On Thursday’s Real Housewives of New York, Bobby Zarin took Simon van Kempen aside during the last few minutes of the show to speak with him about ‘that internet blogger‘… ‘that hate blogger,‘ as Bawbee described the site.
‘That internet blogger‘… ‘that hate blogger‘ is the site “I Hate Jill Zarin“… Bobby asked Simone to ‘shake on it’… but, what exactly did Bobby want Simone to ‘shake on?’ To never visit the IHJZ site…to never speak to Lynn Hudson, the creator of the ‘I Hate Jill Zarin‘ site? As the photos from the link to IHJZ depict, there is a friendly relationship between IHJZ and Simon van Kempen and his wife, Alex McCord.
If Bawbee’s intent for the ‘let’s shake on this’ with Simone is to ‘be on the same page’ as Bawbee and Jillz in regard to the IHJZ site, then Bawbee and Jillz need to open their eyes before making such a request of their friends.
If you hadn’t noticed, there were two people at Jill’s surprise party that were a shocking surprise to eagle-eyed viewers.
Rob Shuter is the 38-year-old PopEater columnist whose ‘Naughty But Nice‘ articles seem to regularly feature one of the Housewives. One of his PR undertakings was acting as the buffer between Tree Joodice and her fanatical fans adoring audience when Tree agreed to lecture about how to be successful(!?) at her January 10, 2011 Learning Annex class.
The other person attending Jillz surprise party was Michael Musto, long-time columnist at the Village Voice.
So, what were Michael Musto and Rob Shuter doing at Jill Zarin’s surprise birthday party?
Rob Shuter… hangin’ around at Jillz birthday party…
Bawbee chatting with Countless LuAnnie (at bar, in front of Rob) and Rob Shuter at bar…
Rob Shuter… still hangin’ around…
Rob Shuter enjoying a drink, thanks to Bawbee and Jill Zarin..
OMG! Look who’s here! Alex McCord spots Rob Shuter…
Hugs and kisses from Alex for Rob…
Obviously, Alex and Rob know each other well enough to warmly greet each other…
Michael Musto, columnist from the Village Voice seated next to Countless LuAnnie’s record producer (he did double duty as DJ at Victoria’s Sweet 16 party)
Neither Rob Shuter nor Michael Musto appeared in the group scenes at Jill’s party. Rob and Michael’s appearances were quick… Rob at the bar and Michael seated. They disappeared in all the group/crowd scenes…
How can Bawbee ask Simone to ‘shake on it,’ meaning that Simone would agree to keep at arm’s length his and Alex’s relationship with the IHJZ site, when Bawbee is exhibiting the same behavior; basically befriending people who write about ‘reality’ shows… in particular, Bravo’s Housewives franchises?
Wow, thanks for pointing those guys out as I was busy watching the forefront of those scenes I totally missed what was going on directly behind.
Oy vey. Thank you Ms. SH! I would have never been the wiser.
Thanks for noticing the two “journalists”, I thought I was the only one that saw them. Love your site, I myself am a Team Lynn girl!
Caliaurora: Welcome! What is a Team Lynn girl? Thanks for commenting! SH
So we are now on teams? Gooooo MS. STOOPID HOUSEWIFE!!! Rah Rah!!!
sis boom bah!
Nice catch, MS SH!
That’s really crappy… so, Bawbee only wants the people around him who write really good stuff about him and Jill. Rob Shuter is such a kiss-ass and a creep… how can he write impartially about Jill/Bawbee/Alex/Simone or any of the Housewives knowing how imbedded he is with all the Housewives? What kind of a deal does he have with Bawbee and Jill? I can understand Bawbee being upset about Simone having a connection to a site devoted to hating Jill Zarin, but he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth. Bobby only wants the ‘good’ bloggers to write about him and Jill… that screwed up.
And, it looked like Silex was all up in the hate bloggers site, so if they are friends with the site, why deny it?
EXACTLY! The Zarins are so duplicitous it’s not even a challenge to spot them talking out both sides of their mouths anymore.
Of course they only want people to say good things about them! The trouble is, when you’re on a reality show people are gonna talk – and it’s not all going to be flattering – so you gotta take the good with the bad. (Crap, now the Facts of Life theme song is playing in my head!)
And it gets even more difficult to force people to only say good things about you when you are a sneaky, crafty, duplicitous liar like ‘ol Jillz is. Face it, JZ, if they’re saying it about you – you probably deserve it. You can either change yourself or waste your time trying to change the opinions of millions of people. Guess which one’s easier, Dumbass.
Oh Holy/Tootie, cause I want to be Blair, that song is now stuck in my head. It has now replaced “I wanna go.” Which one’s worse? Where’s Simone’s hypnotist?
Oh I’ll take the FoL theme song over Bimbo Britney’s “I wanna go” ANY day of the week!
Tootie?!? I always saw myself as more of a Joe.
Tootie?!? LOL I’m no Tootie.
Holy/Joe, I still want to be Blair.
I think BawBee assumed they were friends. Chances are that Bawbee only hears Jill and what she says is all that matters. She was whining about it to him, fer sure.
Yeah, and you can bet that the way Jillz “tells things” she probably isn’t even getting the whole story straight when she tells Bawbee. So Bawbee just thinks all these “mean housewives/husband” are picking on my poor, innocent, Jill – so of course he’s going to come to her defense. Poor guy doesn’t even know what a snake his own wife is.
BTW – I just heard that the defense attorneys in the CA trial are asserting there’s no plea deal and that’s not why court was canceled on Saturday. I had kinda been thinking that’s what it was. Hmm, interesting….
Forgot something… that poor magician guy! Ramona and Countless were not impressed, but at least Mario acknowledged him.
I felt so bad for him! This is precisely why men feel emasculated by women in today’s society. This poor guy is just trying to do his job and earn a buck and those two idiots (Ramona and LuMan) can’t even scrape together an ounce of humanity to watch the guy’s trick, applaud, and tell him thank you. Instead they act like he’s invisible. Why? Because they’re such BIG STARS they don’t have to pay attention to the little people anymore.
It’s time for the NY cast to be cast-off. Their heads are getting too big for Bravo’s small halls.
I was actually quite happy to see Mario at least give the guy a dignity-saving handshake and polite words. But I’ll be happier when the NYHW’s egos have been chopped off at the knees by a pink slip from Bravo. As Tree would say: I’m done with you. Done, done, done!
Didn’t Micheal write an article about seeing Alex and Sonja after the reunion taping? Sonja was bitching about KooKooKelly saying her house was dirty and messy.
We should all agree to never write anything negative about Jill. That way we never have to mention her again.
Don’t forget Jillz sucking up to that highly regarded (not) parasite, Perez Hilton. Last season remember, on the show she attended a party for him & was hugging him? Jillz will do anything for a mention in the press/media (and jewelry).
So as usual, in this kerfluffle about the blog (“Bawby, DO something about that blog! It’s hawwibul, boo hoo, sniff. I’ll make it worth yuh while, yaknowwhatimean.), Jillz is a whining nasty hypocrite and Bawby’s a boob.
Does Kymaro http://www.kymaro.com/?p=320 make Jill’s shapewear? http://skweezcouture.com/our_story.php
Also isn’t the Kymaro pic the same one used for her birthday.http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city/season-4/photos/best-moments/jills-surprise-birthday-bash – Picture #17
It looks to me like someone photoshopped the Kymaro box out of it.