Dorothy Hamill's Doctor Orders Her Off Dancing With The Stars Saving Lisa Vanderpump

I am guessing that even though Dorothy Hamill's doctor had told her she could no longer dance due to the painful spinal cyst that dancing had exacerbated, she wanted to see if she was going to get the natural boot before auto-booting herself.

So, after Andy Dick was saved to dance another week, it was down to Lisa Vanderpump and her boytoy partner, Gleb Savchenko and a pair I don't remember, in the Bottom Two.

With a minute or two to go, Tom Bergeron directed Dorothy and partner, Tristan McManus to hurry to make their way to him, where Dorothy announced she was unable to continue.

And so, the extremely popular (with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills viewers) Star, Lisa Vanderpump, lives to dance another week.

I suspect one of the reasons the extremely likable Lisa was in the Bottom Two was the fact that the Season Finale and Reunion Part 1 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills aired at the same time as Dancing with the Stars, thus cutting down on the number of Lisa fans voting for her.

Next week I suspect Lisa and Giggy's fans will be watching in full force, with Lisa Vanderpump not in the Bottom Two.

Vanderpump Rules With Stassi Schroeder Being Unruly

A few weeks ago I was watching what I thought was going to be a two hour episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, with the first hour ending with Brandi Glanville having had a sitdown with Scheana Marie, one of the women Brandi's ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian, had committed adultery with.

Brandi ended her talk with Scheana with the quality of the video suddenly changing, like the colors were more saturated, or something. And then I realize I'd been tricked into watching the beginning of the first episode of Vanderpump Rules.

Well, I really like the Real Beverly Hills Housewife, Lisa Vanderpump, so I gave her spin-off a chance.

I was appalled. Really really really bad Reality TV. Seemed really fake. And the cast of really fake real people seemed really unlikable.

Particularly a self-absorbed, totally un-self aware person named Stassi Schroeder.

Well, my DVR recorded the following episodes of Vanderpump Rules, with me forgetting to cancel the recordings.

And so I watched them.

Vanderpump Rules is so bad it has turned out to be good, in a really bad train wreck TV sort of way.

On one of the ubiquitous TV Forums I read one viewer opine...

This show is a delicious trainwreck. Sort of a combination of Jersey Shore meets The Hills. I actually enjoyed watching this disaster this week.

All I know about Jersey Shore and The Hills is that both are or were on MTV and that I have never watched them.

All the self-absorbed cast of unlikeable work at Lisa's SUR restaurant in Beverly Hills. With most claiming to be Mactors. As in models/actors. Or wannabes.

One of the couple pairs are both models, and I assume actor wannabes. That being Kristen Doute and Tom Sandoval. Kristen prefers not to wear makeup, while Tom won't leave home without being madeup. Kristen is not very attractive, either looks-wise or twisted personality wise. Tom looks like he shaves his forehead and says really dumb stuff.

But it is Stassi Schroeder and her demented relationship with sometime live-in boyfriend, Jax Taylor, that is the core wreck of this train wreck. Stassi is not all that attractive, though she seems to think she is Marilyn Monroe combined with Elizabeth Taylor combined with Mae West. I have seldom witnessed such a sense of entitlement. Or delusion.

Will Stassi get her needed comeuppance? Would seeing that keep me watching? I don't know. Stassi is already getting her comeuppance, viewer reaction-wise. As in she is being shredded in Internet TV forums.

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that Vanderpump Rules is not the first time Stassi Schroeder has annoyed me on a Reality TV show.

Way back in 2005 Stassi, along with her mom and dad and brother, were on The Amazing Race 8, known as the Family Edition. Stassi was 17 at the time.

The Schroeders lived in New Orleans. Early on a leg took teams to New Orleans. The Schroeders thought they had an easy first place, due to being in their hometown. But they got eliminated.

A month after the end of Amazing Race 8, Hurricane Katrina arrived in New Orleans, badly damaging the Schroeder home. Fellow racing family, the Rogers, helped evacuate the Schroeders to their home in Shreveport for a temporary refuge.

I do not remember Stassi having personality problems when she was on The Amazing Race, certainly not of the memorably demented sort she exhibits on Vanderpump Rules.

I can not help but wonder if Lisa is happy with Vanderpump Rules. It is interesting seeing her play the boss role, so well, in her restaurant.

Will I keep watching this train wreck? I don't know.

