I always find it interesting when a housewife gives a an interview to a media outlet and spends the majority of their time talking about another housewife. There are reasons this happens. Either they are clapping back at someone they are in a feud with, or they are asskissing one or more housewives to secure their spot on the show.
Camille Grammer recently gave an interview to a UK publication called Daily Star. She talked about coming back on the show after her fight with cancer to use the show as a platform for her endometrial cancer foundation for a second and then launches into a full dissertation on the virtues of Kyle and LVP. Is it me or is this complete asskissery? It’s more than “I really get along best with Kyle and LVP because we started the show together.” It’s total overkill. The third and final topic of her interview was about the opulence of Beverly Hills. Am I the only one that finds this kind of crazy?
First she praises Kyle:
“I’m very excited to be back. It feels great. I’m not sure if it’s the first episode or not, but I come back into the group and it feels great. I really enjoy Kyle Richards, she’s a friend and I enjoy spending time with her and Lisa Vanderpump. I feel that they’re the core of the show from the beginning. They’re very strong individuals. They have interesting lives, they have interesting storylines. Kyle’s a fantastic mum. Lisa Vanderpump, what she’s done with her philanthropy work is outstanding. We’ve been through a lot. We’ve been through heaven and hell together so you create a bond when you’ve gone through so much.”
Then she belauds LVP:
“I think the audience, they relate to these women and look up to them as strong women who do a lot and give back. Lisa Vanderpump can take the piss out of things. She has a very funny sense of humour – I guess that’s the British sense of humour. It’s wonderful. And her life is very lavish. She brings that aspect to the show, that glamour.”
This lets us know without a doubt that Camille will be on team Kyle and LVP. I think Kyle and LVP also are the most cordial to newcomer Teddi. Rinna and Erika are thick as thieves this year. But what about Dorit? I have a feeling that Dorit tries to be the bone carrier this season. I think she will be closer with Rinna and Erika at first and that will piss off LVP. Both Camille and LVP have a fall out with someone this season. Probably Erika.
The six wives seem to have two strong couples LVP and Kyle (who sort of play nice with Teddi) and Erika and Rinna (who sort of play nice with Dorit). Those two even went to Toyko together without the others.
Who do you guys think teams up this season? I still don’t know who Erika refers to when it comes to cutting the head off the snake. Do you think that is LVP?
I don’t know. Ur I like all five of the ladies, I don’t know Dorit or Teddi. Individually and as “couples they seem like they would be fun and good friends, Camille would fit on with with two if she chose to.
Possibly need a sit down with Rinna and Kyle to tell them not to talk about me, ha ha.
Erica seems to be very wise at times.
I missed most of last season so things might have changed.
TT, i hate to complain again but these “award” things that take over when i’m on this site are making me nuts.
Fuck. That didn’t last long. Can you email me a screen shot at tamaratattle at g mail. It will help us with the struggle. Also let me know what browser and device you are on. I presume it is iPhone and safari but just need to double check.
It is Safari. It happens to me all of the time. Sometimes 3-4 times when trying to read one story! I’ll send you a screenshot too. Do you just need one?
I’ll take them all.
Hi. I use iPhone too, but I’m signed up for email updates from TT. I click the links in the emails to read the posts. So I’m reading the posts thru my email app (yahoo in this case), instead of a browser, and I never get pop ups. Just thought I’d mention that in case it helps anyone.
I cleared my safari history in settings and no more pop-ups! Disclaimer: I suck at all things technology so this may just be coincidence and have nothing to do with history clearing.
Same problems. Have I phone. Soo frustration w excellent writing
I love Erika and Rinna.
I wish Kyle would see LVP for the person she is.
That fake accent grifter is back? She ruins RHOBH for me.
Kyle has seen LVP’s true color a long time ago and even called her out.
Now she just chooses to accept it and roll with it as she probably doesn’t want to be grilled by LVP’s fans, you know they can be vapid just like LVP herself.
You seriously think she is worried about LVP fans?
I think Kyle is sensitive, emotional, has a good heart and pretty much seems to try to get on people’s good side.
I LOVE LVP, Kenya and Kandi? I hate the rest?
I dunno. I think since Mauricio’s enormous success Kyle has had a friendship with Lisa as equals in Beverly Hills. For what it’s worth that’s how things often are among the wealthy.
Kyle’s having her own success as a producer now, too. Good for her.
Kyle and Mauricio’s new home is beautiful, too – I’m hoping they’ve filmed in it so we get to see it this season, although I think the sale only completed recently so perhaps not.
