On tonight’s RHOC Recap, the ladies have one last day to whoop it up in Key West before heading back home to their realities. But first, production has set up a trip to The Hemingway Home and only Emily, Kelly and Braunwyn are going. I would LOVE to go to The Hemingway Home, especially if I could avoid the cats and the cruise ship tourists. I guess the others didn’t go because there won’t be any booze. Also, I am ignoring Tamra’s attempt to be dumb because she thinks it is cute or funny. No one is that dumb.
Vicki has a sprained ankle that has been wrapped to look like a big deal. Let’s see how long it takes before she is whooping it up on that bad ankle. I give it until mid-afternoon. I enjoyed the tour. It looks like they closed it for them. Can we end the episode here?
Facing Your Fears Doesn’t Seem Fun
Well, Vicki didn’t even wait until mid-afternoon. She took that bandage off and went parasailing first thing in the morning. Meanwhile, Kelly, Emily and Braunwyn went jet skiing. It was there we learn that the reason Emily is so good at jet skiing is because she used to date a drug dealer. How does one get from drug dealer to Mormon? Were there steps in between? Maybe a guy with a DUI followed by a guy who runs a major non-profit? Because otherwise it seems like quite the leap. Gina clearly never dated a drug dealer. She is terrified on the jetski. Shannon wasn’t that scared on the para-sail!
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Finally, everyone meets up for a booze cruise. Vicki brought every hats that were Stupid AF. Kelly was the only one smart enough not to wear hers. Emily talked to Kelly about her anger issues as a way to relate to her. Emily talks about flying off the handle around her kids sometimes and cries. They decide to go to producer driven anger management class. Kelly and Tamra mend fences. Vicki is in denial about all the things she does to Kelly.
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jog
They didn’t get enough good footage in Key West apparently, because we are quickly back home. But all the promos Bravo put out were from the trip so I am using what I have. Shannon brings a guy she has started dating, Ken (AKA Babe) to dinner with Tamra and Braunwyn and their husbands. They talk about Kelly and Vicki. Especially Vicki and her vicious attacks. Tamra and Shannon are planning Vicki’s engagement party and inviting everyone.
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Gina calls her mom and tells her that they have sold the family home. Then she says that the divorce is off. She thinks they are closer now than ever. This is sad to watch. Her mom is encouraging her to work it out with Matt.
Next we get more examples of Tamra’s poor parenting. Nobody cares.
Couples Therapy Anyone?
Mike Dow, psychotherapist to the west coast reality stars meets up with Kelly and Emily for a single session of anger management therapy. This scene is already on his IMdb with every other reality show known to man. Fake TV therapy is his niche. Emily blames herself for her reactions to Shane’s verbal abuse. After a meditation mantra. They are all magically healed. And they all lived happily ever after.
WOOT! NEXT WEEK IS THE FINALE! LET US ALL PRAISE THE BABY JESUS! It’s a Boot Scoot Boogie Engagement Party and the drama is in full swing. There is of course the requisite runaway Tamra scene and everything.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’m over Vicki and her icky antics. I just can’t any more.
Kelly can use some counseling, but she probably needs real help, not a made-for-TV scammer.
I can believe Emily’s wild swings in her relationships. Some of us like trying extreme opposites when a certain someone doesn’t work. I’ve had some especially wild swings, and I think I’ll just leave it there.
I’m done with RHOC. It’s boring beyond belief – I keep hoping it will get better and it never does. The inane conversations and debates about being a real friend, and what friends do and do not do, and how friends support or do not support – and the feigned anger over the friendship infractions – OMG – I can just listen to teenage girls at Starbucks to get that. Honestly – there is nothing about these women that is even vaguely interesting. It’s mostly sad and pathetic now. Watching 50 year old women bicker at fake dinner parties, on buses, on boats, in hotels, in stores, in coffee shops, in bars, at each other’s homes — it’s literally so dumb. And the scandalous rumors about Kelly or other housewives – even if they are true, which they are not – are not scandalous, they are sad. Let it die Bravo.
You have said EXACTLY what I have felt for this ENTIRE season
Grow the F up and let’s see some mature OC Housewives
Vicky SUUUUUCKS.
Kelly can be so mean, but she does make me laugh out loud on occasion. Emily is by far my favorite RHOOC, even though I hate her age digs, I’d love to know more about her life before Shane.
I wish Shannon would break away from Tamra and Vicki but I feel like she’s too far gone at this point.
