The Real Housewives of New York City: Secrets of a Jewish Mother---Jill Zarin is Mentally Ill & Mother Gloria is Nuts Too

The latest iteration of the Real Housewives of New York City has been, I dunno, well, strange.

Most of the strangeness is brought courtesy of Jill Zarin. It's like all the characters have had, to some degree, character alterations.

Simon and Alex now seem nice and normal. Kelly now seems harmless and, at times, amusing. Ramona's bi-polar mood swings are amusing, even when she is being a mean girl. LuAnn really has become countless in more ways than one. Bethenny still seems the same.

But Jill. She seems to be mentally ill. Her Bethenny obsession with the enabling by LuAnn is so off-putting. And has off put the viewers, with the result that Jill Zarin's Facebook page, Twitter account and Bravo blog are overwhelmed with viewer's giving her a well-deserved bitch slapping.

I have been victim of a toxic person like Jill. It is not pleasant. Having been a toxic person victim it makes it difficult to watch Jill, at times.

When we first met Jill's mother, Gloria Kamen, Gloria seemed innocuous enough, just a nice old Jewish lady. But, we have now seen enough of Gloria to suspect Gloria's mothering is likely why Jill is such a mixed up mentally ill mess. Gloria really annoys me, she's looks like a re-animated cadaver. An unpleasant re-animated cadaver.

The idea that Gloria, along with Jill's sister, Lisa Wexler published a book titled "Secrets of a Jewish Mother: Real Advice, Real Stories, Real Love."

The book quickly tanked and is now being sold on Amazon at a steep discount.

From previews and the press it seems newly married, pregnant Bethenny realizes what a toxic poison her friendship with Jill Zarin was and that she is much better off rid of her. It is hard to get rid of a toxic person. They can haunt you like a nasty ghost.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Blogs

I have not yet watched last night's (Tuesday) new episode of The Real Housewives of New York City. Last week's episode is still fresh in my memory, what with the bizarre Kelly the Creep Creature's asinine temper tantrum directed at funny, likable Bethenny.

If you are a fan of this show and the various women on in, well, they all have blogs, including Simon. Simon and Alex come off way less creepy in blog form than they do on the show. I think some of them must have ghost blog writers. Like Ramona. The woman is prone to verbal malapropisms, yet can write well? I don't think so.

Below is part of Bethenny's blogging regarding the episode where the creature she calls Kellamity turned all kooky bananas. Go here to read all the various blogs, and be sure to read Kelly/Kellamity's. That warped woman somehow managed to be just as convoluted and twisted in written form as what we've seen on the show.

Excerpt from Bethenny's Blog....

Nothing Kelly says or does surprises me, because the poor girl isn't playing with a full deck. She didn't get the memo that she's in her 40s and behaves like a teenager whose words need subtitles on the show. She wrote about being in a shark tank last summer, but I'm not sure she knew what that felt like until the Sicilian sit-down.

Kelly came onto the show thinking anyone actually gave a crap about her self-anointed fabulosity. Truthfully, none of us care about her superficial lifestyle, so I think my calling her out is something that caught her off guard. Truthfully, she never had anything against me. I had something against her. She is a complete phony and now she has been exposed and her small circle of New York supporters have now turned on her as well. The emperor has no clothes.

Kelly's "journalistic" vocabulary consists of 2 words: foil and inappropriate. Maybe next week she'll find some new words. I found it amusing that she told me I needed a "time out" and some parenting. I've gone 38 years with no parents, and if I decide to adopt some, Kelly isn't on the candidate list. Jill and Bobby could be my adopted parents. Hell, I'll adopt Silex before the Kellamity.

The Real Housewives of New York City Season 2: New Housewife Kelly is a Nutcase

I would not have watched it during lunch if I knew that last night's Real Housewives of New York City was going to be so gut wrenchingly unsettling.

Last week we saw new housewife, Kelly, make a total ass of herself at a planning meeting for a charity Jill is doing to benefit helping cure the type of arthritis her daughter has.

When told what the charity was for and the inspiration for it, Kelly said, "That's cute."

She is constantly saying very out of sync, inappropriate comments. Like when she was showing Ramona around some architect's work and Ramona asked some question regarding whether or not Ramona should help Jill with her charity, Kelly's first reply was something like, "Did you know I was the youngest member ever admitted to the New York Junior League?" The look of confusion on Ramona's face was funny.

At the meeting for Jill's arthritis charity, Kelly showed up late. Bethenny was there, contributing helpful suggestions. The soon-to-be-divorced Countess Luann was there. I forget who else. Kelly was very dismissive, said she could not commit, that she gets asked to do too many things and can't say yes to all of them.

The way she declined was very rude. Bethenny made some Bethenny-type very funny remark, something like, "Who is she? Madonna?"

