And here we are again,our third leg on what could be described as an arduous race, a journey that has so many bumps in the road that it is important to take note of all the little nuances that you may witness along the way.
Many times I have been asked why I would venture into the world of reality? Well many reasons, and as I observe Kim and her daughter preparing for her prom, those moments that are forever preserved, that you can replay, like I have many times with my daughters engagement, wedding preparation, and marriage, I know there lies one of my answers.
Then we have the short vignette of Kyle teaching her daughter to drive in a Porsche. . .I think it would probably be wiser and less pressure for her to learn in an old banger, the way my children did. Just saying.
We had all been invited to Yolanda and David’s for dinner. I had introduced Yo Yo to this group of women and been mindful not to influence her either way, not to gossip and explain the hurt and accusations. So she was largely unaware of the negativity between Adrienne and I, and I felt that she should form her own opinions and not be influenced by me. It was a choice and my perception of some people at that point maybe would have colored her point of view.
I probably should have asked her to place me somewhere other than opposite Adrienne and Paul and to be honest it was rather uncomfortable,but we muddled through.
David played the piano and were entertained by some incredible singers, Taylor unbeknownst to me had brought up once again the subject of Brandi and her flippant remark. Unnecessary, but Taylor was a few drinks in and probably not making the wisest choices.
I had sent a thank you note to Adrienne for the ummm. . .arrangement. I had to, even though like many, I felt it was in bad taste. I couldn’t be sure that she was responsible for the choice, not her florist, so it had to be taken as some sort of peace offering.
It was then decided we should meet for a drink and discuss the situation without any body else being involved. Ken, as always, is ever protective and would rather just eliminate them from our lives. But life isn’t that simple and as we are all together at many occasions due to the forum that we signed up for, it was a necessity to confront the issue once and for all.
So there I leave you, with a little more insight into my feelings. I value your comments and am fascinated by how intuitive you all are and your accurate observations. We can’t fool you, that’s for sure. . .until next week.
Love always, Lisa
Lisa is such a lovely classy lady. I think Kim is on something again. She’s off the wagon. Hopefully they see it right away and try to nip it in the bud, but I doubt it. Vyle to the rescue.
Like her attitude about not clouding Yolanda’s opinion of the other women. Didn’t care for her opinion about learning to drive in a Porsche. I despise Kyle but it is her choice to be as pretentious as she wants to be.
Why does she give that vile disgusting trash Taylor a pass because she was drunk!?! That makes it worse in my opinion. Drinking is not a free pass to act like a tacky hillbilly dink
Seems like Taylor has been a tad tipsy every time I’ve seen her this season so far…maybe that will be her next storyline
I like Lisa but some things she wrote, IMO, arent exactly true or right. 1st-She said she didnt tell Yolanda about Adrienne (or the girls) so she could form her own opinion. At Lisas restaurants celebration, after the flower arrangement was delivered & the girls were chatting, Yolanda found out Lisa didnt invite Adrienne but Lisa assured her she would tell her the story behind the non-invitation…So, Yo more than likely did know what why Lisa & A were fighting & Im sure Lisa, with her British humor, cracked off about A so Yo may of had an opinion of A prior to the dinner. Lisa stated at the reunion she doesnt gossip but thats really hard 2 believe..All these women gossip. Also, she defended Taylor, which is ridiculous! Being a sloppy drunk isnt pretty & she doesnt make 4 a nice dinner guest. She really needs 2 get her story straight about what Brandi said to Yo b4 continually repeating her version 2 every1 & their mother. She’ll, of course, blame it on the alcohol! Brandi made a joke & Yo, not knowing these
You’re making a lot of assumptions. Yolanda and Lisa are friends and she had plenty of time before the party to fill her in on the drama. Its a natural reaction for Yolanda to ask why flowers were sent. At that point Lisa is entitled to give an honest response. In typical Lisa style it would have been straight forward. Adrienne certainly doesn’t hold back from whining to anyone in sight…
I dont think she defended Taylor at all. She said she had too much to drink and made bad choices. That isnt defending her. It is stating a fact.
women, repeated it…She didnt exactly get the wording right the 1st time, but when she said it again, she did, However, Kyle was babbling&they didnt hear it…so there goes the rumor mill. Taylor has said & done MUCH worse than Brandis joke! She needs 2 move on & get off of Brandis back.
