Sorry to for the delay. I am still working with ad reps to bring you even more ads (sorry) and the spam folder keeps randomly filling up again and I am trying to get content up and dealing with a family crisis that may end up pulling me away for the day or longer. We shall see. I am going to try to get this up while I am waiting for a response from the ad folks. Bless their hearts. I know they are just as frustrated with me. Anyway.
Side note: As rich as Shannon is, it pains me that she doesn’t seem to be a jewelry person. I’d love to see what she is into but basically it doesn’t seem to appeal to her.
It sounds like production tested Gretchen to come back for at least an appearance this season because Shannon lets the cat out of the bag that Gretchen was at her charity event at the beginning of the season. The bartender is a RHOBH producer there to plug a book. I say give her a chair, I’d love to ask her some questions!
Andy asks the most offensive questions. When introducing his guest, Gretchen, first compliments her on her hair, and then asks her what percentage of it is actually hers? Who does that?
So they show a clip of next week. Tamra is telling Shannon and Meghan that she met with Brooks and Vicki and he showed her his most recent PET/CT scan. Then we see a talking head of Meghan saying she called the place Brooks had the scan and they stopped doing them in 2008. Then we see a clip of Shannon going, “oh wow.” The editing is ridiculous. How does Meghan know where Brooks got his scan? She didn’t see the report Tamra did. Why is no one asking about this? 
Andy asks Shannon the current state of her relationship with Vicki. She says they are not speaking. He asks if she thinks it will ever be the same, she says no. WOW. Andy asks about the whole thing where Vicki says she didn’t ask Shannon for help. Shannon says she did but it doesn’t matter because she would have helped anyway. Gretchen is whispering next to her (about Vicki) “she’s a liar…”
Andy asks what is going on with Gretchen’s never-ending engagement and seems to imply that it only serves to reinforce the opinion from the end of her season that the engagement was faked for the show. What WHUT people fake things for the show? She says when they put the date of May 23 out there they didn’t realize it was Memorial Day weekend. Was that not right there on whatever calendar they wrote the words “wedding day” on ? She said so many family members already had vacations planned so they decided to reschedule. then Slade got booked to go do a mini series in Mexico? Um, what? And she tries to continue on with her laundry lists of excuses and Andy is just like okay, I got it. It’s complicated. She says Slade’s finances are getting better. She still wants babies. She doesn’t hang out with Alexis anymore. Tamra still hates her. Gretchen says she is BFF’s with Tamra’s ex-BFF Ricky who gives her all the dirt of Tamra. AND THEN SHANNON DEFENDS TAMRA TO GRETCHEN and says that Ricky is not accurate. Gretchen says there is a lot of proof there. What the hell has to happen between now and the reunion for Shannon to be on Tamra’s side and not speaking to Vicky while Tamra is once again friends with everyone including Shannon and Vicki??!?!?
Andy asked Gretchen what she would like to say about the season. Gretchen claims she has only seen the clips on Bravo TV and then proceeds to outline the entire season. She says, “The truth is, is that Vicki and Tamra clearly had do much to say about my relationship with Jeff and beat me up all the time and I was harassed about that and I just find it so interesting that Vicki is not coming on the show with a family member of cancer when they said I shouldn’t be on the show with somebody that’s sick with cancer. They also had a lot of false accusations about me and now Vicki is in that same hotseat. So part of me feels compassionate toward her and at the same time part of me feels that karma has shown up and her name is Meghan.”
Am I allowed to purple pen my on posts? Because, Gretchen, you came on the show with a rich boyfriend with cancer who you were trying to get to marry you on his deathbed and taking expensive gifts from and then running off to party at the lake with your girlfriends on camera. Brooks is not a family member. He doesn’t have the money Vicki has. He is someone who she has been dating off and on for four years whose cancer returned while filming the show. Vicki seems seriously concerned for his health and is closing herself off to her “friends” who bring more drama into the situation. The only similarities in the two situations are that someone had cancer and Tamra was shit stirring about it in both seasons.
Andy asks Shannon if she has found peace and forgiveness with her husband. She flashes a big smile and says, “absolutely.” It looked genuine to me. David and Slade are both there. Andy says Slade has lost 15 pounds. Gretchen is surprised and says he didn’t tell her that, and that is “awesome”! And she wonders why people think the engagement is fake.
