The Real Housewives of New York City Go To Morocco for Blondes vs. Brunettes Feuding

This season of The Real Housewives of New York City has been a bit of a bore. Particularly compared to last season.

The 3 episodes covering the girls trip to Morocco were rumored to finally amp up the drama and entertainment.

Well, I will say that Morocco Part 1 was the most entertaining episode this season. But that's only because the previous episodes have been so weak.

You know you're a bit starved for drama when way too much time is spent on the annoying Cindy's complaint that the blondes had stolen her clothes hangers.

When Cindy reported the crime to the brunettes she amped up the accusation by claiming her clothes had been tossed in the hanger theft.

It was really a big mistake to add Cindy to the RHONY cast. She is like a big energy suck.

LuAnn seems to grow evermore insufferable. She has made herself the girl's guide to all things Moroccan. Previously we heard LuAnn brag she'd been to Morocco many times. On her Bravo blog Alex said the actual fact is that LuAnn had been to Morocco once, years ago.

Which makes sense, because LuAnn thought Morocco was a city and compared it to Paris. Not realizing that it is Marrakesh that is a city in Morocco. LuAnn seems both real pretentious and real dumb to me.

Kelly has shown no signs of crazy so far in Morocco. I thought it was amusing when Kelly went on and on, telling the brunettes what a mess Sonja's house is. Which had LuAnn coming to the absent Sonja's defense.

Apparently it was right before the Morocco trip that Sonja filed for bankruptcy. Which may partly explain some of her behavior. Like being totally paranoid that her small amount of luggage might be stolen.

Ramona and Alex are pretty much my favorites. Why would Ramona bring so much stuff with her to Morocco? A case full of jewelry? With stands for the jewelry?

Jill's ex gay husband, Brad, showing up in Morocco, with Jill having told him she would be there, with Jill saying Brad had a home in Morocco, which she later made a big deal over the home turning into Brad having a room at a Bed & Breakfast, was a bit much.

Also a bit much was Brad's birthday party. I am not a fan of snakes. Seeing a guy kiss a venomous snake is not entertaining to me. I did enjoy seeing a snake wrapped around the reptilian Jill's head, though.

At one point we heard Sonja ask menopausal Ramona if she had any feminine hygiene products. Ramona mis-heard and showed Sonja her high heels. Next week somehow Sonja's female woes come into play with a camel ride.

That should make for some riveting TV viewing.

The Real Housewives of New York City Go To Morocco For 3 Weeks

That is Jill Zarin in Morocco in the picture. It looks as if Jill may have a snake wrapped around her head. Jill Zarin is a bit of a snake, so this would seem to be appropriate headwear for her.

This week's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City was another strange one.

Cindy took the non-blondes to some Spa/Hotel somewhere that took 6 hours to get to, due to, apparently, someone reading a Google map wrong.

While the non-blondes were at the spa banging drums, the blondes went in for some spa treatment of their own. Alex got her face scraped, Sonja had her cellulite issues addressed, Ramona found out that botox would fix her neck waddle.

At another point non-blonde Kelly went to blonde Sonja's to offer much needed advice while Sonja was having a photo shoot for her Toaster Oven cookbook.

Sonja has turned really weird. Apparently Sonja can no longer afford underwear. While posing for the photographer at one point Sonja went totally Sharon Stone, shocking Kelly, who had never seen that part of another woman's anatomy before.

LuAnn has turned totally insufferable. Does LuAnn watch an episode, like the most recent, and realize what an overbearing, inappropriate bitch she was being to Ramona, lecturing Ramona about Ramona's supposed bad behavior towards Jill?

We viewers had seen, clearly, who was the wrong one in that scenario.

Jill.

LuAnn, at the point in time she was lecturing Ramona, had not seen what really happened.

LuAnn continued her bad behavior at Jill's anti-bullying charity, confronting Ramona again, making the mistake of doing so in front of Alex who, as always, accurately assesses what is going on and correctly says LuAnn is yet one more thug in a cocktail dress.

Jill is so un-self aware that she has not an inkling how ironic it is for bully Jill to be having anything to do with an anti-bullying charity.

I am amazed at how much less annoying Kelly has become. And is almost a sympathetic character. Telling LuAnn that she'd been physically abused. By who?  The ex-husband? Or that guy who Kelly beat up, who had her arrested?

This episode started with LuAnn and Sonja at lunch, where LuAnn tells her of the Bravo plan, I mean, LuAnn's plan, for all the girls to go off on a trip together. After pretending the location was not already known, throwing out various destinations, til LuAnn revealed it would be Morocco where this season's major drama will play out.

One by one the girls came onboard the Moroccan train, with Kelly being the last holdout.

At the end of the episode, the screen goes to black, with white type telling us, "For the Next Three Weeks the Girls are in Morocco." Or something like that.

We then see a series of previews that clearly show the blondes and the non-blondes are in civil war mode. It appears LuAnn acts insufferable, a lot of alcohol is consumed, Ramona breaks down in sobbing tears, LuAnn looks in horror at a snake going in a guy's mouth, the girls go on a camel caravan.

Will the Three Week Moroccan Debacle be the equal, entertainment-wise, of last season's Three Week Scary Island Debacle? I suspect not.

Will Sonja have the common sense to wear underwear in a conservative North African country? I hope so.

The Real Housewives Of New York City Was Boring Again This Week Til Sonja Forgot Her Underwear

The last episode of The Real Housewives of New York City started off so boring I was thinking it was maybe time to bail.

But, then I remembered this was going to be the episode where Sonja's derriere gets exposed.

Again.

The boring stuff before Sonja's unfortunate exposure included a long look at Cindy's abode. And the kid's she bred by in vitro fertilization.

The guy who provided the material that was used to do the fertilizing showed up. Cindy's brother does not like the guy.

The sperm donor seemed sort of creepy to me. And then Cindy tells us that they had been an off and on again couple. And that they were on at the time she got pregnant, and then off two months later.

So, why were they using the in vitro method to make a baby and not the old-fashioned way?

Did Jill come to visit Cindy? I think I remember some Jill comments about nannies and the house being a mess.

For some reason Cindy asked Jill to go to the dentist with her. That seemed weird. And then Jill made it even weirder when she started acting like a co-dentist. Jill informed us that she and her mother and sister have the gift of having doctor's skills with no license.

Jill has really made it clear she has no clue why the fans have turned on her. Bad Jill was on display this episode.

