On The Real Housewives of Atlanta Marlo Brings Bad-Mannered Crazy to Capetown South Africa

NeNe Trying To Calm Down Marlo
 Before She Slices Anyone

I really need an intervention to break me of my addiction to Train Wreck Reality TV.

The fact that, not only did I watch Sunday night's latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, I found myself laughing multiple times,which possibly should be cause for concern.

It has now become a staple of the various Bravo Real Housewive's series to have the girls take a trip to some exotic locale.

The pretense is always that it is one of the housewife's who instigates these trips, not the Bravo producers.

In the last season of The Real Housewives of New York it was Countess LuAnn, who I don't think could plan a shopping trip to Wal-Mart, who supposedly instigated and planned a trip for the New York girls to visit Morocco. Including LuAnn, supposedly, organizing a group camel ride to an elaborate tent in the desert.

With the Atlanta housewives it is Phaedra who instigates, and supposedly, plans, a trip to Africa.

Yet, even though this is Phaedra's trip, somehow NeNe brings along the troublemaker Marlo, with Phaedra having no say in the matter.

Obviously, due to the likely fact that Marlo was added to the trip by the Bravo producers to add drama potential.

Afterall, Marlo is a woman convicted of multiple felonies, including slicing up a woman with whom Marlo got in a bar fight.

It was a long flight from Atlanta to Capetown, South Africa.

Marlo and NeNe brought enough luggage to stock a Goodwill Store.

Upon arrival in their humongous luxury suites Marlo proceeded to act crazy with her demands of the suffering concierge.

NeNe was surprised that Capetown was modern. Like America. I guess she was expected grass huts.

The pretense is that this trip is Phaedra's. We do not seem to extend the pretense to Phaedra claiming to pay for it all. The luxury suites, the first class plane tickets, the yacht trip in the harbor, the upcoming safari.

With about 20 minutes to go in Sunday night's episode we saw clearly why the Bravo producers included Marlo.

After lecturing the housewives all day about proper etiquette, Marlo went totally off the Miss Manners farm when Cynthia instigated Marlo getting all upset over Sheree not inviting Marlo to a party, a party to which Sheree accepted an invitation prior to knowing Marlo would be along for the trip.

But, Miss Manners Marlo, who thinks nothing about crashing a trip uninvited, also thinks she should be included in going to a party to which she was not invited.

This led to what may be the weirdest screaming fight in Housewive's History. It was between the now totally ill-mannered Marlo, and Sheree.  Somehow Marlo not getting invited to a party quickly gave Marlo reason to make all sorts of insults regarding Sheree's financial state. Which had Sheree going on and on about Marlo sucking money from a 100 year old geezer.

The side comments, commenting on this fight, from Kandi, Sheree and NeNe, was what had me laughing. The details of which I no longer remember. Except for Kandi pointing out the irony of Miss Manners Marlo turning totally non-mannerly ghetto in a flash.

Eventually the screaming between Marlo and Sheree degrading down to this very strange thing where the two were making what sounded like bird noises at each other.

It is NeNe who is usually at the center, or the cause, of these type altercations. This time NeNe tried to stop the yelling. And actually made a comment along the line of if this is what I sound like when I argue, well this just sounds stupid.

Next week it looks like a turtle attacks the housewives when they are on safari. Maybe it was a rhinoceros.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Dangling Jewels Are Ridickulous

Kandi & Her Mom, Joyce Reacting to Ridickulous

Well, the Real Housewives of Atlanta continues to deliver some ridiculous entertainment.

Bravo's title for Sunday's night's latest episode was...

Jewels Be Dangled
Episode 4: Kandi gets a very, um, big surprise for her birthday...It's Ridickulous!

Before we saw the jewels dangling we saw that Peter had a $40,000 check from an investor bounce on him. Before that check bounced we saw an angry confrontation between Peter and his wife, Cynthia's sister, Mal. We also saw Mal verbalized concerns that Cynthia would blow her own money, again on Peter's latest venture. Another bar.

Sheree took Phaedra the lawyer along for a confrontation with the guy who is building Sheree's new house. On the interwebs there a quite a few people mystified as to where Sheree acquired the money to build Chateau Sheree.

Before we saw the dangling jewels we saw Kim and Kroy get a lesson from a baby specialist on how to diaper a freshly circumcised baby boy. Kim was quite squeamish with worry about a baby boy's penis.

