August 9, 2012 10:00 am UPDATE 3:05 pm
NOTE: The SH wallpaper today… and this week…is courtesy of David Gilmore’s talents from “PrettyOnTheOutside.” If you have not perused his site, please visit!
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Adrienne Maloof told USWeekly that her upcoming divorce from Paul Nassif is “just a bump in the road”… and Adrienne’s top priority are her and Pauls’ three children.
“I’m hoping for the best. Our children come first and we’ll see,” says Maloof. “My personality has always been really balanced, and I remember where my priorities lie which is with my children. So when you have that in mind I think everything else kind of falls into place.”
Describing the couple’s relationship as “volatile,” an insider tells Us that Maloof and Nassif simply grew apart — and no one cheated. “It’s not a vindictive ‘I hate you’ situation,” confirms the source.
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David Gilmore’s interpretation of Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Sheree Whitfield…
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What’s going on at VH1… very happy to hear that “BestWeekEver” will be back in its original form… TV!!!
US cablenet VH1 is targeting adults who are balancing responsibilities with a desire to stay current with its new factual, comedy and reality commissions.
The Viacom-owned channel is creating a Friday night comedy block for 2013 and will return Best Week Ever to the schedule for the first time in three years…
…alongside new commission Miss You Much (8×30′). Miss You Much features host Catherine Reitman tracking down forgotten TV and movie actors and popstars from the past 20 years. A one-hour preview of the show will air on Sunday September 9 at 22.00 (ET/PT).
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Ramona Singer…
Excerpt From RAMONA SINGER’s BravoBlog …
“I found it very interesting that LuAnn exited and wanted no part of it. LuAnn can dish it out but doesn’t like to face the consequences.
I was so shocked about what LuAnn did, that I am glad Mario told Jacques how he felt and I was able to stay out of it. LuAnn and I have never been in a great place. I see her for who she is. Despite that, I am trying to get in a better place with her and that’s why I did not want to have an argument and confrontation with her at the Christmas party. What LuAnn did was wrong! She knows it was wrong. I knew it was wrong. Many other people knew it was wrong. That’s why I could not look her in the eye — as I would have thrown my wine in her face so fast!
The highlight of that evening was LuAnn’s choice of entertainment. Who knew that the self proclaimed “expert on etiquette” would hire an X-rated band!”
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Brandi Glanville… and “bathroom sex guy” boyfriend…
Brandi Glanville is getting smacked around again… for tweeting that she looked like a “burn victim” after getting a facial! People who know burn victims are whining that Brandi is insensitive by using “burn victim” as a description…
Interesting that Brandi also tweeted that she looked like she has leprosy! Aren’t there any lepers out there who are greatly offended by Brandi’s tweet?
NOTE: Brandi is not only writing a book (what else is new?), but she’s developing a clothing line… YAWN.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey… Caroline Manzo
Real Housewives of Orange County… Gretchen Rossi
Real Housewives of New York… Aviva Drescher
Real Housewives of New York… LuAnn de Lesseps
Real Housewives of New Jersey… Jacqueline Laurita
Real Housewives of Orange County… Tamra Barney
(Thanks to SH readers “CathyFromFM” “cybraxis” and “FLPhil”!!!)
Dang, plastic surgery is a godsend.
Or a curse. Aviva and Lulaman look completely different. Aviva looked like she has done too much to her face. She looks way better before than after.
It sure fixed Jacko’s beak.
Nice double piercing on LuAnn. Wonder how long it took for her to realize that made her look more like DeeDee from Dogpatch than Princess Diana?
Whoa does Jac pre nose job look just like Ash pre nose job or what? Looks like Jac had some other work done too. Maybe not….alot of people don’t fully develop facially until mid 20s. But I have to say she picked a pretty unnatural nose.
And look how Carolines nose has grown, WOW
It looks as though she had a head transplant! Looks NOTHING like her before!
I would have never recognized that as Jac if it was just a random picture somewhere. I can’t quite pinpoint what exactly has changed, it’s bizarre.
her face is so frozen with botox she resembles a stroke victem maybe?
yes!!!
Wow looks to me like Lulu has had quite a lot of work done.
We don’t still like Brandi, do we? Oh well…
Also, Ramona, hon you can have beef with people. That happens. I agree with you here. LuLu bad, but that doesn’t mean you can say to her and write in your blog, “I’m going to throw wine in your face!”
