Speaking of people who take any TV time they can get, my girl Lisa Rinna is in the Bahamas to do Live With Kelly & Ryan. In general, you don’t get paid to be on these shows. They fly you out, and put you up in a nice hotel for the night and in this case comp your meals and that is about it. People do the show to promote their own shows. Bravo may have provided a small amount to Rinna for publicizing the show but that is about it. Nene and Rinna are always the first in line for these opportunities. They are both hustlers.
Lisa and Harry Hamlin will have been married for 21 years next month. Kelly asks what the secret is. Rinna jokes that she is the third wife, so maybe the third time is the charm. Rinna says they also have absolutely nothing in common. He’s like an astronaut into rockets and astrophysics and she is into shopping. She says Harry Hamlin’s father was a rocket scientist and built the Saturn 5. See? We are learning a lot already boys and girls. Harry has an energy company named Tri-Alpha and they are going to save the world. Kelly wants to know if Harry Hamlin is there. And he is! Rinna says he is on the property somewhere. Kelly asks if he is in a swimsuit somewhere and begins looking around for him. Ha!
Rinna talks about wearing the long hair on WWHL. She says it was weird and fun because it didn’t feel like her and she got to be someone else for a bit. Kelly says it was a fun look but Rinna is the icon of short hair and it just isn’t the same without her iconic style. I agree. Rinna says she is just lazy because the style is so easy. Harry lets her know when she starts to look like Darth Vader it’s time for a trim.
Oh maybe it’s Days of Our Lives that is sending her out. She talking about returning to that now. Kelly says when she was first hired on All My Children, her mother was happy for her but really wished she was on DOOL because that is her favorite show. Rinna says it is like coming home, nothing has changed. It’s true. There are people on that show that have been on for forty years or more!
You know Rinna insisted on bringing the clip of her with the girls in Tokyo talking about her book. I’m telling you she’s good. That book just got a second printing because it sold out after the show. Ryan wants to know the biggest takeaway from the book. Oh, Ryan. You are not doing anything to quell those persistent rumors, dear. Rinna says the book has techniques from a sex therapist that are, “out of this world, basically.” I can hear the Amazon book sales cha-chinging as I type.
Rinna says the RHOBH are not an easy bunch to hang out with. Kelly says she thinks it is the most challenging group to work with out of all of the franchises. Rinna says they are very clever and sneaky. Ryan suggests the word ‘manipulative’ and Rinna says she is not going to use that word because she is “nice Rinna” right now. Rinna says this season she has started a new chapter in her life, her girls are modeling and she wants to be a good example for them. She says this season she is going to let the other girls fight it out. Kelly asks who the irritating househusband is this year. Rinna asks the audience what they think and we hear a chorus of, “PK!” This sucks because this will make Bravo think he is a love to hate character when he is really just a character we all hate. Kelly says, “Oh, same as last year then.” Ryan says he knows PK in real life and has known him and Dorit for years. As they are being played off, Rinna tells Ryan, “He’s going to love that plug, honey.” Exactly. We don’t need to pump his bloated British ego up any farther.
And that ‘s the end of the interview. We didn’t get a thing out of it. At least Nene mixed in a bit of tea if you knew what you were listening for.
As a Union member (Screen Actors Guild) you most definitely get paid any time you appear on screen. The rate isn’t much…somewhere around $500. Performers often spend more money getting to a particular gig than they receive for actually appearing on screen. Many performers donate this “minimal” payment or some, like Rosie O’Donnell once did, will gift it to a particular person. Rosie once donated her Appearance Fee (that’s how it’s billed; as an Appearance Fee) to a particularly deserving page she met on some talk show or another. But as a Union member, you absolutely get paid whenever you appear on a Union project. FYI
Forgive me, I didn’t realize we were counting lunch money as something worth mentioning. And while Rinna and Nene both have SAG cards, most housewives do not.
I worked at CNN in Atlanta, specifically I worked in booking and NO guests that were not employed by the network were paid for appearances. CNN paid for a car service but never paid appearance fees, even celebrities. Most celebrities appeared to promote their projects. Maybe it is different for talk shows like “Kelly and Ryan” but CNN never paid celebrities.
