Brook Ayers has married Christy Lindeman. The happy couple lives in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana with their adorable dog (looks like a golden doodle but what do I know?) and two her young daughters. She is a sales director for a tire company. I believe she is originally from Ohio.
Brooks is a medical sales rep in Indiana. Brooks has spent the past few years trying to right his ship after his disastrous relationship with Vicki Gunvalson on Real Housewives of Orange County. He’s stayed out of the spotlight and away from the cameras.
The couple has been dating since at least January of last year. Both bride and groom are huge Mississippi State football fans. They travel to Starkville frequently during football season.
It’s been three years since #CancerGate and Brooks seems happier and healthier. He’s given himself a good dose of Tony Robbins, and it seems whatever he is doing to work on himself is working. He still has a lot of haters out there but I’ve always been pulling for ole Brooks. He fucked up for sure but it’s been three years. Can’t we just let it go and focus on where he is at today?
Or not. I can already tell what is coming. Congratulations to the happy couple.
That has to be the dam dumbest woman on the face of the earth.hes old and ugly and a lier.
What does being old and ugly have to do with anything? I’d rather be those things that illiterate.
Shade!
*Insert Alyssa Edwards GIF here*
Lol love your comment..the illiterate part
I can only imagine what her friends are saying!
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he has changed his life around. I hope he and his wife are happy. Now if only Vicki would change her life for the better.
WORD
I am happy for them. I truly believe that Vicki has a problem in that most everything she concerns herself with turns to crap. Bravo was going to cut her hours if she did not bring on Brooks. The rest is history. Better to be a friend for a season than to create that faux cancer storyline. Her son and now Brianna have moved away. This woman is sowing some terrible seeds out there and has been on the receiving end of a shit storm for years. Vicki needs to bail.
He even got new teeth from Vicki and those ain’t cheap!
hope she got a prenup and maintains separate bank accounts.
I couldm’t agree more with any statement ever made
yup
He’s a liar-face. Multiple times.
“for sure”…!!! I love that you are a forgiving person Tamara!
I agree, he’s been completely out of the spotlight, moved on and appears to be reoriented to life without reality cameras.
I always say there’s someone for everyone. I know that neck of the woods and it’s just a normal Midwest living kinda life. I wish them love and happiness.
I like Vicki, & when she liked Brooks I liked him too. I felt bad for him that one time he was going to “drink on his birthday “ at the restaurant then Vicki blew up at Shannon and they left before they had their drinks!!
You do know that they tried to scam cancer victims, right?
lol stop reading Breitbart news.
Sure, lying about cancer to the entire country is no big deal. All he did was was vomit on the cancer community, all the survivors’ relatives and the relatives of those who did not survive. All he did was produce phony medical records and claim to be in chemo while thousands who really were in chemo had to be subjected to his spewings. And Tamara, meanwhile, is “pulling for ole Brooks.” Hey Tamara, GFY.
I’m with you Tapestry. Why did God, or Mr. Science Guy, give us a memory if we’re supposed to forgive everyone who has ever done anything horrible to a group of completely helpless victims, like those suffering from cancer? People like Brooks and Vicky make it easy to choose the type of people we want to spend absolutely no time wondering about. You know, the lying, cheating ones.
Oh well, let the New-Age worshipping Timothy Robbins believers forgive everyone, horrible as people like the Brooks of the world are. And may they invest their time and money with them so the rest of us don’t have to.
Im not talking about Brooks, but I have trouble with people saying I HAVE to forgive anyone who harmed me on purpose or isnt a good person either. So Im not big on the forgiveness movement, that turns it around and puts it all on the victim. Who does the perpetrater have to forgive? Are they made to feel guilty for having bad thoughts? Im actually forgiving to a fault, but its not warranted in all cases. I believe you can get better and move past things just fine without forgiveness.
Forgiveness is what some people do when other people harm them in some way. Forgiveness is not really relevant to people on a reality show because the people on the reality show do not even know you. So they don’t need your forgiveness.
Many of you seem to watch reality TV simply because you really enjoy the schadenfreude of it all. You thrive off of watching others suffer. One clue this applies to you is if you post every week about shows you claim to hate and/or never watch and then make a list of all the people on the show and why and to what degree you hate them. Then do the same thing ever single week.
