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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
11/26: Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion recap
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Meow! It’s “The Real Catfights of Atlanta!”
The hour-long special, taped two weeks ago at the Biltmore, was packed with delightfully tasty battles among NeNe Leakes, Kim Zolciak and a surprisingly verbal Lisa Wu Hartwell. (DeShawn and Sheree were nonfactors.)
Before the first commercial break, NeNe went after Kim. Here are bits and pieces:
Kim on her singing: “I’m excited where I’m going. I’m so proud of my album.”
NeNe on Kim’s singing: “I heard her sing and I don’t think she can sing.”
Kim on Big Papa: “It’s on again, off again. He’s going through a divorce. He’s legally married.”
NeNe said: “Close your legs to married men. You’re the one lying on everybody. Let me know about something. You said you’d like to beat my ass. I’d like to see that happen!”
Kim: “Grow up! Back your ass up and sit down!” Then: “F* you! Get your finger out of my face!”
“Trashy hooker!” NeNe says of Kim.
“He [Big Papa] is not getting a divorce!” NeNe added.
Fun stuff!
Later, Kim claims at first to have had cancer after losing weight and having her hair fall out. That’s why she wears a wig, she says. But then she backtracks and says she never had cancer. She declined to say what it was but she’s fine now.
“I didn’t know you were sick,” NeNe said, not terribly convinced. “Had I known that, things might have been different. I thought that you wore the hair piece for style.”
Soon after, Lisa, out of seemingly nowhere, calls Kim “a habitual liar. You need medication for it!” (Lisa in an interview posted here on the blog had heard through second-hand sources that Kim was trash talking Lisa and claiming she lost custody of her children to Keith Sweat over drugs. Lisa denied taking drugs. Kim denied ever saying such a thing. None of this context is included in the reunion)
And here’s the Springer quote from Lisa to Kim: “You are pathetic. You have no talent. I feel sorry for you. Screw you! I have nothing to say to you. I’ll flip you over the couch. For real!”
Too bad there wasn’t any actual flipping over of Kim by Lisa. That would have been quite a sight!
Most of the questions were already answered here in the blog by the ladies themselves. But there were some good quotes, especially from Kim and NeNe, of course.
Kim’s age, that she looked older than 29: “I have to agree in some of the footage. ‘Hell! I look 39 with all that makeup caked on my face.”
On Kim misspelling cat: “I messed up. Whatever. I’m human.”
NeNe on representing the “black community”: “I thought we were going to do a show and I didn’t realize it would be so much drama.”
“Kim was playing both sides of the fence,” NeNe said about Sheree and Kim being buds.
On Anderson Cooper loving NeNe: “Anderson. I love you! And call me!”
NeNe has not been in touch with her dad Curtis, who isn’t actually her genetic dad. “I need to heal,” he said. “Curtis should reach out to me.”
NeNe on stripping—she sidesteps it with a joke: “I still strip most nights for Gregg. He loves it. I am a stripper for my husband.”
NeNe on her rack: “I don’t think my boobs sag. I like my boobs a lot!”
DeShawn on how much she spends on her staff: “I don’t know.”
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11/25: Radio promotion at B98.5 & thanks to you, the readers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I wanted to thank whoever was nice enough to vote for me in the Atlanta magazine’s “Best of Atlanta” magazine. I was named “best newspaper columnist.” While I don’t consider myself a columnist and much of my stuff is only here online, I greatly appreciate the sentiment and I will work hard in 2009 to earn your votes again. (And no, I did not solicit a single vote!)
Anyway, B98.5 decided to name its latest Christmas promotion after me: Called “Operation Ho Ho Hope,” Steve & Vikki are collecting holiday cards for Georgia troops stations in Iraq. You can log on at b985.com/steveandvikki/operationhohohope.html to pick a name of a soldier to write a note to.
Cards should be sent to B98.5 FM’s studio (1601 W. Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309).
- Former Conyers resident Jack McBrayer ponders why “30 Rock” isn’t a bigger hit from The Daily Beast:
Why the hell does no one watch your show?
Ahhh! I don’t know! Maybe it’s an acquired taste? Only people in big cities like it? The media elite? When I went home to Georgia recently, I can tell you that not a lot of people were watching it.