Kim's penis concerns were not the only penis concerns on this episode.

Which leads us to the dangling jewels.

Kandi gave herself a 35th birthday party on the roof top of a nice place in the downtown Atlanta zone.

The Blurred Out Part That Makes the Man
Ridickulous

Earlier Phaedra had said she would have a really big birthday surprise for Kandi. The dignified birthday party was well underway when Phaedra wheeled in a big box. Kandi opened the big box to find one of Phaedra's clients, an infamous stripper who calls himself Ridickulous. Get it?

Rid-DICK-ulous.

The stripper began doing his thing. Clothes were coming off. Looks of horror played across the faces of those watching, with the most horrified seeming to be Kandi's mom, Joyce, and NeNe.

Phaedra had a lot of face time making comments on what we were seeing on this episode, many of them  very amusing, none of which I remember.

Except for a comment, in a Phaedra confessional, where she informed us that Ridickulous had (paraphrasing in my words) at talent for naturally Viagra-izing himself. And then performing a pleasuring operation on himself.

Then we cut back to the party action to see the party guests recoil in even more horror as Ridickulous demonstrated his special skill.

Can't you get arrested for such a thing at an outdoor party?

Many guests got up and left, including Kandi's mom, who was quite vocal about her disgust.

Kandi seemed not to think anything was wrong regarding this particular party favor. Phaedra seemed a bit embarrassed. Maybe.

I was just grateful this was on BRAVO and not HBO or Showtime, where there likely would have been no blurring of the naughty bits.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 4 Premiere Delivers Some Amusing Entertainment

Season 4 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta started up Sunday. The first episodes of this season's Real New York City and Beverly Hills Housewive's new seasons did not deliver, with the RHONY wives starting off being really annoying and really not stopping being really annoying all season long.

But.

The first episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta delivered, instantly re-hooking me into wanting to watch these ladies and their antics.

I somehow thought after NeNe's embarrassing fail on the Celebrity Apprentice, and watching herself embarrassingly fail, that NeNe might tone down that which makes NeNe come across as an overbearing loud bully. Last season's first episode had NeNe yelling, like a crazed banshee, at Dwight. This season's first episode had NeNe yelling like a  crazed banshee at Sheree.

I really could not understand what the beef was between NeNe and Sheree. In the midst of it NeNe was claiming to now be rich, due to cashing checks from Mr. Donald Trump. Sheree countered by reminding NeNe of the bad dental work she had when she first appeared in Atlanta. And that her vehicle had been repossessed at Home Depot.

When these women go into loud yell mode I have trouble understanding the version of English that they speak.

Before we heard NeNe yelling at Sheree we saw her take her deadbeat son, Bryson, or whatever his name is, to buy a new car. He'd wrecked his previous car. NeNe had given up on her deadline for the son to get a job and his own place to live and was now employing him to do errands for her, now that she is super rich from all those checks from Mr. Donald Trump.

In the first season of RHOA we saw NeNe and her then not estranged husband, Greg, take Bryson to buy a new car for him for his high school graduation present. That car must have been repossessed. And then he got another one that he wrecked.

So, NeNe wrote a check, paying cash, for a new car for her deadbeat son.

Phaedra delivered once again. After having a fun experience helping with her aunt's funeral, Phaedra has decided that undertaking will be her new undertaking. When Phaedra informed her husband, Apollo, that undertaking is a family business and he'd be expected to help, he did not seem too thrilled.

And then there is Kandi. She is now an Intimate Luxury Specialist, working towards selling her own line of high end adult toys. Including musical vibrators that play tunes Kandi has written, with the musical vibrators vibrating in sync with the tune. I was more than a little appalled that, as Sheree and Phaedra looked over some of Kandi's potential products, that one of them which baffled that pair, I knew how it was used.

Cynthia is opening the Bailey Modeling Agency to turn Atlanta into a world fashion mecca. A funny guy/girl, famous, I guess, in the modeling world, named, I think, Miss Jay, showed Cynthia's girls how to correctly work the runway. It was amusing. I like Cynthia.

Sheree did not seem to have a lot going on. She informed us she has been busy with her acting career. No mention made of her clothes line called She by Sheree.

And now that leaves my favorite of the Atlanta ladies.

Kim Zolciak.