It goes beyond commenting on the events in the episode and taking sides like normal watchers do. Or pointing out the stupidity of the lies and the ridiculously unbelievable storylines or the inconsistency of the lies the people on the show tell each week. It is when you take glee in someones misfortunes or everyones misfortunes. People who start saying things like “no wonder she can’t have kids” or “it was great she got the shit beat out of her” or wishing pain and misfortune on people. Like the people who loved when Kenya’s mother would not answer the door. That’s a good example of schadenfreude.
The opposite of that comes from the same place. That is when you (not speaking to anyone in particular here) become enraged because bad things are NOT happening to people you want to see bad things happen to. PEOPLE YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW.
In the seven years I have been writing this blog this level of glee over the pain of others or anger over the lack of pain seems to increase exponentially. It’s a worrisome sign of the times.
And now, in this particular situation, there seems to be a ground swell of people who will turn that rage on me, because I’m just not that invested in shit that happens on a reality show. for the past three years or so, I’ve been trying to nudge you into TV shows that are less like to give you all an anneurysm. But it’s not working.
So please, rage on, It’s great for ratings. I’m just not willing to join the mob with my pitchfork over this one.
Tamera….this is an amazing statement. My next comment will probably be hated by many…but I feel the same way about the hate for T. Guidice. I don’t understand it. Her and her husband are not great people and did disgusting things in order to live a lifestyle. But the justice system has dealt with them. I’m not even a Tre hugger….I just don’t see the point in hating her so darn much. The comments on one site in particular are crazy. Bottom line is, these are people on reality shows. There is no reason to personally hate them and spend hours upon hours upon hours of writing nasty comments about them wishing them all sorts of misfortune and attacking people who disagree with you. Some comment sections on certain blogs I avoid because its sick. It’s usually the same group of people who spew hate all day, every day about almost everyone. We have got to be better than that.
And if you really want to punish a reality star, turn off their show. No need for vitrol, just change the channel.
What is it about Brooks that makes you “root for him”, as you stated in your post? He always struck me as a nuisance more than a critical player in the OC Housewives world. If he were a health issue say, since he liked to create health issues in his own life, I’d call him an unwanted wart versus a type of cancer.
Not sure why you believe it’s worthwhile hoping has a better life though. Sure you have your reasons, just not sure what they are. Please explain Tamra since I often agree with you, just not on this one.
I call it, being human. (Just my two cents.)
No one can weather the glare of reality television and publicity without ending up looking like a total pos in the end. We all do wrong things, and every single thing you ever did, from stealing a piece of bubblegum from the store to much worse will eventually be exposed, I keep hearing that Brooks and VIckie “scammed” cancer victims, but how? By lying about his cancer? How much money did they get for their scam? What was the nature of the scam? That is not scamming, its just trying to find a storyline. I have heard over and over about this alleged scam, but never any details or specifics. None of us would look good under the scrutiny.
It’s the fucking phones. People see no problem sharing every stupid thought they have the moment that they have it. Like this one!
Not really. I don’t have a phone and refuse to cave. Some shit is going to have to go down before I do, because fuck that. It sucks and it’s making people suck more than ever.
I can’t even talk about how invested people are in fake shit that happens on TV. I don’t even know what that is, exactly, spewing hate to people getting paid by some production company? Ok.
Thats why I said Im not talking about Brooks. I dont care about him. Just because you dont forgive someone doesnt mean youre full of hate or anger. Ive never posted someone deserved not to have kids or deserved anything bad happening to them..
We all gossip about the demise and/or elevation of our loathed / favourite reality tv personalities.
We look for alleged source gossip/ innuendo from this very site.
For me, this site is as much a guilty pleasure as is watching these reality shows.
I don’t like Brooks because he’s a pathological liar and deadbeat dad who’s behind on child support.
I don’t see anything redeeming about him in this article or any other.
I also don’t particularly care that he’s gotten married, she’s got a job, so she can read… thats on her.
BOOM!
“while thousands who really were in chemo had to be subjected to his spewings.”— is RHOC a staple in cancer treatment centers? No one HAD to do anything, ppl could easily change the channel.
