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Well, hello and welcome to Watch Watch Crap Ins, a podcast about all that crap on Bravo that we just love to talk about.

I'm Ben Mandelker and joining me today on this very festive Monday is the one, the only, the beautiful and gorgeous Ronnie Carom.

Hi, Ronnie.

Well, hello, Vin.

How are you?

How's it going over there in the valley?

Good.

Yeah, everything's great.

It's chilly over here.

Very cold.

So I've got my little

teddy bear hoodie on.

And, you know, it's ready to talk some real housewives of Potomy Tomes.

Well, I'm sorry that it's so cold over there.

I'm in my t-shirt and shorts over here in Hollywood, where it's like 30 degrees warmer, I guess.

I am excited too, because Potomac is back.

And it also means I think we can finally say that the Bravo drought is over.

We have four housewives airing at the same time.

So we're in no place to be complaining about a drought.

We've got four and I would argue that three are like varsity level housewives.

And I think, I think Orange County is like pretty varsity.

To me, it's varsity.

I would actually say all four are varsity, but I'm not sure.

Orange County's having a good year.

Some people are really hating on Orange County.

They are not, they feel like it's too toxic.

I personally think it's like great.

I think it's hilarious.

Toxic it's been.

I mean, look at the stuff they're talking about.

This 13 years ago, that was toxic.

This is just a bunch of people fighting over.

It's like my favorite thing.

I think anytime there's a season where you're getting emotionally invested, where you're, where you're like team so-and-so, where you're like angry at other people on the show, like you really feel the villainy, I think those are usually like, that's what I would call a good season.

And those are often the seasons where people call for blood and like get people fired.

And have I said on this podcast, it's time for Emily and Gina to go.

Yes.

But

let's also remember like that is also the mark of a good season that you get so emotional that you call for those things.

The bad season is where you just don't care.

Because as they say, the opposite of love is not hate.

It's indifference.

So

Emily and Gina are outliers, though, because we've been calling for them to get fired since their first seasons and those were bad seasons.

Although, we even love those seasons.

I mean, we even love the COVID season.

You know, I love the COVID season.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

I think as you get older, you just learn to appreciate stuff.

And I'm so glad Housewives are even still on, and I get to watch people fighting over who's invited where.

I think it's the funniest shit.

I will never stop loving these shows.

And so, you know what?

I'm just glad to be here.

I'm just glad to be fed.

Yeah,

I am too.

So, today we are going to be fed with uh cherry blossoms from potomac because potomac is back it's our first non-karen huger episode although technically karen does make an appearance at least her shoulder does as she emerges from jail but um in the wake of her being incarcerated we now have um

we now have two new ladies and we also don't have mia and i have to say ronnie

I was I was actually surprised how much I felt the show was better without Mia.

When Mia came along on the show, she was this like, you know,

basically a liar.

And like, we knew she was a liar.

And it was like, to me, it was like very funny at first.

But I think as the seasons went on, we realized it became evident to like everyone in the audience that Mia's just like, she just says and does things.

purely for like storyline and that like starts to really wear thin and like the stuff with her and gordon was kind of wild to watch and it was like dark and oddly fascinating but like she's she's sort of like a like a like a cancerous element on these sort of shows.

And I think it's like good that she's gone.

What do you think?

I did not mind it.

That's for sure.

Um, I, you know, I agree.

She just went too far in her

in her last.

She just went too far with the making bullshit up.

But I, I actually had the thought last night.

Were they thinking we can only have one liar at a time?

Because

now we have Stacey who's like in a different league.

Like she's a different kind of liar.

You know, Like she's like,

I mean, it's pretty clear that she's lying at this point, right?

Yes.

Well, she's a sanctimonious liar, which is way more entertaining to me than like trashy trying to make a splash on reality TV liar.

And we get these, we get these housewives

every now and then.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She's lying about stuff, but it's like, well, you know, maybe I didn't divorce my husband, but why is that your business?

I just don't, it's improper, it's improper to talk about it.

You know, she's got that kind of attitude where me is just like I marry an Eminem because,

you know, I love their commercials or whatever, you know, whatever her, that was such a random thing to say, but, you know, me would just come up with a random shit to say for her.

Yeah, it felt like she was saying to, it almost felt like she was saying it to be relevant, to start a fight.

So that way she could get screen time.

And like for when Stacey lies, it feels like it's more innately part of her, like who she is in a way that's more appealing.

It's oddly enough, her lying is authentic.

Whereas, you know, you get these people that come through, you get like the Brandy Glanville, you get the Noella Bergeners, or whatever, and you get like Mia, and there's like others who come through and they are provocative and they're entertaining, but ultimately they are catering their personality to like they're basically going to be outrageous because that's going to get the cameras on them, you know, in a way.

And so I think like when you have someone who's just like literally

someone like Stacey, who is so blatantly lying, but like is so huffy about it.

Like that is so much more entertaining to me than Mia being like, Jacqueline and I like made out in the shower.

No, we actually didn't make out in the shower.

Well, that's because she was making out with Gordon.

No, I said that I was making out with Gordon.

Jacqueline was watching.

It's like, I don't, it's like, it's like, I don't care.

You're just trying to get some sort of attention right now.

Here's what I'm worried about.

Someone who's not trying to get attention, and that is Miss Karen Huger herself.

I'm on her Instagram Instagram because I'm like, well, she's been out for a while.

Why don't you get attention?

She's not ready for attention.

Why don't we know what is going on with Karen?

Why haven't we heard anything?

I haven't seen any interviews like, oh, Jet prison.

No, I didn't.

And I'm fine better than ever.

I've got a nine-bar candle.

You know, just little prison bars that you light on fireside behind the candle.

But I'm like, what happened to her?

And surely, even if she hasn't done any press, surely she's posting home goods fines on her Instagram.

But no, I came to her Instagram, which by the way, thanks, FaceTune.

Facetune, can you just make FaceTune real?

Because I would totally subscribe if I could do this to myself.

But anyway, her Instagram, her last post

is from 41 weeks ago, December 17th, 2024.

She's not even posting on Instagram.

What happened to her in jail?

Because that's not normal for someone like Karen to just not be posting.

It's not normal.

Well, maybe,

maybe what's happening is maybe she's holding out for some sort of exclusive thing.

Maybe she's working with Bravo on some sort of debut.

Maybe she's going to make her grand debut at Bravo Con.

Emphasis on con.

Actually, no, she didn't con anyone.

She just drove drunk.

Sorry, I'm just so used to people in Bravo going to jail for a conversation.

Bravo do we're honestly like this is not coming from like a catty place.

Maybe she's like unhappy with how she looks after jail.

Maybe maybe she like maybe she gained some weight maybe she wants to work a little bit of it off because she's a real housewife maybe she wants to get like a little bit of a nip and tuck because she wasn't able to do her skin care like i would not be surprised if she's like this car needs to go to the shop now and you know i'll let you like we'll let you know it'll be ready at 2 p.m and you're looking at your watch

yeah

straight from the county jail to the doctor and was like nip tuck tuck it nip it that's a good point actually maybe that is like it's not like

I kind of,

I'm not worried.

I think she's, she's, she's going into her like cocoon and she's going to emerge beautifully.

Like, she's, I think, and I think she wants to do this right.