And then we kept cutting to Sonja's, where she was fussing over her costume for her Masquerade party. That was all so totally boring. Except for the strange part where Sonja explains that she has friends who will call her from Europe, asking if someone could stay with her. We learned this when she explained who the houseboy was she was ordering to make her tea.

Something is very wrong with Sonja this year.

Sonja's Masquerade party was held in a little place called The Vault. The housewives and husbands arrived, fawning over how great they looked. Alex and Simon were Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. Not the one married to Jennifer Lopez. Alex looked good with black hair.

And then Jill arrived and proceeded to bad mouth Sonja's bad parties, the small room, the small number of guests, the bad food.

And then suddenly Sonja realized she'd forgotten a key part of her costume. Her bloomers. Or whatever she called them. She learned this while Jill  was next to her. Jill had a real good view and proceeded to inform everyone that Sonja had an enormous bruise on her butt.

Sonja was very loud about her missing underwear. Letting everyone know she was not fully dressed.

Next up was Ramona's product launch party for her Pinot Grigio line. The Countess asked Ramona one technical question after another about Ramona's wine. Til Ramona could take it no longer. The Countess, at times, really seems like she has something wrong with her.

At some point Jennifer, who's wedding we attended during the first episode, told Ramona about some bad Jill behavior at Jennifer's wedding where Jill grilled Jennifer about why she invited Alex and Simon. And about how well she knew Ramona.

Ramona took extreme umbrage. And of course, after fueled by enough Pinot, confronted Jill, who denied it all. Jill never answers a direct question. It's very annoying. Jill then left in a huff, and ran into Jennifer, totally distorting what had just happened. Then Jill went back into Ramona's party and lied about the talk she'd just had with Jennifer.

Next we see Jill crying with LuAnn, with the Countess tackily adding fuel to the fire.

I think the simple explanation for Jill, in addition to being a narcissist, is that she is a pathological liar. They are the worst of the liar breed. Because they believe their lies while they are doing their lying. And then they get mad at you when you catch them in a lie, which usually just causes more lying.

I really can not stand Cindy.

The Real Housewives of New York City Needs to Get Rid of Cindy & Get Sonja Underwear

The latest was another strange episode of The Real Housewives of New York City.

That is either Johann or Francoise with mother Alex. If I had to guess I'd say it was Francoise who got a piano for his birthday. Francoise seemed to care less.

Then in her talking head comments, Alex would be saying things like how thrilled the kid was. Then we'd cut back to the kid not being thrilled.

It was very odd.

But not as odd as Sonja's toaster oven cooking lesson. Sonja's toaster oven looked antique, which the Countess pointed out. Why would anyone think it is easier to cook in a toaster oven than a real oven? Made no sense to me.

Sonja had Cindy come to her house so Sonja could educate Sonja regarding multiple bad Cindy behaviors, including, adding to the list, dancing with Sonja's houseboy upon arrival. Cindy lied to Sonja, telling Sonja that she had not told Kelly that Sonja was having Ramona come to her toaster oven demo.

To make clear Cindy was lying Bravo showed us a clip of Cindy telling Kelly what Cindy denies telling.

Now, back to Sonja before we get to Kelly. Sonja went to some baseball thing, involving NYC firemen who were in a calendar, with Sonja throwing the first pitch at a baseball game.

Was Sonja told to come dressed as some sort of cheap hooker? As you can see in the picture above, Sonja's outfit had her looking slightly preggers.

And then we were treated to a view of Sonja's backside when the wind blew her skirt up and kept it up.

This seemed to excite some of the firemen, even more so when Sonja had them take off half their clothes. One of the firemen told Sonja after the photo shoot they should exchange information.

That is a sophisticated way of saying I want to have your phone number. This is how Kim Zolciak snagged her latest baby daddy, Kroy Biermann, on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Kelly displayed a little crazy Kellyness this episode, bringing up Scary Island again. Being irrational about Ramona.

Kelly bugs me bad.

But not as bad as she used to. Now, after enough exposure to Kelly, I've learned a lot of what makes her annoying is because the poor girl is so damn dumb.

Kelly and Ramona had lunch together, with Sonja. That went well. Except for Kelly saying stuff that had Ramona's eyes bulging a bit.

Jill got back from Australia and met up with some of the housewives to give them Aussie trinkets. Jill's talking head told us she was no longer going to gossip. About 5 seconds later Jill was back gossiping.

Later, in several drawn out segments, Jill went to Alex's house where they had lunch and seemed to settle their differences, with Jill actually seeming to act like a decent human.

We'll see how long Jill being decent lasts.

I really can not stand Cindy. This is the best they could find in all of New York City?

In the previews for next week we saw Sonja's bare backside again. Rivetting television.

The Real Housewives Of New York City Is Currently Boring Without Bethenny

That is Ramona and her pinot grigio with her arm around the Bethenny replacement, Cindy Barshop, at Cindy's birthday party, that was not a birthday party, at some horse farm at what is, apparently, known as the downscale zone of the Hamptons on Long Island.

This latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York City may have been one of the most boring in Housewive Franchise history.

I'm starting to think the loss of Bethenny Frankel has left a HUGE hole that the remaining housewives, and the new one, can't fill.

Speaking of the new housewife, Cindy, who is not married and so is not a wife, along with Countess Luann and Kelly, who also have no husbands, I really do not like Cindy.

In all of New York City the RHONY producers could not do better than this?

I'm starting to wonder if the reason the New York girls had their show's premiere postponed was because it was realized how boring it was. So, they went back over their footage to see if there was some more material to work with.

For months Bravo milked "Thug in a Cocktail Dress" in promos. The "Thug in a Cocktail Dress" really turned out to be much ado about little.

This week it was Sonja falling off a horse that got the promo blitz. And that turned out to be nothing. We should have figured, after seeing Sonja's ample derriere exposed in the first episode's preview of the coming season, that Sonja had ample padding, on her backside, to easily overcome a hard landing on it.

Luann had a cocktail party at which Ramona provided a little drama by grilling Luann about leaving her kids in the Hamptons while she goes to NYC. To work on her music career. When Luann talks about working on her music career it seems even funnier than when Kim Zolciak does it.

Due to it being so boring I lose track of the sequence of events. At one point Sonja meets Cindy downtown for lunch. This turns into way too much about Cindy's problem with her teeth veneers. Which somehow had Cindy thinking it was okay to bail on the lunch she had invited Sonja to. But not before Sonja told Cindy she was planning on inviting Ramona to Sonja's toaster oven cooking lessons with Kelly. Which had Cindy advising against this.

