I’m getting a late start because I have been working on a RHONY post all damn day and y’all probably won’t even find it that interesting. (Though I hope you do.) I think I might be subconsciously procrastinating to avoid recapping this crap. I’m going to try be invested in this post. I doubt I will be swayed away from Vicki’s side at this point. These women are just way over invested in hurting Vicki.
We started with some gross enema crap, then moved on to Heather has a great big house. I was bored and started doing some back end work and forgot I was supposed to be recapping right up until the part where Heather says she has two frozen totsicles. AKA fertilized eggs that they are not going to use. Andy immediately wants to buy them. They are Jewish totsicles and they have a doctor for a daddy. I have not doubt that Andy is serious as a heart attack. I imagine good Jewish eggs are hard to find. I’m serious.
Right after the first break we return with Jim Edmonds on the couch sitting right new to his special friend Andrew. He looks very nervous. Andy makes a joke about how in all of his years as a Cardinals fan, he never expected to see him on a reunion couch. Well, he is an idiot then, because this is the second wife Jim has tried to get on RHOOC and he seemed hell bent to keep on marrying women until Andy found one he liked. What a different season we would have had if the original baseball player had not had an ill-timed drug relapse and Jim got called up from the bench with that shrew he married in the third round draft pick.
Basically, Jim tries to say that what we see on TV “isn’t really him.” They play a long montage of stuff with Jim and his oncologist wife and in the scenes where Meghan is clapping back at Vicki, Tamra and Meghan just laugh and laugh at her behavior, but when they show Jim being an asshole, he looks mortified, like he wants to crawl under the sofa. View question, ” If my husband every told me to zip it he’s be sleeping in the garage . I think he treats you like a child. Why do you let him get away with it? ” Meghan says she doesn’t. No one believes this. Jim says a lot of it is what it is. He says we filmed a lot and I was tired. He tones things down in front of Andy as opposed to WHAT HE SAID HERE the night before in a St. Louis interview.
Andy asks Jim is he told Brooks that two out of four months of their marriage had been challenging. Jim sort of stammers around and starts to say he hardly talked to Brooks. Then Vicki jumps in and says that as it turns out she misspoke. When she told Brooks about the argument she had with Jim and Meghan and the porn party, or whatever it was, Brooks clarified and said it was not two months, it was two occasions. This sets the Nancy Drew enthusiast off on a barrage of insults calling Vicki a liar. Vicki again tries to clarify. But Meghan is ready to get shit started.
Heather wants to take a shot at Vicki next. She brings up a conversation she had with Vicki at the same porn party leaning on the bar watching new Christian Tamra dancing in a black lace body suit with a large black dildo bobbing between her legs in front of national TV cameras. Heather said Vicki said about the situation, ” No wonder they’re taking her kids away.” Which is not what she said, but if she had said it, it would make perfect sense! Heather is going to take a bad friend jab at Tamra because Tamra is the worst parent in the world and Vicki notices from time to time? Thankfully, Bravo played the bobbing black dildo scene for us complete with subtitles of what Vicki said, just in case her kids were not damaged enough the first time or Simon’s DVR jammed before he could record it for the next custody battle. What Vicki said was, ” I don’t think her kids are going to like this. She pretty much lost custody of one, she doesn’t want to lose two more! ” Then Heather laughs and says ” Don’t say that!” WHY NOT? Someone needs to explain to Tamra why she is not going to have custody of the other two kids and help her to stop lying about it being about Simon being a dick. It’s about HER doing stupid shit like WEARING A DICK on national television. This is not good parenting. Heather reams Vicki out as if Tamra is her best friend. Heather and Tamra have cried about the Sidney situation blah blah blah. Shot of Meghan making a very sad face as if she even knows these people. Meanwhile, nice work Heather bringing it up on TV AGAIN so her kids could get another peek at their mother’s dick. They won’t let Vicki get a word in edgewise. So she just says, “I’m sorry about that.” I need whatever Vicki is on because she has zero fucks to give about this reunion.
Then Andy says that is the same night Vicki said that Jim and Meghan’s marriage wouldn’t last five years. BTW, just last weekend was their one year anniversary. I would have lost money in the board betting pool on that, I never thought they would make it that far. If were Vicki I’d just say, ” Why am I being nailed to the cross like Jesus for being a truth teller, Andrew? Tamra’s shitty parent and Jim and his beard can’t stand each other. WHY AM I TO BLAME FOR MENTIONING THE OBVIOUS?” But battle weary Vicki under some serious sedation just says, ” That was wrong to say, I was mad. I was irriated by the Brooks coments . I saw Jim treating Meghan badly and it just didn’t look like a marriage made in heaven.. It was wrong to say. It was my opinion at that time.” Shannon jumps in and defends the Edmonds. Jim says if it was a guy you would grab them around the neck, but if it’s a girl, you just ignore it. Meghan says that it really hurt Hailey’s feelings. THE FUCK? Why would it hurt Hailey’s feelings? Jim left her mother for Meghan. Meghan is insane and thinks Hailey likes her better than she liked her own mother. Andy asked if Meghan signed a prenup. Meghan says it was all her idea to protect the children and so she would not look like a gold digger. Jim says if Meghan wants a kid he supposes he could shoot some sperm into her.
Oh it’s time for David’s affair. This will be Vicki’s fault too. David’s affair started on the second day of filming and she thought the weirdness was just because she was filming. We get a whole montage of Shannon’s whining and David’s asskissing. Their marriage is just peachy now. Blah, blah, blah. That segment ends with Tamra telling Shannon to stop making excuses for David, she is the victim, not him. Really? Somebody needs to tell Shannon it’s time to put down the damn cross because Jesus, or maybe Vicki needs the wood.
Shannon said she’s not making excuses. Heather talks about how she had lunch on camera and then went to meet some other women for her real luncheon in the same restaurant. She went in there and they were all talking about the affair. Shannon says she knew who the woman David was cheating with was, and one of the women at that lunch texted Nicole (the mistress) under the table and Nicole called David, who called Shannon while she was filming with Tamra and that is when Heather was sure it was Nicole. WTF does that have to do with anything? Why is Heather admitting she was gossiping with other women about David’s affair before Shannon even knew? How come Heather isn’t getting the Vicki treatment? Then Heather ends it with “Shame on them!” as if she had no part in anything whatsoever.
Shannon says that she doesn’t think airing all of her dirty laundry is harmful to the Beador girls. She says she is teaching them you don’t have to leave your husband if he cheats on you. THE FUCK? The girls have bigger smiles on their faces now that their parents are happy and they love to sit down and watch the show. Meghan thinks this is great parenting too. This is the parenting twilight zone.
OMG! Now Shannon is saying that they have recently seen her (Nicole) publically and she had no emotion. Again, she has seats right below theirs at the USC football games. Shannon freaked the fuck out over her just two days ago. But two or three weekends ago she remain cool as a cucumber. Shannon is a huge liar McLiarface. Even Heather and Tamra call her on this. I think Vicki is dozing off. I’m serious. Each time I pause the DVR her eyes are closed. Shannon says she has maintained her integrity this entire time and has never called her. Andy fakes her out with, great so let’s bring her out!
Ugh, Brianna the shit stirrer is on the couch. She starts right off insulting Oklahoma. Brianna found out about Brooks moving in on Thanksgiving Day when she saw a video online of an interview they did together. Vicki says this is the first week she has spent in her house alone. She doesn’t like it. Vicki says they broke up over something that happened in Miami. THIS IS I BELIEVE because that was the last thing they did together and then the next thin you know Brooks has dumped her. Her family was down there and I think that was an issue. See post about the final trip here. In every version of the breakup they agree that Brooks broke up with her. Vicki says she probably would have dragged things out because they both had come to the decision that they were not going to be together long term. Vicki says the main thing was that the situation with Brianna and Brooks was never going to be mended. Actually, all of this sounds exactly like what Brooks said in this interview.