I didn’t watch, but Emily and Gina get mixed up all the time by Tamara and everyone else who watches. I believe it was Gina, not Emily who called off the divorce. Sad indeed.
I also get Jennifer and Jackie confused on RHONJ.
I find OC to be the most stupid and dullest of all the franchises. It used to be one of my favorites.
I can’t listen to Tamra or Braunwyn.
I actually came here b’c I watched last weeks episode and Vicki changed her kitchen. I loved her old kitchen. There was no reason to change it. My favorite kitchen’s are Vicki’s old one, Caroline’s and Teresa’s. Don’t judge me about Teresa’s, I love it and I don’t care who knows it. Teresa’s kitchen is actually my favorite.
Love that your main focus in your comment was the kitchens, lol
I watch too many of these programs in hopes of seeing the kitchens, the closets, the travels, fancy lunches, shopping and the shoes with fun woman that I can aspire to and be envious of. Sadly, no clue how to fast forward to the exact second of any HW franchise now to see any of these things! I have been ride or die with the OC until this year. Makes me sad in a way but Bravo needs to learn. I know I am probably a drop in no bucket for Bravo so they won’t “learn” from me…I do believe though, those who watch, are witnessing the demise of the HW franchises and it will get uglier
I know, right Kipper? It used to be fun to watch. I even believe a lot of the drama wasn’t as fake as it is now. I seems like production doesn’t even care or notice what the viewers see. I think most people watch it out of habit.
OOOPS I DID IT AGAIN! It was GINA. And I was thinking about it REALLY hard. Sigh.
My current favorite is Melissa Gorga’s. I loved her old kitchen, but I also really like the updates she has recently done.
Jr.League — I like her kitchen too, it looks a little bit like Teresa’s. I forgot to add (like anyone cares), that I like Luann’s kitchens. I liked both of her Hampton’s kitchens, very charming, cozy and inviting for guests.
Oh and Kris — It’s all about the kitchens..
Some of these housewives can be insufferable, but they have nice kitchens.
We need to needlepoint that observation on a pillow. You made me roar with laughter! Good one Laila 🤣 # insufferable housewives but nice kitchens
Thank you marc! Glad I made you laugh, and b’c it was you it made me blush. <3
Shannon thrives on the drama created by Icky Vicki and Tamrathe show off. Without those two Shannon would have a very dull life and have to make real friendships with decent, respectable people.
You know she has real friends outside of the show
Ewwwww. I was thinking about that. They have this stupid gig going of falling, not knowing words, acting like fools.
I find it really not entertaining or intelligent, or attractive, or a long life.
Tres Amigas need to vamos.
Vicki especially carries on with this gig…thinking it’s cute to be dingy…
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Her life on camera is a contradiction…act dumb blonde…then she will wax poetic about education for girls she feels are demeaning themselves in given settings…(when Vicki has no degree other that an insurance license…which is great…just don’t pose as if you have more degrees than a thermometer trying to guide the young…BS.
Also her “love tank” BS…and fake strong libido….such a contradiction…
We heard her claim she wants “it” Four times a day…but then is over the top prudish in pretty much
every other sexual content put in front of her… she failing to keep track of her stories…
like my Granny always said…”Liars have to have perfect memories…to keep their stories straight”
Her memory isn’t what it used to be…age shaming?… ummm…no… just a truthful observation…I’m 60… I can handle the truth..good lawd….I would never hold up a pathetic “age shaming” accusation to round up sympathy if I was called out.
TTres abuelita are Old material…content is old…what was funny then…hump. mmmm 😏…it is not cute any longer…
I enjoy the desperation they play out…stupid…they no longer can read their audience…they’re stunted in their arrested character development
Oops…got off in a tangent…but I cannot stand them anymore…repulsed actually
I feel like their trip was one show long. I know their struggling for storylines but that’s all they got I guess! So BH gets Provance and yay another Miami trip. Wheres Luanne’s poster to save the day!! Omg so Tamra is upset this trial is costing her–her retirement and kids college funds, um just a thought, how about you not go on a podcast and say potential defamatory statements about someone that isn’t even on this silly show anymore! Tonight otherwise was soso, kinda boring. And I did FF through the fake therapy session. At any rate, I so can’t wait to see Tamra run off next week into a bush!! Woooo the suspense (eyes roll)!
Tres Amigas game show: Quien Es Mas Estupido?
Vicki: Is Ernest Hemingway an author alive? (He killed himself idiot!)
Tamra: Why does he (Hemingway) have a house? (Tres idiota!)
