My lazy holiday recapping (/giggles) continues tonight with the RHOC recap of part one of the THREE PART REUNION. I’m already exhausted. My first question is why Shannon is wearing Spanx at the reunion now that she has a great body? Just be a normal sized person! What surgery has Vicki had where she feels the need to show Andrew her incisions? Who does that? Andy politely declines. Andy needs to learn he should NEVER comment on a woman’s weight. Even in a kind way. Andy needs to learn a lot of things about his ratchet shows. SWIDT? Emily had a full hip replacement ten days before the reunion due to arthritis. I love that Andy tells Tamra they have some strategically placed shrubbery off stage if she needs a moment.
Fun Shannon Is BACK, BABY!
We start with Fun Shannon being back. I mean, how much fun was she really? Andy asks about her daughter writing a book on divorced parents. He also asks about her divorce settlement. She tries to blow it off as overblown figures. It’s court record. She also talks about her child going to Baylor. She’s happy about it, but, um we are not Blind Item Reveal. Shannon thought she should get more. Shannon has a new very hot boyfriend named John and she says he checks all her boxes. They feel like a family. The other housewives approve. He had never seen the show but he watches now. Sounds like they may be longterm. Good for Shannon.
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Okay, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Gina seems to have gained all the weight that Shannon lost. I’ve never been married, but I know a lot of people who have and they either lose a lot of weight or gain a lot of weight during the divorce. I feel the need to acknowledge that Gina seems to be stress eating. She has a lot going on.
Vicki Feels Like A Has Been
Since Vicki was barely paid for this season and only a friend despite being on every episode, and agreeing to a fake (?) engagement to be back on the show. She is feeling some kinda way about having to wait to take a seat on the couch. Vicki is demanding to basically sit next to Andy and not on the end of the couch where the nobodies sit. She gets her way. Eventually.
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But first, we get the Emily and Gina scenes. I must say, it is way more fun to watch this when I don’t feel in a hurry to get shit up quickly. Reunions are hard to recap. I smiled today when Cho opted not to recap the reunion part the Survivor finale. IT TAKES FOREVER! And often times the things you are recapping are not that important! I am TEAM EMILY ALL THE WAY. Gina is trying to dump Emily to be with “the cool grandmas.” Who does that?
Sidenote: Why are Kelly’s fake boobs droopier than my old lady tits?
More Tres Amigas Bullshit
Clearly, Gina is still still Team Tres Amigas. Team Gina. They are clearly not still friends. Gina still seems to be drinking a lot and looks bloated. Kelly weigh in on the subject saying that Vicki never likes people their first year. She says she is “seasoned” and get how it works. Shannon and Tamra weigh in to scoffed at the “seasoned” remark. But Kelly is right and says they are beyond seasoned. Essentially, they are burnt out. My sources are predicting a major cast shakeup for next season so we shall see how it all shakes out. Andy himself has said they have great options waiting in the wings. But the truth is we don’t want great options. We need to see what happens to these bitches. We want to “watch what happens.”
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Gina gets up to hug it out with Emily. I think Emily needs to leave Gina alone. She’s a taker and Gina is a giver and that can lead to problems. Meanwhile Vicki is LOSING HER MIND being backstage for all of this. SHE IS THE OG OF THE OC, Dammit. I really do think production fucked her all the way over this season. Vicki is the last one standing from season one and I don’t want her to go. My sources say she promised and engagement and a wedding over two seasons which is what production wanted. But Vicki is demanding an orange next season. So we will see how that goes. What she needs, honestly is a better entertainment attorney.
Vicki Finally Takes The Stage
Let’s face it Vicki was in every episode even though her check was cut and she was friendzoned. She was the season. Vicki is pissed with Andy. Andy is pissed that Vicki sued Bravo and Kelly over an actually false claim against Vicki for fraud. Vicki is a broker for insurance not an insurance company so she was the wrong party to sue. But Kelly made false claims about Vicki and had a valid lawsuit against Kelly. Then Bravo told Vicki if she didn’t drop all the lawsuits they would not allow her to be on the reunion. So she did.
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They are totally roasting Vicki on this reunion and it is rude. I’m exhausted with these people I just want to get to Project Runway. I think Shannon is full of shit about going to the hospital for Kelly gonging her on the head. These fools get ambulance rides by Bravo. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS NORMAL PEOPLE TO TAKE AN AMBULANCE? It can be half a year’s salary! Just shut up.
Kelly claims she made a million dollars by the time she was 20. She has business assets. And Vicki is jealous. She might be right. Both are investing but Vicki’s investments seem to go wrong. MUCH SCREECHING. Banjo is annoyed. I am annoyed. Vicki and Kelly get into it over who is more OC. Vicki says it is her show.