Vicki says that Brianna is her priority. Andy asks Brianna if she felt like Vicki’s priority lately. She says no. Because she is a cunt. Because her mother gets on a plane and flies to fucking Oklahoma pretty much every six weeks and buys her a car and spoils her children and calls her every day, but that is not a big enough priority because Vicki has a boyfriend with cancer and a mother who just died and another son in Orange County and runs a business and films a reality show which she always gets the ungrateful piece of shit a high paying role on but she can’t allow her mother the courtesy of dating whoever the fuck she wants. She’s a horrible daughter and it’s pretty much Vicki’s fault for spoiling her and not setting boundaries. Brianna says that Vicki told her “You have your life I have mine” as if that was some sort of child abandonment. THE NEED TO HAVE BOUNDARIES AND HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES! THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE!
Brianna, who has been around Brooks FIVE TIMES IN HER WHOLE STUPID LIFE is not saying that Brooks would do something terrible when her mommy was on the other side of the room and she didn’t know whether to even tell her or not. TELL HER WHAT? What exactly do you need your mommy to handle for you,, you ignorant bitch? Brianna says that Brooks hit on her at he mother’s birthday party and she told Vicki and Vicki didn’t believe her and said he would never want her. Meghan hisses “Thatsssss ssssoooo messssed up!” Tamra jumps in to say that Brianna called her because she was so humiliated and degraged and it was a big deal to her. ONCE AGAIN! WHY DOESN’T BRIANNA HAVE HER OWN LIFE WITH HER OWN FRIENDS TO CALL WITHOUT CALLING HER MOTHER’S FILMING PARTNER? This is all smelling like bullshit to me.
Okay this horrific thing that happened to Brianna according to Tamra is that Brooks wanted to show Brianna his dick. Come on now. I can see Brooks making the Girth Brooks joke but for all of this to happen, Brianna would have to be standing there talking to him. She gives us no indication of what she said, Most women know how to side step the identifiable creeps in the room. In the middle of a birthday party did they somehow get paired off together somewhere private? Did Brooks track her down to say, “Hey, I know it’s my girlfriend’s birthday party and everything, but I’d really like to show you my dick!” I tend to believe Brooks responded to some insult Brianna threw at him by saying , ” You couldn’t be more wrong, about that. They don’t call me Girth Brooks for nuthin’ Do you need me to prove it?” And Brianna running to her mommy saying Brooks was trying to show her his dick. I don’t believe a damn thing Brianna says.
Meghan says she got a two page cease and desist from Brooks. Brianna says he is threatening to sue her too. I hope he does.
They show a bit of Brooks interview with Andy. Andy asks why Brooks refused to go to the reunion. Brook claims he had a scheduling conflict with work. I don’t believe him. I wish he would have just said he’s had enough all the cunts. Andy asks why they broke up. He says that when he moved in in October, the went to counseling to try to figure out how to reconcile the whole “Brianna issue” and it was during that counseling that he determined it could not be worked out. Andy asks if he blames the show. He says no, he blames the women, and Brianna. He said the constant conflict was the deal breaker. They show the coven including Brianna with outraged expressions.
Andy says that Brianna says that her brother Michael is the only one that gets along with him. He says that is not true. He gets along with Vicki’s Brother, her sister and her brother in law (all of whom were in Miami). Brianna is screaming and carrying on back on the couch. Brooks says that Brianna seems to be projecting onto him with a lot of her accusations. Especially about wanting Vicki’s money. Brianna says she makes six figures an ER nurse. Is that possible or is she counting the money Vicki provides for her through Bravo? She says her mortgage is $1,100 a month and she can cover that on her own! Wow this is a way different story than I live in Oklahoma and work three jobs while raising young children.
The episode ends with Brianna telling everyone that she spent hours on the phone with Vicki’s mother the day before she died and they trash talked Brooks together for an hour. That’s sweet.
Next week: The dramatic conclusion. Everyone takes a whack a Vicki and beats her to a bloody pulp.
‘That shrew he married in the third round draft pick’ LOVE IT!!!
I am so happy I found Tamara Tattles. Since they have taken the responses to the housewives’ blog on the Bravo site , I feel like no one is seeing what I see. I have read all this on-line crap about Megan being so great and it makes me sick; wheather Brook has cancer or not – it is none of her business… I have had 2 separate ( 20 years apart) mastectomies and dealt with the harsh realities of cancer and Megan’s assumed possession of the disease drive me crazy, especial since she has had no family member with the disease. ( I don’t count the ex who she stole her husband from , since her wellbeing was no concern for her in the past.) I feel like she uses cancer as an accessory to round out her character.
Heather is a witch – she is so full of herself, it is unbelievable – she feels as if her opinion is the end all of any discussion , just because she is married to a doctor and wealthy. Tamara is either your best fake freind or hates your guts and is ready to step up to support any opinion from the ladies that she thinks will make her more watchable – she is a horrible friend and mother. I don’t think she understands that Christianity basic tenet is to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
FFinally. Shannon is bonkers; I think she has some real mental illness and I can see why David was hhaving a hard time living with her. She needs to be on REAL medication, no all this mystical stuff; I I don’t think she will EVER let him off the hook about the affair, while not accepting any fault of hhers in the weakness in their marriage. ( I am not saying adultery is Ok in any situation , but he was not well fortified to resist it with Shannon whining all the time.)
I have watched RHOC since the beginning and I have never like Vicki that much. This season she is who I find myself emphasizing with. If Brook’s has been lying about the cancer, she is the one who will have to pick up the pieces, but the other women act like it is a direct insult to them. What is up with that, especial Shannon? If I had a friend in her situation , I would think she would need my support tremendously. DOn’t let me get started on Brianna – I used to like her, but she is acting like a little spoiled tyrant who does not care at all about her mother’s happiness.
Ok, I think I have said enough -forgive me for the length, I have held this in all season!
Andy, please give us some people to like on this series; it is massively depressing to see these women acting so cruel and petty when they have so much. This will be the last season for me unless there are changes.
Lou, I agree…I feel sorry for Vicki — regardless of whether or not Brooks is lying etc. her friends should have been there for her as she has for them, especially Shannon and Tamra…I have never seen Vicki look so beaten down , it’s sad. And yeah, Briana IS a shit-starter, acts like she is in charge of her mom’s life, that is also sad. If I were Vicki, I wouldn’t tell Briana much about anything going on in her personal life at all. I wish she had bought that yacht and not even told Briana about it!
BEST. BLOG. EVA !!!! Miss Lady TT, tell it!!
Finally, someone who agrees with me regarding Briana and the other hags. What a spoiled brat with no loyalty to her own mother. Why is Briana featured on this mess? She is a nasty piece of work with an abusive husband and a big mouth. I felt terrible for Vicki and if she didn’t get loaded before this fiasco, she should have. I would be so embarrassed if I were those awful women. They looked just like what they are…a coven of witches. This is a terrible, terrible show and shows Bravo and Andy for exactly what they are…vicious hate mongers who care more about ratings than human beings and their feelings. I hope that Vicki walks away from this and never looks back. The others will fall on their asses if she does because not one of them is interesting or entertaining. Thank you for the ACCURATE portrayal of what I saw.
P.S. a nurse who makes six figures??? Is she a hooker on the side? Nurses are among the underpaid in this country and I have never met a nurse who makes six figures being a nurse or even a nurse practitioner. She’s a bitch and a liar.
If she is an ER Nurse… it could be true. Or combined household income, since he is apparently still active duty. They get a housing allowance that could cover most of the mortgage too, if not all.
I’m a former ER nurse but I may move to Oklahoma to earn that 6 figure salary. Smh….I can’t stand Brianna or these other women. And Tamra…. Here’s some advice you ass clown…you are an embarrassment to your children! I’m horrified!