You must chill.
The Countless could have played Aileen Wuornos & Caorwhine could have passed for Selby in the movie, Monster. Those teeth have had a lot of work..actually Aileen didn’t look as tired as Countless.
I gotta say, Caro was one cute little girl so what the hell happened ?…..oh yeah, she got all ugly on the inside.
OMG…I think that’s the homliest looking little girl…
LuAnn’s nurse photo made me spit out my coffee! I’m sorry but I honestly cannot look at Jax for more than a nanosecond – her face makes me uncomfortable!
LuAnn looks older than her before pic. Is this possible? Tamara had scary eyebrows even back then.
Well she is older than her before pic. That’s probably when she graduated from nursing school – I’d say early 20s?
6 month LPN program at a vo-tech. University level Bachelor of Science programs ditched the nursing caps as antiquated in the 70s.
Tamra looked the best before.Luanne looked like a little boy in drag.Caroline was nice looking back then as well.Bitterness ages you.
That picture of Carowhine as a child scares me. She looks like an extra from the cast of the movie ‘Children of the Corn’.
Bahahaha Anna. You do stand-up on friday nights don’t you?.
Tamra looks like a serial killer.
Ailene Wournos Jr.
I agree. She looked old and hard for only 17 or 18.
Oh my, I’ve never seen a “Before” picture of Lulu, holywhatsit she looks so different. I think she definately improved!!
Tamrah had that white bread/trash look with those beady eyes that her son has…one day Ima gonna marry me a rich mannnnn….LuMann looked horrendous sheeze…Jacks..poor Jacqueline…Aviva was and is still breathtakingly beautiful
I was thinking the SAME thing about Tamra!! She also has the look of someone very unstable (even in the younger pic). It’s something in her eyes. It scares me!
She has “i’m gonna CUT you!” eyes.
Tamara looks like the little rug rat chick in high school that walks the halls looking for a fight
. Nothing sweet about her picture back then and surely nothing sweet about her now!
LOL, she’s alway had that mean girl aura.
TamTrash’s hair looked like a bird nest even then! Wonder who she was trashing in high school. Same dark, mean, eyes, and same hard, tight, mouth. Nothing’s changed!!
Luann’s before picture looks like she would have been high school Tamera’s lil lieutenant. They both that that same look to them but somehow its funnier for me to see Luann’s pre-elegance is class days because Tamera has never really held herself out to be more than she is. Not to the degree that Luann does. They look like they come from the same stock.
Her pic looks a lot like Rosies minus the nursing cap.
Notice she already had the smokers teeth before the invention of crest white strips. She wasn’t that old in the nursing pic so I figure she musta started smoking when she was 14 or so from the looks of it.
ITA. Tamra is the beady eyed middle school girl that’ll kick the $£|+ out of all the pretty girls for liking the same boy she does. Brutal little blonde monkey makes you move to the other side of the hall during break!
LOL!!! Love it!- so tru, I ran from girls like her …
So astute!!
Wow. You sized her up just right. She was always so tough and hard looking.
You can see Asslee’s resemblance to Mommy Dearest in the pre-surgery pics- poor kid. I’ve always thought there was something weird about Tamra’s eyes and thought maybe it was surgery/increased bitterness, but she had those crazy “dead” eyes even when she was young- creepy.
Yikes, LuLu looks like she’s got a couple of black chinchillas curled up on her head.
OMG, I am still laughing at the picture and then I read your blog again almost fall out of my chair. Too Funny!
LOL, I looked at her picture and honestly couldn’t ever remember seeing such a hairstyle. The 80′s and 90′s had some strange looks, but never anything quite like Lulu’s.
I’m laughing so hard I have tears rolling down my face! Now all I have to do is just think chinchilla and I start again. My kids def think I’m wacko now……lol
Yep, chinchillas or one great big muffin!! That’s why Carole calls her “muffin head.”
I’m more offended that Brandi couldn’t spell leprosy in her tweet.
Brandi is a functional illiterate.
It’s like Lisa V. said, Brandi has an IQ of 60.