Real Beverly Hills Housewife Adrienne Maloof's Cougar Makeover With Recovered Drug Addict Sean Stewart

Adrienne Maloof & New Boy Toy
Ex-Drug Addict Sean Stewart

It is a little embarrassing that a couple of Bravo's Real Housewives franchises are among my guilty viewing pleasures.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is my favorite of these guilty pleasures, due to finding myself so frequently appalled or amused or both.

Take Adrienne Maloof, for instance. When I first met Adrienne, in Season 1, I thought her to be a bit of a snarky harmless airhead and an example of why inheriting a lot of money from a rich daddy may mess up the one who inherits all that unearned money.

By the end of Season 2 of RHOBH Adrienne took a precipitous Jill Zarin level of fall from fan grace, with the biggest reason being her bizarre accusations regarding Lisa Vanderpump, made at the Reunion Show, claiming Lisa had sold stories about Adrienne to the tabloids.

Season 3 of RHOBH has featured Adrienne's feud with fan favorite, Brandi Glanville. Brandi was a bit annoyed at Adrienne's duplicitiousness. Among the things that bugged Brandi was Adrienne sharing her childbirthing pains with the other housewives who had birthed babies.

Adrienne with her Ex-Husband Paul &
Adrienne's 3 Sons Who Did Not Exit
Adrienne's Womb

However, apparently, Adrienne did not give birth to her 3 children. She paid someone to do that job for her. This was the BIG SECRET that Brandi told at a gathering of the Housewives, at a restaurant.

What Brandi said was not shown by Bravo.

But, troubled former child star, Paris Hilton's aunt, Kim Richards, felt compelled to tell Adrienne that Brandi had revealed the non-secret that everyone already knew.

Kim's revelation came at some sort of business event of her brother-in-law's, he being the new fan non-favorite, Kim's sister Kyle's husband, Mauricio.

Mayhem was the result of Kim telling Adrienne the shocking news that Brandi had told people, who already knew about it, that Adrienne had used a surrogate to birth her boys, while parading around town faking being pregnant by having some sort of ever growing pregnancy pillow stuck to her unused babymaking zone.

After this shocking Kim revelation at the Mauricio business event, all sorts of volcanic venom erupted, with the worst eruptions coming from Adrienne's now ex-husband, Paul, and Adrienne herself, who viciously said Brandi was a neglectful mother and a drug user. Bravo aired the slander that came out of Adrienne's mouth.

Adrienne had her lawyers send Brandi a threatening letter of some sort. Soon the Surrogate-Gate Scandal spun out of control, causing dinner parties to turn into profanity spewing battlegrounds.

And now Adrienne, who is in her 50s, is being a cougar with the much younger son of rocker Rod Stewart, Sean Stewart, 32. Apparently Sean Stewart is also a Reality TV Star, showing up on one of those Celebrity Re-Hab shows that I've never watched.

Of his much maligned romance with the much older Adrienne, Sean said, "Age is but a number."

Very profound.

Lisa's SUR Opening on The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Was Disturbing

This week's next to last, season 2 episode, of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was an odd one.

Real odd.

Very contrived. Almost like it was scripted.

I thought the episode would start off with the girls still in Hawaii obsessing over Kim. Instead the episode began on the mainland.

Mainly focused on the opening of Lisa's SUR restaurant add-on.

Did I make it up in a bad dream last night, or did I actually see on this episode that SUR stands for Sexy Upscale Restaurant?

Lisa's staged SUR opening had so many drama elements piled up it was ridiculous.

There was an ex-girl friend of Adrienne's husband Paul. Not much drama came of that.

Then there was a waitress who Brandi learned had an affair with her ex, Eddie Cibrian, while Brandi was in the hospital birthing a baby. When Lisa learned that one of her waitresses had done Brandi wrong, Lisa sent the waitress home for the night. Not much drama came of that either.

Brandi seems so level-headed and funny. Eddie Cibrian must be a moron.

And then there was Adrienne's personal chef, Bernie, who shows up and is greeted by Lisa who then tells an assistant she doesn't know who that was. And then speculates that it might be Adrienne's cook. Bernie does not like Lisa, always referring to her as that "British lady across the street." Bernie did not provide any drama.

And then there was the uninvited arrival of Cedric, the Houseguest from Hell. Finally some of the scripting delivers some drama. Several were shocked to see Cedric there. Lisa asked Cedric to leave. Cedric did not seem to understand why Lisa would want him to leave.

Methinks the Bravo producers told Cedric they'd give him a thousand bucks if he showed up to make for some drama.

And then there was Taylor.

Taylor Armstrong.

Which is not her real name. A weird looking Oklahoma con-woman who, I think, drove her husband, Russell. to suicide.