It’s just so much SCREECHING! The end.
OOPS I prematurely ejaculated. If anyone can put this on IG for me that would be great.
I fell asleep in the first 5 minutes. You’ve made it more interesting. I will watch it while waiting for Project Runway. BUT I may turn the sound off for the screeching. I wonder if Las Tres Screechers all screeched before they met or if it is like 7th-graders and the Valley Girl Effect.
Gina definitely looks bloated from all that booze. She needs a stylist asap 😸
Vicki is straight delusional.
Vicki needs to go. It is not her show. She did not start the show. She needs to stop stuffing ten pounds of flour into a five pound sack. Steve looks so disinterested. Don was smart and got the Hell out of Dodge. She deserves everything Kelly gives her. She said Kelly participated in group sex, did cocaine, etc on national tv. Calling her a pig is mild compared to what she deserves. Tamra needs to go too.
Vicki’s dress exactly matched the oranges on the table. (or were they lemons in a bowl?)
Kelly is immature and way too impulsive and quick to insult and snap back, but she was WRONGED this season. I wish she would just talk about the stuff that mattered, not telling people they are ugly.
I figured Emily’s replacement was fairly new at filming, is appeared she was on “hip precautions” , no crossing of the legs, and of course the walker. Strong woman.
Totally agree!!!!
Steve seemed pitiful and so out of place. Vicki used to love it when Brooks would rile her up and be on her side against everyone else and Steve is just a normal Joe who says if you aren’t happy waiting to get on the couch let’s just leave! Of course that’s not the response Vicki wants so she totally ignores him and he just shuffles off to wait God knows where on the set for her to finish filming. He’s probably still there, roaming around for a cup of coffee.
He’s not going to be around for the long haul that Vicki requires/ demands. It looks like the new shiney has already worn off of that relationship and they’re barely engaged. His mother’s expression at the engagement baccanal said I am Not Impressed.
Yes..Steve isn’t as thirsty as Brooks was…let alone the dehydrated Vicki…
He will be there when she leaves (or likely “let go/fired)..cuz she will never let go..now she has the supposed producer/creator Dunlap advice “ never jump off the pony on your own ride that pony until they buck you off “ I seriously paraphrase…
But y’all get the point
Steve is a regular Joe drinking coffee…saying “let’s just go home..you’re angry? Feel put down? Let’s just go home!”
Even Steve knows the bottom is dropping on Vicktim and glory days are long gone…
In the end she couldn’t have a better partner..one that doesn’t give 10 effs about her on TV..I hope
Jr.Leaguer- I agree with your all of your comments. Vicki and Tamra suck.
Ok this may sound weird but it bothers me that Vicki is bothered by the pig comments. Yes her nose is a little boxy but she does not look like a pig! Also I grew up watching the muppets and miss piggy was the epitome of female, like she wore jewelry n dresses n was in luv with her boyfriend, I don’t think of her as a put down. Yes I was like 5-7 when I watched.
I do believe this is a “new” nose. The pig thing is from LONG ago when she had her god given nose. My guess is that she heard this a lot growing up and it was an insecurity. So when she had the means to change her nose, she did. So to continue hearing it is probably frustrating and hits a nerve.
Well, when I was all of 120 pounds, 5’7 (long long ago), I was called a fat cow, and I saw RED!! Trust me, I looked nothing like said bovine.
The first time I saw the “nature-made” Vicki, I noticed the porcine features. That leads me to agree that she had been teased during her past, OR, SHE HERSELF thought she looked like La Petite Cochon. Those old wounds can run deep.
I do sympathize with her feelings about the demotion to friend, especially when she was in most episodes — and at a lower rate. Her insistence that she “made” OC and THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE is obnoxious. It is an ENSEMBLE show and has been since the beginning. I understand her feeling dissed and not wanting to sit in the “lap dog” position on the couch BUT, unless they are planning to bring her back with an orange, production should have told her to fuck off. Oh, wait, then the entire Part I of the reunion would have been the brass bowl. Zzzzzzzzz….
If she was smart she would have tried to spin it as “I no longer have as much time for this, though I have love for it, and I’m the “OG” so I continue for loyalty but I’m cutting back my time” but, alas, she’s not smart.
I haven’t watched the reunion but she could have done the same there… pretended as if she’s above the rest of them and only comes in for her scenes and is too busy for the rest.
Nobody would believe that. Vicki would take Steve out behind the barn and shoot him if it would get her back on the show.
