Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

[Music City Mama]

I wanted to respond to why I personally like Kim. I was a fan of her when I was little. I had no clue who her sister was as far as acting or anything else except seeing her on a VH1 special saying she was the aunt of Paris and Nicky Hilton. That was Kyle's only claim to fame at least that is what I knew of her before the show. Same thing about the other wives, no clue who they were except of course Camille, who was on MTV when I was in highschool, she was a semi celeb to me.
I guess I had more vested in seeing Kim today than any of the others. Maybe it is a generational thing, Kim still has a pretty big fan following in her circle.
It made me sad to see her so timid now, and I did not like how her sister treated her. Maybe I paid more attention to her than the others, I don't know. But, it was not just the finale for me. I really hope the best for Kim, she did seem beaten down. I will say she seems to adore her kids and did raise them all, she became a mom at a pretty young age.

Believe it or not, Kim was the reason I started watching, as well. I liked her very much when I was a young girl. It was only after the show started that I googled and found out that Kyle was none other than little Lindsay Wallace from my favorite horror movie of all time "Halloween". I wanted to like Kim, but as I've said in previous posts, I just relate to her personality the least.

I agree. I don't think Kyle said that about filming, it's the Real HOUSEWIVES show...why wouldn't they film her??? I think Camille (as she even admitted last night) has a bit of a chip on her shoulder about being seen as ONLY Kelsey's wife.

I like Kyle so you're not the only one.

As for Taylor...why is she always closing her eyes when talking to people. I think it's because she's always LYING and can't stand eye contact.

Good call on the psychoanalysis -- I think you hit the nail on the head!

I was reading on of my favorite daily blogs dlisted, and the blogger has started calling Kyle, Demi Less, I thought that was funny.

That is funny!

 

[AmongMadPeople]

I wanted to respond to why I personally like Kim. I was a fan of her when I was little. I had no clue who her sister was as far as acting or anything else except seeing her on a VH1 special saying she was the aunt of Paris and Nicky Hilton. That was Kyle's only claim to fame at least that is what I knew of her before the show. Same thing about the other wives, no clue who they were except of course Camille, who was on MTV when I was in highschool, she was a semi celeb to me.
I guess I had more vested in seeing Kim today than any of the others. Maybe it is a generational thing, Kim still has a pretty big fan following in her circle.
It made me sad to see her so timid now, and I did not like how her sister treated her.
Maybe I paid more attention to her than the others, I don't know. But, it was not just the finale for me. I really hope the best for Kim, she did seem beaten down. I will say she seems to adore her kids and did raise them all, she became a mom at a pretty young age.

Great point. I had no idea who she was until the show, and only watched Escape to / Return to Witch Mountain last month. If I had grown up with her I'd feel a lot more strongly about her than I do.

 

[CharliNye]

Just sat down and watched the reunion.

Here are my thoughts:

Adrienne- Loved her. So funny, laid back and genuine. Her choking up for Camille was really sweet. And she seems like she wants to distance herself from the bs.

Kim-I think she looked fantastic! I see her not wanting to fight back as classy. You don't always have to be screaming or defending yourself in every situation. The ones(kyle, taylor) who sit there and throw words and scream and point fingers look like jr high girls who can't get their way. I took her sitting back and shaking her head not as a sign of weak but quite the opposite.

Camille-Brace yourselves. I kinda liked her on the show. She really, truly seemed to feel bad about the way she came across and tried to own up to her mistakes and problems she caused. I felt bad for her a bit when that jerkweed Andy kept reading off all the things people have called her. Who IS that guy? I'm not familiar with these shows til this one, so first thought is what a freaking creep!

Honestly, I see where she came from. I've had friends tell me that during the year of MY divorce I was not a sane person and not always easy to be around, quite different and hard. Which is why knowing she knew stuff was going on with Kelsey the whole time, yeah I have some sympathy for her now. Narcissism can be ignored.

Kyle-My god she came off like a pissy jr high student. She sat there the whole time brushing her hair back every five minutes, or making faces. Seriously, she had nothing to add. She had a very haughty air. She's one of those women who you THINK you like, but slowly shows their true and nasty colors-and will probably talk about you when you leave the room, but kiss your butt when you're in front of her. And I used to LOVE HER.

Taylor-Oh no words can describe her. I've seen fish with smaller lips then hers. Kim hit the nail on the head-she will be whoever and say whatever you want her to be/say. She is just self-centered and wishy-washy and downright evil. Manipulative little liar. I hope they show the tapes of the airport, I really do. Her and Kyle deserve each other.

Lisa- I don't really have much to say today. She didn't say much from what I saw. And she was great trying to agree/prod along the conversation that Taylor DID stir up trouble with Camille that night.

I just can't believe the way that heinous man was talking to them. I know I'm new to this, but holy cow that was cringeworthy.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Just sat down and watched the reunion.

