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If you thought that Aviva Drescher had finished her journey to crazy town on previous episodes of Real Housewives of New York, you might want to think again.  Aviva the Diva somehow becomes even MORE snotty and condescending.  I know, right?  Who knew it was even possible?

It seems like the other ladies are over Aviva’s holier-than-though monologues and I couldn’t agree more.  Like a dog with a bone, Aviva is still furious with Ramona.  Since last week’s dinner with Sonja was a total bust, Aviva decides to unload on Ramona once again.

Aviva summons Ramona to brunch since, as she says, she wants to deal with a sober Ramona.  Aviva doesn’t take long to start immediately attacking Ramona, smugly implying that Ramona is drunk because she “can’t show me her eyes.”  For the love of God!  Ramona failed to take her sunglasses off for a few minutes.  Get over it already!!

Aviva is fit to be tied, as she has discovered that Ramona has contacted her ex Harry Dubin to ask about Aviva’s anxiety problems.  Ramona tells Aviva that maybe her real problem is that she just doesn’t want to be without Reid.  Of course the conversation jumps right back to the St. Barth’s debacle, and Aviva immediately snaps and the ugly really comes out.

Aviva accuses Ramona of “enabling” Sonja,  and says that she likes to be friends with Sonja because she looks less drunk next to her.  What??  Mind your own business, bitch.  She then tells Ramona, “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.”  Ramona says, “What?  Who was driving anywhere?”  Aviva berates Ramona for dancing on a table at St. Barth’s until 2 a.m., apparently unaware that all of the ladies participated in this vacation behavior.  Ramona basically tells Aviva that she ruined their vacation and was a buzz kill.  THEN, Aviva accuses Ramona and Sonja of spooning each other naked in the bed at St. Barth’s.  Really?

Next is a scintillating scene with Aviva and George in a vitamin store.  Aviva buys practically every vitamin in the place, while old George stocks up on Horny Goat Weed and some other supposedly libido-enhancing supplements.  George wants Aviva to meet his latest side piece, a model who supposedly looks exactly like Aviva, but black.

For some poorly-thought-out reason, Aviva decides to send her father in her place to Ramona’s domestic violence charity event.  What a recipe for a shit show.  George proceeds to fight 41-year-old Aviva’s girl battle for her by approaching Ramona and telling her that she owes Aviva an apology.  George grabs Ramona by the arm during their conversation and she makes a huge deal out of it.  I think George was out of line, but he clearly wasn’t threatening her.

George just won’t let it go, and Ramona asks security to escort him out.  Carole walks him out and George remarks that he and Aviva’s donations are probably the biggest ones there.  He also calls Ramona a “trailer turd.”  What is that, even?  Ramona shall have to Google the term.  Come on, George!

Sonja meets her ex-husband in hopes of finally arriving at a divorce settlement.  Unfortunately, no progress was made and Sonja reveals that she will either have to sell her current home or her home in France.  I feel some sympathy for her, but eh…some people don’t even have ONE house, let alone two.

Sonja invites LuAnn over to dramatically take her husband’s portrait down from the dining room, ’cause she is moving on!  Thankfully, she also opts to take down the portrait of herself.  Because it’s not the nineties anymore.

Next week it’s reunion time!  What did you think of this week’s episode?

Sunday, the vicious, tumultuous, embarrassing drama on this season’s Real Housewives of New Jersey came to an undignified end.  Thank God.  It was uncomfortable to watch.

Last week, Melissa Gorga seemed genuinely confused when Angelo approached her table at the Posche Fashion Show.  She says she knows him but doesn’t know where she knows him from, and I believe her.  It is obvious that Angelo approached the Real Housewives of New Jersey table purposely to cause conflict, humiliation, and most importantly, a story line.  The entire interaction seemed totally staged and awkward.  Clearly, the aging, extension-wearing Posche owner Kim D was up to her sagging neck and overfilled lips in this cheesy act, and she is loving every moment of it from the next table over.  Takes me right back to the fifth grade, but with excessive cocktails.

Never one to back down from drama OR camera time, Teresa has Melissa feel her heartbeat in the bathroom.  Why is it that, no matter what the issue is at hand, Teresa has to turn it around and make it all about herself?  ”Feel how fast my heart is beating,” or “I was crying,” or “look, now I’M gettin’ upset.”

In the meantime, Angelo is talking to a chubby, poorly dressed guest and confirms that Teresa and Kim D instigated the drama and set Melissa up.  He obviously forgot he was still wearing his mic.

