The Real Housewives of Melbourne Season 3, Episode 1 Recap

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Release the gowns!! Our favourite Aussie Housewives are officially back with what is promised to be the biggest season yet. So, let’s get into it… 

We were re-introduced to all of the Housewives and we all caught up with where they are now from the end of the last season. Gamble is planning her wedding; she wanted a Chinese theme but her stylist advised her against it, Pettifleur is back from a health retreat and hasn’t seen the rest of the girls in quite some time, Chyka is back from a European holiday with Bruce and has to lay down the law with her daughter Chessie when she discovers she took her car and left it with quite a scratch, Lydia is back from London where she spent time being an ambassador for the now defunct Shane Warne Foundation, Jackie is feeling the pressure from her loved ones to start a family with husband Ben, Gina has since dabbled in acting in long-running Australian soap Neighbours, has had a stint on The Celebrity Apprentice Australia, has a new personal assistant and is working on her own fragrance and according to Janet, as she continues to work on her tea line, she turned down a booty call from Shane Warne. Side note; I lost count of how many times Shane Warne was referenced in this episode so be aware you’ll be reading his name quite a few times.

Meet newest Real Housewife Susie. Image courtesy of Arena.

Within a few minutes we were introduced to new girl Susie Mclean as Chyka hosted a book club with fellow Housewives Janet and Jackie in attendance. Susie is introduced as a fit single mum to two boys who has a somewhat unfavourable opinion on Lydia. Turns out that Lydia was the source of a few rumours that flew around at the end of Susie’s second marriage and Susie’s still not too happy about it. Cue the drama!! We get a glimpse into her home life with her two boys and so far I’m liking what I’m seeing. She seems to be a very “no-holds-barred” housewife, unafraid to give her opinion.

 

The storyline to start it all off was the little rumour that Lydia did the dirty with cricketer Shane Warne, which, of course, she denies. Susie however feels that Lydia is a little more involved than she leads people to believe saying she “absolutely” believes Lydia has a romantic interest in Mr. Warne. She even blatantly asks Lydia if they had sexual relations to which Lydia replied “No, last night I f***ed my husband”. Boom.

 

More drama ensued as Lydia and Janet sat down at Susie’s baking party to hash out their twitter feud in which Lydia referred to Janet as “grandma” and Janet called Lydia a “Lydiot”. The issue seemed to dissolve however when Gamble and Pettifleur got into their disagreement, with Pettifleur believing that Gamble was behind all of the legal drama she had to deal with regarding her book Switch The Bitch. Things got extremely heated between the girls, since Lydia told Gamble everything Pettifleur told her regarding Gamble including that Gamble met her fiancé Rick on SugarDaddy.com (which if you haven’t googled already, you must) and the argument ended with Gamble storming out of the room exclaiming that Pettifleur could “get f***ed” and Susie standing, a little stunned in the doorway.

 

As we are given a glimpse in to what is in store for next week it’s easy to see that this won’t be Lydia’s season. From rumours about extra-marital affairs and the ladies seeming to be in agreement that they’re all a little displeased with her, I think Lydia has somewhat of a target on her back. Well, buckle up ladies because the ride has just begun.

 

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The Real Housewives of Orange County - Welcome to Season 10

Hello readers!

It’s been a little while since my last post but life has become so busy with uni studies and a new job but I want to try my best to blog as much as I can. And what a good way to start my re-entry into blogging with a new post recapping the latest couple of episodes of the OG Real Housewives series, The Real Housewives of Orange County.

First things first, a new intro was filmed, with Tamra, Heather and Shannon all instagramming or tweeting photos from filming, but due to a cast change, last year’s intro has been used with just Meghan added into the titles. I think we deserve a new intro, especially if one had been filmed. #JustSaying

Now, onto the Housewives themselves. I’m so happy to have Heather back after her season last year. She made comments about how she was unsure if she would return and I’m so glad she did. Such a shame about Lizzie not returning as a full-time housewife. She was really good last season and I think she needs to be back holding an orange. I don’t have a lot to say about new girl Meghan… I haven’t seen enough to like or dislike her yet. She has been described as Tamra’s “mini-me” so I don’t think she’s one to keep her opinions to herself.

