The Real Housewives of OC The Girls Want to Come Out and Play

This week, I was a little overtired and maybe cranky about how "the housewives" seem to be astute enough to judge each other's children, but not their own. For example, Vicki was finely tuned into how rude Shane is, but just a few episodes back, her son, Michael, was evil in the way he made fun of Jeana. When Colton tells Jeana not to have ice cream, Vicki insinuates he should have his face slapped. I wonder what she thought when she viewed Michael's pool party and his trashing of Jeana?

Jeana is judgmental about Lynne's daughter, Raquel, drinking, but oblivious to what Vicki so keenly saw as misbehavior and rudeness from her two sons. I guess it's easier to find fault with kids who aren't your own??

So, this week starts off with Vicki and Jeana visiting Chicago for a multi-purpose trip. Vicki wants to see her high school friends, Jeannie and Tracy, and Jeana wants to take Vicki to see Shane play at Kane County, about 35 miles away.

As usual, Vicki wears me out. She was clearly glad to see her high school friends, but all the talk of "my people" and "thank you for loving me" is exhausting. It was funny to hear Vicki sound so disconnected to Orange County, especially when she said how few friends she has in California. To hear Vicki explain it, "Either other girls are jealous or they don't like me." I am guessing the latter....

Vicki, Jeana, and Vicki's friends sit outside to have a glass of wine and Vicki goes on about not wanting to ever be in a nursing home. Who even contemplates this stuff? Anyway, one of the funnier lines of the evening went to Jeana who imagined being old with Vicki and hearing Vicki say, "Get your ass, pick up your teeth and let's go." I'm sure Jeana is pretty close to on target with that one.

Back in Orange County, it's facelift day for Tamra's mother, Sandra. I can't help but feel sorry for Sandra....she is only 16 years older than Tamra, but she does look quite a bit older than that. Of course, that may be because she is sitting next to Tamra who has one year old boobs, recent filler in her lips, extensions which are a few months old, and probably no parts older than a few years. It's hard to see Tamra as more than the sum of her "parts."

Next it's Lynne and her daughters at some spa that is apparently in a strip mall somewhere. It seemed anything but relaxing with the aesthetician chomping on gum as she applied gel and heat to Lynne's poor face and with Raquel blabbing on the phone and sending numerous texts.

This week, Gretchen is in San Diego to check out a fitness club where she and Jeff may become investors.

Let me first say that I have no problem with the "gold digger" angle to Gretchen and I am the first to step up and defend her about the "naked wasted" cocktail party, but I can't stand the little girl voice or the constant sexual innuendo from Gretchen. I guess that's her schtick, but it's annoying as all hell. If you want to be taken seriously as an investor, drop the sexual double entrendres and the giggling. PLEASE!

Apparently, the concept for the sports club is "nightclub meets fitness." Okay. Fast forward to Gretchen in work out gear for a private pilates lesson. As she bounces up and down on the ball, she laughs and guffaws and says, "Hmmmm. This reminds me of something."

When she lies down on one machine and the instructor straps her feet in, she comments, "Jeff would be really excited about this right now." We're all sure he would be--if he weren't in the hospital, ya know, dying of cancer.

Then of course, the ever-obvious, sitting on the rowing machine like a cow girl and whooping, "HEE HAW!" It's great to be fun and flirty, but it gets to be grating when that's all there is....

Back to Chicago and a night out at Armand's, with a special appearance by FORMER OC Housewife, Kimberly. Vicki continued to suck all the oxygen out of the air by proclaiming these were "her people" and how much she just loved her old friends. I distinctly heard a "Kum Ba Yah" thrown out by Vicki and I felt nauseous.

A very awkward conversation about premarital sex ensued, with Vicki, taking the moralistic high road that she doesn't believe in it. Kimberly and Jeana disagree so Vicki throws Jeana under the bus by announcing that Jeana allows her kids to sleep with boyfriends/girlfriends in her home when they are 16. Jeana was obviously not happy with that remark and have a big old, "Hello, what happened to we're not going there?"

The waitress comes over, just in the nick of time to tell the ladies that, "The gentlemen at the bar would like to buy you a drink." Naturally, as I guessed before the show even aired, that it wasn't a random stranger. It turned out to be her friend, Tracy's husband, Bob Quinn.

