Erika says “All of these great things are happening to me, and I need more.” I think that was in the recap from the last episode. But this is the fundamental issue we are all starting to have with Erika. She came in to this show and was a fan favorite and she just can’t get enough attention. I try not to talk to most of the people on reality shows but I have made a few friends and today I was talking to someone you all know and love about charity work. It is charity work that is not done onscreen and work that I support whole-heartedly and I told that person how much respect I have for how they handle every aspect of their life. That person does not take things too seriously and is someone I admire greatly. Erika is starting to show that she just needs a shit load of attention. I hear you all screaming she has always needed a lot of attention but I never had a problem with that in the past AND WE GAVE IT TO HER. And now she needs more. Well honey chile, you have had all the attention money can buy you, literally. And that is not enough. So I am starting to worry that the future doesn’t look so bright for you, my love. One day, it’s just going to be you and your pile of Tom’s money. And that is not going to be a pretty day. And I personally wish I could fix it for you baby girl, but you are going to have to learn at some point that YOU ARE ENOUGH. Tonight Erika Jayne is going to be on WWHL with RuPaul and I want him to just turn to her and say, “Girl, if you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you going to love anyone else?”
Sorry I got off track. Back to the opening montage.
I cannot with this phone call with Teddi calling apologize to Dorit. Dorit is the biggest cunt ever on the history of this show. I try not to waste my hate on reality TV personalities, but GOD DAMN she is hateable.
On the other hand I LOVES ME SOME RINNA. And some Kyle. Teddi and Kyle meet to talk about Erika’s horrible behavior last week.
I’m sorry LVP’s dog died. I am not going to discuss it further.
I love seeing Rinna and her mama. We need more Lois on the show.
Mikey, Erika’s stylist/assistant tells Erika regarding her upcoming event that right before she comes on “there is Tyra Banks and Kimora Simmons and you know all the cool young edgy girls.” Okay. Now I see what y’all have been saying about Erika’s glam squad. Both of those women are great, and greater than Erika but they are in their 40s an neither young nor edgy. They are both younger than Erika Jayne though. This young women’s empowerment shit is ridiculous.
We are only sixteen minutes in and already going to Rinna’s dinner with her mother. That means this is going to be good. Camille is the first to arrive. Then comes Dorit who manages to arrive on time. Dorit ramble on about her swim line. BTW, Rinna, LVP, Kyle and Erika all have a swimsuit named for them, Camille and Teddi, not so much. LVP is not coming because her dog died. Erika is not coming because she is empowering young women with Tyra and Kimora. I loved the scene with Lois. I wish we could have more nice things like that.
Oh i forgot about the fake seance at Kyles house. that is why we get Lois and the girls so early. Erika talks in her talking head about lifting up other women. Which is hysterical since she is on a show about dogging women and she is so rude to Teddi. This does not bode well for her. Production gives her some shady flashbacks.
LVP and Teddi meet for tea. She says Erika never contacted her about her dog dying.It’s time for Kyle’s seance. This psychic has been debunked on so many shows and yet here we are. Oh Kyle, this psychic is such a fake. How can you fall for this? Rinna and Erika ride together. LVP and Teddi ride together. Erika does not acknowledge Teddi.
The bogus psychic says she is receiving phone calls from heaven. I don’t even want to recap this horseshit and I am disappointed with Kyle. I do not want to be disappointed with Kyle because I’m already disappointed with Erika. SIGH. Jesus. I have to agree with Dorit now. The psychic calls God Pappa God? And now she is saying that Heaven has been wired with phone and Internet? Kill me now.
Then LVP and Erika have a whisper conversation before sitting down where LVP says she thought she was getting close to her and then her dog died and she heard nothing from her. Erika asks if she can do something “not British” which is apparently show compassion and they hug it out. I HATE that I am anti-Erika now and don’t want LVP to hug her. Fuck you for that, Erika! Le sigh.
This throwback to the dinner from hell let’s us know that this is going to be another production driven “psychic reading.” Erika is going off the deep end here. She knows all of her past lives. This is such crap.
Then Erika invites everyone to Berlin and promises blow jobs to all their husbands if they come.
What the hell is wrong with these women?
a question that should begin every comment section! lol
I can tell you what is wrong with Erika. She is Borderline Personality Disordered.
I’m living for Camille it’s quite obvious she’s getting a diamond next season.
Andy is probably loving her and thinking she’s the only person interesting this season so I have thank dorit for bringing that feisty Camille we all love
I used to loooove Erika. But she either let the fame get to her or her mask fell off and we are seeing the true Erika. I have liked her less and less since she yelled at Eileen last season. On a side note, I feel like I haven’t gotten enough Rinna this season!
I think her mask is slipping. I’ve gone back and forth on liking her repeatedly, but I’ve always gotten a distinct cluster b vibe. Her anger at Teddi was pure narcissistic rage (as was her anger at Eileen last season).
Yes, I view that sudden extreme explosive anger, as a major red flag of a clusterB. Trust me you dont want to associate with a cluster B. They are beyond repair and dangerous. I thought it was ridiculous how she made a huge deal about her son being a policeman. I have an adult son too, that I love very much, but good grief het acting that way was ridiculous. She was over the top with the shaming, and used her son’s chosen career, as a means to do that. I felt reslly bad for Eileen.
OK, but you have to remmeber that a lot of things are edited and police tensions were high at that moment. Erika has only cried a couple of times her response felt deep rooted in something else.
Maybe Erika’s anger comes from her marriage. She is different when he is around. I don’t think she would ever come at Tom like that. He would not have it. At least with Eileen and Teddy, she can be w a bully all she wants, no threat there.
The scenes I’ve seen with her and Tom, Erika seems much younger and more open. Maybe it’s just that her guard is down.