She's like, let me get all my ducks in a row.

Ray, get the ducks from the backyard.

And I think she's going, she's,

she will emerge out of like a dark flower.

Today, we didn't see any ducks.

We didn't see,

which is what, you know, it's a question I have for Potomac.

Are you paying attention?

Is anybody

skating bored?

How could you not put in the deer and the ducks like the hello i know it's a little wild however we did get um a wonderful new fancy british accent which sort of implies ducks and deer so i really appreciated that like and that lady fantastic too her voice is just fantastic i love her whole thing i feel like she's faking it even though she showed pictures of herself growing up in london and with rolls royces and all of that stuff i don't think she's faking the money part but the accent just sounds so crazy and i love it you really really know, like, she's like, already like a top five housewife of all time for me.

I was like, wow, that accent?

All right, she's probably up there with like Bethany Frankl.

It's interesting how they're kind of recasting because they obviously got a Karen type, right?

I mean, she's more probably legit than Karen as far as the, she probably is like a grand dame, she's like princess or something.

So she's definitely got that stuff.

But you've got the new Karen and then you've got the new Mia, who's, you know, the liar.

She's a second season, though, Stacey.

Also, we have a new Kierna who is played by Kierna herself.

Kierna's like decided Kierna like spent a whole season sort of on the sidelines being like, Hi, I'm Kierna, and doing nothing.

And I think that she probably heard from us and the audience, not just us, meaning like us as the audience, from everyone being like, Who is like, why is Kierna on this show?

She's a friend of at best.

She probably got a lot of flack from it.

And she decided, you know what?

It's time for me.

I'm going to, I'm going to

dump Toad of Frog and Toad and move into a new condo and I'm going to like actually make an attempt to be a real housewife and she came out like with personality and she was central on the episode and she was funny

fights over nothing which I loved you know she's coming at Wendy with absolutely nothing and 100% conviction which you know I respect also the whole thing of not really breaking up with her boyfriend just moving into a condo while they're shooting

very funny I thought she said she broke up with him

i think she's just moved i mean i don't know the way she said it was like she left him and now he's deciding to make an effort i guess like she moved out and now he's making an effort i took that to

make an effort i'm going to stay with this person but i don't want the artists giving him shit so i'm going to move into a condo

i am there i blocked out my independent i'll have my like independent woman storyline while i'm still dating the guy which is very stacy in a way too like how they're all kind of coming after her so I love it.

I mean, it was packed with Housewives' Goodness.

I'm not sure about the other newbie quite yet.

I think I like her.

Okay.

I don't trust her because she's a friend of Kierana's.

And I'm like, why would you let Kierana cast when she hasn't been the most interesting?

Kieran's still working on her casting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, get one thing solid first.

Like, you're supposed to cast off the strongest people.

So that kind of worried me.

But even though I like her.

But I like her, actually.

She's just not the most fascinating.

Well, I think Kirina, I think maybe this will be her like blossoming season.

Like she was so under the radar last season that like she's not really having a bitch flower blooming.

She's just having a personality flower blooming, which we always appreciate too.

It's so rare that that happens once, you know, usually if a personality is a dud, it's a dud.

So I like that she is now showing more of who she is.

I like the new woman.

I, um, angel, I, I just sort of like the way she was laughing about Stacey's breath.

Um,

and uh, yeah, I think the chemistry is really why is this thing about Stacey's breath like the worst slander to me?

I'm like, this is so

because you that woman has to walk around and now every question she's asked on the red carpet is going to be like, did you take a breath mint today?

Or, you know, well, you can tell

me peasants with your dragon breath, you know, stuff like that.

I don't, that's just so mean.

I mean, I think it's better to say your husband's cheating on you than to just like get out there that you stink.

I kind of, I think the reason why it's sticking is because like we can all kind of like tell that she has stinky breath no i don't know why why do you say that i don't

there's a way there's a way that you hear the saliva in her mouth it's like that dry said that dry stink and like

uh it's actually not even shaming it's like i actually hope that she can you know get it treated um don't understand how you can say like i can see that she has bad breath that's crazy you said it during our preview recap too and it stuck with me what is that about a person ronnie you just see things also about people that you shouldn't be able to see, but you see them, and you know that you see them.

And this is something that I

see that they stink.

No, just

I can tell.

I don't know why.

I just can tell.

And I love Stacy.

I think Stacey is a great, has been a fantastic casting choice.

Like, I think it's, I think Stacey is actually exactly the person they needed to cast on the show last season to write the ship that this was going down.

And Stacey is the exact, she is the exact personification of everything this show was about.

And it's early, like in its sort of like it's like it's really strong run of a few seasons.

And I think, I think like, I'm so happy with Stacy, but I feel like I was able to sense that.

As soon as they articulated it, I was like, yeah, I can see that that's probably a true thing.

Yeah.

Well, anyway, I think it's like the worst slander that you can do to somebody.

And you know what?

I'm teaching Stacey.

I don't even care if she's lying.

I mean, at this point, I do think she's lying about everything, except I don't know that she agreed to pay that man 50% of her money.

I don't believe that.

I still don't believe TJ.

but TJ's a bigger liar.

Yeah, I do think that she's probably, you know, lying about everything else, but I don't even care that she's lying.

I still really like her, and I'm on Team Her over everybody else.

I mean, what is Giselle getting mad about people lying for?

I mean, you've had entire storylines that you've hired boyfriends.

We all know that Giselle has brought boyfriends on this show that she wasn't really dating.

I mean, that was kind of her thing for a while, right?

The criticism of Giselle was always that she was hiring people and faking boyfriends and all of this stuff.

And then she had the thing with Candace's husband for a whole year where she's like, oh, he locked me in a hotel room.

Well, she didn't say locked, but like, he got me into a hotel room, made me feel so uncomfortable.

And this whole thing, I mean, come on now.

But Giselle's hypocrisy is also another reason I love this show.

So I don't know.

It came back firing on all cylinders and I hope that it stays because it looks like it's going to be a really good season.

I laughed my ass off watching this.

I was laughing as well.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

So let's, let's dive into the episode.

So it opens up and it says, like, it's September 2nd, 2025, which by the way, that was like, that was like a month ago.

Like, literally, they are so up to date.

And we see it's the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit.

And we see sort of like, like, Karen's getting into her car.

We don't really see her, but we hear her.

We see like a shoulder and we hear her like,

oh, cigarette.

Cigari.

She's crying.

And

then we we see like

she's going off.

And it's like, oh my God, the grand dame got out of jail.

And then six months later, clips of news outlets.

We start to see that she had to like serve.

Actually, I think it was six months earlier.

She had to serve a year in jail.

Yada, yada, yada.

So essentially, it's like, remember that for people who have forgotten, remember, Karen Hooker went to jail.

So that's how we start.

That's setting the tone for the season.

Yeah.

And so now we're at Giselle's house and she's putting together, you know, store-bought donuts and stuff on it.

It's a very Giselle charcuterie, you know?

And she's putting together a little charcuterie tray and waiting for people to come.

And she just keeps telling herself, I might need some liquor

while she waits.

And then we see

her feeling things.

She feels a lot of different emotions.

I wish this weren't happening.

I wish this weren't happening off camera because I would really love to see Karen crying on her way to jail.

Do I want to see Karen in jail?

