I have to hand it to Bravo. They are quite good and editing housewives one way one season and then editing them in a completely different direction the next season. I first noticed this with Kenya Moore. I hated her on the first season and was so sure she was one and out. I was not happy when she showed up again the next season. Then suddenly, I started to really like her. With Shannon, things happened in reverse. I loved her weird quirkiness during the first season and now she’s not fun crazy anymore, she’s destroying her family crazy. It’s sad and pathetic like this entire miserable season has been.
And the crazy continues in her blog this week. Let me take out my purple pen and have a look at it.
From Shannon’s Bravo Blog
I have looked at some of the social media comments in the last few weeks and I have to say it is quite upsetting to hear that some viewers believe I haven’t been a good friend to Vicki Gunvalson. I have been by my friend’s side throughout this season, more than any other cast member. As a good friend, I wanted to help Vicki and Brooks stop the rumors about his illness. As much as she thought she could say “put a pin in it” and stop the talk, that wasn’t happening. I asked Vicki to lunch because I wanted her to truly end the talk and speculation. Originally I believed it was outrageous for Brooks to produce medical records to shut speculation down about his illness, but after a certain point, I realized it was the only thing that would actually end the discussion. I cannot comprehend how that constitutes a bad friend.
Let me help you with that. Being a bad friend is not shutting up when your “good friend” was clearly on edge from all the drama. She begged you repeatedly to drop the discussion. But you just went on and on about it just like Meghan does. And then you started befriending the harpies that are driving her crazy. That is not being a good friend.
IS SHANNON MAD THAT THE BROOKS STORYLINE OVERSHADOWED HER INFIDELITY STORYLINE?
It has been a difficult road, but David and I are in an incredible place today. I continue to focus on the positive in my life and in our marriage, and when bad memories come to me, I remind myself of all the good. You actually see an example of how I go to a “dark moment” and how I can quickly get out of it. It is possible!!! I’m not going to say it was the easiest process. Infidelity feels like death. But we are there…and beyond! I could not be more grateful for where my life is today.
Your life today seems to involve going on the road and giving interviews about David’s affair in which you emasculate him repeatedly and attempt to humiliate the mistress. You do not look miserable. David looks miserable, your kids look miserable. That is nothing to be grateful for. Also, you are dead and beyond dead? Are you undead? Zombies? What?
At this point, Vicki is the only person I have talked to about David’s affair (other than my two best friends, Jana and Kristina). The “Brooks illness” issue has created a very unique bond between Tamra, Heather and I. It is true that David and I discussed our struggles on the show and at a certain point it was going to be all over the television, but at this point we have kept the infidelity to ourselves. I now know today that both women were aware of the affair long before I knew and I appreciate their decision to keep the rumors from me.
Interesting. If you knew your friend or co-worker’s husband was having an affair would you tell them? If your husband was cheating would you want to be told?
I love that you get to see my daughters going make-up shopping. I don’t want my girls to grow up! I know most moms can relate!!! I have received a lot of backlash that we have put our children though too much by talking about our marriage on the show. I can honestly say that my girls have the biggest smiles on their faces because their father and I are in the best place we have ever been! That can only be a good thing! I did let them buy some make-up. Let’s see if I let them actually wear it…
You kids seem quite angry and that anger has come out in many ways on the show. The girls have toilet papered a house, and have basically called you a drunk on national television and have been pawns in your marital arguments. I feel like you are trying the fake it until you make it approach. I hate to tell you that no one is buying it. Especially the girls.
REMEMBER LAST SEASON WHEN SHANNON WON BEST HOUSEWIFE OF ALL TIME?
So let’s get to the elephant in the room! Dr. Moon invented the most incredible home colonic system, the Sitolonic. Pretty much all illnesses comes from the gut. Millions of people use a Colema board and I have been told that some have cured major illnesses from it. Dr. Moon’s approach is much cleaner and efficient! I chose to do this before the baptism because I had eaten a tangerine and I bloated like I was 6 months pregnant! The Sitolonic got rid of the bloat, but unfortunately I broke apart the apparatus before I did it and here we are. Story of my life. Terry Dubrow said I should do an enema or go to the ER. David wanted me to go to the ER as well (he was panicked). Bottom line, I was fine. Not funny at the time, but we all got a good laugh for the rest of the night!