A caller asks Gretchen if Slade has a job. She says yes, and he has always had a job he just went though a very difficult time like everyone in the country did who lost their job. So wait, what? He’s always had a job but he lost his job? And he filmed a Mexican mini-series while having a job? Andy is like what is his job? She says he is working for a tech company right now. She’s a terrible liar and she seemed pissed that Andy asked the question.
A caller asks Shannon if she knows why Vicki and Brooks broke up. She says not really because she was not speaking to Vicki when it happened. She thinks they have always had issues back and forth and based on history she thinks they will get back together. She has no inside information.
Apparently during the break, Shannon and Gretchen had an argument. Andy says they just got into it like two cats in a bag! Andy tries to make them talk about it on camera and they don’t want to. Gretchen says the they had a difference of opinion about Tamra. Andy says that Gretchen told Shannon she drank the Kool-Aid. Shannon says she doesn’t drink Kool-Aid. Gretchen says she asks Shannon why she doesn’t like Ricky. Shannon said she thinks he is a pot stirrer. Gretchen said Tamra is the biggest pot stirrer of them all. Shannon says she thinks Tamra has changed. Gretchen says then it is obvious you are drinking the Kool-Aid. I think that Shannon but be on a Kool-Aid IV drip.
A viewer asks why Shannon would trust Tamra again after all she put her through last year. Shannon says that she has seen a transformation this year and she believes Tamra has changed and they are very close. Oh, Shannon. Then Shannon says she is a very good judge of character. Clearly, when she was besties with the bitch fucking her husband, and Brooks, and Vicki, and David, and Heather…. Oh Shannon, poor deluded Shannon. She is going to completely meltdown over this once all is revealed.
Andy points out that Gretchen was in the same position with Tamra. That didn’t go to well.
Someone asked how the show affected her marriage. She says that the show has made their marriage stronger. David cheers and applauds from the tiny audience.
Andy asks Gretchen her opinion of Brooks and the cancer thing. She says she gets asked that all day long on social media. She says she is not doctor and she has no idea, but she does say there is a lot of shady shade coming out of what is happening. She said when Jeff was sick, she wanted help from everyone, and if someone was questioning it she would have brought out the medical records in 5.2 seconds. She doesn’t blame the other ladies for questioning it.
Finally a game so I can check my emails again. Sonja Morgan shows up because the game involved three hot guys in their underwear. She passes out the prizes and then takes one of the 22 year olds for herself. Andy points out that she came to the show with a 22 year old. She says, “I’m busy.”
A caller asks about Slade’s brother Kent. Gretchen says he is great and he cut his mullet!
A commenter asks Shannon how she felt when he kid said she was the queen of fun at drinking? Shannon seems to stutter. She says her daughter meant when she goes out. She doesn’t drink much at all at home.
A caller asks Shannon why Meghan is making it her life’s mission to prove that Brooks has cancer when it is ultimately none of her business? Shannon says she definitely has CIA and FBI in her blood. She just wants to find out the truth. She says Meghan goes way deeper than she ever would but she can’t answer for why Meghan does it.
Poll Question: Should Brooks disclosure is medical records to a bunch of cunts on a reality show? 66% of idiots polled said yes.
Andy’s Mazel is for Jackie Collins and he plays of montage of her WWHL appearances.
This is like a battle of who has the most annoying voice! Also shady + Andy= Shandy?
Shandy, I love it, fits Andy well!! I like that better than Miss Andy lol.
2 quick things:
Shannon was wearing her “Alhambra” by Van Cleef and Arpels necklace and earrings both on WWHL and in the clips shown. She might not be a jewelry person, but he has at least a few good pieces.
I LOVED how lurid and lascivious that underwear game turned out to be. (The boys themselves, not as much). In the close ups, you could totally see EVERYTHING through the underwear! I bet Andy got in trouble for that…
…maybe this episode is worth watching after all.
Totally worth watching. That underwear might as well have been see-through, I’m not even kidding. Especially the guy in the middle!
Def. watching this now!