Absolutely not.

But do I want to make sure that we don't have a fifth DUI?

For sure,

so shady.

It's like,

I'm just here to support Karen and remind you that this is her fifth DUI.

What most people would say is, like, do I want her in jail?

No, but do I hope that she addresses the root problems that got her into the situation?

Do I want her to have help?

Like, absolutely.

been said she's like do i want her to have do i want her to have fifth dui that's right there's been five america in case you forgot this wasn't the first five duis

i were to show karen on my fingers how many duis she had she would see 10 fingers that is how many duis she has like the fact that she's still dunking on karen while she's in jail is

So this show, and this is why Giselle, I mean, and we know when Karen comes back, it'll be like full throttle.

Oh my God.

Like there's very few shows that have as special a dynamic as the frenemy-ness of Karen and Giselle.

Yeah.

And I also love that she keeps saying over and over, I need liquor ra.

I need liquor.

That's the whole thing is her trying to decide how wasted she's going to get while they're talking about how sad they are about Karen's DUI involved in alcohol.

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So Ashley comes.

Ashley looks great.

I love her new hair.

And

just

like, we've had a crazy 72 hours.

It's so intense.

Karen's waking up in jail.

That's where she's waking up.

And Ashley goes, and Gen pop.

Wow.

Oh, I wonder if I should send her a gift basket of Uber cards, but I guess she won't really need them in there.

So then Giselle's like, whoa, is this like with murderers?

Ah.

I don't know.

Because I don't know, but I mean, I want her to be secure.

I want her to be like, is there like an elderly section?

Her concern trolling is so top-notch.

Can we put her in

fragile old people section?

Literally every line.

It's like, I'm so worried for Karen and her five DUIs.

She should be in an elderly section of the jail.

And Ashley's like, yeah, the AARP of the jail.

So they've talked to Kay and Wendy and Stacey.

Everybody's going to get together to talk about Karen going to jail.

So get out your donuts and your tequila because we're going to talk about Karen going to jail.

I love this excuse for a get-together.

We just all need to get together because Karen's going to jail.

I know.

So Ashley is saying how

she and Stacey recently got together with each other's kids.

And she's like, yeah, I feel like giving her an opportunity just to clear the air.

And then we see flashbacks of Stacey and TJ last year and all the bullshit of that entire situation, which was off the charts, et cetera.

I was like, you know, seeing TJ again.

It's amazing how much of a visceral response I had against seeing him on my TV.

I was like, oh,

get him off.

Get him off.

Just, he's so gross.

And every line he has, I mean, are you more dominant or submissive in the bedroom?

Just because I'm not sleeping with you doesn't mean you're ever going to be more dominant than I am.

And then them accusing her of paying him to be the love interest.

And then clips of TJ saying, you know, she's paying me to do the show, man.

You know, she is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This guy's just full of bullshit.

So Giselle's asking what, what Stacey said.

And and she's like yeah well it's the same thing she was like ashley you think i would really do that and giselle's like and what did you say yeah

and they both laugh yeah she goes well uh giselle says i don't think stacy's a bad person no but is she dubious

what is that what does that mean dubious

come on

So Wendy and Kiarna arrive and Kiarna is like, you been in Giselle's house before, right?

And Wendy's like, well, I've been outside.

And then we see, go back to the reasonably shady event

where Giselle wouldn't let her go inside.

The way that they remember these details

and is like how Stacey wasn't allowed into use the bathroom.

I'm not Stacy and Wendy.

Oh, my gosh.

So good.

So they're talking about TJ some more.

And how shady that is.

And Wendy points out that Giselle has millions of mirrors.

She's like, do you love yourself?

there's a mirror in every corner and giselle's like okay well i think stacy's here and why did she buy a car just like yours like why would she do that dah then we see that stacy did in fact buy a twin car yeah which is funny but like let's be honest the real housewives have like a they have like a selection of three different cars that they all drive it's always going to be someone's there's going to be overlap inevitably this was an audio right usually housewives range rovers like Range Rovers, the classic, right?

The classic

big Range.

Yeah, this was white outie, double white Audi on this episode.

So Ashley is like, no, it's her loner card.

She apparently is having a custom-made one.

And then Stacey gets out of her car.

And then we just see her feet, but then she just burps.

She goes,

excuse Émoi.

Which made me laugh because like over the summer, I had this like weird, like two-week phase where for some reason I kept on saying excuse Émoi.

And I was like, why do I keep saying that why do I keep saying excuse es moi and then it made me then I also I have a thought I have a question for the audience and for you Ronnie why did we as a society decided why why why did we start doing this thing that when we want to like walk by someone we go excuse me like why do we do that excuse me

Why do we become Fae butlers every time we walk by someone in close proximity?

Where did that come from?

I don't know.

I say pardon me.

Pardon me.

Pardon me.

Yeah.

I feel like I just feel like I'm always like, excuse me.

And then someone else will always be like, oh, excuse me.

It's like you're at the supermarket.

People are always doing that little, excuse me.

I'm like,

Farnsworth, you can go back to the service quarters

on my mind.

I say pardon.

Could you move your fat ass out of my way?

Keep it classy.

So Kierana's like, well, she spent TJ's money on that card.

That's a problem right there.

So, they're like, ah, so Stacy comes in wiping burp juice off of her face.

I mean, they really hate Stacy this season.

The editors even do.

They're like, let's just get a shot of her knees while she burps really loudly.

I mean, that was like a Simpsons burp.

That was like Barney from The Simpsons.

Like,

and honestly, not to be.

Not to be

conspiratorial, they literally could have just taken any burp and put it in there and then added her saying, excuse Émoi and just made it seem like she just burped her ass off walking into and she probably didn't even do that like like there's a chance you know reality tv show editors are shady like that and we don't even see her face so like

you know i'm going to take it at face value that she burped in that moment but the truth is they could they could just be setting her up they may be ready just to trash stacy big lie they're like hey guys stacy's walking up it just cuts to the scene from standby me where everybody's vomiting all over each other yep there she is

they just insert a bunch of fart noises.

Oh, here comes Stacy.

Oh, there's another shark.

There's another shot of Stacy.

It's just like the swamp monster, like about to eat somebody.

She's like, Um, I never made those noises.

Like, I know.

We just added some sizzle and posts just to kind of liven it up.

Oh, hey, guys, Stacy's coming up the walk.

It's just the lady from the old commercials in the 80s, like holding the hole in her throat with her finger, like,

don't smoke, kiz

well i am so happy that you guys could find the time to get together during this mandated filming process uh because i think that with what happened to karen i just felt like we needed to be together so we could laugh i mean what's the point of karen being in jail if you're just laughing by yourself right so let's get together and laugh together

Every morning I wake up and I think, Karen's in jail.

And then I laugh, but there's no one to laugh with me.

And Wendy's like, I get it.

Me too.

Me too.

And Wendy says, for me, the worst part is the fact that it's so instant.

Like she was taken into custody right away.

Like, how does she process that?

Does she know?

Is she prepared?

Like, for Karen, like, we may have our differences.

And then we cut to the reunion where Karen didn't acknowledge Wendy as one of her soldiers.

And Wendy's saying, that's not my friend.

Not my friend.

But at the core of me, that was once my friend.

So I want the best of her.