The bs cancer story line was exactly that, bs! It made for train wreck tv – I kissed my pillow a lot that season (pillow over face- I am so embarrassed for these ppl)
My mama is a breast cancer survivor, I did not take it personal. I also do not allow reality tv and or the ppl on the shows to control my emotions. I am a bi!ch like that😙
Xo
I was going through chemo while all this was playing out on the show. The women I would sit with, who were also going through chemo, would talk. Some were stage 4 and looking for hope anywhere they could find it. We did discuss what was going on with Brooks and the products from Club Detox. A couple of the women did join and pay a lot of money for a lot of crap, they both died. I’m not saying that their death was Vicki and/or Brooks’ fault, but knowing that the whole thing was a scam and that what little resources these women had were going to a fraud enrages me to this day.
I’m sorry, I’m calling bullshit on this. They both died? That’s an extreme way to try to win a point, isn’t it?
@just – I hope you are ok xo
Amen!
Okay don’t want you to GFY ( just figured THAT out!) but I do agree and I’m so surprised at your attitude towards ole Brooksie! He is a pos.
WOW! Stage 3 breast cancer survivor here and I find your comment completely ridiculous and unnecessary.
Good luck to the couple.
In the name of RHOC, TT why have u been rooting for Brooks? BROOKS?
I could be wrong…but TT was sarcastic at the end. I’m not sure she’s entirely Team Brooks. Lord knows I’m not. Cancer scammers are despicable pieces of rhymes with hit. 💩
Actually, TT just lacks the wide spectrum of vitriol you guys have for hatred and vitriol. If you are enraged and hateful towards pretty much everyone one the shows you spend way too many hours of your life hating with all your pee pee you run out of hatred for more important issues. If you are aware of any issues not involving reality TV. Brooks is not in jail because he hasn’t committed any crime other than possibly child support and we have no idea of the details of that situation and even if we did, it’s none of my business.
But y’all carry on spewing the hate because someone you don’t like and never met got married and seems happy. It’s two less people spewing hate as far as I’m concerned.
I am not spewing hate just surprised on your meh attitude towards Brooks. The cancer thing did it for me. That is pretty much unforgivable.
Okay.
Whatever
Anyone who has watched someone you love die of cancer in front of your eyes raise your hand! Sorry not sorry he pisses me off! And I’m out
Does my sister count?
I’m sure the cat women can link you to her obit.
They also said things like she didn’t love me and my whole family hates me.
Or maybe my father would be a more compelling option for you.
Or two of my aunts?
Would you like for me to talk about killing my sister with the final dose of morephine? It’s okay. I’ve talked about it before.
Her son and the rest of the siblings didn’t want to give it to her, but I did. Do you want to know more about how cancer has effected my life? Or the likelihood that I will most likely die with not one to put me out of my misery? Please, tell me what I do not know about cancer.
I’ll wait.
You didn’t kill your sister Tamara, Cancer did. You had the ability to put her comfort over your own and your loved ones. I’m sorry you had to make that decision, sorry for anyone who does but you made a sound choice to see your sister through with dignity and love.
Why is who had cancer or not some kind of contest? It’s fucking sick to do that, people. Everybody’s been touched by it. EVERYBODY. It doesn’t make anyone special, and it doesn’t make overblown outrage over a TV show any more understandable.
XO
I think there are elements to the Brooks Cancer Saga that none of us will ever know. It’s very easy to judge, but we have no idea who was really pulling the strings, whether mental illnesses were involved etc.
I agree – I’ve been revisiting the seasons and Vicki mentioned something about being a victim of domestic violence before Brooks. I’m in the minority I know, but I don’t think she knew until she it was too late and by then, everyone was alienated.
It was Vicki who invested in Club Detox and it was Vicki who was featured all over their web site talking about how much their products were helping Brooks. It was Vicki who drug the head of Club Detox all over the place with them so that she could get the exposure on the show to get more investors. When it all came crashing down, it was Vicki to tried to start a fake charity to get insurance leads. Vicki’s greed knows no bounds. She needs money because that’s what she uses to control the people in her life. I do think Vicki is mentally ill and consumed with greed.