Then at Luann's cocktail party Cindy got Kelly aside and warned her not to bring her kids to Sonja's toaster oven cooking lesson. This had Kelly scared as to what the threat could possibly be. This had Cindy swearing Kelly to secrecy, after which she informed her about Sonja's evil Ramona plan.

Despite promising discretion, Kelly then later confronted Sonja, on the beach, in the Hamptons, about the Ramona Intervention. Sonja tried to reason with Kelly, which we've learned is not possible, which soon had Kelly laying on the sand making sand angels.

There was an extremely boring segment at Luann's house in Southampton, with her daughter. Then boyfriend, Jacque, showed up where he got weird on the floor, talking to the dog. Jacque sort of creeps me out. He looks to be half the size of Luann. On Watch What Happens Live Luann said Jacque gets told a lot he looks like David Schwimmer and Adrian Brody. Can David and Adrian sue for such slander?

We saw a segment with Luann taking her son, Noel, to a skate shop, on Long Island, where Noel hawked the skateboards he has designed. I know Luann has been a bit cash strapped waiting for her singing career to take off, but putting the young teenager to work seemed a bit much. Noel has a website selling his skateboards. He calls his business Fancy Fool. He seems like a good kid.

Cindy made a big deal about a party at the aforementioned horse farm not being a birthday party, for her, because she never has birthday parties. But it turned out to be a big, weird birthday party. It was funny when Ramona arrived and demanded her pinot grigio. Before noon. And then Ramona wanted to ride a horse, but they would not allow her to take the reigns, instead leading Ramona around like a little drunk kid on a pony.

Cindy had a freak out because dip was on the buffet table. She's really weird.

Ramona then tried to confront Cindy's brother, Howie, about some remark he made about a cigar and Ramona's dead friend, Jeff. I sort of get Ramona's point. But can that woman carry a grudge? And always choose the wrong time to address it.

Jill returns from Australia in next week's episode. RHONY better pick up. There are battle lines drawn now. Cindy has royally pissed off Sonja. Crazy Kelly can return at any time. Ramona reliably provides amusement. I am somewhat optimistic that this week's episode was just a lull before a big crazy storm.

That is sort of hinted at the Housewive's blogs on the Bravo website. I've not seen so much sniping at each other on the blogs before. A lot of defensive spinning of the "facts." Reading the blogs was more entertaining than watching the show.

Sonja Morgan Goes From Fan Favorite to Not on The Real Housewives of New York City

This week's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City was the episode in which Alex uttered her now famous "Thug in a Cocktail Dress" phrase.

I don't think I heard Alex say this. I must have somehow missed it.

But, I did not miss the thug in a cocktail dress.

The thug, Sonja Morgan, managed, in 2 episodes of Season 4 of RHONY, to go from being a fan favorite to a Jill Zarin level of unpopularity.

Alex is being a bit intense, so far. She is not letting anything go.

On the Watch What Happens Live episode that followed the Housewives, this week, Sonja was the guest, along with David Arquette. The poll this week asked who's side you were on, Alex or Sonja. Alex won in a landslide with something like 78% on her side. About the same number Ramona got last week when the question was who's team you were on, Team Jill or Team Ramona.

On WWHL Sonja was a bit confusing trying to spin the whole Gay Marriage debacle. At one point she claimed she'd agreed to be the Grand Marshall and speaker prior to becoming one of the Housewives. Then the Gay Marriage people wanted her to be the Grand Marshall because she'd become a Gay Icon due to being on RHONY.

Sonja was being way too full of herself. And then when the thug moment happened, it was Sonja who started it. Alex was articulately explaining why she was upset with Sonja. Sonja was unable to articulate her point of view, so she did what those who are in the wrong usually do, she got loud and aggressive and insulting and kicked Alex out of her house.

I think the portrait that Sonja's boyfriend, Brian Farrell, painted of her really captured Sonja's essence.

Last week in the preview clip of this season of RHONY we saw Sonja's bare derrierre. It was not a flattering angle.

I wondered to myself if Sonja had greatly annoyed the producers of the show, with that butt shot being a hint that Sonja makes an ass of herself this season.

So far Kelly has been the best behaved of the Housewives. Surely Kelly can't keep crazy Kelly locked up for an entire season. I hope not.

I forgot to mention, Alex is selling those Thug in a Cocktail Dress t-shirts that you saw above. Speaking of Alex and clothes. Alex and Simon really need someone to intervene regarding the clothes they choose to wear. Particularly Simon.

The Premiere of Season 4 of The Real Housewives of New York City with New Housewife Cindy Barshop

I did not realize Season 4 of the Real Housewives of New York City started up on Thursday, April 7.

But, my DVR did.

The New York City Housewives are my favorite of the Bravo Housewives franchises. With Beverly Hills a close second.

The New York City girls bring the best drama, often courtesy of Kelly Bensimon. This year Kelly's intro tagline is "I'm living the American Dream one mistake at a time."

That's pretty funny. I have a terrible feeling that Kelly is going to grow on me this season and become likable.

Of course Jill Zarin has learned from her mistakes, realizing why fans started hating her, has now grown. But, bad Jill came quickly out to play in the first episode, snarking on Ramona and Alex at a wedding.

The new housewife, replacing Bethenny Frankel, is Cindy Barshop. The first episode and the previews of the season gave some indication that Cindy is going to bring some good drama.

Cindy is a baby mama of twins. She is in her 40s, with no baby daddy, acquiring the reproductions via in vitro fertilization. Of course Jill, upon meeting Cindy, felt she needed to pry into Cindy's private baby business.

I just realized, Cindy is yet one more "housewife" who is not a wife.

We went out to dinner with LuAnn's French boyfriend and Sonia and her boyfriend, I think the name was Brian. Brian is some sort of artist.

The dinner dialogue amongst the 4 seemed somehow somewhat creepy to me.

I think maybe Sonia is not going to go over quite as well as she did in her first season with the housewives.

It appeared, in the preview of the season, that Alex's new found opinionatedness wears thin on some of the housewives' nerves. Like LuAnn.

No clue yet what Alex does that has Sonia ordering her out of her house, with Alex commenting that Sonia is a thug in a cocktail dress.

Alex and Simon now work at home, in the same room. Simon quit his job managing a hotel. Alex is now a model. Which made for some unkind commenting from the other girls. Like Kelly.

At some point in this season the housewives go to the Middle East, I think to Dubai. The previews showed them on camels with one of the camels getting overly frisky. There were some scenes of Kelly acting somewhat crazy, but not to the crazy level of last season's mental breakdown.