So I'm going to propose, why don't we all go outside and then come back in again and go back outside and come back in again just to enjoy having free will and being able to walk into whatever room we want to

for Karen.

And Kierna says, yeah, you know, Karen's in state jail.

I mean, like, this is no Martha Stewart.

Okay.

She has to take a shower with people.

With people,

you guys.

She's in jail, jail.

I have to say, that was actually a profound observation by Kierna because I didn't really think about that.

I think we all thought about Karen being in jail and like be miserable, but I cannot imagine the Grand Dame enjoying taking a communal shower, you know, with all these randos.

I was like, that's actually

that's gonna

leave a mark for Karen, I think.

Yeah, that's not good.

So, well, Stacy's at the doorbell now.

Cut to job of the hut.

About to eat Princess Leah.

Just afraid her.

Hello, Stacy.

And Stacey's like, oh, I immediately started to think about Raven and how worried she must be.

And they're like, yeah, oh my God, poor Raven and Ray.

And everybody's so sad.

I feel my heart breaks.

My heart breaks for Raven and Ray.

Because, sorry, I went to Karen Huger voice.

My heart breaks for Raven and Ray.

Because they only get six months without Karen.

I was really hoping they got a full year.

My heart breaks for them.

them.

A part of me, though, I'm going to be honest.

This is the fourth DUI.

Anybody want to count on our fingers?

Let's do it again.

So there has to be accountability so that she never does this again.

Do I want to see her in jail?

Absolutely not.

I still can't believe she's in jail.

Hold on.

Sorry, that was me laughing.

And now she's like, well, it's just like, it's, no, it's not settling in.

I mean, the granddam, Thomas Jefferson's concubine.

And Wendy's like, I'm sorry, what?

And Stacey goes, you know, there are some phrases and names moving forward in our friend group that we will never use again.

And then we hear Karen's voice saying, I'm Thomas Jefferson's concubine.

Oh,

in the paddy wagon or whenever, whatever, when she was arrested, Joe.

I'm Thomas Jefferson's concubine.

Then you know who I am sort of a big deal.

You know, you should call Andy.

He's like, who?

Cohen, Andy Cohen.

Who?

Big network.

Big network.

Huge, huge network, you should call him.

So then Wendy's like, yeah, that that comment threw me.

So and then Ash is like, she's like, um, yeah, but by the way, like, what about the, what about the initials?

TJ, like, well, I'm wondering what's going on with you because with the reunion when everything that happened.

And Stacey's like, well, and I am sitting here, as I did at the reunion, sitting in my truth.

And what's your, uh, what's your truth, Dash?

She goes, exactly what I said at the reunion.

So we flash back to the reunion where she's, you know, saying she absolutely did not pay TJ.

And she reiterates it now.

She's like, I did not pay him to be on the show.

And she has talked to TJ and he was very remorseful.

He wanted to come on TV and say, oh my God, I lied.

This is just awful.

I'm such an awful person.

I apologize to George Clooney and everybody on the set of ER

and everywhere else that I've worked.

I'm sorry for lying.

They're like,

then why is he on Instagram claiming that he's going to bring receipts?

Okay, then where are they?

Where are the receipts?

Why is he not seeing the receipts?

It's been so long and there's been no receipts.

So I'm sorry.

I just, I don't care if he's like generating fake court documents or even if they're real.

There are no receipts available.

And for all the talk about like that there's a lawsuit i think that also would be part of public record i think that would have been on tmz by now if tj were suing stacy tmz would be on top of that and reality blurb and reality tea and everyone would

on page six

anyone even press hilton if people still read him but even if he is suing her or did sue her it doesn't mean that she's guilty that's not how it works exactly people on this show are like there's a lawsuit duh i told you she was paying him the whole time ah no it actually he sued her and tried to get some money and ashley really should be one to talk about that you know after the stuff that you know michael was also accused of stuff and she was very much like well you know it's just an accusation and now here she is doing the where there's smoke there's fire so she says um i don't know um just how tj wants to issue a retraction to his claim but like just on instagram he's saying that he's like not lying and he's about to come forward with a receipt And like, is there a traction in the rumors?

Because no, there isn't one.

Yeah.

And then we see a headline.

Stacey Rush addresses claims of TJ's receipts as he breaks his silence and teases earth-shattering news.

Where is it?

Where's this earth?

Shattering news.

Yeah.

So now they're just like, okay, you're getting scary now.

Why is this scary?

Something awful happened to me with TJ saying I was paying him.

That was devastating.

And you act like I'm some untrustworthy person.

And Wendy is like, oh, listen, you called us liars at the reunion.

I have to say, I thought it was funny because when Stacey said something awful happened to me, she was like, something awful happened to me.

And they're all thinking, like, oh, shit.

Like, she said it like, look, I don't want to talk about this TJ thing because something, there's been devastating news.

And they're like, well, what was it?

Well, he, TJ lied.

And they're like, oh, oh, oh, we're, oh, so we're still talking about the same thing.

Okay, never mind.

We thought you were going to give us a new update on your life.

So, Wendy's like, well, when you were at the reunion, you were literally saying, Stacey, this is what's happening.

Like, you're the one that called us liars.

And so, then we see a flashback to how, like, that, like, Stacey was totally indignant when, when this all came up, you know, friendship goes both ways.

My friend will not say her first thought.

I don't believe you.

I don't believe you at all.

Yeah, but she was calling TJ a liar.

You were the one bringing it because they brought it up and she said, I don't believe that TJ said that.

Right.

So, yeah, I guess she was calling them a liar because she said, I don't believe that TJ.

I don't believe that TJ would say that.

But I think she was just, I mean, well, she says it herself.

She's like, well, in the moment, as sure of you as you are, of your friendships, that's how I felt about TJ.

And I just didn't believe it.

I still can't believe it.

I can't believe it.

And so Kiarna tries to get it out a different way.

She's like, okay, well, was it just a different kind of relationship that maybe went sour over money at some point?

And it's like, no,

stop.

Okay, do you have your Venmo cue code?

Can we just look through your Venmo?

No.

I loved him enough to step up with him when I wasn't even legally divorced.

I wouldn't do that to get on this show.

I wouldn't do that for a payday.

Actually, we think you do.

100% you would do that.

Kierna's like, so they said that you've been like trying to get on the show for like quite some time.

Is that like not true?

And she's like, well,

Kay, I've been on television for years.

And we see her on QVC.

And I'm on this show because it was the right time.

And I know it's a sensitive topic for you, which was so funny.

I know it's.

I know that being accused of trying to be relevant on TV is a very sensitive topic for you, Kierna.

But I love that.

She's like, I've been on television for years.

And then we cut to her like, this bracelet is the best heart bracelet that you could ever get for $12.99.

You could have this bracelet.

It's life-changing.

As if she's, you know, on the next season of Big Little Lies.

Like, girl.

I know, exactly.

So Kierna's like, it's not a sensitive.

you know it's not sensitive for me and Casey's like well I feel like you're being aggressive she's like well you're a liar and I'm calling out now and I'm calling you out and now I'm aggressive.

What have I lied about?

Me being on television for years and years.

Hold on one second.

Guys, I just found out I'm on next season of the pit.

You're welcome.

You're welcome to be in the presence of a TV star.

And Kirna says, you've lied on national TV.