Taylor shows up at Lisa's opening of SUR with her extremely creepy, likely ethics violating, supposed therapist. The therapist is all simplistic smarm, which Taylor pretends is helping her.

Arriving at Lisa's SUR opening, a night which should have been all about Lisa and  her opening, Taylor insists all the housewives gather together so Taylor can once again ruin a party with her personal pity party.

All the housewives pretended to care, except for Kim who locked herself in what must have been SUR's only bathroom, because soon there was a line wanting to use the facilities. Kim's gay Bull Mastiff boy friend, Ken, tried to get Kim out of the bathroom, to no avail.

Finally, after what seemed a couple of hours Kim emerged from the bathroom, acting happy like a crazed loony bird. Because that is what she is.

The scene of Kim telling her sister Kyle about her litany of woes with the gay Bull Mastiff boyfriend, including being 3 months late with ovulating, well, it was just too much.

How can Kim still be ovulating? Kim appears to be at least 60. Is that not well past the period when periods arrive and well into the age of menopause?

I think Kim's gay Bull Mastiff boyfriend, Ken, is a saint to put up with that nutcase. Just watching Kim get ready to go to Lisa's SUR opening was bizarre. Hauling so much stuff to a one night stay in a hotel? And then throwing it all over the place, on the floor?

What drugs is Kim on and why does she have such a problem keeping track of her stash, I watched and wondered?

And another thing. Is California Child Protective Services looking into removing Taylor's daughter, Kennedy, from Taylor's care?

The Real Housewives Lisa Vanderpump's Key to the City of Beverly Hills

Lisa Vanderpump looking sultry on her website

I knew that the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Lisa Vanderpump and husband Ken were restaurateurs with restaurants all over the world.

I did not know that, in addition to restaurants, Lisa has designed yachts, homes, her own clothes and acted in movies and TV in her younger years.

It was being curious as to how the Vanderpumps amassed their fortune that led me learn more about Lisa.

Lisa Vanderpump Day in Beverly Hills

I also did not know til this morning that Lisa's husband Ken's last name is not Vanderpump. He is Ken Todd.

I also did not know that someone named Jimmy Delshad had declared March 1st in Beverly Hills "Lisa Vanderpump Day" with Lisa being given the Key to the City.

I do not know on which year's March 1st Lisa Vanderpump Day occurred.

Lisa has a website, lisavanderpump.com.

On Lisa's website I found the below "About" info, apparently written by Lisa, along with links to websites for two of her California restaurants, Villa Blanca and Sur where I learned that menu prices have been reduced due to these tough economic times...

Thank you for visiting my site, my name is Lisa but those closest call me Pinky. I have been married for 28 years to my husband Ken Todd, I was snatched from the cradle! We have two children, Pandora 24 and Max 18. Unfortunately for me as I’ve really adored being a mother, my children have grown so I’ve filled my nest with 4 legged furry friends. They are the loves of my life. Jiggy (Gigolo), Lollipop, Pikachu, and Buki make our nest complete.

As you know I am on the show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, this is my first reality show but not my first venture into television. It was quite an experience I can’t tell you too much, but tune in I’m sure you won’t be disappointed!

I had an unusual childhood attending a drama school full time from the age of nine! I loved acting in many children’s films and television series when I was growing up. We have lived in London, the English Countryside, South of France, and came back to Beverly Hills 6 years ago. I have great passion for life and I have tried to instill that in my children.

Lisa Vanderpump's Sur Restaurant & Bar

Since returning to the US, I’ve been working in many different arenas. I have opened 2 very successful restaurants with my husband Ken; Villa Blanca in Beverly Hills and SUR in West Hollywood. I have designed all our 26 restaurants, bars, and clubs with my husband over the years and have really enjoyed doing so. My motto in life is find something that you love to do and then you won’t have to work a day in your life. I also write for Beverly Hills Lifestyle Magazine and spend a lot of time at Epione, where I have developed a serious skin care line with my partner Dr. Simon Ourian.

Most of my clothes are designed by myself in conjunction with my dear friend Christina Makowsky and Alan Del Rosario.

My husband and I are philanthropic and support various charities.

Beverly Hills Friends of the Housewives Dana Wilkey & Brandi Glanville

When she first appeared on RHOBH I did not realize Dana Wilkey was an addition to the cast. Brandi Glanville I knew had been added to the cast, but I thought she was added as a fully empowered Housewife. But, on the Bravo TV Real Housewives of Beverly Hills website, Dana & Brandi are simply "Friends of the Housewives."