Heavy with the incoming baby boy, brought courtesy of her assignation with fooballer, Kroy Biermann, Kim appears to have given up smoking and drinking wine. Kim and Kroy, Kim's girls and the incoming baby boy are in the process of moving to a massive mansion.

We saw Kroy doing a lot of heavy lifting, helping with the moving process. Kroy is only 25 years old. I think Kim must be in her 40s. Kim is one very lucky girl. Good fortune seems to fall her way quite easily. I hope it lasts.

There is a cute new addition to the Kim family. A little dog. Much cuter than Lisa Vanderpump's Giggy.

Of the Atlanta housewives the only dark negative hole of Jill Zarinesque-ness is NeNe. Among the Atlanta girls there is no mental ill creepy girl ala Kelly Bensimon. No dead humorless weight, like Cindy Barshop.

But, I can't imagine the Atlanta housewives without NeNe, as overbearingly annoying as she can be. The poor girl seems to have deluded herself to believe that all who find her a bit much are simply jealous of her stunning success and great wealth due to all those checks from Mr. Donald Trump. Those who don't care for NeNe's antics she calls "haters."

I don't care for NeNe's antics. But I don't hate her. I sort of feel sorry for her.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: NeNe Terrorizes Kim On Bus Tour From Hell

The 3rd Season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta started with NeNe screaming like a Mad Banshee at Dwight at a party. Totally inappropriate behavior.

We are nearing the end of Season 3 and on the latest episode of RHOA NeNe was back in full Moose on a Rampage mode.

Except for a few moments spent with Phaedra and a few moments spent with Cynthia and her supposed husband to be, Peter, mixed in with a little Sheree, most of this episode was spent on Kim and Kandi's Bus Tour.

Kim is getting on every one's nerves. The constant need to smoke, the constant screaming for Sweetie, just the constant Kim apparently is very nerve wearing.

And then for some unfathomable reason Kim invited NeNe to join the Bus Gang in Orlando, to watch Kim perform before a packed arena, I mean strip mall bar, and then ride with the gang to Miami.

Kandi knew it was not going to go well having NeNe on board. Particularly after Sweetie managed to connect a laptop to NeNe's little "news" segment where NeNe used Kim to get her interviewee to open up by asking if Kim, at 32, was too old to be a pop star. And what the interviewee thought of Kim's Tardy for the Party song.

Kim took umbrage at NeNe mentioning her in this manner in her interview. But, the initial appearance of NeNe went fairly well in Orlando. NeNe went to the show. Made snide remarks to the camera. Was fairly civil to Kim. And drank a lot of wine.

After getting drunk, that night, NeNe made some disparaging remarks directed towards Kim, but Kim did not take umbrage. Directly.

And then, the next morning, back on the bus, on the way to Miami. I don't know what set if off, but soon NeNe was spewing all sorts of mean vitriol at Kim, belittling Kim's easily belittled "singing career." Among other things. NeNe even spouted out that Kim treated Sweetie like a slave. Sweetie took umbrage at that remark.

Kim snapped back a few times, which only made NeNe louder and more aggressive. Mostly Kim was in a defensive posture with a look of terror on her face, like you see in the above screenshot.

Finally NeNe went totally ballistic and lunged at Kim, which caused Kandi and the manager, I think his name is Don Juan, to restrain NeNe.

Kandi's sorta of bemused disgust at it all is sort of amusing to watch.

Another thing I learned on the bus is us White Folk often go about barefoot. This apparently is a well known fact. Which I type, as I sit here barefooted.

I don't remember any Phaedra gems of wisdom this episode. I do remember Phaedra's baby throwing up on Sheree. I think the baby watches the show.

And then there is Peter. Run Cynthia. Run fast. Don't marry this jerk. You invest a fortune in his restaurant. It starts to fail. He closes it without telling you. And then, when you are justifiably a bit upset at your misfortune, Peter tells you he no longer will tell you anything, because you get upset. Did I already say this guy is a jerk?

I don't get how a nice gal like Cynthia hooked up with that fuzzy gray bearded geezer.

NeNe was on the episode of Watch What Happens Live that followed the latest episode of RHOA. The woman has no self awareness. Seems not in the slightest embarrassed. And continues to demonize that easy target of Kim. Apparently the reunion show was filmed last week, where Kim and NeNe went at it some more and was the first they'd seen each other since the Battle on the Bus and the follow up Battle in Miami, which we saw a glimpse of in the previews for next week.

