Thursday
May202010
Pardon me,
Thursday, May 20, 2010 but what the FUCK just happened?
Once again, Kelly Bensimon's twitter feed was hyperventilating during the show. Are we at the point of Britney, where we really do need to feel sorry for her? If so, then let me squeeze this one in under the wire:
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This Kelly Tweet is promising:
we need a reunion plan. if you dont want these women to win, give me advice.i will use it verbatim and name u on the show. tell your friends
Who's worse: Kelly or Danielle? Danielle by a nose, but just because she is evil-crazy-manipulative and pulls the kids in front of the camera; versus Kelly's brand of craziness that I can't even come up with a name for. Hot-rocks-crazy? That sound right? ...Did you see Alex's face? That was me: Humored for a mili-second, then stunned, incredulous, mad and then just plane old out of my understanding-mental-illness depth...unlike our resident medical pro Sonya. Or was that kindness? Hard to recognize on the Housewives franchise. MFAMB - interesting insight, and I hope that's the case with Kelly...either way, you've given her publicist some great PR amo.
That said, I will definitely allow Bethany her I Told You So moment, even if it made me cringe just a little. But it's easy to judge from the other side of the camera... We've all been there, but maybe on a lesser level. What about when you tell your husband for months/years about the crazy/cruel/stupid spouse of a friend, and he says: oh, he's not so bad. Then your honey finally gets to observe said crazy in their element and suddenly agrees with such vigor that your heart swells. Anyone ever have that?
Am I the only one who thinks that good ole' A.C. didn't seem all THAT concerned on WWHL? The "boyish-lopsided grin-dont you wish I'd be your gay hubby" helps him get away with a lot..But Andy, what gives? I think he can hang because he knows he has good tv-programming-karma: Kell on Earth, 9 by Design, Top Chef etc... The Houswives definitely keep the lights on over at Bravo, but they've brought some worthy people further into the limelight as well. The down to earth, creative coolness of the Novagratz family ALONE gets Andy into heaven. That's my story about how AC sleeps at night, and I'm sticking to it.
Dear SGM, please recap and provide some humorous insight tout suite...I am struggling with this one.
i am still scared.
Or maybe it's the bronzer...
What is she talking about? Andy said the reunion has choice moments. Meaning? It's been taped already?
Oh. My. HAIL TO THE NAH!!!! Just watched this week's ep. Kelly has just been named Mayor of Crazytown. Seriously. I'm not going to go over what everyone else already has, but can we tawwwwk about Jill and Countless for a mo? If Jill has such a lawwwwwng friendship with Ramoner, why didn't she suck it up and go on girls' weekend when she was asked? Why deign to go now and make an appearance that, by the previews, NO ONE WANTS. Cannot WAIT to see how that plays out. And the clip of Jill trying to relive her glory days on the ice rink where the REAL PROFESSIONAL SKATERS were trying to skate and pissing the coach off? Priceless. For the love of Pia Zadora, Jill, go write another bogus review of your book or something. Anything. Just go away.
Loves ya SGM - cannot WAIT for the recap!!!!
Merci,
Shan
I'm torn on this. Sure, Bravo's decision to air someone's psychotic break makes for FASCINATING TV. And I can appreciate that Bethenny felt vindicated, but didn't ANYONE realize this was some serious shit going down? (Like rully, rully serious!) I guess I have to wonder if anyone did anything. Besides laugh.
BTW, did anyone else notice SJP's GIANT man hands on WWHL? Or how she was able to eat fried chicken without smearing lip gloss all over face? Now that's talent.
Are we sure Kelly is on meth? Would she be able to get through airport security through that stuff? Do you think Bravo flew them down on a PP?
Jill Zarin looked like a fool is her skating outfit and I loved it!
Holy Psychotic Meltdown. What the EF is wrong with that nutter? Now I TOTALLY understand why she's single. I so pity her children. This woman is not in touch with reality. And I agree with the earlier comments that there is some chemical unbalance. It's not for me to say if its drugs, hormonal, mental. But there is something RULLY, RULLY wrong with her.
'Moner was hilarious. I like her so much more this season! That dancing on the pier was priceless. As was her "Turtle" gyration.
Sonia, bless her littly Nypho heart. I must say I misjudged her earlier in the season. She looks like a hoot to hang out with and despite her life of privledge seems quite down to earth (as much as one can in that social strata).
Bethenny, my heart really goes out to her...she's been through the ringer and the last things she needs is to be held captive with Kelly for five days. I'm glad she's now a happily married mom.
Jill, you fabric whore, I loved you last year, but now I see how you really are. You're disgusting. And I'm sorry I ever purchased anything from Zarin. Won't be doing that again.
Cannot wait for next week when Jill crashes the party in her mumu. O.M.G.
TGIF.
I'm not one to judge if its mental, chemical or phycological. But this episode scared the shiit out of me. Its like nightmare on elm street and guess whos playing FREDDY! I'd have been up all night with a flashlight!!
Props to Shannan for using the word "deign". Awesome.
Anyway, I'm thinking that even if Bravo flew them down on a PP, she prolly got hooked up on the island. Prolly on the damn boat. I'm just going to speculate here...but it seems to me that the sort of person who has the coin to rent a yacht doesn't necessarily just party with Pinot Grigio. If you know what I mean...
