when you go past her expectations of you. What she did to Bethenny is unforgiveable.