I liked Brandi right from the start of seeing her. Which quickly had me wondering what was Eddie Cibrian thinking when he cheated on Brandi, the mother of his kids, with LeeAnn Rimes, then leaving Brandi, divorcing and marrying Rimes?

Now, if Eddie Cibrian had had the misfortune to have somehow found himself maritally bound to Dana Wilkey, I would fully understand doing all the cheating he wanted to, let alone leaving her for LeeAnn Rimes.

This Dana Wilkey person is a puzzlement. Supposedly she is a successful party and event planner. She was the planner behind that bizarre $60K birthday party that the now deceased Russell Armstrong and his wife, Taylor, could not afford.

Last week, and the week before, we saw a bizarre Dana game party she threw for the girls in her mansion somewhere in the hills. Dana's mansion does not look lived in. Dana dresses like she shops the bargain bin at Goodwill. And then brags about her sunglasses costing $25K.

Dana's conversations with the Housewives often have a very strained feel of desperation about them. Trying to get the girls to go on a vacation together. Acting like she's been bonded with them forever. I've known a person like this in my past. It's kind of creepy.

But not as creepy as Paris Hilton's aunts, Kim and Kyle Richards. Kim has really shown herself to be a whacked out nutjob, so far, on season 2 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

The main things I got out of the most recent episode of RHOBH is how ridiculously big the houses these people live in are. Adrienne's spa day for the girls. In a spa she has in her house. With enough food to feed a couple homeless shelters, was bizarre.

But not as bizarre as seeing how lost Adrienne was in her own kitchen when Lisa came over to show Adrienne how to cook a chicken. I suspect if Adrienne had not been born into a fortune, earning a fortune on her own likely would not have happened. And she probably would have learned how to cook a chicken decades ago.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills High in the Rockies with Chocolate Chip Cookies & Taylor Armstrong's Giant Lips

Two episodes in to the 2nd season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills I can say I am being way more entertained by these housewives than the majority of that bunch from New York City.

Speaking of RHONY, the latest buzz on the Interwebs, regarding those NY broads, is that Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, Cindy Barshop and Alex McCord have all gotten the boot. I say very good riddance to the shrill harpy Jill, the mentally warped Kelly, the dour sourpuss Cindy, but why Alex? That is very perplexing. I like Alex.

Back to Beverly Hills. After all the angst in the media regarding how Bravo was going to handle the death of Russell Armstrong, with possibilities ranging from canceling the show, postponing it, re-editing it, or just airing it as planned, I thought the end result was very thoughtful. Air the show as scheduled, with a 10 minute opening where the Housewives and husbands, sans Taylor, show up at Adrienne Maloof's to commiserate about the tragedy. And then on to the show.

The first appearance of the now grieving Taylor was weird, breathlessly running into some store to tell Kyle she'd run into Lisa's former permanent houseguest and con man, Cedric.

Taylor turned drama queen at a dinner party at the Maloof's due to a remark by Lisa's husband Ken regarding his opinion about therapy.

I don't think we yet know the whole story and truth regarding Taylor Armstrong and her relationship with her now dead husband, Russell. But, I really feel very little sympathy for that annoying swollen lipped woman.

On episode 2 the housewives fly to Colorado, invited by Camille, to her home in Beaver Creek. Landing in Denver the housewives are mortified to learn that, due to a closure on I-70, they would be taking a 4 hour limo ride to their destination in the Rockies.

Kim Richards seems to have turned into an almost non-stop chatterbox. 4 hours with that in a limo would wear on my last nerve.

I could not help but wonder why the girls did not fly directly to Beaver Creek. If Beaver Creek has no airport, surely nearby Vail or Aspen does. Methinks the 4 hour limo incarceration was used for drama potential.

Camille's house in the mountains was quite nice. Camille is being very likable in semi-bitter divorcee mode.

The only other thing that sticks in my memory, besides the hot platter of chocolate chip cookies delivered to those spoiled ladies when they reached the bottom of the ski slope, was the outdoor spa scene with Kyle and the hyper-annoying Taylor Armstrong.

Kyle & Taylor in a Hot Spa
Surrounded by Snow

Taylor was in woe is me mode. Kyle was trying to get Taylor to tell her one single specific fact of what was behind the woe. The dialogue went something like this...

Taylor: I just have so much resentment.
Kyle: What’s the resentment about?
Taylor: It’s just been a long time.
Kyle: What’s been a long time?
Taylor: I'm tired.
Kyle: What are you tired of?
Taylor: It’s been a lot of years.
Kyle: Why not go?
Taylor: I want so badly to make it work.
Kyle: Why stay?
Taylor: I'm scared.