I get that, and i could imagine getting pissed or teary. But she went overboard and was like Dont you dare, and on and on to Eileen who obviously is a nice person, till she cried.
I totally agree with you. My husband is retired from the military,my son was also in the military and spent time in several dangerous countries however I never used their chosen professions as a means to be hurtful nor mean to anyone, trust and believe I had many sleepless nights.. My husband was also a policeman upon retiring again very stressed and many sleepless nights. I understand Erika being worried however, it’s not an excuse to attack someone. I think we are now seeing Erika’s true colors.
I think she comes off as a bully. She only picks on the meekest girls which annoys me. When she is all “Don’t you dare” Why don’t the girls just speak up and calmly ask “or what?” Call her on her behavior.
She never acts like this with Lisa because Lisa is an alpha and will fight back, plus she is a fan favorite.
I loved Erica until the Eileen thing and I didn’t even really like Eileen that much. Ericka dishes it out but can’t take it.
I agree with all this. Her mental patient attack on Eileen last season was disgusting, her jackhole behavior at the reunion, also ugly, and now her attack on Teddi! Wow! What a hideous cow. Notice how miss badass always goes after the meak. Real tough broad Erika. And what’s really bizarre, I used to think she was so beautiful, bow when I look at her she’s just looking haggard to me. I dont know if its the ugly on the inside that is making her look this way or if its all in my head but just eewww.
Totally agree with you.
Beneath all of Erika’s Glam,
there appears to be NOT a very nice person.
If you look at the things Erika values,
they’re so shallow.
Example: LVP is endearing because of her love of animals.
She truly loves her dogs, ponies, swans.
What does Erika love?
Money. Horrible Fashion.
Funny enough, I want more Rinna too.
I love her sense of humor.
She really cracks me up.
I love Camille too.
And of course, I’m loving Teddy.
Can’t take Erica’s narcissism anymore. She disappointed me with Eileen and her constant Teddi disrespect is too much for me. Bye girl. I’m done with you
I loved Rinna’s speculation on what she might have been in a past life, she’s so funny. Erica, on the other hand, has turned into a harpy who is way too self-involved.
Good observation.
The biggest difference between those two is that Rinna can laugh at herself, and Erica simply cannot. I think Erica is fundamentally insecure, and everything she does is motivated by a desire to hide that fact and prove that she’s actually uber-everything — uber-rich, uber-successful, uber-famous, uber-sexy, blah blah blah.
I just wish she’d be Erica, whoever that person actually is.
Rinna is the best in those talking heads. Hilarious!
I like Rinna, but Rinna as Erika’s sidekick = BO-RING. Erika needs to be brought down to earth.
TT,
I love reading your site and appreciate the effort you put into the recaps. I catch myself staying up late just to hear what you have to say. I don’t always agree with you, but I ALWAYS love hearing your opinion. (And I mostly agree)
So THANK YOU. Looking forward to the next one.
I feel the same way and thank you for reminding me to express that, John.
I don’t always have the same loyalties or POVs as you do, TT, but I appreciate the way yours are expressed. I like the way you research to refute unsubstantiated claims and I like the unapologetic personal and humorous approach, as well as the insights from an insider. So thank you from me as well.
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Thanks very very much. I really enjoy it. . It helps make my days. Hope we do the same for you.
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Lisa cried real tears! I skimmed over that part but felt really badly for them. God help them when Giggy goes.
My mom’s name is Lois, so I jump a little whenever her name is mentioned. She is 81, has like 12 jobs, and is cute and a ball buster. It was great to see Rinna with her Lois.
I saw Erika on Wendy today, did anyone watch it?
This psychic stuff is just not for me. And this one is ridiculous.
If I didn’t have a dog and a job I’d asking to go meet Lois. I want to meet nice moms. Not that mine was not… I just miss my mom and want to meet moms. And moms name Lois seem awesome.
???????
hey, no mom is perfect, but I KNOW how lucky I am in this regard.
Perfect recap! I’m worried about Teddi becoming too close to LVP. LVP is such a snake. Might be kind of funny to see her react to the real Vanderpump though. Have always been on the fence with Erika until this season. Now, she can join Vanderpump.
I lust channel my inner Erika because I get her. Being around someone like Teddi would make me crazy. I have forgotten I said something until someone will jog my memory and tell me something like “ remember we were at the lake and blah blah blah” and then it comes back but for her to say pretend amnesia would send me over the table also. I do like that Teddi is down to earth but her neediness would drive me batty. I still cannot stand Dorit. Lois should stay, I adore her
How is Teddi needy? She’s the least needy of all these women.
I don’t see her as needy at all, just Dorit.
I agree.
I’m SO over Erika and her schtick (sp?)
I just don’t get the Erika hate and teddi love. Teddi kisses me off with her whole “own it”shtick she’s an annoying individual.I’m with Erika if I say I don’t remember something move on
I still like Erika, but I like Teddi too and I think Erika has been a bitch to Teddi for no reason since they met.
She remembered but LIED and said she didn’t. It’s called convenient amnesia. I liked first season Erika but now cringe when she appears. I hope her book tanks. I heard that it’s boring and the only shocking thing is that she had a threesome which isn’t all that shocking. In a nutshell, she was born, had a baby, left her baby, became a waitress where she hunted rich old men, married one and then had him pay for her career. Big whoop.
Agree completely. Wish Teddi or someone else would’ve just asked Erika…”knowing what you know now (convo by Dorit in NYC about LVP), would your feelings have been hurt etc.?” Memory has nothing to do with it. It’s a yes or no answer. She says sh*t just to be relevant in some stupid way.
