Like Sonja Morgan, I may have peed a little when I discovered Lea Michele is on this episode of Watch What Happens Live. I am just so in love with the theory that Lea Michele can’t read that I delight in trying to catch her fake reading on every show she is on. I love me some oddball conspiracy theory. I want Andy to address it and have her grab a book of the clubhouse shelf, open to a random page and read something out loud!
Andy starts right in on the Bethenny and Carole breakup by playing a clip of Carole on WWHL where she said. “Everything Bethenny said is not true.” Bethenny says that most people would disagree with that comment because everything she says is always true. I have no idea what she is talking about after that. My brain is not being very cooperative today so maybe it is just me. Bethenny said she doesn’t talk about Carole that much in her interviews. Then she says that there was a shift (a shift in what?) and when you come on a show where there so many people involved in it (she didn’t just come on the show and involved in what?) it becomes even bigger. (WHAT IS ‘IT?’). Andy says “it” gets more intense as the season goes on. Bethenny says. “the way you react to something is as important as the initial something.” She said “they had a “shift” that I didn’t think was that big of a deal. But everything I said was what was going on. There had been a little bit of a shift. And I did invite her to stay at my house in the Hamptons. And she said she was staying with Tinsley and it was a little bit late in the game but I had Dennis there and my daughter and they would not have been able to film in the house with her daughter there. ” Clear as mud, right?
Bethenny says Carole did donate to her charity and she is very grateful to all the women who donated. Sonja was the only one who did not donate and that’s fine she can donate to whatever she wants to donate to.
In the rift between Sonja and Ramona, most people are on Ramona’s side. Because Ramona is so sane, logical and supportive.
Bethenny’s boobs look fantastic tonight. Did she get them perked up a bit? Bethenny is team Dorit and that bothers me. She is not a fan of Kim Biermann though, so there’s that. Someone asks Bethenny which of her cast mates has slept with the most men. She says it’s a dead heat between Luann and Sonja. Too close to call. Andy wants a poll for that question.
Andy shows a clip of an unintelligible Dorinda embarrassing the hell out of Bethenny at a dinner with her charity crew the night before they are supposed to go to Puerto Rico. Bethenny suggests that Dorinda shouldn’t come as she see the situation as so hopeless. I am profoundly embarrassed on behalf of Dorinda. This is very difficult to watch. Everyone seems to react the same way. Andy just says, “That’s a doozy” and goes to the slut shaming poll. Sonja wins the slut poll by 81%.
Bethenny and Jill are staying in touch and they have a good relationship now. This should have been the lead story!!!
Bethenny talks about B Strong and how over fifty million dollars of relief has been distribute to Puerto Rico and many other areas. I hope that one commenter in Florida got her light bulb for her street light too. Then she says that Andy donated a plane. I believe he donated the cost of a flight. I don’t think he has a plane. This was confirmed on the after show.
Andy confirms that Erika had a bad migraine at the reunion.
On the after show Lea Michele is asked about the conspiracy theory about her illiteracy. She goes on and on about how ridiculous it is. Bethenny hands her a cue card and asks her to read it. She says, “Bethenny, laughs and says Dorinda.” ONCE AGAIN SHE DID NOT READ A THING.
Apparently Dorinda gave an interview where she is mad at Bethenny for calling her a drunk. Seriously? Has she seen this episode? She needs rehab and a crisis PR person. Bethenny said she was most certainly a drunk in Miami.
This was a juicy episode.
Thanks for the recap! I don’t watch or tape WWHL anymore, but I do enjoy your recaps.
Watched & enjoyed.
I feel like the Bethenny v Carole situation is all fake storyline to set up the reconciliation next season. Not much going on this season, but I am still enjoying this show much more than RHOA and RHOBH combined. Much more lighthearted!
Great recap! I watched it last night but for some reason Bravo kept freezing so I missed some of the dialog on the Real Housewives of NY episode and missed a few things on WWHL. Which housewife did Bethenny say she’d like to come back to the show? I’ve never heard the theory that Lea can’t read, so that gave me a good laugh.
The question was more, if you had to pick one to come back. Lea suggested Jill so Bethenny went with that.
Thank you for the response.
She said Jill.
Yes, bring back Jill! She and Bethanny were great together. I’ve never understood why people didn’t like Jill. She seems perfectly New York to me.
In the 1st two seasons they loved Jill. She gave Bethenny a place to stay in the Hamptons, made sure she was invited everywhere so she could network and even made introductions to help little Johann & Francois get into a top puck school. THey loved her while they needed her.
Pick school, top pick school
Oh, and I’m getting really embarrassed for Dorinda. Does anyone know if she’s just always been a drinker who turns into an ugly drunk or did that happen after Richard died?
It seems like she’s always had a huge personality and sociable but after Richard she seems to be looking for an escape. Remember season before last with the story about her behavior in the Hamptons off camera before filming…
She’s gone off the deep end but I doubt she sees how badly she’s behaving.