Aviva looks GORGEOUS then and now, I know some of those really close-up screen shots make her look eff’d up, but I can’t stop thinking how pretty she is, maybe if she pisses me on the show I’ll change my mind. I also wish I had LuAnn’s stylist – that’s a great makeover! Now, Jax….WTF!?!
Glad Ramona realizes that she wasn’t looking Luann in the eye. I don’t buy her reason. I tend to not look people in the eye when I know I am going too far in an argument or running some mute point into the ground. At that point it doesn’t even matter if I am right or not anymore. I hate that feeling. Like I wish I could just shut up but am unable to slow my own roll. And I am too ashamed of myself to make eye contact.
But LuAnn brought it up and wouldn’t shut up about it. I’m not sure how much better Ramona could have handled it since it was an obvious set up.
If I remember right she was denying that she knew Mario was gonna bring it up. Luann was addressing it because Mario made such a production over it. I cant imagine that Ramona didnt demand that he set jawks on his ear about it(with slight nudging from producers) Of course camera hoggin Mario was all to happy to oblige. Ramona was scanning the upper corners of the room for help. Like I said, I recognize this move because I have been guilty of it myself a time or two or fifteen. Its the one way that my friends and family can tell that they have won a debate because once I got going I am not likely to vocalize that they have a point. Its a character flaw that I am aware of and am happy to say that I AM getting better at not doing it so much anymore. Maturity, I reckon has learnt me better these days.
For the record, I think Ramoner was right to be pissed. But her “victory” was how she passed the test. That should have been plenty consolation for Ramoner. Thwarting LuAnn’s diabolical plan. Dwelling on it gives Luann too much power when she had already clearly been squashed like one of them there fancy french grapes in front of everyone at the party that witnessed her silly attempt to discredit Ramoner.
I believe you answered your own question. Ramona could not look her in the eye because she thought it was a moot topic. To have to talk about it, knowing it would be the same exact outcome, was upsetting to her. I have been so mad at times I can’t even look at the person I’m mad at because it would cause a visceral reaction. I think it was Ramona’s way of not snapping.
Whoa, Lu has had tons of work. And apparently her hair has always been a not mess.
Asslee is a REALLY bad combo of her dad & Jax, can’t look at her either! Kinda like Rumer Willis.
crooks: “PotatoHead”? LOL!!! TFC!! SH
PS SH this wallpaper is killing me. LOL! Caroline “Red Skelton” Manzo – the stuff nightmares are made of…
HA! I think this is a great Halloween costume idea for her. It’s just around the corner!
This wallpaper has made my day.
From this front view, I don’t see any real nose job with Jac. The tip of the nose is the same, as is the nostrils. The sides may be thinned but that could be make-up. Ashlee has a very round face, while Jac’s face is oval, so I would think Ashlee looks more like her father, tall and full faced. With Gretchen’s front view you do see a definite change from eye down to the tip of the nose and the nostrils — tip and nostrils seem to be the biggest clue for anyone having work done which seems to be the case with Aviva. With Luann lightening the black hair and eyebrows, and growing her hair out, is the biggest facial change. Carolyn’s longer hair doesn’t suit her face and a bang would be better which I think would soften her features. Professional make-up (as shown on those infomericals) can cover imperfections and sculpt the face, and that seems to be what these ladies do, except for Carolyn.
Now we see where Critter gets his teeth! I’m sorry but Jac looks like a bloated Chinese, no diss to people of that descent, but when you can pass for another race from too much botox, injections, or whatever it’s time to give it up. I always said to myself that Tamra has no soul, her eyes are like death to me…
Aviva looks amazing before and after.
I think LuAnn looks better now.
Jax had one fillers too many.
Caroline lookes better when she was little.
It would be interesting to see what Tamra looks like now without surgery.
Gretchen looks like she had a nose job but i’m not sure.
I think the NYC housewives had the best surgery.
“It would be interesting to see what Tamra looks like now without surgery.” We will never know Wesley since Tamball got her momma plastic surgery right quick and in a hurry before anyone could realize what Tamera would look like without surgical intervention.
Hehe Good point Made.! I forgot people actually did that.lol.
Tamara’s son Ryan has the same ugly eyes as she has.He is an ugly kid.With that skull cap on and beard @ his apartment he looked nasty like Critterfur does.Hygiene not top on their list.