Perfect recap of the book! Blah, blah, blah. I will save my money thanks. Erika has been trying to buy her happiness since she sold her love soul for a rich older man.
i Can’t stand being called a liar either. Few things send me over the top messing with my family and calling me a liar. Also littering.
I believe in being accountable for my actions and take the consequences of them. So in order to avoid bad consequences I live in a way where I am accountable at all times. So to call me dishonest is a load of bullshit.
While I hold myself accountable I don’t point things out to my friends when they are not. Like my friend who is a therapist, he only psychoanalyses someone when he’s paid, so his friends are off limits. Teddi doesn’t need to hold people she is just meeting accountable. She must have lead a sheltered life if the way Erika yelled at her was too much. That was nothing.
I don’t think Erika was rude or harsh, I like that she is straight forward,
She lives her own truth, she’s a tough bitch.
When people tell you how t hey feel, don’t personalize it, just accept it, say ok and move on. Its when we over think shit that the conflicts begin, and feelings are hurt.
Camille, love, love your style and grace! I need to see more!!
Lisa Rinna….always a good time…
Cheers 😉
Erika’s response was Queenly, self-righteous and rude. Teddi isn’t one of HER paid syncophants. Straight forward is saying, “I don’t appreciate what you just said” not Erika’s over the top reply. I thought to myself, Who the f-k does she think she is??
I would have been shocked and taken aback if I were Teddi at that moment. Erika had a quick go at her the first night they met. She clearly has some issue/s with Teddi and I’m not buying her reasoning that Teddi, (like all the new girls) walked in and had an issue with HER. Typical narcissistic comment.
People seem to keep confusing Teddi’s accountability coach for health and weight loss clients as an accountability LIFE coach. She has never made claim to this. Other people are putting that tag on her. She keeps making statements to clarify this yet people continue to ASSUME she is an accountability coach for everything! Teddi was just holding Erica to what she said. Like we all do with the people we interact with. If they say one thing and then backpedal, some of us will call them out. Does that make us accountability life coaches? Please!
I guess there are some things a BLACK card cannot buy…jeez…y must Erika SPEAK so much about her wealth…just live it girl, flaunt it, enjoy it but please stop talking about it
I love Teddi. She’s smart and self aware. I’ve never been a huge fan of Erika but I do like what she has brought to the show. AND over all I don’t like how Erika has treated Teddi. Teddi is straight forward … no bullshit. That being said I would be upset if someone said I had “pretend” amnesia. Even if I did. You could drop the “pretend” and get the same point across.
Should Teddi have maybe chose her words differently, sure. But Erika didn’t just get upset at her using the word pretend, it was like a “trigger” word and she had an entire meltdown. Being a little offended is one thing but to be all “OMG don’t ever use the word pretend around me, how dare you!!” when she LITERALLY HAS AN ALTER EGO. So it was really the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness of it all and she was trying to create a diversion from being caught in a lie about what she said in NY.
Spot on!
Honestly someone needed to call EJ out. She has a fiece narsassic personality. I’m wont say disorder because I’m not a psychologist. But I’ve never seen seen a woman that needs the validation she she needs . If she hadn’t married a wealthy man she be in an way way lower socioeconomic class. Not that that’s a dig, but she calls LVP a master manipulator, at least LVP busts her ass making things happen. I have a girlfriend whom knows LVP, she says she’s a bitch , but definitely a boss bitch.
I agree, I’m sorry but part of the reason we fell in love with Erika is because she does not take any shit from people. I do not see where that should have stopped with Teddi. I don’t get why Erika has a couple of slip ups and everyone is jumping ship but someone like Vicki G can lie about Cancer and she still has fans that hate Shannon for refusing to be lied to *Kanye Shrug*. Teddi seems to be able to come for Erika but chose her words wisely for Dorit..I feel that Teddi’s snide remark to erika was misplaced… Erika had an overreaction but who cares? They should squash it and become friends bc I feel like they would really like each other.
Agree— I think that Teddi would annoy the crap out of me if she were a friend. Holier than thou attitude. STFU already. The people who make this show are fun. Teddi is about as far removed from fun, snark, bitchiness etc. as something way the hell away. I don’t know my planets, but she is the furthest one. Basically a wet noodle with no sauce. Go away Teddi.
Still team Erika even though she lost her shit. I’m just waiting for her to take down LVP a notch or ten. I wish I had Erika’s 40K per month budget to spend on makeup, clothes etc. 40K per year for college kids is killing me.
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“not taking shit” from someone is telling LVP to fuck off when she is upset you didn’t text her. Looking crazy and being an asshole is when you flip on someone for calling you out on something YOU said. So that’s where the losing fans parts comes in with Erika. Erika has adapted a “too cool for school” attitude since her second season. And it’s become tiresome and boring to watch. I don’t hate her, I just usually FFW’d through her anymore.
She’ll come back around though. They usually all do. Kyle did, she was so hated when she was against LVP and now I think she’s snatched the queens crown.
Teddi, she’s not all crazy and yippy but with the shit that has gone down on the show, she hasn’t been wrong. She probably won’t be back. or she will. She does seem close to Kyle & LVP.
Go ahead like both of them! Who cares? Seriously. You’re entitled to your own opinion. (Although mine is right)
I have never understood why everyone loved Erika? She has no friends and is not liked by anyone out in Los Angeles and is thought of as a joke by Tom’s peeps. She is all about herself amd $$$$$. . . Heck she LEFT her child to move across the country to be a waitress & find a rich man. She left her child!! and then does that whole scene where she attacked Eileen for bringing him up. She is a horrible person yet everyone loves her. . . I dont get it. In real life people get what she is .
And how do you know all this?
Many people in the podcast world have said things about Erika. Many believe that BRAVO have done extra work to protect the real Erika. She misstreats people who aren’t part of her team. The information about her child was an interview from 2 years ago. If you want you can find it? I have never been Erika’s fan.
