The Real Housewives of New York City's Star Countess LuAnn Delesseps Has Become a Jewelry Hawker

The final episode of the latest season of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City was called Lost Footage.

Lost Footage seems a misnomer to me, since the footage was clearly never lost. It would be more accurate to call the episode Previously Unaired Footage.

The Previously Unaired Footage turned out to be fairly amusing. Creepy Aviva Drescher got the comeuppance she should have gotten during the reunion regarding her bad behavior in demanding yet one more Ramona apology for allegedly kicking Aviva's juvenile dad out of Ramona's charity event.

And then there was the Previously Unaired Footage of Countess LuAnn. The scene with LuAnn and her two kids eating pizza was sort of both sad and amusing. It was like LuAnn did not like spending time with her kids, rushing her boy to eat his piece of pizza, then taking the pizza away from him. The boy was not happy. I thought he was about to smack his mom.

And then there was the awkward scene with LuAnn meeting with some guy she had engaged to help her start up a business. Only LuAnn did not seem to have the slightest clue about what she wanted, except in the most generalized way.

Somehow since that scene was filmed LuAnn has managed to get some sort of business up and running. LuAnn is not selling travel accessories like she indicated she was interested in doing in the scene from the Previously Unaired Footage. Unless LuAnn's idea of travel accessories is jewelry.

LuAnn has a website where she sells her wares. The domain name is shopluann. I don't know why it is I find that funny. That is a screencap from LuAnn's Website you see above.

In the About Us section of LuAnn's website I learned a few surprising tidbits...

Countess LuAnn Delesseps, the star of Bravo’s #1 hit show The Real Housewives of New York City, has a great eye for fashion. Having worked as a model in Europe and marrying into the French aristocracy, she understands what it takes to look your best. Luann also learned early on that looking amazingly stylish can be affordable and guilt free. She knows first-hand that class is a state of mind, not a birthright. 

LuAnn is the star of RHONY? And The Real Housewives of New York City is Bravo's #1 hit show? I had no idea. France has an aristocracy? Have the French been informed of this?

The Real Housewives of New York City's Aviva Drescher is one of the Worst Train Wrecks in Reality TV History

That self described Barbie doll Pinata you are looking at on the left is Aviva Drescher. Aviva Drescher is one of the housewives on Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City. Aviva Drescher is one of the new housewives, replacing old housewives like Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin.

Aviva Drescher has been fascinating to watch. I do not recollect watching a worse train wreck anywhere else on Reality TV.

In the latest 4 episodes Aviva Drescher has managed to do what it took Jill Zarin several seasons to do, that being have the fans totally turn on her because of what a vile, selfish, mean-spirited, rude, foul-tempered, self-centered, spoiled neurotic human being she turned out to be, after initial very positive viewer reaction.

The first paragraph of Aviva's Bravo bio....

Aviva Drescher is the first and only New York City born and bred "Housewife" in the history of the show. At 5'10" with brains to match her beauty, this part-time socialite and full-time mother will let nothing hold her back. When Aviva was just six years-old, she was in a tragic farm accident, which resulted in the amputation of her left leg. Aviva has never let this tragedy define who she is.

The reality we have seen, as this season of RHONY has unfolded, is that Aviva makes her childhood accident, and the resultant limb loss, the focus of attention, in various ways, almost constantly.

A couple weeks ago, after Aviva saw, via comments to her Bravo blog, that the viewers were disgusted with her irrational behavior upon arrival at St. Barths, and during her short stay there, a short stay where Aviva managed to ruin what had been a fun vacation for the other housewives, Aviva blogged a sort of modified mea culpa, short of apologizing or actually recognizing that she realized it was her behavior, no one elses, which had created all the problems.

And now, after Monday night's latest episode, an episode where Aviva is her most demented yet, scolding Ramona, in a restaurant, with a delusional, nonsensical, insane sounding, bullying rant, Aviva, in her latest blog post, titled Sheer Brutality, has now gone on the offensive (in both meanings of that word) against Ramona in a totally irrational, wrong-headed rant that has already riled freshly riled viewers.