High road on the premarital sex issue aside, in Vicki's book, it's perfectly fine to sit on the lap of your friend's husband and announce, "My boobs want to come out and play." Surrrrre it is!! Jeana had another witty line when she told Vicki, "You are molesting your people."

Back at Tamra's, her brother, Kenny, has come by to visit and brought all the old snapshots from when they were kids. A near-tears Tamra, in her interview, explains (again) the TRAUMA of her parents divorce. When she was **25!!** Come on. Boo frickin' hoo. I'm not completely unfeeling, but 25 isn't exactly an age of naivety where this should be a profound sorrow. Why? Because before her parents got divorced, TAMRA was divorced. She should put herself aside (as if) and think about what impact HER divorce had on a very young (and now CREEPY) son.

Another oddity from this scene was Tamra was saying how she plans on seeing her dad in Iowa to mend fences, etc. Then she lets it drop that she hasn't seen him....in 7 months! Considering he's in Iowa and she's in California, I'd hardly call that an estrangement. Seven years? Sure? Half a year--15 years post divorce? She's milking it for dramatic value and so Bravo can expense her trip. Sorry, Tamra, you're just not that good of an actress.

Back in Illinois, Jeana and Vicki are on their way to Kane County for Fan Appreciation Day. In the car, Jeana learns that Shane isn't slated to play in the game and he doesn't want her there just to watch him sit on the bench. The BIGGER picture, I'm sure, is he doesn't want the freakin' Bravo FILM CREW to watch him sitting on the bench. That..I can understand.

The text messages he sends Jeana, though, were beyond harsh. "You'll regret bringing them here." "I swear to God, you guys will regret it, stay the fuck away from here." "I'll never talk to you again, if you come to the game." These missives do little to deter Jeana (and film crew + Vicki) from going anyway. On a side note, I'd love to know what tranquilizers Jeana is on....

After parking the car, Jeana and Vicki make their way onto the field where the team is greeting the fans. Shane takes one look at Jeana and says, "Get the fuck away from me."

Vicki was shocked to see Shane address Jeana that way. Says Vicki, " If my kids ever talked to me that way. I'd slap their face. Period." Somehow, I know she means that.

Jeana takes it in stride..."Well, that's kids. He's grumpy, I guess. He has a lot of pride. It puts pressure on him to have his mommy in the stands."

Ozzy, the team mascot, approaches the duo. Vicki shrieks, "You smell....are you hot in there?" and Jeana acknowledges, "The mascot was happier to see me than Shane was." Shayna, Shane's girlfriend, should really look at how he treats his mother and RUN!!

In the 3rd inning, Vicki lets out an obnoxious "Wooooo" because Shane is coming up to bat. I half wonder if it was because the Bravo film crew was taping...

A vendor approaches Jeana and Vicki offering some kind of ice cream dots and of course, Jeana orders some. Colton, who is sitting behind his mother, reminds her of her diet. It was just last week that a melancholy Jeana complained to her trainer that no one in the family supported her diet. I didn't blame Colton for taking a stand....but Vicki did!

Very firmly, and in quick succession, she utters, "You can't boss your mother around"

"You really gotta stop."

"You're being seriously really rude."

Colton then says, "I don't see why Vicki butts in." To which Vicki replies, "Wow. He needs a slap across his face, doesn't he?" Whoa!

Shane hits a triple and then this fun loving group is off to go and have dinner together. YAY! That oughta be fun.

I make no excuses for Shane....but I had to agree when he said, " I'm gonna have a headache after all you guys." These women (especially Vicki) have no concept of using "indoor" voices. They yell, shriek, and WOO HOO at full volume. That's about where Shane and I part ways, though. He tells Jeana, "You're lucky I didn't throw a bat at you when you walked on the field." When Jeana explains she went because it was Fan Appreciation Day, he corrects her and says, "Yes, an appreciation for fans, not psycho moms."

Somehow, the creepy conversation that started at Vicki's friend's house about nursing homes and "pulling the plug" resurfaces and Shane tells Jeana in an eerily calm tone, "I wouldn't wait to pull the plug, I'll wheel you out right now." I think it was Kimberly who asked why he would say something like that and he answers, "I'd have more money." hahahaha. There was something very unnerving about his delivery....

