ReWives ReRant: The Power of the Sidepiece

Published Dec 14, 2022, 5:00 AM

Find out which house husband Bethenny adds to her Mount Rushmore Husbands edition, deeming him so important to the franchise that his wife was merely more of an accessory! 

Plus, Bethenny reveals the next Housewife on Mount Rushmore... Hint: She is responsible for Bethenny meeting her ex…

Yeah, so I talked about Teresa Judice being on Mount Rushmore. I need to say that when someone's been announced first, it doesn't mean that they are more iconic than the other Mount Rushmore housewives. It just means someone who to me undeniably needs to go on there. I could have said the second person as well, and then it made me realize that there are men, there are house husbands that are iconic and should be on the Mount Rushmore of house husbands, and I have a criteria. It has to be someone who adds to the sauce. They add some sort of a zipper spice. They're not just a side piece to the character that's been hired for the show. It's the real housewives of Blank City, and their partners are often accessories, meaning there the main character is the main character, and their kids and their husband is sort of an accessory. I'm also going to do the Mount Rushmore of house children because this is the same concept. It means who else is driving their own story, creating their own drama, and your eyes glue to that person and they can. It's like there are stars that can carry a movie themselves. They can just headline a movie, carry it and get ratings. There are people like that also on reality television, and then there are house husbands. It was intended to be a secondary supporting character that could hold a scene and your attention and you're not fast forwarding through on their own. They could sit in that interview chair on their own because you're interested in what they have to say. You may not like them, they may not be up to your moral standards, but for whatever reason, your eyes are glued to them in the screen and the drama and the entertainment that they provide. So with that criteria in mind, my second Mount Rushmore house husband is Simon van Kempen. You're like, wait for it, take a bait. No one would have predicted that. Here's the reason why he created drama. Think him crashing girls night with Ramona getting crazy asking why he would think that he could be on a girl's night and are they co dependent? And them him and him and he wore like a a banana hammock. I think it was like an animal print bathing suit. Correct me if I'm wrong. In sembach st Bark, he drove story on his own. It's arguable, like Joe Gorga, he could be more entertaining than the primary character. It's the sum is greater than it's parts. Alex and Simon or the housewife. Melissa and Joe were the housewife, So Simon himself deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. He performed on Watch What Happens live on his own, singing a song in red leather pants. Right. Think about that. He was live tweeting. He would text Andy and have gripes about the series and what was going on. He himself is the main character. When he was on, your eyes were drawn to him. You may hate him, people liked him, people hated him. It doesn't matter. He had his own scenes. He was the manager of a hotel. We we knew that. You don't get that from just You didn't get that from Mario. Mario was an accessory. Simon was a main character. Simon is my second Mount Rushmore house husband choice from the Real Housewives franchise. Understand, I don't watch Miami. I haven't seen Dallas or Potomac or d C or Salt Lake, so I'm skewed. If you're seeing something that I'm not seeing, Listen, make an appeal in re Wives Court and I'll go back and look at footage because I don't know those shows that intimately it is. I am also jaded and thinking that this is a lot of the old school. The drama wasn't the same level, so I'm partial to the old school content. So based on that, you need to know that that is my second choice for Matt Rushmore. But I don't think in seeing any of those shows, based on the press, based on the clips, based on the media, that any of those husbands hold a candle to Simon as a Housewives character. The Rushmore choices are not in any particular order, meaning it's not a favorite, and one is not more of a Rushmore than the other. They're just I'm just doing them m arbitrary, really doing it in this order. Ninie Leaks is an iconic o G housewife. Needy Leaks deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. We're talking about a woman who has paved the way and laid the groundworks and is an iconic housewife. I'm saying the facts that Needy Leaks is undeniably one of the people that contributed to the success of the Housewives franchise, and like Teresa, has been polarizing, has been entertaining, has been funny, has driven story, has been loved, can handle, and is strong enough to be hated. Is iconic. She is arguably the funniest housewife ever. Teresa's funny Nani is hysterical. And she was there in the beginning. And I say this too because we talked about people like Porscho work wildly entertaining, and she's a star in her own right. There were people that did lay the groundworks because they were walking into something that they hadn't seen in US Weekly. They