Here are my thoughts:

Adrienne- Loved her. So funny, laid back and genuine. Her choking up for Camille was really sweet. And she seems like she wants to distance herself from the bs.

Kim-I think she looked fantastic! I see her not wanting to fight back as classy. You don't always have to be screaming or defending yourself in every situation. The ones(kyle, taylor) who sit there and throw words and scream and point fingers look like jr high girls who can't get their way. I took her sitting back and shaking her head not as a sign of weak but quite the opposite.

Camille-Brace yourselves. I kinda liked her on the show. She really, truly seemed to feel bad about the way she came across and tried to own up to her mistakes and problems she caused. I felt bad for her a bit when that jerkweed Andy kept reading off all the things people have called her. Who IS that guy? I'm not familiar with these shows til this one, so first thought is what a freaking creep!

Honestly, I see where she came from. I've had friends tell me that during the year of MY divorce I was not a sane person and not always easy to be around, quite different and hard. Which is why knowing she knew stuff was going on with Kelsey the whole time, yeah I have some sympathy for her now. Narcissism can be ignored.

Kyle-My god she came off like a pissy jr high student. She sat there the whole time brushing her hair back every five minutes, or making faces. Seriously, she had nothing to add. She had a very haughty air. She's one of those women who you THINK you like, but slowly shows their true and nasty colors-and will probably talk about you when you leave the room, but kiss your butt when you're in front of her. And I used to LOVE HER.

Taylor-Oh no words can describe her. I've seen fish with smaller lips then hers. Kim hit the nail on the head-she will be whoever and say whatever you want her to be/say. She is just self-centered and wishy-washy and downright evil. Manipulative little liar. I hope they show the tapes of the airport, I really do. Her and Kyle deserve each other.

Lisa- I don't really have much to say today. She didn't say much from what I saw. And she was great trying to agree/prod along the conversation that Taylor DID stir up trouble with Camille that night.

I just can't believe the way that heinous man was talking to them. I know I'm new to this, but holy cow that was cringeworthy.

I agree with everything you said, BUT I do like Andy Cohen. These women know what they're getting into; what are they, the fifth "Real Housewives"? They put themselves out there, and part of it is the reunion where they respond to viewers comments and questions.

Here's his bio, from Bravo:
Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen is Bravo's Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development, responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate of over two dozen shows, including hits such as the Emmy and James Beard award-winning Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, The Real Housewives of Orange County, New York City, Atlanta , New Jersey, and D.C., Kathy Griffin My Life On the D-List, The Millionaire Matchmaker, Million Dollar Listing, The Rachel Zoe Project, The Fashion Show, Bethenny Getting Married?, Shear Genius, Tabatha’s Salon Takeover and Flipping Out.

In addition, Cohen is the host and Executive Producer of Watch What Happens: Live, Bravo’s late night, interactive, weekly talk show that features guests from some of Bravo's most popular series, as well as from the world of entertainment, politics and pop culture. The series includes lively debates on everything from fashion, the latest Housewives drama, to what celebrity is making headlines that week. The show airs Thursdays and guests have included Sarah Jessica Parker, Liam Neeson, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Tracey Ullman, Ellen Barkin, Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Congressman Barney Frank, Lance Bass, Levi Johnston – and of course, almost all of The Real Housewives. Cohen also hosts the network’s “Watch What Happens” reunion specials and writes "Andy's Blog," posted daily on BravoTV.com where he covers pop culture, television, media, and his daily life.

Since starting at Bravo in 2005, he has overseen an aggressive slate of unscripted series and specials including past hits Project Runway, Queer Eye, Work Out, Being Bobby Brown, Top Design, Make Me a Supermodel, Blow Out and The A-List Awards.

Previously, Cohen was Vice President of Original Programming for TRIO (pop, culture, tv), beginning in July 2000. He was responsible for developing and supervising all of TRIO's original productions including the critically-acclaimed original documentaries Gay Republicans, Easy Riders/Raging Bulls, Brilliant, But Cancelled, and the critically-lauded original series Pilot Season, 24w/ and Parking Lot.

Cohen received an Emmy award when season six of Top Chef won the Outstanding Reality Competition Program at the 2010 primetime Emmy awards and has been nominated for nine additional Emmy Awards as Executive Producer of Project Greenlight, Project Runway, Top Chef and Queer Eye. In 2005, Cohen was awarded a Peabody Award for his role as Executive Producer of the TRIO documentary The N Word and another in 2008 as an Executive Producer of Project Runway. He has been featured regularly on The Today Show and Joy Behar. In 2009 he appeared on the cover of The Advocate and was profiled in New York Magazine, The New York Times, the LA Times, and Entertainment Weekly. In June 2010, he was listed as one of TV Guide’s “25 Most Influential People in Television.” OUT Magazine put Cohen on their OUT 100 List in 2008, and named him "hottest blogger of 2006" in their annual "hot" issue and in 2007, Cohen was named one of Multichannel News’ "40 Under 40" innovative and formative executives at work today.