Ericka said it herself.
She knows everyone in L.A. Uncool to comment on her parenting choices. Maybe she had him during the summer. And I have plenty of friends who ship their young kids off to boarding schools. Does that make them bad parents?
Erika left her son when he was 3 years old. Do they even have boarding schools for toddlers?
She abandoned him…for her quest of sugar grandpa.
She did not ABANDON her son. She and the son’t father decided that it was best for the son to be raised by the father she was still a part of his life and saw him and talked to him. When parents split up and agree on a child custody, no one says the man has abandoned his child when the mother is the primary care giver. She has always had a relationship with her son and they are very close. He lives with her now, for fuck sake.
where do you get such rubbish??? my god.
Anyway, I’ll leave that be since TT educated you on the topic.
I have always liked Erika but am disappointed in her behavior toward Teddi, it seems petty and beneath her to be so witchy. Teddi is genuine and honest to a fault, filthy little dorit can’t even accept the apology she didn’t even DESERVE, with grace. She’s taking a lot of heat for just being a decent person.
The psychic bit was insane, phone calls from heaven? really?
Is it shipping young kids off to boarding schools bad parenting?…. Hell yes. Is it a privilege to be sent away from your parents? I don’t think so. I can’t imagine how traumatizing it must be for a children to be send away? I have to admit that Erika’s boy at least had his father 24/7?
As a mom, I couldn’t IMAGINE leaving my son because I wanted money and fame. Those two reasons are why she left. Her and her husband decided that it would be better for the father to raise him? Why? Was she a neglectful mother? Substance abuse? Sorry, but I couldn’t fathom leaving my baby. Then again, I’m not a narcissist.
You guys are beyond dramatic. So Erika is a bad mom bc she had a support system that allowed her to pursue her dreams and be a mom. Don’t be bitter bc you all had to settle. For some people settling isn’t enough. Pro athletes and actors leave their families it’s called sacrifice…
“Those two reasons are why she left.”
Oh do tell how you know the reasons she left.
I think it’s shitty to drop your kid off at a boarding school at the age of 5-6. I believe she left her son at that age or even younger. There’s also a BIG difference between sending your child to school to get a better education vs leaving your kid behind and move to the other coast because you want to be a star. I have a high tolerance for a lots of choices but as a mother of a 14 year old boy, I don’t get it, on any level.
The boy was with his father! He eventually moved to Nevada or Arizona or some place to make visitation easier. She didn’t send him to boarding school or leave him to be raised by wolves. She let his father have primary custody because they felt that was the best thing for the boy.
Speaking as a mom – sorry I have to call BS. Its not natural/normal for a mom to want to be away from her children (I don’t mean vacation). Unless she had drug/mental health issues or some serious medical condition there really is no excuse.
Sounds like she just wanted to be free to “chase her dreams”.
Lmao so you’re mad that Erika got a chance to “chase her dreams” and you’re stuck leaving bitter comments on a blog judging the choices a young mom made? Guys/dads literally do it all the time she made it work and did the best should could, I don’t see a problem?
Mothers are naturally more bonded to their children than fathers.
Judgemental bullshit.
She was not prepared to be a single mother. He was financially able to be a single father and was ready. Why is that not a mature choice? Particularly considering than he’s been a great father, they coparented. She spent time with her son. If the genders were reversed, people would say she was a great dad who spent time with her son, both parents have a cordial relationship.
I am so not a feminist, but I suspect a lot of you judging Erika for her parenting choices that she made with the father of her child are. And I’d lay a bet that her son would love to punch you in the mouth for the way you disrespect his mother in a public forum. That doesn’t seem very maternal of you either. Or like someone who makes hard choices to be best parent they can be to their child. Erika married her son’s father as a teen got pregnant at 20 and was not prepared to be a single mother.
But the women with the “maternal genes” say stupid shit like men don’t love their kids as much as mothers do. And women who decide to let the man raise the boy because that is what HE WANTED TO DO means she abandoned a child. And need all the damn details to somehow explain how she isn’t a shit mom.
The reason she is not a shit mom is because SHE Coparented. It was a mutually agreed upon parenting plan, and it’s really none of your fucking judgmental business.
Thank you TT. I am sick of reading comments slagging off Erika for her parenting choice, she did the best for her son based on the options available to her. It’s no one’s fucking business but hers!
If you’re not a mother you won’t understand.
I really could not care less what her circumstances were or you people vociferously defending a person you don’t even know. Just because you scream something over and over doesn’t make it true.
She’s still a shit mom in my opinion and it is what it is.
I’m a mother and I can tell you that you are talking out of your arse.
And you know her; hence talking trash about her! ?
Whatever. If Erika truly did “the best she could” she wouldn’t get so defensive and bent out of shape anytime anyone mentions her son. She would proudly tell her story instead of trying to bite the head off of anyone who dares question her choices. She’s so painfully transparent.
” trying to bite the head off of anyone who dares question her choices.” People tend not to like it when strangers question their choices.
I’m a mother and a grandmother, BK and I get it. The fact that we cannot fathom leaving our three-year-old a continent away under dad’s care – and neither could any of my friends and family with kids – doesn’t necessarily mean that she didn’t make it work.
But you’re right. NONE of us know her or her circumstances. However, her son, by all accounts, appears to be a healthy, functioning down-to-earth individual who now lives with mom.
He could have potentially taken the easy road, but he became a police officer instead.
She might have friends, we don’t know. We also hear a lot about her leaving her child. We don’t know all the circumstances around that and it seems harsh to judge her without the whole story. I think Erika has a lot of skeletons and I think a lot of money is spent keeping them in the closet. I wish she would get help for her rage and get to the real reasons for it.
