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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Some of the things LuAnn says, oh, excuse me, the COUNTESS says, seem insincere. Like when she was thanking the guy at the table after the "etiquette" lunch.

I wonder why Ramona always has to one-up everyone else. Is she really that insecure? Whatever, it's totally annoying. (Her talking to the guv is a prime example.)

Alex and Simon need to join a fitness club and work out. Their pasty white flabby bodies are really off-putting. If they had some muscle tone maybe it wouldn't remind me of worms, but... eesh.

Bethenney and Jill seem to be the most real. I like Kelly and don't really see the attitude some of you do. Yet. Maybe she was brought on so they could get rid of Alex or Ramona? :-)

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 8:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
PAsty, white, flabby bodies................
ROFLMBBAO !!!!

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Csnog a private message Print Post    
I find myself enjoying Simon & Alex's screen time this year.
They are different, of course, but I think Simon is aware of the absurdity of the show and in a way seems he's in on the joke. They will give Ramona a ton of material this season and it would be boring without that.

The boarding school is more about good connections which is a priority for LouAnn and I wonder if her marriage might be in trouble.

Ramona was and will continue to be the nutty personality on the show but I did feel for her when Kelly left her to go talk to someone else and treated her poorly.

Brittany seems to have larger cleavage this year. Anyone else think she had implants installed?

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Bethenny? Oh, she definitely has paid-for boobs. As to when she paid for 'em, I dunno. I can't remember if they were like that last season.

Nyheat
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08-09-2006

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 5:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nyheat a private message Print Post    
dammit, i will never catch this show again until the end of the season. i fall asleep too early these days.

hopefully they will rerun episodes on a Saturday so i don' get too far behind.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 5:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
They actually rerun 'em all week long, both days and evenings.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
I love Bethany more now than before!! Bethany and Jill were on Ellen, and when she talked about Alex, she did make a joke (Silex - as in they are inseparable) but - she truly defended them, talking about their work hours etc....

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
I recorded Ellen today (cuz I was in a meeting), so I'll have to be sure to watch it and not delete it. And I think both those two are my favs, too!

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
PAsty, white, flabby bodies................
ROFLMBBAO !!!!


LOL..the worms got me. Ugh..I just won't be able to look @ them again. Thanks, Costa! Hah! Hah!

I ff through them already anyway. I like the new gal, Kelly, also and don't understand Betheny's dislike for her.

I so want to like Ramona, but she just has no control over her thought to mouth process..none whatsoever.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 6:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Sorry, but that's just what I see when I see Simon! :-)

I wanted to like Ramona a long time ago. I've since given up. She has no control, and doesn't want any.

And I like Kelly, too!

Oregonguy
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02-12-2006

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oregonguy a private message Print Post    
dont have the link but there was a report that the new girl kelly got arrested last week for punching her boyfriend in the face.

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Csnog a private message Print Post    
Yes, Kelly was arrested on March 5th and Alex was laid off from her job at Victoria Secret. Good thing filming is over.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Was Alex a model for VS?? I've never thought she was pretty at all.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Ok, Ramona has absolutely no filter on her mouth. She just says whatever comes into her little brain. Good grief.

Msbullwnkl
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08-16-2005

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Msbullwnkl a private message Print Post    
No, Alex did something with displays at Victoris's Secret. But worked from home.