Prior to working at TRIO, Cohen spent 10 years at CBS News', where he last served as Senior Producer of The Early Show, overseeing the production of entertainment segments. Cohen also served as a producer for CBS News' 48 Hours and for CBS This Morning, where he covered breaking news including the Oklahoma City bombing, Hurricane Andrew, the California wildfires, and the crash of TWA Flight 800, and produced live segments and celebrity profiles.

Born in St. Louis, Cohen is a graduate of Boston University where he received a B.A. degree in broadcast journalism.

 

[moon]

After waiting breathlessly for the reunion special, Comcast froze on me and I was left staring at a black screen for most of the hour

I had to wait until the midnight repeat to watch the whole thing. I must say that the special just reinforced my opinion of the housewives.

Adrianne: She's absolutely my favorite one. I like to watch her "bickering" with her husband. She's classy, and has good manners (Taylor, Kyle and Camille could learn from her). She's what I imagine people of ler level act like. Classy, poised. I enjoy watching her, and her scenes never leave me with a bad taste in my mouth (like Kyle and Taylor).

Lisa: I also like her. I somewhat question some of her motives and don't quite understand why she wanted Taylor to "talk to Kim"; and I also don't care much that she's so close to Kyle (after all, Kyle's "best friend" is Faye Resnik I just can't picture Lisa and Faye running around the same circles). But she's classy with good manners. I can't imagine her making a scene, and well, I like her.

Kim: She's the reason I started to watch the show. I really find her to be the less "weird" one. In fact, she seems to be the most natural and honest. So, she's shy, inarticulate and not a social butterfly. She hasn't found a place for herself among her sister's social circle (a circle which didn't welcome her with open arms). Honestly, I don't know how I'd act and react if I was in the middle of such a "weird" bunch (I really find the others to be much more weird than Kim).

That leaves the other three: Taylor, Kyle and Camille. What an unpleasant, clasless, mean-spirited, catty, vulgar bunch. I could never relax around those three. They love to stir the pot and make scenes. Particularly Kyle is violent and flies off the handle at the drop of a hat and is so controlling. I hate people like that. Go on, Kyle, go on talking at every chance you get about Kim embarrassing you by "being late" and stuff like that; and at the same time saying how proud you are of your law-breaking-druggie-drunk-slutty niece. It only highlights what a phony fameho you really are.

I never thought I'd say this, but Taylor and Kyle are to me lower than Camille. I still dislike Camille, but Kyle and Taylor are much, much worse in my book.

 

[N&B'smom]

That leaves the other three: Taylor, Kyle and Camille. What an unpleasant, clasless, mean-spirited, catty, vulgar bunch. I could never relax around those three. They love to stir the pot and make scenes. Particularly Kyle is violent and flies off the handle at the drop of a hat and is so controlling. I hate people like that. Go on, Kyle, go on talking at every chance you get about Kim embarrassing you by "being late" and stuff like that; and at the same time saying how proud you are of your law-breaking-druggie-drunk-slutty niece. It only highlights what a phony fameho you really are.

Come on now...don't sugar coat it...tell us how you really feel.

 

[disfan07]

Pertaining to Camille:

I just want to know why the heck you need 4 nannies for 2 kids AND a house manager.

Does she even know what it means to raise her kids? Does she do anything at all?

In general, I do have to say that if anything, I think the other housewives are better, more involved parents than she is.

I feel like the other housewives actually take care of their children. I have no problems with people who have nannies in general. I have known a lot of parents who have nannies but that is because they work full time. Their nannies work usually 8-6, 5 days a week. Leave before dinner when the parents get home and are not there on weekends, vacations, etc.

She doesnt work does she? She has 2 kids and 4 nannies. Is she not capable of taking care of her own kids? She claims that she is fighting for custody of her children, but does she actually take care of them or do the nannies do all of the work?

4 of my doctors have nannies for their kids. Each has 1 nanny for 2 or 3 kids. And their nannies work when the parents work. They have back up babysitters if needed but No live-in nannies, no nannies travelling with them (they can manage 2 or 3 kids on their own), no nannies on the weekends, etc. I just dont get it.

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

I just can't believe the way that heinous man was talking to them. I know I'm new to this, but holy cow that was cringeworthy.

I *love* Andy. He, as a major part of the Bravo family, always takes the role of mediator, but he really doesn't calm any tensions...

-Example: Taylor: "No, enough. I don't want to talk about that. Moving on."
Andy: "Why not? What happened? Tell us!"

He just makes me laugh, even though that list of nasty things said about Camille was a bit too lengthy. He could have cut that down in half and the point would have been made.