Gina: Sharks and whales eat you… (Has she been reading the Bible or Pinocchio?)
IT’S A TIE. UNA PINCHI TIE! TODAS AMIGAS SON ESTUPIDO!
The prize is an orange-flavored douche.
Next week the scene I’ve been waiting for — Tamra running away and heave-wracked sobbing. Redux.
And the reunion: Vicki SCREECHING “Get her off MY show” as Braunwyn calmly says “It’s not your show.” She didn’t even emphasize “YOUR.” Good girl.
OMG; I don’t watch anymore, just read the recaps here; are those actual quotes from the show??? How have they lived so long and not been hit by a bus?
Brilliant comment
We were at the Hemingway Home in Keywest . The cats don’t interact with you . They were mainly outside . The tour guides were great & worked for tips. We went in dec & that year the weather was cold & it was the best part of our trip. Keywest has cats everywhere which is sad. Everywhere you go there are people accepting donations of money or cat food for the cats. It broke my heart to see so many strays.
That’s sad. I have a hard time passing a stray. I must avoid KW.
I went to the Hemingway house in Cuba. It looks very similar to the Key west house. Unfortunately you cannot walk in the house. They leave the windows and doors open so you can view it. The pool is gorgeous and so is the boat. I highly recommend checking it out.
I’d like a nig old smelly sock to stuff in Vicky’s mouth. That screeching is beyond deplorable. I can’t believe that any man would want to marry a woman who screams like that. UGH!
Big not nig. Sorry!
Money!
I think the tres amigas really do need their own show. They are hilarious together.
Why does Emily insist on age bashing? I really want to like her.
Kelly looked ridiculous and Gina wore it better.
The tres Amigas ARE funny. I love when they are simpatico and bring their crazy.
And the jet skis and parasails look like a great time: I’m chicken shit like Gina so I give her props for doing it! I could jet ski, but heights. Noe.
Kelly thinks that stripper boobs are the way to go? They’re out of style and look ridiculous.
I prefer the tres amigas too but maybe because I’m their age.
Kelly is kind of pathetic: “If you want to fit in, you can’t have pancake titties.”
Poor Kelly. She still thinks like a sixth grader.
She’s just so shallow. I couldn’t live in that area. I’d punch them all out
The tres putas humor is so outdated….
Also…ppl poke bringing up Emily “age shaming????…
throughout the seasons I’ve heard Vicki point out youth shaming with newer cast mates she doesn’t like…she’s called them “young and stupid” and other examples of reverse age shaming…
bottom line…Vicki can’t just sling out bullshit…not knowing if true or not…
(especially when she prefaces said statements saying “Well….I could have said she…did this or that horrible thing…but I didn’t” (all on film)…
Really?…How stupid ARE YOU BITCH?!!?…you just DID…repeat it all??!!
Gawd don’t insult our viewer intelligence!
i loved the part with Emily on the jet ski talking about her ex boyfriend! I find her, by far, the most interesting of the women. Whilst Braunwyn tries desperately to be interesting and crazy – she isn’t even the tiniest bit as interesting as Emily, the party planning, being an attorney, the family situation, the strange husband, I find all that really watchable.
I’m over this show too, I am thankful for TT’s recaps although I feel bad she has to watch this production driven (un)reality show.
It is so far from what it was (enjoyable)! Kelly is a handful & does go for the jugular etc BUT she’s entertaining. I also really enjoy Emily/ Gina (the one who’s married to short angry Mormon guy?) I like her & Kelly together. But not enough to watch the show for another season. I’m so over the amigo click, Vicki is awful & has been UNBEARABLE since her divorce, She should’ve been fired after the cancer scam.
Tamara is equally awful & Shannon is just as bad bc she sucks up to these two , Who’ve shown her time & time again, That they are a friend to no one.
Bravo is doing a great job of making it easier to delete series recordings. I’m hitting cancel left & right it seems.
I’m looking for new shows, anyone else? Any suggestions?
I watch Young Sheldon religiously its sweet & the cast is very good. Never a fan of The Big Bang Theory yet this prequel is charming light & laugh out loud funny.
I was cringing watching Tamra and her kids. Such horrible parenting. Cannot listen to their screeching anymore. Why is this necessary? What man wants to be married to someone who screeches like this? And Tamra’s insistence on showing her tits all the time. Just how insecure is this 50 something year old person who also claims she is a Christian? Allegedly. I want to know where they buy such ugly dresses. What stores in OC sell these? I live there (half the year) and have never seen a store that sells anything remotely like what they wear, especially to the reunions. They are like the dresses the aged out dancers would wear backstage during the movie Flashdance. So 80’s. This one needs to give up the ghost. What are the storylines anyway? It’s all a bunch of old(er) women fighting. Why do I waste time watching this? And I don’t even sit down and watch the whole thing. It’s just on while I do other stuff. Ugh.