Most people I know who have had cancer and some of whom who have died have changed to a much healthier diet and a different style of getting nutrients like juicing. That Club Detox crap was just a juicing company looking to get attention on a SoCal show where juicing is quite common. No one ever said that drinking juice was going to cure cancer. Vicki did say that Brooks felt better after drinking the juice. Every other housewife is now pushing the diarrhea on IG pretending like they drink it and makes their bellies smaller.
I do not for a minute believe that bunch of women with cancer were sitting around yakking it up during chemo about Brooks. Or that they bought the tea and died. Or that they were scammed. I believe one of my favorite people stopped posting here because, among other things I told her not to piss off the cancer people by pointing out that people with cancer should listen to their doctors and not some random grifter on a reality show. For you to blame the fact not one but two (cough oversell cough) stage four cancer patients bought some overpriced juice and then died on Vicki and Brooks is a best utter stupidity and at worse, an actual actionable libelous statement. And serves to prove the level or acrimony here has gotten insane.
I was actually talking about Brooks being mentally ill. I don’t think a healthy person wakes up and decides to fake cancer. IMO there was obviously something much bigger at play — either a prior trauma or an unmedicated mental illness causing his strange behavior. To take his lies personally is a waste of energy, as well as ignores the possibility that he likely really needed help and compassion at that point in his life. It’s time to forgive him. He’s off our screens and trying to move on. As TT has said, we should all do the same.
100%! Its a REALITY TV SHOW! They televise what THEY want you to see and to think.
The scariest part of this post is that she has 2 young daughters.
Yep. That is scary, because its not just her thats put at risk. Brooks shows alot of traits of a cluster B major personality disorder. They dont change. So, even if you forgive, its not gonna redeem them. They’ll take your forgiveness as a weakness even, to exploit. Time will tell. I wonder how much this news pains Vickie. I think Steve is so much better, and that ought to help, but I think Brooks did a real number on Vickies ego and mind, that fooled her heart. It wasnt love, so much as demon possession. Lol.
yes, indeed! guys like this don’t change, they just learn to hide their tracks better.
Or women like this, dont change either. Some people are just wired wrong and they cant change it. Alot of people dont understand about these disorders. They think theyre simply people that have made mistakes or had growing up to do. They dont realize they get boerd and cycle people, that they have to do that, lack empathy or impulse control.
This was my first thought too. The things Brianna claims Brooks said to and about her should never be said. I hope this behavior does not repeat itself with his new step daughters.
No matter how last season turned out. I still think Vicki lied about cancer, and should’ve been fired from the show like Phaedra was.
I think Vicki was the one that came up with the whole thing.
Oh please!!
ALL I could think of was that Vicki paid for his new teefs!
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thats funny. Vickie gave too much too soon, and thats not the way it works with men. I think if its off and on, blows hot and cold, youre getting played. Love shouldnt do that. Vickie showed a real weakness to her charecther, in that she was willing to put him before everyone and her integrity and honesty, and he didnt even give a shit about her. Its hard to forget that because she did it so long to the point she knew, but didnt care.
of course she knew Vicky is very ME Me Me
That was my fist thought bought him a new smile that another woman will now have.
That is totally where I my thoughts went! His paid for teeth by Vicki. Brooks saw her coming from a mile away and got what he could outta her. Vicki has to be burning with jealously that Brooks hooked a spouse before her. Poor Steve! Vicki will now hold his feet to the marriage fire.
Besides the shit move of claiming cancer, the other thing about this so-called man that I can’t get out of my head was how he joked with Brianna’s husband about slapping Brianna around to keep her in line. This guy is low brow.
Pond Scum
Brooks used Cancer so Vicky would take care of him and be his sugar momma
that is my opinion
he figured if I am sick enough Vicki won’t charge me rent,which she made him sign a lease while they lived together.
Vicki was no fool as far as her money went. Brooks was looking for a way around paying and helping out with bills,
maybe cancer would get his butt outta hot water with back child support.
He is real scum and Sorry But she is nuts to marry him cause now if they ever get tax money she will have to pay his back child support they take it and do not care .
