

For this trip, the girls didn’t venture outside the tri-state area, which may be why they got along a little too well. Ramona Singer, a woman famous the world over for trying to claim the best room in a villa or hotel by any means necessary, only to then clutter it with spilled makeup and macramé, suggested that everyone just choose a hotel key luck of the draw.
Promisingly, there was a VIP bar, but no one got smashed enough to require Luann to act as a snatch guard.

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Satchels of gold, satchels of gold. Bethenny Frankel, the first truly famous Housewife, was ascendent this season, her feud with ex-friend Jill Zarin and her pregnancy belly both burgeoning. You might even say that she was “up here” and Kelly Bensimon was “down here.” And thus the scene was set for Scary Island.