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Real Housewives' Beau Dies, And Part Of Me Thinks Kandi Dodged A Bullet
REALITY ENCROACHED ON THE SURREALITY TV SHOW, Real Housewives of Atlanta when Kandi Burruss' former beau died after being beaten outside an Atlanta strip club.
Ashley A.J. Jewell died at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital Friday night after being injured outside Body Top, a club in Midtown Atlanta that he partly owned. Atlanta policed have charged club employee Fredrick Richardson with voluntary manslaughter.
Jewell's ex-girlfriend, R&B singler Kandi Burriss, is new to the Bravo series this season, with Jewell played a bit part as her fiance. What's not been revealed yet to the viewers is that the two were on "hiatus,'' as Kandi put it in an interview with Essence.
I spent Friday night with family members viewing old episodes of Real Housewives.
We were looking for the altercation between Sheree and her first event planner.
Someone wondered aloud about AJ. “He’s quiet,” I told her. “Doesn’t have much personality,” said my sister. “And her mother doesn’t like him.” He didn't get mom's seal of approval because he had six children with four different mothers.
So it was shocking to get a call Saturday morning telling me that he’d been killed. I was really upset and I don’t know why. Maybe because it was another senseless killing outside of a club. Or maybe because I always felt that he was the kind of guy who would get into an altercation outside of a club and be killed.
Could it be because I really like Kandi and thought he was too immature for her so, o well, problem solved? Kandi Twittered her sadness, her concern for AJ's kids and family.
"Why is it that every TIME something great is happening in your life it seems like its accompanied by something tragic?," she wrote to the blog, Hello Beautiful.
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Fans poured out their hearts on BravoTV's website.
So far, no comment from Kandi's mom.
SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes frequently on TV, America's favorite snack food.