Is next week the last episode of the season? I don't know, for sure, but I am guessing it is, because The Real Housewives of New York City starts up real soon, with Sonja Morgan now bankrupt and morphed into being a thug in a cocktail dress.

And no Bethenny Frankel. And they have kept the obviously mentally ill Kelly Bensimon as one of the housewives. Who isn't married.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kim's Fat Reduction, Cynthia's Friend Contract, Sheree's Acting Debut, Phaedra's Baby Drama

Well, the most recent episode of RHOA started off slow, with way too much Sheree and Lawrence, the Hair Dresser singer wannabe, who likes high heels.

But then it sort of picked up.

Sheree had Kandi come over to help her read lines in the play Sheree had decided to do for free, after all, because it will help her in her quest to win a Best Actress Award.

We heard too much dialogue between Peter and Cynthia regarding the NeNe problem. I think Cynthia handles her Peter problem well.

At some point we saw that trouble making Dwight pop in on Phaedra. It did not take Dwight long to stir the pot by telling Phaedra that Cynthia had made terribly inappropriate remarks about her newborn, suggesting it to be an alien creature, likely without a full set of fingers and toes. It was actually Kim who made the remarks. And it was Phaedra who set herself up to have such remarks made when she waddled around looking like she was carrying quintuplets in her uterus, while claiming the baby was only 6 months, or was it 7, along.

Then Kim had some of the girls over for some fat removal via a laser machine called Zerona.

Last week I was appalled to learn of the Zerona Fat Reduction Machine and blogged about the Zerona laser process and another called Zetiq, which freezes the fat cells, on my DurangObestity Blog.

I was amazed when I saw Kim having a Zerona machine brought into her house so she could have the laser fat removal treatment. $3,000 for 6 treatments. NeNe, Cynthia and Sheree were not interested in joining Kim. They just watched and later made snarky comments, like Sheree saying she preferred the old-fashioned method of exercise and eating right.

While Kim ate pizza and fried chicken sticks while the laser did its magic.

While waiting for Kim to lose fat, Cynthia asked to talk to NeNe alone. She had a "Friendship Contract" she wanted NeNe to sign. I thought the contract to be sort of funny, but NeNe made a big deal about it being weird. Which of course she had to share with Kim, who, next week, it seems according to the previews, mentions the contract to Cynthia, which causes it all to blow up in some friendly drama.

All the "housewives" but Kandi and Kim showed up for Sheree's play debut. There was much yawning as it was a long long wait til Sheree appeared at the very end of the play to utter a few words. After the play Phaedra had her confrontation with Cynthia over the alien baby remarks, which Cynthia denied, to which Phaedra, the lawyer, said she would launch an immediate investigation to get to the bottom of this outrage.

From the previews it appears that Phaedra confronts Kim, some bickering ensues. Phaedra's convict husband is brought up, to which Phaedra drops the Big Poppa has gone bankrupt bombshell ,which had Kim looking like she was going to explode.

I forgot to mention. Before we got to the previews, Kim and NeNe went out for lunch, where possible post Greg mates for NeNe were discussed. Including Kim making some dipping into the girl pond suggestions, to which NeNe recoiled.  Then Kim recoiled when NeNe said she was thinking of dating a white guy. Within minutes of that, NeNe was on What What Happens Live. With Anderson Cooper. Who had a friend contract for NeNe, and whom either he, or Andy Cohen, pointed out to NeNe, was a white guy.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kandi Koated Nights With NeNe Divorcing Greg

Kandi Koated Nights really shows us a side of  Kandi Burruss that I did not think was there. With Way Too Much Information being shared. When it is tasteless to Kim Zolciak, you know it is really tasteless.

And then Kim invited Kandi and her mother, Joyce, over for Mother's Day, at least I think it was Mother's Day, with Kim's kids and mom and dad.

Why are Kim's mom and dad in practically every episode this season, when they did not exist, as far as we knew, previously?

So, Kandi's mom proudly brought her "Better Than Sex" cake and presented it to Kim's mom. Who seemed to take the sexy cake well.

Back to Kandi Koated Nights, I could have lived without the stripper taking it all in front of the ladies, including a humongous sock covering that which should have remained covered, which was referred to by one of the women as humongous. The various expressions on the housewive's faces, when the humongous member was presented for their visual examination, was pretty funny.