Where did Brandi insult burn victims? I don’t see it here and I don’t see it on her “tweets”. (Mom of a burned kid here, I saw no offense. ??? Pretty much everyone alive has been a burn victim, either by choice or circumstance, at some point. ???)
People are so silly. too sensitive.
Great drawing of “Who gonna check me Bo”.Sherree had more attitude than $$ to keep up with the others that were faking like they had $$.She stopped dressing as glamours especially at her last and final reunion.Like Chuckie you know she has fancy clothes in her closet or were they loaned/borrowed for certain occassions.Might have took them back to the store like Marlo “Escort” accused Sherree of doing after wearing them.
It’s way out of line for Brandi to make a comment like that; Brandi is a model and is pretty but this is a low blow. She should take a tour of a burn unit and realize real life not the made up reality tv world she lives in.
I, respectfully, disagree. Having a sunburn or a chemical burn can make a person “look like a burn victim” because, in fact, they ARE burned. I spent 18 days, in 3 hospitals, with burn victims. Not all of them were disfigured, fighting for their lives with their organs hung up and bones being scraped.
It sounds to me like she had a facial and a 1st degree reaction, similar to a sunburn.
A tour in a burn unit is not going to give a person an accurate idea of what is being done there. Being a resident for weeks/months and returning for years for treatments doesn’t even begin to tell that story. It’s very complicated.
I still don’t see an insult with her words. Just because she didn’t need surgery/transfusions/skin scrubs, shaves or graphs, does not mean she didn’t feel she looked burned. She probably did look burned. YMMV…..
I totally agree with you Nuna. I don’t see the major diss in it either.
It’s not like Brandi said she looked WORSE than a burn victim.
She got a burn, she was a burn victim. Period, end of story.
She didn’t run over a kid, kill someone, strangle a kitten or beat up an old lady.
I love all the judgement from people that have probably done much worse without realizing it. lol.
Why is Brandi so stupid? Did her mother drop her on her head as a baby too many times or what? She grew up in a trailer park so it’s very likely.
And it’s amazing what plastic surgery will do for most of these women. I think Jacqueline is the only one who was a natural beauty. Too bad she ruined her looks.
It’s one sentence in a person’s life. She’s not running around putting down burn victims all over the world.
Also, a child has no control over the place they grow up.
I think Aviva looks a little like Gwyneth Paltrow in her before pic. a.k.a.fishsticks.
WOWW Tamra and Luann look so different!! I think Aviva looks the same, just better makeup. Poor Caroline has never been pretty, and her bitterness is making her uglier. That being said, I have laughed til I cried looking at horrible pictures of me when I was an adolescent. Thank God they aren’t ‘on display’! LOL
OK I must sat I’m going to defend Brandi a little here. If she had a bad peel, it would look horrible and would be described as a burned look. Now, her guilt in this situation is failing to realize her tweets go out to potentially millions of people. This isn’t a lunch party where your telling friends you looked like a burn victim. Which, is something anyone of us would say to friends. IMO she needs a little media professional to walk her through tweeting responsibly. Being politically correct should be reality 101. I think she just needs some good aggressive polishing and she could be waaay more palatable. I like Brandi
I like Brandi, too, and it was just an off hand remark. I agree, she does need a little more polish when it comes to tweeting and to think before she tweets. Pretty soon we won’t be able to say anything without offending someone somewhere.
ida: Couldn’t agree more! Ridiculous! TFC!! SH
Idagal are you from Ida-ho?
I have to agree with Nuna. Chemical peels can and often do cause facial “burns.” The chemicals do actually “burn off” the top layers of skin and causes the skin to get very red, and actually scabs over until the scabs litterally fall off after a few days to a week.
I think this reaction to Brandi is incorrect.
My momma got a real deep one once and it messed her up for a long time. I will never forget how bad it was because she also got her chin done at the same time and sumpin else I cant remember but her head was all swolled up like a basket ball and the flesh was just hangin off it in big white puss-like clumps the whole thing was coated in a thick vaseline like substance.Now his was also the day the Challenger exploded and I was watching it in my room when she come round the corner and I was leaning back in my chair(like I wasn’t ‘sposed ta do anyways) and once I saw her head I fell plumb backards. The combination of the shuttle explosion and my momma looking like that made me think the world was coming to an end and Jesus forgot to take me in the rapture first.
My Dear, Madepiley, you do have a way with words, darlin!