I like this comment, from Gawker:
As bad as these horrible people are...I'm starting to think Andy Cohen and his minions are worse. It's ratings gold, I suppose, and we all are complicit, too. But his idiot grin on the after show just pushed me over the edge. I'm having a "Have you no shame, sir? At long last, have you no shame" moment about this useless piece of crap.
I think Andy's weird smile was him trying to avoid that situation all together. I think he was as disturbed as the rest of us. He said almost NOTHING about it.Which isnt like him. He avoided making any comments at all about her.
He's obviously seen the whole season. Bethany says in her blog that there was a lot more that happened but was edited out. I also read somewhere that everyone was "locked" down that night. hmmm what i would give for a peek at that footage. ha
Let's see how disturbed Andy is. He needs to get Kelly off the show. No more seasons.
The show is making her more unstable, and that is endangering both her and her children. In addition to god knows what kind of home life those kids are having with a psychiatrically ill mother, imagine the ridicule they'll be subjected to after last night's episode.
Holy crap they were on lock down!? Something may-jah (read in your best Jill Zarin accent) went down. Oh God, I"d love to see the rest of the footage...
Let's move forward to the Housewives of New Jersey - was that the most whoreish sign of the cross you've ever seen? Danielle really knows how to get the prayers started!
Sonja Morgan is the most analytical person on that show. She definitely pinpointed Kelly Bensimon's much needed therapy. One minute she's walking away like she's about to the sleep with the richest man in the world and the next thing we know she's skipping down the corridor offering people lollipops and gummybears. This is a reality show - it's definitely not scripted -- but these editors will gladly make someone with millions of dollars look a little brainless.
i want to know what happened to her in 1979 damn it!!!
I have a funny recap on my blog today... Well actually, its more of a transcript. And its actually not that funny.
but if she's on meth, how can her ex-husband let the kids stay with her?
I don't think it's drugs at all -- she's pathologically obsessed with Bethany because from day one, she was convinced that she was better than B. and now, it's turned out to not be true. Kelly has been under the influence of Crazy Jill spewing poison about B. and somehow, B. doesn't go under. She survives and THRIVES. Kelly can't handle that shyt. B is actively showing her up by being happy, enjoying life, having a baby and having the foresight to bring thank you gifts for everyone.
That's why Kelly lost her shyt about the gift bag.
SHE BROKE DOWN CRYING BECAUSE SHE GOT A FREE BAG OF SWAG FROM HER INFERIOR.
It was in her face that this woman wasn't the demon she and Crazy Jill made her out to be. I'm not saying that B. is perfect but she's not the demon her former bff has made her out to be.
She's obsessed with being perceived as better than B. and now that it's clear what the truth is, she can't deal.
I wonder if she will try to kidnap B.'s baby next....
Sketch42: you're right.
First of all, my initial diagnosis of Kelly was a mix of crazy and stupid. Most people who are stupid are self-aware enough not to get in over their heads. Case in point: she used "turning lemons into lemonade" wrong, but she has to have made mistakes like this (and been called on them) her whole life. Wouldn't you realize that you just don't understand what people are talking about and not repeat these sayings?
Next. I did not realize that meth smelled like cat pee. That whole scene where Sonja announced that it smelled like cat pee made no sense. I really did wonder why the hell that was left in. You SGM readers make a lot of sense! I started leaning towards drugs because Kelly found sooooo many reasons to leave the room...and then quickly come back! Remember when she announed "I don't eat in a swimsuit" and then came back CRAZY? It's just really hard to distinguish the stupidity from the crazy/druggy behavior, so it makes this whole diagnosis confusing. But yes, there was no other reason to leave the cat pee scene in. Bravo had to do it for a reason. In her Bravo blog, Bethenny said that things got a lot scarier than what Bravo showed. Why would Bravo leave that out? They LIVE for this! They must have been shitting themselves when Kelly started going crazy. So why leave out the crazier stuff? Unless it's to protect Kelly legally, or she wouldn't consent to it being used or...?
BTW, the Al Sharpton comment: Bethenny had just said, "I can handle the truth!" clearly referencing Jack Nicholson, Kelly started cracking up, pointing and repeating "Al Sharpton!" I believe that it's because she recognized the quote, but was too stupid to know where it was from. I think she honestly thinks it's from a famous lawyer, and yes, she thinks Al Sharpton is a famous lawyer because she hears his name mentioned in the news. Again, it's hard to distinguish the crazy behavior from the stupidity.
They still haven't formally introduced Jennifer as the new housewife. Maybe it's Kelly that's getting the boot. I think it's clear that B will not be returning since she has her own show. There were rumors that it was Silex, but it's starting to look more like Kooky, I mean Kelly.
SGM,
Don't know if you've seen this, but this is Kelly's 'defense' of her behavior as told to a New York magazine blogger yesterday afternoon. I'm relieved to know she has so much 'integrity' - that should go a long way when she institutionalized for the crazies.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/kelly_bensimon_tells_her_side.html?f=most-commented-vulture-7d5
He writes great, funny recaps, too, but my loyalty is with SGM. So, write one already! I need all the amusement I can get this weekend.
Thanks for the link! I think I'm okay with making fun of her: "haters are part of the ecosystem." !!!!!!!!!!!!!