Kelly was SO upset at how Bethenny treated her at this meeting that Kelly invited Bethenny to meet her at a bar. Bethenny did not know what, exactly, Kelly wanted to meet her for. Kelly wanted to set Bethenny straight. Has Kelly not watched the show? Obviously Kelly has not the slightest idea who Bethenny is or what her character is like.

So, Kelly shows up a half hour late. When Bethenny says she's been waiting for a half hour, Kelly made some dismissive remark and then launched into this bizarre verbal assault, starting with telling Bethenny that she and her were not friends. It got weirder and weirder from that point on, and for me, turned into one of the weirdest, oddest, most disturbing reality tv diatribes I have seen.

Kelly was so full of venom, spewing it at Bethenny. Anything Bethenny said in reply just set Kelly off being even weirder. It did not border on creepy. It was creey. There is something very very wrong with Kelly. I'm talking mentally ill wrong. There have been other signs, but last night it was out in the open and obvious.

It reminded me way too much of how an ex-friend of mine could act. Something would trigger her neurosis and out would spew all this venom that would make absolutely no sense. And if you tried to ask a question about the venom, the venom would just spew worse. Watching Kelly be a spewing nutcase was way too deja vu for me.

After the diatribe finally ended, Kelly got up and left, telling Bethenny that she had a date, leaving Bethenny sitting there totally perplexed by the sociopathic patheticness she'd just been subjected to. As Bethenny left the bar, Kelly lurked at the exit and once more verbally assaulted her.

And then Kelly went back inside to meet her date! This good-looking, according to Kelly, French guy, who Kelly proceeded to tell a very warped version of her confrontation with Bethenny.

Kelly has now, by far, surpassed Simon and Alex as the weirdest, most unlikable character on the show. She is awful. Looks awful, acts awful, her face appears to be permanently in red-rash mode. Where do they find such great characters to make such great reality tv? And why would someone who so obviously has serious issues agree to be on such a show.

I suspect every awful thing Kelly said to Bethenny has been said to Kelly, many times, that is how these type twisted sorts operate. With her pretentious ways I am sure Kelly has been told many a time that you are down here, (gesturing low with her hand) and I am up here, (gesturing with her hand). Which is what she did to Bethenny.

Reality is, you could not stretch your hand high enough to demonstrate at how much higher a plain Bethenny operates than that awful Kelly creature.

And how in the world did Kelly the Creep get to know Sam Talbot from Top Chef, to the point Sam was willing to come to her house and give Kelly and the Countess a cooking lesson?

By now, with the show running, Kelly is getting her comeuppance. The reunion show this time should be very very funny. With Bethenny doing some real good, well-deserved bitch slapping.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Countess Luann de Lesseps Splits From Count with Jill & Bethenny

Last week The Real Housewives of New York City's pompous Countess, Luann, took extreme umbrage at Ramona when Ramona made a remark about the Countess being married to a much older man. Luann was quite upset at this, insisting the Old Count was not an Old Man.

And now, apparently, the Count has split from Luann, via an email, telling the Native American, former model, Countess by marriage, that he'd moved on to an Ethiopian woman in Geneva.

A close friend told Page Six of the New York Post that, "Luann was blindsided. She was devastated, they have basically lived apart for many years, he lives in Europe and comes and goes as he pleases, but she never thought this would happen. It has been very rough for her and the children [Victoria and Noel], but she's taking the high road and will remain friends with him. She has no intention of making it bitter or becoming angry. She's just trying to come to terms with the separation and impending divorce. She feels this is the ultimate test for her to handle this with dignity and grace."

In April, Luann is coming out with a book, "Class with the Countess." Luann has told friends that no matter what she will always be the countess.

I beg to differ. Sounds, to me, like she's been de-throned.

A spokesman for Countess Luann said, "It is obviously a very difficult time for the Countess and Count, but they plan to remain friends and their primary focus will be to do what is best for their two children."

Meanwhile, Bethenny and Jill have been on a lot of TV interview talk show venues, including a very funny one with Chelsea on E!. In that interview Chelsea asks something like, "What's up with that pasty ugly couple?" referring to Simon & Alex, now commonly referred to as Silex. What follows that question is some pretty funny stuff. This Chelsea interview has not been YouTubed yet, but you can watch it by going here.

Bethenny and Jill are interviewed on another show that did get YouTubed, that being TV Guide Broadband. They are not quite as brutal about Silex on this one. And the new girl, Kelly, is talked about.

Kelly is beginning to rival Silex as the most reviled of the people on The Real Housewives of New York City. I'd have to say Kelly is worse. There is very little amusement factor with Kelly, while I think Silex know they are being over the top ridiculous and are milking it. Somewhat. There are moments when it is obvious that Silex are being clueless about their cluelessness, though.

But, with Kelly, I don't think she has the slightest clue how stupid and obnoxious she comes across. Well, she likely does now, unless that stupidity problem is worse than I thought, because, by now, she has watched herself on the show and maybe she has been appalled and embarrassed. Maybe.

Below is the TV Guide YouTube video with Bethenny and Jill......