Kim took daughter, Brielle, to her favorite jeweler to get a ring. An Abstinence Promise Ring. All the rage among 13 year olds. With the ring Brielle promises to not engage in any baby making activity until she is 18. The diamond studded ring cost $3,000. Oh, the values Kim is instilling in her girls is quite impressive.

Phaedra came home from the hospital. Apollo had to carry her up the stairs due to Phaedra being unable to walk. Then he remembered to go get the new baby in the car. Phaedra said several strange, goofy things, only one which I remember, something about the baby's crocheted onesie being from the same place as Oprah's. Huh?

Kandi and her music crew worked on Kim's Ring Don't Mean a Thing song. Kandi played it for Kim, who's eyes lit up, now liking the song. Kandi was ready to sell it to someone else if Kim continued hating it. Kandi keeps bitching about Kim not paying her for Tardy for the Party. But, on Watch What Happens Live Kim said she not only paid Kandi, she overpaid her.

A gossip fest broke out after someone recorded Greg ranting about NeNe. And put the rant on a radio website. Greg did not know he was being recorded. He thought he was talking to a friend on the phone.

So, after we saw Sheree's funny dumping of her phony "Doctor" boyfriend, Tye Muhammad, we ended the episode with NeNe confronting Greg about his "radio" interview, after NeNe learned of it, in a humiliating way, on her first day of work on her new TV "journalist" job.

NeNe was all bent out over Greg airing their dirty laundry so publicly. The nerve. But wait. NeNe has this confrontation with Greg, in front of the cameras, so we all could watch. Now that is just ironic. And hypocritical.

Anyway, another entertaining episode of RHOA, except I could have lived without the Cynthia wedding planning part.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kim's White Party Singing Without Wardrobe Malfunction

Last night was another amusing episode of the new season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

With Kim providing the most amusement. Along with Kim's equally, more sophisticatedly amusing, sidekick, Kandi.

Other things happened on this episode, like Sheree confronting Dwight about his claim of spending $30,000 on Sheree's fashion show. Meeting Sheree's daughter who we had not met before, who, apparently Sheree had when she was very very young, was semi-interesting.

I fast forward through the new housewives, Cynthia and Phaedra.

So, back to Kim. Heading to Palm Springs for the White Party, a big weekend long party for boys who like boys, Kim packed enough clothing and wigs to last her a year. Kim talked Kandi into coming along.

Upon arrival in California, Kim rented a Lamborghini and a limo to haul all her luggage.

Kandi was a bit exasperated with Kim's diva act. But Kim's diva act is pretty funny. As is Kandi's reactions to it.

Kim had trouble focusing during the rehearsal. Trouble getting gracefully out of the giant martini glass in which she was to be brought to the stage, carried by 10 half-naked guys.

Kim's excessively over-developed boobage amounted to being a new cast member this episode. The boobage went bared and blurred multiple times. With Kim saying she'd be mortified if such exposure occurred while she was singing for the boys who like boys.

To prevent a wardrobe malfunction a last minute alteration was made so Kim's boobs could not escape.

Kim was very very nervous, leading up to the show. Or so she said. As she was heading towards getting into the martini glass, and Chi Chi LaRue was introducing her, a gust of wind blew Kim's dress up, ala Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot.

A quick fix was made and then Kim was on stage singing Tardy for the Party for her adoring fans. Soon joined, and helped by Kandi. I was very surprised at how well Kim did. As was Kandi.

Kim said once she started singing her nerves went away and it became fun.

In the end, so much fun was had by Kim that she suggested to Kandi that they now tour together. Kandi was perplexed. Tour? With one song?

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kim Zolciak Has Made $80K From Tardy For The Party

You are looking at The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Zolciak, with Kandi Burruss following her, in Palm Springs, in the previews for next week's 3rd episode of the 3rd season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

The most shocking, to me, thing we learned in Monday night's episode two, was the revelation, via Kandi, that Kim has made over $80,000 from sales of her Tardy For The Party recording, which would not exist if it were not for Kandi, and for which Kim has not felt the need to compensate Kandi, about which Kandi sounded a tad resentful.

The reason Kim is in Palm Springs (I'm fairly certain it was Palm Springs, in California. It may have been Palm Beach in Florida) is because, apparently, Kim has become a Gay Icon, you know, like Cher and Judy Garland. There is an annual event called, I think, The White Party. And that is what Kim is invited to, to sing Tardy For The Party.