Lotsofkids
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08-11-2007

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lotsofkids a private message Print Post    
Real Housewives‘ Alex McCord Out of a Job
March 10, 2009
Count Alex McCord as one of the millions of Americans being hit by the bad economy.
The Real Housewives of New York City star, known for going on extravagant shopping trips with her husband Simon Van Kempen, was just laid off from her visual merchandising job at Victoria’s Secret.
“Now I’m more a Real Housewife than I ever have been before!” McCord tells PEOPLE. “The whole time this show’s been on people have said ‘Define this term housewife,’ ‘Are you a real housewife?’ And I always said, ‘Well, I own a house and I am a wife! But now I’m a real housewife.”
The layoff was not related to McCord’s being on the Bravo reality show. The loss of her full-time job was one of 90 positions cut at the company’s New York headquarters — part of a 10-percent reduction in the brand’s workforce.
McCord had been at the job for two years. She started after a period of freelancing when her sons, Francois and Johan — with Van Kempen — were young. “I had a great time, and even up until the last week I was there, I was gaining new skills,” she says. “My job was my green zone — when I was not Alex from Real Housewives but Alex who’s in beauty.”
What’s next? “The challenge will be to find something meaningful to do, where I am the real Alex McCord and not just a Real Housewife,” she says. Of course, that will depend a lot on employers, and whether they look at her resumé and skills as a graphic artist, “or if they’ll expect me to come into the interview wearing a leopard-print dress, looking for connections,” she says with a laugh.
Personal Finances
The McCord-VanKempens have a plan to manage the financial storm. “Alex has got until the end of April [when her severance package runs out] to replace her income,” VanKempen tells PEOPLE, “otherwise we’ll have to start cutting back on discretionary income.”
Since VanKempen still has his job as a hotel manager, McCord says the family shouldn’t have trouble paying their monthly bills. But her salary was the one that tended to pay for their infamous shopping sprees, not to mention the cost of their full-time nanny.
“If we need to make cutbacks, that’s easy: don’t go shopping!” McCord notes. As for their annual trips to St. Barth’s, “That’s still happening. But if it comes to needing to make cutbacks, I would rather not shop than have to add to the unemployment by laying off our nanny. And that has nothing to do with not wanting to take care of our children … She has a family as well, and that would be terrible for her.”
But won’t they miss the shopping? She reveals: “Those shopping sprees that you see on the show? That’s only once or twice a year. We don’t have time to shop like that. We do killer kamikaze shopping sprees for like two hours and then don’t shop for six months.” – Mark Dagostino

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
What in the world is "visual merchandising?" I've never heard of it before. The descriptive words of Alex and her husband just don't seem to mix with Victoria Secret.

Tonight's show was interesting. Wow! These ladies all talk about each other behind their backs and right to their faces, lol. It's okay for the Countess to make faux pas, but no one else had better. Yikes! She and Ramona are like oil and water. I don't understand why she volunteered Ramona for the Cancer dinner when it's clear she doesn't like being around her one bit.

What is Betheny talking about when she said everyone wants to be her and they must be jealous of her? While she's sort of pretty in a very angular way, she's not all that. She seems to have a hard time keeping a guy, so no..I don't think all women want to be her. She thinks very highly of herself and seems to desperately want to meet someone to marry, but it won't happen if she tells the guy how great she is and he'll see how desperate she is to settle down. Actually, Ramona had a point in telling her to just go out and have fun and don't think about being serious right now. That's when she might actually meet someone.

Ramona did well in picking a husband. I like him a lot. He knows her well and seems to adore her. She doesn't bug him by being herself. They seem to enjoy each other's company.

Jhezzie
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07-05-2001

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhezzie a private message Print Post    
Visual merchandising is the designing of displays of goods to attract sales. Like staging a home to sell. Also, the seasonal decor of a store falls into this. Like the store windows at Christmas. I'm surprised at their careers, actually. I never knew what they did. I'm sure they make ok livings, but not as hoity as they pretend, lol.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 2:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Ramona's husband is easy on my eyes.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 3:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Maybe Bethenny did go on a bit too much about the photo retouching comment by LuAnn, but why did LuAnn have to mention it in the first place? For LuAnn to talk about Bethenny carrying on too much about this, then...SHE went on and on SO much more about Ramona's comment! What a hypocrite!

Geesh, Ramona apologized a hundred times, and initially called him an "older" man, not an OLD man! I thought LuAnn was the expert on manners and etiquette...my butt!

Holy catfight, I just defended Ramona!

Lilfair
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07-09-2003

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 3:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lilfair a private message Print Post    
LuAnn's book on manners must be targeted for the "mean girls" in middle school. The retouching comment was more than rude and obviously came from jealousy.

What a different feel from last season. I pretty much liked all of them last time but this season the ladies seem much less likable...although I'm feeling better about Alex and her husband. The blow up kiddie pool scene cracked me up. I was a bit embarrassed for them but it hit the funny, bless their hearts.

Bethany seems to have become full of herself and that makes me sad since I thought she was the most down to earth of them all.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 3:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
The blow-up kiddie pool cracked me up!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 3:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Ha ha on the blow-up pool! I think the way they contrasted Ramona's pool, then Silex's, was what made it so funny...that, and the mention by Simon that sometimes they go into the pool with a "glaawss of wine". Ya just can't buy this stuff!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 4:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I can't believe I'm doing this, but I have to agree with Silex that having a yard big enough to put a blow-up pool is a luxury in NYC. NYC can have some brutal summers.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 4:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
YIKES! First I agree with Ramona, then Lexie agrees with Silex! The world must be spinning in the wrong direction!