The first days were magical, all seafood on the beach and intimate conversations about widowhood on the bow of the boat (in the shadow of a towel held aloft by a yachtie to protect Ramona’s freshly Fraxeled skin). Then SHE landed. Aviva Drescher arrived with a suitcase of monochromatic bikinis and an emotional support Reid.
Sonja and Ramona, incensed that a woman who once lost a leg to a mechanical thresher might need support to ride a prop plane, started a fight that ended with the epitaph that will one day be etched on Ramona’s mausoleum, “Take a XANEX, calm DOOOOWN!”
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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.