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Category: Gretchen Rossi

Too Much and Too Little

Too Much and Too Little

(July 11, 2012) – At one point it gets to be too much and too little at the same time. You could waste your time, as I did, and watch part one of the Real Housewives of Orange County’s seventh season reunion. Or you could trust your instinct and correctly predict what would happen – without spending one precious minute watching Andy Cohen bait his employees into behaving poorly while trying to make their colleagues look bad.

Last night the attacks were, predictably, too much. In return for suffering through […]

July 11, 2012 | 41 Comments More
The Games the OC Housewives Play

The Games the OC Housewives Play

(June 27, 2012) – Judging from the people I read on Twitter, I either saw a completely different finale of the Real Schemers and Screamers of Orange County or I see this cast unlike the rest of the world. Perhaps this is just the Roshomon effect, where a group of people witnesses the same event and each person perceives it very differently.

The main thing that shocks me is that anyone could ever defend the way Tamra Barney behaved last night. While I think Vicki Gunvalson acts like a nut […]

June 27, 2012 | 9 Comments More
What do the Orange County Housewives want?

What do the Orange County Housewives want?

Pardon me for this brief interruption. I just have to ask a question. Who is Timorie from Cinderella Cakes who helped Heather Dubrow design a cake for her naming party? She has to be the same woman, formerly identified as Timree, who helped lead Heather’s painting party earlier this season; no? Not that I really care, but it seems like such an unusual name, regardless of how it is spelled. Okay back to what really matters…

Vicki Gunvalson and her quest to build a better man
Sue her. Vicki […]

June 12, 2012 | 13 Comments More
What do the Orange County Housewives Want?

What do the Orange County Housewives Want?

(June 12, 2012) – Pardon me for this brief interruption. I just have to ask a question. Who is Timorie from Cinderella Cakes who helped Heather Dubrow design a cake for her naming party? She has to be the same woman, formerly identified as Timree, who helped lead Heather’s painting party earlier this season; no? Not that I really care, but it seems like such an unusual name, regardless of how it is spelled. Okay back to what really matters…

Vicki Gunvalson and her quest to build a better […]

June 11, 2012 | 0 Comments More
Tamra’s Obsession with Alexis Bellino

Tamra’s Obsession with Alexis Bellino

(May 31, 2012) -It must be strange to film the Real Housewives of Orange County and then settle into your sofa months later to see how each episode turned out.

I say that because anyone who participated in this week’s gang up on Alexis Bellino must feel like an ass today. Honestly I think it must be worse than that. I think they must feel despised.

How else could you feel now that the show has aired and most viewers were disgusted to see many of these petty women acting […]

May 31, 2012 | 12 Comments More
Real Bullies of Orange County: Tamra, Gretchen & Vicki

Real Bullies of Orange County: Tamra, Gretchen & Vicki

(May 23, 2012) – With its mellow California reputation, I would expect the Real Housewives of Orange County to depict a calmer, less cut-throat world than the East Coast versions of this show. But that is definitely not the case.

Sure the original installment of the franchise is nowhere near as disturbing as its New Jersey, New York and Atlanta variations, but you have to admit, Coto de Cazes is packed with bullies.

Bully #1
Tamra Barney must want to be a villainess . That is the only explanation I […]

May 23, 2012 | 7 Comments More
You have to admit it: Vicki knows how to bring it

You have to admit it: Vicki knows how to bring it

(May 10, 2012) – Right off the bat I have one serious question: is Slade a dead beat or isn’t he? I ask this because people are regularly jailed for not paying child support. Is he just behind, while making regular payments? Or is California’s justice system just wack-a-doodle-do?

Seriously, I suspect there is something very fishy going on. It’s not like he’s hiding. He’s been filming a very popular, very public television show for years. If Slade hasn’t paid a dime to help raise his son, why isn’t he […]

May 10, 2012 | 6 Comments More
Pussycats, apologies and surprising relationships

Pussycats, apologies and surprising relationships

(May 2, 2012) – Everybody knows there are a number of things you simply dare not discuss in front of the Real Housewives of Orange County‘s Victoria Wolfsmith Gunvalson. Number one, you must bite your tongue before you ever refer to a woman’s anatomy by its medically correct name. In seasons past, we learned “pink parts” is just about as much as this insurance mogul can stomach.

Number two, heaven help you if you witness someone – with questionable conversational skills – trying to be humorous anywhere near Vicki […]

May 2, 2012 | 5 Comments More
What’s New Pussycat? The Rise of Alexis Bellino

What’s New Pussycat? The Rise of Alexis Bellino

(April 24, 2012) – Unlike the casts of the other locations, the Real Housewives of Orange County are nearly obsessive about finding jobs and promoting their careers on Bravo. Personally I think this focus was established early on by Vicki Gunvalson – the last standing, original cast member – who practically hazed her underemployed colleagues, dismissing their every action and every thought with the screeching words, “you don’t even work!” when she had a disagreement with any of them. As a result tonight’s “Gretchen does Vegas” episode fixated on the […]

April 24, 2012 | 12 Comments More
What’s the story with the Orange County Housewives?

What’s the story with the Orange County Housewives?

(March 27, 2012) – To a great extent the only reason I watch these Housewives shows is that when I first stumbled onto Orange County, during its first season, I was stunned in my tracks.

I am not sure if I ever said this here before now, though I must have, but to me the Coto de Cazes scene  initially seemed like something straight out of National Geographic in that the people seemed so otherly to me that it was almost like they were from another species and I loved […]

March 27, 2012 | 16 Comments More
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