First, Sonja just posted this photo of her with Tiffany “New York” Pollard. New York has been shooting a new show for VH-1 where she has brunch with random D list celebrities. The show is called Brunch with Tifanny.
I suppose my question for you is basically WTF? I just can’t process this. It seems just more evidence that the entire world has gone mad.
Another thing I need to have explained to me is Kelly Bensimon. Does she have a job? I recently figured out how I can follow people on IG without having a phone and have been following Kelly since around the time of Luann’s wedding. Almost every day she posts a new photo of herself in a previously unseen bikini usually on a beach in Florida. At the end of January she seemed to be back in NYC briefly where she posted photos of her soaking in a marble tub, lounging around her beautiful apartment, and going to a basketball game. Then she took her father to London. Today she is posting photos of herself in Mexico. Is she there now? I just checked out her website. Perhaps that is her source of income? It’s quite a lovely website. That would allow her to work anywhere. She seems to be hawking lots of product there. She is likely paid to wear all of those bikinis. If I had her money and her figure, I’d buy them all. Anyway, it just seems crazy to me how much time she spends on the beach. It looks like a fabulous life. I just realized I have no idea how she pays for all of this. Do we have a Kelly expert here? Oh and she want us to know she is not in fact crazy. I also want to know who she is with because someone has to take all of those photos. I guess I’m just intrigued with Kelly.
The other thing I am wondering about is Phaedra’s new house. I’m already getting reports from the neighborhood, and she hasn’t even moved in yet. Apparently, there is trash all over the yard and a very large dumpster is in front of the house. I assume she is going to do some renovations on the place. It’s been a few months but no one has seen any work going on. She doesn’t seem to be in any rush to move. I have heard that the reason she is moving is because she wanted a gate and her local community blocked her from doing that. But that was in 2014. As with all things Phaedra, this just seems Phunky. I’ll let you know when she phinishes her Phortress by Phaedra.
I’m just really scatterbrained today. I’m going to try to focus on a topic soon. I thought maybe sharing some of the things have me scratching my head today would help me move on to the next story. Especially if y’all can make sense of any of this.
I unashamedly admit I watched the first two seasons of Flavor of Love (I have no idea how many seasons there ended up being) starring Tiffany (New York). I liked her. If she was acting she did a good job because she really seemed to like Flav. Her mom came on the show second season after Tiffany was brought in mid second season warning her she was making a fool of herself and Flav would only embarrass her again – which he did. I suppose just going on a show to for a date should be enough public humiliation, but you have to be a special type of fakewhore or gold digger to be competing for Flava Flav. I didn’t watch her spin off.
I’d watch this show. I remember her having some wit and a lot of attitude. It’d be interesting to see how she interacts w her guests.
I thought Kelly Bensimon got a pretty nice divorce settlement. I’d venture to guess she may also receive child support. Kelly seems to not spend as lavishly as others and her ex – I don’t know anything about photographers but I knew his name so I’m guessing he was/is pretty successful.
Yeah, I watched Tiffany on Flavor of Love, and I watched her spin off. It was cute and she was never too prissy to try any of the adventures she was sent on, on her show. As far as Kelly goes, her ex Gilles Bensimon is no lightweight and I’m sure he takes very good care of her and their children. Perhaps she invested some of her modeling money? I don’t know but good for her. I’d love that kind of lifestyle. It may not be the norm but I do know some folks willingly take care of their ex forever. Sometimes the love and care remains forever, just not romantically.
I always liked New York too!
Maybe Kelly went to the Guidice School of Finance.
From what I understand, she’s always worked, really close to children’s father, and NOTHING like Guidices. At least that is what I remember and she’s said. No reason to doubt her.
No reason to doubt her? Who was that on Scary Island? She was spaced completely the fuck out. She was also sued for copying the designs of another jewelry line and arrested for punching someone in the face. So, yeah, no reason to doubt her.
Yeah, sorry, I shouldn’t have posted that comment. I didn’t know enough to say shit. My bad. Big girls can admit when they mess up. 🙂
I’m not saying the woman is doing shady financial stuff but imo she is 100% a nutjob.
None of this surprises me. Sonja would pretty much go to the opening of an envelope.
Kelly’s primary job post Housewives seems to be featuring her wonky boobs in a bikini on a beach in Miami or running down the middle of the streets of Manhatten.
As for Phaedra…well, Phaedra.
I’ll be on the look out for her show. I always thought she was funny and liked her personality more when she wasn’t on a “competition” type show.
Kelly had a very successful modeling career many years ago, that should have earned her a good chunk of change. If she invested well and lives within her means, she should be set financially.
She really didn’t do a hell of a lot with her modeling career. Very successful is definitely a stretch. I know she is well cared for by her ex above and beyond her alimony. He cares for his children and he knows she’s a bit off (to put it nicely) so he watches over her and takes good care of her.
Kelly’s finances are a curiosity. She’s rich on paper, at least. She sold that Hamptons house for about $10m or $12m a couple years ago, and presumably downsized. I think the house was her only settlement in the divorce, other than child support.