Merilyn, re your p.s., I know 4 twenty-somethings who are RNs and only one of them is below six figures, And none of them have been working more than 5 years. So yeah, very lucrative work.
i think your comment is for TT, on her OUTSTANDING blog– and i agree 🙂
I am from Oklahoma.. Edmond Oklahoma, just recently moved to Kansas.. ER nurses do not make 6 figures. I would know.. I am an ICU nurse and I am from Oklahoma and I have friends that work in the ER Starting pay is about 22-24 an hour.. hardly 6 figures.
LOVE this Blog by the way! just wanted to add my personal experience.
I have many nurses in my family and group of friends who make 90k and above- only two are NP’s, and they have under ten years experience.
Every nurse I know works crazy hard but makes great money, especially the nurse practitioners.
Vicky was so tranquilized, that she couldn’t even form a complete thought. If my mother was dating a complete dirtbag like Brooks, you can be sure I would not stop until he was gone. Brooks is a flim-flam artist who preys on lonely women, and has pretended to have stage three cancer for a t.v. show which has miraculously turned into stage two! If anybody has ever watched a parent or friend suffer through cancer, they know why people find this so appalling. What is more appalling is that Vicky and Brooks intended to make some money off of this false narrative until a producer showed them evidence that brooks was lying. naturally they turned to their go-to girl, Tamra to introduce the subject by having the psychic luncheon which was fimed and stuck into the show randomly so that the subject of Brooks subterfuge could be exposed. Heather would have never jumped on this bandwagon unless she was sure. That is the second time Heather has spilled private information to a table of her friends and walked away scot free.
I like Vicky and I am glad that Brooks is out of her life. He has brought her nothing but strife.
I wish women would not call other women the C word. It’s so degrading and it makes me question your narrative of being a teacher. i just can not imagine any teacher using that word, it just would not be in their brain and I have been in the school system 30 yrs. I don’t know any teacher on earth that would say that word.
Of course it is possible for Briana to make six figures. Nurse practitioners here in Miami make a min. of $100,000/yr. Briana works two jobs I think. One in children’s ICU and one in an E.R. I might be wrong about that, but OR nurses make good money. I hope you never have to hire a nurse for an ailing parent, because then you will find out just how much money they make.
Standing by for banishment and tomato throwing.
Brianna is not a nurse practitioner. A nurse practitioner has a LOT more training than a nurse. They are usually better to see than an actual doctor.
Nurse and a nurse practitioner are two very different things.. One now requires your doctorate while the other requires just a bachelor’s degree.. why does everyone keep saying “my friend that is a nurse practitioner makes..” I would hope she would call herself a nurse practitioner if she was one because if she got her doctorate she certainly deserves to. And different states make different wages, I am simply stating Oklahoma nurses don’t tend to make 6 figure salaries, maybe if she works two jobs or maybe if she gets money from bravo which seems more likely.
You are totally right Rachel — nurse practitioners is an entirely different schooling track and is why they are often offered as an alternative when you can’t get in to see your primary doc immediately. I wonder about Brianna’s wage claims as well but just assumed she made more at OC rates and was able to command / negotiate more when transferring to ER in OKie.
I’m an ER RN (a yr ago I started working from home as a transplant coordinator but still pick up a shift in the ER once per week to make up for the pay cut of working from home) Anyway, I made over $100k. I’m not a staff member of the hospital but instead I’m employed by a staffing agency. I’ve worked in the same ER for 4 yrs. they pay the agency nurses about $20/hr more than staff.
gessiewtf, well then I will stand by you banished dodging tomatoes also. Vicki deserves a better man in her life …..a man who can take HER on vacation, not a guy who travels on her perks, gets fur coats for her to wear after he promote the store on the show, a man who can provide a home to live in, car to drive………etc. I find it sad for Vicki that Brooks already has a very special lady in his life after breaking up recently – after years together.
Thank you T for always putting the blogs up so quickly. I am amazed that you can do it. I know you have tons of inside info that you don’t always get to share with us, so when I find myself having a different opinion than yours, I always wonder what I am missing. I believe Brianna, not Brooks. I also do not believe everything Vicky has said about the Brooks story line. Brian was dragged into this show 10 years ago by a mother who has lots of emotional issues. I actually feel sorry for Brianna.
Vicki really did look sedated, and yes, I think Brianna is afraid that she’ll lose her inheritance. If I was her brother, I’d make sure everything is legally taken care of.
I’m not done reading yet, but I’m dying at “Jim says if Meghan wants a kid he supposes he can shoot some sperm into her..” ? also Tamra’s face was hilarious to me when she was gyrating w/dildo on, like that was the most fun she’d ever had lol
“supposes he can shoot some sperm into her” was my favorite line of the blog too. I about died! ?
I was like a vulture waiting for your recap. Love you, TT. Great recap and I didn’t have to watch the crapfest.
Shannon is busy digging out of the USC girl fight. She has probably hired a PR guy cause she’s in deep doo doo with fans. Her twitter feed has been wild and on one it said that the ET has talked with the husband. Is this the kind of attention Shannon wanted? In her facebook chats last week she kept saying she would be live tweeting the reunion, but she didn’t. She needs a long time at a private place that only has security cameras.
Will there be a Season 11 of OC? There doesn’t seem to be much to enjoy left. All of them are totally unlikeable, except for Lizzie and Andy doesn’t seem to like her.
Oh please do tell what is going on with that USC public shaming. I doubt that season ticket holders want a drunk reality bitch embarassing them. I would be furious if I were the mistress husband and if they have children…
I saw someone who wrote that Nicole had attended games with Jeff Lewis last year, they speculated he was her decorator. Most importantly attending USC games was not new behavior so no stalking involved. Interesting if it was Jeff Lewis and not some look alike.
Jeff alo went to USC. I agree I doubt the school wants anything to do with that situation. She better keep her mouth quiet if she wants to keep going to games.
I saw Jeff Lewis on WWHL and he said he was friends with Shannon-it’s possible they were even on at the same time-his shows are becoming a blur. I remember Andy asked him if he knew about the affair and Jeff said he knew nothing about it until Shannon & David told him way after the fact when they were all dining together.
This worthless info actually took up valuable space in my brain…
If I spent hard earned money & was attending the game I seriously would be pissed that this moronic woman (Shannon) is disrupting thehame with her bullshit. Shannon thinks so highly of herself that she delusionally thinks she is being stalked & harassed by this woman. I wonder why David stays? Maybe until the kids are older or the $$ is worth it? Eventually he will break or something, this is no way to live and those poor girls are going to have some issues I can’t imagine what school is like for them kids can be cruel with way less ammo.
When she screamed to the crowd, ‘This is the woman who had the affair with my husband” did she expect everyone to a) Immediately know what she was talking about-because EVERYONE watches RHOOC
2) All stand in unison, boo & hiss and throw stones at Nicole?
Grrrrr…I can’t stand this bird brained twit.
Yep that sounds about right. Your recap for next week should stand alone. “Eveyone takes a whack at Vickie with one of Jims baseball bats until shes a bloody pulp.” That covers everything.
Off topic, sorry. Does anyone know who won the WWHL poll ?? I kept voting for Alexis.
Alexis won, she said it’s the first time she has ever won one.
Im SO glad! I voted 5 times. Hope it was a landslide.
I can’t remember the numbers, but I think it was within 10%.
I like to read your recap before watching, and you already had me laughing with “Jim and his oncologist wife” and the porn party and Nancy Drew.
Thank you so much for treating this show like the comedy it is.
Ok. In the previews for part 3, it shows Shannon showin what a REAL CT scan from wherever looks like. Didn’t Megan, along with the others, spend a whole episode on the fact that place doesn’t do those? Soooo, which is it?
