Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Show

Last night's The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Show had some amusingly entertaining moments, all aimed at Miss Kim Zolciak.

NeNe directed some classy verbiage at Kim. Advising her to close her legs to married men. And calling her a hooker.

The host of all these type reunion shows on Bravo TV is this guy named Andy who never quits smiling. At times during the yelling between the housewives he both smiled and looked dumbstruck.

Andy seemed most dumbstruck when trying to ascertain whether or not Kim had actually had cancer. I don't remember what prompted Kim's Sad Tuna Story about her bout 3 years ago where for 3 weeks she thought she had cancer. To me Kim seemed to be making it up on the fly. She claims she lost a lot of weight, then her hair, then a doctor friend told her he was 90% sure she had cancer. Oh, yeah, that's how doctors operate, no tests, they just look at you and tell you they think you're malignant.

Kim cried all through the cancer story. NeNe said this was the first she'd heard of Kim and cancer or being sick 3 years ago. NeNe said she thought Kim wore the wig to be fashionable. Maybe that's how the cancer story came up, with Andy reading a viewer's question asking Kim to explain her hair. Eventually Andy was able to get Kim to clearly say she did not have cancer. Kim said something about her blood tests have been clear for 3 years, thank God.

Things got heated a couple times between Kim and NeNe. I think it was arguing over NeNe singing a song making fun of Kim's bad singing and Kim's trash talking that set off the yelling. Lisa tried to restrain NeNe, at one point sitting on her to keep NeNe on the couch.

Which was a bit ironic because later in the show Lisa and Kim had a shouting match over Kim's claim that Lisa spread the malicious gossip about NeNe's song mocking Kim's singing, which on the show, is what set off the feud between NeNe and Kim that at one point had Kim text messaging NeNe calling her a "low budget bitch." Lisa, multiple times, told Kim she "was a habitual liar and needed to be on medication."

The F-Word had to be barely beeped coming out of Kim's mouth on a number of occasions.

DeShawn did not have much to say during the show. A clip of special moments showing each housewife's more embarrassing, cringeworthy moments were shown as the show went on. DeShawn's failed fund raiser for her supposed foundation was the main focus of her clip. She got asked how much she spent on her staff of cooks, maids and nannies. She didn't know. Though she did say she wrote the checks.

Kim and Sheree got to watch some of their hypocritical bad-mouthing of fan favorite NeNe, including trashing NeNe's looks, with comments like she looks like a drag queen. Which is very ironic because at times both Kim and Sheree look like drag queens to me.

Kim and Sheree were embarrassed at how the show showed them over and over again telling each other how beautiful they were. The pair were good sports and did a good job of being self-deprecating about it.

One thing that surprised me during the reunion show was how much more likable and normal Sheree seemed than what we saw on the show. She was funny, didn't react badly to any of it. Didn't seem at all like a pompous ass.

The clip showing Kim's pathetic singing made for some amusement. I think that may have been what started the Kim and NeNe shouting match. Kim basically said she was appalled at how bad she sounded when she saw the show. But that her album is finished with the first single to be released in January of 2009.

Sheree claims her "fashion" line will be in stores by Fall of 2009. I suspect it is going to be quite difficult to either hear Kim's song or buy Sheree's clothes next year.

Towards the end of the hour NeNe's gay boyfriend came out, well, obviously he was already out, I mean he came on stage and sat between Sheree and Kim. Andy asked him to comment on the housewive's fashion sense. Kim and Sheree's rude remarks about NeNe's fashion sense had been discussed right before the gay boyfriend came out. He told NeNe she looked great, loved her new short hair, told Sheree she looked great, loved the hair. Then he turned to Kim and pretty much said he "didn't know where to start, maybe at the top with this hair. And what is that you are wearing? It's all gotta go."

I forgot to mention Kim claims to be still seeing Big Papa off and on. She confirmed he is married. But supposedly getting a divorce. Sheree was asked if she'd gotten her 7 figure divorce settlement. She said her lawyer told her she can't talk about that.

The final episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta got the biggest ratings ever for Bravo's various Real Housewives series. I would guess last night's reunion show likely did even better.

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