 

[MonkeyDishwasher]

She doesnt work does she? She has 2 kids and 4 nannies. Is she not capable of taking care of her own kids? She claims that she is fighting for custody of her children, but does she actually take care of them or do the nannies do all of the work?

Camille seems to do a lot with her and Kelsey's production company. In fact, I enjoy that each of the Housewives seem to have their own projects and careers to keep themselves on their feet, or they were at least relatively self-made, unlike some of the other wives from other regions (*cough Teresa and Danielle from Jersey cough*).

Taylor also has at least one nanny that I remember, Did Kyle? Lisa might have had help when her kids were younger, but who knows. I don't judge Camille, we really don't know everything that she may or may not have on her plate.

 

[N&B'smom]

Pertaining to Camille:

I just want to know why the heck you need 4 nannies for 2 kids AND a house manager.

Does she even know what it means to raise her kids? Does she do anything at all?

In general, I do have to say that if anything, I think the other housewives are better, more involved parents than she is.

I feel like the other housewives actually take care of their children. I have no problems with people who have nannies in general. I have known a lot of parents who have nannies but that is because they work full time. Their nannies work usually 8-6, 5 days a week. Leave before dinner when the parents get home and are not there on weekends, vacations, etc.

She doesnt work does she? She has 2 kids and 4 nannies. Is she not capable of taking care of her own kids? She claims that she is fighting for custody of her children, but does she actually take care of them or do the nannies do all of the work?

4 of my doctors have nannies for their kids. Each has 1 nanny for 2 or 3 kids. And their nannies work when the parents work. They have back up babysitters if needed but No live-in nannies, no nannies travelling with them (they can manage 2 or 3 kids on their own), no nannies on the weekends, etc. I just dont get it.

I know! Then she says how busy she is! If she wants to see busy, come stay with me. My two children keep me so busy with all of their activities, I work and somehow manage it all without 1, 2, 3 or even 4 nannies!

Btw, why in the world would she have two nannies there at the same time? I noticed a few times there were two of them there together.

 

[padawans]

I have never watched these show. I can't believe that people actually care enough about reality shows to actually post on them. What does that say say about our society. Flame away I won't be on this thread again.

 

[agnes!]

Tuesday's show should be interesting... I do wonder where Cedric is at these days, anyone else think he's already found a sugar-mama/sugar-daddy to take care of him?

agnes!

 

[moon]

Tuesday's show should be interesting... I do wonder where Cedric is at these days, anyone else think he's already found a sugar-mama/sugar-daddy to take care of him?

agnes!

I wonder.... Is the Kato Kailin(sp) syndrome common in California?

 

[Kycha]

I have never watched these show. I can't believe that people actually care enough about reality shows to actually post on them. What does that say say about our society. Flame away I won't be on this thread again.

Alrighty then. I guess you told us.
I can't believe that people actually care enough about a thread about reality shows that they hate to actually post on them. And then not stick around for us to flame them. What does that say about our society?

 

[Music City Mama]

I have never watched these show. I can't believe that people actually care enough about reality shows to actually post on them. What does that say say about our society. Flame away I won't be on this thread again.

I can't believe people actually like Star Wars enough to have a Star Wars themed user name.

I know padawans won't be back to answer this, but of all of the reality show threads on this board (and there are a lot), why post on just the RH of BH one? Weird.

 

[Buckalew11]

Andy Cohen asks what *we* want to know. I like that about him--ask the tough stuff--I'd hate for him to be a wimp.

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

I have never watched these show. I can't believe that people actually care enough about reality shows to actually post on them. What does that say say about our society. Flame away I won't be on this thread again.

Alrighty then. I guess you told us.

I can't believe that people actually care enough about a thread about reality shows that they hate to actually post on them. And then not stick around for us to flame them. What does that say about our society?

Andy Cohen asks what *we* want to know. I like that about him--ask the tough stuff--I'd hate for him to be a wimp.

 

[momrek06]

I have never watched these show. I can't believe that people actually care enough about reality shows to actually post on them. What does that say say about our society. Flame away I won't be on this thread again.

You know, it is not even about flaming you, BUT why do people come onto threads and post stuff like the above …

Just don't read them.

I mean really, to come on here and post something like you did and then include FLAME AWAY.

Just STAY AWAY and we are all good.

 

[kirstenb1]

Alrighty then. I guess you told us.
I can't believe that people actually care enough about a thread about reality shows that they hate to actually post on them. And then not stick around for us to flame them. What does that say about our society?

 

[N&B'smom]

That's hilarious. If I see a thread about something I don't have any interest in I just ignore it. Why take the time to post in the thread just to say that I think it's a silly topic and doesn't warrant a thread. Geez, I'd have to post in about 85% of the threads on the Dis then!