And 6 figures my ass. I’m one state over (a “richer” state at that) and I have a friend who spent years as an er nurse before becoming a nurse practioner and she does NOT make 6 figures, with overtime and the shittiest schedule ( a contract for every weekend plus 2 days through the week). She does carry an almost 6 figure student loan debt though. As a matter of fact, she doesn’t make 6 figures doing what she does now!
It really is a bash Vicky reunion. While Vic isn’t my favorite, she has had a tough year, cut her some damn slack! I’m only still watching this shit show bc I’m just waiting for Tamra and Heather to get their just desserts, it’s gotta be soon right? A girl can only hope.
I think Meghan found out that they don’t do PET/CT scans for the type of cancer that Brooks has/claims to have.
Shannon is a liar. When I saw her hold up the REAL CT SCAN from Newport Imaging I thought well I thought Detective Neck said she called and they didn’t do them.
I do have to say my aunt was an RN with a Master’s degree and she made well into the six figures.
One of my best friends is a nurse and makes well over six figures.
So like 8 figures? Eleventeen figures?
Eleventeen figures? For that alone you’re in my will. I will now have to have a taster and have people test all my food.
Ditto, my gf works in local ER and makes right under 150k a year. Brianna can afford her mortgage
A good friend is an ER nurse in Washington and she makes 6 figures, just barely but she does
Ive heard of traveling nurses making 6 figures, but not an ER nurse. My BFF is head trauma nurse at allegheny general hospital in the ER and she makes about 85k. She works over 60 hours in OT to make that much. This is PA so I dont know abt OK but 100k sounds awful high.
I have a couple of cousins that are nurses and they make very good money. They are completly able to support themselves and a husbands income is just bonus. One is single and raised two kids on her own and had decent college funds for both of them saved up.
Okay. Nurses make pretty good money. It’s a high pressure job and they totally deserve it for all the stuff they have to see on the job. Especially an ER nurse. Thing is, if Brianna is making so much money, why in the blue fuck is she so concerned about her mother’s money? Why can’t she just let Vicki be a sugar mama if that’s what makes her happy? I would understand maybe if Briana was in the poor house, but she isn’t. Am I missing something?
I think it comes down to respect. If you thought someone was rotten to the core and a lying sociopath, it would be hard to just say, hey mom if youre happy whatever. I dont see Vickie as being happy at all since she divorced, and shes not strong at all when it comes to Brooks. Not a good sign. Also, Vickie has allways been super involved with her daughter, so this has really torn them up, and would be easier if they werent so close. And it goes both ways, if you tell your adult child to kiss off I dont care how this effects you, when youre dumped, sick and old they may say see yeah, you wanted your own life so its your problem now.
janet, you don’t seem to understand that adults are free to date who they choose and are not bound by a voting quorum of their relatives. This does not mean they are telling anyone to kiss off. It’s called being two independent adults without boundaries. Brianna’s involvement with every aspect of Vicki’s life and snooping through all her private correspondence is demented and creepy,
TT, agree 100% – “not bound by a voting quorum of their relatives”
Well thats true that as an adult you can date who you wan to date, but Vickie wants to blend who shes in love with or seeing, with her family. That wasnt working with Breanna, she hates him. So then Vickie tried having a seperate life with Brooks , and it still presented an issue. I just think although a child is grown if youre put in a position of having to choose one or the other, that’s very heavy. I have an adult son now, and if I were living with someone he absoloutly hated and wouldnt visit me anymore, I would not be able to stay with the person.
Can you make 100,000 as a nurse with only 7 years experience…doesn’t sound too plausible
In Oklahoma??
I live in Kansas (just north of Oklahoma) and my wage is no where near 6 figures. And I would highly doubt any bodies wage in the Midwest is close to that unless she is doing travel nursing and keeps her assignments in whatever town they live in. The cost of living here is pretty low compared to say California so wages are lower.
I know an ER nurse in Minnesota can easily make 6 figures. Well I guess easily is not the right word since the job itself can be very taxing, but my daughter-in-law and my niece both make 6 figures as nurses in St. Paul.
you certainly can
Dawn, exactly! I must be missing something she is doing?! is she selling all of her PTO and working like 80 hrs a week + traveling as an ER nurse? I don’t get even close to 6 figures.. I must be doing something wrong. So many people have family members who make ridiculous amounts nursing. Where can I get in on that action?
Oh Rachel. Here at TT we have a whole host of people who have had every disease ever mentioned here, and/or know a lot of people who are employed in the same field of whatever we talk about. Even If we were talking about Himalayan beekeepers. Trust and believe at least a dozen people here will know throngs of Himalayan beekeepers and how much they make, and what their daily caloric intake is.
So I ask you Rachel, seriously, do you expect us to believe you, an actual nurse whose email address verifies your employment and your IP verifies your location, over the resident experts in everything we have here?
Your thoughts are just as crazy as the multiple sites that report the following!
“As per the statistics of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in May 2013, the hourly and yearly average registered nurse salary in Oklahoma was $27.47 and $57,130, respectively. The number of RNs employed in the state at that time was 25,960. Their median hourly wages were $27.34.”
I mean really, How dare you doubt Brianna?
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On point TT. It’s ridiculous, it’s like every RN they ever knew tells them their salary. Doubtful! Or they are lying to you.
I’m also an RN. I live in a small Midwest state, but 6 figures?! Never heard of it. That’d be some serious overtime! Maybe a nurse practitioner or administration makes that much, but its not the normal. Nurses are not paid that much, even though many deserve to. Stop filling people with hope that it’s such a lucrative profession.
If she counts the money her mom gives her as “income” that plus her salary may be six figures.
I cringe everytime her Brianna’s face appears on T.V… i knew she was always pretty bad but she’s definitely a twin of her nasty husband. I think Brianna is ugly inside and out… it hurts me to see her betray her mother.. knowing what she’s been through.. and be part of the gang up… if i was Vicki.. I’d change my WILL AND FAST.. These woman think their all that and a bag of chips for heaven’s sake… its become the worst show.. and i truly feel for Vicky.. their like attack dogs.. and please would someone bring a straight jacket to Shannon… her poor children.. unbelievable behavior
I haven’t seen the show yet. Will watch in 15 minutes. Does not sound epic at all. Almost everything ive heard before, so ive been duped again! The only thing new is some off the cuff remarks made by Vickie . Big deal. Sure, they would be hurtful to hear if you were in a custody battle, but Tamra has done all sorts of wild stuff that doesnt help her case, so its like big whoop. Ive stopped being friends with people who do stuff that would make me have to lie to please them. Its easier. I still dont believe Brooks. I think if he were that guy in the interview, there would be no problem. Also, I think he looks fine for 48. Most guys around here look like varying degrees of that when close to 50. I dont know what people expect. If Breanna is the only issue between Vickie and Brooks, then that is sad. I think there’s more to it, but I also dont trust most guys, so there you go.
Look in all honesty, I don’t know the truth about Brooks. Brianna is overly involved. But at the same time she is Vicki’s daughter so her (over) involvement is the most excusable to me. As for the other women, why do they care? If its BC they think Vicki is a liar, just don’t be her friend. Its a simple as that.
I stopped watching ATL & Jersey because it was nasty and was not fun to watch. Now the OC has turned into the same kind of shit show. I hope Vicki stays on just to spite those assholes. That crew will need fresh meat next season. Brooks has cancer. Brianna is a spoiled rotten brat. Shannon is cray -cray. David stays because of money & his kids. Tamra & Meghan -gross & weird. Heather- self serving. The ONLY reason she is on the show & ” friends ” with the rest of those hags is for her businesses. Once she doesn’t need the show bye bye “friends”
Tonight’s episode once again proved Heather’s unique spin on her memory of events. She claimed that while Tamra was dancing wearing a strap-on dildo, Vicki said ‘no wonder she’s losing custody of her kids’ when Vicki actually said ‘her kids aren’t going to like this… she lost custody of one she doesn’t want to lose the other two’. Different. BTW there was no ‘OUTRAGE’ from Heather, just a slick smile and a feeble ‘no she’s a great mom’. She’s a gaslighting revisionist bitch, always changing history to suit her agenda and make her the heroine. Bitch puh-leeze!