So far in the past couple of episodes it’s been a revisit to all the ladies on what they’ve been getting up to since last season’s reunion. Tamra is becoming a grandmother (which seems to have softened her, have to say I’m liking Tamra so far), Heather is launching a sparkling wine and still building her dream home, Shannon admits that her husband had an affair and she’s doing everything she can to make her marriage work and Vicki is being Vicki. And in case you weren’t aware, another housewife was to be added this season, Katie, who you might have seen in the latest ep, attending Vicki’s party with Heather. Unfortunately Katie quit during filming as her husband relapsed with his drug addiction and is now divorcing. Bravo has made it pretty obvious that Katie won’t be included as she was supposed to be in the show as they have seemed to have edited all her scenes to include her as little as possible.

It looks like there’s a lot of drama to come with a few of the ladies butting heads with new girl Meghan. Bring it on, I say!

Until next time… Keep watching!!

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Who The Bleep Is A?

If you’re a fellow Pretty Little Liars fan like myself, you would have been racking your brain for almost five seasons trying to find out the identity of Rosewood’s most feared stalker “A”. After discovering that Mona was the original A who tortured our beloved Liars, the game was stolen from her whilst she spent time in Radley Sanitarium, the easy to escape psychiatric institution. After the girls turned against back from the dead Ali, after believing she was A, they have now realised that A is framing Alison for Mona’s murder… if Mona’s really dead that is.

It has now been officially released that by the end of the current season we will finally discover who “Big A” is, the person who is behind it all. Whilst there have been revelations of A team members, we have yet to see who the Big man (or woman) on campus is. So who exactly is A? Here’s some possible theories…

 

Andrew
The lovable nerd has been pretty MIA these past few seasons but now all of a sudden he’s come out of the woodwork tutoring, and kissing, Aria. He was seen last episode popping out of the bushes in Aria’s front lawn waiting for her to come home and made some interesting quotes – “It’s about a shadowy figure who knows about everybody’s secrets?” Plus the guy has an A name and so far it’s been really hard to try and decipher if A is in fact male or female… Is Andrew A or are the writers simply trying to make him look suspicious to get viewers off the scent of the real A?
 

MonA
She was the original A, and she was planning to fake her own murder, so how do we know it’s still not Mona underneath that hood? Mike told Aria that he wasn’t sure if A double crossed Mona and murdered her for real but what if that’s what Mona want’s everybody to think?

Wren
Although not present for a while now, Wren is still a pretty big possibility. Remember when he was randomly drawing a red coat? And where’s he been all this time? Spencer comes to London to see her sister and Wren and they’re not even there to see her? And what about the blood in Spencer’s bag during her Oxford University interview? Is it possible that it didn’t show up in Airport screeners because it wasn’t in her bag when she left but was placed in her bag in London by A?

EzrA
So a lot of people have forgot about Ezra being A because the writers have already gone down the “make Ezra look suspicious” road and it’s been done but let’s be honest. The dude had cameras hidden pretty much everywhere in Rosewood and had a hideout in Ravenswood, all for a book? Seems a little farfetched. And remember when Aria threw Ezra’s book off the ski lift and we later saw A picking it up? What if A wasn’t finding the book but reclaiming what was theirs?

JAson
Where was he when he went missing and he seduced Ashley… was that all part of a master plan? I don’t think too much time has been spent on Jason but I have not taken him out of the A possibilities.

AriA
There has been a lot of talk about Aria being A and there are a ton of clues that would suggest that Aria is in fact A… is the fact that Aria is the only one of the liars to “shh” in the opening credits a clue? The coordinates of the whereabouts of Mona’s laptop, when searched, leads to a place not far away from “Montgomery”. And let’s not forget Aria’s freak out over not getting in to college. Is it possible she’s been too busy being A to focus on college applications?

The Other LiArs
At one point or another, each girl has looked a little shifty. Except possibly Emily. So could it be another of the liars? Hanna always wanted to be just like Alison. Spencer was supposedly drugged when Alison went missing and Bethany was murdered. Emily was in love with Alison. Do any of the Liars have enough motive?

