First of all, I got a few emails and DMs about Dorinda Medley tweeting Luann harshly over the past few hours. When I went to Dorinda’s twitter looking for some context, I discovered I was blocked. I am the person that constantly tells you people not to mean tweet Bravo show participants, I very rarely tweet them at all and when I do it is to compliment them on something. So either she reads here or she reads Bethenny’s timeline. I did tweet Bethenny the other night she had tweeted that she looked like hell on the episode and I responded that she look like someone working tirelessly on behalf of others and like someone who was being the kind of friend Dorinda needs right not. Anyway, here is what sent me looking for her twitter.
In this weeks blog, Luann wrote,
Bethenny invited Dorinda to Puerto Rico because she believed that she would be an asset on this relief trip. Instead, in an effort to appear relevant, Dorinda insulted Bethenny’s partners after she drank too much. You would think that by now Dorinda would realize that drinking makes her aggressive. It’s not a good look, and I hope she took to heart what Bethenny had to say about her drinking.
So Dorinda took to twitter to tweet aggressively. Perhaps it was 5 pm wherever she was.
Please note the misspelling of the word. “advice” this will be important in a minute. Meanwhile, first of all this tweet is also factually incorrect. Luann did not punch anyone in the face. She did slap Tom at a restaurant. I would have punched him in the face. The lack of self-awareness by Dorinda is astounding. Except Dorinda didn’t write this tweet. Her social media person did. These women will let just about anyone do their social media. It’s not smart.
Clearly the same moron is running both accounts with the same spelling issues. And do you really think Carole says “claps back”? This post is borderline functionally illiterate. That’s not our “writer girl.”
It’s always funny watching one idiot talk to herself as two different housewives.
Dorinda is ridiculous! That’s hysterical how they use the same person. I wonder if the person ever gets the accounts mixed up? Like sending the wrong person a text
EDITED BY ADMIN TO REMOVE SOMETHING THAT MIGHT DRAW THE WRONG CROWD.
Possibly the person who writes these tweets is also the person who blocks people not the account holder.
In the case of both Dorinda and Carole, it seems that lack of self-awareness and an extreme sense of self-entitlement – are character linked. Along with – evidently – mindless choices in social media reps who are “above” needing to know how to spell properly when posting for the benefit of the masses — because we are mere peasants — and deserve nothing better. So — who cares? And who cares about the “unwashed millions” when you are in Dubai, do buy, all there is to buy. But they best beware, because such consistent arrogance goeth before big falls from $1500 platform heels.
you sound like you have a very tight rectum
@bubs- you express like a mean bully – which is typical of people who “make it nice” until someone dares to – shall we say – discontinue to kiss their (to use your word) “rectum”? Your crude ad hominem reply shows you have clearly lost the argument – and serves, like Dorinda’s tweet, to prove that point.
When I read the comment that bubs had for you my immediate reaction was that that was mean!!
I liked ur Dubai— do buy thing
Thank you so much, Liz!
Wow, there’s more projection in that comment than there is at my neighborhood multiplex.
You post sounds as if it could be describing most of the housewives, including Lu, Ramona and Bethenny. Self-reflection is not a skill they seem to possess.
Advise ?
Carole has proved once again she is a puppet for th cast members she latches onto bc she really has no storyline.
This reminds me of one of my favorite blog posts where a commentor said that you and another commentor were the same person. I loved reading the comments on that day. Sadly I can’t remember her name at the moment. She doesn’t visit anymore though I miss her snark.
Aim better.
TC66. Miss her terribly.
Yes, we do miss her. Thanks for reminding us of TC. If you didn’t want to know then you didn’t ask her. Lord help those fools who came for her. Her wit was epic.
God rest her soul.
Did she pass, T?
Well, that is a pretty common spelling error, so I’m not convinced by that alone that the two accounts are written by the same person. But you well could know other evidence on that point that I don’t. I do agree that it is highly unlikely that Carole wrote that tweet from her account.
If this is a hired position it means that part of their PR is to drag other castmates. They must not pay a great deal or maybe like Sonja, they have an intern who makes sloppy mistakes. Maybe Dorinda and Carole are self aware but have hired someone who has never watched the show to do their tweeting.