Thats how some women are. Ive had a person talk shit about a mutual acquaintance, and then turn around and give me the side eye later on, if I have any negative thought on that same person. You know they’ll probably cataloging it to use it on you, knowing you arent going to say what they said. Ugh.
It’s really rare that I feel I’m watching anything spontaneous or authentic with Heather and that crap she pulled at the reunion was absolutely planned in advance-it gave her something to talk about beside her, “Mansion” and was another way to attack Vicki and to show Tamra she had her back.
It kills me that Vicki came off looking like the inappropriate one at that ridiculous fete instead of the woman, who in the midst of a custody battle, chose to throw a sex party on TV while wearing a black lace unitard and sporting a black strap on dildo. That shiz is just messed up.
And I’m truly not trying to be an asshole. I actually love almost everything you post, and visit your site often. I just can’t with this Brooks shit. You are a smart woman. You know he’s lying. Come on.
Okay, Cathy. Fine. Let’s say he IS lying. And? Does that excuse any of their behavior? Does that excuse Briana’s behavior? This whole season was a gang-bang on Vicki. She didn’t deserve it. And she handled the whole thing with a huge amount of grace and dignity, especially considering her mother’s death.
As someone who detests Brooks, I agree with you Minky!
I thought the whole thing was a big circle jerk?
Where I come from circle jersey were called “splooie”. It looks like the splooie landed on Vickie this season, and Brooks was the culprit.
What I found hard to swallow was that Briana and Vicki both acknowledged that at the time Briana brought Brooks’ behavior/statements to Vicki’s attention, Vicki called Briana a liar and insulted her. But now that it’s being brought up post Brooks, all of a sudden Vicki believes her daughter and says “didn’t want to believe it at the time”.
How sad is that? She dismissed her own daughter’s word and feelings because she didn’t want to believe her bf behaved like that. I feel bad for Briana (and yes for Vicki too for many reasons) but you need to own your actions and there she made a mistake.
Did you see Shannon’s face when that part was going on? There is a history there somewhere. If my parent were dating someone who had been profiled on 20/20 like he was… I would lose my shit. I also think Brooks was deflecting by saying Briana is the gold digger.
FYI Erica, ABC News later retracted, er, “clarified” many of the assertions they made in that piece. It’s easily located online.
I so agree with you Shae. I grew up with a mother very much like Vicki and as sad as it was Vicki calling her daughter a liar it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Jaded, I agree with you 100%. It will only get worse from here on in for both Brianna and Vicki. I have been there to a degree and I find it all very painful full to watch. Yet, much more interesting than the rest of the bullshit featured this season.
Librarygirl, think I will have sit out anymore seasons unless something drastically changes. It’s getting too dark. As much as I see Vicki’s culpability it still isn’t fun to watch a dog pile.
Brooks lying excuses no one’s behavior. It does, however, make Brooks a truly terrible person and simply dismissing the fact that Brooks lied is cutting Vicki and Brooks way too much slack, imho.
@minky no, it doesn’t excuse anyone’s behavior. I never said it did. (The first half of my original comment is still in moderation.) but, I tell you what. If one of my friends boyfriends was so obviously lying about being on their deathbed, I’d call them out on it. 100% I especially would if it were someone my mother was dating. I wouldn’t sit off to the side while someone I cared about was getting bull dozed by some conman. Did you ever watch Brooks on 20/20? That wasn’t a bravo storyline. That was truth. He is a scumbag. Clearly, they wanted the “poor Brooks” edit this year so everyone would leave him alone and feel sorry for them. It just blew up in their faces with Megan Edmonds PI on the scene.
You know, I can partially see your point. I can totally understand a daughter being concerned for her mother’s welfare. Yes. Absolutely. But those are conversations that should be had in private and off camera. What I don’t understand is Briana conspiring with people who obviously don’t give a flying shit about her mother’s wellbeing and have no remorse about abusing a woman who’s just lost her mother. Why is Briana teaming up with the banshees, harpies and shrews from hell to make her mother look like an ass on TV? Why? How is that okay?
I’m sorry Cathy. I just realized that my post might look like I’m mad at you. I’m not. Again, sorry. I just don’t get the people on this show. :0)
Banshies, harpies and shrews from hell. That does sum up this year,
I guess Tamra fools people, her and Vickie go back and forth with their friendship all the time and confuse me too. I think also, Eddie and Tamra know alot of the back story, and Breanna knows she has a kindred spirit on the Brooks is a bad guy. I think besides disliking the guy, she feels he persuaded her mom to break up her marriage for him, and then proceeded to be a player. I still think though ,that Breanna maybe should have stayed out of it more then it would have been over by now on its own and she wouldnt be the blame. Probably easier said than done. In the past Brooks has stated that Breanna was not the cause of their break ups and it was because he and Vickue were too much alike. Wonder what happened in Florida? I still think divorcing Donn was a huge mistake and he was the better man.
I guess a lot of folks stay in relationships where both people are cheating, but it hardly seems worth it. And, Brooks was a bust from the beginning, so I feel that Vicki felt compelled to make it work. It’s hard to admit that you ended your marriage for a looser, especially when your kids loved your spouse. Brianna’ and Vicki’s relationship is convoluted on so many levels, and both are to blame. All I can say is that it must be hell to have such a childish, dependant and overbearing female be your mother. How is Brianna, an adult mother of two, supposed to react when Mom wants to be a child and yet always insists upon defining the relationship from a position of superiority? I find it painful to watch. In that regard, I think that Brooks got all he deserved by inserting himself into the middle of that super charged mother daughter relationship. Suck it Brooks!
Agree 100%. I fast forward every time Brianna shows up. I agree with one poster who suggested that she probably said something to brooks and he said that as a comeback. I seriously doubt he’s hit on Brianna as she is now , let alone what she looked like pregnant. The way she conspires against her mom is disgusting. I wish they’d never have her on the show again. I can’t imagine why Vickie still allows it honestly. Meghan was the monster this entire season, yet, she’s getting off Scott free who Vickie is literally getting beaten to a pulp. It’s hard to watch.
I cannot stand Brianna but to say he wouldn’t hit on her because she is obviously overweight and then to imply she would look even more “un-hit upon worthy” is just shitty in my opinion. Her looks aren’t her problem. Her shitty soul is.
Because she only cares about herself.
It does not speak very highly of Brianna’s judgement of character to say that she admires Tamra!
That last sentence was sarcasm, by the way. 😉
@minky no need to apologize. I appreciate that. And I also had hoped my responses didn’t sound snarky to you cause they weren’t meant to. It’s ok if we all have different opinions. It’d be weird if we didn’t ? I read here all the time. And rarely comment. But the last few recaps have just bothered me because they are SO pro Vicki and Brooks. I get it. It’s the writers take. That’s fine it’s her show here. But as commenters posting an opinion that’s in the minority is not even worth it sometimes because some of the sheep here just jump down your throat. I like differing opinions and hearing others thoughts on things and their reasons why. And I’ve been trying to see TTs POV on everyone and I just can’t. To bash EVERYONE besides V and B is a little much. I understand you don’t like seeing Vicki ganged up on. Neither do I. But, it won’t be the end of the world to admit that after all this mounting pile of proof your first thoughts of him truly being sick were wrong. I have a feeling you hate to hear ‘I told you so’. Lol. What would have to happen for you to believe it was fake? What kind of proof would work for you? I’m honestly curious, because after all the interviews I’ve seen and Meghan PI? load of proof, I cant fathom someone still believing him. He’s such a loser!! Thanks!!