Teresa needs to save face, so she decides she wants to speak to Angelo and goes to search for him.  What she was going to say to him I do not know.  Maybe she was trying to pay him for a job well done.  Couldn’t she have confronted him when she first met him at the busted, low-budget beauty shop Kim D took her to earlier?  When she saw him approach the table, why didn’t she intervene?  Unfortunately, busted-looking Angelo has left the building, hopefully to visit a dentist.

Melissa is fed up with Teresa’s shit and calls Joe, telling him how she was approached by Angelo.  Joe Gorga decides to come to confront Angelo.  Teresa doesn’t want Joe to show up, saying that she is afraid he is going to get into a fight.   But is that really what she was so concerned about?  I do agree that nothing good was going to come of Joe Gorga showing up.

Jacqueline has been receiving mysterious texts all night, and she places the blame squarely on resident weasel Teresa.  It seems that Jacqueline received a warning that something was going to go down before it even happened, and the person who texted her this said Teresa was involved.

Joe Gorga arrives and he and Kim D start going at it outside.  Now, this I don’t agree with.  Kim D is a skanky bitch to be sure, but it’s best to let the girls work things out.  Gentlemen don’t yell at women on the street, or didn’t your mom ever teach you that?  If Joe wanted to confront Angelo, fine, but he should have walked away from Kim D, bitch that she is.  Joe calls Kim D a coke addict and a whore and says he wishes she were a man so he could hit her.  Not good, Joe.  Not good.  Not that you don’t have a point.

Jacqueline tells Melissa that she was set up.  Kathy thinks that Teresa could have stopped Angelo from saying anything.  Jac says she knew something was going to go down at the show.  Teresa is nowhere to be found, as she wisely stays inside doing shots with Joe’s brother and partner in crime in the fake drivers’ license debacle, Pietro.

Teresa finally comes outside and accuses Jacqueline of “setting her up”.  Really???  Jacqueline looks disgusted and completely done.

Joe and Melissa wisely decide to leave.  As they are driving by Teresa, for some reason Melissa asks Joe to roll down his window and yell “Shame on you” to Teresa.  Why add fuel to the fire?  Just leave already.  He rolls down the window and they have another low-brow public confrontation.  Christmas will be awkward this year.

I’m about over these women.  What do you all think?

Well, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills are returning to Bravo for their third season and there’s been a change or two!

Joining the Beverly Hills divas is Dutch newcomer Yolanda Hadid, a former model.  Yolanda is the ex-wife of Lisa Vanderpump’s pal, Mohamed Hadid, who threw Pandora’s engagement party at his lavish home last season.  Yolanda and Mohamed have three children together.  She is currently married to music producer David Foster.

Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills castmembers Kim Richards, Kyle Richards, Lisa Vanderpump, Taylor Armstrong, and Adrienne Maloof return for drama-filled season three.  Brandi Glanville graduates from “friend of housewives” to full cast member as well.  Camille Grammer will return as a housewife friend and will make sporadic appearances.

I can’t be the only person who is HUGELY DISAPPOINTED that Bravo execs decided to keep pathetic, dishonest scene stealer Taylor Armstrong as a housewife.  What does she bring to the party, exactly?  Here’s hoping this season is her last and we can all be rid of her vile behavior.

Looking forward to tuning in!  How about you?

Kelsey Grammer proved himself to be a class act yet again on Wednesday night.  This guy seems to be on a downward spiral — it’s too bad.

Kelsey Grammer fled the scene of his scheduled interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan last night because the show ran a photograph of ex-wife Camille Grammer in the opening credits.

As anyone who has had any contact with the outside world knows, the Grammers split after more than ten years of marriage and two children.  At the time of their split, Kelsey’s current wife, Kayte, was pregnant.  Classy, Kelsey.

With the ink barely dry on his divorce papers, Grammer quickly married his young mistress,  She gave birth to their daughter Faith in July.

Morgan Tweeted the following about Kelsey’s erratic behavior:

“Kelsey Grammer was supposed to be on my show now but ran out of the building. Strange. Kelsey Grammer saw a photo of his ex wife Camille in the open to our show and legged it. Extraordinary. Never had this happen before. I had a very friendly chat with Kelsey backstage. He said he was really looking forward to the interview. Weird. I like Kelsey Grammer personally, but this was a shockingly unprofessional thing to do. I wasn’t even going to mention his ex-wife!”