Why aren’t the two of them doing anything worth tweeting about?
A lot of them use volunteers. Which is why it so risky. The HW do tweet on their own, but the social media person will often do things like publicize their blogs and appearances, put up photos the HW sends them, and in general make sure there is content added on a daily basis. Those people often have access to their cell phones and can see their schedules and the HW text groups and such. They can be a wealth of information…
TT has her ways. And this is why I like you.
I’m kinda shocked about Carole, that’s just weird. She wouldn’t get that wrong. But, I would think that a writer would be very controlling over her public statements. Odd.
I like Carole this season. I like Dorinda and Lu. But I’m totally team Lu on this one.
A person “full of piss (alcohol) and bad manners (anarchy)”. Is so common during a breakup in Aus, we have this saying.
Bad manners on the booze during a breakup vs. bad manners to a random about charity work, no comparison…
Both Carole’s and Dorinda’s posts sound like they were written by 8 year olds. Do they observe child labor laws when they hire these underlings?
I really thought Dorinda & Carole wrote these. I could sort of understood why Dorinda responded to Luann (because she was drunk) but I couldn’t understand why Carole felt the need to jump in (since she is clearly over the age of 8).
Ugh. I really dislike people of a certain age getting into internet fights. And of a certain age I mean anything over eighteen. It’s just so juvenile and gross. In her blog Carole said a few times that Bethenny slammed her throughout the last episode. I don’t remember that being true at all. I’ve never been a huge Dorinda fan but I’ve always liked her. She’s been disappointing this season and beyond. Way too aggressive. It’s not a good look and I don’t get how she’s defending it. It seems Carole is leading a charge to alienate Bethenny.
The whole Carol/Bethany fight is fake. It’s done for The Show. They both know this is a TV show. Lets generate a controversial storyline. They are good friends. The joke is on us. It’s a show! What better way to keep us captived…
So Dorinda is now on Bravo in non-stop commercials for the new movie “Book Club” with Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda, Diane Keeton and Mary Sternbergen. For watever reason, Dorinda really does seem to be “Andy’s girl”.
Andy hasn’t had any pull with Bravo for years. He has absolutely nothing to do with who gets pimped out for commercials.The only thing Andy has control over is WWHL and he gets included on the executive producer loop for Housewives. He doesn’t have any ability to hire, fire or make decisions about any Bravo talent.
Thanks TT. Wonder who picked Dorinda, out of all the housewives, for this commercial that keeps running on Bravo.
Most likely it was the movie people. Dorinda has been VERY popular until this season. Everyone thought her drinking was cute for some reason. I’m familiar with the movie but I imagine that it is probably a movie with connections to NBCu and they asked for a popular housewife and Dorinda used to be one.
Thanks, TT!
That’s reassuring. That must be why he gloms onto “celebrities”, like Sarah Jessica Parker, at various functions, in order to appear more relevant.
Andy Cohen got himself repped by CAA which is a major, major Talent agency. ALLEGEDLY, they demand things like not using talent not with CAA on jobs. So he is “friends” with the CAA people. They are like a little Hollywood cult that he is in. That is why he keeps getting work. Allegedly.
AC is personal friends with SJP. They spend time together at their respective beach houses. (per his books)
I recommend the book, “Book Club” it is a good read and, had me thinking about what was said months after I finished. Plus it contains a list of books to read that I’ve referenced.
I had NO IDEA about people having someone else speaking or choosing what to say for them on social media.
That just seems like such a bad idea. Being responsible for someone else having control of what you are saying.
Seems that so much can go wrong with that. Wow.
I agree, I just reread something I commented on here and it had a grammar error. Yikes! I can’t imagine allowing someone speak for me, I’d rather take honest hits for my own stupidity.
Kipper, I think grammatical errors would be on the lower end of my concerns. Lol.
Agree, kinda my point, that alone bothers me, I really hate if my opinions where made for me…wrong or right I’d rather they really be “mine.”
Agree, kinda my point, that alone bothers me, I really hate if my opinions where made for me…wrong or right I’d rather they really be “mine.”
That’s why you hire professionals, not somebody’s 17 year old cousin who knows about emojis. This is my industry.