@Cathy
We are in the minority here. I think Vicki is probably the biggest hypocrite on this show. I recently rewatched all the reunions and I had forgotten just how far she will reach. I would recommend rewatching the reunions seasons five and up. It’s mind blowing. (Tamra too, just unbelievable behavior).
I also think Brooks is lying. And it takes a brave soul to say that around these parts. A lot of people here think he is truthful. But I think his history is telling.
That said, I do think there was A LOT coming at Vicki this year. She had a lot going on. But I can’t pardon all of her bullshit over the last ten years because she had a difficult year this year.
She was clearly medicated throughout the reunion. Her eyelids were heavy and her speech was slow and deliberate. No judgement here. But I think she knew they would come at her hard… she knew.
I also believe Brianna. However, I think Brianna is an ingrate who will eventually regret putting all of this out there.
Just my opinion.
I agree with you 100%. Vicki has been a terrible person since day 1 of this show a million years ago. What goes around comes around.
Can’t wait until Tamra finally gets hers.
My comment was to Pip.
So, on your planet, no proof at all of anything other than a fake psychic’s feelings and a man’s refusal to present proof to a bunch of cunts that he has cancer is somehow proof that he DOESN’T have cancer? Are you from OC Cathy? Is there something in the water? Where I come from when someone says they have cancer, we don’t consult some dude pretending to be a psychic for a TV show, or interrogate his girlfriend, or demand to see his medical chart or call his doctors and pretend to have cancer, we just hug them and offer to pray for them.
Furthermore, when some shitweasels start accusing people of not having cancer we think they are vile spawn of satan and shun them.
As for how I’d feel if ” I was proved wrong” I have nothing to do with any imaginary proof you keep discussing. I’m someone who will feel GREAT if Brooks doesn’t have cancer. I certainly don’t want him to have it.
How would you feel to find out you have been on the Internet trash talking a man who has had NHL for several years and is dealing with round three while shitpickles on the Internet harass him? No really, you’re god with that?
Again, prostate cancer is in a group of its own when it comes to cancer. Some men do not choose to treat it at all, some have the prostate removed, and some have chemo and radiation all with advice from a doctor. I could not agree with you more, TT. I just don’t get this whole outrage @ Brooks. He didn’t do a GoFundMe acct. and ask for donations; he was on a reality show. Just as Heather faked a lunch with Tamra BEFORE joining her real friends so Brooks filmed and neither had control of the edit.
Can we just banish the discussions on Brooks’ cancer saga?
Oh, could Meghan have looked any worse?
peachteachr, that was going to be my statement. What exactly did Brooks gain from saying he had cancer? As you said he didn’t ask for money. He didn’t get a spinoff show. I can’t see any benefits he was able to reap from it. He got defamed by the Housewives especially by Meghan. He and Vicki are no longer together in part because of this issue. Even if he doesn’t have cancer how did it affect any of the Housewives’ lives? What difference did it make to them? The only people it could have affected was his family and Vicki who happen to believe him. For goodness sake put it to rest.
Sheep? Really?
Im not so sure Donn was the cheater that Vickie said he was. Only heard that from Vickie, who had a big incentive to justify her own affairs. I didnt think that was cool of her to do either, as no one was talking about him at the time and she just threw that out there as deflection for herself. She sure never acted like the insecure wronged wife, more like the party wife who was down for anything, and wanted to whoop it up away from him. Shes admitted she regrets the divorce and she was sobbing at one of the reunions I just want my family back. I want what I had. I had hoped it would work out for her, as I hope that for just about everybody.
I was offended by Heather being offended.
Peeka, you said it all!
What a shitshow. TT, your recap was SPOT ON. I blame you for making me actually watching it, and quite frankly, it was sickening. I have never been a bigger fan of Vicki’s. Heather was the biggest cunt of all, with Tamra a close second. Shannon is on another planet altogether. Meghan is not worth mentioning. She looked like shit, too.
The injustice of it all was so jarring, that I am not sure I can stomach the next segment. I only watched this one because of your blogs. Damnation and praise to you in the same comment, TT. 🙂
You’ve outdone yourself, yet again TT. I didn’t watch this miserable torture porn, but reading your recap I felt as if I did. Beautiful writing. :0)
Thanks for the great recap, TT.
Poor Vicky did look sedated and didn’t seem to care about what any of the women were throwing at her. She appeared to believe if she just said she was sorry and she misspoke they would stop attacking her. It was like they didn’t even hear her, when she apologized. They just got louder, as if she were fighting back. Harpies, all of them.
I love how Brianna makes accusations that cannot be proven. Brooks only says creepy things to her when no one is around. She talked to her ‘Nana’ the day before she died and tells us Nana hated Brooks too. Convenient, since we can’t phone Nana.She says everyone in the family hates Brooks, except Michael. It was pretty obvious at the baptism party that Brother Billy and Rhonda were in Brooks’ and Vicky’s corner.
Another thing, Brianna is a grown woman, not a child. Why is she acting like she is six years old and Brooks is molesting her? If an older man I was dating actually tried to hit on my daughter, she would have no trouble kicking him in the balls and walking away laughing.
I think Heather does anything calculated to keep her on the show so she can promote herself and Terry’s projects. Vicky has little or nothing to help her out there, so she’ll throw Vicky under the bus. I am guessing Jim and Terry have some kind of business ventures together, so Heather is going to be kiss kiss hug hug with Dr. Meghan. She’ll be all friendly with Tamra as long as she believes Andy wants Tamra around. Last season she turned on Shannon because she saw that was where the herd was heading. This year, it’s Vicky. Who is it going to be next season?
I am fast forwarding anything to do with Shannon, David, and Meghan’s parenting skills.
Yes lisamia! The very fact that Briana was prepared to “go there” concerning Vicki’s now deceased mother is despicable. What kind of morally bankrupt person uses somebody’s dead parent to shame them. Especially if it’s your own mother you’re shaming on national television. I think Briana has always had a problematic relationship with her mother. It was obvious in the first few seasons when Briana was in college. That one time when Vicki showed up and surprised Briana with a new car, Briana looked like she couldn’t care less. Spoiled doesn’t begging to describe this woman.
I wonder if Brianna realizes the only person she really has in her corner is her mother.
Vicki put the down payment on the car then had Brianna pay themonthly payments. Vicki made the deal without asking Brianna in advance (this was discussed on the show in past seasons.)
I think Vicki and Briana have always had a relationship where the boundaries have been blurred. Both have been too involved in the others’ lives and were too intrusive. Vicki did it with Michael, too until he felt he had to cut ties with her for awhile. I thought they might both find a healthier relationship when Brianna moved to OK, but with Vicki visiting so often and still gifting her with cars and who knows what else, plus Bravo’s interference, I don’t see any change at all.
I almost fell on the floor when Brianna said she doesn’t accept money from her mother (which lead to her talking about how much money she makes). Did she forget she accepted an expensive SUV from her mother?
Vicki has just given up & I don’t blame her. Those harpies have exhausted me & I’m only watching them…
Vicki has just given up & I don’t blame her. Those harpies exhausted me & I’m only watching them…
Has Brooks ask for donations, or money in anyway? If not why does it matter if he is lying or not? I don’t believe he is lying about his cancer, but I don’t understand why it even matters.
Brianna has said she works two jobs. My sister was an ER nurse in OKC up until last year, she made a little over $50,000. If Brianna had two jobs, I guess it’s possible. But, I don’t really
Believe anything she says. I actually wonder if she’s even working. I can’t picture her quick to anger hubby taking care of two small boys. She says they have no friends, if she’s working At a hospital shed meet friends. I think Brisnna hates Brooks cause Vicki is spending “her” money on him.
Is it possible that Brianna’s 2nd job is filming for this show? Does she get paid for this?