BethAny, Somebody’s Twin?
Another popular theory is that Alison has a twin, just like in the books, although the writers have said this won’t be happening. It just seems like everything would work if Alison did have a twin, and if it was Bethany, even though she has been "supposedly" murdered by Melissa, accidentally. So many questions would be answered if Bethany was Alison’s twin. There’s just been too many clues. Even little subtle things like Jason telling Alison that there were so many pictures of her as a baby… she had a twin and the pictures are of both of the girls? Or what if somebody else had a twin? There’s been a lot of allusions to twins but this could just be a way to distract the audience.

Well that’s who’s currently on my radar of A possibilities. So who do you think could be A? Tweet me or leave a comment below. It won’t be long until we found out and all our A questions will be answered.

Until next time… keep watching!!

Kisses – A (it had to be done).

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Let me tell you my Real Housewives Story...

 

So, this post might seem self indulgent, but then again, this is my blog, which is all about putting forward my opinion, so isn’t this entire blog self indulgent? ;)

I thought I’d share with you guys my Real Housewives story, and how I became such a huge fan of the Bravo franchise. So here we go…

I never watched The Real Housewives of Orange County. Ever. Hard to believe, considering now I watch every single series in the franchise. My sister however loved the show and would watch it all the time. I would go to her house and she’s be watching it and I honestly remember saying “How could you watch this?” with disdain and disbelief that anybody could watch the show (What was I thinking?!!). Be aware, I had never seen an episode, just advertisements for the series and I didn’t really like what I saw. And we actually didn’t have pay TV at the time because we had moved house and we just didn’t bother with it.

Fast forward and we decided to install Pay TV at our house, and Arena (Australia’s equivalent to Bravo) was back on in my lounge room. I was getting reacquainted with all the channels, including Arena, and noticed that a lot of the channels were having marathons of different shows. In fact, I was introduced to the Kardashians because E! ran a marathon of the first few seasons, and I’ve continued to watch the show ever since. But I found myself watching one particular marathon… the first couple of seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City. I don’t know why I decided to watch it, but I found myself unable to change the channel. Now, I didn’t start watching it from the beginning, because by the time I had clicked the channel over, it was about half-way through the first season, but I didn’t stop watching until the second season reunion. I learnt that the marathon was happening because the new season of New York was about to start. So, I decided to tune in, and found myself still loving the series.

Then of course, ads appeared for Atlanta… and then New Jersey. Both I watched. Both I loved. I would like to note that I still wasn’t watching Orange County at the time… even though I tuned in to DC and Miami. My OC viewing habits didn’t start until half way around season five. I would watch here and there but I didn’t tune in every single week because the love wasn’t totally there. But then there was season six and we were introduced to Peggy, who I really liked and started tuning in for. Season six was the first season of Orange County that I actually watched from start to finish. Of course I was disappointed when Peggy left, but then of course we were introduced the amazing Heather Dubrow who has taken the number one spot as my favourite Orange County Housewife.

So that’s pretty much how my love for the Housewives franchise began. I still consider New York as my favourite of the franchise because it is what turned me on to the series and presented me with my all-time favourite Housewife, Bethenny Frankel… but it’s pretty even with Beverly Hills at the moment.

Now it’s your turn!! Tweet me your Real Housewives story and let me know how you grew to love the series. Did you tune in from the very first episode of Orange County or did one of the spin-off series lead to your love of everything Real Housewives?

Until next time… keep watching!!

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What The Real Housewives of Cheshire Taglines Should Have Been…

Let’s discuss The Real Housewives of Cheshire shall we?? After watching the premiere episode, I have to say, I was quite intrigued. The UK has done well in creating their own version of the American franchise that has not only found success in the US, but also Canada and Australia. But there was one thing that bothered me about the episode. The Housewives’ taglines.