I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying this season. To be fair I may be drifting off when certain people are talking. I love Rinna’s past lives. Rinna’s talking heads make me happy.
I agree most of the time. When she cracks herself up and start slapping her knee, I have to turn her off.
yeah her laugh seems so fake…it irks me…
I never got the hype on Ericka. She can’t sing or dance. She’s like Kyle, just flaunts her wealth.
Loved Erika til she went “postal” on Teddy. At least she apologized to Eileen!! Can I get a job running seances in the 90210-because apparently anyone can!!
Rinna’s puppy Rocky was another highlight.
Y’all know I’m not an LVP fan, but from what I’ve seen, she always gives the new women a fair chance and I think I’d rather be LVP’s friend having a cuppa with her in her garden than listening to Dorit prattle on for hours or fanning Erikas surprisingly fragile ego.
Camille, Teddi and their blogs/twitter feeds continue to be the best thing about this season! ♡
Tamara a couple weeks ago you posted about when do you Williams probably go into a drug rehab . I still believe she was gone from her show for that reason or another. She is talking way too much about graves disease and how wonderful her husband has been to her during her three week hiatus I don’t believe any of it do you? Maybe u can write another post on her. I also feel that you probably pays to get negative stories erased from the Internet about her
Sorry Dictated some of it and I changed the wording
I also used to like Erika, but, like Melania Trump, Erika is just some sleazy chick who caught a rich old guy by the short hairs, and THEN used the rich old guy’s money to have a pretend carreer. And NOW she is getting WAY too big for her leather britches. And it is disgusting! ?
I don’t know much about Melania Trump but it’s not necessary to drag her here. She speaks several languages and is a beautiful, classy, educated woman, as far as I can see. Nothing like Erika.
Educated???? Please, spend five minutes researching the truth not the, “fake news”.( actually I despise that term) She’s like a blank canvas and people project things onto her. She lied about her education when she claimed she had a degree in design and architecture from a Slovenian University. Then she revised her story, saying she started modeling at 16 and dropped out of Uni after a year. She only told the truth after she’d been caught in a lie.
I really don’t have any issue with the fact that she dropped out. It’s just that she lied about it.
LOL! When will she learn ENGLISH!?
This. She’s been here for 20+ years with an English speaking husband and son and sounds like she’s fresh off the boat.
She is beautiful, I’ll give you that, but classy and educated??? lol. Not very classy snagging a married man, as that’s how she got her hubby, nor the type of modeling she was doing “classy” either. I’m not a prude, do what you want, but classy, it is not.
she also lied about her education, claming to have a college degree, which she only admitted to NOT having when she was caught. If you didn’t go to college, fine, lots of smart people didn’t, but don’t LIE about it. That’s not what secure people do.
Standing next to her husband, though, she does appear to have poise at least. He’s the exact opposite of poise, class, etc.
Most Europeans speak several languages. My father spoke 5
This is just stupid. To decide that both the First Lady and Erica are both “sleazy” because they are married to older men that have a little more than nothing, is nothing more than hate and jealousy. I hope your days get better and STFU
I agree. I dont judge marriages with age differences any different than same age marriages. Who knows what they have and it may be a beautiful thing. A succesful powerful man is pretty darn sexy. Sometimes its just who they love. Lately at work Im seeing more couples with the wife being much older. Who cares.
Bwahahahahaha! Donald Trump? Sexy? EVER? Okay, this inot the place for politics, go on back to Faux News, dear, and BATHE in BULLSHIT!
Seriously, Tom Girardi and Donald Trump couldn’t be more different if they were born on different fucking planets lol
I loathe Dorit. What a bitch!
I have “buyers remorse”. I bought into Erika and all that jazz. But then I thought – yikes- Yolanda did the same dang thing. So nice at first…then the mask slipped & broke all over,. It was quite messy! Totally AGREE with your comments. SHE goes to the event to support women then bashes them that evening at Kyles? Good griefe now she is on with dick – Andy C. Ugh!
Goes to show that people are suckers and a fool and her money are easily parted.
Starting to feel sorry for Erika with all the wicked backlash she’s getting. She obviously has some bottled up anger.
Funny that no matter how much you have, you still have an emptiness you want to fill, an deep yearning for something unnamed or unknowable. Some on RHOBH try to fill it with quack psychics. Others, like Erika, with applause.
I’ve never liked Erika. I’m glad everyone is seeing her for who she is now. At the core she’s simply a narcissistic gold digger who got so bored with herself she made up a persona. She’s fake, a hypocrite and a liar surrounded by payroll friends and doesn’t have a clue how to have real relationships.
I want to like Teddi. She’s cool but I don’t think she blends well with the group. She’s too sane and normal. I hope she can bring it like she does in her confessionals and blogs at the reunion.
Leesa,
I agree, I have never liked Erica. She comes off as cold and condescending, and just all around fake. Glad people are starting to see her for who she really is.
I never saw the fascination with Erika. She has no talent — autotuned singing, her dancing consists of having men dance around her, she has no taste in clothes or hair design, and she is unpleasant. I don’t get why those women kowtow to her.
But for her husband paying for her career, she’d have none.
I’m doing a Kim Richards with Dorit. I fast forward through all of her scenes which is now leaving me with about 11 minutes of RHOBH.
I’m on my last legs with this shit.
Why can’t I have more rich Rinna, Camille, LVP (I could just stare at her house for hours), and Kyle?
That’s all.
HA!!!!
I just noticed the banner across the top of my screen is for Beverly Beach.
Bleech!!
This episode was nice because it was FINALLY not centered around Dorit.
This was the 2nd time this season we’ve seen LVP practically begging for Ericka’s attention and that’s 2 times too many and in my view, part of Ericka’s problem. Ericka’s perception that she has taken the “crown” seems to have gone to her head and making her very unlikable.