Taylor is a dingbat mess.
I think teaching someone to drive in a sports car is just plain dumb. Not only so you risk expensive damage, those things can be difficult to handle for an experienced driver. Exceleration and such. Not the greatest choice. Just seems like another chance for Kyle to show off. I think Lisa is entitled to make a catty comment or two about Kyle after all of Kyles crap.
Yes, show off is right.
If Adrienne’s florist decided on that “arrangement” and not Adrienne, she should fire her florist. I think Lisa is being generous of spirit on that one. I think Adrienne sent that monstrosity on purpose. This season has shown a vindictiveness in Adrienne that I had never seen before and it’s not pretty. Just like that hideous flower arrangement. (I’m trusting I will get over this “arrangement” travesty someday!) I think Adrienne hit too low with her character assassination of Lisa. Not even remotely cool.
Looks like Taylor is hitting the sauce again. She really looks dank when she gets sauced. This keeps up, someone will be having to ship her off to rehab.
@cryingwolf I said “IMO” I thought thats what could have been said & done…Now did it, we have no idea. IMO, most every1 on here, makes assumptions at 1 time or another, thats just normal, just as u made an assumption that Lisa would have been straight forward with an honest response to Yo about Adrienne & her not being invited. Lisa is not above gossiping sometime or another in her life or throwing a dig or 2. As I said, I like Lisa but IMO, shes not Mother Teresa & can chit chat about others & not be nice about it.
I just think its silly when people start in on Lisa by saying shes not perfect or mother teresa or that she is catty. She is one of the classiest and respectable women on these shows. Shes not perfect but no one is. It is constantly brought up like it makes for a valid arguement against her character.
Well, we all know no1 is perfect but I didn’t say that about her. I was making a general statement when I said shes not Mother Teresa. What Ive said it totally my opinion & that’s it…every1 has an opinion. IK when a certain HW is a fav of others, that what some ppl post, and apparently what I did tonight, my rub them the wrong way. That was not my intention. I was just saying what I thought, plain & simple. Sorry, if you were offended.
Mother Teresa probably had a weakness or 2 or 3 or 4… she was, after all, only human. It is rare to come to God with such passion as Mother Teresa without failing a time or two; some of the best people have failed horribly but the difference is they recognize they have and try like Hell to make things better. IMO.
@cryingwolf I do totally agree with u about Byle & using an expensive sportscar to teach her daughter to drive. Plain RIDICULOUS!
As always Lisa rises above the nonsense. I find Adrienne and Paul’s perception of things to be delusional. How they think Lisa owes them an apology I do not know. Adrienne accused Lisa of doing things she clearly was doing herself and in her fevered brain she just assumes everyone is as shady as herself. I can’t see Lisa Vanderpump lowering herself to sell stories for 25 grand but I can totally see Adrienne doing it to get at people without having to say nasty things to their faces. I do hope Taylor’s drinking is addressed at some point. It’s beginning to look like the ladies are contractually obligated to produce one substance abuser each season.
DUH she called their dog a crackpot and his name is jackpot. what if the police get involved because they got their dog addicted to crack? and she rhymed in maloof and hoof and called adrienne’s nice shoes the maloof hoof. what if people won’t buy the shoes because they don’t want to wear horse shoes? and she was going to throw her junk over their fence when she moved and then they would have had to pick it up. lisa definitely owes them an apology. you dont go after dogs and feet without repercussions.
LOL!!!!!
but seriously didn’t she already apologize to her at last years reunion for that stuff? at least the hoof thing. adrienne needs to grow up, her and paul sound like immature broken records.
i think adrienne’s and paul’s anger is actually about lisa icing them out of a filming event but they probably can’t actually talk about it at least without looking like complete a**es
Does Paulie have any idea here that he is next up on the Adrienne hit list? He seems like a bright and calculating fellow. Maybe A.M. Coached him for the camera scene? Either way it seems silly.
@CryingWolf…Lisa said “Taylor was a few drinks in & probably not making the wisest choices”….So, IMO, shes blaming Taylors babbling on the alcohol-Which is making an excuse for Ts stupid behavior.