I caught the necklace, too. A friend has the Van Cleef Alhambra with a single motif, and I know what she paid for it. I hate to think what the full necklace costs It’s beautiful, though!
I don’t even watch the games on WWHL because the show takes so much time to recap I have to stop and do other web site stuff. I did here Andy say that one of the guys clearly was not Jewish…
I didn’t see the show, but assume that Andy made that statement (according to people saying that the underwear was see through) that someone’s package wasn’t circumcised. He must have had a clear view through the underwear. I’m Jewish, but ex was Orthodox Catholic. My two boys were circumcised in the hospital after birth, but in Judaism, there is a bris which is performed 7 days after the birth of a boy. I know there is a lot of controversy over circumcision, but having had the joy of viewing both, I’d much prefer less than more foreskin. Noone needs a pocket for their penis.
You don’t say. Thank you for teaching us all about circumcision, a subject that only Jewish people know about.
Matzah60 – A belated L’Shana Tova to you!
Oy vey…TMI. My husband is Catholic and is also snipped. It is not limited to Jewish people. Also, I am sure Andy got more than a free peep show from the the see-through underpants. He is such a desperate perv. He and Sonya have a lot in common when it comes to hot YOUNG guys.
I know it’s not limited to Jewish people, but routine circumcisions for any male child are not so routine anymore. There are many who do it for religious or cultural reasons, but others just follow what their friends or doctors tell them to do. It is an elective procedure and there has been much discussion in medical circles as to whether it is truly necessary given some of the risks involved with the actual procedure and medical consequences after the procedure. Just saying….I didn’t mean to imply it was a procedure that was limited to Jews.
2 words: Jay Photoglou, ‘Nuff said.
Right NBJ? The whole time she was speaking, I had visions of poor Jeff at home while she was on red velvet couches and had a plug in vibrator. smh
Soo disappointed in Shannon for siding with the harpies on the witch hunt for Brooks’ medical records! Does she completely forget how Heather and Tamra backstabbed her last year? And how just a few weeks ago Meghan was trying to make a fool out of her? Now she’s making herself look foolish! She also seems to forget how Vicki defended her when everyone else was on the attack! Regardless of what you think of Brooks, his medical records are NOBODY’S BUSINESS! I’d be PISSED if I were Vicki – this is really starting to look producer-driven.
She just drinks goose all the freakin time and it’s just got her contradicting herself all over the place while she scampers to bring proofs to support her flandering. I am really disappointed in Shannon too
They have spent the entire season on Brooks’ illness! Are there no writers to put together a
better script? I am so sick of all of them – especially Meghan and Tamra(who got a RAISE for
bringing “drama)! Someone needs to do something because this franchise is disgusting and BORING. I am done with it. If I never see this group again I will have a better life!
I was never a huge Gretchen fan but I never hated her either, until she was friends with Tamara. It was all so high school, Alexis was the only one nice to Gretchen and she ditched her the second the popular kid showed interest in her, but as quick as it came , it was gone. I never understood why everyone was so mean to Alexis. Not like her? Sure, but they were down right mean to her, it never made any sense to me. I foresee Shannon having the same fate as Gretchen did with Tamara. I remember when Vicki and Tamara were so awful about Gretchen’s relationship to Slade but in later seasons, Vicki said maybe it was because she was very unhappy in her marriage at the time.
I am very disappointed in Shannon. Vicki was so good to her, last season, this season, you never see Vicki gossip about David or any of that and it’s like all that was forgotten over this stupid cancer bullshit.
I use to love wwhl but the games have become well stupid and Andy is so cocky and comes across as such an ass most of the time. I remember someone saying Andy said Brooks had to be a part of her story line which is odd because many other housewives never had their husbands filmed, Dina Manzo’s husband was excused, Big Poppa was never revealed, Alexis husband refused to film, in New York the husbands basically don’t exist this past season, seems very unfair to put a stipulation like that in just Vicki.
I must’ve missed something because I don’t recall Shannon saying why her and Vicki weren’t friends anymore. Could it have been Vicki who dumped Shannon instead of the other way around? Truly asking. Not being sarcastic.
Are we not going to comment on SHANNON’S FILLER!!! I came here becuase I thought surely, Tamara….. No such luck. And Gretchen’s cheeks are giving me Scream 1 – 4! WTH!