Lois was cute and fun to see but Rinna seems to have checked out this season.
Teddi is a breath of fresh air and Kyle is light and fun this season and I like seeing the 2 of them together.
I hope the trip to Berlin is more fun than fight.
Man, y’all have a lot of anger issues. The level of abject HATRED toward more than half of this cast is just frightening to me.Like some of you need to just stop watching the show. It’s supposed to be fun! And sure Dorit is just awful but do we really need her to just die in a fire? Or can we just mock her stupidity?
I thought the same reading comments about Brielle, 21-year old trying to protect her mom. The meanness is escalating.
Girl, I don’t want to see her die in a fire! I can’t wait for the spectacular fashion in which she and PeeKay will fall from their self appointed greatness!
Oh and if it involves swindling Boy George out of something (not his money but his costumes maybe?) all the better!
It really can be nuts how worked up viewers can get. This entire franchise is complete bullshit. None of them are who they portray themselves to be. We all need to step back and enjoy this for what it is. It’s all a marketing ploy to sell us shit.
Erika was my favourite but I am seriously disliking her these days. She is seriously self entitled and the way she blows up every time somebody calls her out shows me she is immature as well. She does not really show much about her personal life on the show just what she wants us to see. Her husband and her have the most awkward relationship…like a business meeting when they are together….
erica is a joke! empowering women! yes, she left her young son, found a sugar daddy who pays for her fake career. even she says its expensive to have this career and b me!! is this what she is going to empower young women with? b a gold digger. she is so unhappy – has a husband who shooshes her and practically says go to ur room. her book – another joke – they send her the chapters. love to see her go!
I haven’t finished watching yet but who the fuck leaves their 3 year old in the bath alone! FFS Dorit is a moron!
I wondered the same thing then realized there was probably a nanny there, just out of view because Dorit wishes us to believe she is a completely hands on Mom.
Dorit has a swarm of nannies hovering around to protect the children from her “parenting”.
Remember, this is the woman who’s son spoke only gibberish for the first 3 years of his life. And the baby had to wear some kind of helmet to reshape her flat head because no one bothered to turn her over in her crib.
I think the swarm of nannies only let her near the children when they are filming. And I’m not advocating for the nannies. They’re probably the reason why the baby had a flat head and the kid couldn’t speak English. But leaving them alone with Dorit would be a major disaster. She makes Alexis look like a good mother!
You win the award for the most offensive comments. My niece wore a Helmut and it wasn’t because she was left in a crib. Not sure if you were insinuating her son couldn’t speak because the nannies weren’t speaking English. I thought we were more civilized on this site
Yes, the helmut thing is pretty common these days. My nephew wore one also.
The helmets are common these days, but that doesn’t change the fact that it happens because the baby favors sleeping on one part of the head and it makes the soft head flat. I’m sure it was common back in the day as well and we all just have flat spots on our heads. 🙂
And yes, if a baby is not spoken to in English, it’s not going to learn English.
The flat head/helmut is common because babies are put to sleep on their backs these days. Prior to the 1990s the norm was to put babies to sleep on their tummies.
I was worried bc my I noticed my son’s head was a little flat in the back but his ped said its very common and would likely correct itself once he started spending more time sitting up, on his tummy etc. The helmet is really only needed for extreme cases.
Oh please Lisak! You’re taking my comments about Dorit personally or projecting your own bias on me that’s why you find my comments offensive. I never said anything about Dorit’s nannies not speaking English. I don’t know if that’s true nor do I care.
And for the helmet (Helmut is a guy from Germany), rotate that baby for god’s sake! Ok, I’ll admit that I have no idea what position a baby is supposed to sleep in. So all babies have flat heads now and need to wear helmets? Weird!
The ONLY point I was trying to make is that Dorit and PK appear to be horrible parents who are letting virtual strangers raise their children 99.95% of the time.
I’m reminded of AbFab’s Patsy’s birth. After the cord is cut, Patsy’s mother exclaims “Now take it away and bring me another lover!”
I just wanted to thank you for pointing out the difference between helmut and helmet. Being a 2nd generation German American I am familiar with the name Helmut. I also live with a form of MS and somedays choose to use the voice feature to type and have trouble going back to correct a misspelling. Since this is one of the classier sites it doesn’t matter so much here but I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to point that out
Dorit seems like a good mom to me. It’s something I like about her. Her kids are so adorable and look so happy! They seem to adore their mother and I think it makes their scenes together just so cute!
Is this comment supposed to be sarcastic? This is the complete opposite of what has been shown.
I meant it serious
Anybody else notice Erika and Dorits matching outfits at the seance? High necked, tight black mini dresses with high heeled black tall boots?
Once Erika said she went to a performing arts school, I just don’t see what is special about her upbringing besides not making it in New York at 18, going to Los Angeles, and working where she could find a man who can help her out. She said it. It’s just not anything new.
The trouble with these Housewives shows in general is that they’re only really GOOD during the first three seasons. After that, the wives have learned how to manipulate the storyline and the parts of their lives they want us to see. By season four we’re watching a one hour weekly commercial for whatever they’re selling. LVP sells herself as a glam business woman with a doting husband and a love of dogs. No mention of her mounting debt, the endless lawsuits or Max’s REAL issues. Just fluff. Erika as the pop vixen with expensive taste. Very little discussion of how Tom talks down to her or her REAL relationship with her son. They focus on the parts they want to be known for and it’s all fluff. Seasons one through three it’s mostly authentic as the women expose their true lives for the most part. Past season three, it’s 100% scripted. And boring.