Hope she has a prenup
She is very pretty and I love her wedding dress. I bet this news will make Vicki nuts and demand that Steve marry her immediately. I found his behavior disgusting, not only the cancer lie but telling Ryan to beat his wife to get her in line. However, Vicki chose him over her friends and her daughter even with all the evidence against him. Brooks exposed the real Vicki to the bravo audience.
TT I agree with you some very vicious people out there. I guess reality tv is the the World Wide Web if it’s on there it MUST be true. Lol.
I Meant reality tv is like the www. Forgot the like.
My first reaction was ‘good for him’ but then I remembered all the awful stuff he’s done which may not have affected you TT but it did hurt many who have been affected by cancer. I do think VG is worse than him at this point, she tried to directly profit from her awful lies, where as he has gone back to his ordinary life and shied away from further attention. So I won’t lie, if he was infront of me rn, I’d be torn between shaking his hand and spitting in his face for faking something which has ripped apart millions of famillies, for a redemption storyline on a reality show. Oh and congratulations to the new Mr & Mrs Ayers.
I’m glad you seem to be trying to turn over a new leaf btw, positive vibes lead to a happier life. But lets not pretend you’re above the hate directed towards reality TV shows. Weren’t you calling The Lady C an utter moron and fucktard the other week because
The Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Blood of Old Valaryia and Ruler of The Seven KingdomsShangela <Stormborn lost out on AS3? 😅Yes. I was. Lady C and I are good friends in real life and she writes several recaps here on this site. I think your sarcasm meter needs to be adjusted. If she were to in fact die in a fire, as Jean Paul Getty said about his son that committed suicide with a grilling fork in the garage at his funeral, “I will miss her phone calls.”
I know, I enjoy Lady C’s recaps for the sarcasm I apparently don’t get. 😜 What I mean is we all riled up on this site at one point or another, including you so I don’t think anyone has the moral high ground on ‘hate’. Although, as I said I’ve certainly noticed less of it these days, so power to you. 😊
Wow. Unbelievable. WTF is wrong with people and their hate filled bullshit comments? Their names are new, maybe they should all DIAF?
yes.
Vicki is reaching for the Vicki Vodka bottle as we speak.
I didn’t like Brooks on RHOC. I couldn’t stand what he did 3 years ago. But that was 3 years ago. He has tried to stay out of the limelight since then. He hasn’t chased reality TV fame after the show like other reality TV stars have done. Let him be. If he is using this woman, that’s on her. I wish them luck on their marriage, because marriage is hard, not because of who he is.
My Mother died of breast cancer,4 Aunts are cancer survivors as my own sister. There are many more relatives and loved ones who have lived and died with cancer. Brooks and Vicki did not hurt them in anyway. Cancer did. I don’t want to hear any comments on why I am crazy for not hating them. I hate cancer. Down thru the years the fight against cancer has come a long way , so I don’t get the harm bit. They are on a reality show people, get a grip . Stop throwing stones unless you are perfect and you are not.
I wish the couple well and their families as they start this new chapter in their lives.
My first thought? Looks young enough to be his daughter.
Second thought? I wish Bravo would buy me a new set of choppers. It’s like 40 grand to get a mouth full of implants, yikes.
I never understood what he got out of the cancer thing. It’s confusing. But wow blast from the past. I agree with TT to some degree especially since reality tv and Vicki seem to be very unreal…I don’t know what to believe on this one!
When you stop believing there is good in human beings hatred takes over and you aren’t really living. I can barely watch the housewives shows anymore with all of the fighting and negative it just spews into the world while I’m a parent hard working scared to send my innocent children to school now a days. Who fucking cares if he got married? If it bugs you move the fuck on. If people put this much energy into real issues imagine what the world would look like!!
DO I remember correctly that there was a woman in Indy he owed child support to? I may be wrong,but I wonder if this is that woman, though my vague memory is that that child was a boy….could all be wrong.
TT, I appreciate this position you are discussing, and agree. The longer these shows go on, the more they are managed by production as “shows”, not reality, the more validity your thoughts have, and the further the distance is between these “characters” in reality shows and those presented on them . It is more fiction and less personal drama representing true reality. So there is less to take seriously about the people and less to personalize.