So, I am in for the duration.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta: NeNe Terrorizes Kim On Bus Tour From Hell

The 3rd Season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta started with NeNe screaming like a Mad Banshee at Dwight at a party. Totally inappropriate behavior.

We are nearing the end of Season 3 and on the latest episode of RHOA NeNe was back in full Moose on a Rampage mode.

Except for a few moments spent with Phaedra and a few moments spent with Cynthia and her supposed husband to be, Peter, mixed in with a little Sheree, most of this episode was spent on Kim and Kandi's Bus Tour.

Kim is getting on every one's nerves. The constant need to smoke, the constant screaming for Sweetie, just the constant Kim apparently is very nerve wearing.

And then for some unfathomable reason Kim invited NeNe to join the Bus Gang in Orlando, to watch Kim perform before a packed arena, I mean strip mall bar, and then ride with the gang to Miami.

Kandi knew it was not going to go well having NeNe on board. Particularly after Sweetie managed to connect a laptop to NeNe's little "news" segment where NeNe used Kim to get her interviewee to open up by asking if Kim, at 32, was too old to be a pop star. And what the interviewee thought of Kim's Tardy for the Party song.

Kim took umbrage at NeNe mentioning her in this manner in her interview. But, the initial appearance of NeNe went fairly well in Orlando. NeNe went to the show. Made snide remarks to the camera. Was fairly civil to Kim. And drank a lot of wine.

After getting drunk, that night, NeNe made some disparaging remarks directed towards Kim, but Kim did not take umbrage. Directly.

And then, the next morning, back on the bus, on the way to Miami. I don't know what set if off, but soon NeNe was spewing all sorts of mean vitriol at Kim, belittling Kim's easily belittled "singing career." Among other things. NeNe even spouted out that Kim treated Sweetie like a slave. Sweetie took umbrage at that remark.

Kim snapped back a few times, which only made NeNe louder and more aggressive. Mostly Kim was in a defensive posture with a look of terror on her face, like you see in the above screenshot.

Finally NeNe went totally ballistic and lunged at Kim, which caused Kandi and the manager, I think his name is Don Juan, to restrain NeNe.

Kandi's sorta of bemused disgust at it all is sort of amusing to watch.

Another thing I learned on the bus is us White Folk often go about barefoot. This apparently is a well known fact. Which I type, as I sit here barefooted.

I don't remember any Phaedra gems of wisdom this episode. I do remember Phaedra's baby throwing up on Sheree. I think the baby watches the show.

And then there is Peter. Run Cynthia. Run fast. Don't marry this jerk. You invest a fortune in his restaurant. It starts to fail. He closes it without telling you. And then, when you are justifiably a bit upset at your misfortune, Peter tells you he no longer will tell you anything, because you get upset. Did I already say this guy is a jerk?

I don't get how a nice gal like Cynthia hooked up with that fuzzy gray bearded geezer.

NeNe was on the episode of Watch What Happens Live that followed the latest episode of RHOA. The woman has no self awareness. Seems not in the slightest embarrassed. And continues to demonize that easy target of Kim. Apparently the reunion show was filmed last week, where Kim and NeNe went at it some more and was the first they'd seen each other since the Battle on the Bus and the follow up Battle in Miami, which we saw a glimpse of in the previews for next week.

Is next week the last episode of the season? I don't know, for sure, but I am guessing it is, because The Real Housewives of New York City starts up real soon, with Sonja Morgan now bankrupt and morphed into being a thug in a cocktail dress.

And no Bethenny Frankel. And they have kept the obviously mentally ill Kelly Bensimon as one of the housewives. Who isn't married.

Delivering a Message to Jill Zarin

If I remember right at some point during the recently completed Season 3 of The Real Housewives of New York City we heard Jill Zarin say she uses Google Alerts. I assume, ego-maniacal narcissist that she is, Jill Zarin has a Google Alert for her name.

So, I'm sure Jill will get a Google Alert about this particular blogging, what with it mentioning Jill Zarin repeatedly.

I got the picture of Jill Zarin from her Facebook profile. It appears to be a picture taken before Jill Zarin became one of Reality TV's most hated villains. The villainous version of Jill Zarin sports ridiculous hair extensions and racoon-like eye makeup. And the villain version of Jill Zarin somehow grew some extra chins that hang down in side views of her scary mug.

Jill Zarin has had all sorts of trouble with her Facebook and Twitter pages. As in a lot of people letting Jill know what a mean, toxic bad girl they think she is. Jill Zarin tries to counter the flood of critical comments with fake comments singing Jill Zarin's praises.

Jill Zarin has been caught writing fake positive reviews, on Amazon, in a scandal known as Amazon-gate, about the failed attempt by Jill Zarin, her sister Lisa and their bizarrely twisted mother, Gloria Kamen, to get readers to buy an advice book written by these women who are in dire need of advice, called Secrets of a Jewish Mother. Also known, by some, as Delusions of a Yenta Bitch.

Despite having claimed to have learned some sort of lesson from seeing her bad behavior on her TV screen, Jill Zarin is reported to be doing her mean girl stuff to Alex McCord and Bethenny Frankel.

Alex had the gall to point out to Jill Zarin that Jill Zarin's behavior was not acceptable. This became the incident that turned Jill Zarin vicious to Alex.

Jill Zarin has supposedly hired Kim Kardashian's PR people to try and rehabilitate Jill Zarin's ruined reputation.

It's not working.

Here's my free advice to Jill Zarin.

Alex McCord is not toxic. You are. You need to call Alex and apologize.

You need to drop your "we are not friends" shtick. When Ramona tried to talk to you after your rude intrusion in St. Johns, you said to Ramona, "I thought we were friends. I see now we aren't." This is very offputting and you need to stop with that particular verbiage.

When people speak to you, listen. Do not talk over them. Aren't you at all embarrassed when you see yourself doing that?

Tone down acting so overly entitled. Getting some expensive jewelry for your birthday, then whining that your birthday, Christmas and your anniversary are so close together that you get screwed in the gift department. Aren't you something close to 60? You are way too old to act this way.

On your Twitter bio it says, "Star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City." Not one of the "Stars." The "Star." This is yet one more example of your extreme narcissim. You are not the "Star" of the show. You are more of a Black Hole than a "Star."

I'm sure if I felt like thinking about it some more I'd think of other things Jill Zarin could do that might make people despise her a bit less. But, right now, thinking about Jill Zarin is starting to make my head hurt.

Real Housewives of New York City: Bravo Insider Gossip While Kelly & Jill Lunch at World Pie

You're looking at The Real Housewives of New York City's Jill Zarin and Kelly Bensimon outside of something called World pie, where they had lunch.

