Top Chef D.C.: Tiffany Leaves While Angelo, Kevin, Ed & Kelly Go To Singapore

I was disappointed to see Tiffany go down in flames last night on Top Chef.

This week's Elimination Challenge was to prepare a freeze driable dish for the International Space Station.

The Chefs were introduced to the challenge by two astronauts on the Space Station. And one of those, for whom they were cooking, was Apollo 11 moon walker, Buzz Aldrin.

Tiffany ran into some woes with the mussels part of her dish. That may have been her downfall. But in the end, the judges had high praise for all 5, but, with at least one judge having some issue with at least one aspect of each dish. Particularly that very picky Frenchman, Eric Rippert, who was nicely counter-balanced, this episode, by the always amusing Anthony Bourdain.

Angelo won the high stakes Quickfire with his successful wine/food pairing. He won $10,000.

Each episode we seem to learn something new about Angelo. Weeks ago some were surprised to learn he had reproduced. Then there was the revelation of some of his rituals, like Angelo's shrine to chefs he worships. Last week we learned about Angelo's Russian mail order bride to be. And this week we learned that that child we learned about weeks ago was produced during Angelo's marriage to the kid's mother. They divorced because the wife's family had no respect for the chef profession, wanting Angelo to be a doctor or lawyer.

Angelo seems to be doing fairly well for himself. At least this week on Top Chef. He recovered from the fumbles of the past couple weeks and won the Elimination Challenge, which gave him a new Toyota Avalon, a trip to London, a trip to Cape Canaveral to watch a Space Shuttle launch. And a book by Anthony Bourdain.

For the finale Top Chef is leaving the United States for the first time, heading to one of my favorite places, Singapore. The previews showed Padma taking extreme umbrage against something Kevin said or did. That should be interesting.

So, it is a final four of Angelo, Kevin, Ed and Kelly. Why does Kelly smoke? Why would any chef smoke? I don't get it. Angelo or Ed for the win. I'd be saying Tiffany for the win. But she's gone.

Top Chef D.C.: Tiffany & Ed Dominating, Amanda Packs Her Knives and Goes

Last week on Top Chef it was Tiffany winning both the Quickfire and Elimination Challenges, making, I think, 2 in a row for Tiffany in the Elimination Challenge department. Tiffany won $10,000 and a trip to Paris. Tiffany was very happy to win a trip, due to getting married soon.

Last week Ed was hoping he'd win the trip because it would make his fiance happy.

This week Ed won the Quickfire, but it was not a High Stakes Quickfire, so no $10,000. But, Ed did win the Elimination Challenge and a trip to Australia.

Angelo has had a rough time of it the past 2 weeks. Early on Angelo seemed to be the chef to beat for Top Chef. Now, not so much.

I really like Tiffany. What an infectious laugh. She's funny and fair. Ed has also grown on me. Though I could have gone without seeing him walking around in Tiffany's dress.

Last week we learned, from Angelo, that he has a Russian mail order bride that had him hoping to win the $10,000 Quickfire so he could get her into the U.S.

This week we learned that Angelo has only met his mail order bride a couple times, but they talk for hours, almost every night. We got to listen to their lovey/dovey conversation. I won't say it was sickeningly sweet. However, at Judges' Table the Judges did say that the strange Asian themed hot dog, that Angelo made for the baseball stadium concession stand Elimination Challenge, was too sweet, And soggy.

Angelo started off, when we first met him, seeming to be a bit of an arrogant guy, but the way he owns it when the stuff he cooks is not good, makes him very likable. That and he is funny.

Last week we got rid of the annoying Alex, this week the annoying Amanda. I like all who remain. Except for Kevin.

Tiffany for the win. Or Ed. Or Angelo. Or Kelly.

The Real Housewives of New York City Season 2: Kelly Comments

I can't get the latest weirdness of that awful Kelly creature from The Real Housewives of New York City out of my mind. Her behavior is just way too deja vu to me, reminding me way too much of a ex-friend up in Tacoma who's thinking is similarly distorted. They don't look alike though, with my ex-friend being hugely obese, with no one suspecting she might be an ex-beauty queen.

So, I was looking to see if Kelly is behind bars yet for giving boyfriend/fiance' Nick Stefanov a big black eye and a huge blood-gushing gash on his cheek. After stumbling to the police station to report the assualt which led to Kelly being charged, Stevfanov high tailed it out of NYC to his hometown of Pittsburgh due to being embarrassed to be seen in New York all battered and bruised.

The boyfriend beater and Stefanov had been together for 4 years, with him acting as a father to Kelly's kids, taking them to school activities and other dad role type things. I have no clue how that Max the Argentinian guy fits into this soap opera.

The boyfriend is only 30, ten years younger than Kelly.

I found a lot of funny comments in various forums, about the show, but mostly about Kelly. There is a lot of talk about her looking like a man. I don't know if the above is the actual mug shot arrest paperwork. But it shows Kelly to be a male. And not the 6 feet tall she claims, but 5 feet 10.

And now some comments.....

Why are these poor demented people so desperate to be in the news?? The only two decent ones are Jill and Bethenny -- the rest are just bizarre ...

You have bug-eyed Ramona - don't her eyes remind you of that runaway bride who had her eyes altered to always look abnormally wide open? And her insults -- she calls it like she sees it? No hon, you're just one wacko mean witch.

Then you have zeee Countess Luann who keeps trying to make believe she comes to New York via France and that marrying a count means she has class - and that fake smile -- ewwww -- as 'we say in France' and 'bonjour'??? give it a break sweetie -- be who you are and people would respect you more! You probably grew up waitressing as a teen in Connecticut not the family place in Nice. And yes you did mean "are they retouching' in a vicious way -- my sweet. She wasn't ultra-sensitive - she just called you out on your viciousness.

Then there's scarecrow Alex - for the love of God would someone please give her a sandwich - not attractive, really not attractive at all to see bones jutting out with skin hanging off - ewwww. There's thin and then there's the unattractive skelly look. Simon - hon - pink jeans and pink loafers are great - if you are a 12 year old tween or if you're headed to Fire Island. And children need manners - yes, they need education and books - but they also must have manners. They will get nowhere without knowing how to behave and to have manners.
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Kelly is an egotistical jerk. Bethenny is my favorite NY "housewife", though Jill comes in a close second. The Countess LuAnn will not be a Countess much longer since the Count dumped her via email for an Ethiopian woman. The biggest concern LuAnn's publicist seems to have is whether or not Luann can still use the title of Countess on her new book. Ramona is just nasty - a true mean girl, who is a total hypocrite. Simon and Alex act overly pretentious because that's all they have - no money compared to the rest of the group - and no real social standing which they seem to crave desperately. All it adds up to is one heck of a fun show to watch. I'm looking forward to The Real Housewives of New Jersey!
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Kelly is a raging idiot. Zero brains there. NO. ONE. CARES. Get off the show, get off the blow and she's too old to be hitting anything other than the gym. I feel sorry for her. Pathetic.
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I think all can agree after seeing how Kelly can really lose it, that it is not hard to imagine her going all Rambo on some poor guy who dared question her about something.
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Kelly is such a gift ... every time she opens her mouth I know I'll be entertained by her stupidity. And now this... the 'hits' just keep coming!
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The Housewives of NY are much more interesting than the other "Housewives of..." Kelly though is NOT interesting, except to say that she seems a bit psychotic and sophomoric; besides contorting the truth with regards to Bethenny. Kelly really came off as a lunatic with little self-esteem.

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.