ITA..Slade brought up the sitch…calling her Miss Piggy…
Actually it was Vicktim who switched it up to being called a pig!
I said before …if Vicki was the genius she think she is…She would have reacted to Slade’s comment saying
“Thank you for the compliment! I LOVE Miss Piggy! I’ll take that any and every day!!!“
Sladd wudda caught Muppet fan shit…and Vicki would have been a guest on (many) Muppet performances by now…
Stupid Bovine!.. I didn’t say Porcine!!
I would never insult Miss Piggylike that
Lol, I had to Google “sitch”. Am I really that outside of current lingo?…is that current? Other than not calling Vicki by her given name I agree with your comment. There are so many ways Vicki could have gone but she chose her business”ess” and love tank…these are NOT bad goals…are they? With all the money, really nothing has changed, she sure seems worse now. Vicki is insecure and pads her life. You’d think she’d be able to stay calm and move along, she really does have “it all”, she’s worked hard, has a lucrative business, healthy and successful children, and is now engaged to Steve. She’s still, if not more so the same insecure woman who hides behind dramatic outbursts for attention.
Bravo may have created a monster? Crossing myself (not Catholic) but it’s not just Vicki! She’s a shining example that “our entertainment” doesn’t always (too frequently) end well. I bet she has more demons now than before she started this experiment…that she “started” Hello? Can I get a reality check?
Great recap of a very difficult to follow reunion. So much screeching. So much cross talk. It gave me a headache.I finally figured out why I dislike Kelly so much. She reminds me of my dreadful youngest sister. The same nasty, uncalled for insults. The same smirk on her face as she insults you. I really wish they wouldn’t renew her contract. There was something off about Shannon’s face but I can’t quite place what it was.
Yes about Shannon’s face! Her eyes look pulled and her lips are pooched! She’s had something done and it didn’t settle down yet…
That must be it.
Kelly’s ex gave Shannon a facelift last summer, it’s on his instagram. She definitely didn’t just loose weight, that is the work of a good surgeon. Plus now she also has fillers, so it looks fuller and youthful. Before her skin looked thin and flat, especially her forehead and cheekbones- the surgeon is good.
I think Shannon may have gained some weight back. But I think the once again god awful lighting had something to do with their appearance. The reunion lighting people must be family of a higher-up because every reunion on every franchise the women look terrible! I used to think they catered to Andy’s coloring but even he looked awful.
Oh, in case I haven’t mentioned it…I HATE KELLY for so many reasons. In a nutshell she’s just trash.
Tamra was awful to watch. She was just staring at Kelly while smirking and nodding her head. And shaking her foot. She reminded me of some kind of cliche or someone but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Shep Rose?
Bwahahaha!
Oh, I did not have him in mind but I absolutely do now! I totally see the comparison. But while he is probably fueled by certain drugs, she is fueled by jealousy.
TT- Great recap! I think the pig comment bothers Vicki so much because when Gretchen and Slade were on earlier seasons of RHOC Slade did a comedy skit, During the skit he showed a side by side picture of Vicki and Miss Piggy comparing the similarities of their looks. That was always been a sore spot with Vicki. I think Kelly knows that and goes in for the kill. Kelly, Vicki, and Tamra all hit below the belt. Don’t piss into the wind if you don’t want it to blow back in your face.
Vickie irks my nerves. She is too old to be so bothered by Kelly calling her a pig! And I wish everyone else will stop acting like it’s the most horrible insult in the world! Everyone can’t be pretty. At least she’s rich.
I happen to hate Kelly’s look. She’s got a fat face and a little nose.
I’m not gonna lie, I was here for Kelly’s juvenile behaviour. Like whenever Tamara spoke she would just whisper “…dumb bitch…” With a face full of childish glee! It was getting RIGHT under her skin. She’s completely juvenile, but that was comedy gold to me.
Also, sorry Tam-Tam, but Vicki is delusional and needs to be put down a peg or two. In the wise words of Gretchen Weiner’s, “What was do good about Caesar anyway??? Maybe we should just STAB CAESAR.”
I totally agree with you regarding Vicki. Vicki has delusions of grandeur.
Her behavior was horrible on the reunion, very entitled and embarrassing. Run Steve Run!!