You looked straight into the camera and tried to cry about it, and you couldn't even squeeze a tear out of that little beady ass eye.

And just I was like, ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, just cackling in the background.

So Stacey's like, to be met with such negativity is shocking to me, especially coming from Kay.

I would say she's very vanilla, but all of a sudden you have a personality when it comes to me.

Whoa.

I like Stacey's shade too.

I like that she's, she, she reserves a lot of her shade for her confessionals too, I'd like to add.

And the way she sort of like sneaks it in there between, you know, like

her sanctimonious, you know, shock at things, and then, like, has like a little jab in the middle of it.

It's just like kind of pitch perfect for me.

Yeah, she's like, wow, I'm being called out by the more most boring person to ever walk this earth.

Like, what the hell?

And Kirna is like, I would never trust her because if she can lie like that, then she can lie on me.

And Stacy tries to change it to, I was hurt, and I'm not the first woman to be hurt by a man.

Everyone here has experienced being hurt by an extra.

Have we not?

No why?

No wow.

Tell me one woman here who hasn't been hurt by an under five actor.

One, just one person.

You haven't been hurt, Giselle.

She's like, well, you know, I'm just seeing that.

It's like, you haven't been humiliated by a man, by someone who only is.

Commissioned for one episode of your TV show.

No, that's never happened to you.

She's like, Stacey, don't bring us into your shit.

She's like, well, I'm so tired of being hurt.

I am hurt.

I am hurt.

Thank you.

That was a scene from a movie that I was auditioning for on the Hallmark channel called I Was Hurt.

Thank you so much.

Well, accountability is what this group is all about.

Da.

And you need to think about that.

Da.

And she's like, well, maybe I need to reconsider.

Reconsider.

Excuse moi.

And she gets up and she

leaves the room with a head held high.

Like, wait a minute, we're not done with this conversation.

And on her way to the car, she's like, I can't be friends with these bitches.

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Ashley and I didn't want to do this, but now that

she's gone, by the way, good job, everyone, getting someone to storm out.

We can go after her all season.

Nah, okay, well, now that it's done, we were in LA at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood luncheon.

Nah, and at our table sat a beautiful actress who's best friends with TJ.

Ah, so she came with the receipts, honey.

Receipts, receipts, receipts.

Somehow, this person had more receipts than TJ's had, and TJ is suing her.

Ah, I saw the legal document myself.

So, why is this girl, whoever she is, we hear her name later.

Oh, well, we don't hear her name.

They beep it out.

But why is she walking around with TJ's legal document screenshotted on her phone?

That is so weird.

People are so fucking weird.

And then goes up at a Black Women in Hollywood thing to show people the receipts from the show.

Yeah.

I really want to know who it is.

Thirst.

I really want to know.

Maybe it was Drew Sedora.

She's an actress, although I think they would not put out her name.

You would do that.

I don't know.

I'm like, who is taking, who is taking up for TJ?

That's what it's like.

I want to do investigations.

I want to see pictures of TJ with like established actresses and to see who he is.

What's his last name, TJ?

Do you know?

Max.

I'm not sure.

Real House has a Potomac TJ.

Let's see.

Real House has a Potomac.

Thomas Anthony Jones.

Okay, TJ in action.

His best friend, eh?

Let's see if there's any instructions.

Best friend.

I'm looking on images.

Just to see, like, maybe a Getty image.

Let's see.

He is.

I'm looking.

I'm not seeing anyone.

I'm looking.

Surely he has.

If he is best friends with an established actress, I'm sure he has pictures with her.

Best friend.

Oh, he's friends with one of my friends who works at qvc oh i should ask her if she knows stacy i'll bet she does i'm sure she does

i don't think anyway we're not gonna find it here so angela bassett

what if it was imagine angela not only could you imagine and being friends with and him being friends with angela bassett and not only being friends such good friends that angela bassett has his court records on her phone and now is going to get messy with the real housewives that would be my dream

that would be just the best

not imagine anything better

is way too good as someone tiny it's a tiny it's only it's a friend of t days like an under five actor like they're acting

oh my god a very in-demand actress told us with screenshots on her phone get out of here you guys so then um Giselle's like, well, yeah, receipts, receipts, receipts.

So Wendy grabs Kierana's arm and she's like, don't grab me, bitch.

And they start cackling.

And Giselle says that the document said, per our agreement, Stacy paying 50% of her real Housewives of Potomac check.

That's where they lose me because I don't think she would offer 50% to somebody.

No, she would never.

That's crazy.

I don't think so.

Just, but she, I mean, we joke, but she has worked on TV for a few years on QVC.

So she knows what she knows like a good deal.

She knows what she's worth.

And she also, you know, she's got a husband or ex-husband who works in business, who probably would advise.

I don't think that she's doing, she's giving away 50% of her paycheck to TJ.

No way.

Well, that said, a first season doesn't, a first season person on Bravo really makes $5.

So it could not, it could have been like a very small amount of money that sounds huge because it's like a whole season, but that's not really much as a first year on Bravo, right?

They make you prove yourself for a couple of years before you get any real money.

Right.

Right.

Yeah.

I think, unless they've changed, which I doubt that.

I doubt that the budgets have gotten higher, but who knows?

So now she's saying earnings and he's suing her for the rest of his money, honey.

And I was trying to screenshot the legal document, but I couldn't get it.

Oh, really?

You couldn't get it?

Why?

Why couldn't you get it?

What do you mean

you were trying to screenshot it and you couldn't get it?

She wouldn't send it to you.

I'm sure she would.

If she walked right over to you and was showing it to you, then why wouldn't she just send it to you?

Yeah, it's the

something is not adding up in the story i don't know what it is i don't know if it's the actress i don't know if it's tj i don't know if it's giselle and ashley i believe giselle and ashley though i believe giselle and ashley that that like someone came up to them i don't think that they just make up stories like that yeah i do too my instinct is that

this is like a lisa barlow dismissed versus um denied situation where TJ isn't is like saying that he's suing and but in

he makes it seem like he has like a case, but instead he's like just drawn up legal documents that haven't like gone anywhere.

Like, I would not be surprised if that was the case in the situation.

Yeah, that could be a legal zoom for all we know.

Anyway, it proves nothing except that he wants to sue her or was trying to sue her.

And even if he did, it doesn't mean that she ever agreed.

Unless I see a signed agreement where Stacey says, I will give you 50% of my earnings for you to play this role, then I don't believe it.

Yeah,

yeah, show us the receipts, show us everything, Excuse him.

So Giselle's like, we are going to, we're not going to be accountable for your lies.

That's what we're not doing.

So then we see May 1st, two months later, catching up with the ladies.

Here we go, everybody.

First up, let's go to Wendy and Eddie's house.

We meet Rhonda, Wendy's interior decorator.

She's like, Miss Rhonda, here's my vision.

I want a fireplace here that goes all the way to the ceiling.

And Eddie's like, that's 19 feet of marble

okay this isn't

that's an fireplaces are famously expensive are they not like chimneys and stuff they're like like

thousands upon thousands of dollars and then also she wants to get a new island and Eddie's like uh where's this money coming from and she's like well happy Eddie is doing very well let's use the drug money okay and then they laugh And then we go to Giselle and Cal.