Back in Orange County, Lynne has decided to host a cocktail party and she has invited the Housewives and her beach friends. Vicki is conspicuously absent. At one point, Lynne comes over to where Gretchen, Tamra, and Simon are congregating and she offers to refill Simon's wine. As she walks away, he exclaims, "She grabbed my ass!" I don't know if she did--Lynne seems to have a dry sense of humor--but it was hilarious all the same.

Lynne initiates a toast to Tamra, the hottest housewife. In her interview, Tamra is beaming as she recalls, "Lynne toasted me as the hottest Housewife and Gretchen backed it up." Flash to Lynne's interview where she dryly says, "We can just let Tamra think so..."

Back to Tamra's interview where she continues, "I don't think there's any argument as to who's the hottest housewife. We're ALL the hottest housewife. You're only as hot as you feel and I am ON FIRE!" Good Lord. The joke truly is on Tamra.

It can't be a COCKTAIL party in OC without Raquel, the booze hound, sneaking drinks in plain sight. Raquel and 4 of her blurred faced cohorts show up in party dresses and start inhaling cocktails. Lynne's policy is, " I can't condone her drinking, but that's just how teenagers are and we were all teenagers once." Actually, Lynne needs to stop letting Raquel guilt trip her about her former drinking as a teen (when, by the way, 18 was the legal age).

Jeana wanders out to the balcony where Raquel and her blurry pals are imbibing and Jeana learns that Raquel attended Laguna High School for freshman and sophomore year, but transferred to "Access at Horizons" for junior and senior year. Jeana knows this is a school for kids with discipline problems...(which makes Lynne's permissiveness even more incredible). Raquel explains that she went to college, but dropped out and when Jeana asks her about her interests or getting a job, Raquel blows her off. Jeana, straight-faced, says in her interview that she doesn't believe in giving kids a free ride and if Raquel doesn't want to go to college, she should be working. Period. And so the episode ends with one Housewife, oblivious to the shortcomings of her own kids...perfectly willing to dole out advice on another's kids.

Next week, the group heads to Vegas. According to Tamra in the previews, Lynne and Gretchen get crazy on the dance floor and Tamra proclaims that it's "disgusting." Seems like the pot calling the kettle black, but my DVR is set....

Whitney's NYC digs

I'm not very familiar with the Gramercy section of NYC, but I did notice that when Whitney's apt is shown from the outside, it appears to be a glass building, but when she was on the balcony with Jay, you could clearly see the brick fascade.

Some googling brought me to "Curbed" and their very own expose. Check it out.

http://curbed.com/archives/2009/01/06/the_city_where_the_heck_is_whitney_living_.php


Whitney is renting at The Elektra on Third Avenue, but the exterior shot is from a more glamorous 325 Fifth Avenue. Here's the photo from Curbed and a good explanation of where, exactly, Whitney is...

The City "He never said he had a girlfriend"

Yep, this aired Monday night. I actually watched it on Tuesday on my DVR, but it left me feeling cold so I took a few days and re-watched it.

I liked the early smack-down of Whitney by Olivia. It was nice to invite Olivia to the Art Opening, but the over-sharing of BS drama was annoying so Olivia was right to call Whit out on that. The petty gossip of who kissed whom is more suited for the Laguna/LA crowd. Sure LC and Brody would totally want the scoop, but New Yorkers wouldn't have any of it. That's about the only semblance of real life on the show, so far. Why on earth would Olivia care about whether Adam cheated on Allie and would it really be palpable in a crowd of a few hundred people at the Opening? I wouldn't have given Olivia credit for being "the smart one," but her line about being 23 and not being in high school anymore? Brilliant!

Flash forward to Bergdorf Goodman, which is erroneously labeled as "Uptown." Does MTV really think no one from NY or the general area would know that Bergdorf is in Midtown on 58th and 5th? Anyway, Catarina and Samantha are having lunch and I can't help but wonder what stops Samantha from getting dental work to eliminate the distracting gap between her two front teeth?

Why does Catarina feel as if she needs to have "like a hundred shots of tequila before going to this thing," meaning the Art Opening? Geez--you kissed a guy who failed to mention he had a girlfriend. Now you know everyone involved will be at this opening--how about not showing up? Go and see a movie instead and get on with your life? I guess because that would be far less dramatic. Samantha tells Cat that she needs to tell Allie, girl to girl, what happened. But why??

While shopping for tequila for the Art Gallery Opening, we see Jay and Adam. Jay asks Adam, flat out, if anything happened. Adam, looking guilty, shrugs but never denies it.