I assume Kim needs Kandi along in order to run the auto-tuner. It looks like this next episode will have some good hilarity when the Palm Springs, or Palm Beach wind conspires to try and blow off Kim's dress and reveal her bare boobage right when a big drag queen is introducing Kim to her adoring fans.

NeNe was way calmed down from the 1st episode's screaming banshee, shouting incoherent ranting in annoyingly prissy Dwight's face, at some sort of Shoe Shoe. This week NeNe and Dwight were at another show, that being a show where Kandi was showing off her hopefully hit singles.

After a lot of dirty looks, NeNe forced another confrontation with Dwight. This time the screaming banshee did not come out. NeNe and Dwight came to some sort of understanding. Which I did not understand. I guess they are back friends again.

There are 2 new Housewives. Cynthia and Phaedra. Cynthia is a model I've never heard of who thinks everyone has heard of her. Phaedra is a lawyer.

At the Kandi Show, Kim,  NeNe and Sheree are shocked, and amused, to learn from Sheree's flamboyant, pink finger-nailed, Dwight in training, that Phaedra's husband is an ex-con. For what crime the Dwight in training did not know. A friend of the Dwight in training, who was Phaedra's husband's cellmate, was the information source. This information led Sheree to make an amusingly snarky comment about Phaedra's husband and dropping soap in the shower.

Speaking of Sheree. Has her face grown even longer and more horse-like? Apparently Sheree has claimed to have toned down her Sheree-ness. She does seem to be being a slight bit less full of herself.

Sheree's blind date with a doctor from Los Angeles was fairly amusing. Sheree knew they were going dancing, a skill she said she did not have, due to being one of those very rare black women with no rhythm. Sheree got herself all tarted up, the boyfriend, to be, sent a car to pick Sheree up. Sheree gradually grew a bit horrified as it appeared she was being driven into what appeared to be Atlanta's ghetto.

Finally, arriving at the destination, Sheree finds herself in what looks like a run down strip mall's parking lot. The meeting place appears to be a strip dance club. We see the fancy shoes Sheree is wearing as she remarks she could have worn tennis shoes.

Sheree meets the doctor. There are several off putting things about the man, but Sheree keeps being able to overlook them, because he is do darn good-looking. The doctor gets Sheree to dance. She seemed to handle it well. The doctor started seeming nicer, with the evening ending with Sheree being the one to instigate a second date.

Meanwhile back at NeNe's latest rented house, banished son, Bryson (I think that's right) shows up to ask if he can come back home. NeNe seemed, to me, to be being a real good mom in this confrontation. From this confrontation we learned Bryson was a lazy slob who did nothing to help around the house, made messes, stayed out all night and had been arrested for marijuana possession, walking right into a jail to visit a friend, with pot on his person, found during a little pre-jail visit pat down.

Bryson seems totally burned out. He seems to have inherited absolutely none of his mom's high energy. In the end NeNe agreed to let Bryson come back for 90 days, during which he has to find a job and a place to live, with the caveat that once he is out, after 90 days, there was no coming back. Apparently this type tough love had been done to NeNe when she left home.

Is Bryson not the kid we saw given an expensive car upon high school graduation? What became of that car during all the family's financial woes? I suspect it was leased. Just like the ever changing houses.

So, after last week's dull 1st episode had me considering bailing, I'm back interested in the Atlanta Housewives again, particularly looking forward to Kim's possible Palm Springs debacle.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 3 Premiere: Boring With NeNe Acting Crazy

I did not realize Season 3 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta started up on Monday. I somehow thought all those Bravo Housewives shows were on Thursdays.

I only watch the New York City and Atlanta girls. I did not feel like getting hooked on the D.C. Housewives, the O.C. Housewives annoy me, but not as bad as those New Jersey Housewives.

And now, after watching the first episode of Season 3 of RHOA I am not being all that re-hooked on the Atlanta girls.

Only 3 of the original Atlanta Housewives remain, Sheree, Kim and NeNe. Last season Kandi Burruss was added. For me, Kandi did not add all that much, but she seems nice enough, but it is because of her the world  was blessed with Kim Zolciak's "Don't Be Tardy For The Party" song that gets in your head like an ear infection.

Kim and NeNe seem to be getting along for now. Sheree is now an actress. I guess the fashion designing did not work out.

