Kandi is in Thailand celebrating her birthday. She was doing a video promoting her upcoming shows when Shamea popped into the video and said she would be at the NY show. It came off as slightly…thirsty. I’m a HUGE Kandi fan - wanted the details of her show (without the Shamea jump scare). Oh well - she and Kandi will always be tight.
Happy birthday Kandi!!!
The Carlos King podcast last night was REALLY good. Too long to summarize. A lot of discussion regarding K. Michelle, per paranoia/PTSD, and excessive tweeting (probably in her feels while drinking Jack Daniels). She hasn’t been addressing things in the room and she’s been excessively saying she doesn’t feel safe. It’s worth a listen.
Separately, Claudia is still maintaining that Porsha and Phaedra are lying about the Kelli married man thing.
One interesting concept that Carlos King discussed was reality stars letting others run the play and THEN responding versus preemptively responding to something they believe is being plotted. An example he gave was in Season 7 when Cynthia was confronting Phaedra about Mr. Chocolate. When they went to dinner, everyone except maybe Demetria knew that they were going to discuss Mr. Chocolate and Phaedra was actually prepared. However, she went off the rails because Kenya took over for Cynthia confronting Phaedra and all hell broke loose.
His point was that K Michelle was react too quickly to things that MAY happen and, if he had been able to give her advice, he would have told her to let them do what they want to do and be prepared to react in the room on camera.
Another interesting thing is that Carlos and others may be doing a Patreon about the whole Kandi/Phaedra/Porsha/Shamea drama from years ago. Apparently there is more to be spilled.
I started listening to Carlos King on Mondays towards the end of RHOP. It’s pretty good!
Doing a re-watch of Kandi’s first year of marriage, it has me seeing bigger cracks in their relationship now that it has ended. All that time he spent in LA and how disinterested he was in marriage counseling. Things got way better when Ace was born but that first year was rough.
I heard Todd may be producing a show about ex husbands and that Peter has signed on.
It was so cringey when her husband described purposefully getting her drunk when he first met her. THANKFULLY it was just doubles and he wasn’t spiking her drink otherwise….
I wonder if he will go to the Reunion
DJ Pauly D is from Rhode Island and is a little older than some of the cast and a little younger than others. Any information that he knows some of the cast?
Last night was SO confusing. Had production not put up an article about K Michell’s prior lawsuit, the episode would have made no sense.
A couple of points. First, it appears that K Michelle thinks that RHOA viewers have any clue or would even care about past Love and Hip Hop Drama. I don’t. And even reading the articles, I still don’t.
Second, K Michelle seems overly paranoid that someone is coming for her. The stuff that she is concerned about, no one cares about.
Finally, I’m concerned about K Michelle’s mental health. She has been doing reality tv for a very long time on multiple shows. She also appears to have had at least a handful of toxic relationships. She is in fight or flight mode.
Porsha told her in episode 1 that she needed to come in fresh like all her past hadn’t happened. That was the BEST advice she could have given. K didn’t listen. As a result, we got last night’s episode.
Ally is on the new season of Perfect Match. I liked her a lot on VPR. Sadly, I don’t think that this is the right project for her. The show is entertaining though
Just saw a clip on Instagram about the upcoming episode. Shamea is now complaining that everyone held a “team meeting“ to gang up on her and be mean and to fall in line with Porsha. I know that I wasn’t invited to any meetings, but think that the criticisms to date of Shamea are more than valid - and haven’t even been that bad frankly.
She spent last season blaming everyone (mostly Porsha) for not fitting in or being as happy as she should. I can’t with her if she is going to complain again all this season.
Do you think she is in danger (yet) of losing her peach??? I think not yet but maybe soon.
Porsha recently gave an interview with Carlos King. It was a really great interview and disclosed a lot of different unknown things.
One interesting point relates to Shamea and Porsha. They were actually starting to get along over the season but apparently Shamea did something really horrible out of the blue towards the end of the season. They are no longer friends and never will be. Porsha doesn’t even feel comfortable speaking about Shamea in interviews.
I was looking around and apparently there may have been some kind of physical altercation on the last cast trip this season.
Has anyone seen or heard about details from Kandi’s new live show regarding her divorce? I’ve seen some details online but wasn’t sure if what I read was true…
Listened to the Carlos King podcast last night. Here are the highlights (as well as some of my thought).
Cynthia is the people’s champ. She is holding everyone down and should maybe get a peach again.
Phaedra is bringing nothing and is overpaid. (I don’t agree with this and still enjoy Phaedra).
Pinky is annoying and is doing too much. They recognized that she MAY get better in the next few episodes. She is picking too many fights and is exhausting.
