News, Rumors and Just Plain Ol Gossip

Bethenny Frankel is featured in ‘Time’ entailing her past years parlaying her reality show stints into a financial success rising above all reality stars.  Excerpt below and Click here to read full article.

Why there was ever a doubting question mark on Bethenny Getting Married? is up for debate, though one might blame those pesky, undermining Real Housewives castmates. One of the great hilarities of the show was watching Frankel — youngest, skinniest, arguably prettiest, her career advancing by the minute — bullied mercilessly by women who were forced to renew vows, restock closets and redecorate to garner equal camera time. Informed breezily by Ramona Singer that best friend Jill Zarin only liked her because she liked to root for the “underdog,” Frankel incredulously told the cameras, “I hadn’t realized I was this deformed, undateable human being.” When Frankel was chosen for the cover of Social Life magazine, former model Countess LuAnn de Lesseps’ well-placed dart — “Are they going to airbrush you?” — hit home. Visibly rattled, Frankel tried vainly to pry an apology out of this blithe Cruella over an excruciating lunch. The ingenue couldn’t see garden-variety jealousy when it smacked her with her own rising star. But viewers (and savvy producers) could.

Consumer Reports on how “The Real Housewives of New York City” are really irresponsible.  Something some of us had discussed already and confirmed by the experts.  Click here to read more.

Less than two weeks ago on Bravo television, The Real Housewives of New York City took a risky ride on a couple of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). In a scene that lasted for less than 45 seconds, the characters managed to misuse the vehicles in numerous ways. They—and worse, their children—were at a greater risk of injury and potentially death because they lacked helmets, rode tandem and allowed children to drive and ride two abreast as passengers behind the driver.

From 2004 through 2008, there was an estimated annual average of 864 ATV-related deaths in the United States and 141,080 emergency-room-treated injuries. This five-year period consisted of an annual average of 142 reported deaths of children under the age of sixteen. Of those injured in that time period, 40,420 were under the age of sixteen. For this reason, we recommend against the use of ATVs by children as either drivers or passengers.

 

BRAVO MAXINE is a freaking Racist!! Let me Splain..

 

Just to bring you readers up to date.. we had a twitter turd named Tweet Maxine, The “Bravo Mole” and she was outlandish and just plain ugly to Real Housewife peeps and just mean to unsuspecting housewife’s who had no clue of their celebrity and background to be unveiled.  Hey it happens to the best of us!  But you don’t want chit to be made up like Maxine did.  SHe was ugly and just plainly made chit up!!  When the good stuff wasnt available.  so.. now she is back and making more chit up and is now a true racist and is unabashed.  She is loud and proud and all Housewives who are not born here or born a Christian of some sort is suspect to Maxine.  

If you’re a Real Housewives fan on Twitter, you no doubt have run into a character who calls herself “Tweet Maxine.” Insisting she’s got all kinds of connections, Maxine could be found tweeting long rants and “scoops” on the housewives 24 hours a day.

Maxine’s other obsessions appeared to be the cast of Desperate Housewives, Victoria Rowell, and conservative politics. While I first found her amusing, several comments about Jill Zarin and Andy Cohen’s religion completely turned me off. Her claims got more and more bizarre as time went on: claiming that Kandi Burruss had more to do with the death of her fiancee A.J. Jewell; claiming that Caroline and Dina Manzo had been fired from Real Housewives of New Jersey and claiming that Gretchen Rossi had been scouting wedding locations for season 6 of Real Housewives of Orange County. All of Maxine’s stories were based on conjecture that anyone who follows the housewives could have come up with. However, I noticed that many people were repeating her stories on forums and a few other blogs, believing her to be a real Bravo “insider.”

Now Its Time For Twinkley Tweets… Real Housewives of New York Episode 2 Will Live On!!! In Twitter Thats for sure

http://twitter.com/ImaJustSaying

Follow me..ImaJustSaying the gorgeous and superficial blogger here on twitter..

And also follow the illustrious tinselkitty, my nemisis on this blog for her twitter account here!!

@SonjatMorgan U owe Simon an apology otherwise ur probably not a good person at heart bottom line & its the truth

— Yvette J. Garcia (@Yvettejackie38) April 16, 2011

@Yvettejackie38 MENY would have let Simon speak if they wanted him to speak. Its their event. Not a RHONY event

— Sonja Morgan (@SonjatMorgan) April 17, 2011

http://twitter.com/SimonvanKempen/status/59478691264212992

TvTime101 Links – Reality Salaries, Survivor, BB12 Peen

10 highest paid reality stars –  by The Daily Beast (thanks  @DebAllyn )

Kim Kardashian – 6 million Lauren Conrad – 5 million Bethenny Frankel – 4 million Audrina Patridge – 3.5 million   Kate Gosselin – 3.5 million Mike (Sitch) Sorrentino – 3 million Khloe Kardashian – 2.5 million Kourtney Kardashian – 2.5 million DJ Pauly D – 2 million Kendra Wilkinson – 2 million

The Fashion Show – Ultimate Collection…Who’s Watching With Me?

The Fashion Show – Ultimate Collection on Bravo Tonight

If you need a little nudge into some over-the-top Iman campiness, check out the Iman on a RAMPAGE! post over at Tom and Lorenzo’s place. Just promise you’ll scurry on back here to discuss.  No, promise now, before you go, ’cause I won’t even lie.  It’s easy to get lost in the fabulousness over there.

The Fashion Show Ultimate Collection: Iman’s Career in Fashion

The Musings of a Fashion Outsider

I tried.  I really, really tried.  Everyone just went on and on about the damn Project Runway and Tim Gunn’s beautiful mug was everywhere this season.  I watched Season 8, even when it hurt, and I am now prepared to admit that I just don’t get it.  Tim Gunn I get.  It is easy to see why he is so beloved.  Had there been way more Tim Gunn, perhaps I would get it more.  I enjoyed Mondo and Andy and April but Gretchen was insufferable and totally undeserving of the win.  I swear, Tim Gunn, I truly tried to make it work.

But wait just a damn minute, you say.  Who are you to judge whether Gretchen deserves to win if you’re an outsider?   What the hell do you know from jeggings?  Isn’t your favorite fabric Thinsulate?  You probably can’t even tell the difference between Isaak Mizrahi and Michael Kors.  Fair enough.  You, dear reader, are obviously discriminating so let me just go ahead and answer these questions for you before we go any farther.