hadn't seen clips from They hadn't seen other people entertain and dress and get glam and and flip table so they could then top it in seasons later. They were people cast into a show, paid peanuts to do something no one had ever done before, and no one understood this was a new genre that would become a cultural phenomenon in the zeitgeist. So you got to give extra credit to people like Simon van Kempen that were there in the beginning, to people like Theresa that were there in the beginning, to people like Vicky gum Wolson. In the beginning, they hadn't seen someone throw a leg onto the dance floor. They hadn't seen Erica Jane where head to toe Gucci, then have Dorit start doing it and start making crazy diamond hairstyles and full glam squads. This was the beginning. This was when you wore a kashmere sweater and a shitty outfit you pull from your closet to a reunion and did your own hair makeup half the time. This was not after years of getting savvy and smart and reading and studying the playbook to then come from j I and were gone with the wind gala gown. Because you've seen it done for hundreds of women before Nini walked in in her own living room, was doing shitty lighting housewives interviews with no HD and there didn't exist Twitter. I was fucking making people laugh their asses off. You wanted raw truth, humor, entertainment, and homemade, not manufactured, big b roll helicopter shots in Morocco. It was like just a fucking homemade garage band puppet show that was entertaining that she presumably was making seven thousand dollars a year to the first season. She was a nobody, but she brought it and she was Andy Cohen's favorite housewife because I remember I was not shiny and brand new, and they came in and Andy was taking I didn't find it from Andy, but Nani told me this is this is behind the scenes t I pop off with the skinny girl Margharita. This brand, the brand f Angelico paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars to do a promotional thing. And it was at the Plaza and they were going to have warrant Tricomi that salon do an event for me. Why they were involved, I don't know. It was at their salon or something. It was the night I met my ex husband Um. I was at the Plaza hotel. I don't know how I knew Niny or we had met through this situation and she texted me she was in town. Or I invited her, I don't know how, and she stopped by with two girlfriends. She said she had to leave because Andy had invited her to be his plus one at an event. You didn see Andy inviting me to be a plus one. She was his new favorite shiny toy. She was the favorite. She was bringing in the ratings, the press like she was needy leak. She was. It was iconic vintage Ninny leaks. That night I was trying to be a hot stepper at this event with her two friends. It were really nice and I invited them out. I went to a Gotham Magazine event with them and as a surprise, Beyonce performed. Fucking Beyonce performed. They thought it was the coolest bitch in town. I don't know why it happened. It was like two fifty people. Beyonce performed. Don't ask me why Beyonce performed? Was she on the cover? I don't gotta be. And then I took them out to Um to a club called ten June and they wouldn't let them. They wouldn't let us in. I know the people there and they're like, we'll let you and won't let them in. My hand to God, they will confirm the story. We then went to St. K Steakhouse next door. They were having a great time. We're having a great night. We've seen Beyonce. We were buzzing it up, drinking. I had been. I thought I was cool. I didn't event I was paid all this money. We were at St K, which is above ten June. It was driving me fucking nuts that they didn't let them in on everything. I hope to be. I texted the guy the two one of the two owners, and I said, and he wasn't at the door. He didn't know anyth about it. I I said, listen to me, if those two girls look like me, you would have let them in. I said, you get that bouncer to let us in because we're coming back in. They were like, we're fine, we're having fun. STK was playing great old school music. We're having a great time. It was just driving me nuts. It was bothering me. Walked back around. They let all three of us and we went into ten Juniors for their anniversary. It might have been year anniversary, two years anniversary. I don't know their anniversary party. And this photographer took a picture of me. And that's when my ex walked up to me and he said, are you ready to get the stick out of your grass and dance? And I met him that night. If it weren't for Needy Leaks and Andy, if it weren't for Andy Cohen inviting Needy Leaks with him, me taking her two friends out that night going to ten June, the two women I was with not being let in the door, me raising a stink making them let us in the door. Us going downstairs, me meeting my ex. There'd be no Brant. I wouldn't have been married, I wouldn't have had a ten year divorce. All that ship wouldn't have happened. But it's all because of the Rushmore. Unintentionally. You need didn't know any of this would happen, but it was because Needy such an iconic Rushmore housewife. But she was Andy Cohen's plus one. It happened for seats and all

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