Idk Neutral, I read it more as, Traylor was drunk again and makin bad choices, as usual. I didn’t take it as defense, just pointing out that Traylor is a drunk.
Kel…Yeah, it could have meant that but I don’t excuse a person because they have had too much of the sauce, ya know? So that’s why I think she was making an excuse for Taylors behavior.
I think Lisa is trying to neutralize the crazy. Engaging shana on any meaningful level (like calling her out on her creepy, scheming, pycho behavior) is a losing battle. So, maybe Lisa is holding back (okay, she is holding back), but it’s smart.
Not to mention she ended last season being Swine’s bff.
Right. So she’s got to keep that facade going for a while. During the tea party, it seemed Lisa reversed gears after shana whined to vyle that “this was supposed to be about Lisa!” LVP is no dummy, she caught on that she was being set up and, instead of pushing shana away, she pulled her in. That takes people savvy and guts. I wouldn’t have the stomach for people like that in my life. I barely have the stomach for them on my tv.
Lisa is a calculating one, that is for sure.
That also explains her abrupt change of attitude towards Brandi.
On the subject of teaching someone to drive in a sportscar. I really wish people wouldn’t project what is proper for them onto people they don’t even know. There is no reason for her to teach her child how to drive in some beat up car because she won’t ever be driving a beat up car. She’ll drive whatever car HER parents deem suitable for THEIR daughter. I can’t stand it when people try to tell other people what is or isn’t appropriate to spend their money on. Kyle and her husband can afford to teach their kid how to drive in a sports car and good for them that they have worked hard enough to do so. I can’t fathom how that’s seen as showing off. Kyle lives in the most modest home of all the housewives. She isn’t throwing lavish parties or renting jets but somehow she’s showing off for owning a Porsche? That just strikes me as petty jealousy. I saw Kyle not too long ago at a taping of Anderson Live and I can tell you from what I observed of her off camera she was anything but a diva. She was personable and friendly and genuinely affectionate with her husband when the cameras were off so I don’t know how she earned being called a show off. I don’t see it.
Not a Kyle fan at all but I agree that her daughter is never going to be driving a clunker. It’s their money and they can buy their daughter whatever car they’d like. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people criticize other people’s choices when the other people have more money than them. It seems like nothing more than petty jealousy in my opinion when people criticize anothers good fortune.
I know everyone thinks LIsa is classy and above it all. I say…no. Climbing with Kyle over the wall to find out about Kim last season, the way she talks to her staff in her business. The way she talked to the people building Sur last year. She’s not all Rose and Sunshine. There are many things I like about her but she is not above the fray at all and I’m quite certain her comments towards Adrienne were things we didn’t hear, what we heard was only the tip of the iceberg. People don’t change that quickly and no one seems to think that perhaps in that time Adrienne was also going thru the dissolution of her marriage. I’m not saying she’s right about what she did to Lisa, I’m just saying Lisa was not all in the right. Just because she has a British accent doesn’t make her classy or have taste. I personally feel her house is overdone and much to sparkly. As much as I don’t like Kyle, her home and Yolanda’s are lovely and tasteful.
i don’t think being a boss and telling your employees how you want things done detracts from being ‘classy’. she’s a professional woman with several businesses and she gets it done. i thought climbing over the wall was funny and cute and doesn’t take away from being classy. now that we know of kim’s problems looking back i’m not surprised they climbed over the wall when kim wouldn’t answer the door i’m sure they were worried too. from what it seems like on the show these women don’t hang out much outside of filming. i don’t think yolanda would have seated them across the table from each other if she knew that they were fighting. not inviting adrienne to the party but seeing flowers delivered by adrienne i don’t think would have given yolanda much indication that there was a fight going on. i’m sure if lisa tells yolanda more about the fight with adrienne lisa will save it for the cameras and we’ll all see it
@CryingWolf Im not a “silly” person calling Lisa “Mother Teresa”….It was just a saying. Every1 likes who they like but when some1 says something about their fav, they take offense. I said I like Lisa but I dont hold her in such high regards as u do. I def wasnt starting in on her, I was giving my opinion & thats that. @Kel IMO, by saying Taylor was drunk & thats the reason she brought up Brandis joke for the zillionth time is an excuse to me. I do see what your saying tho.
