Comment on Kathys new Blog

To quickly address another blog comment:
"People that are not good cooks, like myself, don't want all the fancy words, we need it REAL."
fyi Cumin is REAL

Kathy it would appear that you can't seem to do anything right in some peoples eyes.  If you spend your blog nicey nice, then people complain that you didn't talk about the show.  If you actually address what went on and your TRUE feelings about it than people accuse you of bashing Teresa.  I guess the only thing you are allowed to do is spout off about how Teresa is just FABULOUS!!!

Unfortunately there are a few of us still out here with BRAINS, and I think we would all be staring at the computer quite confused if you started, like Teresa, to just pretend nothing was wrong.  Thank you for actually being REAL. 

Please don't stop being you because of comments from people who are clearly so far up Teresas rear that their world must be colored brownish hot pink.  There are many of us who appreciate you for who you are, flaws and all.  Just Bravo doesn't post OUR comments as often.  Most of us appreciate sincerity and integrity and I have yet to see you act without either.

Commercialism Off The Charts

I would really like to see some popular bloggers address the annoying way that Bravo takes commercialism to a new level.  Most hour long television shows are actually about 40 minutes due to commercials.  Up to last season Bravo was throwing in an extra commercial in the middle of every episode.  That was incredibly annoying already - I am positive they make enough $$ that they don't have to wring out those extra few cents.  But this year they have managed to make something annoying into something intolerable.  Now the last ten minutes of every episode is 99% commercials and preview for the next episode.  At this point I think I may as well just stop the recording at 50 minutes because that is when the show actually ends.

It really isn't enough that if we care to watch we are forced to sit through every single housewives own personal infomercial for whatever crappy product they are currently hocking?  From ear stabbing singles to jewelry we should get out of the 25c machine to mass produced purses with a personal label glued on - there seems to be no real end to the greediness that may soon become the tagline for Bravo.  'Watch What We Sell Next'

Honestly is this a television network or is the television show just filler in between Home Shopping Network?

 I'd love to hear what other bloggers think of this greedy tactic.

Stripper-Gate and more

Ok I know I had originally said I would be posting gossip on Fridays but I am not like many tid-bit bloggers out there and I like to wait until as much of the story as possible is out.  Apparently there is still much more but I can't wait forever /sigh.....

Last Wednesday Bravo was set to film the annual Posche Fashion Show where all of the NJHW were required to attend.   Apparently Bravo was intending for this to be the season finale footage and even insisted that all of the ladies sit together.  (Do they really let Bravo tell them what to do down to where they sit?  yes they do)

The night started out okay from what I am told but Melissa had already been warned via text about the possibility of some dirt being drug up or a set up of sorts.  Nobody really knew who was going to be set up and that's how it goes in the rumor Mill but both Kim G and Melissa were hesitant.  It turns out that poor Melissa was the one getting set up.

Lynn N Chicago did an excellent job of summing up the situation in a guest blog for rumorfix:

"According to LynnNChicago via RumorFix.com Teresa Giudice and Kim DePaola invited a male stripper to attend the fashion show who would confront Melissa Gorga and claim she used to be a stripper. From RumorFix:

Teresa confronted Melissa in the ladies room pretending to be concerned and telling Melissa that she was worried about her because this man was telling everyone that he was a witness to Melissa’s stripping days. Melissa immediately saw right through Teresa’s game and an argument ensued then escalated when Teresa told Melissa that Danielle Staub was on her way to the Posche show to confront Melissa, this was another lie that Teresa made up to try to rattle Melissa. Melissa decided to call her husband.

I’m told that Teresa “Freaked Out” and panicked knowing that her brother was on his way and that he would not be happy with Teresa’s latest stunt. The young man that Teresa and Kim D hired to confront Melissa immediately bolted the Fashion Show as soon as he heard Joe Gorga was on his way, the husbands weren’t supposed to be part of the deal and he had no intention of being confronted by Joe G."

Sources also reveal that the stripper himself - the one who was to "out" Melissa for a past she did not have was not only at a salon with Teresa earlier in the day but also has personally shown Teresa and Kim Ds text messages to him to a few people.  He was not happy about being brought in on the set-up and had originally been under the impression that this was just a joke between a close knit family.  He didn't realize that Teresa was actually trying to destroy poor Melissa.

Of course as usual neanderthal Teresa has since tried to put her own spin on the situation.  The woman truly believes herself to be smart and all of the public to be as dumb as nails.  From legally documented bankruptcy papers to every and any rumor that doesn't show her in the best possible light she tries to insist that we are just too stupid to understand the REAL truth.  I have to begin to wonder if Teresa is legitimately delusional and actually does see a 'different' truth than the rest of us.