Vicki deserves everything that Kelly has said to and about her this season. As the saying from the movie, Something To Talk About goes…”If you hit me where I live, then you can expect the same from me.”
Kelly hits hard and fast, but when someone makes allegations that you were a horrible wife and mother, that you had a gang bang and are a coke head ON NATIONAL TV…that would make anyone snap.
On a side note. I am happy about her engagement. When she was on WWHL recently, she was still funny, but she seemed to have a peace about her. Her fiance and his daughter were in the audience cheering her on. He seems to have a positive, stabilizing effect on her. With her ex-husband and her former boyfriend/plastic surgeon, she always seemed wound a little too tight.
The guy must be a publicity hound for wanting to marry trashy Kelly. She was a horrible wife and her actions as a mother are very questionable. These women will marry anyone with a full pocket and it seems that men just like some good strange. She probably amps it up in the bedroom. They are so easily manipulated. She’ll get a wedding by Bravo and be divorced in a few months.
Ktina: How specifically is she a bad mom? Does she overshare with her kid? Yeah, but lots of moms do. Bronwyn’s kids…and their friends…now all know that mom and dad like three ways. Even Kelly’s ex says that Kelly is a good mom. I doubt that Simon would say the same about Tamra.
I kinda like Kelly, maybe it’s because I can’t stand Vicki.
I’m tired of these stupid and embarrassing women. How the hell do they get men to want to marry them? One dumber than the next but I do like how Kelly pretends to have read “For whom the bell tolls”. She said it like she was so proud of herself for remembering the name of one of his books. Girls like Gina annoy the F out of me. Her irrational fear of the water was silly. I would have made fun of her too. I’m liking Emily more and more but stop with the age stuff. She’s in her 40’s and not far behind the “old ladies”.
I think Kelly actually said “For Whom the Bells Toll”
She did. Couldn’t get it right even though she tried!
Hemingway’s House is absolutely gorgeous, it’s a must visit for me every time I am in Key West.
I’d also like to say that I am so happy next week is the finale because this season was awful.
I was in key west last year and the weirdest thing are the chickens ALL over the place. That is very sad about the stray cats though I didnt see any. I went to the Hemingway house, and I hope that the three amigas are not THAT stupid, but I am thinking that maybe they are. I would LOVE if they do those general knowledge tests for the Real Housewives, Did anyone do it at Bravocon? I bet it would be hilarious. One of the reasons I like Kelly and Emily better is that they are way smarter than the other ninnies. Kelly grates on my nerves, but I am with anyone who cant stand Vicki and Tamara, who are just vile human beings.
Anyway, back to Hemingway house. It was such a cool place. There were MANY cats there, and if you sat in the yard one would jump in your lap. About 75% are 6 toed and they try to breed them that way, but most of the cats are neutered and spayed. On that bed where the biting cat was is a sign about not sitting on the bed, which was pretty funny since right behind it cats are sleeping on it. the upstairs smells a little like cat pee, but the grounds are gorgeous.
I go to Key West a couple of times a year and have never seen stray cats. As Ingrid said, however, the chickens and roosters are everywhere!
Emily Simpson is asked to talk at our local law school sometimes. I am guessing she dated the “drug dealer” when she attended Thomas Jefferson school of law in San Diego, which just had its bar accreditation pulled, they are working to get it back. At any rate, her terming her boyfriend a drug dealer, could be anything from selling a little pot on the beach in San Diego to ??? She apparently has a wilder side, which does make her an odd fit with Shane, if he actively practices the Mormon faith. I am wondering how they ever got together in the first place, has she shared how they met and started dating?
I think they were best friends and law partners, that’s what I seem to remember.
I thought he had not passed the CA bar yet? That’s odd, maybe he was a paralegal at her firm. Either way, when I saw the show where she took burlesque lessons, it didn’t seem a fit for a Mormon family. His parents come over all the time, are they the practicing Mormons? I seem to recall she got her start on the show as the party planner for a kiddie party Tamra was throwing.
@Lola: Shane’s family is not Mormon. He was introduced to the faith by a friend when he was a teen.