If I were Kyle I think I would have told Taylor I was not interested in listening to her whining if she was unable to talk about whatever it was that was bothering her.

Of course, now that we know some of the sordid details behind Taylor's closed doors we know she's probably resentful about being broke, about her husband's abusiveness, her husband's twisted sexual proclivities and just the stress of living the life of a con artist.

Unlike The Real Housewives of New York City, there are really none of the Beverly Hills Housewives who I think are so disgusting, or uninteresting, that I think they should be booted.

I'd willingly open my door (or TV screen) to any of the Beverly Hills' ladies. I'd slam my door in the face of Jill Zarin or Cindy Barshop. I might let Kelly Bensimon in just to be amused by her loopy nonsense, for a very short while. And then I'd ask her to leave.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 2 Starts September 5

It appears that Season 2 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is up next on the Bravo TV Housewive Franchise schedule.

Maybe one of the reasons the New York Houseswives recently completed Season 4 seemed such a dud was due to how entertaining Season 1 was of the Beverly Hills Housewives.

Bravo has a preview trailer of Season 2 of RHOBH. Judging from the preview it appears Season 2 of RHOBH is going to deliver some good drama.

And the preview answers the question of whether or not Camille Grammer will return. Yes. I saw Camille in the preview. And there is a trouble-making new BH Housewife. The ex-wife of Eddie Cibrian, Brandi Glanville.

Lisa Vanderpump's ex-houseguest, Cedric, makes a return, crashing a party.

Watch the preview below to get an idea of what we'll be seeing starting at 9pm, September 5, on Bravo....

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Cedric Martinez with His New Girlfriend and Other Nonsense

The guy on the right calls himself Cedric Martinez. Who knows if that is his real name? He's a bit of a liar.

Cedric just finished a stint playing the gay permanent houseguest of Lisa VanderPump and her husband, Ken Todd, on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

We learned on Part 2 of the RHOBH Reunion that Cedric is now an aspiring actor. And that, apparently he attempted to blackmail Lisa and Ken or he would tell some sordid story to the tabloids.

Now that he is no longer a gay French guy on a Reality TV Show Cedric is the boyfriend of the actress walking with him, Brandi Glanville.

I have never heard of Brandi Glanville. I wonder if Cedric is now her permanent houseguest?

Cedric has a Facebook page where he is spewing all kinds of tidbits, including claiming he is only 35, not 37.

I am currently housebound due to North Texas getting hit with a Super Bowl sized Ice Storm. So, I've had way too much time on my hands today. I say that as my excuse as to why I was reading Internet TV Forums today.

Which is where I learned about Cedric's new lovelife.

I'll copy some of the amusing TV forum comments I've read today about the Cedric/Lisa Fiasco....

I think Lisa chose her words very carefully at the re-union. Saying police report (is that the same as complaint) and (paraphrasing) he asked for something that we weren't prepared to give, is alluding to some kind of blackmail.  We see Cedric as a conniving freeloader and her/Ken as a likable BH rich couple. I really think the truth of what happened lies somewhere in between what both parties are putting out. Also Kyle calling Cedric a media-whore was one of the bigger pot/kettle moments.

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Yeah, Lisa got screwed by Cedric, but I mean who didn't see that coming from a mile away? She mentioned many times during the show how much she adored him as a buddy to hang out with, I don't think she had ulterior motives at all. Hopefully he falls flat on his face, because her and her husband are hilarious, classy, and any smear campaign done by Cedric will not go anywhere in my mind. I would like to see Lisa branch out next season and be friendlier with all of the ladies because I do enjoy her sense of humor. We will see where it goes.

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Lisa/Cedric...something is rotten in Denmark there.  I believe something happened, but I'm not buying what or the way it happened.  Don't really know why...just gave me a weird feeling.  I absolutely think Cedric is scum...but something about this whole story just doesn't add up.  A wealthy couple does not take in a 37 year old MAN, give him a free place to live, buy him a car, pay his way, plus give him a salary (Lisa tweeted he was paid a salary) take him everywhere...just because...why?  Because he was left in a phone booth by his prostitution/whore mother at the age of 8? They've known him for 15 years so they would know that he was apparently able to put himself through college and support himself as a model and whatever else he did for 35 years. What happened? It's just too weird. I could see if he was 12, but he's a grown ass MAN.  It is just too bizarre.

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I really think Bravo should give Cedric and his new girl friend their own Bravo TV Show. It could go in all sorts of entertaining directions. Including watching Cedric do time somewhere in the California penal system.