It’s the exact opposite of LVP’s Pepto-pink palace – understated, elegant, and charming. The type of place that still feels like a family home even though it’s the size of a Target. They have real class!
Maurico and Kyle have had more money than LVP since the show began. They just don’t flaunt it.
LVP is trying to keep up appearances and seems to spend all of her money on legal fees.
Really?? They, being Lisa and Ken, seem the type to have assets and investment returns coming in from all over the world.. I feel like with Lisa and Ken you never really know how theyre making their money (not including the restaurants/tv shows)
Is it just me or is Camille just living in a bubble? I know the other women are, with possibly the exception of Erika-she actually seems like she gets that all the glamour and money are bullshit and she’s going to laugh and enjoy it until it’s gone. She’s really the only one I can stand. But do we ‘look up to LVP and Kyle’? I sure the hell don’t! I think they’re exactly the kind of women I’d avoid at a gathering. Snobby, always trying to have more or be more than everyone else (Kyle is passive aggressive with it, except for with her sister then she’s just aggressive) and making nasty remarks about people who are supposed to be their friends?
Nope, I’m just fine with my real friends who love and support each other. Those women may have more money than we do, maybe, but I wouldn’t be in their shoes for any amount of money.
I’ll wear my own Louboutins and drive my own sports car and meet my ladies at the Cracker Barrell and have a fabulous time! And not a single person will notice those red bottoms…and I don’t care a whit!
TT hope you are doing better.
I cannot stand Lisa R. She is like a worm….slime. I think Lisa V. is as fake as fake can possibly get. Love Erika. What you see is what you get. Kyle is by far the most sensitive of all the ladies and regardless what anyone says I don’t think she has a mean bone in her body other than the times she was not so kind to her sister Kim. Am so glad to see Camille back. Mainly because she got dumped on so much the past few years which seems to have brought her down a notch or two and frankly I just like the pretty lady. Dorit is my lady of fashion. I always study what she is wearing.
I think Camille’s loyalty to Kyle and Lisa V. is genuine. She’s known them forever and they stood by her when Kelsey treated her like shit. She’s never been a very down-to-earth person, which is a vibe I get from Kyle despite her wealth, but she was always entertaining. I’d like to see more of her. Lisa V. can do no wrong with me because of her soft heart for animals, neither can Ken. Erika and Lisa R. as a tight duo? That should also be worth watching. Dorit has never grown on me – I find her voice and accent irritating, along with her hubby. Seems like this show has been off the air forever. By the way, just read some great news – they’re talking about bring Mob Wives back. Love, love, loved that show, even if some of the younger additions irritated the pee out of me. Loved Renee, Drita and Big Ang. The show will be missing a huge personality and peacemaker without Ang, but should still be well worth watching.
I didn’t watch it but was familiar with Ang….didn’t she pass away?
This is one Bravo show that I look forward to. I have missed this show (with the exception of Doriit) and
really look forward to Erica Jane, Kyle (she has always been one of my favorites) and Lisa Rinna. To this day I believe Kyle completely over Camille about the fight they had 1st season. It made me dislike Camille immensely and I guess I never got over it. So I can take or leave her. LVP, true love/hate relationship. But I will always watch her. Look forward to your great recaps for the show.
Merry Christmas, Tamara. Hope you are feeling better. 🙂
I always liked Camille. Especially, her house on the hill. (I hear she sold it). I found it so beautiful.
Not a Dorit fan at all. I do like Erika, though.
Camille banging on about LVP and Kyle. I’m from the South. Married and lived in California for a number of years. The difference in culture is what your noticing TT. In the South we will help you, we will give you the shirt off our back, but screw us over and we won’t spit on you if you’re fire. In California I never saw so many people screw over their ‘best friend’ (really bad stuff too) and the friend get over it and continue to associate with the person because there was something the friend had that the best friend wanted or needed. It is a culture based on ‘how can knowing you benefit me’ not the loyalty based culture of the South (which is dying out I think). Kyle’s attitude about LVP totally reflects this summation. I think Erika being a Southern woman is different and doesn’t cotton to the ‘user’ culture of California so much. She has her limits of being used or screwed over no matter the cost or the loss of a friend’s influence. LVP and others expect her to get over stuff like pantygate (which she probably had to answer some hard questions from her hubby) and bow to the queen bee. I don’t see this happening. Dorit is so thirsty and will crawl up anyone who will get her what she wants whether another season, gig or party invite. She’s like nails on a chalkboard.
Erika being friendly with Rinna is odd since Rinna went after Yolanda hard on Munchhausens. So much for southern values.
I belong in the South.