Despite that, she claimed to be broke a couple of years ago. She did a sale of all her old furniture, caught some heat for not giving any cash to charity, and promptly pled poverty. I think her version of broke might be different to most….
I think she still has a book deal and her jewelry line, and her website is amazing. She’s selling some really high-end brands. Someone has evidently been persuaded to throw some money at that to develop the ecommerce/marketplace angle, I doubt it was her brainchild, so perhaps she’s got investor money to fritter away now.
I actually liked Kelly. I found her delusion extremely funny and pretty harmless, and the show was fairly innocent when she was on compared to now. That said, I liked it as even more when Bethenny tagged her “Kelly BeenSomeone” on Twitter last year!
Thank Johnny. I always trust and believe your intell, I’m really not up on all things Kelly she was before my bloggin time.
Her Manhattan condo is worth about the same. Evidently her father is some big time attorney that guided her in managing her modeling money. I believe Kelly was the face of Saks for many years and her career was very successful. Gilles is also very rich.
BINGO! Her Dad loves her. Plus she was genetically blessed with beauty. Definitely bat shit crazy, too.
She also received her apartment in NYC which is in the same building as her ex, Gilles who watches over her and the children since she isn’t playing with a full deck.
Yes, this is what I’ve heard, too. Her apartment is in the same building as her ex, Gilles by design so he can help keep tabs on her since she has mental issues & they have two young daughters together.
Doesn’t Andy Cohen have Kelly’s The Bikini Book proudly on display in the clubhouse? I could never stand her. She seems really flakey and seems clouded in bad publicity. Maybe she didn’t beat her ex’s behind but it sure seems like she stole those owl jewelry designs and hawked them as her own. Sorry to the Bethenny haters but she really put Kelly in her place. Now Tiffany New York Pollard I just love. I will be watching for that show. Her spin off created the Real and Chance spin offs. RIP Real.
I have no shame in admitting I watched Tiffany on Flavor of Love. After Season 2, I realized she was just an actress placed by producers on the show. She was the only reason I watched and she made the show funny in the most ratchet way possible. I couldn’t stand her stringy weave and chain smoking though. I only watched a couple of episodes of the next 15, but I lost interest. Did they ever make that talk show? lol The whole concept of that show was wack IMO. I only watched to see how Claudia Jordan can rub 2 pennies together. Hopefully her talk show? is better. They should have named this show Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but I wonder if it would infringe on trademarks. I may watch it for shits and giggles.
Actress or not, when pumpkin spit in tiffanys face…shit was about to be very real. The show was crazy and then in the end Flav was in a relationship with one of his baby mamas the whole time? Flav was very sexually physical with a lot of the girls.
There’s a where are they now piece for the flavor love girls that’s pretty good. Many ended up with rappers and professional athletes.
VH1 is currently airing a marathon of The Flavor of Love.
Her body doesn’t look good. Stupid fake boobs and I can’t stand seeing pelvic bone. Pull the bottoms up!!
Oh Ktina, love her or hate her, her body’s the very least of her problems. I’d take it. Minus the wonky boobs. 😉
Her body is strange looking to me too—and I’m just saying this because she posts SO many bikini pics. Yes her boobs are wonky and she has no waist. I think she would look amazing in a sexy one piece—-it would look way better on her than all the bikinis she always wears. IMO
I added two videos of Sonja and New York to the end of this post. I can’t wait to hear what you think.
I will never be able to eat cookie dough from a tube again. Le sigh.
OMG. I know, right? So much ickiness about this.
Last year on Memorial Day weekend, I was at a bar around midnight when I got a notification that Kelly “liked” one of my (old) pictures on IG that was about the RHONY and I just thought it was funny, like, “this is what Kelly Bensimone’s currently doing on Memorial Day weekend at midnight, she’s on her phone looking up pictures with the RHONY hashtag”. I just pictured her all drunk and sad looking up RHONY hashtags on instagram saying to herself “that used to be me! I was on that show!”
That’s hilarious !! I wonder if she thought about that at all. LOL
Kelly has an odd look to where her legs attach to her torso, it is almost like boy hips – look at the pic Tamara posted and you’ll see what I mean. Well, she’s skinnier than I am so if weird leg attachment is the worst she has going on, good for her.
I liked Tiffany back in the day but that woman who played her mother was frightening. I remember “Mother Patterson” grilling Tailor Made on whether he thought Tiffany would “pass.” Really? That’s just embarrassing.
Can anyone help refresh my memory regarding Tiffany Pollard? I’m thinking she was pregnant on Mother/Daughter Experiment and her whack job of a mom Sister Patterson wouldn’t accept that she was pregnant. Wtf happened with that?
Lol, that’s Family Therapy. Crazy mom. Really liked Tiffany after that.
Thank you! Evidently I’ve watched so much reality TV that they’re all starting to run together in my mind. Lol
Also, Eden is just weird and I expected the daughter of Vidal Sassoon to have better hair! It looks fried!
I was just now able to view the videos. I realize Sonja and Tiffany will do anything for a buck but that vagina brunch was just gross and bizarre even for those two.