Several years ago the entire goal of the editors was to grab the audience and hold their attention; now people like Vicki have diluted the credibility of the women so much that that is far less possible, and it makes sense to step back and let the presentation provide entertainment, but not swallow one’s emotions. .
The women insisted that the cameras not be too close when they were going through tough moments in their lives ( Ramona’s divorce, Sonya’s bankruptcy, Luanne’s whatever, _or their partners insisted, like Jason refusing to allow their daughter on) and they deliberately chose topics two stories removed from real life, which necessarily separated the audience from the women they cared so much about, and that too created the distance.
We’ve moved to a new era and I think you are helping point it out, TT.
Also, life is serious and dangerous and moving very quickly now- from politics to violence to hope- and there are so many pent up feelings, as the story cycle has now shifted to 20 minutes while the next news emerges, that there is not enough time to allow people to have news sink in, be considered, and responded to, before the next one emerges. So one thing that I notice happening is that people react to nonsense like reality TV strongly, which they can without offending or hurting most people in their lives, to deal with some of the emotion that rightly belongs in the world of these activities, but needs more time to play out. We all need time to consider, reflect and respond, but no longer have it, so I believe some of the over reacting to reality TV is an easy way to dispel the emotions that most have not time enough to deflate/eliminate/share in the world that matters more the one we live in.
Probably a relatively healthy way to let it go, as long as it hurts no one. TT would say it can hurt Brooks or this new wife or Vicki, I guess- and it can, but if you choose to be in entertainment, your actions garner responses. Brooks knew that. Vicki surely does.
I have never been a huge Vickie fan but felt terrible about her divorce, those are terrible for the most part. It has always been about validating Vickie’s worth and she has a desperate need to be told how loved she is and that’s where Brooke’s came in. He lifted her her up, he validated her he made her feel loved and wanted and even needed and that fulfilled her. He is very smart and I don’t think she knew about the bullshit cancer thing right off the bat, I think she figured it out and closed her eyes to it because she was hurt and embarrassed by it and wasn’t sure how to deal with it. Brooke’s pulled some slimy shit but none of that affected any of our lives, it did Vickie’s though. She seems to be happy now and for that I am grateful because now we can stop hearing about her love tank and all. And I am also very tired of everyone throwing the cancer shit out there, I hate to defend the enfensable. Basically I think I just feel sorry for her, she has “fame”, fortune, health and all and it isn’t enough emotionally for her. Now onto Brooke’s, I hope he is happy off in the mid west with his new wife, hopefully he has turned over a new leaf and is flying right. But at the end of the day none of it is any skin off my nose.
But their lies DID affect my life and it makes me sick that they will never be made to pay for what they did to cancer victims. If Vicki did want out of all of it and was embarrassed once she knew the truth about Brooks and his lies, then why did she try yet another cancer scam? Brooks had nothing to do with the fake charity.
If your life was harmed and your dying friends were duped by Vicki and Brooks why are you still watching reality TV shows? You probably are not a good match for the shows. Why would you watch things that leave you so traumatized. There are so many better things on TV anyway WHICH I KEEP TRYING TO TELL ALL OF YOU.
My sister wasted a lot of money on weird things when she was dying too. I’m not harboring hatred toward the companies that sold her the stuff.
DId they personally come to your home hat in hand and harm you? I just don’t see how they harmed you. And I’m sorry if a reality show sways your life in such a way that you and others feel harmed, y’all may want to take a long hard look at your life. No offense, really. To me these shows are entertaining, I don’t look to them and their “stars” for life and health advice.
I’m with you, TT. I enjoy watching the shows and wish the best for all of the personalities on those shows. Some I like, some I don’t but I just don’t find myself wishing harm on anyone regardless of whether I like them or not.
The things that he said to Brianna were beyond disgusting…”Girth Brooks” and then told her husband they he should beat her and keep her in line…sorry, unforgivable in my book. I pray this woman does not have young teen girls in the home. I would not leave him alone with them.
As much as I disliked Brooks’ conduct while he was on RHOC with Vicki, I never bought into the scenario that she was swept up in his lies. I always thought that it was something they cooked up together to garner sympathy for Brooks. All the ladies had been very outspoken in their dislike of him, and how they thought he was using her, and I think Vicki (with her mentality of people bringing her casseroles, etc.) though it would endear him to them, and then he would have a miraculous recovery. Instead, with all the probing from Meghan, Shannon and Heather, it all went to hell in a handbasket, got completely out of control, and became the nightmare it was.