They're at lunch and, you know, Cal saying that she looks really nice and everything and her titties are out.

She's like, yes, my titties are out.

Dah, God gave me these titties and God wants me to show them.

So then we go to Ashley, who's with Brenda, the event planner, and Brandt, her gay who we saw on Love Hotel, who is now, I guess, going to be on all the time.

And

they're making a little donation pile.

And

they're, you know, her gays are like, you're getting rid of this.

And they just basically throw all of her clothes because they're hideous.

And they're like, this is going to the ugly bench.

Like, wait a minute.

Wait a minute you can't get this my favorite okay okay well like hideous it's all hideous do we think that ralph from the love hotel will make an appearance on the season of potomac no i'm really hoping that he can show up and be like oh

you're so sexy

gross

yeah you're a hot little thing she's like he kisses wet he said wet kisser.

Yeah, the rumors were that she never stopped dating Beavis.

So I wonder if we get to see him this season.

So then we go to Stacy.

And how do you pronounce his name?

Theamo?

Themo?

Probably not.

That sounds Spanish.

So

Stacy and let's see.

It's T.

I think it was Timo.

Timo?

Sounds sort of like an app.

Timo.

It sounds like, yeah,

it sounds like one vowel away from being a decent shopping site.

uh

timo timo it's like it's almost like bimo

and temu

had a child and it was stacy's ex-husband yeah

so they uh we we don't really get to see him we just see that they go to a moroccan place i think moroccan and i think it's actually indian oh

you know i'm not gonna go on the record it was

A lot of ornate that had lots of spices.

Okay.

Lots of ornate greats.

So we don't see him he's a mystery man but then we find out wait is it just a block of cheese no it's a man and it's his name is timo we think so um he's there he hates being on camera and he just stares at her and kind of smiles and nods a lot and she's like wow look at us doing so great having dinner together he's like yes Yeah,

look, it's just me and you ordering appetizers like we used to.

Remember how we used to always order an appetizer?

Now we're ordering appetizers again he's like yes oh we just can't stay away from each other

he's like uh i am josioto get the three uh free rice please so stace stacy says that this restaurant reminds me of when we were in india which is what led me to believe it was an indian restaurant i remember that there was something where they said indian and i was like I was like, okay, this is most likely an Indian restaurant.

But knowing she is a reality star, there is a good chance they're in a Moroccan restaurant and it somehow is reminding her of India.

So I'm not going to, to, I'm not going to, I'm just going to say that the needle moves a little bit more towards Indian restaurant on this one for me.

I'm over it.

I'm still wondering.

I'm not going to speculate on the restaurant anymore.

I'm going to speculate for a little bit.

I'm like, wait a second, that looks like a mango lasted, but maybe it's a Moroccan drink.

I'm okay with whatever they're having.

Good for those kids.

Well, as crazy as it sounds, that's the best part.

As crazy as it sounds, I'm back with my husband in a restaurant of unspecified international quality.

Not quality, style.

Do you see this glow?

I'm really happy.

TMO and I, we had decided to spend Christmas vacation together as a family for the sake of Arabella.

And we were notified that we were, in fact, officially divorced while we were on vacation.

And we just looked at each other.

And I think we both knew it wasn't the end of us.

We said, you know what?

Let's go back to that restaurant that serves that cuisine.

We don't really understand what it is.

And we have got to give each other another try.

And now that the divorce is final, we found our way back to each other.

And we're going with the flow right now.

And the flow feels good.

I just remember looking at him and saying, I don't care where we eat.

I don't care what kind of food is there.

But I would prefer it to have rectangular metal lighting.

Lanterns of some kind.

All over the place.

I just want a lot of spices.

That's it.

So she says she likes him in blue, and he's like, I know.

Isn't this nice?

We're doing it again.

We're prioritizing ourselves instead of that little bitch, Arabella.

God, remember how our relationship used to be Arabella, Arabella?

We shouldn't have date night.

We should have family night.

Let's not even tell Arabella.

I don't even want her to know I'm seeing her daddy.

Screw her.

She's at home with some frozen mac and cheese and a nanny who doesn't care about her.

Hilarious.

y'all we do not want to confuse arabella and also i'm glad that we're in this restaurant because it smells so fragrant and here it covers up your breath oh thank you so much yeah so i'm calling her arabaya babaya

god we've always just prioritized her and i think that's saying that like we didn't necessarily need a date night like we'd rather have family night i just think it's so good we've always prioritized her and in some ways maybe that's why we broke up i don't know did i say that on the record it's all arabella's fault Thank God.

Oh, wait, hold on.

Let me just munch on this raw onion.

It's all Arabella's fault this whole time.

We should get rid of her.

Excuse me, moi.

Well, yeah.

This is very funny.

Also, you know,

I also know that my real friends will always support whatever decision I am making, even if it is getting back with what they call garlic monster.

Yes, clearly Tiamo is more reserved, and I love that his energy balances mine throughout our relationship.

He treats me like a lady, even though I burp in his face all day long.

And it feels good to be back together, and we've just fallen right back into the step of things.

Oh, finally, our food's here.

Wait, why are you putting a tagine lid on my head?

I'm sorry, ma'am.

Smell is escaping this table.

Well, anyway, as I was saying.

He's taking top of that table.

He's taken off of that.

I thought this was an Indian restaurant.

Why do you have a tagine top?

It's fusion.

Why are you putting a naan on my face?

Is it tagine or is it naan?

Oh, gosh.

So,

yeah, they're going to keep the secret from Arabella, which, I mean, I guess.

I don't know if that's a good idea or not.

I mean, I don't know.

Yeah.

I love when people keep secrets on national TV.

That always works out really well.

So she was so crushed to know I didn't love her father anymore.

I'd hate for her to think that I loved him again.

It could break her.

And now, isn't it funny?

And now we can't stop looking at each other.

I know, how is this night gonna go?

I know how this night's gonna go.

He's like, Yeah, crazy things have happened.

Like the time you actually bought a breathmate.

Hi, five waiter.

Hi, five waiter.

It is so confusing to me as I look into your eyes, and my eyes are telling me one thing, and my nose is telling me such other things.

I'm just

This poor lady.

I was just thinking, I was just trying to remember that song that was like,

no, it doesn't matter.

Yeah, this poor lady.

This is going to haunt her for a while, I think.

This is it.

This is going to stick.

Yeah.

This is, she's branded, branded with this.

So now we go to Kierana's new condo and her hot mom is there.

Oh my God.

She really thought it was Kiarana at first.

I know.

I thought it was like, oh, here comes Kiarna walking in and she's like, hi, mom.

And I was like, wait, wait.

I was like, oh, my God.

The genetics in this family are working very strongly.

Wow.

It's like, she looks great.

Is it stem cells?

Is it fish oil?

Whatever your secret is, please send it over, ma'am.

My God.

These two are drop dead, Gorge.

And as gay men, it's like our duty to like bow down at the altar.

Like, we love a gorgeous woman.

Like, she is, she, they, the both of them, I'm like, this is wild.

I got alert.

Absolutely insane.

Icon alert.

So, oh my god, you are mother, literally, literally and fired up.

You're like double mother right now.

So, Kierana is talking about how last year she had dark moments.

And

those dark moments led Greg being an asshole.