I completely agree with your comments, Tracy. I would like further exploration into the dynamic Erika has with her husband. I suspect, by the way, that may be one of. the reasons she went “postal” on Teddi. Also, I am growing tired of Rinna forcing her bratty daughters down our throats. If she intends to provide them additional exposure, she needs to take notes from Yo’s book and make it more organic and less forced. Although I suspect Yo’s daughter are genuinely a lot nicer in real life than Rinna’s daughter pretend to be on the show. No more I can say about Dorit. She is showing her natural bum for all too see. Finally, I still don’t get Kyle and LVP’s point of being on the show, but I’ve come to just accept them as the “social engineers”. Gotta end with “Love me some Teddi!” She’s sheath if fresh air and everything Sassoon could not pull off last season.
Thanks for letting me join the conversation! Love your blog, TT!
LVP and VYLE are in the show because it is a great platform to promote anything that they want. Someone said money can’t buy fame? Andy said that most of the real housewives hate more being off the shows than being on the shows. Being famous seems to be very additive?
You seem like the kind of person who drops bullshit in comments and doesn’t read others, but if you don’t see this and don’t read the commenting rules you are done commenting here
It was a typo?? KYLE
Lol, really? I can see JYLE, MYLE or LYLE. That V is way over there (points to the left). 😉
1000% agree with this. I miss the old days of BH when there were some real issues. The “fights” are just so fake and boring anymore. I’ll take Kim and Kyle screaming about who stole who’s goddamn house any day over this.
I’m near the exit door but not quite ready to leap off the Erika bus, yet. Obviously Erika’s a very controlled personality, I think she keeps a lot of pain and anger bottled up, and when it is triggered, watch out. Then again, much as I like her, Teddi accusing Erika of “pretend amnesia” would piss me off too. Teddi was being aggressive, trying to recruit Erika’s support over some bullshit with Dorit. (I think it was Dorit, I tune her out so much I could be mistaken). Nuh-uh Teddi Bear. One step back for you.
Give me Berlin! Give me Rinna! Give me Kyle! I’m even liking LVP more than ever this season.
I think offering husbands blow jobs probably should X out pantygate for ever, lol.
Lois? What a breath of fresh air! She simply brings out the best in those around her (with the exception of Dorit.)
Rinna’s talking heads were so silly! I was giggling, hope she “show up” in Berlin…
3 weeks until Kyle moves? I’d be a blubbering mess! I get she’ll have all the help she needs but it’s got to be a nightmare! I can’t wait to see them in the new house!
I’m withholding judgment on Erica for now..sadly I think I’m near the exit as well but I’m going to wait to see how the rest of the season plays out.
I can’t bash Erica for moving to LA without her child, lots of women try to make it before they uproot kids. She married well and pays for attention, big whoop. So does everyone in Hollywood. She’s getting the world at her feet now, ok good for you. She keeps her circle small and perhaps jealousy is in play here. I’d pay more attention to how she lets her family treat her. Tom is an all but absent husband and her mom made her tough, when she said stop being a cry baby it seemed like the way her mind works. Don’t cry just do it. Oh well still not a fan of anyone on here but I kinda get Erica. Soft emotional people make her uncomfortable because she’s not allowed to be that way
Are you a mother?
I don’t see why that matters. I am not a mother, but know it must be difficult for a mom to decide a boy is better off with his father for a certain period. That doesn’t make them a bad mother, it means she knew what was better for her child at the time and coparented with the father to the child’s benefit. Nobody thinks twice about it when kids stay with their moms primarily, why is it wrong if the child is primarily with the father??
It’s wrong to criticize a woman’s mothering just because it’s an unconventional situation. My uncle got primary custody of his son, not because the mother was uninvolved or unfit, but because he had more means and a more flexible job that would allow him more time at home during the boy’s early years. It was all around better for the child to live with him, his mother was still in his life all the time, but she realized he could provide more at that time and she was unselfish enough to allow it. She is a wonderful mother and later in life the living arrangement changed, as life often calls for.
Stop shitting on her because her son lived with his father, people.
I think we need to accept what works for people in their circumstances, so I agree with you. Sometimes, it takes more strength of charechter to do whats best for the child, rather than thinking of yourself or what others think of it.
I live in an area of a lot of new agers you would be shocked at how many women around here have up and left the children and husband/botfriends.So single women Wis. rural areas around LaCrosse lots of single dads . I find it strange but it is a fact
Erika is so self absorbed. She defended herself on WWHL, you see, she was called a LIAR! She had to defend herself! She loves herself so HAD to do that.. Um she totally took it to another level. She’s a total bratty bitch.
Her team of paid friends have her head so full of Gucci and hairspray that she thinks she is demi-God.
Teddi is down to earth and has a cute sporty look but makes for boring TV.
Can anyone explain why RuPaul “liked” Margaret’s pig tails? Oh I know, because he approved of Erika’s sideways ponytail.
Ever since the early seasons of BH and NY taught us so much about production and the camera’s ability to control our perception of each person, much to their joy or chagrin, I’ve come to take them all with several grains of salt. We see both good and bad , and most of them are like most other people ,they have good and bad personality traits, and we’ll see both over their time on the shows.
Originally many of the women were supposed to represent various segments of life in their cities, from very successful to wanna be’s, and everything in between. Then editors encouraged fighting and hired ladies with more psychological screws askew than they might have, to reach different audiences. Now I assume it takes a number of years to have seen each woman, stresses will exaggerate their vulnerabilities, and none of it is all as it appears. And each woman has a story she chooses to represent, true or not.