The best thing after watching this show, is the ad for Top Chef. You have to recap, because the British Baking Show is almost over. I need my beef cheeks fix, even though I hate Leon.
That commercial was the ONLY good thing about the show. 12/2 can’t come soon enough!
And Tamra wonders why her oldest daughter doesn’t want anything to do with her. That girl is going to school tomorrow to a locker full of dildos. Tamra is such a stupid cunt.
I have seen a daughter being concerned for her mother’s welfare. It can get to the point of obsession, and at some point you have to just let it go. I’ve thought it was the fear that her mother’s wealth would go to Brooks so she made up stuff, but it is a real fear that everything that you knew will be undone.
I think Vicki and Briana have alluded to abuse in Vicki’s history at the hands of men, that would definitely make a daughter super protective.
That would also tend to make Brianna respect her mother less and try to control her mother. Clearly, Vickie and Bratianna have some issues that need to be dealt with in counseling. But Bratianna is a liar and she only cares for herself.
Great recap TT. Especially since I’m hours behind. You do an excellent job Aways
Ugh to the whole show and the whole season! “Heather has 13 bathrooms? I only have 12. That is so over the top!” Really Shannon?
She was being facetious.
She was being sarcastic.
I DO believe Brianna and I do think she and Vicki have a way to codependent relationship but still! So as a child, parent or friend, if our spidey senses get raised about someone intimately involved with a loved one, are we to just sit back and say nothing? Brooks gives me the creeps and I do wish Vicki the best. On one of her periscopes her friends even chimed in saying with relief they were happy Brooks was gone.
Cancer or not they were not a good fit IMO.
I thought Hailey’s mom Leann was Jim’s first wife and a woman named Allison was Jim’s second wife. Didn’t Jim leave Allison for Meghan?
I also thought that Hayley’s mom was Jim’s first wife. Also, Jim didn’t leave Allison for Meghan (as per Heather).
It was sad to watch this. Little drops of poison, little grains of spite.
Great recap. Sad for vicki.
I got a very different take away from the whole Brooks/Briana thing, but I have always leaned more toward her side of things anyway- regardless of my feelings of how the ladies mistreated Brooks about his cancer. I believe her. He comes off calculating and full of shit (not about the cancer, I really have put that issue away and don’t even care anymore) but about his recollection of things and his statements, they seem shady and unlikely.
It would have to be pretty low and disgusting for Briana to lie about what her nana told her just days before she passed, about not liking Brooks. I don’t see her as being capable of that. I don’t see her as a leech on her mom, I don’t think Vicki supports her, she says she gave her mom a sizable check for the car she gave as a gift, and while it’s very nice that Vicki visits often- that’s her choice and thankfully she’s in a position to do it to come see her grandkids.
That being said, it was really sad the way Vicki just glossed over the fact she’s literally never been single and never lived alone saying “it’s just how god made me”. He made you codependent? Cmon. Of course there are some people who just prefer always having a partner, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be alone ever. Something is wrong if you literally cannot be alone with yourself, without a man, for any sustained period of time. I hope she comes to a place where she can be single and be by herself, before she moves on to the next guy.
Maybe I have it wrong, but I thought Hayley’s mom was Jim’s first wife? Wasn’t there another wife in the middle? I didn’t think Jim left Hayley’s mom for Meghan, I thought he left the middle wife for her and their relationship time overlapped? Either way, I doubt it hurt Hayley- Meghan was hamming it up for the cameras. The whole interlude with Jim was so uncomfy “I love this person so much I’m willing to have more kids”. This “person”? What about this “woman”, or “my wife”? So impersonal.
When your a mother you accept a certain amount of responsibility to show respect for your children’s reputation as well as your own. Tamara going on tv while promoting her new found Christianity this year, and having a sex toy party complete with her wearing the dildo is just disgusting. How embarrassing for her children. Then you have Shannon screaming at the top of her lungs for all who will listen about her affair with no regards to her kids. These women have no right to say anything to Vicki about her life until they clean up their own homes. I am on the side of believing Brooks. But for arguments sake let’s say he doesn’t that still does not give this women the right to pry into someone’s personal business. I have a lot of health issues and never would I feel inclined to provide my lab results to family or friends if they doubted me for any reason. Why does he need to prove his illness to anyone, that’s such a private struggle.
Yea!!!!! My sentiment exactly!!!!!!!!!
One could almost equate the Vicki shaming to Cercei’s Naked Walk of Shame on the Game of Thrones! The expression on Vicki’s face is just like Cercei’s. They are pretty much stoning/spitting on Vicki throughout this reunion. Disgusting group of women. I agree with the other poster regarding OC becoming another NJ and ATL!
So I sort of get why Heather told the luncheon story and it goes like this.
Last year Shannon confided in Tamra about her marriage problems. Tamra blabs to Heather. David gets pissed at Shannon because people are gossiping. So Shannon is pissed at Tamra all last season for blabbing her mouth. So Heather gives this story of why it wasn’t really all Tamra’s fault.
So last year, Heather and Tamra film lunch where Tamra does blab.
But after filming Heather has real life lunch with other people who are gossiping about the affair as well. Someone at that lunch texts the mistress that Heather is talking about it. The mistress calls to complain about it to David. David texts Shannon to complain about heather gossiping. Shannon and Tamra were filming when David text Shannon. Shannon knows Heather and Tamra just filmed their lunch scene so is pissed at Tamra for blabbing.
In reality Tamra did blab and Heather is a gossiper so she didn’t REALLY clarify anything but to point out that all of OC knew of the affair.
Did that make sense how I explained it?
Yes, and that was my gold nugget of info from last night’s show. Heather had a pretend lunch with Tamra for the camera and then went to her “real friends’ table for her real luncheon. Reality TV, ummm, not so much.
Yes, thank you. That explains the big dramatic scene at Heather’s last year.
One of the especially disturbing things about last night’s episode was that Briana seemed so delighted to humiliate Vicki even further. She was smiling as if she had won a prize. Despite all her protestations of concern for Vicki, it seems like there is some pent up hatred/resentment there. It gave me a chill just watching how she was relishing every moment of the demoralization of her mother. I’ve never cared that much for Vicki over the years, but this season my heart has ached for her and all that she has gone through. It is so obvious that she is beaten down and broken by the circumstances of her life. Many of us have gone through such heartache – but thankfully, most of us didn’t have it displayed for public entertainment. Poor Vicki seemed to be in such a stupor last night.
As for Brooks – I have been one who has believed that he has been battling cancer. Many people seem to think he is a scumbag/conartist – he well may be, I don’t know anything about him other than what has been portrayed on the series – however, the worst people on earth can still fall ill with cancer. Why should mistakes of his past exclude him from receiving our prayers and well wishes in his health crisis of today?
I’ve stopped watching all the Housewives series except this one and when this reunion is over I am totally finished with them all. The entertainment value of seeing the ladies having fun, going on trips, indulging in extravagant nonsense in lovely homes has diminished into something akin to modern day gladiators in the arena. These Bravo shows have become an acceptable form of misogyny that is destructive to all of us. Women, who once had ordinary lives, have debased themselves and allowed their lives to be dismantled as a form of entertainment. In the process, marriages are destroyed, children damaged, reputations ruined. There is something sinister behind all this – and it gives me the creeps because it seems like that sinister element is laughing.
Agree!
Shannah.. PERFECTLY SAID!! i couldn’t agree with you more
Did Brianna, a nurse, actually refer to Brooks penis as “weewee?
I wonder what Michael has to say about his piece of work sister Briana. Vicki needs to live her life the way she wants and stop pandering to Briana who clearly doesn’t care about her mom. If Briana had an iota of decency she would have NEVER agreed to sit on that couch and berate her mom. This is truly the work of satan…..
This is a question for TT… I just saw the 20/20 piece on Brooks from 2012. That didn’t air in the UK. Is that for real??? If so, I didn’t realise he was that horrid! I just thought people were basing it on assumption, and the fact he was kinda creepy and smarmy!
