Other than Bravo trying to milk all the $$$ they can get from the "Housewives" franchise, this tour makes no sense:
Want to meet the "Real Housewives" of New Jersey or New York?
Bravo is bringing the ladies from their reality show franchise (including Orange County, Atlanta and Beverly Hills) on the road.
Tickets go on sale Aug. 19.
The tour kicks off on Atlantic City, NJ on Oct. 1, and also stops in Chicago and Atlanta.
"Bravo viewers like to truly engage in the shows they are passionate about," says Ellen Stone, Bravo’s senior vice president of marketing in a statement. "With The Real Housewives Live Tour, we are able to give our fans a unique, hands-on experience with their favorite cast members across franchises that they can't experience anywhere else."
Tickets begin at $49.50. Fans can buy the $170-per-ticket "Red Carpet Package," which allows them to walk the red carpet, sit in "premium" seats and attend a pre-show cocktail party hosted by the reality stars.
Tickets will only be sold to those 21 and older in Chicago and Atlanta.
Gee, that was quick. I mean didn't Vicki just renew her vows with Dom like a year ago? And now she's on her way to being divorced and "in love" with another dude?!? There's something real fishy in the water here:
Very negative publicity and unflattering reports of arrests for a DUI and unpaid child support in tow, Vicki Gunvalson is standing by her man.
In the current issue of UsWeekly magazine, the Real Housewives of Orange County star not only defends beau Brooks Ayers, but also denies she cheated on her estranged husband Donn Gunvalson with him. A report came out a week ago with an ex-girlfriend of Brooks stating Vicki had been involved with him since 2007. Even more puzzling was the handwritten letter Vicki sent to a judge on behalf on Brooks last August, two months before filing for divorce from Donn.
“We never had an affair,” states Vicki, 49 of her romance with Brooks, 44. It however appears Vicki took a page from the book of her BFF Tamra Barney as the UsWeekly article states she has been dating Brooks for the past 8 months. Just when did Vicki file for divorce? Exactly eight months ago in October. Did she start dating Brooks hours days after filing for divorce???
The report of the 8-month romance is even more surprising because when the reports about Brooks first came out, Vicki downplayed their relationship claiming “I’ve only just started dating this guy, we’ve had like three dates.”
Vicki also takes a page out of Gretchen Rossi’s handbook when she denies Brooks was a deadbeat dad despite his two arrests for being just that. “He fell back on payments,” she admits but says he’s paid $100,000 to his ex over a span of years. “Is that a deadbeat dad?” asks Vicki.
And during her Sunday night appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Vicki went a step further when she revealed she is in love with Brooks adding, “I knew everything. There wasn’t any secrets and lies.”
When asked about the hypocrisy of her situation, you know, being that she has called out Slade Smiley for not paying his child support once or twice, Vicki attempted to defend herself. “If the viewers saw me the last year” said Vicki. “I never talked about Slade. It’s his business and his life and I don’t want him in mine.” Well those in glass houses have no business throwing rocks.
Real Housewife of Orange County Vicki Gunvalson is dating a man with a pretty long rap sheet, but in a strange twist it turns out she’s been involved with him for a lot longer than anyone first suspected.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, when Brooks Ayers was arrested twice in 2010 for not paying child support Vicki wrote a letter to the judge asking him to release her friend from jail.
His ex-girlfriend, a woman named Debbie Keane, told RadarOnline.com that she started dating Ayers in 2005 and had a run in with a jealous Vicki way back in 2007, years before Vicki went public with their relationship and while she was still married to Donn Gunvalson.
“I was tagging along on a business trip with Brooks in 2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida and he kept talking about how his friend who was famous was coming to the conference,” Keane said. Sure enough, Vicki arrived at the financial planning group conference and immediately sought Brooks out.
“She sent him a text saying ‘finally here, I need a drink,’” Brooks’ ex said about Vicki.
Debbie said that two nights later she and Brooks were in a bar when Vicki walked in, so she followed her to the bathroom and confronted her about flirting with Brooks. “She told me to mind my own business and then went and told Brooks he needed to ‘keep your girl in check.’”
However, Vicki remembers things quite differently -- when contacted by RadarOnline.com she admitted to having met Debbie at the conference but claims that there was no fight, and in fact that Debbie “was really nice and complimented me on the show and on my outfit.” Vicki also insists that she was at the conference with Donn.
Debbie goes on to make a further, shocking, claim about Vicki and Brook’s relationship though: “In 2009 Brooks was at my house in Memphis when Vicki started texting him while she was away renewing her vows. He told me she was saying that Don was so good to her but she didn’t really care anymore.”
Brooks Ayers, the new boyfriend of Real Housewives Of Orange County star, Vicki Gunvalson, is a ‘deadbeat dad’ who owes thousands of dollars in child support to TWO separate women -- and now we have the mug shot to prove it!
Ayers’ mug shot was taken on August 29, 2010 at the Lee County Jail where he was incarcerated for failure to pay child support.
