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We Love Our Wealthy Friends: A New York Housewives Recap

By Sexy Chatty Catty

SexyChattyCattyLUANN INTRODUCES US TO HER FRIEND AND NEW HOUSEWIFE, SONJA MORGAN, who's rich, blonde and thin.

She's the epitome of the gay divorceé. We see her shopping at Dior, doing yoga and getting Botox. She loves sex and is playing around with model Max, the same Max Kelly recently (is dating?) dated.

LuAnn's visiting to borrow clothing for her Cocktails and Couture party. Sonja tells her she has a Palm Beach closet, a Colorado closet and I guess, a New York closet. She intercoms her housekeeper to throw some clothes in the elevator to her and they arrive just thrown on the floor. As they go through them they discover a Chanel suit, never worn, that cost $3,100. I die.

She offers to do the Cocktails and Couture party at her fabulous townhouse. How do we know it's fabulous? When she tells LuAnn if it's more than a couple hundred they’ll just have to do it on two floors. LuAnn says she loves her wealthy friends. Really, she said that.

At lunch with Bobby, Jill fakes shell shock at seeing Bethany at Ramona's house. It seems Bethenny had given her a letter for Bobby apologizing, again, for not knowing how ill he was and coming to see him in person. Then she spews to us the garbage of "all the things she did to me" -- the toxicity bullshit. Sweet Bobby thinks they should bury the hatchet but she would still prefer to bury it in Bethenny's head.

Bethenny's relationship with her father must be really bad since he wouldn't see her after she flew all the way to LA. She meets up with Alex at the South Street Seaport and tells her about the awful meeting with Jill. She's tell us that she's finally realizing that the Jill nonsense isn’t important.

Meanwhile Jill and lapdog LuAnn meet up in Central Park. Jill’s really impressed with the Countess title and seems to always use it when talking about LuAnn. I'm sure she'll soon throw it around at parties. LuAnn says she wants to do the sweat lodge thing for cleansing. Doesn't this news reach the Upper East Side? They chat about dating and LuAnn says she's met someone she likes, a younger French guy who's dark-skinned and Jewish, whom, she says, would have given her ex a heart attack. Jill says Jewish guys are the best.

Ramona puts on a negligee, pops some champagne and entices Mario to renew their vows since they're still so hot for each other after 16 years.

Alex is preparing for the Brooklyn fashion show. She and Kelly will be walking the runway. Somewhere along the line Ramona has asked the designer if she could walk as well and was told of course. Doesn’t she realize it’s in his best interest to keep all these rich ladies happy? She's not a model and I just can’t imagine her up there. Meanwhile she queries the "real" models on how she should walk and pose.

Jill comes and disses everything: the step and repeat is near some garbage, argues with Kelly over the email she sent, tells Ramona her necklace doesn’t match her dress and her bra is showing. Ramona says she's just jealous and I think she’s right this time. Go figure.

Jill goes on and on about how out of place and overdressed she feels among these Brooklyn cretins. She remarks that the Countess wouldn't have even entered the joint. Kelly models a gorgeous yellow gown which looks good on her but she laments her football shoulders in strapless. Jill says Alex looks serious and mean and has body of model but maybe not the face. And then Ramona appears. She comes out all bugged eyed and side-to-side crazy walking in a tight black dress with white piping that I really love. Jill, sitting with Simon, cracks up and says she looks like an alien. I must agree. Jill leaves immediately. Ramona feels hurt that she didn’t say anything to anyone and never offered any support all evening.

There's a little vignette on Kelly taking Simon shopping for clothes since she thinks he has the worst taste. Weird. Maybe he does dress like a lunatic but let Simon be Simon. I hate to think of him giving up his red latex pants.

We finally see Bethany taking a pregnancy test -- on the toilet. Was that really necessary? She can’t get in touch with Jason so she calls one of her real friends, she feels she has to break the news to someone. She asks if she's supposed to be fat now. Please. She says they didn’t plan it but if they weren’t using birth control they kinda did.

Jill hosts a Kodak event. LuAnn tells Jill she invited Sonja and extols her virtues: fabulous townhouse, gives great parties. Since Jill runs with a fabulous crowd she wonders why she doesn't know her. Ramona comes and immediately disses Kodak to Jill, calling the company antiquated and close to bankruptcy and wonders why she would get involved with them. She really gets into it with Jill then notes her lack of support during the fashion show. Voices get raised and they each call the other insensitive until Jill just tells Ramona to just go away.

Then Ramona feels attacked by the tallness of LuAnn and Kelly towering over her while defending Jill. She makes the mistake of telling Kelly she’s not a businesswoman and Kelly calls her impossibly rude.

Sonja Morgan appears to break up the tension. Jill asks if that's a Judith Lieber belt she’s wearing and Sonja ignores the question. Then Kelly finds out that Sonja's dating model Max. She looks a bit put out. Turns out Sonja has known Ramona forever and tells the ladies a story about some showdown over a dress at a sample sale. She says Ramona's been crazy a long time.

During Jill's presentation Ramona starts up with Kelly and causes a scene. So Jill tells us she feels betrayed by Ramona. Uh-oh Ramona, you’re now on the list.

SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes on TV, America's favorite snack food.

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