For you NeNe Leakes fans, this was a virtually NeNe-free episode. Sorry.
The spotlight was instead on Kim Zolciak and Kandi Burruss.
Kandi finished Kim’s new single “Tardy for the Party.” We hear Kim sing in the studio. And believe me, it’s not very good. But Kandi’s producers manage to make her sound passable with Mr. AutoTune around to help.
The bigger news: Big Poppa showed up before Kim’s birthday party and gave Kim an engagement ring. The only glitch: he’s still married. But Kim happily shows off the ring to everyone in sight (including Q100’s Jeff Dauler, who gets two seconds of airtime.)
“He had time to evaluate,” Kim said. “He couldn’t live without me. Can’t blame him!” (Kim’s former publicist Jonathan Jaxson claims it’s over between the two of them again. Kim a couple nights ago wouldn’t talk about it.)
Sheree Whitfield shows up at the party and plays nicey-nice. "We've been trying to bury the hatchet," Kim said. "I think she was making an effort to be friends again." And she likes the song, which is introduced at the party.
Kandi is uber-nervous about her first singing appearance in years in Atlanta at Tongue & Groove. “Atlanta is a very critical city,” she said. “If people come out and I’ma hot mess, oh, lord, it’s not going to be good.”
But in the end, she’s fine. She sounds great. The only glitch: Kim’s mysterious disappearance. (I’m going to call her later and see what the deal was there because the show keeps everyone in the dark on her absence.) Earlier in the show, Kim said, “Kandi supported me when nobody else did. You bet I’m going to support her” by showing up.
Most snide remark of the night, courtesy of Lisa Wu Hartwell, about Kim not being there: "Maybe she caught some disease."
NeNe’s only appearance early on featured her “tripping” over the night before’s confrontation with Kandi and Kim. She continuedto try to justify her anger toward Kandi, though it was pretty flimsy rationale, something about her looking at her funny.
In other plotlines
-Lisa’s hubby Ed is trying to pitch a talk show and mock interviews Lisa.
-Sheree preps for her fashion show, getting Dwight to help out. She goes to New York and critiques her seamstress. “Uh oh,” the poor seamstress says as Sheree complains.
Choice quotes:
“She’s a lowdown monkey with a wig on. Kim is a monster.” – NeNe said early on to Lisa.
“Oooh! That’s far!” – Dwight, when he hears Sheree is holding her fashion show at the W at the Perimeter. I guess Dwight doesn’t go OTP very often, eh? That’s about three blocks OTP.
Restaurants/clubs featured: Aja, Tongue & Groove, Twist.
Teasers for next week: Kandi meets with record producers. NeNe holds a high heel run for her Twisted Hearts Foundation. Lisa checks to see if she’s preggers.
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