I think something may be very wrong with Kelsey.  His behavior seems so vile, childish and odd!  It’s not as if he was the victim in the divorce.  He literally carried on a long term affair in New York while married, knocking up his mistress, while the mother of their two children was in California!

What do you all think?

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak Biermann gave birth to a son this summer (her second) and Life & Style magazine recently photographed the happy family.

”It was the easiest pregnancy out of all of them! I had a couple of weeks in the beginning that were really rough, but then it was great,” Kim beamed about her pregnancy. “There’s nothing else in the world like it. I’m just at peace. I was never out there searching for something, but there was always kind of a missing piece, and I have it all now. I literally have everything,” she revealed.

Will the Biermanns add to their expanding brood?  “Kroy wants a football team!” Kim told Life & Style.  “He’d have me pregnant forever.  I couldn’t say no — or keep my hands off my husband.”

The Real Housewives of New York are back from their St. Barth’s vacation from hell.  However, the vacation drama is far from over, and we see the fallout in this episode.

Luann, Sonja, and Ramona meet up to let the men prepare dinner for them.  Luann is behaving in a nervous, desperate fashion, and later admits:  ”I’m terrified of losing Jacques” in a side interview.  The Countess is all over Jacques and I can’t help but think it’s her guilty conscience and from St. Barths.

Sonja is wearing a very strange headband and her hair is a disaster as a result.  But she does seem sober, so this is good.  During a vacation recap between the three ladies, LuAnn blames Rasonja for the drama with Aviva the Diva.  LuAnn tells the ladies that Aviva has enormous airplane anxiety.  ”Let’s be clear here,” Sonja deadpans, in a wonderfully bitchy moment, “this woman did not split the atom. She got on a plane with her husband which she’s obviously done numerous times. She did go to school in France, which you don’t get there by boat most times.”

Meanwhile Carole and Heather meet up and decide to get wasted!  They go to a gay bar, where they consume a mixture of strong cocktails and shots that I can only assume resulted in a massive hangover the next day.

Heather Thomson and Countess LuAnn meet for lunch.  We learn that Countess LuAnn, despite engaging in questionable activity with a greasy St. Barth’s nightclub worker the week before, is eager to begin IVF treatments with live-in boyfriend Jacques.  Now, I have two problems with this:  One, I believe that 47-year-old Countess De Lessepps is simply too old to have a baby.  Two, live-in boyfriend Jacques Azoulay hasn’t exactly “put a ring on it,” so to speak.

Heather somehow sits back and lets Luann prattle on and does not try to reason with her about fertility, science, and annoying facts and statistics.  Bravo, Heather!

Aviva and Sonja meet for dinner, with Aviva asking Sonja to meet and “talk as two moms in a civilized manner.” Aviva expectantly gazes at Sonja, waiting for, I am sure, a massive apology for the mess in St. Barths.  Aviva is disappointed when she realizes that Sonja is one pissed off woman!

“You have said some things you cannot take back,” said Sonja.  ”You defamed my character … I can’t have a friend like that.”

Aviva is shocked and babbles that she was duped and betrayed by Ramona.  Does Aviva seriously think she can pit Rasonja against each other?  Then she haughtily informs Sonja that she is better than her behavior at St. Barths.  Sonja does not give a shit.  ”Whatever you tell me about your feelings now, I don’t care,” she said. “I’m over you.”

And then!  Then!  Sonja says, “I don’t know who you think you are really. You put out an air that you think you’re better than others.”  And the cherry on the cake:  ”You’re a liability.”

Aviva tries to regain the upper hand by lecturing Sonja about her “downward spiral,” but Sonja simply gets up, dons her crazy ass fur hat, and leaves Aviva at the restaurant, alone, with her mouth hanging open.

I could have stood up and applauded.  Until next week!

What a dramatic episode!  Finally, after lots of innuendo on Bravo’s part and plenty of speculation on the part of RHONJ fans, the Real Housewives of New Jersey are scheduled to attend the annual Posche Fashion Show.  Cue the drama.

Since this episode was filmed last year, Melissa and the other Real Housewives of New Jersey ladies have given broad hints that Melissa was set up at the Posche show by her sister-in-law, Teresa.  So let’s see what happens.