You ate a tangerine? Do we need to add eating disorder to your list of maladies? You do know that you can swallow things to deal with gut issues rather than having a family meeting to shove things up your butt. Right? Have you tried Activia? kimchi? Kombucha tea? It’s much easier.
Overall, this blog about how great life is in order to somehow get the message out to the mistress that “you won” is kind of sad. Which is the opposite of the whole happy, happy, happy vibe you were going for.
Hypochondriasis, and eating disorder… Definitely. Girl’s got some stuff.
I think about how she handled that birthday dinner, and she clearly was in the wrong. She wanted to tell Vicki that the other women were discussing Brooks not only because she was feeling guilty for having not shut that crap down, but to also get it off her chest. I don’t think she was trying to help Vicki by doing that, but trying to ease her own conscience. But I think she THOUGHT she was trying to help Vicki. Does that make sense?
As far as the kids and the marriage problems and discussing all of it ad nauseum, I can’t for the life of me figure out what is to be gained there. It’s as stupid a move as any housewife move I have seen.
She ate a tangerine–what bullocks. If she ate it that morning, it wouldn’t be in her colon to be helped by an enema. Shannon sure covers all her bases; first act like an ass, then be an ass and now show her ass.
That in-bed pic made me want to hurl. Only thing left is to renew their vows and then 2 months later, file papers.
Ha! Yep, that does seem to be the pattern, doesn’t it?
Bloated from one tangerine??!! Oh for God’s sake—- I could see it if it was 2 almonds!
Yes that picture of them in bed. Grosssssss. Every time I see it I feel like I want to vomit. David looks terrified.
The moobs terrified me, frankly.
Spk moobs lol yes so much. Lol and the we just had deep passionate sex where shannon asked 8000 times did you do this to her did you do this..do i make you hard..am i sexy…is she more sexy…
Could you fucking imagine?? Omg. Gross both of them. Gross. If I were him I would have to be medicated daily.
Moobs? Those are bosoms! I wish mine were so round and luscious. Hahahahahahaha!
I am so going to hell for that comment. Hahahahahahaha!
The “We are happy in bed!” picture makes my skin crawl.
I think most women would say they would definitely want to know if their spouse was cheating. I asked my girlfriend many years ago if she would want me to tell her if I knew her husband was being unfaithful and she said, “No. Show me. If you can’t show me, don’t tell me.”
Some couples can recover from an affair. I hope Shannon and David can. Like you, I want her to go back to being quirky cute.
I know many people have expressed they are tired of these Housewives hawking their latest product. However——hold on to your butts—-I think we are going to get one more!
Oh, it won’t be another wine or sweet sangria, not pop of nail polish or jewelry line.
Soon to hit the market: “The Beador Backdoor Designer Enema Bags”
In lemon yellow, with your Family Crest. Matching shoes sold separately.
Get one for each of your 14 bathrooms. . .
You mean Louis Vuiton doesnt make these? What about Chanel?
Sorry guys, all the rest aside and I know I am partial to Shannon because I like her, but I can completely relate to the bloating from fruit. I have tons of gastro problems and my stomach bloats incredibly and inconsistently from various foods- fruit being one of them. Not every time, so I continue to try to eat it because I love it and it’s healthy, but sometimes all it takes is a bit of it and I look pregnant and get the worst pains.
Not sure why anyone would say she has an eating disorder because she said she ate something and it made her bloat like crazy.
Right – all that you say is true, I get it too. But I’ll bet my last dollar you don’t do an enema, nor had 2 Dr’s tell you that an enema is the solution. Especially if you ate it within hours. Thats why I say her “made for Andy’s viewing pleasure” solution was baloney.
I agree there, for sure. No way an enema would do anything for me in that state either. The problem isn’t that you need a cleansing, it’s that something is off and isn’t digesting properly and is causing all this gas/bloating.
Who knows why Terry told her that. I would def not be giving myself an enema right before I left for an event lol
Sorry Shae-
Maybe to accuse her of an eating disorder was extreme. I had an eating disorder all through my teens, twenties and the early part of my thirties. There are behaviors in her that I recognize. That is why I said that, but I shouldn’t be accusing or diagnosing. My bad.