Jill Zarin continues her internet assault on Alex McCord, thus continuing to sink deeper and deeper into the Mean Girl hole Jill dug for herself over the course of the just completed 3rd season of RHONY.

A supposed, alleged Bravo insider has leaked Bravo's thinking as to what to do about the cast of RHONY. I'll copy that supposed insider info below.

But first I've got some Twitter Tweeting to copy.

First, Kelly Twittered to Jill, one of Kelly's now notoriously stupid Tweets. Kelly Tweeted @jillzarin, saying, "I loved lunch at World pie. I admire our friendship so much."

This Kelly comment prompted others to Tweet, like whatthatsaid who Tweeted, "Has anyone actually checked her diploma?"

Kelly supposedly attended Columbia University.

PenePan Tweeted, "What is Jill wearing? Some kind of diaper? And Kelly, besides needing to take an English course, learn some posture!"

Karabrah Tweeted, "If you studied at Columbia you'd know that you don't admire your own friendships. You admire others in their friendships and "treasure your friendships".

Poppymommy also Tweeted Kelly about her bad verbiage, "you really need to learn English -- I think you meant "treasure our friendship" how the hell does someone admire their own friendship?
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And now the alleged memo from a Bravo insider....

Sonja – IN
Ramona – IN

Bravo has a small list of housewives they want to approach to come on the show. Up for replacement are:

Kelly – everyone saw this coming. Talk is they want to phase her out.

LuAnn – Bravo does not like BORING. She is tanking in polls, blogs, housewives chatter, etc. Corte was more popular.

Now things get interesting:
Bravo knows this show runs on drama. Guess what they want? Yes — ALEX and Jill drama. Sonja won’t engage. Ramona is an instigator not fighter.

Alex will be approached first. IF she says yes — then Jill will be signed. If Alex says no — Jill gets replaced.

If Jill had brains, she would stop all her stupid PR tricks of fighting during. She would stop all the trolls she has sent out fighting with Simon, Alex, and other bloggers. She might want to focus a little bit more on trying to look good. If Alex doesn’t come back then stick a fork in Jill – cuz she is done.

She also needs to back off her reunion comments about her not coming back if Alex comes back. She really needs to do something not housewives related to get fans back to liking her. Her “Q” rating is still declining.

Bethenny is the only one where it is up to her if she wants to or not. She is totally undecided right now but Bravo will wait for her. She has several weeks to make a decision.

Karma — it’s like a gift from baby jesus. It just keeps giving and giving.

Again – just gossip – but it comes from inside the NBC walls. Please understand that I can not say more about the source. You can take it for what its worth which I know isn’t much but time will tell.

The Real Housewives of New York City: The Kelly Bensimon Problem & Jill Zarin's Continuing Madness

The just completed 3rd season of The Real Housewives of New York City is a gift that just keeps giving. Kelly Bensimon continues to cluelessly cement her crazy girl reputation in a variety of ways. With one being Kelly's Twitter Tweets. Or, what she calls "sound bites."

On the 3rd hour of the reunion Kelly's tweets came up, to which Jill reacted with an "oh no, not Kelly's tweets." Andy Cohen inquired as to the why of Jill's "oh no." To which Jill replied something like "Kelly's tweets make no sense, I can't understand them."

In the past week Kelly twittered a series of tweets that when compiled together in a sort of paragraph seem to be saying she is working with Bravo to find new housewives.

This is what Kelly said....

"I am def coming back if they change the cast. Dynasty with no money or power is over ah? No. Its called bored with filming with fake "reality stars," ahh hello. Are we not watching the same show! I am helping them find real Yorkers who inspire, not made for tv "faux celebs." Whats wrong with life being rainbows and jellybeans? thats the best kind of life to live. We cant all be bitter and materialistic."

Regarding Bravo and who will be a New York City Housewife one viewer opined with the following...

"Well, it's gonna be interesting to see how the negotiations go and who returns. I suspect they will all be asked back except for maybe Kelly. I'm not sure bravo wants that liability on their hands, but than again I'm sure they will weigh the negative against the possible ratings bonanza and decide. It seems to me that if it was as bad in St. John as they say, and bravo chose not to air a lot of the footage, they must know they've got a problem they may not be able to handle and will choose to cut Kelly loose.

I'm kind of on the fence about Luann. I'm not sure she brings a lot to the table, but they may keep her so Jill will have a sidekick since Jen didn't seem to work out. But, who knows, Bravo might give Jen another shot. I think they may be trying to figure out who to keep, Jen or Luann.

Jill will definitely be back. I think she'd do it for free if they asked her. She's on a mission to rehabilitate herself and win back her once adoring fans. They know Jill is ratings gold.

I think Alex has secured her spot and they know Jill and Alex on the same show will be what everybody wants to see.

Sonja has become very popular in a short period of time. She's a shoe in.

I think Bethenny has an open spot if she decides to return. I'm sure bravo is trying to shore up some kind of deal with her as well.

I left out Ramona. Of course she'll be back, that's a given."

Now, I agree with the above viewer about Kelly Bensimon. And, near as I can tell, most viewers agree. It was entertaining watching a person gradually make obvious that they are mentally ill or suffer from some serious psychological disorder. But, after this turned, well, borderline tragic, in St. John, well, at that point it turned into uncomfortable viewing.

With the uncomfortable viewing continuing through the reunion shows.

I don't see how Bravo can continue to film Kelly Bensimon, unless it is in a new show where we see her getting therapy from Dr. Phil or Dr. Drew. Or some other doctor. It is not an option to continue to film and display Kelly's serious disconnect from reality. Which really is ironic, it being a reality show, afterall.

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Change of subject to Jill. This is another housewife in dire need of therapy. Perhaps Jill should also be removed from RHONY. Maybe Jill and Kelly could do a show together. Jill & Kelly Get Help! That'd be a catchy title.

Jill Zarin is currently in full pit bull attack mode against sweet, totally non-toxic Alex McCord. Remember when Jill had her lunch with Bethenny and told Bethenny that Alex was toxic, and that Bethenny had not seen the toxic side of Alex.

Remember that all Alex really did was shove some reality in Jill's homely mug, telling Jill that she was in high school and a mean girl.

So, what does Jill, who wakes up each day trying to be a better person, do? Jill now directs her mean girl, high school act directly at Alex. Once more Jill is totally miscalculating and is only digging herself deeper into the Reality TV Star Hall of Infamous Villains.

One viewer characterized the Jill problem rather succinctly...