I wish they showed one of her dark moments is when she wore polyester and his company t-shirt.

Because that was a dark moment.

That was one of my dark moments with Kiarina last year.

I think the dark moment to lower yourself like this for a man.

No, I think the dark moment was also how she spent like half of her home scenes in a literal dark kitchen with like brown cabinets.

Just like this sad, depressing kitchen that she had to do so many scenes with Greg slumped over at the like the kitchen island and pretending like they had any sort of chemistry.

Yeah.

So she says that Greg showed his ass on national television and she moved out ending the relationship.

So yeah, that part sounds good.

But then I think later she's like, yeah, we're still dating.

And her mom's like, oh, Jesus.

Mm-hmm.

Well, right here, because Michelle, her mom says, so how is Jamaica?

Because you were supposed to have a breakup.

And she's like, oh, yeah.

Just, well, so about three months ago, after breaking up and like moving into my own condo, Greg was like, okay, she's serious.

And like, let me go and get my girl back.

So he was like, I want to go to, want to go to Jamaica and talk.

And I'm like, sure, I want to like go to Jamaica and talk.

And it was like, I must need to get away from us.

I'm like, chat and like, you know, like, reset the tone and like together, blah, blah, blah.

Like, girl, you don't.

Could you have at least found a better guy in Jamaica?

Like, why are you falling for this guy?

Why are you falling for his Jamaica tricks?

You are so out of his league, not just obviously physically, which shouldn't even matter because love is love, but really personality-wise.

Like, this guy, you just being away from him already this season, you're such a way more interesting person.

Like, he is going to destroy you.

Yeah, she's not away from him.

I mean, she's in her own apartment.

Well, but meaning she's not living with him.

She's like, she doesn't have him constantly probably like

stressing her out.

Like, she probably was like, probably one of the reasons why she was so meh last season was because, A, there probably was an element of imposter syndrome with the fact like, oh, she only got to be a housewife because Brava wants to stay out of trouble.

Like, that was like the big rumor.

And then also, he probably was making her life shit because he was like, don't do this.

Don't do this.

This is going to be bad.

I'm going to break up.

So she probably stressed the entire time.

Like, I don't want to get messy.

I don't want to be not myself because I don't want, like, if i get too crazy greg is gonna get mad because he thinks these shows are garbage anyway and it's like just be your normal self and like who cares about greg and i think that she's already leaning into that this season which has been like a like a 180 degree improvement for her yeah so she says she's in therapy and um

she's with with greg she wants to feel happy and she just didn't feel that which is why they went to jamaica together which is totally place you go to just talk and so she's like well now we're dating and the expectation is just to be happy, you know?

And it's a big step back from wanting to get married all the time.

And the mom's like, well, yeah, this relationship's not good for you.

You're a beautiful black woman.

You're a queen.

You put yourself first.

She's like, okay,

I

just went to Jamaica.

I still love him.

I still love him.

I don't know.

I'm used to real housewives being with shit people.

Yeah.

You know, it's like, it's almost like you have to be to be on this show.

Yeah.

It's actually really unfortunate.

Like, I'm sure you could probably hatch a theory that like, maybe the reason why you're drawn to coming onto these shows is because you don't get to like be your full self with in your relationship.

So therefore you have to express yourself like on

like on a show like this and you wild out on your cast members because you can't fully,

it's like all misdirected rage at the shit guy that you're stuck with.

I don't know.

I'm, I just workshopping that right now on the fly.

I feel like it sounds good.

It works for me.

I only came on Wheelhouse Wives to be my authentic self outside my relationship.

I mean, I don't know.

There's easier ways to do it, but hey, we all take our own roads, you know?

Yeah.

Who am I?

Who am I to judge it?

So the mom's like, no.

And Kierana is saying, like, it sucks because even her family hates him and they used to love him, but he was really an asshole last year.

So,

yeah.

And she's, yeah.

And

they basically like we see how a flashback to two weeks ago that Kieran is with her brother and her brother's like, yeah, no.

Like, she's like, you don't trust, you don't trust him.

And he's like, no,

no.

So Kieran is saying, you know, Michelle, her mom is saying, you know, like this, this right here, this place that you're in, like, this is earned and you have to think about your whole happiness.

Not today is great.

And tomorrow, maybe.

No, it has to be great, great, great.

I was like, yes, Michelle, the mom, giving you

a whole happiness and not your whole happiness.

Another great way to put it.

Yeah.

So let's go over to basically Kieran is not going to listen to her.

She just gives her that look that's like, okay, well, thanks for giving an empowering speech on TV that I'm not going to listen to.

Get the fuck out of my condo.

Okay.

And take your 20-year-old looking self with you.

Thank you.

So then we go over to Wendy's, then when,

and

their kids, and Eddie, who's, of course, in a happy Eddie t-shirt, wouldn't have it any other way, is getting ready to leave tomorrow because they're expanding their weed business to New Jersey.

Very exciting.

He's going to New Jersey.

And isn't this exciting?

Because now he gets to go to a different state.

It's a big deal.

Don't you, it's growing your business.

The kids are like, we don't care.

So Wendy's like, Cam Wen, what do you want to do when you get older?

She's like, doctor.

She's, and then Eddie's like, that's right, doctor.

And they're like, yay.

And then Cameron's like, like, mom.

But then the kids are like, but mom's not like a real doctor.

They're like, look,

yes, she is.

And Eddie's like, she is a doctor.

And Cruz is like, well, not an actual doctor.

So Wendy is basically like, we're witch now.

So happy Eddie's doing really well.

So we'll witch luck.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Now, did you notice this part?

This cracked me up.

This was such

like, this was such lazy post-production right here for audio because she's talking about how Eddie's like really inspires her and it takes a lot to step out and say, hey, I'm going to try this.

And then she says, but come to find out, he's also inspiring.

He's an inspiration to people within this very group.

Except the way she really says it is.

She, they edited in these words, like they literally string together different words because the audio level and the style is different with every word.

She literally goes, but come to find out, he is also inspiration, people within this very group.

I was like, come on, you got to do better than that.

Just have her record the whole sentence over again.

Why are you franken stitching this sentence together?

It was like so obvious.

It was like, bloop, bloop, blip, bloop, blip, blue.

I was like, okay, Bravo.

Let's raise our audio, audio, like

our fake audio together.

I don't know what I'm saying.

Let's Monday.

I'm sorry.

Well, let's have a, let's just keep the audio of Wendy's line and just cut to Stacey,

a Stilla Stacey.

And they cut, it's like a garbage pail kid.

Okay, and we're back.

They say that imitation is the way to form flattery.

So color me pink.

So then

Carter has decided that he wants to work at Chick-fil-A.

It's like, it's a very popular fast food chain.

So surely, there will be a decent salary.

Thank you.

And you're always off on Sundays.

So now let's go to Ashley.

Why is Sunday the only day I ever want fries from Chick-fil-A?

I feel like every time I see a Chick-fil-A, it's closed and I want a waffle fry.

And it's because we're in an airport or something's going on that I happen to see a Chick-fil-A when I want a waffle fry.

And they're always closed.

It's just not

when things are closed on Sundays.

Like, hello, this is not 1735.

20, 25.

People do things like that.

Sisters would want me to have my waffle fry.

Yes, absolutely.

Okay.