The episode begins with Kim D calling Melissa.  Kim D offers a pretty disingenuous apology for speaking badly about Joe Gorga’s business and for portraying him negatively to others.  Then Kim D gets to the real reason for this insincere bullshit call:  to invite Melissa Gorga (and the Bravo cameras) to the Posche Fashion Show.  Melissa promises to think about it and remarks to her stylist that Kim D really called because she wanted her at the fashion show.  Sounds about right to me.

At casa Giudice, Teresa tries to give her four girls a hilarious Italian lesson.  The lesson flops big-time.  Gia takes over the lesson with a little more success.  Teresa might need to try some Rosetta Stone.

Pan over to the Manzo clan, where brunch is being served at the boys’ bachelor pad.  Lindsey is clearly nervous about entertaining Mama Manzo and sour-faced Lauren.  Lindsey has prepared some pretty gross-looking English muffin sandwiches, which they elegantly plop into a big bowl.  There didn’t seem to be much else served except for some extremely strong mimosas.  Lindsey will need cooking lessons ASAP to entertain this family.  Lauren announces her new Cafface lease, and everyone cheers — God knows any response that does not include erupting into applause will cause Lauren to lock herself into the bathroom!

Kathy meets with an Italian company in an effort to collaborate with them on her dessert line.  They agree that she will use their flavorings in her homemade goodies as a kind of cross-promotion.  Richie acts pretty much like a dork during the scene, and I am hoping this was mainly due to editing.

Next, Melissa and Joe meet a few producers at a restaurant.  They decide not to go with a record label at this point.  Are any of the labels even interested in her?  I am thinking probably not.  I mean, her stuff is completely auto-tuned and it still doesn’t sound that good.  But I will give her this:  Girl has a rockin’ figure and she knows how to put it “on display”.  There are a lot of performers out there just as bad as Melissa (I’m looking at you, Enrique Iglesias) so maybe she can make a go of this.  Who knows?

Teresa invites Jacqueline and Melissa over for an awkward play date with the kids! Jacqueline acts uncomfortable the entire time and it’s really weird.  If she was that uncomfortable, it probably would have been best for all concerned that she bow out.  Teresa is wearing a strange get-up for a kids’ playdate:  tube top, very short shorts, and those knee high gladiator sandals she has been photographed often in.

Next, it is time for Miss Ashlee Holmes to get some Bravo camera time!  Jac skypes with Ashlee, who has at long last moved to California.  Ashlee shows Jacqueline some of her new tattoos, which seems strange — girl can barely pay her gas bill, but there’s plenty of money for new ink!

At the Gorga mansion, Melissa and Kathy are getting ready for the Posche fashion show.  Melissa says that she forgives Kim D for bad mouthing her husband because she apologized for it.  I have to give it to Melissa — she’s pretty good about just moving on once a problem has been addressed.  But wait…

Kim D, who clearly has an agenda and is hungry for free camera time, invites Teresa to go with her to a new salon so that they can get their makeup done for the fashion show.  Kim D looks ridiculous with her overly botoxed and filled face and skanky, cheap hair extensions.  The “salon” is extremely ghetto-looking.  The window treatments look like they’re from JC Penney’s, and the faux finish on the walls is hideous, out-of-date, and amateurish.  Yikes!

Soon, a creepy, bald-headed guy enters the K-mart of fine salons:  Angelo Vrohidis!  Angelo looks really skeevy and disgusting and he gave me the creeps immediately.  Also, this dude needs some serious dental work — STAT!

Angelo “casually” slithers over and mentions to Teresa that he used to know Melissa.  Kim D looks positively gleeful and not at all surprised.  Teresa didn’t seem to know what was going on and looked clueless.  While Angelo tells Teresa and a delighted Kim D that Melissa used to dance for him at a gentleman’s club, Teresa asks him not to say anything else about it and says she does not want to hear it.

Kim D, the gossipy, over-the-hill bitch, is like a dog with a bone with this “revealation.”  Questions about Melissa shoot out of her over-filled lips, and she doesn’t even try to keep the smirk off of her face.  Teresa leaves the room for Kim D’s interrogation of the slimy Angelo.

Now for the fashion show.  Teresa and Kim D arrive together in a limo.  The Manzo clan is late, frazzled, and annoyed. Melissa arrives with Kathy.  The ladies are all sitting together at a table when along comes Angelo.  Quelle surprise! Kim D made damn sure that this little drama played out for the cameras. Angelo asks Melissa if she remembers him, and she admits she does. I have to say she does look fairly horrified.