"Nothing can be Jill's fault. She can't attack Bethenny, since that didn't work for her.

Alex and Bethenny hang out. Alex was welcome at the hospital after the birth. Alex gave Bethenny a baby shower. Alex is on Bethenny's show. Alex attended Bethenny's wedding. Alex is getting air time. Alex, Ramona, and Bethenny continue to call each other and hang out together.

Jill is jealous and furious that she isn't getting the Bethenny-glow fall out and extra TV time, and that Alex is.

Also? Alex stood up to her, called her a mean girl in high school, and told her to shut up, she was speaking.

As usual, Jill's evil plans are backfiring, because her feud with Alex is making Alex MORE valuable to Bravo.

I think Jill's a hater. She has to have someone to blame for whatever isn't her way or anything else under the sun.

Jill's probably done it her whole life. She probably learned it from her mother, Gloria. Jill never stopped hating - she just transferred the hate from Bethenny to Alex.

I think Jill thrives on negative energy, instead of positive energy. Many people do. She should see a doctor and take Kelly with her."

Okay, that's all for now about Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin and their depraved, demented, disgusting dealings.

Bethenny Getting Married? Again?

Tonight, after the Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Show airs its fireworks, Bethenny Frankel's new solo show Bethenny Getting Married? airs its first episode.

This morning I was surprised to learn that Bethenny Getting Married? should be more properly titled Bethenny Getting Married Again?

That's right, Bethenny has been previously married. The previous engagements we knew about, but not mention had been made on RHONY of a previous marriage.

It was way back in 1996 that Bethenny married a guy named Peter Sussman. That's the husband that pre-dated new husband, Jason Hoppy, in the picture, next to Bethenny.

Bethenny and Peter had been best friends for 5 years before becoming husband and wife. Peter persistently tried to be more than friends with Bethenny, which led to the pair dating for 2 years before Bethenny agreed to become Mrs. Sussman.

Apparently getting married, the first time, made Bethenny feel real secure, but, according to Bethenny, the marriage was totally lacking in passion. Bethenny is quoted as saying "You can't go to bed with a piece of 8 by 10 paper."

Regarding being married to Peter, Bethenny said, "I felt like, 'This is really it? This is the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with?'"

And so Bethenny's first marriage came to an end after 8 months.

Let's hope Bethenny's latest marriage lasts a lifetime.

Jill Zarin & Her Equally Disturbing Mother Gloria Kamen

That is Jill Zarin on the left and her mother, Gloria Kamen, next to her.

This is a very flattering picture. It appears to me, when you see Gloria in all her glory on the TV screen, that she was enamored of the work of Leona Helmsley's plastic surgeon and so engaged his services. To equally disturbing results.

Most viewers of The Real Housewives of New York City have been appalled and disgusted by the over the top mean girl behavior of Jill Zarin, who's sense of entitlement is so out of bounds with reality that in many ways she is more of a mentally ill train wreck than that sad case of paranoid hysteria known as Kelly Bensimon.

Jill Zarin managed a reality TV show wonder this season, going from being a fan favorite to being one of the all time despised villains.

Jill's mother also saw her previous positive image reversed, as we saw Jill's real mom, Gloria, for the first time, as the overbearing, mean-spirited, bitter shrew of an old lady, that she actually is.

The idea that Jill, Gloria and sister Lisa thought they had the credentials to write a book of advice is real revealing. It's like Elizabeth Taylor writing a book about how to have a long term marriage. Or Hillary Clinton writing a book about how to keep your husband faithful. Or Rush Limbaugh writing a book about how to be reasonable and fair-minded.

Well, you get the drift.

Jill is so obviously damaged by that a shrew of a mother who raised her. Jill is still seeking Gloria's approval. Like arranging that pathetic glamorous book cover photo shoot, hoping to make mommy happy, instead Gloria complained that "Mother is not HAPPY," and "That fan is making my breasts cold."

I assume, by fan, Gloria meant a device blowing wind and not one of her legion of viewer critics.

It seems clear that the "fan" attention that Jill got from the first 2 seasons of RHONY totally warped her. She convinced herself she was the star of the show. This set her up to be really upset when it became clear who the real star was. As in, Bethenny Frankel.

And then for Jill to see herself greatly eclipsed by Alex and Ramona and Sonja, now all fan favorites, while Jill has been stuck in the TV Doghouse, well, it's quite an appropriate comeuppance.

Jill Zarin has so many firestorm disasters she tries to put out. Her book got slammed on Amazon with bad reviews. So, Jill logged in as Sharon Saunders and wrote a fake positive review. It was quickly obvious due to various identifiers that Sharon was Jill. This brought much followup humiliation.

A non-Jill fan in Chicago, Lynn, has an anti-Jill website where she recently encouraged her readers to flood Jill with snail mail letting Jill know what they think of her. Jill countered by claiming she'd involved the police and post office inspectors to stop this assault.

Jill's Facebook and Twitter pages are flooded with fans giving her the bad girl bitch slapping she so richly deserves. Jill. or a rumored paid lackey, delete the comments as quickly as they can.

I have read various analyses of the bizarre Jill behavior we have witnessed. Some simply say she is a classic case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Maybe so.

I think that Alex and others got it right. Jill did not have a good time in high school. She was not one of the popular girls, due to both her mean-spirit selfishness and being a rather homely little plump girl. Jill learned to make mean girl snarky comments to overcompensate for her raging insecurity.

And then Jill becomes a Real New York City Housewife. For the first time ever she is one of the "popular" girls. Or so she thinks. But then Jill sees the real "popular" RHONY girls get that special treatment she has always been denied, Jill flips, and the totally mean, totally wrong, totally pathetic high school version of Jill comes to the foreground.

And that is the Jill Zarin we saw this season. The real Jill.

I really don't think Jill Zarin can recover. I'm thinking it'd likely be best for her to retire from the show, concentrate on Zarin Fabrics and greatly limit contact with her extremely toxic mother, Gloria Kamen.

And say I'm sorry to Bethenny Frankel and Alex McCord every opportunity she gets. Til she learns to mean it.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Greasy Bobby Zarin

Well, currently, my favorite show on TV is The Real Housewives of New York City.

Along with everyone else, I am loving the new housewife, Sonja Morgan.

Also along with most every one else, the behavior of Kelly Bensimon has gone into such weird, new territory, that I'm with the majority. She is so unstable, shown again in 2 incidents in the latest episode, those being her meeting with LuAnn, Jill and Jennifer and then Kelly's confrontation with Ramona at Jill's strange ice skating party.