Pinky is trying to hard to monetize her experience on RHOA as compared to Kandi who had experiences come to her organically. They suggested that she came up with that whole Wife in the Basement book after last week’s episode.
Kelli and Shamea are being annoying. (I agree. I was particularly annoyed on Sunday with the room and the restaurant. This is like the second or third time that Shamea graphically described her bodily functions - I don’t need to regularly hear that, even though some women like to do it - just my own pet peeve. Shamea’s mom also appears, at least to me, to be contributing to issues with some women - first Porsha and now Drew).
Drew is better this season because Kelli, Shamea, and Pinky are doing too much.
They still really like Angela.
K. Michelle is being really quiet.
That‘s what jumped out at me. Feel free to add any other notes or your own thoughts!
This is my first season watching a season with Daisy. To be honest, I haven’t been impressed. I do know that there are a ton of Daisy stans.
If you like Daisy - how has she been this season (better or worse) than in past seasons? I’m curious if she is different this season than other seasons where people started liking her.
I don’t know anything about K Michelle - this is my first time seeing her.
Last month, she gave an interview saying that she was in love with R Kelly. I guess they did music together. She loved him but he didn’t love her in that way. Was this new information to people who know her better?
Also, I don’t know if K Michelle knew about Porsha’s experience with R Kelly until Kelli threw it out on the bus. I was trying to see if K Michelle was surprised by this.
During the reunion, Ashley said that she broke up with Josh but that he called her the next day to try to get back together. Ashley agreed to meet with him but only if it was on camera. He agreed to meet with her and she broke up with him again. Why would he even agree to it? Neither the producers nor Ashley were kind to him. I cringed when he was laughing during the video game or talking about Pittsburgh. It was crazy that he STILL continued to hang out with her even after it aired. Between what she said, her family said, and how she was portrayed on the show, I couldn’t do it!
Doing a re-watch of the reunion, it seems pretty clear that Jassi was recording phone calls and wasn’t being slick with it. I guess the recording message was popping up.
What’s the purpose of recording? Is it to remind yourself what was said so that you don’t make a mistake? Playing it for anyone else isn’t going to do much…you will burn bridges with everyone. I guess you could have it in your back pocket just in case, but that seems like a lot of work.
Do you think that they will film at Preakness this year or not? If they did it last year, do they try to avoid it again?
The table that they were at last year was $10,000 - $20,000. Did production just pay the cost?
I heard that Angel’s new YouTube show started. I watched a few minutes of it. She did a show based at her home and stores that she likes to go to. It is pretty clear from her video, at least to me, that she didn’t want to film in her home with all the cast. She set her large indoor table and described how many people it can sit. I get that people can be very particular about letting people in their space. I just don’t recall seeing it in a Housewife.
On the upside - she does look nice on camera on the episode.
Did she ever start moving into her new Potomac home?
Any update on them? I haven’t heard anything for awhile. Thankfully, they both seem to be avoiding social media while the case is ongoing.
There are so many things wrong with Shamea’s rum idea.
First, Cynthia was smart not to try and take on such a difficult project on her own. The Maloof’s, who are experienced business people, are taking the lead. They are the ones developing the tequila - and not some niche tequila with peaches infused that only a small number of people will regularly drink. It is regular tequila with a broad appeal. Cynthia is probably largely getting paid some kind of salary - and it’s worth it for both sides. Cynthia can get the publicity for the tequila generated from a cast trip and it’s the type of publicity that most products will never get early on.
Shamea wants to sell rum that SHE’s NEVER tasted. The peach rum she wants to do doesn’t exist. She wants a weird bottle shaped after her body. I don’t even think J Lo or Kim Kardashian at their height would try to market an alcohol bottle shaped like their body. Finally - it’s not like she is a rum expert or is even known to regularly drink rum.
I know of a celebrity who has invested in a rum company and it’s a labor of love. The investment was due to a genuine interest in the rum making process and the quality of the product. It is traditional rum (no weird flavors) and is priced on the high end for a rum consumer - $40-$45 a bottle.
Shamea would be better off partnering on regular rum already produced and not creating any special bottling. She may make a small amount of money, but it would be hard.
It looks like she isn’t advertising rum on her social media so who knows if she stayed with the idea.…
For my Reddit friends who are also into RHOP. I’m doing a re-watch of the last trip on RHOP. Cynthia took he job hosting the trip way more seriously than Angela. Cynthia actually treated it like a job.
Out of curiosity, what responsibilities does the woman have who hosts and how do the producers decide who will host?
I also didn’t like how Kelli and Shamea essentially pretended that the room was dirty so that they didn’t have to go to dinner. Correct me if you disagree, but the room was not too dirty to take a shower. It also just created more work for Cynthia that she didn’t need…