One minute they are in a hotel suite, making up as Kyle assures Mrs. Grammar that she would never say she was less interesting than her famous husband, the next they are seated for dinner and Kyle is sputtering, “you’re such a f*@%ing liar Camille!” Camille storms off, Kyle turns on her sister Kim, and the next thing you know, Taylor is threatening to “Go Oklahoma” on Kim’s ass.
However, none of that was as painful or awkward as watching acclaimed actor Kelsey Grammer try to act happy to see his wife after the show.
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Having banded together to chase off Lisa Vanderpump, fissures are starting to show in the core group, the Fox Force Five. Kyle and Teddi are sure that Erika should be bothered by an impression Lisa Rinna did of her. Erika assures them she isn’t, but they would rather die before letting it go.
Dorit generously shares the Chairman’s suite with Lisa Vanderpump, keeping her close enough so that she can slide that knife right in between her ribs. Puppygate, the ludicrous fight that brought down Lisa Vanderpump, the one about who may have tipped off Radar Online that Dorit’s Vanderpump dog, Lucy Lucy Apple Juice, ended up in a kill shelter, is just about to jump off.
Erika Girardi really knows how to host a trip. Catered dinners in the Presidential Suite, private backstage Panda access at the zoo, horseback rides across the Bavarian countryside, a sunset cruise followed by dinner at a club so exclusive it’s in an unmarked alley.
It’s fashion week, and everyone’s daughter is walking in a show. Dorit is a model too, she is on the cover of Bella (the magazine, not Yolanda’s other daughter) and she wants to square things away with Lisa Vanderpump before her big launch party.
Teddi Mellencamp may be an accountability coach, but Erika Jane is going to teach her how to gamble responsibly. Never gamble more than you are willing to lose, she counsels her, before she and Dorit start “small” with $5000 in chips each. Aboard the High Roller Ferris wheel, Kyle and Dorit both corner Lisa Rinna hoping to get an apology out of her.
Shopping, Junk Boats, and dinners eaten in front of a wall of windows looking out on Hong Kong harbor. A luxe and colorful setting for some of the most unhinged accusations ever aired on reality TV.
The proxy war between Lisa’s Rinna and Vanderpump continues. Did Lisa Rinna tell Eden that Kim is not sober, and in fact is near death, and that Kyle is her enabler? Yes. She explicitly said all that, and the editors have the clips to prove it. Rinna is flying in the next day, so Vanderpump has time to set her trap.
One of Kyle Richards most perennial storylines is her insecurity about her gorgeous body. She’s talked openly about having an eating disorder in her youth, and it’s sad that a beautiful woman with every reason to be confident suffers from an ever-present diet culture. Which is why it was so thrilling that Erika’s two-woman trip to perform in Mykonos seemed to be designed, start to finish, to draw Kyle out of her shell.
Atlantis, The Palm (and presumably, the Dubai Tourist Commission) pulled out all the stops to make this trip sumptuous. The multiple-story suites are palatial, the jeep drive through the desert dunes at dusk is romantic, and the meet and greet with the hotel sea lion is enough to give Lisa Vanderpump heart palpitations.
“Let’s talk about the husband.” It was supposed to be a charming visit to Amsterdam, hometown of Yolanda Foster, but those five words, spat across the dinner table by Kim Richards, an early prototype of Lindsay Lohan, to Lisa Rinna, the woman who pioneered weaponizing concern, was all it took to send the entire trip careening into chaos before Lisa Vanderpump could even order her signature rosé.