Brooks was not on the show, just his disgruntled ex who had recently shown up on Brooks and Vicki’s doorstep. It was after she met Vicki that she went to the media.
ABC published the following retraction.
“The report said, among other things, that Ayers had left his former girlfriend Nicolette Catanzarite with unpaid medical bills relating to the birth of their son Joey in December 2008, that Ayers had not visited or communicated with Joey since he was 5 or 6 months old, and that Catanzarite had been unable to locate Ayers until he was first referred to on “Real Housewives” in 2011.
We want to clarify that Ayers’ insurance paid for most of Joey’s medical expenses arising from the birth, although not Catanzarite’s; that Ayers provided rent money and certain other expenses to Catanzarite for a time after Joey was born; and that Ayers saw Joey a number of times after their break-up in May 2009, the last being July or August 2010 when Joey was 19 or 20 months old. We also wanted to clarify that Ayers and Catanzarite have communicated periodically since that time, and that when Catanzarite was in California in January 2012, she met with Ayers and his girlfriend(Vicki). “
I’ve worked in two different adult novelty stores, I also have two children. My kids have no idea what I sell, they just know mom manages a store. My point being as a parent those kind of things are fine, just in a private setting.Tamra is a embarrassment to her children, she should never put anything like that out there. I feel bad for her children.
I like Vicki with short hair.
The End. ?
So is Brooks available? I’m buying my plane ticket now. Anyone else?
Shannon says that her children watch the show with her. Wow. I do not want my 13 year old watching the awful stuff televised.
Loved your blog, as always.
Maybe we should Megan King Edmonds call the HR department at the hospital where Brianna works to find out her pay scale,lol
Brianna is the perfect product of a hyper-controlling mom who wanted to be friends with her kids before being a parent. It’s funny to me people are surprised by Brianna’s bratty persona. Um, hello…where do y’all think she learned it from? Sadly, when the lines between parent and kid get blurred the result is zero boundries. Anyone care to remember the way Michael talked to Vicki in earlier seasons? And Vicki played it off like it didn’t happen. I would’ve kicked my boys’ asses to Mars! Now she sings his praises…only took him to age 30 but i think he’s getting it. LoL. I digress…
If Brianna and Vicki weren’t related they would never be friends. Period.
Gotta side with TT on this one: Brianna needs to respect her mom’s choices whether she likes them or not.
I’m continuously floored by how most of the kids get to act toward their parents on these shows. Not to date myself, as I am not that far off from their generation, but wow. That would not fly in my house. The parents try too hard to be the kid’s friend not their parent and spoiled little incompetents like Tamra’s Ryan are the result.
Oh, Lord…Ryan the Manchild.
Serious question:
Let’s say the *cancer reinactment* theory is true. Is it possible only V, B & Bravo knew about it and the rest of the ladies were not told about said reinactment so as to provoke *real* emotions, conflicts, etc.??? In this scenario it wouldn’t be so shocking that the others felt confused, betrayed.
Discuss…
These women are pathetic. Their wallets may be full, but their lives look very empty.
Brianna is not the type of gal to withhold any juicy and incriminating info about Brooks.
Supposed information about Brooks.
She hates him with a hate that burns like 1000 Coto de Caza Suns. Funny she never mentioned before about the “hitting on her” or the “Girth Brooks” incident.
She has sat on that couch previously and done her damnest to torpedo his reputation publically. It seems to me she would have mentioned all of this before.
And a practiced 6 figure ER nurse referring to it as a “ween ween”??
Oh, Felicia, puhleeze.
She brought both of those accusations up previously, they were said on the show and there were news articles about it two years ago in 2013.
Yep! She has said it over and over again. What we didn’t know was that Vickie told her “He would want you” to Brianna.
She has been referring to Brook’s malfeasance & his crude comments for the past four years on the show on WWHL in print & media ( albeit the lowest of the low tabloids) I have no dispute regarding his cancer but as far as his character is concerned he has been less than candid about his business his past history or treatment of both Vicki & Brianna…Am I to expect to believe that she & she alone is responsible for his character assassination? His behavoir is what caused the landslide of public opinion not Brianna’s omnipotence. I would never allow anyone on earth to speak to or treat my mother with such contempt misogynistic action’s, etc etc AD INFINITUM
Shae,BG—thanks for the info. I stand corrected; I did not know Brianna has brought the “Brooks wanted to expose himself to me” story before. I have to admit I don’t read news articles about Brianna.
I do find it odd that she called her Mothers friend about it.
So Brianna goes on national television and states her general salary as “six figures”. How crowded was human resources at her hospital today??? Every nurse that is not making “six figures” wants to know why! Isn’t talking about your salary a no-no for that reason?
To be honest, I thought that Brianna meant the household income… between her working two jobs as an E.R. nurse and his income as an active duty marine, their household should be doing quite well even if they don’t get anything from Bravo, and depending on his years of service and rank… their housing allowance could be taking care of that mortgage.
Can we stop bickering over an inconsequential fact of how much Brianna makes now?
I with you!
Thank you!
Definitely if she has two nursing jobs, that’s a no brainer.
Frankly, the only reason it was of consequence is because so many people are throwing accusations that briana and her husband live off vicki somehow lol. If I was a grown woman making great money and supporting my own family and people accused me of leeching off my mother I would be pissed too. Especially if the grounds for it was that she gifted me a car, which I paid her money for, and she flies out to see her grandkids whenever she can.
Wow, it amazes me when I see views that are so diametrically opposed. I am happy for Vickie who has people who believe her and support her. Everyone, needs support. It is outrageous that some who has cancer would be badgered as Brooks has been on this show. These women latched on to this an ran with it.
All of them seem to have had prior issues with Vickie (except Shannon) and decided to use this to get back at her. It is all calculated but to make Vickie the victim is hilarious. They are ALL apart of this debauchery.If you believe Brooks, Vickie didn’t want a diminished role (FOH) so she agreed to it. Maybe she thought she thought Brooks would get sympathy and they would accept him
Heather had nothing really interesting going on,the house was over budget and delayed and wanted everyone to forget how she and Terry acted last year this. Heather’s such the actress.
Meghan, the woman/child had really too much time on her hands.
Shannon, well she needed a break from her own drama and be apart of the “crew”. She’s a little looney.
Brianna and Tamra wanted Brooks out of Vickie’s life. They have always wanted that, and they both used each other for their goal. But I don’t understand all the hate for Brianna. Brianna faults Brooks for the break up of Vickie and Donn. She is still close to Donn, as that is the only one she considers her Dad. She was privy to Brooks and Vickie’s communications, while her mother was married and living as husband and wife, with Donn. NO ONE…NO ONE would ever be suitable in a situation like that to a ‘child’. (of any age)
Have a great day everyone….
@BG: I agree with you. I don’t get the Brianna hate, either, except that she has questionable taste in men. If she went overboard, I think it’s likely she was desperate to get through to her mom. I will never understand the love for Brooks. However, that doesn’t in any way excuse questioning his cancer. Whether he has it, had it, or never did, doesn’t matter.
“Jim says if Meghan wants a kid he supposes he could shoot some sperm into her”.
Haha!!
We have to keep it quiet before they find us. lol
I just finished watching and these women are just horrible. Poor Vicki.
I got such a thrill watching Heather squirm in the hot seat. She is such a sneaky shrew and should have been smacked for the way she talked to Vicki. Brianna is scum.
I would be super-pissed if my grown children (not there yet) interferred in my relationships, and i extend that courtesy to my divorced parents. What they do is not my biz unless they ask me to get involved and then it is kinda creepy as I do know understand dating and sex at the elderly age. Brianna should not treat her mother like a child, and Vicki should set up a situation where she will have a boyfriend and family fighting over her just to validate her existance.