I saw Aviva's latest post shortly after she posted it. Within a very short time there were already dozens of comments, virtually all of them totally critical of Aviva. Last week Aviva's The Human Pinata blog post generated 596 comments. I've never seen such a reaction to any of the various Bravo TV show's blogs.

Next Monday is the final episode of this latest season of RHONY, followed by the reunion shows. Will Aviva wise up by then and present a believable mea culpa? Or will she be in Kelly Bensimon mode and do no behavior owning, and instead just reinforce the negative image she has already projected?

The majority of viewers making comments in various venues are pretty much begging Bravo to remove Aviva from the Real Housewives of New York City.

That is not my reaction.

I find watching a train wreck who is totally clueless about what a mess she is, to be very interesting. And sort of instructive. I have known an Aviva type, or two, in my life. Sonja's choice was mine in that type situation, as in dump the toxic person as soon as the toxicity became apparent.

The Real Housewives of Miami Premieres Thursday September 13 with Mama Elsa

Several of the Bravo TV Real Housewives shows are among my guilty pleasures of Reality TV viewing. I watch the girls from Beverly Hills, Atlanta and, currently New York City.

I have never watched the girls from the OC, New Jersey, Miami or D.C.  I have heard that there will be a Dallas Housewives franchise. I'll probably watch that one, since they'll be neighbors of mine.

The Housewives from New York City have been entertaining the last couple episodes, what with the epic meltdown of Aviva Drescher in St. Barths. In two weeks this woman managed to go from being a fan favorite, who viewers were admiring, into Jill Zarin evil monster territory, who viewers are despising. This is quite an accomplishment, seldom accomplished in Reality TV World.

On Thursday, Season 2  of The Real Housewives of Miami starts up. That's Thursday, September 13, 9/8C.

I don't remember Season 1 of RHOM. But, I've been seeing the promos for Season 2 whilst watching RHONY.

The Miami franchise has 2 of my favorite things. Latinas and Miami. Young, beautiful Latinas in one of the world's most beautiful towns.

The RHOM promos have also shown clips of a character called Mama Elsa, who apparently feels good once she starts drinking.

Mama Elsa reminds of a better looking version of a former acquaintance of mine whose nickname is Fubbo the Gut.

I think I may give The Real Housewives of Miami a look. I'll quit looking if Mama Elsa scares me too much.

The Real Housewives of New York City Season 5 Premiere Free of Jill Zarin

Season 4 of The Real Housewives of New York City started off with Jill Zarin being obnoxious, which she continued to be, all season long, til, mercifully, Bravo gave Jill, Kelly Bensimon and Cindy Barshop the boot.

Bravo also gave Alex McCord the boot. I think that was a mistake.

Last night we met the new housewives, Heather Thomson, a  girdle type wear designer who talks a lot, Carole Radziwill, an author who talks smart and Aviva Drescher, who also talks smart and is a one-legged mother of 4 with a history with Sonja.

I did not take an instant dislike to any of the new housewives, unlike when Kelly Bensimon showed up, or, even worse, Cindy Barshop.

I have learned, via Phaedra Parks and Brandi Glanville, that a new housewife can quickly become a favorite.

Countess LuAnn seems to be working hard to make the new housewives her new Gang of Four in her ongoing Hatfields & McCoys vendetta against Ramona. I don't think this is going to work out. I don't think LuAnn will be able to recruit Carole Radziwill.

Carole Radziwill is very amusing and very articulate on her Bravo Blog.

On Heather's Bravo Blog it is like she did not watch the episode before she wrote the blog. On the blog she's still going on about Mario's supposed rudeness. Did Heather not notice that she did constantly interrupt and sort of misread the interchanges, that she then snarkily commented on in her confessionals?

The previews for the rest of Season 5 look like we are in for some major catfighting, with the new girl's pledge to each other not to be mean girls, thrown out the window.

I wonder if Jill Zarin watched last night? Kelly Bensimon has likely forgotten she was ever on this show.