Well, the reason why some of them share people is they develop a trust in who they are using and when someone new like Dorinda comes along she goes with who someone else has used. LVP has a really major social media fuck up not too long ago, It is really obvious to me when they pick a bad one. A social media manager should be somewhat like a ghost writer and speak in the same way the HW would.
The real reason they want then to be vigilant is to block haters and trolls and publicize their appearances and blogs. They are not really supposed to start dramas. They are supposed to positively interact with fans, and alert the HW to any issues,
100% agree. There is an approval process in my world though.
Or a homeless girl in Ireland that Sonja mentioned during one of the reunions. Lol.
When you think about HWs like Teresa Giudice it makes sense. She would certainly struggle with writing tweets and such due to her poor language skills. I would also assume that it’s hard to spell words you cannot pronounce and do not know the meaning of. I would think someone like Ramona simply feels she’s above all that and is not concerned with reaching out to her “fans”, so why bother.
If they didn’t write them, they must have read the tweets by now. Why didn’t they take them down? Do they agree with the sentiments?
Dorinda is no longer making it nice 🙁
Now I’m cracking up. No idea why that double posted!
So didn’t Dorinda tell Ramona regarding the texts sent by Sonya, “say it forget it, write it regret” ? That must not apply to her in this case.
Excellent point!
Good point!,
Ugh. That is one of my pet peeves, using advise instead of advice.
Come on Dorinda, you can do better than this.
Good point Katie!! Um, advise is a verb-advice a noun. “Writer girl” knows the difference, the author of the tweet does not. Dorinda seems to take umbrage a LOT. She clearly has passion and I’m sure was a superior wife and mother. Hard to move on from, especially when you’re good at it. Been there, tee shirt etc.
I love Dorinda,. I hope this is temporary. I won’t desert her but at the same time this is not cool at all. It’s not funny and certainly not attractive. Is she too old for the curse?
I know it’s alcohol induced but there is something more…
It sure looks that way to me, too. I’ve thought she dated John so quickly because it took her mind off her grief. I think he drew her into little private parties and it was fun. Now the years have gone by and I notice that John seems much more like a caretaker, watching her warily and trying to get her off camera asap. Plenty of people use alcohol and drugs and function fine for awhile. But I’ve never seen anyone use for years and not have some personality changes. Of course I wish the best for all of them.
Uhhh? Is this blog now pointing out spelling mistakes? (Since that would probably be unlikely)…I would think that Carole tweeted the spelling mistake on purpose. (That is her usual sense of humor on twitter & blogs) …and Dorinda’s ‘tweet’ is Dorinda all the way. Don’t know why peeps think it’s a ‘fake’.?
So you’re saying that Carole and Dorinda really do think and act like 8 year olds. I felt better when I thought underlings wrote them.
Dorinda is showing us her true colours and by God they are putrid. This reunion will be memorable. I hope the Countess and B stay banded and let poor Sonja on the team, I want Bethenny and Luann to eviscerate Dorinda and Carole. End them once and for all. Dorinda just makes me sad, I can’t stand to watch her anymore. Carole has been a snoozefest, she’s so jealous that Luann is efforlessly chic and crazy and eccentric and that’s what endears us to her.
Sorry to disagree, but I think the likable Dorinda of past seasons is most likely the real Dorinda. My hypothesis, expressed in previous posts, is that right now her endogenous (internal origin) chemical system is so imbalanced that it’s affecting her behavior & causing her to try to find balance with external (exogenous) stuff & it’s not working very well for her. It’s not an uncommon situation for women at or past middle age. It happens to perfectly lovely people who gradually or even suddenly go whacko, & no amount of AA or rehab works. With the correct diagnosis, however, a simple prescription can do the job in a matter of days. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Dorinda, & every other woman who experiences this. Oh yeah, it can happen to men, too, though usually more gradually. In those cases, it’s usually given a more gentle & socially acceptable label, “mid-life crisis.”
All Carole does is use her friends to do her dirty work and fight for her, she did the same with Heather, bethenny, Tinsley and now Dorinda. Her hatred for Luann has been apparent since her first season on the show, before Adam, all of her “BFFs” all turn on Luann. She’s the real puppet master
Well, to be honest, Luann’s blog was surprising for me. After what happened to her it would be wise not to lecture/comment others on their drinking for some time. Still, Dorinda was her best friend, the one supporting her with Tom, and this tweet is just mean. I get that loneliness can make you very unhappy, and it is obvious she is going down.