I have been sick of Tamra for years, she is a nasty toxic cunt. Terrible human! For quite a while I felt sorry for Vickie, no amount of money, or attention was enough for her, she was constantly needing to be reassured by everyone. It was never more apparent than when she and Jeana went to see Vickie’s family and Vickie kept begging for her mother’s attention. So sad, but at some point I just realized she is also just a not very nice person and I feel so sorry for her kids. Shannon is nuts and feeds off of whomever she is around and her constant hypochondria is so annoying. I really adore Emily, there is just something about her that I love. Gina is a hot mess and I think she has fallen in with the wrong crowd, that group of mean girls who will only let her in so far. They will never be anything more than the tres amigas, there isn’t room for a fourth, but she can be their little puppy and she’s ok with that. Kelly, oh Kelly, there are so many times I want to root for her. Then she goes and acts like an ugly bitch and ruins it all for me. The strife Vickie helped to cause in Jolie’s life wasn’t cool. Kelly does enough damage on her own, she doesn’t need Vickie spreading ugly rumors around as well. I think Braunwyn is just thirsty, and her mother is fucking nuts. Like certifiable nuts.
100% agree with everything you said.
I think the Tres Amigas are poster children for don’t waste your money on plastic surgery. Did you see the lines around their eyes? They spend so much money on plastic surgery, but this reunion, they all looked like they were old.
This show needs to go away for a year. Bravo needs to take a year off from this drama and in 2021 I will be wanting to see what they are doing because I will miss them. Right now, I am annoyed with all of them. Vicki saying get off my show really pisses me off. This isn’t her show. She needs to learn humility.
I find it interesting that Billy said awful things about Vicki’s engagement. Why is Steve with her?
Steve likes the attention and her money.
He must really like it since I assume he has to bang her. If I was a guy, there wouldn’t be enough money or alcohol in the galaxy for me to hit that.
Agree! Every time they flash back to her screeching squawk in her 80’s outfit or in Laurie’s face when they were snow skiing yrs ago I think what man could tolerate her long enough to screw her. I’m not trying to bash her looks either it’s just everything about her. Damn! I wish they would get rid of her.
I am so tired of Housewives (it happens on just about every franchise!) who, when screaming rude, inappropriate, and below the belt insults at their fellow cast mates, ALL give the excuse, “Well I was pissed off!” And, “Once I get angry I see red and will just say anything!!”
I’m sorry but, no. That is what toddlers do. Take a toy away from a 4yr old and yes, you’re likely to hear, “I hate you! You’re fat/ugly/disgusting!!”
But this is NOT HOW GROWN PEOPLE BEHAVE!
And yet time and time again, season after season, some Housewife will get angry and just pop off with the most inappropriate comments and just use the, “Well She pissed me off!” excuse.
I just can’t anymore with these women screeching insults at each other.
Oh Vicki , it’s over …. how embarrassing seeing her off stage . Why did Shannon fight for her family because she was on TV??? Very odd you would think she would fight no matter what. I like Kelly, Emily and Gina. Kelly is at least funny but crazy too.
I’m living for Kelly. She is no shrinking violet and I live how she goes fir the jugular against the tres amigas. They deserve it after all the shit they put her through going all the way back to their trip to Ireland. She doesn’t deserve to be bullied and I love that she comes back swinging hard.
Unless the show was her brainchild, which I don’t believe to be the case, Vicki needs to sit the fuck down with her demands & entitlement. She might want to show some gratitude for even having a seat on the couch. She needs to go!
Just wow. I’m here for Kelly, loving her standing up to vile Tamra and Vicki. They are such horrible, hypocritical creatures. Absolutely Vicki should be counting her blessings that she even has a seat on the couch at all.
Not sure who is worse…Tamra or Vicki…but they are truly 2 of the absolute worst people on reality TV.
They are not even entertaining anymore, they are just all the way awful.
ITA Bushwick
TT…..You are right about Gina’s weight. When I saw her on the reunion I noticed her face looked much fuller.
I wondered if it was stress eating/drinking or maybe a baby? She and Matt were hooking up pretty regularly up until the domestic abuse happened and probably after that happened too. I can see young Gina thinking that good or bad, a baby would cement the relationship.
I hate Vicki. They need to fully just let her go. It was the only thing I agreed with her on. If they don’t want her, let her go! She can take Tamara with her on her way out. Both of them are over done. I do still like Shannon but she is getting annoying too. Could we just do OC Housewives under 40? Maybe 45? I like seeing the kids and the actual lives of these women. The older women are clearly putting on a show.
I don’t like the way production treats housewives they don’t like, Vicki included, however no one made her act like that backstage. She is mean, rude, and thinks she’s better than everyone else. It’s time for her and Tamra to ride off into the sunset together. They mine as well take Shannon with them as she can no longer think for herself and is so far up Tamra’s ass it’s pathetic.
I can’t stand Tamra, Vicki and Kelly and would be very happy if they all were kicked off the show.