Don’t worry about it Neutral, I don’t much care for Lisa, she has made unkind remarks cloaked in her “British Humor” about everyone except for her mean girl Kyle. She was a real bitch to Brandi based on Kyle’s word. Lisa can dish it out, but if anyone responds in kind, Lisa gets her panties all bunched.
Lisa might get an award for being the happiest housewife. She has her own show on Bravo and Andy Cohen loves her!
Thx Skidly…I actually posted my last comment because my 2 replies to @CryingWolf & @Kel around 3:45 am didnt actually go thru til about an hr ago lol…For some reason, if I comment from my comp or IPAD (they dont even show up from my Nook anymore,O well!), that happens every time! Ugh! I should have just used my phone lol! Thats the reason 4 my almost duplicate replies to them…Anyway, I do rem when Lisa didnt like Brandi & was a smart aleck to her TIL their group trip. I do think Lisa uses her British Humor to get digs in at times! Ive read Brandi (maybe shes sucking up2Lisa) is doing Lisas dirty work even b4 the cameras were rolling. By far, Lisa is far from perfect (like all of them) but sometime ppl give her 2 much credit…This is ALL my opinion
a couple of things about lisa..If you have ever really known an English person well..they are very “snarky” with their humor. I love being around them, but you have to have a thicker skin than us overly sensitive Americans. In England Lisa would have said Maloof hoof and an English person would have thrown back something funnier. Adrienne tried to organize the ladies into an all out assault against Lisa at the reunion…Actually holding a pre meeting to take her down. That is not funny or amusing, that is a calculated move to really ruin a friendship on person and take that person down in public. Lisa should never forgive Adrienne. I would forgive her for the selling stories comment but not the calling a meeting to organize against her. Also, Lisa with Kyle..she is projecting with the whole learning to drive in a Porsche because she raised her daughter a little differently than that…they actually worked, washing dishes, etc. I can’t ever imagine Kyle having her kids do that..it is not wrong that Kyle doesn’t, but Lisa raising her kids on a farm in England for most of their lives, really is telling about their diff parenting styles for the kids when they were growing up…yes she threw her a lavish wedding, but they had a diff youth and teenage years. Kyle and Lisa just have diff opinions. I always call out my friends when I think they are spoiling their kids, as they do me when I am coddling mine. It is fine to disagree with parenting styles. I think Kyle knows Lisa would not mean any harm by that comment. I cannot believe that Adrienne sent that hunk of junk with anything but ill will, so people would have to ask Lisa why she wasn’t there. You know..people are under the impression Lisa and Adrienne were friends. They were never friends. They lived across the street and went to a couple of huge parties with hundreds of others a year, but they were never ever friends. Lisa and Kyle were friends and did things together. Never ever lisa and adrienne until this show. That is why their relationship is so strained. It was never a good one, and now there is only ill will.
All of that is fine, except if you come back with a snarky remark, Lisa would NOT throw back her head and laugh. You do know that birds of a feather flock together since you mention her friend mean girl Kyle.
not true..Brits admire a clever come back. You have know idea how much they enjoy and admire playful banter…We americans would be running for the hills with our tears and hankies..they are fun to listen to go back and forth
IMO there’s an underlying hostility behind every jab, dig, tease, joke, comeback, whatever. Some people just don’t enjoy engaging in that sort of thing. Maybe I’m just being overly sensitive…ok I’ll go running for the hills with my hanky now
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My eyes aren’t so great, but is that a dead rat in the “floral arrangement”!? What is that?