Am I the only one appalled at the slut shaming on the show. Dorinda screaming that Sonja is a ho and Tinsley telling her to close her legs in the very same dinner was just too much, yet Sonja is the devil for saying Tinsleys boyfriend bought the gift certificate. Now the slut shaming is on wwhl. It’s so disgusting
No, Chelle, you are not. We had a big discussion about it on the RH thread last week. Check it out. I agree with you, as does everyone else, most likely.
Ahhh I hadn’t scrolled down to that post yet. Glad I’m not the only one that feels this way.
Coconuts, grapefruits, whatever, split down the middle and glued to the chest
I know!!!
Bolt ons. Not at all attractive, IMO.
Why would Bethenny call out Sonja for not contributing? That was a low blow. Just like her comment about Ramona’s wine glasses. Why so mean spirited? It gets old Bravo. We need some new cast members.
Bethenny lost a lot of points backing Dorit. I’m so psychologist but it seems that women with both Bethenny and Ericka’s background seem to resent the Teddi(great marriage and family life) and Tinsley(great relationship with her mom) types and I don’t think they even realize why.
Jealousy! Through and through. Erika and especially Bethenny are not supportive of younger newer versions!
Bethenny really needs to get another boob job. That space between her boobs is way too big. And her boobs look so fake like half- coconuts. She can’t possibly think that looks good.
Really? I think Bethany always looks good.
I thought her boobs looked GREAT in that outfit. I’ve seen them looking like bolt ons before. I feel like she got them refreshed
At least they’re not as bad as Dorit’s!!
My boobs have always been really far apart and still not “quite right” after getting them “refreshed”. The poor things came in wrong and proceeded to go off their merry way while I aged and had babies…bra shopping is a fricking nightmare!
I’d go on “Botched” in an instant if it was free!
We on the dark web on the “internets” call bad breast work “refund gaps.”
Breast kinda have a natural split but a natural 36dd as myself vs. a bought natural a-cup
that tried to go high b low c cup leaves the dreaded refund gap.
Two breasts screaming to stay away from each other. No harm no foul to breast work.
I always swore I’d get them if I breastfed the last kiddo but nursing till 36 months had me reconsider. They are here and are what they are and seriously with my Lupus I have zero interest in altering yet another cell for shit to attack. I do still sleep with a very tight wire bra and am vain enough to test the pencil test on breast and ass…..
Bethenny def didn’t need work on her breast but neither did Giselle Bunchen..it’s all perspective I think.
I always liked Jill. She would be great at bringing that Dorinda down a few pegs by calling her out on her nasty outbursts.. plus, she knows the other women already.
Jill dealing with Sonja would be gold.
Sonja could use a Jewish mother. I could use one myself these days. ?
I completely agree, but I wonder if Jill would return and be very meek in an attempt to secure the spot long-term? I can’t see her starting anything with anyone over fear of being hated again on social media.
I don’t think Jill could contain herself a whole season as meek/mild. Hurting as I’m sure she still is, explosive she may be. I think Jill’s days as a HW have come and gone. For her to return now after Bobbie’s passing? I don’t know, would just seem exploiting to me. Let her grieve in peace.
Would love to see Jill come back.
Bethenny has always looked good. She knows how to dress so I will leave the coconut decision at the door.
Lea Michelle is a different matter. I have been watching her pose from the beginning of Glee. Do you remember when Lea used to pose with one knee up, shoulders so far forward I thought they would meet in the middle. Even when she sits on a talk show, she poses. Last nights pose had her ring finger on display. When she shifted she was shoulders up, left side to camera ring finger hand straight out or on top of other hand. She is a hoot. She is certainly pleased about her engagement.
Go ahead and hate me now but Jill would be a good addition. The Bethenny, Jill, Luann, Ramona season was the best. Alex and Simon never belinged in that mix talking about wearable art, Johann & Francois speaking only French and having Alex’s backside in the newspaper was vomit inducing.
I love sonjia I think Ramona is sick for turning on her friend for not getting a “call” seriously? I have a very best friend and we havent spoken in months. Get over yourself Queenish Ramona you aren’t all that.
Also despise the skit shamming!! Carol and Luanne hook up with everything and they are a countess and a princess. I know carol is morecreserved and less “open” about her sexcapdes but come on. Slut shamming? Andy owes both women an apology and in my opinion its a form of sexual harassment. Just because he is gay, doesn’t give him the right to say whatever he wants about these women.
I also find Dorinda very unhinged. She needs help. You can’t “measure” your pain to someone else’s. Its not how it works. Everyone experiences pain differently. And I’m tired of hearing about a husband she “says” she has moved on from. Clearly not!! She is drinking her pain and its going to come to a very bad conclusion for her. Wether she goes to far with one of the girls, or disorderly conduct like the counttess. She needs an intervention.
I am beyond thrilled for Bethany and Jill. I think. Bethany is really honoring Bobbys life by making peace with is wife. I think these two really had a REAL friendship and production made it ugly for ratings. Which in my book is groose.
Bethany hands her a card and says to read it: I freaking love Bethany!