What gets me pissed is that so many people still claim that they love drunk Dorinda. What is there to be loved?!
The thing is, a lot of what Dorinda says is true. Sonja is living in the past. Bethenny loves to label, dish out advice when she hates getting it back and she downplays others achievements in life. LuAnn did clock her husband and get arrested due to alcohol.
BUT… Dorinda lacks the self awareness she says the others are missing. We all have our flaws and hers is that alcohol and her temperment don’t mix very well and when she gets fired up she goes straight for the kill. No one’s expecting her to get up on a podium and be like “My name’s Dorinda and I’m an alcoholic”, though I don’t think taking responsibility for her fuck-ups is a hard ask. Hopefully she can move past the deflecting and attacking others to start working on herself, whether that’s on the show or away from the public eye. It would be a shame to see her get to Siggy levels of batshit, even though it seems right now she’s only a few very-dirty martinis away from there.
Tamara.. We are seeing Dorinda’s true colors and her superior attitude, ridiculing her fellow castmates, Are these women below her ? and why is she now informing Bethanny ” my husband is Dr. Medley to you.” WTF. Does she just tolerate the cast? Figures she would block you since you are beneath her. Don’t feel bad she is not worth it.
Tamara.. We are seeing Dorinda’s true colors and her superior attitude, ridiculing her fellow castmates, Are these women below her ? and why is she now informing Bethanny ” my husband is Dr. Medley to you.” WTF. Does she just tolerate the cast? Figures she would block you since you are beneath her. Don’t feel bad she is not worth it.
C,
I have never liked Dorinda because of her superior attitude, but she is defending her husband who accomplished so much in his life. If I’m Dorinda, I would have Bethenny by the throat. Bethenny knew exactly what she was saying in her comments about Richard. Why would she? Ahhhhh…to get Dorinda riled up cause it makes great reunion show tv. Bethenny could care less.
Also worth mentioning telling Bethanny ” Stick to what you know the ” Booze Business.”
She is not so nice.
I dont know (or care) who wrote Dorinda’s text in response to Luann’s advice. But I wholeheartedly agree with the text. Luann is in no position to criticize anyone about drinking or embarrassing public behavior.
Dorinda is still by far the most entertaining RHONY cast member. If she truly has a drinkjng problem, I hope she gets help. But I would definitely miss her tipsy tirades.
We all love her tipsy tirades. That’s why I think she was set up. Maybe the film crew really did keep the dinner info from her. Ramona did claim Dorinda was tired and should have gone to bed.
Bethenny knows it makes great tv. A discussion on the destruction of Puerto Rico would not be Bravo entertainment. And it did give B a chance to look like the responsible one and hand Dorinda a label. Bethenny is only there for Bethenny.
I thought Luann overstepped with her drinking comment. When you are taped in a police car threatening to kill, you lose your right to point fingers.
I’m still calling BS on a set up. They get a filming schedule that tells them where they have to be and when. If Dorinda got drunk and passed out before she read it that’s her problem.
So getting so drunk she can’t find her way out of a bar and screaming the meanest things she can think of to people she is there with is an adorable tipsy tirade these days?
I’ve never seen anything cute about drunken slurry old ladies.
It’s not cute. Who said cute. It’s entertaining. Every time Dorinda lights up, so do the comment boards. “Tipsy Tirade” is cute. Harly, I’m in Chicago. I’d go to the Tipsy Tirade Bar with you!
I read Dorinda’s blog and I could feel her pain. You get comfy in bed. Makeup off. Jammies on. Then they call to say you have to get dressed and film. She probably did forget. All I can say is Bethenny really knows how to hold her liquor. Unless that’s a coke she drinks pretending it’s alcohol. Odd that she was drinking with Dorinda, knew how much Dorinda had been drinking, and didn’t realize that she was..tipsy…and didn’t at any point say, “I’ll see you later at dinner.”