No harm done, I didn’t mean it to come off as hostile, I struggled with the same issues at that age too, and now, ironically at the time I’ve sorted them out, I can’t eat a lot of foods because of my gastro issues lol
Hope you’re better now 🙂
I have to agree with you both. After I quit with the bulimia I could no longer eat eggs, raw broccoli and egg plants without having horrible pain in my stomach that wouldn’t subside until I purged them.
A LOT of the women on these shows exhibit disordered eating symptoms. Shannon is but one of them.
Bloat like your six months pregnant? Such an exaggeration. While she may have been having digestive issues, she did the colonic to look better in her dress. That and all her obsessing about what she eats and her weight are terrible messages to send to her three daughters. Girls get those body image issues from all directions. They should not be getting them at home. Add that to the list of shit Shannon does to F up her children.
Her stomach/stomach lining is probably raw from either purging, laxatives, avoiding food for very long stretches of time, or even these enemas. Are enemas meant to clean out the intestines, sometimes in an effort to lose weight? I don’t know.
Yes Minky, many women, and men included, take an enema for quick weight loss. I suspect Shannon uses the enema for that reason but also uses it for sexual gratification. It’s a two-fer!
That whole nozzle in the ass incident was very telling.
I did not know about the sexual stuff with enemas. No idea. That makes it even weirder that she wants to share that information with her kids. Ewwwww! Her children are gonna go all Mommie Dearest on her ass someday.
If this is Shannon and David in a “happy place” I cannot even imagine the living hell of their lives before the show. David said on WWHL that Shannon went on the show to save their marriage? Who the heck does that? There is something def. wrong with the water in Orange County. These two cuckoo birds are just the last in a long list of cuckoo birds that have come out of this HW franchise. There are so many disturbing story lines going on here that it boggles the mind. Maybe they are happy in their minds….but man oh man there is a lot of Kool Aid drinking going on. I am beginning to think that for the HW shows Bravo specifically looks for the cities where there may be some cray cray going on.
I don’t think they are happy at all. I don’t think their marriage has been happy for years. I think it makes a lot of sense now why Heather was so odd acting around Shannon the first season. It is bizarre why they signed on to do a reality tv show but so did Taylor Armstrong when her marriage was on the rocks. Both Taylor and Shannon seem to find comfort in being a public victim.
People do reality shows for “money” nothing else. Its to fuel a lifestyle thats over the top usually, or to revive a career to again, make “money”. There can be no other reason to air your stuff in public.
I love you TT. Damn right to call her out on her bullshit. She needs help. She appears to think she comes across as cute and funny. I wonder if she believes people buy the “our family is so happy,” routine. Not buying it. Poor David and those girls. She inappropriate on so many levels. She knows no boundries. Get off of tv!!
Also yes Shannon you were a shitty friend to Vicki for no fucking reason. It doesn’t even matter what I or anyone else believes about Brooks you were a shitty friend to someone who appeared to be a very good friend to you. Bitch.
Co-sign.
High colonies are dangerous. Leave your colon alone. Shannon is a hypochondriac.
Note to Shannon ~ ~ Apparently your Dr. Moon (excuse the pun) couldn’t give a sh$t about you since he wouldn’t return your call on his VIP line.
Also why were you feeding a monkey when ~ there were signs warning against it?
Desperate Photo Op 101.
If you can’t handle public stress, like hubs having an affair, could you imagine what it’s like for a gal who wasn’t born with indispensable cash…
Indispensable cash, a horse and a TAB at the pharmacy. Thank you I Magnin –
I am guessing she did it because she thought she was too fat for the dress she was going to wear…but funny how she goes to Dr. Moon and does all this bat crazy shit but couldn’t grasp Brooks wanting to try alternative treatment. She was a terrible friend to Vicki, from the second she went to lunch with those women.
I’m also tired of the bad editing. Especially when Tamra announced that the next night she was having a sex party, are we suppose to believe that all these “busy women with their husbands” happen to be all free the next night to go to her party? It’s just annoying.
I really liked Shannon last season but three episodes in this season and I cannot stand her.
Ha! i was thinking the same thing – she was too fat for her dress and wanted to dump a few pounds quickly. How about you revisit the closet and pick something else ya twit..