LOL! i just looked and it sure looks that way! that was the weirdest thing — i think it was really passive aggressive on adrienne’s part – i just find it very hard to believe that any florist would choose to deliver something like that, esp in BH, and much more believable that adrienne was just trying to stick it to lisa by sending something big and tacky to her party as well as passively aggressively letting lisa know that she knew about the party
I don’t understand why Adrienne is so passive aggressive. She should just be honest and direct with how she feels. Sending “little messages” like this, just makes her look classless and tacky. It’s a very “mean girl” thing to do. She and Lisa discuss this floral thing in one of the videos. It’s obvious Adrienne is lying, when she says she meant it with good intentions.
adrienne is a complete confusion to me. she is so successful in her family business and has so much going on for herself but she seems like she’s on this downward mean spiral of jealousy. like maybe she expected to be the most popular on the show and she’s pissed it isn’t happening? the first season i really liked her. i thought she was funny and had a great head on her shoulder (although i thought she was a bit snarky to her husband who was successful in his own right). but after the first season she just comes off as really petty and that whole attempted gang-up on lisa at the reunion i didn’t get at all — other than she was pissed that lisa didn’t have her daughter’s bachellorette in vegas at adrienne’s hotel so it could be featured on the show? i remember adrienne bringing that up at one of the kiddie parties – i think it was portia’s bday party last season (didn’t realize we see portia’s b’day each year but she’s such a cutie i guess i’ll survive)
It’s actually really sad that Adrianne has all of this wonderful potential and she just can’t seem to climb out of that spoiled, sulky, mean girl attitude. I think that jealousy, or whatever that frustrated malaise of hers stems from, is spreading into ALL areas of her life. She desperately needs to snap out of it and make some positive life changes.
So true, even more so now that we know her marriage got ruined and all those accusations leveled at paul — she is in a really dark place and that negativity has to be hurting her businesses
ITA
I must be the only one that does not see Adrienne as a business woman. She is a beneficiary of her father’s astute business acumen. I never viewed her as intelligent nor the rational one, never. The only thing she and her brothers have succeed at is the diminishment of their father’s fortunes.
I think she is petty, juvenile, entitled, lazy and downright mean and has no idea what hard work is, no matter how much she “talks” about what an astute business woman she is; I have seen nothing in her or her background that would speak to that being the truth.
In the idom of Eddie Izzard: She is a fabulous business woman; in her mind…
I liked her too, and it was difficult to say the least watching her and Paul bicker and argue because it looked and sounded just like my parents. IMO Paul did a few passive-aggressive things to piss her off and picked at her too much by criticizing the food she was eating at the dinner party. Made me cringe. But her behavior is off after the reunion, almost like she feels that no one is on her side in the divorce. Yes she was mean and snarky back to Paul, but my mother did the same things once she grew tired of my father’s endless nitpicking and criticism. Dunno how this is all gonna unfold this season…have a feeling it’s not gonna be pleasant to watch.
I don’t blame Paul. It’s not fun to be around someone who doesn’t enjoy food and barely eats anything, and to live with that person day in and day out for years must be a real drag. Remember when Paul set up that nice anniversary dinner for her at their home, and she flat out refused to eat the appetizers? That was just plain rude of her. She’s all about Adrienne.
True about the anniversary dinner. Sad when things get so bad that a nice gesture like that can’t even be received graciously. IMO, when they first met, Paul should have taken the hint and not pursued her after her brush-off.
RE: maloof hoof….
while i realize that lisa was showing a bit of snark in how she described adrienne’s shoe line, the fact of the matter is that in high fashion circles, ‘hoof’ heels were the creation of the uber avant garde (now deceased) designer alexander mcqueen… lady gaga made his shoes famous, and top models and movie stars loved them…..so i have no doubt that adrienne maloof knows this….frankly i would have considered it a ‘backhanded’ compliment….when in reality i think lisa was making a joke by way of a play on words…..at any rate calling any high fashion shoe a ‘hoof’ in today’s environment is not exactly an insult….now ‘crackpot’ otoh….lol
again everyone…adrienne organizing all the ladies in an assault attempt against lisa is by far worse than any comments or accusations back and forth. How can you ever sit next to anyone ever ever again who actually called everyone together..Camille and Brandi turning her down..to try and attack you at a hugely public event like the reunion. How can everyone just forget that Adrienne did that..forget the magazines or the hoof! that is the biggest betrayal of all time. It is as bad as mego and jogo from RHONJ going on the show to take down Theresa and her husband. Meetings to plan someone’s demise are unforgiveable. So happy Yolanda is on the show..she seems to have a level head, when it comes to these ridiculous issues.