TT what happened to the MDLLA recap???? 🙂
Given the source, are we sure this is a genuine interview and not a rehash of old quotes? Daily Star are pretty much known for just making shit up, and I can’t imagine why Camille would consent to an interview with them and not the Daily Mail or even The Sun.
Regardless of that, my only hope for this season is that it’s more fun than last season. The whole ridiculous Pantygate scenario, plus the ludicrous additions of Eden and Dorit, were awfully tedious last year. It also became too easy for the other women to paint Rinna as unhinged – Dorit was on her case for weeks alluding to a drug problem over the Xanax smoothies, and LVP and Kyle chimed in after Rinna brought PK into it with the “do you trust your husband?” thing, so I hope this year Rinna stops her incessant need to be center of attention so that they go after someone else. I didn’t enjoy watching Rinna seal her own fate, because I like her so much, and these other women are all far more calculated than her in terms of choosing their moment to throw out the accusations – she need to think before she speaks.
I doubt LVP will go after Erika yet. She’s still too popular – LVP only attacks the other women when their popularity with viewers Ian on the wane (as Brandi, Kyle, and Yolanda have all mentioned during past reunions). Plus, Kyle and Erika formed a good friendship last season and went to Greece together, so LVP will have to play nice until a better opportunity arises to take Erika down.
I suspect Dorit will start off on good terms with everybody from what we’ve seen in the previews, but she’s the one with the most to hide and one of the most provocative (Rinna and Erika have history with her, and it seems like she and Kyle have a difficult moment this season), so I think she’ll end up being Public Enemy Number 1. That could be wishful thinking though!
Nice Camille will never work on this show. Bring back Season One Camille or she will remain a “friend of”.
Please tell me there will be absolutely NO Kim Richards. She makes my brain hurt too much so I had to stop watching years ago (after the Hawaii trip when she brought her boyfriend Ken?).
The thing is, I think Kim would pretty much be off the show by now if it wasn’t for Rinna. Last year, it seemed like the producers planned to trot Kim out, talk about how sober she is and how she’s going to be a great grandmother, give her the check she so desperately needs, then put her back in her box. We’d have seen her once or twice, max.
But no. Rinna had to go blabbing to Eden that Kim was “close to death” and Kyle is an “enabler”. At that point, I don’t think the producers had any choice but to give Kim a right to reply (especially as Kyle made it clear at the reunion she’s fed up of being expected to answer for her sister all the time). The terms Rinna used were so powerful and loaded that it would have been disgusting not to give Kim that much, regardless of her past.
I hope Rinna can finally move on from Kim and Amsterdam this season – it’s been years already, and if she doesn’t she’ll lose Kyle’s friendship. Kyle was mad af about the “meal ticket” comment at the reunion, so I’m curious to see if she and Rinna are on good terms this season (I haven’t watched social media closely enough to know if they’re still friendly on there). I want to see Kyle and Rinna getting along, and Kim can go disappear into boozy oblivion and the land of turtles – if only Rinna keeps those lips zipped!
Exactly! I remember reading all about “Bunny-gate” (last year?). So f**king childish and ridiculous. I think I would actually enjoy a franchise with an all adult/mature cast. I want to see glamour, mansions, obscene walk-in closets, fancy restaurants, beautiful scenery, parties, lots of fun and loads of laughter. Didn’t we get that mostly in the first two or three seasons, or was I dreaming?
Bunnygate was so freakin’ strange! The whole exchange about a stuffed toy between Rinna and Kim was surreal enough, but then Andy Cohen and some of the ‘Wives spent weeks talking about it afterwards – they really consumed this ugly moment in the most gleeful way, and it felt so dark and weird.
I think Erika is the best hope for this show, because she tries hard to keep the other women and the cameras at arms-length and focus her air-time on her glam squad, music, fashion etc. I wish Bravo would realize the reason she’s such a hit with audiences is because she gives us what we want to see – an honest look at a lifestyle that’s fun, frivolous, and – in her words – “XXpen$ive” (instead of desperately getting into every conflict going for screen time).
” At that point, I don’t think the producers had any choice but to give Kim a right to reply (especially as Kyle made it clear at the reunion she’s fed up of being expected to answer for her sister all the time)”
Yes, because reality show producers are all about what is fair and just.
LOL! Perhaps I was being too generous in assuming that her inclusion is out of some kind of loyalty to Kim (or perhaps Kyle).
I guess ultimately it’s because she always gets a rise out of Rinna, and gives them the conflict they need. That probably means they’ll keep booking her, especially after Bunnygate – I hope Rinna has the sense not to give her the reaction she wants if so.