She didn’t question why brooks would seek alternative treatment, she questioned why he expressed interest in the doctors she found for him and then didn’t go (after his flat tire, etc.)
I think it was more Meghan who was all “how could you stop chemo, bla bla bla”
I am becoming increasingly convinced that Shannon is losing her fucking mind. Like some people go through a stage where their hormones are so far left of center they literally go fucking nuts? And you can’t tell them they are nuts because they think their craziness is normal. And honestly, if you bloat from something (I bloat – it’s not fun), you take something to eliminate the gas – not shit your brains out. She can’t even lie convincingly. David really looks like a defeated man. The only spark I saw in him was when he was defending his mistress on WWHL but throughout the show – all their interactions appear like he is a hostage who can’t say anything lest his whole family will be murdered…and she smiles brightly and fakes like everything is sparkly and bright. Doesn’t matter how many times she repeats it, she can’t make her marriage be “good” again…both of them are too damaged in their own way.
I think she wouldn’t go to the ER because she didn’t want to hear the ER doc say “dont shove things up your ass” Notice Terry Debrow didn’t offer to make a house call
Spot on, TT. You nailed it perfectly.
Thanks for the purple, TT. Right on, as always. It seems to me that Shannon was taught at a very early age that she should have what ever she wanted when she wanted it. And if she is happy, the rest of the world is happy too. Spoilt little rich girl. Will be interesting to see how her daughters wreak their vengeance on her.
ditto @lisamia – I was going to type a very similar comment!
Any theories on the perma-crazed look in David’s eyes? His look seriously reminds me of my neighbour’s never walked dog when its head is almost through the bottom of my fence….
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
That is sad about the never walked dog. Really.
Lori, I can’t even begin… sometimes the little guy gets out and the joy while he rips around the neighbourhood… but he never goes far and always goes home after a few minutes. *sigh* loyal to a fault.
This woman obviously doesn’t know the meaning of a true friendship she treated Vicky like shit- who keeps interrogating someone who keeps saying please stop I’m going to have a nervous breakdown. Shannon wants to be popular and perfect she thinks she’s a TV star and people care about whatever bullshit she’s selling….a tangerine…privately take some fing exlax. If this woman truly cared about her marriage or her childrens mental wellness she would have not signed on for the show or left after the first season to concentrate on her family. This woman has no bottom she will do anything to be on TV even get fisted by her hostage husband and discuss it with the kids over dinner on TV!
My fave TT comments again!!! Just perfect
Photo looks like man boobs. Was going to write a lot more. The whole situation seems so phony and toxic, so no wonder all the talk about colonics. Who can anymore with this?
TT, I totally agree! Last season, Shannon’s quirkiness was fun and kooky. This season, she is revealed to be an unbelievable narcissist. Everyone in her life is there only to satisfy her ego. She picks at David constantly if he’s not behaving according to her rules. She doesn’t care about Vicki’s feeling at the birthday dinner or at the recent lunch. She just wants her own conscience assuaged. And she’s putting her poor girls through all of this to make her life better.
I just can’t forgive either Shannon or David for their involvement of their children in their drama. There is a way to help them through this without them needing to know all the dirty details.
I also can’t forgive Shannon for the body image issues that she is passing on to those beautiful girls by calling herself “fat” and shrilly obsessing about every bite she puts in her mouth.
Lastly, I think David is on some kind of downers to keep his temper under control. He’s so flat and unemotional.
It’s really time for this season to end. Enough with this pathetic display.
David did not look panicked. And do they have to share everything with their girls including digging up mommy’s rear end? Shannon did that colonic to look good in her dress. Rhonda/Rhoda, Vicki brothers girlfriend, calls Shannon out next week….this showdown will be interesting.
I’m probably grasping here but do you think she could be jealous that the kids seem happier with David, he lets them have sleepovers, coaches their games, they hang on him, etc. They are so much more comfortable around him than her, does she resent that and try to diminish him to the girls?
Ive thought that too. The girls prefer David to Shannon. Hes more fun and they feel safer with him. Another reason I dont think Davud is an abuser. That bugs the hell out of Shannon and she wants David punished for it for some reason. Shannon also seems to use the girls as bait to keep this marriage going. She doesnt separate the marriage between themselves and the girls its one whole package being offered to David. Thats lazy manipulative wife behaviour to me. Do your own work on your marriages behalf and leave them out of it.