I know he was inappropriate to Brianna, no excuse for that, but I’m sure his excessive drinking (pretty hard to avoid when you’re around Vicki all the time) didn’t help matters. I’m not condoning anything Brooks did – he disgusted me as much as he did the rest of you, but I do think that, in a completely different environment, people can change and become better versions of themselves. This is possibly what happened here. He looks much more at ease than he did in “the old days” and seems to have a beautiful bride and good life.
Forgive me if I’m being naive and too much a believer in hoping that goodness triumphs over evil, but I hope he’s living a better life than he did with Vicki.
Maybe I’m mistaken (and I’m too lazy to double check) but Brooks always seems to get smart, good looking women. I feel like a couple ex baby mamas popped up a couple years ago to discredit him when that fake cancer storyline was going on and I was surprised how youngish they were too. Maybe the Hallmark references really do work.
On a side note, I’ve decided I’d like to see Vicki Gunvalson and Ramona Singer on some sort of Bravo road trip together, like the one Kim and Nene were supposed to do.
GOOD for him! who here is ANYWHERE NEAR being perfect?
Wow, Tamara experienced some kind of miraculous conversion to niceness and turns on her followers after years of writing snarky, cutesy criticism about reality show “stars” while consciously or unconsciously encouraging her fans to copy her style and attitude in their comments. Planning a career change? Over and out.
See ya! I don’t know where you get I am not going to criticize reality folks and continue to criticize them. And I am not “turning on my commenters.” You have been here long enough to know that a some point, I’ve had to reel in the hatred. I’ve done it many many times, more than I would like. I’ve mention MANY times over the years about how many comments I keep out and how much I regulate what happens here.
There is the vitriol you see here. There is the even WORSE vitriol in the people who are not allowed to comment here. There is the vitriol in the emails. There is the vitriol on Twitter ( I do admit to contributing to that A LOT that is MY outlet, Then there are all the people who are dying or someone the love has died or someone they love died in 1973 or their mother, brother , sister or them themselves have cancer, or their homes were devasted in storms, or their husbands left them, or or or or IT NEVER STOPS.
I need a threshold of the level of hatred spewed her. It’s ridiculous to me that so many people want to spew hate over a marriage. I’m NOT SORRY I don’t hate Brooks. I don’t know him. I do follow him on social media and I think he has made a LOT of changes in his life. I’m willing to extend to him the same sense of compassion that people extend to me when I fuck up. And I fuck up a lot. I raged at a source recently who was WAY KINDER than I deserved. And remains a source. I do fucked up things all the damn time And people forgive me.
I have a friend who is my person. I am not his person. I am probably 9,934th on his list of people. And all the way down that list, I feel important. We’ve been friends for over a decade. Shit closer to two. And no stupid thing I can do it seems makes me fall to 9,935. I’ve benefited a lot from people with forgiving hearts.
In real life I have a very serious pay it forward philosophy. I’ve been blessed and I pay it forward when I get feed by someone who sends me food (literally) I feed others. When I get forgiveness for being an idiot, I pay that forward too.
But that is really not the point here. The point is even though I follow Brooks, and know a bit more about him, I don’t know him. And I love love. and I love when people get married. And I generally wish the best for people I see are trying.
I still think Dorit and Peekay are shit people I still wait with anticipation for Sheree to get what is coming to her. But I am not screaming that Dorit needs her children removed from her home and that Sheree needs to be skiined alive. There is a difference there.
Well God Bless ’em, I don’t care. I always did think that despite the protests to the contrary, vicki was in that whole cancergate thing up to her eyeballs in order to have a juicy story and casseroles. Getting all of the attention is what she wanted.
If we allow her to entertain (not me, I vomit over the words Whoop it up), then we let him go his way and get married. I cant see how this affects anyone other than them. He isn’t coming back
You’re right-I have fucked up many times and have been forgiven pretty much every time. You got me with the “pay it forward” sentiment.