NeNe is have marital woes, due to money issues involving husband Greg. It did not take long into the 1st season of the Atlanta Housewives for the Internet to be the source of a lot of information about NeNe's financial woes. Which confused viewers due to the high consumption, luxury lifestyle NeNe seemed to be living.

Well, apparently Greg either tried to, or did borrow some money from the horribly annoying blowhard called Dwight.

So, NeNe is going to some Shoe Party with Kim, where both Sheree and Dwight will be in attendance. NeNe writes a check out to Dwight for the amount she thinks Greg borrowed from him.

At the Shoe Party when Dwight showed up NeNe turned into a total shrieking bitch, screaming in Dwight's face with Dwight not able to get a word in. Prior to that NeNe had said some nasty comments about the lady Dwight brought to the Shoe Party not being in the same refined class as NeNe. I don't think refined people scream at people at parties.

So, NeNe and Kim quickly left the Shoe Party, with NeNe lamenting how she lost control and also lamenting that due to losing control she got no answers from Dwight.

At the end of the episode, previews for the rest of the season show that eventually NeNe and Kim start fighting, NeNe's kid gets arrested. For what, I don't know. I did not see a lot that compelled me to keep watching. There was a funny line with Kandi complaining that Kim has one minor hit song and acts like she is Lady Gaga.

Maybe I am down to the girls from NYC being the only Bravo Housewives who I watch.

The Real Houswives of Atlanta: NeNe Turns Into a NoNo

I tell myself I am not going to blog anymore about The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then I do. It doesn't matter what other TV show I watch and blog about, the only thing people come to this blog for is to see a photo of Kim's Big Poppa, supposedly an Atlanta super-rich guy named Lee Najjar.

Seems everyone on the show, but the viewers, has met and seen Big Poppa.

On the most recent episode Big Poppa gave Kim an engagement ring. This perplexed others, like Sheree, who puzzled, "Isn't he married?"

I've not been enjoying the 2nd season of the Atlanta housewives. But, Kandi has grown on me. She is the only one who seems genuine. The others seem like they are amping it up, trying to make what they think is good TV.

Lisa never seems natural anymore.

And what is with all the parties these women give themselves? Sheree's Independence Party was ridiculous, what with that gigantic billboard she had made of herself. And the She by Sheree clothing line thing. Flying to New York City to meet her top of the line seamstress had some amusing moments. I don't see a good outcome for Sheree's clothes making designs.

And then there is Dwight. He used to be amusing. Now he is just an over the top overbearing know it all.

Now, Kim is back on the Big Poppa gravy train, so we know who's paying for all the junk she buys. But, when she was on the outs with Big Poppa, how was Kim paying for all the junk she buys? Who pays for Kim's girl's private schools?

Why does Kim have a Personal Assistant? How does she pay for the Personal Assistant? Have we ever seen Kim do anything for money, other than what our imaginations tell us she must be doing to have Big Poppa so constantly generous?

For me, it has been NeNe who had taken the biggest fall. She was the fan favorite the first season. All that adulation has seriously skewed NeNe's self image into the delusional zone. Telling Kim that Kim needed NeNe on her Tardy for the Party record to be able to sell it. Telling the woman who is writing NeNe's book that her hometown will have a parade for her upon her return.

NeNe's constant negativity about Kim has turned Kim into a sympathetic victim in a lot of viewer's eyes. NeNe even managed to have a fight with the eternally positive Kandi.

Anyway, I hope Kim and Big Poppa get a spinoff on Bravo, showing their wedding, with the hilarity that would surely follow after they become Mr. and Mrs. Najjar.

Real Housewives Of Atlanta's A.J., Ashley Jewell, Fiance Of Kandi Burruss, Killed In Strip Club Brawl

A.J., Ashley Jewell, husband to be of Kandi Burruss of The Real Housewives of Atlanta died as the result of being involved in a brawl outside a strip club in Atlanta.

Atlanta police spokesman, Keith Meadows said, "He was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head."

A.J. was taken to a hospital where doctors were unable to save him.

Kandi's spokeswoman, Lisa Nelson, said Kandi was "stunned and speechless" when she was told that A.J. was dead.

Police have a person of interest they have questioned and are trying to figure out what the strip club brawl was all about.

Kandi's mom objected to Kandi's engagement to A.J. due to him having 4 Baby Mamas, as in he had fathered kids by 4 different women.