Erin and Whitney are in Whitney's apt, getting ready for the big night out and Erin reiterates how girls have to stick together--as if telling another girl that you kissed her boyfriend is some form of solidarity? Whitney explains that Jay is siding with Adam.


Finally--on to the Opening on the Lower East Side. Whitney shows up wearing some type of headgear that makes her look like a hippie, straight out the 60s, except it's gold and glittery. And ridiculous. Olivia, and her (prostitute hiring) cousin, Nevan arrive. Cue Samantha and Cat and feel the tension as Adam sees them from across the crowded room.

Allie mentions how it "feels like high school" because Cat has told everyone that she wants to talk to Allie, but she hasn't made a move. That makes two dimwits, in one episode, who realize this show is a regression from the days of Laguna Beach. Even that show, which was about high school felt LESS like high school than this. Good grief.

Catarina and Samantha move into Whitney's circle, but just stand around laughing and Allie notes it's "Awkward, awkward, awkward." Finally, Allie makes the move to clear the air and Cat explains that she and Adam did kiss, but he never told her he had a girlfriend. She continues, "I can't live with a lie." Holy drama.

Allie asks Cat to look her in the eye and, no bullshit, tell her what happened. Cat repeats that she and Adam kissed and a sad tear falls down Allie's face.

After completing her mission of telling Allie the grizzly truth, Cat says, "I can't be here anymore," to which Allie replies, "You can't be here anymore? I can't go home anymore. How about that?"

For some reason, Cat begins crying and Allie takes off for the ladies room, followed by Whitney. Adam asks Jay what's going on and although he has been nowhere near the drama, he tells Adam that Cat spilled the beans and Allie is crying in the bathroom. Adam goes to Allie and Whitney returns to Cat where she tells her friends, "Allie is NOT okay." Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Allie is sobbing and Adam wants to go home and talk about it.

Out on the street, the couple agrees that Allie will go back to the apt and Adam will stay elsewhere until they can work things out and Allie disappears into a cab.

Back at Olivia's, she is debriefing the night before with Nevan. They are mocking the group who attended the Art Opening (Nevan says, "Oh, yeah, I wear a fedora and live downtown," in his best hipster impersonation). He points out that he and Olivia grew up "Uptown" and as they throw stones at the others, I imagine Nevan's mugshot photo in my mind and laugh. At Nevan.



I guess hiring a prostitute in exchange of Oxycontin and getting arrested are deliciously "Uptown."


Whitney and Jay have a strained convo at Whitney's apt (*more about Whitney's apt in next post) about Adam and the alleged kiss. Jay insists that he believes Adam's version of events because he asked Adam and Adam said nothing happened (which wasn't exactly the truth from what we saw). Whit tells Jay she thinks Jay's friends are a reflection of who he is and Jay, smartly, points out that she's taking it a bit too far.

Meanwhile, down in SoHo, Adam waits for Allie in a bar and when she shows up, in Ice Queen mode, Adam insists Cat made the whole thing up. Allie relives the moment when Cat told her and she says Cat seemed like she felt soooo bad, to which Adam quickly deflects, "Maybe she felt so bad since she knew she was lying." Wow. Allie says she knows how much she loves Adam and how they "always said they'd be a team" and so she reverses herself and now refuses to believe Cat. (Side note--Allie and Adam know each other about as long as Jay and Whitney have known each other so when she uses the phrase "We always said we'd be a team"....the ALWAYS, at this point, is about a few months). Perspective.

Allie and Adam leave the bar arm-in-arm and that's the end of the show. What a mind-numbing waste of 22 minutes.

The previews for next week look as idiotic. Kelly Cutrone tells Allie she's too skinny and Allie's feelings get hurt. Is this the best this show can do? With a backdrop like Manhattan and the premise of a young LA girl taking the fashion biz by storm, we have a male model who clearly kissed another girl, girl reports this to his girlfriend, drama ensues and male model and too-skinny female model patch things back up? Is this show even about Whitney or is she flat out too boring to carry a thirty minute show?

Vicki Gunlavson interview on MSN

http://tv.msn.com/vicki-gunvalson-interview/?gt1=28130

I ran into this article online and it's a pretty interesting follow up to what has to have been a rough season for Vicki on The Real Housewives of OC. She addresses her marital problems, her dislike of Gretchen and Lynne and basically tries to "set the record straight."