My friends had better tell me if they’ve heard “rumors.” Wouldn’t real friends think Shannon needed to know where David’s dool had been dippin’?
Damn straight. There is real potential health danger if one’s partner is out fucking around, secretly or not, and this so-called girl code business is ridiculous. True, there’s a risk that telling on someone’s mate could end up making one or both partners angry at the person who tells, but it is better to learn the truth and deal with it.
Totally agree about being told. I know there were a couple of people who knew about the divorce bomb my ex dropped on the kids and me a couple of months before it happened. Would have really appreciated a heads up.
Thats a tough one, sometimes. Ive never been in that position myself, but ive seen others keep it to themselves before, because they liked both parties or simply dont like telling on people. Things like that can become violent as well ,and youre going to feel responsable for the fall out if you unleash an unstable enraged spouse on another. I think as married people we need to be aware and take our temperature so to speak,ourselves, as to whats up in our marriages. Im probably in the minority thinking this but I think it can be complicated. Usually, if friends know , someone is being sloppy and may want to be caught to get out of the marriage anyway.
Jesus H. No one else knows emasculating rhetoric quite like TT. But then again as you oftentimes allude, the rules are different for you than they are for everyone else so it’s ok for you. But def not Shannon. God forbid she has to put up with the most hurtful betrayal a wife could ever experience, try her damndest to work through the hurt, and become completely annihilated by blogs/posts when she has a few bad days out of several months of shooting for what someone else did to her. I just can’t even believe the nasty backlash and misguided hate she has unfairly received. SHE’S a bitch??? Really???? And one thing I believe is if TT’s husband ever did what David did to Shannon, annihilation would be the minimum of what that man would receive. There would be no comparison to Shannon & TT hands down given the same situation.
GirlFromKY, I think your missing the point just a little bit about why people are angry at Shannon. Also, which male is TT emasculating with rhetoric? I must have missed those posts.
GirlFromKY are you sure that you understand or even know what the meaning of the word emasculate is?!?
You don’t get it at al!! In fact I too, don’t understand why you’re here?!? What are you the masculine police, shut the hell up. Are you calling somebody out on THEIR blog? Girl please. Takes you a paragraph to compare and contrast just to prove dumb point. Go away.
why are you here if I emaculating guys bothers you so much? And please name five males who post here that I could possibly emasculate?
David’s not emasculated. He’s heavily medicated.
When Shannon first spoke about the affair, she repeatedly said it happened during what should have been the “best time” of her life. So being on a crappy reality show is the best time of your life, Shannon? Not when your kids were born? Not when you got married? Alrighty then. Good luck with that.
Is to late to placate the monkey that may or may not have flown straight out of someones ass? If that’s Shannon’s flying butt monkey hope he found that missing plastic thingamagig.
David use to be my favorite, I thought there was something super sexy about him. This year he looks as if he has done a 8 ball and topped it with xanax.
Colon cleansing is only appropriate for colonoscopies in an attempt to detect polyps, cancerous polyps, and to remove the polyps. Colonics aren’t necessary for any other reason. Your gut and bowel eliminate bacteria from your body. You run the risk of severe dehydration, possible bowel perforation, and even death in rare cases. It is used by people who have some type of eating disorder to eliminate food and water from their body.
Dr. Moon is a quack and Shannon is off the chain. She is a walking contradiction as well. She drinks like a fish. Alcohol has so much sugar in it, yet she is concerned about fat and greasy food. Shannon would like others to believe the food she eats is all about good health, but it’s all about her obsession with food and her self image. David’s blank, unemotional status is all about a major depression. He has officially shut down from Shannon and the life he has to endure with her.
My ex had an affair (actually several) and everyone in my little town knew about it but me. I was suspicious, but my ex denied it or told me I was crazy. I went to a psychologist and psychiatrist and worked out my depression in privacy and without involving my two sons who were 6 and 12 at the time. Unraveling is normal, but to do it in front of your children at the expense of their emotional security is the definition of insanity. I can’t stand Shannon.