Agreed. I’m a SAG-AFTRA board member and what’s messed up — you’ll only get about 20% of that after manager’s fee (20%), agent fee (10%), publicists’ fee (5%) and Uncle Sam’s take — you end able to purchase yourself a Venti Chai Latte at Starbucks. What’s more important are your contributions to pension & health credits.
I’m going to disagree with you re: most housewives aren’t members — I believe a majority are due to their outside projects.My guesstimates are the following: ATL- Porsha, Nene, Kandi, Kenya, Kim NYC- Carol, Beth, Sonja OC: Heather, Gretchen BH- LVP, Kyle, Pat da Puss, Camille,
oh and Rinna & Eileen
Your disagreement is noted. As wrong.
I vomit a little in my mouth every time I see her. Makes me ill
Perhaps you should try to find another channel that doesn’t have such a negative effect on you. I’d think watching someone who makes you vomit could be seen as an eating disorder. You might need to see someone about that. I have hundreds of channels on my TV!
I didn’t say I watched now did I? And yes, I have plenty of other channels that I watch. I don’t watch anything with her on it!
So commenting about her or seeing the painting of her at the beginning of this post doesn’t make you sick? such a weird illness
You seem to talk about her a lot. It’s like she has this odd control over you and your digestive system! She’s powerful, that Rinna.
I seem to talk about her a lot? Since when? I believe last time I commented on her was like months ago when I said she need to eat a cheeseburger because she looked so skinny it was unhealthy skinny!
Thank you, Tamara. Well said. By the way, love the portrait of Lisa. It’s very hard to paint with such bold strokes and still end up with such a good likeness.
Many Housewives are content to float along on their husband’s money, NTTAWWT but I’ve always admired Rinna’s extreme hustle. She works HARD for the money!
I have not watched DOOL for years – maybe since right after she left the show as Billie!!! Is Jennifer Aniston’s dad still on it? Grew up on it, before there were VCRS. My mom and grandma watched it (so did my granddad, but he probably wouldn’t admit it)
Have to say, I loved Billie and Bo just as much as Hope and Bo, and THAT is saying something!
Yep Victor is still there and a key role. Stephano died in REAL LIFE a year or so ago so he is finally good and dead. Tony is dead, or currently dead. Andre is allegedly dead but the funeral has a closed casket. I am a few days behind to he may have resurrected. I hope Thao who plays Tony and Andre isn’t done! But he has been traveling the world for months… and I can’t get him to tell me on Twitter. lol.
When I was in college in the early 80s, pre VCR, my class schedule was arranged around Days of Our Lives and Young and the Restless!
When I was in college in the early 80s, pre VCR, my class schedule was arranged around Days of Our Lives and Young and the Restless!
Decades go I had a good friend I was not allowed to call when her soap was on & I did not understand her addition, so when All My Children debuted I watched the initial episode & got hooked. Later, when I became a professor I never taught a class at the time it was on. I kept a radio that receive tv channels in my office & listened to the show there. After retirement, my husband & I left the U.S. to go cruising in our sailboat & my daughter would periodically send me tapes of the show so I could keep up. After returning to the U.S. I tried watching again, but there had been too many character changes & I found it boring–just couldn’t get back into it again, but it had been my guilty pleasure for a very long time.
So is Andre some sort of twin to Tony? Thao Penglis, right? How the hell did I remember that he is Tony? (Maybe because he was such a hottie!)
I’m so sad that the actor that played Stephano died!
I got a large portion of my dorm HOOKED one year. This was the Jack and Jennifer years – I think we ended the school year with them getting married or escaping something on a fire truck? Its hazy.
It came on at 3 PM, so it was perfect in that a lot of people had already had all their classes. Watch Days for an hour, go back to your room to assess what to study that night (or on a Friday, what to wear and where to go), maybe nap, and head to dinner.
At the height of the dorm watching, we’re talking about 20-30 people watching. It was so much fun as we’d all yell or cheer at the TV when something dramatic would happen.
I was a Guiding Light fan and really miss it. I’m told that my great-grandmother used to listen to it on the radio. Perhaps this is a good time to get into DOOL because I love Rinna. It would be a lot easier to keep up with it with On Demand.
I’m always surprised how many people don’t like Rinna and Bethenny on this site. I wonder if they are the same people. Like, if you are Team Bethenny are you also Team Rinna? And if you are Team Vicki, are you also Team Luanne?
I like all for of those for different reasons. LOL. But I tend to change favorites from season to season.