Some interesting quotes:

I want to give you the opportunity to set the record straight then. Go ahead and address the many misperceptions that viewers may have of you.

Much of the misperception is that I'm not compassionate or I'm not soft-hearted. I cry and I pray every day, and I do all of the things that make me whole. That's not portrayed out there because maybe I didn't expose it to the cameras. I am sensitive. I'm probably one of the most misunderstood people on TV. People just don't understand me yet, and they're never going to from only getting seven minutes of me a week. That's the hard part. They don't show me going to church every week. They don't show me praying and reading my Bible every night. That's personal. They don't show me crying with my kids, saying, "Am I doing a good job as a mother?" and their saying, "Absolutely, Mom." They don't show all of that.



Totally believable that she asks her kids if she's a good mom. It's right up there with "Wouldn't you slit your wrists if something happened to me?" and "Are you proud of me?"

Viewers will want to know how things are going with you and your husband, Donn.

Amazing. We just got back from Puerto Vallarta. We went into a tough season -- and all marriages have a season -- and I don't think the show has been good for our marriage. But we actually sat down about a month ago and I said, "I really hurt Donn's feelings." I sent him flowers and cards, and told him how sorry I was and how I didn't want to lose him as a husband. I love him. He accepted my apology and said that he hadn't been the perfect husband either and maybe he wasn't "filling the love tank." But he said, "I love you more than anything and don't want to divorce you. I don't want you to divorce me. I want to live forever with you." We made a conscious decision to be better toward each other. And it's been amazing.


I am genuinely glad to read this because Vicki's treatment of Donn has been difficult to watch. I hope she was able to redeem her nonsense about "love tanks" and wanting to be single.

Also, we want to know: Are you friends with these ladies in real life? Or is that something that happens in front of the camera?

I'm not friends with Gretchen and Lynne. I just met them this year. I don't know them at all. I don't even have their phone numbers. In hindsight, I wish we would have been mixed with our friends; it would have been a lot easier. Tammy Knickerbocker was friends with Jeanna. And I was friends with Tammy, so we all blended a little easier. There was no catfighting and negativity. And now we bring in all these people that we don't know, and it's hard! It's really hard. So, no, we're not friends. I'm friends with Jeanna and Tamra, and that's it. The other two, I have no desire to spend any time with. I only have 24 hours in a day, and I'm going to spend it with people I like.


"The other two?" I don't love all my coworkers either, but this quote just about says it all. In other words, when the producers appease Vicki and choose only the few people she chooses to befriend, there is no catfighting or negativity? I guess she's playing into their hands because the ratings are way up this season--due to the catfighting and negativity.

Read the article and the 200 comments that follow. Poor "misunderstood" Vicki...
http://tv.msn.com/vicki-gunvalson-interview/?gt1=28130

Kids (and their moms) behaving badly

I watched The Real Housewives of OC last night and I am so uninspired.....this program has become a showcase for kids behaving badly and parents making excuses. What did amuse me is how much each housewife was willing to criticize the parenting skills of the others, while ignoring their own monsters....

I'll have to re-watch the episode to comment, but this was not my favorite episode.

The Bachelor

Okay---time to come clean. I am not a Bachelor/Bachelorette fan...I saw Season One because the guy, whose name escapes me (Alex?) was from Darien, CT and I lived there when the show aired. I found the show unbelievably degrading (usually a plus in Reality TV World).

Maybe it was the intro with 25 characters, who soon would be thinned to 15 and the pressure of trying to figure out who was who, etc, that I gave up. Briefly, last spring, I got sucked back in. I was moving to a new apartment, I didn't have cable and I watched Matt, "London Calling" on ABC's web site. I hated myself, but I watched every single episode.

Summer came and I missed Deanna, apparently....I dodged a bullet with her. I have read articles about her and she annoys me through osmosis.

Jason, the single dad from Seattle....well, he was new to me and I have to confess to liking the 2 hour format. I can DVR, fast forward, and get through it in no time. I have been watching, secretly, since the new season started.

I'm still not a fan of the format or the drama ("One lady will lose her chance at happiness forever..."), yet I watch and fast forward. Now I have never seen a season of this show which featured a bachelor or bachelorette with a child, but I have to note the desperation with which these women feel compelled to tell Jason how much they want a family and can't wait to be a step-mom to Ty. The child has a biological mother so back off with the maternal hormones.