Aha!! I”ve noticed that Braunwynn craves attention, but I caught her laugh being about half the usual. Camera wasn’t paying her attention and I was, lol. Busted by fake laugh.
Also, drunk and hurting yourself may not be a turn on for Steve. Just saying. It’s just not cute.
Ugh Tuesday RHOC turns very quickly into Wednesday’s beyond god awful shit show RHONJ. Can’t believe OC is done, my only memory is the train reference and I still find that hard to stomach. PLEASE START BLOGGING ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE BUT BRAVO. I’m so ready to put this chapter behind me
I’ve moved on to lesbian porn on Showtime. I am working my way through six seasons of The L Word On Demand to be read for the reboot.
What? you said anything else!
https://tamaratattles.com/2019/12/09/the-l-word-generation-q-work-in-progress/
I just can’t with these women anymore. I can’t find one redeemable quality in any of them. Worst show ever. I hated Vicky from day one now I can’t even look at her without my head turning to stone.
Fixthatbodyfixthat face…I could agree with you more!! Vicky gets worse every episode that she’s one! The screeching IN PUBLIC is beyond! I read, I think on this site, that she’s coming back full-time next season!! Too bad for us!
Glad I quit this show. I thought I couldn’t quit but these women were stressing me out. I don’t even miss it anymore and judging by the comments it hasn’t changed much! Almost off the Bravo teat and I’m enjoying much better shows. There are plenty quality shows out there!
Just saw your avatar. Very nice. 😊. IJC.
TT- I know you are loyal to Vicki because she is OG of the whole Housewives franchise, but I have to disagree with your opinion she needs to stay no matter what. She needs to go. Period.
This is a little random because it goes back to a previous trip from this season — the one at Miravel, where Kelly gonged Shannon on the head-bowl.
I caught a rerun of RHONJ and realized that’s the same spa from the pivotal episode years ago where Juicy Joe confessed he was worried about going to jail, and they were all supposed to get a horse to lift its hoof for cleaning as part of cowboy spa therapy. Anyone else remember that?
I remember that scene when the Jersey wives visited Miravel earlier. I remember thinking gee it would have been more fun to do the horse therapy, rather than dressing up in hazmat suits to stick fingers in the bee hive like the RHOCers did. Does MIravel give Bravo a discount to come or do they just enjoy the free publicity? I also remember when the RHONJers took RVs up to the SF wine country. Joe had to pop out into the vineyards to take a call, and I believe he called his wife a bitch. Does anyone else remember that trip?
Yeah, those were both actually great trips! I don’t know why the OC ladies didn’t do as much — there was even a “trust on the high wire” component to the RHONJ trip. Maybe because they weren’t there as long?
So I only got into RHOC a couple of seasons ago since it was one of my friend’s favorite. I don’t see why this is one of her favorite shows. I am so done with this series. Vicky is a vile human being and she doesn’t bring anything to the show except for bashing other women. Rumor has it that Vicky is coming back as a full time housewife. I think that’s the wrong decision if that is true.
I did not watch last season. I cannot stand Vicki. I’ve watched a few episodes this season to see if there was any improvement w/less Vicki. She’s still on too much. I watched this week’s episode late last night on On Demand because I couldn’t sleep and couldn’t find anything on to watch. Vicki is still disgusting. I hate that high pitched screaming squawk thing she does. She is vile. She thinks it’s ok to trash talk, make insinuations about gay people, trash drag queens, spread lies on Eddie, Kelly, etc, and then she’s going to claim to be the victim. What was it Heather Dubrow said one time about people needing to lie down when they are dead? Vicki offers nothing. Her kids are grown, her grandkids live across the country from her, no one wants to hear about the cancer scammer talking insurance. I wish she’d go away. I will be back to not watching at all if she comes back full time.
Did anyone else think that Eddie really doesn’t look well. I know he had serious heart issues but thought that he was doing better. His color looked almost gray, especially beside the other 2 men at the table. Hopefully, I’m wrong and it was bad lighting
Most of these women (on all of the Housewives franchises) have children. Some have grandchildren! They act like trash! I won’t say “trailer trash” because that would be an insult to good folks who live in trailers. At some point in the future, these children and grandchildren will see their female relatives carrying on like animals in heat. What is done behind closed doors is one thing. What is produced as reality, for the sake of entertainment, is quite another. Shame on Bravo for the their belittling treatment of women. Let’s see you broadcast productions about men in the same vein! BTW, I do love Andy Cohen.
Aw… you had me right up until the end.