As Season Nine of Southern Charm gets underway, Austen Kroll can’t help but feel a bit nervous — and anyone who has watched the trailer for the season, or even just the first episode alone, can understand why. The season’s main storyline revolves around an alleged hookup between Kroll and …
Read More »The 'Real Housewives' Scandal Taking a Page From 'Vanderpump Rules'
When it was reported that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards and her husband of 27 years, Buying Beverly Hills boss Mauricio Umansky, were separating after 27 years, my social media feed was filled with sheer devastation. Not since Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow “consciously uncoupled” have I …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion Twist: Was Raquel's Confession Worth the Wait?
The devolution of Tom Sandoval from heel to arch-villain is one of the more compelling arcs in the history of reality television. When he wasn’t flat-ironing his hair, getting dog-walked by Kristen Doute, or slinging drinks at SUR, the emo man-child served as the meek foil to alpha dog — …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion Part 2: Raquel's Stunning Lack of Remorse
One of the funnier moments of Vanderpump Rules’ Season 10 reunion — the first part of it, at least — came when host Andy Cohen revealed that Raquel Leviss had been relegated to watching the proceedings on a closed-circuit television away from the rest of the cast, owing to the …
Read More »DJ James Kennedy Won the Chaotic 'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion
The hotly anticipated Vanderpump Rules Season 10 reunion is finally here — the first of three parts, at least, with the others airing weekly through June 7th — and before we dive headfirst into the muck and the mire, one thing bears mention: Rachel “Raquel” Leviss, one of the women …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Reunion: Watch Ariana and Katie Confront the Toms
One of the more insidious parts of “Scandoval,” the Vanderpump Rules cheating saga that’s scandalized the nation — wherein Tom Sandoval, a terribly insecure former scene kid on the brink of 40 who owns 5% of a bar and fronts a regrettable cover band — carried on an affair with …
Read More »Kristen Doute's 'Vanderpump Rules' Shock Return Is a Full-Circle Moment
“When I think of your ex-boyfriend, I need a drink,” Kristen Doute says to Ariana Madix in the highly anticipated Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale. Doute hasn’t appeared on the Bravo series in nearly two seasons after getting fired in June 2020, but she made her grand return at a …
Read More »Scandoval: Ariana Madix Drags Cheating Ex Tom Sandoval on 'WWHL'
Following the Vanderpump Rules Season 10 finale, Ariana Madix appeared on Watch What Happens Live alongside Andy Cohen and spoke out for the first time since news broke that Tom Sandoval, her ex-boyfriend of nearly a decade, had a months-long affair with their friend and fellow cast member Raquel Leviss. …
Read More »The Ugly Spectacle of Reality TV Tearing Families Apart
The argument is now unironically known as “Pizzagate”: Luis Ruelas, the socially challenged husband of Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice, claims that he lost $250,000 investing in a doomed pizza oven business with his wife’s brother, Joe Gorga. The Bravo fandom (also unironically) ate Pizzagate up and …
Read More »Breaking Down the Earth-Shaking 'Vanderpump Rules' Cheating Scandal
“Where were you when you heard the news?” is a question that normally only applies to the biggest world events. But it’s one that fans of Bravo reality show Vanderpump Rules could not stop asking each other over the weekend. “This can’t be real?!” they posted in unison, even comparing …
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