So I am slower to be sure I have the correct read, and expect them all to have their share of negatives. For example, while I like that Teddi is more clear spoken and direct right now in BH, truth is I bet she is a pain as an accountability coach and I’d get tired of having her pushing all the time for whatever the issue is of the day is. And while I have been glad to see her call people, Erika especially, on her “vague” memories, etc., I bet she is capable of nitpicking and taking it too far. I haven’t seen her do it yet- just bet it is possible. I’m sorry she was hurt by the groups’ somewhat overdone feedback, am glad she has feelings, but do think she will need to toughen up a bit.
And I wont repeat many of the well stated comments about Erika, her Mikey and team, and how overdone their early performances and appearances were, for her age and should-be maturity. It is only by about Season 3 or 4 that we see how the stories weave together for any one of the women, and that appears to be deliberate ,except for Dorit.
I so remember the opinion we were left of Brandi after Reunion 2 or 3- the truth canon who told about the meetings Adrienne called when she wanted to hurt Lisa V, at the reunion, and how great it was the Brandi would share those rare moments of truth with us, etc., etc. Funny how differently it looks when we have had more time to inform us, as the women become more used to the cameras and forget to fake it.
Now Brandi is still so delusional that ,after trying every reality job at least once she is begging to get back on BH- because there Is nothing else. Too bad she has not grown up enough to see the wake of wreckage she has left behind each place she departs Even more, she is unwilling to grow up and do what it takes to control herself and behave like the mid forties adult she is physically. ( SO I’ve disproven my own statement- while I have seen the good and bad in most of them, and don’t judge as finally most of them, with Brandi , her unwillingness to stop drinking and get control of her teenage emotions leads me to determine that she cannot grow up enough to make an interesting member of the show, I’m sorry to say.) It’s enough reality to confuse us too- and very human and that is what keeps us watching, right? Whether we judge once or rejudge daily as more facts emerge, it can be fascinating. ,
Another closet HW fan maybe? 😉
Totally agree with your assessment of Erika. This season really turned me off from her. In her first season she seemed promising but she showed this season especially that she’s nothing but a cold, fame-hungry bitch. She’s just a mirage with no real depth, at least none that she wants to portray on tv. I kept watching in hope that she’d show some sign of being a human, not just the manufactured, diamond-crusted version that she thinks everyone wants to see. What I’ve liked about this franchise from the beginning was that even though they’re all obviously very wealthy, they never screamed about it like Erika does. Her (husband’s) money has no value in my eyes.
Also, I kind of enjoyed the throwback seance scene. Weird moments like this is what reality tv is for.
You ever notice how everybody in a past life was always someone important? Either a prince or famous figure of history?. Somebody has to be a serf! A peasant! A Whirling Dervish! (I think I was the later). It makes no sense.
This episode reminded me of Erika’s first season. She said something about not having women friends or not liking women. That makes the whole empowerment total bs
These women are exhausting me.
My favorite part of the episode….seeing my friend’s daughter in her Crest White Strips commercial!
That’s cool!
I just have to laugh at Erica stating that she knew no one was going to rescue her. Hey, Erica, have you met Tom? ?
I think that’s unfair, she was talking about being a child and growing up. She had to do it herself because no one was coming to do it for her.
she was an adult when she met tom. she’d raised a child, she’d worked for years, she’d supported herself. She wasn’t homeless living on the street looking for somebody to “save” her lol
Oh what a fickle bunch of commenters we are. Last year, Rinna was dragged to hell and back for being a POS. Anyone defending her got plenty of argumentive comments. Now this year, she is our golden girl who is getting the positive feedback. I can’t keep up.
I always stuck up for Rinna, I have always liked her. I have always disliked Dorit, and still do like Erika, despite being really disappointed in her behavior toward Teddi.
People’s opinions change. I’ve never been a Rinna fan but she’s absolutely lovable this season. It’s apparent that she doesn’t give a fudge about the show anymore and she’s playing it for giggles… and to promote her girls and her other ventures.
My guess is that she quits after this season because she’s too busy.
Exactly
I think to myself …… huh if Erika is an empowering feature to our younger generation, what exactly is she teaching them??? She speaks like white trash, shows all of her goodies and calls it music, she married a man old enough to be her father for a payday.
She literally said she spends 40k a month on beauty. How about try and get some inner beauty first?
What kind of joke do you think Tom’s associates share about his choice in women? She is a horrible representation to his chosen profession. I do not know a wealthy man alive (old money) that has a wife showing her a$$ to any and everyone.
LVP May be opinionated and appear dispassionate, but she truly emulates class and wealth correctly. You also see that Ken rarely wastes his time with the trivial BS and the catty ladies arguements. I love those 2 more than anything.
Teddi is a breath of fresh air to this catty crew. She may have a famous father, but really has humble beginnings as they kept her out of the spotlight. Now she just has to decide whether she wants to stoop to the reality TV depth, which can be pretty low.
Dorit is just awful, inside and out. And pleeeeeaaaaaase someone to her to stop talking so much about yourself. No one cares.
Actually Ken is the worst househusband when it comes to getting too involved with the ladies’ drama!
Great recap and laughed out loud at psychic comments.
One of my favorite moments was the Lois lunch, when Teddy got a look at Dorit’s “Teddy” hairstyle. I think Teddy knew she’d come across as paranoid if she mentioned it, but I think she knew Dorit was trying to do some stupid voodoo shit.
Every family has different needs….My father was a high ranking military man for 27 years, mom was a nurse, they both had stellar careers and traveled a lot, I had a great support system, grandparents, friends ect. Sure they missed a few things but I tell you what, I got to see things and experience things and met all kinds of people from all over the world…my parents are in their 70’s now, great health, very active and we spend every holiday together. I wouldn’t change a thing….It truly takes a village! 🙂
Cheers!
So how do all of you frothing at the mouth types feel about Kevin Federline raising Britanny’s kids?
The Ericka leaving her child. we weren’t there to know she didn’t cry every night in her pillow.