Until now, no episode made me want to admit watching...until tonight!!

I loved, loved, loved the two-on-one date!! I could never figure out why Nikki got the first impression rose in the first episode. The woman has SIDEBURNS!!!! She also admits to being controlling and when she isn't fully prepped, she can't have a basic conversation. She needed to go.

I know, in my heart, that Stephanie will not last much longer, but I will miss the episode where I don't hear how her husband died tragically in a plane crash. Yes, my heart goes out to her--having a 10 week old baby when her husband died, but all deaths are TRAGIC. Can we skip that word? Please?? And "daddy taking a flight to heaven?" It got me the FIRST time I heard it....not the 33rd time.

Still, my girl Steph (scary botox eyes and all) beat out the sideburned beauty queen (and Steph had a mean tango to boot) and I was joyous.

The final rose ceremony was awesome. Megan--here's a tip--when your whole voiceover has to be bleeped for using the "f" word, don't count on snagging the guy with a pre-schooler. You kept saying last week how DEEP you were and how nobody got you. I kinda doubt it.

Shannon!! STALKER from her first moment on the screen. Self-professed "tooth nazi" with the worst overbite of the group. I sorta liked the fact the Shannon never felt like she should comb her hair or how last week, post vomiting, she threw her arms around Jason who chose her (maybe because he was scared she would boil Ty's bunny--she knows, from Wikipedia about his pets and his brother's girlfriend). I am still a little shaken that her in her exit interview, she said she was going home to "French kiss" her dog. YIKES!!

That left Lauren, when Jason pulled his "trifecta diss" by not giving out a rose and eliminating only two. Miss Bossy Pants, as Dr Phil would ask, "How's that workin' for ya?" The only empathy I felt for her was that last week, Jason asked her who the troublemakers were and she told. He, of course, kept Megan, making it tres awkward for HER. Instead of being in a snit about his not giving her the rose she demanded, she should have called him out on his sissy-ness (is that a word?)

I should add that I am not on Team Jason. I am worn out on his "I know how you feel because I was there" and the way he insists on macking these girls at the parties where he lines up one after the next...As for his technique of touching the girls' jawline as he kisses them, it seems forced...well, actually the whole show is so who am I kidding?

I didn't mind Matt from London as much because he just made a grand fool of himself. I like this season less because it involved not only a single dad, but several single moms. I know it's realistic of today's dating scene, but I hope private individuals don't pimp their kids out as much as we see on this season of "The Bachelor."

I hear buzz that Melissa could be "the one." She's the ex Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. Apparently, she was on another tv show associated with that. I don't find her particularly interesting, but Jason seems low key (read: boring) so it might just work. I like Steph, but there's no chemistry. Jillian, from Canada, annoys me--from her initial hotdog crap (that I swear I read in a forwarded email about 8 years ago) to her accent....let's just say, I don't get it. Molly from the tent? I thought she went home last week so color me surprised when she showed up for the one-on-one date.

Tonight's episode started off as a drag and post General Hospital, I wondered if all wrap parties involved tears and razor blades....I was glad the rose ceremonies were slightly exciting so I'll be sure to turn in for another week!

Just a thought

One thing about being Bravo's bitch--I HATE being played by them (the "To Be Continued" and the editing where you watch a meal and conversations are sliced because entire courses appear and disappear and the conversation is taped together).

Anyway, Bravo has played the promo of Vicki shrieking to some poor guy at the bar, "Do you wanna buy me a glass of wine?" Then we see him kissing her, like a sister. Notice--in both scenes, there is a short haired blonde in the frame. As he kisses Vicki, his arm is around "that woman," not Vicki.

It feeds into the delusion Vicki (and Tamra) have about their "fans." Remember the Lake Havasu escapade, with Vicki and Tamra calling off the bow of the boat about OC is in da house? They were trying to appeal to some imaginary fans (the kind who fling soaking wet nerf footballs at Vicki's skull). I think the whole thing is a fake set up. As castrated as Donn clearly is...the only explanation for his not grabbing his balls out of Vicki's Louis Vuitton handbag is that the woman is a fan and asked Vicki to speak (shriek at) her hubby.

The kissing man, as mortified as he would be under other circumstances, isn't blurred out. I'm convinced the unidentified woman is his wife who brought Vicki over. I think Bravo is playing us with these upcoming clips. Just a random thought....