If you’re a Housewife fan then you know the importance of a Housewives’ tagline. Each season, fans look forward to what the new taglines will be for each wife. In the early seasons of The Real Housewives of Orange County, the wives’ taglines were simply taken from the interviews each lady had done during filming or was a snippet from a particular episode. For example, Lauri’s original tagline was “Are the police involved?”, regarding her son’s run in with the law. Fast forward nine seasons and the latest Orange County taglines, like every other city in the franchise, are specifically recorded for each new season.

However, the producers of #RHOCheshire decided to go with the original design of using snippets from the ladies interviews to create each tagline. If this was done in the right way, maybe fans such as myself wouldn’t have been so bothered, but the majority of each woman’s tagline is ridiculously long. They should be straight to the point, but these taglines are a little to… all over the place. So below, I have put together what each Cheshire Housewife’s tagline is, and what I think their tagline could have been, using the “snippet” method…

 

Ampika
Tagline: I’m always going to get interest from the opposite sex. I’m like a snake, and when I’m done with you, I’ll discard you.
What her tagline should be: I’m like a snake. When I’m done with you, I’ll discard you.

 

Dawn
Tagline: I’ve got a wonderful life. I’m gobby, I’m full on, I’ll always say what I think… you’re not going to change a leopards spots.
What her tagline should be: I’ll always say what I think… you’re not going to change a leopards spots.

 

Lauren
Tagline: I’m a domestic goddess. I don’t listen to anything anyone tells me, because it’s all about me.
What her tagline should be: I don’t listen to anything anyone tells me… it’s all about me.

 

Leanne
Tagline: I married a footballer, I live in a fairly big house. I’d say it’s worked out well.
What her tagline should be: There’s no real way to improve this tagline… while I’m not in love with it, it’ll have to do.

 

Magali
Tagline: When you cross me, you better don’t cross me. Don’t mess with Magali.
What her tagline should be: Nothing to do here. This is the sort of tagline each woman should have.

 

 

Tanya
Tagline: I have the dream body, dream man, career – I’ve got it all.
What her tagline should be: Same as above. Another worthy tagline.

So beside Magali and Tanya’s taglines there’s a little more work to be done. Pretty much they just need to be shorter and more to the point. I don’t blame the women, but rather the producers, who should have done a little more homework regarding the importance of a Real Housewife’s tagline.

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#BethennysBack

The Real Housewives of New York City fans… your requests have officially been answered. Last month it was revealed that original New York Housewife and now multimillion dollar entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel is returning to where it all began for her, and, like the majority of #RHONY fans, I couldn’t be happier.

The Real Housewives of New York was the first series I had ever watched in the Real Housewives franchise (more about that in a later post), and I immediately fell in love with Bethenny. From the get go she was my favourite. She was living in a one room shoebox apartment whilst the rest of the ladies flung around their name brand handbags and whilst the rest of the Housewives would discuss their social standings, the famous people they knew and how busy their social calenders were, Bethenny was seen trying to make a name for herself and create a business. She was the underdog, trying to make her way in the Big Apple and we loved her for it.

Season three was a turning point for me as a viewer of the series, as the whole Bethenny and Jill feud heated up and became the main storyline of the season. No matter what Bethenny did or said that season, I took her side, and so did many others (Sorry, Jill Zarin) and I couldn't help but be Team Bethenny even more, if that was even possible. Her popularity was undeniable, and she was the first Real Housewife to score her own spin-off… no, Jo and Slade: Date My Ex does not count, it was a “dating” show and did anybody even care about Jo or Slade that much?... Moving on.

Fast-forward four years and Bethenny has a multimillion dollar brand, a range of businesses and a number of New York Times best-selling books and she’s now returning as a New York Housewife with practically a whole new life. Gone are the days of her small apartment, trying to scrap by on the little money she had, and now she’s back with the career she worked hard for. It will be interesting to see how her life will now be depicted on camera but there’s a few things that won’t have changed… Bethenny’s amazing one liners and “no-holding-back” attitude.

And even though one particular former New York Housewife might not agree with Bethenny's return, I couldn’t be more ecstatic that my all-time favourite Housewife is back. Bethenny, it’s time to take your rightful place holding that apple. New York needed you.

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