I noticed the filler, too. 🙂 Looks like Juvaderm in her wrinkles and maybe Voluma in the apples of her cheeks. Botox, too, her forehead wasn’t moving too much. Guess it was time for a refresher… And she had the girls pushed up a lot and together.
Shannon not only has an I.V. of kool aid, she is snorting the powder. Rule #1 in the household’s handbook: don’t trust Tamra Judge.
I think it is HILARIOUS that they got into a fight during the commercial break. (Hmmm… maybe not all of this is scripted after all!)
I had already taken out the contacts (make me 20/20 vision) and was wearing the glasses (definitely NOT 20/20) so didn’t even notice the underwear! Must catch it again! Ha!
That was some potent koolaid. Within seconds after their introductions you could sense something was going to happen. Shannon was wound tighter than a top & acted repulsed to be sharing the stage with Gretchen. I’ve seen guests that aren’t fond each other but at least they’re able to somewhat wing it for the cameras. Shannon was having no part of it.
Absolutely this. I could feel her seething through the t.v. set to the point where I felt uncomfortable from the get go. Gretchen was giggling and laughing like a lunatic and Shannon looked she would snap in half if anyone touched her. Not a fun show at all. But I am sure Tamara filled naive Shannon”s head with all kinds of Gretchen stories. Gretchen and Tamara seem like identical sisters from other Misters. They are so nasty, both of them.
We really only need to see these women (and the others on RHOC) once. They never change, the gossip is always the same. Basically I am tired of all of them.
Tamara, you don’t need to apologize for delays as far as I am concerned. We know you’re working on the site and you can only do so much. Your comments/purple pen are worth waiting for. Are you and Banjo feeling better? Take care of yourselves.
Don’t worry, TT. The important thing is we’re missing The Rapture. I’m still here. I hope your family crisis isn’t too bad and isn’t as bad as it seems. If you have to leave for several days, please post us a line to let us know so we won’t think you’ve been Raptured. Is there anything we can do to help?
Actually, especially if you are raptured, let us know. Just imagine the boost in traffic and revenue.
There is NO WAY I am getting raptured. I already have a very pretty handbasket made for the trip to my final destination though. I’m going out KLASSY!
The Rapture’s over tomorrow (the 24th). No signs of The Rapture on the coast.#stillhere
The rapture is on MONDAY, like all bad things. Enjoy your last terrestrial weekend!
Shannon just revealed herself to be a POS and terrible friend. I can’t wait for Tamra and her cackling flock of chicken heads to turn on Shannon. I hope Vicki stays clear of her weakling ass.
Shannon was adored by the fans last season and most of this one, even though everyone seems to agree that she shouldn’t have publicized the affair. Siding with the evil ones will give her a taste of how fickle the fans can be. She’s not going to like it as much IMO.
IMO, I think that some of the ladies have a big drinking problem on the show. In particular, Shannon, Vicki, and Tamara. It’s my feeling that Shannon appears much more ‘fun’ and easy-going when she is three sheets to the wind. Perhaps, Tamara is Shannon’s new drinking buddy now that she and Vicki aren’t talking. Otherwise, I can’t see how Shannon started out the season barely acknowledging Tamara to being her BFF. When your own kid who is 12 (not sure of child’s age) thinks you’re “fun” when you’re drinking, you have a substance abuse problem.
Tamra allways does the divide and conquer routine. Shes got everyone hating eachother but her, par usual.. I feel like Shanmon has done a total flip. I remember her being dismayed that Vickie would ever forgive and forget the things Tamra has done. Now, shes all backing Tamra a hundred percent. I am disappointed in Shannon,unless there’s something I dont know that would explain this drastic change of heart. The fact that Tamra and VIckie are buddy buddy still, makes me suspect that Shannon is being manipulated or she manipulated us to believe she was different.
Shannon is a sot. She got onto me via Twitter recently. I was included in a RT, and he called me and my girlfriend “you fucking moron”. It was late at night (EST!), and she was clearly deep into the Goose.
Well, are you a moron? I don’t know. But I have to consider that possibility. This is why I try to tell you folks not to include me in tweets to Bravo folks.