She took to her twitter immediately following the filming of the Season 3 reunion and had this to say:

On my way home… Loooong day. Wow has Twitter gone crazy.

Wow have some people gone crazy… #sadforthem.

I don’t even wanna go there b/c I don’t fight on twitter not w/ fans, not haters, not w/ mean RTs & def not w/ a friend (ahem) or my family! But the rumors are getting ridiculous.

Let’s get this straight: I LOVE my WHOLE family. Would never do anything to hurt them. xx.

THIS is exactly why I didn’t want my family on the show–people come out of nowhere to try & hurt you. I don’t want my family hurt. Ever.

Breaks my heart that anyone would believe I would be part of something to hurt my family. Fame can mess with your mind. Family is forever.xx.

And for the record: I don’t believe MG was a stripper but I wouldn’t care anyway. (I have lots of ex-stripper friends… ahem…).

She’s the mother of my niece & nephews & part of my family. You’ll see how I defend her in S4. xx #lovemybrother #lovemyfamily

Sorry, it’s NOT true. But you’ll all have to turn in to Season 4 of RHONJ to see what really happens (the truth is actually way scarier…)

Remember when I was supposedly punched in the face? Now supposedly Jacq slapped me. And I hired a male stripper to expose Melissa… LMAO

You know Bravo loves it when bloggers make up crazy stories to get people excited about the show. Aren’t we exciting enough w/o the lies?

If you don't know by now, the "ahems" refer to Jaqueline.  I personally have never heard the rumor that Jacq slapped Teresa but if it did ever happen I would pay money to see it.  Honestly I think Teresa has a fairly smart PR person.  First of all - they spell check for Teresa as well as write her blogs.  I am personally nowhere near naive enough to believe that Teresa knows when and how to use the word 'whom' and I also have trouble believing that the knuckle dragger managed to spell 'ridiculous' properly.  Anyway this PR person knows if they put out enough completely false rumors it will lead credence to Teresa's spin on things when she says something that actually DID happen was just fabricated.  So they deliberately make up 9 stories and then say those 9 stories are false, (clearly they are) and then the tenth story which is actually TRUE, they can just claim is false too and people start to think there is a pattern.  Unfortunately for them, myself and about 98% of the rest of the viewers are smarter than cave lady and I guess her PR person too. 

Teresa has a fondness for talking about "this is why I didn't want my family on the show with me, who would want all their dirty laundry aired for the world to see."   But we all know it is her that has caused all the problems in her family and has continued to do so with this latest event.  Many other housewives installments feature family members.  Some who have even had on air disputes - Kim and Kyle Richards, Jacq L and Dina Manzo.  Yet none of reached the levels of maliciousness that Teresa goes to with her family.  If I could ask Teresa a question it would be "How do those other families manage but yours is the only one that can't withstand being filmed together."

The reality is that Teresa is jealous, she needs everything to be about her all the time.  She didn't want to share the limelight with her sister n law and she probably knew we would all see her for exactly who she is when that happened.  Ahem - I already had.

Still Teresa seems to be doing ok.  She still has many many fans who are following her delusions as if they too live in the same fantasy world.  Even Huffington post took to reciting some of Teresas fantasies for us.

"Bravo’s surprise at the fashion show was for Melissa: her ex-boss at Lookers, the strip club she used to work at. No one knew him, no one knew he was coming — although, of course Bravo had a microphone on him — and Melissa ran away from him and refused to film with him,” a witness at the taping tells me. “The producers made Teresa talk to him to ‘hear him out,’ so his accusations would be aired on camera, but Teresa stopped him mid-story and told him to not talk about her family and left."

I found this particularly comical because it took me back to Ms. Kelly B herself insisting that Bravo forced her to go on a trip where she literally lost her mind.  When caught red handed - BLAME BRAVO!!!

So how do we move forward from this?  Well we are suppose to continue watching the footage from Season 3 and then move on to pretend as if we are interested in Season 4 just to finally get to all the footage that we actually give two shits about.  Unfortunately by then all the leaky mouthed sources in NJ will have made us well aware of the full story.  Bravo needs to move up the season if they want us to care in any way.

Lastly I just want to say Jacq - I do believe you, but I really wish you had the balls to go to the reunion to confront Tre - why did you have to chicken out like that?  It sort of looks weak.