It is so clear and obvious that Kelly is not well and needs help, Bravo really should sort of be ashamed of itself. Maybe redemption in some form is coming.

With Kelly, I now actually feel sorry for her, due to the shocking revelation of how messed up she is. But I do not feel sorry for Jill Zarin. Jill is one of the most, if not the most reprehensible characters I've ever witnessed on a Reality TV Show.

Go here for a funny take on the mess Jill Zarin has made for herself...

Up til the most recent episode I found Jill's long-suffering husband, Bobby Zarin, to be a somewhat likable sort. But this week he seemed as deluded as Jill regarding their invasion of the St. John's vacation party.

I don't know if you've ever heard this, but Bobby Zarin has a successful business called Zarin Fabrics. His wife Jill pretends to work there. It appears Bobby Zarin is quite wealthy. So, why can't he do something about his appearance? I dunno, maybe hire a makeover artist.

Why is Bobby's hair always so greasy? Why the beard? What's with the constant sunglasses? Bobby Zarin looks like a guy who should be running an Adult Video Store, not a fabric store.

One more episode of RHONY to go. Will Bethenny patch it up with Jill? Will Jill's attempts at damage control do her any good? Will Jill go to Ramona's Renewal Wedding? Will Kelly? Will I want to buy LuAnn's hit single? Is Kelly going to have one more epic breakdown in the final episode? Or will that happen at the reunion, which is being touted as drama filled.

And one more thing, if you would have told me during the first season of RHONY that by season three I would like Simon and Alex, particularly Alex, I would not have been able to imagine how such a thing could happen. But it has. This is the type thing that causes me to like Reality TV.

The Real Housewives of New York City's Kelly Bensimon's Insane Craziness

I have not watched, yet, the latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York City. I did see, this morning, that people were Googling various variations of "Kelly Bensimon Insane."

Up til last week's episode I'd been sort of slightly liking Kelly, this season. She seemed to be somewhat redeeming herself from last season's bizarre senseless confrontations with fan favorite, Bethenny Frankel.

And then we get last week's episode, aboard a yacht named Olga, where Kelly reverted to crazy, even crazier than any of the crazy Kelly behavior we'd seen before.

It started when Kelly tried to shut the other women down when the subject of the other mentally ill housewife, Jill Zarin, came up. Kelly said they were making lemonade out of lemons, and, with that bit of nonsense, Kelly got up and crashed into a glass door, spewing more nonsense on her way.

A short time later Kelly returns, references her timeout, seems to be acting normal. Now, me sitting there watching, thought to myself, what did she do? Leave the ladies so that she could take some medication because she had detected she'd slipped into a psychotic episode?

Later, after it appeared too much alcohol had been consumed, Kelly, stone cold sober Bethenny and my new favorite housewife, Sonja Morgan, sat talking. Ramona and Alex had escaped to the Hooters Yacht. Bethenny and Sonja were having a perfectly normal conversation when suddenly Kelly turned in to a Psycho Bitch again.

Kelly heaped all sorts of mean things on newly pregnant, newly fatherless, Bethenny, topping it off with the extremely strange assertion that Bethenny is a cook, not a chef.

In the week since her most recent humiliation, Kelly wrote, on her Bravo blog, that she was embarrassed, but did not elaborate. However, despite her alleged embarrassment, this week, on her Twitter account, Kelly has been Tweeting more insanity.

Now, I agree with Bethenny that this is one stupid broad. She seems befuddled by the simplest of things. I mean, it has been a year and she still does not understand Bethenny's Madonna remark or the Kelly comes from a place of no remark, blowing the remarks way way out of proportion.

We have now seen enough of Kelly's psychotic behavior to see how it is she came to assault her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Stefanov.

Now, while I find watching a train wreck like Kelly Bensimon to be entertaining, I'm also thinking that this is a much more serious case of mental illness than we are watching with Jill Zarin. I think Kelly is in dire need of serious help, while I think Jill is in dire need of a spanking, a time out and a bitch slapping, more harshly delivered than those administered by Alex.

I am looking forward, sort of, to seeing how demented Kelly behaved this week. I know that accusing Bethenny of trying to kill her is part of it. And fellow mentally ill housewife, Jill, shows up briefly, likely amping up the insanity.

The reunion show for this season should deliver. Unless Kelly is thoroughly sedated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Real Housewives of New York City's Kelly Killoren Bensimon Hot or Not Naked in Playboy?

I have yet to see the photos from Real New York Housewife Kelly Bensimon's Playboy layout.

I know they exist because the photos have been referenced on various episodes of The Real Housewives of New York City.

We saw Kelly at the photo shoot. She has talked about the photos. Simon has talked about the photos. Last week we saw Kelly get interviewed for Playboy about the photos.

Kelly seems quite pleased to think that the general population longs to see what she looks like naked.

I had never heard of Kelly Besimon before she showed up on the 2nd season of RHNYC. It made sense to me when Kelly was acting all uppity about not letting her name be used on a charity deal, for the person sitting next to Bethenny to ask Bethenny, "Who is she?" To which Bethenny replied, funnily, and on target, "Apparently, Madonna." Which to this day, apparently, Kelly does not understand, as it was brought up again last week.

So, where are the Kelly Playboy photos on the Internet? No amount of Googling turns up a naked Kelly. All I can find is the Kelly Playboy cover over and over again.

It's very perplexing. Not that I'm all that eager to see Kelly sans clothes, which puts me in the majority of other males, judging from the Hot or Not poll referenced in the Kelly bikini photos above.

48% of Males Say Hot, 52% Say Not. Of the Females, 17% Say Hot, 83% Say Not.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Jill Zarin's Mad Bad Mother Gloria

I did not get around to watching the latest episode of the new season of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City til last night. And now tonight, Thursday, a fresh episode runs.

The NYC girls are being quite entertaining this time around. Their various behaviors have caused me, and others, to change who we like and who we can't stand.

Jill Zarin has fallen deeply into the I can't stand her side. Jill's self-absorption level must be some sort of diagnosed mental illness. So much ME ME ME packed into such a little package.

This episode we learned how Jill became such a twisted piece of work. We got our longest looked at Jill's artificially preserved mother, Gloria. Just like Jill, Gloria is an overbearing know-it-all busybody with no credentials. I don't think Gloria can speak in anything but cliches.

The photo shoot was very revealing, for the book, that Jill, Gloria and sister Lisa co-wrote, that you know won't sell, but which Jill is counting on to make enough money, so she can buy a private plane, so she can use the giant shoe trunk she showed off this episode. Before the photo shoot Jill said she wanted to give her mom and sister a movie star experience. Jill made mention a couple times that she'd brought in her stylist and makeup artist.