When she is drunk, she seems to be either lots of fun and very silly or very dark. I think she needs a drink to get going in the morning. I have never seen a scene with her that she didn’t have a glass of gray goose and a big ol lime
Didn’t Vicki leave or skip, I can’t remember, Meghan’s charity event to go be with Shannon, who Meghan did NOT invite? Way to have a friends back, Shannon!
Yeah, and I loved that. Its too bad. They had a nice friendship while it lasted. It seems scripted now, like they were told to have this storyline and Shannon was told to badger Vickie half to death over Brooks. Ok, I get that maybe Shannon hates a liar, but besties with Tamra and on good terms with Meaghen and Heather too? And Vickie gets thrown under the bus?
Thanks, for the recap, TT. I took WWHL off my DVR. I feel guilty, but I much rather read your recap than watch that hideous show. You can make the worst show entertaining.
Okay, I am confused. Vicky is not speaking to Shannon, but Vicky is apparently BFF with Tamra once again–even though it has been Tamra pushing the whole Brooks BS story line along all season. Who does Vicky bring with her for support when she went on WWHL right after the break up? Freakin Tamra! Why? What are Shannon and Heather seeing in Tamra and Meghan that none of us see. Why aren’t they shunning Meghan for being a stalker and Tamra for being, well, Tamra.
Sadly, I am guessing the reunion will be a group attack on poor Vicky, with Tamra sitting there sweetly but not defending Vicky either. Tamra will pretend to be the voice of reason. Vicky might actually quit for real this time.
Its amazing how crap people get other people to do their bidding, despite showing what they are. Ive seen it enough times to just shake my head in bewilderment. Tamra seems like a sociopath to me, and theyre supposed to be masters at lining up allies and smearing their targets
I don’t think the rapture is coming for awhile. Does that all happen at once, I am not an expert on revelations. I think Californians (and oddly a lot of people in Utah) are going to die on the 28th. I think that is Monday. I believe that is giant earthquakes and the unleashing of the four horsemen.
It would make sense for all the good people to be raptured BEFORE Monday so they don’t have to be involved in all the mass murdering and hellfire and brimstone.
I guess we all need to brush up on Revelations in preparation…
There will be plenty of time to read Revelations. Jesus is definitely not scheduled to return this month.
The four blood moons is not about His return.
Well, I read on the Internet that it is, and that the four horsemen are showing up and there are going to be massive earthquakes and we are all going to die. I think the good people get to go to heaven first. Those fuckers. They get everything.
Thank God I am an atheist.
Too funny, Lisamia!!
LisaMia, Clearly, as an atheist you don’t understand that the atheists are the first to be tossed into the ring of fire and brimstone. Sorry about your luck. 🙁
Ok so Spiritualists go in after the atheists & agnostics right?
In regards to the ads i quite enjoyed reading your reviews and then scrolling to the bottom to discover that Babyfactory were having a sale on tights. 10/10 experience
a) Thanks do much for scrolling to the bottom. 🙂
b) As a former Baptist now agnostic, I was hoping the agnostics would sort of get to straddle the outer brimstone ring.
I know this isn’t the popular opinion, but Vicki kind of made her own bed here. She’s always jumped down everyone’s throats who even mutter Brooks’ name..cancer or not. We’ve all had that girlfriend who completely changes and cuts everyone out of her life for a new boyfriend and usually regret it later down the line. Shannon was absolutely stupid for even thinking to mention the physic at Brooks’s birthday dinner, but the way Vicki reacted was also over the top. If Vicki wants to live a life with Brooks without any comment on her relationship, and he doesn’t want to be involved with the drama (unless a camera is there to capture it) then maybe it’s time to leave the show.
Erica, thanks for l’shana tovah. Right back at you!
Tamara, my intent was not to school anyone on circumcision. I am sorry if that’s how it came off. I was just explaining the ritual of circumcision in Judaism called a bris(rhymes with dish).
TT, thanks so much for this great recap! I’ve also quit watching WWHL but I wish I had seen this one — especially after the off screen battle between Shannon and Gretchen. I can easily see those two in a cat fight.
Tamra must really have some kind of witchcraft going. Can Vicki and Shannon both really be this gullible even as they’re watching the same footage of what really went down this season?