I have to say that I do not find Dorinda’s drunken behavior either funny or entertaining. Ditto for any of the other drunk ladies on Bravo. It is always cringeworthy to watch. In Do’s case this is nothing new, not a one off. No one made her drink to excess before a televised business dinner. This is at least the second time that Do has gotten smashed and called Beth out. She is headed down the exit ramp of no one wanting to film with her last they be her next victim. I am not letting Beth off the hook here. As a business woman, Beth should have known better than to invite Do on this trip, as she has become a liability. I would have left her sorry butt in NY.. BTW, it is Do who is disrespecting Dr. Medley’s name with her behavior.. Beth was giving as good as was dished out that evening.
As the great Yolanda Foster once said: “zere is notin uglier zan a drunk voman!”
Bethenny is only there for Bethenny ? Ask the people she is helping supply with food, supplies and money. I disagree with that. Bethenny is great at branding and getting her name out. That’s just good business. She was starting a business before she was on RH. As for the others they get on the show and all of a sudden they are business people. I really like Bethenny and I don’t blame her for being embarrassed. Dorinda acted like an ass @ that dinner. To make a blanket statement that no one in PR goes to college ? Then argue with them.
I do agree that LuAnn commenting back was hypocritical. She should have just kept her mouth shut. I am not sure why everyone thinks she is so great. She has had a superior attitude and has been giving “class/manners,advice ( spelled correctly ) for many seasons. Insisting that a driver call her Countess, among other things. Then she goes and gets arrested and assaulting the police. She is certainly not one of my favorites.
I agree on tge setup tbeory. If Bettheny believes Dorinda is a drunk why invite her for drinks multipke times before filming this scene. “Something in the buttetmilk aint clean”
Based on these typos, it seems that I’ve been drinking. lol
I agree with you 100%. LuAnn is a fine one to be giving anyone advice on how to behave.
Carole prioritizes her feud with Bethenny over Dorinda getting checked with the truth for own good. Dorinda needs real friends who will tell her she’s a lush and she needs help instead of enablers like Carole and Ramona.
Um, last I heard Luann got so drunk in West Palm Beach that she assaulted a police officer. She was charged with a FELONY for her drunken rage. She should have just kept her mouth/blog shut about this Dorinda episode. Dorinda is not a drunk. She is sober for most of the show. If they go out and party, she drinks too much, as do most of them. She can’t handle the booze though, like a few of my friends. The more important note is that Bethenny character assassinates everyone on this show and other Bravo shows. I don’t recall anyone making her judge and jury. When they make judgements against Bethenny, she flees in tears. She’s a hypocrite. Dorinda and Carole have been philanthropists for a very long time. Carole has been a war correspondent, on the ground. But hey it’s only the truth if Bethenny says it. I”m just grateful she hasn’t been allowed to do her product placement this season. It used to be in every scene!
” Dorinda is not a drunk. She is sober for most of the show.” Did I miss a show? What show did that happen on?
Maybe Dorinda is just speaking in cursive.
Dorinda does a great job of making herself look bad, Bethenny doesn’t have to say anything!
Carole Radziwill is not as intelligent or ‘informed’ as she claims. In episode one of this season, she had no idea what Q1 meant when Tinsley mentioned it. The fact that the business year is divided into quarters, which are referred to as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4, is the most basic knowledge I can imagine.
I would have just laughed at this if Carole didn’t insist on telling everyone how ‘informed’ she is, she’s a ‘journalist,’ etc. Here’s a tip: Telling someone how smart and educated you are is like telling them how beautiful and nice you are. If you have to tell people, it’s probably not true.
I knew I’d be vindicated for being Team Aviva one day. Carole has a ghost writer. CONFIRMED.
I stopped recapping RHONY during the Aviva leg throwing season because the cast members mocking of Aviva’s anxiety made me too anxious to recap. I remain Team Aviva.
Which is a bummer because personally, that was the best season for me. Bethenny basically ruined it once she’s arrived.
I would still love to see TT take her purple pen to Dorinda’s blog from last week. She came for Bethenny pretty hard.
Dorinda is in denial. Bethenny claims they Frankenbited her on the Dorinda’s “a drunk” scene and says she said she cuts Dorinda slack because “she’s drunk.” No a. Small but subtle difference.