Well, Gloria did nothing but bitch and make that plastic, well-preserved face of hers into a sour puss. Mother is not happy, she said time and again. Bitching about Jill being dressed too sexy, inappropriate. If this were my mama, mama would not be seeing me too often. Gloria giving advice, when she desperately needs some, is pretty funny.

This episode was mostly about going to fashion shows, so that we could have some good fighting. There was some good cat fighting at one show between LuAnn and Bethenny, where LuAnn thought Bethenny called her a skank, when the actual word was snake. I have trouble understanding what gets these women so wound up. It all seems extremely trivial to me.

I've come to like Alex McCord. First season I thought she was horrible. Now she is the sane one. But she had a strange confrontation with Jill over some remarks made about one of Alex's kids climbing up some stranger's leg. Jill blamed LuAnn. Alex started crying. LuAnn accepted the blame. I was confused. As was Alex.

Jill had some pretentious dinner thing at Saks 5th Avenue, inviting everyone, but Bethenny. Ramona got drunk, had a funny confrontation with LuAnn about Alex and Simon, then threw Jill under the bus, telling LuAnn that Jill's been telling people about LuAnn's assignations with young men. Later Ramona's mood swung back to being nice and she tried to comfort LuAnn after Ramona was the latest person to be told, by LuAnn, that LuAnn's divorce was final.

After that, Ramona turned her attention to Kelly's breasts. Asking if they'd been redone for the Playboy shoot. Kelly was not pleased. But, Ramona had a point. If you're gonna be showing your boobies to the world they are pretty much fair game.

Before the Boob Incident, Kelly had confronted Ramona at another fashion show about Ramona not inviting Kelly to her Labor Day party. Eventually that ended with Kelly inviting Ramona to a Perez Hilton new website launch party. Why anyone would want to be in the same room as Perez Hilton is a mystery to me.

This was confirmed when Perez greeted Jill by pulling on her top trying to get a look at her breasts, while Perez was wearing a skirt and letting it be known he was wearing underwear.

I am actually finding myself liking Kelly. I did not think this possible. She says the dumbest things, you can't help but find her amusing. Like she is all flattered that people, apparently, want to see what her 41 year old body looks like with no clothes on. Kelly had an emotional crisis over Bethenny's insistence that Kelly try one teeny sip of a Skinny Girl Margarita. Bethenny said some obvious joke about prozac, Kelly took it literal. Kelly is not too quick on the uptake, hence the funny confusions. And malapropisms.

Anyway, apparently, tonight, according to the NYC Housewives' blogs on their Bravo website, we are in store for some epic fighting.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Countless LuAnn & Jill Needs a Hobby

The characters on The Real Housewives of New York City are being very mixed up in this 3rd iteration of this version of the Bravo Housewives Franchise.

Somehow, formerly creepy and deluded couple, Alex McCord and husband Simon Van Kempen, have become the sane voices of reason. And they're likable.

While formerly likable, Jill Zarin, has turned into a raging nutcase fixated on the crime against humanity her former best friend Bethenny Frankel committed when Bethenny left a voice mail on Jill's phone suggesting that Jill get a hobby.

On and on Jill goes about Bethenny's hobby remark. Keeping the message for months, playing it for anyone willing to listen, including a psychic, who Jill consults regarding the horror foisted upon her by Bethenny.

To me, Jill comes off as a big bundle of jealous. Bethenny's finally found herself another keeper, named Jason, her various business efforts are taking off, she's about to get her own TV show. So, Jill has moved on to "taking care" of the Countess who lost her count and now spends her days seeking an apology from Ramona's husband, Mario, because Mario committed the horrible crime against humanity of referring to LuAnn as Countless.

Which seemed to me to be a perfectly fair little bit of wordplay.

And then there is Kelly, Bethenny's arch enemy, and now one of Jill's dearest friends. Kelly seems a bit more likable this time around, maybe it's due to her suffering a bit of humility due to spending time dealing with the criminal justice system.

Jill visited Kelly's apartment for the first time. That all seemed awkward to me. On and on Jill went about how Kelly had been misinformed about what was special about the issue of Playboy Kelly is not baring her cha-chas in. I don't know what a cha-cha is. I can guess, but I'm not sure.

Strange conversations about the Playboy posing between Kelly and her daughters, one of whom characterized it as being something like her mom's gift to the world, entertaining people with her weirdness.

Meanwhile, Countless LuAnn and daughter Victoria drive along with LuAnn often not having a hand on the steering wheel, chatting about Kelly taking it off in Playboy. I think it was from Victoria we heard the Cha-Cha concern. LuAnn would consider it if Playboy asked her to take her clothes off, seeing nothing wrong with a little breast baring, what with LuAnn being so European, despite being a Native American.

Next week looks fun, with Bethenny yelling at LuAnn and Ramona aggravating Kelly. What a fun group of girls.

The Real Housewives of New York City: Was Bethenny Frankel Drinking While Pregnant?

At the end of the first episode of Season 3 of my favorite of the Bravo Real Housewives franchises, after a lot of good drama and stupid fighting, we saw previews of some of the good stuff from the rest of this year of the Real Housewives of New York City.

One of the preview scenes showed Bethenny checking one of those home pregnancy test things. It appeared to be positive.

No big deal, Bethenny's got herself a boyfriend, she thinks she's going to marry, so she gets pregnant out of the preferred, historically speaking, sequence. It's the modern way.

On Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City website the various Housewives and husbands have blogs. These blogs are almost as funny as the show.

In Bethenny's latest blog she reveals the following...

"I was pregnant the entire season, so it put everything in perspective."

Okay now, Bethenny was pregnant the entire season? How much alcohol did we watch pregnant Bethenny consume on that first episode? Bethenny was drinking to endure that bizarre meeting for drinks with deluded LuAnn.

Was she drinking, to steal her nerves, to get naked on a New York City roof top? Wasn't there some drinking going on when Bethenny and the boyfriend were in a restaurant in that pretentious The Hamptons zone?

Okay, maybe at the point Bethenny was knocking back the booze, she did not yet know she was knocked up. However, on her blog, Bethenny clearly says she was pregnant all season.

Now, I am no prude, but knowing what booze can do to an womb-bound baby, well, it's just a big No-No.

I'm thinking Bethenny has some explaining to do. So far, near as I can tell, via the comments on her blog, no one has called Bethenny out on the drinking while incubating a fetus problem.