Thank ye.
MP, I think you may have successfully dissuaded anyone considering going under the knife for anything but emergency surgery.
Well now mind you this was years ago when chemical peels were a new thing. Mom’s doctor eventually went on to get his law degree.
I think Aviva is very beautiful, before and after (although her chin looks different in the after to me). She is aging gracefully. I can’t take my eyes off of the LuAnn photos.
Jax looks nothing at all like her pre face lift surgery…her mouth is even different…..
I don’t think the Countess had much work done in comparison to say Jax. Countess has a different approach to her hair style…but her nose doesn’t look that transformed at all…dental work yes. Jax looks completely different..and I can now understand why she chose the Bob Hope ski nose version…her natural one covered her face!
Gretchen looks terrible in both pics but her before pic. is so strange, her eyes are not even she looks sort of like a picaso painting.
These women walk around like they were born beautiful.What a crock of crap.Their kids are the mirrors of what they did look like.Look at LuLu’s daughter she is kinda homely looking.Now look at Lu Lu’s before and you can see where she got those looks before mom’s surgery.They all act like they spew real/natural beauty.All of them are fake and phony.Money cant buy class but can buy a whole new look or identity.
LuMan’s and DonBozo’s pics are the stuff of nightmares. Both gave me a very strong visceral reaction. Tamra’s blackhole eyes remind me of Damian’s from Omen.
I have a question. If u get all this major plastic surgery done to ur face, are u obligated to tell ur future husband? Or do you let him think he’s marrying a beauty and then when ur first child is born and it looks like a leading character on Planet of the Apes, do u scream “SURPRISE!!”
I would tell him!lol. You don’t want any surprises later.You dont want him looking at the kid and blaming relatives.lol.Me?If I were to date again,I would open up to my bf and let him know about my breast reduction.It kinda is plastic surgery in a way because something was altered.
My bf already knows my tatas are fake. So I guess we may owe any potential female daughters tatas AND a college education?
Lol Antonella
I’m surprised any of them broke out their homely youngster photos.
It looks like Jacqueline had a lot of plastic surgery aside from a nose job: probably a brow lift, and other kinds of cheek or chin implants, fillers, etc., She looks like a completely different person.
This is a serious comment. When I look at the two pics of Jac I kinda somewhat maybe feel bad for her parents (if I didnt know better)…..I have to think that one day you have the child you bore and raised and then the bandages come off and she looks nothing like herself. There has got to be so kind of grieving there. Like you will never see that face you have loved again. It’s kind of sad, ya know what I mean?
Never looked at it that way.But ITA. I said that I would never get plastic surgery on the face,fortunately for me I was blessed in the gene pool.I’m short though and I hate my arms-something I took for granted.I look at how small I was before I started stressing over non-existing weight.I’m getting my body back slowly but surely.When I look at these housewives I think they go too far at times.Jax to me in season one was very attractive,I think T Guidice is beautiful and Phaedra parks is just breath taking.Some inln my opinion need tweeking,but you wonder sometimes what they look like if you were an inch away from their face.
Reece, Phaedra is beautiful……Teresa is pretty….Jac Im on the fence about…I just hate the generic nose….I know what you mean about non existant weight. I was kinda perfect as a teenager yet soooo stressed about wearing a bathing suit. Now that Im 40…3 kids later….still look good….but Im mad at me for not appreciating how I used to look….I guess that was part of being a teeneager back then…apparently no teenagers are shy now! Im at the beach right now….not a shy ir modest one here! Good for them….maybe????
ITA.We never see it until we lose it.lol.One thing I’ll never get is implants but Thats because I had E cups at one point.I was envied by every woman I knew.Ugh I dont know why they were a pain.Very happy now.Kinda off topic but did you see the previews of this sundays Jersey Housewives.I have no idea what T and Juicy were doing by that bush.lol
I have been off the loop for a while. I had no idea Paul and Adrienne were divorcing but not surprised. You can see that she didn’t get him from day one. That’s sad. I liked Paul very much.
You will notice there are NO pictures of Adrienne in her twenties -anywhere…and that’s the ‘Before’ pic that I’d like to see
Tamra was quite pretty.
Mayzie: There are no photos from her days at UNM, either! Someone was very hard at work!! TFC!!! SH