We are all left wondering what happens next week when Joe Gorga shows up to the fashion show!  Until then.

It seems that veteran actor and victim in his own mind Kelsey Grammer hasn’t quite finished what seems to be a bizarre mid-life crisis of some sort.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Camille Grammer was attacked once again by the father of her two children recently on Conan.  

In describing his relationship with with current wife Kayte, with whom had an affair while married to Camille, Kelsey claims he had to wait to have sex with Kayte.  Is anyone but me rolling their eyes in disbelief here?  It didn’t bother Kayte to date a married man and it didn’t bother her to live in the apartment Kelsey owned with Camille.  Are we to believe the virtuous Kayte drew the line at premarital sex?  Um, because she was pregnant while Kelsey and Camille were still married, y’all.  Ludicrous.

Kelsey further explains that he had not had sex in the previous ten years, so the wait seemed worth it.  Now, I don’t believe this crap for a minute but my first thought was:  What a way to speak about the mother of two of your children!

“That’s simply not true”, Camille commented through her representative.

I think Kelsey needs to shut the hell up.  He treated Camille like trash both before and during their divorce.  He did a bad thing, and it was embarassing.  Instead of apologizing for his boorish behavior, he is now on a one-man campaign to elicit sympathy for himself and act as if he was the one treated poorly!

I can’t stand this guy now!  What a self-absorbed, delusional idiot!  He needs to get a new PR manager before he causes irreparable damage to his image.

What do you think?

On last night’s episode of Real Housewives of New York, the ladies’ tumultuous vacation finally came to a close.  THANK GOD.  Aviva’s complete inability to “let it go” puts a damper on the remaining festivities.  She is so disappointed by the lack of a banner or a party upon her arrival that she seems determined to ruin the fun for the others.  Aviva spends much of the episode discussing her phobias and issues ad nauseam.  Okay, this isn’t the Aviva show.

Ramona is clearly unhappy that the “girls trip” has now turned into a “couples trip”.  Ramona and Sonja are still upset that Aviva has called them white trash.  The wine loving pair look up the term “white trash” and seem somewhat satisfied that one of the definitions of the word is poor and neither of them are poor.

Poor, unwitting Princess Carole enters the Rasonja suite and Sonja and Ramona complain about the girls going out with their men.  At this point, unfortunately, Aviva barges inot the room and proceeds to beat this dead, old horse into the ground.  I love when Ramona asked Aviva if she knocked before coming into the room.  Aviva claims that Sonja and Ramona only care about partying.  Well, I think Aviva is right on this point.  Ramona and Sonja definitely like to party.  But isn’t that what you do on vacation?

Somewhat childishly, Ramona rescinds her apology to Aviva from the day before and orders Aviva to leave her room!  Aviva once again complains that the ladies weren’t welcoming enough for her and Reid’s arrival.

The ladies attend a local luncheon spot where Carole tries to recap the shit storm that has been brewing between the ladies.  Aviva dominates the conversation with how she got through the flight (again!) and the other ladies seem to be totally disinterested in the subject.  For someone who doesn’t want to stand out or be treated differently, Aviva sure does seem to have the desire for everyone to coddle her through what for most people are regular life events.

Carole leaves the lunch table upset about the incessant small aircraft chatter.  Aviva and Carole end up getting a pedicure complete with callus-eating fish, which apparently is yet another phobia of Aviva’s.  Carole is forced to hold her hand through the pedicure.

Sonja and Ramona stir the pot and inform Heather Thomson that only the couples were invited to dinner that night and Heather is furious.  She storms off back to the villa.  Aviva, like a dog with a bone, tells Sonja that she’s a hypocrite for calling the vacation a “girls trip” when all she does is bring men home to the villa at night.  Last time I checked Sonja was single.  And it’s not as if Tomas spent the night or ate meals with any of the other ladies.

On the final day of their trip, Carole arranges for a peaceful spa day.  Sonja is officially highly pissed off at Aviva.  After that evening’s dinner, Rasonja ditch the other ladies and head back to the villa for more cocktails instead of attending Carole’s boyfriend Russ’ concert.  Sonja seems pretty drunk when the ladies return, losing her balance and strangely blow drying her dress.

After dinner, the ladies all end up in the pool — all fully clothed except for Sonja, who strips down for the occasion.  Ramona has to be pushed into the pool, and it seems as if the ladies are having a somewhat relaxing time at last.

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