I’ve been blessed SO VERY MANY TIMES and I always pay it forward. Both financially and emotionally. Man, my friends have to forgive me so much it is embarrassing.
AND YET THEY DO.
And that makes me pay it forward in so many ways.
I know a lot of really good people. I am blessed.
Brooks gives me a “Dirty John” vibe. So I would proceed with caution on all fronts. He is a master of coercive control and preys on vulnerable women who need to be loved. Don’t let his charm fool you ever.
The first rule of men that control is that they separate their partners from their family. Root for him all you want, he is a con-artist.
Tamara I know your sister died of cancer but did not know that you, like me had to administer the final and fatal dose that would take them away from us but give them the relief they deserved. I guess I’m still pissed that no one but my son (who came for the final 3 weeks of a year and 9 month battle) was there for me. My family lives in New England. His family showed up to get the stuff they wanted after he died. I got it-cancer freaks people out and I’m real good at pretending I’m ok. But I’m not. A lot of people offered to help but he didn’t want anyone around so I respected his wishes. That quesywasnt meant for you-I wouldn’t disrespect YOUR blog-it was just a feeling sorry for myself comment aimed at those whose comments were pissing me off. I was actually thinking while posting that that I hoped you would know that wasn’t intended for you. Did we just have our first fight or our last?
Please. I argue with all y’all and the ones who stay …. those are my favorites. It did piss me off that you don’t know that pretty much everyone has someone with cancer in their lives.
OTHOH there are a lot of posts here when I was in the midst of menopause where I lost my mind right here on this site. You can probably put something like “I killed my sister” or yet another Tamara meltdown in my search box. There were so many problems that I should not repeat here. But there were a lot of people in the room.
I don’t think we are special. I just think there is no need to despise people who have done nothing to you. This death wish on Brooks or anyone else who has found happiness… I am all for that.
I’m off to bed.
‘Nuff said. Me too. Goodnight
I left out my mom brain cancer aunts friends etc. I guess we have more in common than we realized. Pain honey, plus I detoxes myself off of a 10 year battle with painkillers after Terry died. I promised him and myself I would and I have. Shit I am SO over myself-wah was wah. I do apologize
No apology necessary. And the point was Brooks is not responsible for our losses. He’s just a dude on a reality TV show that we do not know. And even if he is the worst person in the world (which I do not believe) out family would still have died, And I don’t believe he did anything to hurt cancer victims.
Agreed
Agreed
I’ve always pulled for his shady ass too. Dude got a lot of shizz, and it was a long time ago. Everyone can chill.
Well the positive side to this is now we know we wont see him on RHOC ever again! No rebound love will happen. Everyone is happy.
Brooks is a con artist… plain and simple. He may not do anything illegal. But he hurts people and leaves carnage at every turn. He plays on vulnerable women and leaves them brokenhearted, humiliated and with less money in their bank accounts. Is it the women’s faults for trusting him? Not in my eyes. He’s the worst kind of person. No conscience whatsoever. He just sees what he can take from them until the jig is up and he moves on to the next. People like him aren’t capable of change because it doesn’t matter to him who he hurts. But he’ll get what he deserves just like the rest of us.
I got tired of trying to read all of the comments about this post so please forgive me if someone else already said something similar. Does anyone not think that Bravo executives were also involved in the Brooks and Vicki cancer scam?? It was a story to get ratings and make them the villians. Brooks & Vicki did A LOT and lying and scamming, Bravo HAD to know this. Seriously, the stupid forged medical That was just beyond stupid.
I can’t stand Vicki and I think she and Brooks are such pathetic fame whores to sink as low as they did with a cancer scam for tv. But in the end, who the F should care? That’s on them. If you believe all of the manipulative shit on reality tv you probably shouldn’t watch it anymore. (Btw, I watch Bravo reality tv like 80% of the time. I like to escape my own boring reality 😉
Note: I would love to see a psychology grad student to write a thesis on that season to see if Vicki was in on the lie the whole time- (I think so).
Thanks, Tamara, for providing me with more of an escape from real life. I love your blog and you save me a bunch of time trying to watch everything.
Wonder how long before her money is all used up and more stories are forth coming
I wish them what ever happiness they have a short time