I’d do everything I could to block her from the show if I was Kyle, but perhaps she thinks that filming gives Kim some structure. The money must be badly needed too (especially if Kyle and Kathy are still having to support her financially?).
As long as Kyle is on the show Kim will be on the show.
I’m looking forward to seeing Erika and Rinna hamming it up. Those are my two faves! I will always love Rinna in Melrose Place. I think Dorit will continue to be one of the least favorite hw’s. She just isn’t likable. Can’t stand LVP. So phony. It’s so obvious how envious LVP is of Erika! She wants to be young, beautiful, fun, rich and famous just like Erika. Has anyone noticed Erika is doing Too Faced mascara ads? Good for her!
LVP is so transparent too. Don’t the other housewives see what she’s doing? I’m sure they do but just don’t have the guts to stand up to her-case in point Kyle.
If this interview is true then it validates my indifference about whether or not Camille returns to full time status on the show because I loved season 1 Camille and I know she’ll never appear again.
What made season 1 Camille great was that she truly had zero Fs(to take a line from Ericka). She felt like an equal or maybe even superior to both Kyle and LVP and so she spoke & behaved without reservation which what made her great. It’s actually what made that 1st season great!
Writing this just made me realize why seasons 1-3 of all of the early franchises are so great and it’s because the women hadn’t figured out the game yet and so they did not arrive on the show with an agenda. Even master manipulator LVP was lost and floundering on Season 1 and that was probably the most we saw of her “real” life and personality. She began playing chess season 2 and rest is history. Now that everyone is super aware of the cameras, social media and campaigning to be fan favorite, the shows are not the same anymore but at least RHOBH and RHONY are better actresses and can make it feel more real and be more entertaining than the others.
All that said, I’m still looking forward to the season premier tomorrow and interested to see where Dorit and the new wife land by they end of the season because the other alliances *cough* friendships are set.
PK or Dorit (I forget which) posted a photo of Dorit looking inebriated and pretty much licking Vanderpump’s face on Saturday night, so their alliance is stronger and creepier than ever. YAWN.
I think you’re right about the influence of social media on RHOBH, particularly with Vanderpump. I noticed when I re-watched last season just how often she brings up how many “followers” her rivals have, and I remember Brandi talking about how she drops friends when she sees them getting a hard time online. Can you imagine being nearly 60 and obsessing over how many people follow you on Twitter? Sad!
I know right?! It’s sad and I had forgotten LVP mentioned social media followers so thanks for that reminder. I like LVP somewhat but I used to love her seasons 2-4 and though I know she’s a staple to the show, part of me would like to see her leave because I think it would be like hitting a “reset” button because she seems so obsessed with being “the queen” her refusal to open up continues to affect the show.
I hate to have to admit that Brandi was spot on! If she could keep come control I would like to see her back to ruffle LVP’s feathers but since she got physical with Kyle I doubt that would happen. If Brandi can make up Kyle she would have a chance at a return to the show.
As for Dorit and Peekaboo K, I was hoping that Dorit would have learned from last season to do her own thing and not try and be LVP’s solider going after Ericka and Rinna but that post you saw shows I’m wasting my hope, lol.
Here’s to hoping for an entertaining season!
By the way, I can’t wait to see where Dorit and PK are living these days, because I believe the house they presented as home last season was a rental right?
That’s a good question about their house. I know it’s for sale, and that Mauricio had the listing.
It appears to be owned by Sam Nazarian, the guy who owns the SLS hotels, but PK has claimed in interviews that they own it together and are splitting their proceeds. It’s a strange claim, like much of what PK says.
I vaguely recall getting a link that the rental sold and they had to move. I can’t be sure of that, but that is in the back of my empty brain rattling around for some reason. I’m sure they will rent something else and pretend to own it. I think that it was Boy George that was renting the house from last season and they were just staying at his place because he is there so rarely.
I had to return to this thread because I just read an interview with Kyle where she says Kim isn’t on Season 8 at all, because she has “stuff going on in her personal life” and “didn’t want to do it”. Perhaps she’s finally doing her community service?!
This will be the first season of RHOBH where Kim isn’t featured at all, right? I think it’ll be really interesting to see where the show goes this year: Kim and Kyle’s family stuff is finally off the show, the dominating Vanderpump vs. Yolanda storyline is now done, and without Eileen I think Rinna and Vanderpump will “go along to get along”. It seems like this is the first time RHOBH hasn’t had some deep long-term bitterness poisoning the entire season, so I think we might be in for some real fun this year! Looking forward to the premiere tomorrow.