I’m sure I’m in the minority here but I think if Bravo got rid of Tamara the pot stirrer things would settle down. She’s the one who causes all the problems. I’m not saying that others don’t but damn Tamara has taken pit stirring to a whole new nasty level. She riled up the others against each other. If Kelly moves to NY that’s one problem gone, she’s just nasty and vile. She’s takes things to a dark place. And no she does not need to be cast on RHNY! Braunwyn is just way too thirst for my taste. I used to like Emily but she’s a hypocrite…whining about fat shamers one season then she age shames the next. Gina just needs to go.
100% agree with your entire paragraph!
Kelly is a childish bully but there’s no way anyone in NY is going to let her get away with that garbage. Dorinda may like her now but I see fireworks happening between her and Kelly. Dorinda will annihilate the bimbo. Kelly’s not witty, she’s just mean. Let her call one of the New Yorkers old and see what happens.
Don’t forget Kelly is BFFs with Ramona. Knowing that Kelly does not suffer idiots, I can only think she is laying the foundation for a spot on RHNY. If they just let peckerwood Tamra go, I could even live with Vicki, if they did that. Tamra is stupid and evil, a dangerous combination. I wasn’t watching when Tamra and Vicki did the “naked wasted” thing with Gretchen, but that seems like WAY MORE than needed to both get fired. Even if they had done it during the time filming wasn’t happening, it reeks of lawsuit and conspiracy to commit rape charges. Because it WAS in front of the camera Bravo should have fired both of them.
You had me at “peckerwood!”
Braunwyn said nothing during that whole first reunion episode I think all she said was that her marriage is stronger AFTER being on the show. Just give it a couple seasons girl…although I wonder if they will be bringing her back. Her mom needs to go though. Can’t stand her.
Wow. Y’all are really negative today. Maybe I am just in my dark place. But wow.
The tidbit of Shannon’s new BF having not watched the show but watching now may squash that relationship. Recently caught up on the Key West episodes and as a frequent tourist, I have seen people far less obnoxious being asked to leave or escorted out of establishments than this group.
Bravo it’s long overdue that OC at the very least needs a reboot or full enema as its difficult as a “real housewife” to see such a self-entitled group as this continue to represent for their targeted audience. Need some Top Chef soon!
Here’s a positive for you. Remember when Don told Vicky she was an asshole? He was right. She should have listened to him. That’s all I got.
Yup. He called her a lying asshole and that she is. Did you see her lie on WWHL about not spreading rumors about David Beador beating Shannon and Eddie being gay? She’s the ultimate “liar face”.
They really do need a complete overhaul of casting for this show if they have any hope of saving it. Ratings are way down. Las Tres Amigas need to be retired, or given a spin-off that airs at 3am on Saturdays.
I partially understand Vicki calling it her show since she’s a founding cast member. But corporate America has many companies where the original founder left or was replaced (e.g. Uber), often because the founder began displaying the same type of entitled behavior as Vicki did on the reunion.
I want to like Kelly, and I do a lot of the time, but she’s similar to Brandi and Brandi’s former boss on The Apprentice in her “when they go low, I go lower” responses to others’ attacks.
Vicki is a 57 year who acts like a childish spoiled brat. This supposed company representative is backstage throwing temper tantrums, cursing at the production staff, cursing and yelling at her boss, flipping off her co-workers, threating lawsuits.. If anyone is destroying Vicki’s reputation and credibility it is Vicki herself. I really wonder how her son Michael feels about her since he the appointed vice president of her company. I can’t imagine anyone trusting or believing in Vicki or wanting to do business with her.
Amen!
Vicki let fame go to her head and she is holding on for dear life fearful of losing that stardom.
I tried to google if ratings were down this Season but got a hodgepodge of answers.
I love to hate Vicki and hate that Tamra, who i just hate, outlasted her. The pay cut, for as much as she was featured, is another slap in the face. Fuck you BRAVO. It seems like they started to give Tamra the edit she deserves but stopped short in the bushes.
Maybe next Season.
My PVR recorded The Masked Singer rather than this episode the other night, so I’m grateful for your recap. Wish I could have witnessed Vicky losing her mind (again), but I’ll survive. There are much bigger things in the world than missing out on these arrogant, catty women yelling at one another.
Kelly is dangerous. Vicky is desperate. Tamara is a geriatric drunk. Least favorite Housewives show, but I get dragged in each season. Ready for a cast shake up though.
Am hoping that the grand finale will be epic when Andy asks Vicki to leave the reunion stage before the show is over. This should be good. I was happy to hear Andy give out this little tidbit of what is to come.