Like, we can, we can, like, let's not close everything down on, you know, it's a nightmare.

Like, really, when like in Europe, by the way, they do not play with Sunday, they shut everything down.

It is basically like zombie apocalypse on Sundays.

You cannot find anything.

If you're hungry on a Sunday, if you're a tourist looking for a restaurant on a Sunday, good luck.

You're eating

like a pigeon on the point.

Europeans.

Speaking of, let's go over to Ashley.

She is at a boutique, and this is revenge on the lady who caused all the drama with Stacy last year.

What was her name?

That's friends with Karen and Stacey.

That there was all that dress drama over Stacy not wanting someone to get the Viv.

Yeah, Stacey didn't want Ashley to wear her dress.

Was it Karen?

She didn't want someone else to have her dress.

And it was like a big drama.

And so now Viv is out.

And now we get Gilda.

Welcome, Gilda.

Gilda.

Welcome off the bench, Gilda.

Gilda's just been sitting here.

She's like, finding this mind.

Hello, ladies.

Welcome to the store.

What can I do you for?

And she just stands around with her finger kind of like pinched like this, like, ooh.

They're in my store now.

And while they're talking, Gilda's just standing by there like, I could be working or I could be listening.

Ash is like, well, I'm having a second bloom ball.

She says that as if that makes any sense.

Like people know what a second bloom ball is, what even a first bloom ball is.

Like she's like creating a concept.

Like as far as I can tell, a second bloom ball is like you're celebrating ordering a second blooming onion out of a bag because I've never heard of this thing before.

I want to snort it, whatever it is.

It sounds good to me.

So this is going to be a divorce party, basically.

And we see her, she's like, I'm officially divorced.

And we see pictures of her that she took of herself at her photo shoot for being divorced, where she's like in a towel with a towel on her head, reading a newspaper that says, Ashley Dalby is divorced.

Yeah.

And it says, then there's a headline that says, Cha-Ching, Ashley Dalby, did cash out in divorce with ex-Michael's 20 million net worth.

And so she's like, yeah, that was something I worked into my agreement.

And like, so your girl's going to be all right.

I thought it would like.

Maybe be a little sad for me, but baby, I really like it here.

Yeah, so she got some money out out of michael that's good how'd she do that

i don't know i didn't even know he had a 20 million dollar net worth that's that's pretty wild yeah so she's gonna have a floral themed thing pastels and she's telling gilda that her friend stacy's coming and gilda's like oh all right uh should i pass out the masks now

Yeah, let's make it look more natural.

Can you get some florals on those masks?

So Ashley says that the last time she saw Stacy, it was a bit contentious and she figured it would be just like really nice to have some like one-on-one time with her.

No offense, Gilda.

No offense, Gilda.

It's just one-on-one.

Gilda signed your desktop.

Two-on-one?

Two-on-one sounds great.

I'll be.

No.

Back to your desk.

Go back, Gilda.

I love Ashley's scenes.

I just wanted to spend some time with Stacey and remind her that at heart, we're both friends.

Why are you lying, bitch?

Yeah, exactly.

Also, i forgot to mention stacy when she showed up at giselle's house like she really set the tone for the season because she was wearing such a god-awful pattern on her dress did you remember that it was like lines coming in like like rays coming in in all different directions and angles and shapes and i was like stacy come on we have to we have to be better i mean she her dress was better here i like the pattern was it still was a pretty loud pattern but it made sense but that one that she wore at the top of the episode i just feel like we cannot let that that slip by.

It has to be mentioned.

It's pretty.

What the hell?

We're really disagreeing on a lot of Stacey things today.

I thought that was a very pretty dress.

You're like, it was a lovely Moroccan dress.

I was like, no, Ronnie, it's an Indian dress.

One thing we did forget to mention, though, that is coming to me right now is when she was at that dinner with her husband.

And she's like, I just love how you're sending me Evites now.

And he's like, Yes, because it is so easy.

I could just call you.

But then I think, no, I want to make it special.

So I make an evite.

She goes, yes.

And then I come.

Would you please like to join for, please?

RSVP if you're going to join at this Moroccan Indian restaurant, please.

Now is the time for Moroccan Indian food.

Please, please RSVP yes or no.

He's like,

I would call you on the phone, but I sometimes do feel that breath can travel through telephones.

So Evite is better.

I'm sick of the operator cutting us off because you are taking down power lines.

Wait, I have a question.

You said that we're disagreeing on a lot today.

Did we?

I feel like we only disagreed.

I feel like we only disagreed on whether it was an Indian or a Moroccan.

And also, you said that you can tell that she has bad breath.

I don't know how you can tell that she has bad breath.

And now we're disagreeing on her dress.

I mean, and now.

Now we're probably going to disagree on something else.

I'm like,

we're disagreeing on how many things we disagree on.

I feel like you not feeling like you can sense, I don't know, I don't feel like that's a disagreement.

I feel like that's just a difference of perception.

But the restaurant, for sure, that's a big disagreement between us.

Now we're disagreeing.

That's gonna be an issue.

Now we're disagreeing.

It's gonna be an issue.

We're done.

Yeah, it's a problem.

So we see that Ashley has been

with she's been holding up the long time tradition of crazy invitations on this show because she's having her bloom party.

So she sent someone to Stacey's door who's like, You are cordially invited to be present at the second bloom ball.

And I love that Stacey was like, Oh, by the way, your invitation was so beautiful.

And you think it's going to be like a card

from Papyrus or whatever that's going to have like nice fonts and good cardstock.

And so it's just like some guys with horns doing fanfare, like,

welcome to Ashley's Second Bloom Ball.

Like,

excuse me.

And I was like, what?

This isn't beautiful.

Are we going to agree on that?

Yeah, yeah.

So, well, I love that it's so, it's so potomic that it barely gets any airtime.

It just gets one little clip instead of going to all the ladies' house, you know, which is normally what they do.

And Giselle being like, who's on my lawn?

Who's

that is a story tradition?

They're like, well, if there's no clown involved, we're just going to keep this real short.

Yeah.

No, mime.

No.

No, thank you.

No, mime.

No, thank you, Ashley.

Okay.

So

we see the invitation, and it's silly.

It's like a full-on wedding invitation.

It's at the Josephine Parks Butler Center in the District of Columbia.

The festivities begin at five, tentatively concluding at eight.

This occasion celebrates new beginnings in honor of Ms.

Ashley Darby.

Attire encouraged for your best Cinderella moment.

Black towel.

Well, is it a...

Is it a Cinderella party or is it a bloom party?

I think it's like thematically a little messy here.

And she also has like a message.

I think Cinderella had to go back to being a maid right after the ball, didn't she?

Like, didn't that

pumpkin explode and then she had to, she got covered in pumpkin and had to become a maid again?

Yeah, I don't even think that like Cinderella bloomed.

I think Cinderella was given false hope for a moment and then it just worked out for her.

But I don't think Cinderella cosplayed her way into some money.

That's what, that's what happened.

Cinderella

made a bold, she made a bold choice for footwear and she was rewarded for it.

But I don't think it was really a bloom.

She just sort of like

they're like, oh, look, she's good at picking out rice from Astronomy.

It was a catfish.

Yeah, it was a catfish.

That's what it was.

It wasn't like the first catfisher.

Yeah.

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