Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Tonight was the premiere of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and my verdict? Fantastic!

From the opening credits to the (literal) closing arguments, the latest installment of Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise came out hard tonight with enough bling to blind the strongest pair of eyes for decades. Like I said in my meet and greet articles on the Housewives, these women probably don’t know the phrases “foreclosure” or “sex tape.” There isn’t a hidden book that could reveal a sordid past. They’re the names Bravo have been looking for, and by God they have struck gold!

Tonight’s premiere was mostly introductory, but quickly gave us some tidbits of drama to whet our appetites for what’s to come. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of the premiere.

The Housewives

Adrienne and Lisa are the two women who stood out the most to me tonight. Not saying that the other women aren’t fun to watch, but Lisa’s complete dissing of her husband for her gay trainer Cedric and her pup Giggy is classic TV in the making. Adrienne dropping that kid immediately won me over beside the fact that she owns the Palms, which is on my bucket list of places to visit before I die.

Watching Camille Grammer interact with Kelsey Grammer was kind of awkward, knowing what’s to come for them. Other than that, I’m sending my resume to Camille to be the next nanny for her kids, because they make $50,000 – $65,000 dollars a year. And she has four nannies. I think she could have five.

As for Taylor, I’m scared she might be in the same boat as Camille in terms of faltering marriages. Finding out through a press The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 1.01 Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wealthiness Review release from your husband’s company that he dumped $10 million into some other woman’s film studio could be a sign of a problematic marriage. Taylor’s way of dealing? Botox injections. In abundance. That was the most disturbing scene yet in a Housewives show involving botox, but they do say you have to bleed to be beautiful. They can keep that.

The Richards sisters will definitely have majority of the drama on the show. You wouldn’t think that Kim is the older of the two by the way Kyle talks to and treats her. Kim’s isolation rubs the other women the wrong way, as we saw with Taylor, who was already not feeling her. Kyle’s brash nature will give her the title of the West Coast Bethenny Frankel. It doesn’t surprise me that the two are close friends.

The Husbands

The guys behind these women got more screen time than any of their counterparts, except Taylor’s husband, who only showed how much of a potential weasel he might be.

Kudos to Kelsey Grammer for not being a stuck up snob by taking time out to be interviewed for the show. While some of the other women think that Camille hides behind Kelsey’s fame, Kelsey declares that this show will help Camille shine for once. Oh how sad it’s going to be to see the Grammers’ marriage crumble on screen…

Ken Todd’s only worry is that Cedric is a legitimate gay man, which I’m sure he is, but he does hang with Lisa a bit much. I’m shocked that he even let the guy stay on their property rent free. Only in Beverly Hills. Dr. Paul Nassif seems to channel some Joe Giuidice, but not too much…which is a good thing. He seems to be my favorite Househusband so far, because he and Adrienne’s marriage could easily be a sitcom. Finally, we have Kyle’s husband Mauricio Umansky, who contradicted Kyle by saying that she had a spending problem after Kyle blasted Kim for the same thing. He must’ve seen what Joe “Meatball” Giudice went through and put the brakes on Kyle’s shopping habit really quick.

Verdict

This installment of the ever growing Housewives franchise is a keeper. It completely made me forget that the Real Housewives of D.C. Reunion had just ended. Beverly Hills, we welcome you with open arms.

What did you guys think?

Kim Richards

Former child star Kim Richards, who is getting ready to try her luck in the reality TV, met her niece Paris Hilton before she agreed to share her life with the world on the hit reality show, ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’. Hilton told her simply “to be yourself” and everything would remain the same.

The Simple Life celebutante was fearless on the show and she was not worried about what people think about her and Richards said the same. But Real Housewives is like this only. People come on the show with an aim not to reveal too much about themselves but they end up revealing more than warranted.

“In the beginning, I said, ‘I don’t care what anybody thinks – I am who I am,’ ” Richards says. “But then, when some of the drama and conflict and humiliation and embarrassing moments came up, I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, what have I done?’

“When push comes to shove, there were moments that I just thought, ‘Oh, I wish people just didn’t see that. I wish we could redo that. I wish I could take that back.’ But you can’t.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premieres tonight and you never know that you will new a side of Richards on the show. First, the show will talk about Richards’ early stardom in TV’s Nanny and the Professor and in Disney’s Escape to Witch Mountain. Then the show will proceed and show Richards, now in her mid-40s. Then she will be shown as a flake, who does not think twice about spending money.

Camille Grammer

Camille Grammer says becoming a new member of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise has helped her through her divorce from “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer.

Camille Grammer, who stars in “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” filed for divorce in July, citing “irreconcilable differences.” The couple had been married for 13 years and have two children, 9-year-old daughter Mason and 6-year-old son Jude.

“I’m glad that I decided to do the show because it’s been a diversion,” the 42-year-old former Playboy model said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I have these wonderful, five very strong, successful women right there supporting me through this.”

In the season premiere, which airs Thursday, Kelsey Grammer is seen leaving for New York to star in Broadway’s “La Cage aux Folles.” His ex-wife says at the time she had no idea divorce was on the horizon and was preparing to relocate her family to New York.

“It was hard for me. It definitely brought a tear to my eye,” she said of seeing the first episode. “… I think I give him a kiss (goodbye) and I say ‘I love him.’ I was supposed to move in that summer.”

Watching the episode was also an emotional experience for her fellow housewives.

“You were totally blindsided,” said castmate Lisa Vanderpump. “It was hard to watch for us as well. It gives me goosebumps thinking about it.”

Vanderpump, a British restaurant owner and mother of two, says Grammer’s divorce brought the women closer together.

“It was tough for her, very tough. … You’re not just opening the gates to your house, you’re opening the gates to your heart, your life,” Vanderpump said. “And it’s like an express train, sometimes things kind of run away with you.”

“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET.

Kelsey Grammer Divorce

We’ve seen a lot of drama courtesy of The Real Housewives.  The premiere season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills gives us the first up-close-and-personal view of a celebrity couple divorce done in reality TV glory.

Camille Grammer, the soon-to-be ex-wife of actor Kelsey Grammer, is featured on the new Bravo TV show and credits the reality show with helping her through the meltdown of her marriage.

The couple were married for thirteen years before Camille filed for divorce in July.  They have two children - 9-year-old daughter Mason and 6-year-old son Jude.

What does Camille think of having her marriage disintegrate on reality tv?



“I’m glad that I decided to do the show because it’s been a diversion,” Camille tells The Associated Press. “I have these wonderful, five very strong, successful women right there supporting me through this.”

The show may have been a contributing factor in the breakdown of their marriage.  It is rumored that Kelsey wasn’t a fan of her joining the show.   Camille describes herself as ‘the powerhouse behind Kelsey Grammer’.

The season premiere shows Kelsey leaving his wife in Beverly Hills to head to New York to star in a Broadway show.  Camille and the children were set to follow him cross country over the summer before the couple decided to call it quits.

“It was hard for me. It definitely brought a tear to my eye,” Camille says of the premiere. “I think I give him a kiss (goodbye) and I say ‘I love him.’ I was supposed to move in that summer.”

It turned out to be a very busy summer for Kelsey as his wife filed for divorce and weeks later it was announced that he was expecting a baby with his 20-something girlfriend (she subsequently suffered a miscarriage).

What do you think of watching Kelsey and Camille’s marriage crumble on reality tv?