As RadarOnline.com previously reported Brooks' was arrested twice by police in Alabama and Mississippi last year for failing to meet his child support obligations to estranged wife Kim.
It's claimed he owes about $40,000, in total, to her and another woman: his ex-girlfriend, Nicolette Catanzarite from Indianapolis, IN., with whom he has a son.
Vicki, who last year filed for divorce from second husband Donn after 17 years of marriage, has been stepping out with Brooks on a number of dates, and even leant her famous name to her new beau’s case in a desperate bid to bail him out of his financial disaster.
"I am a personal friend of (David) Brooks Ayers and am acting on his behalf at this time," the reality star wrote in an August 30 letter to a Mississippi judge, pleading for him to be released from jail.
If this is true, it's going to get a little tricky for Tamra to keep going after Slade while her BFF is hooking up with a loser.
While Vicki Gunvalson filed for divorce back in October of last year, it's all now unfolding on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Orange County." And the O.C. housewife has some regrets about how she handled the situation on-camera.
"I hurt Donn a lot by exposing all of the things that I did," Vicki tells E!Online. "Which I never meant to do. The unfortunate part is I started talking to Tamra [Barney] in confidence, and you tend to forget that there's a microphone on and she's like, 'What's wrong with you, what's wrong with you, what's wrong with you? You're not yourself.' And I just started unloading. And the cameras caught it."
Vicki says her divorce isn't final and it doesn't sound as if she has her heart set on making it that quite yet.
"We're very cordial," she says. "We hope we're making the right decision. We're not legally divorced yet. We're in the process, we're doing mediation. I love Donn, I respect Donn, I want the best for Donn. If I'm it, then we'll stay together. If I'm not it, then we won't. Right now we're just proceeding with the separation and that's where we're at right now."
Someone should tweet Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live and ask Andy:
‘How did Vicki Gunvalson manage to hold her ‘annual fall party–the party in the final episode that contains Bravo footage of the Tamra Barney-Jeana Keough ‘brawl’–one day after Vicki left the hospital after her emergency ‘surgery’?’
The following screenshot from TV Guide, the Bravo info on the RHOOC final episode set to be aired Sunday, June 5, at 10 EST, 9 Central.
Wow! That Vicki is one hell of a trooper! Two days after ‘surgery’ in the hospital, Vicki throws a big party at her house. You’d think her BFF Tamra Barney, who, in episode 12, the episode before the final episode, knew Vicki was having trouble with her marriage and who, two days earlier during Alexis Bellino’s fashion show, was freaked out Vicki was in the hospital about to have surgery, would have reconsidered showing up at Vicki’s party with the intention to serve to a cease and desist letter to Jeana Keough? Tamra’s actions leading to a nasty confrontation that turned into a ugly brawl, footage Bravo heavily touted in promos beginning the first episode of season six, the Tamra Barney-Jeana Keough ‘fight’.
According to TV Guide, Bravo will rerun episode 12 on Sunday during the Memorial Day weekend. Episode 12 contained footage of Vicki confiding to Tamra, Vicki wasn’t sure if she could stay in her loveless marriage, and, the footage from the Alexis Bellino fashion show. During the fashion show, footage of the cast members being relatively ‘polite’ until Tamra received a phone call or text message from Vicki, Vicki was in the hospital, ‘hemorrhaging’ and about to go into surgery. (Tamra’s claims.) Missing from the episode the curious lack of Bravo video footage of Vicki’s trip to the hospital. A trip to the hospital, prime Real Housewives’ ‘drama’ footage.
According to court documents Vicki Gunvalson filed for a divorce on October 18, 2010.
Atlanta -- Kim Zolciak. Some of you were probably immediately thinking NeNe Leakes here (who is by far the most entertaining), but we’re going to have to go with Kim. Kim is more ... unsettling crazy. Her smoking, her drinking, her taking advantage of Kandi, her dating women then dating men, her outfit when she recorded "Tardy for the Party"! If you sit down and make a list (like some insane people we know), Kim comes out on top.
New York -- Kelly Bensimon. We must admit, Kelly definitely seems more “sane” this season -- and Sonja Morgan seems more crazy. Actually, Sonja kind of seems like a totally different person, which is a major bummer, because she was our second favorite last season (behind Bethenny Frankel, of course). What’s up with all her diva behavior, pecking order talk, and her forgetting to wear pants?!
However, nothing will ever top Kelly on Scary Island last year, manic and running around with gummy bears. You have to do some other-worldly nutso stuff to top that. And as weird as Sonja’s acting this season (and how odd Ramona Singer is in general), Kelly still has them beat.
Real Housewives of Orange County's Vicki Gunvalson just isn't "woo-hooing" with as much vigor as she used to -- and with good reason.
As a new clip from Sunday's episode shows, the 48-year-old has had it with pals who prod her with relationship questions.
Recounting a dinner party Gunvalson attended with fellow wives Tamra Barney and Peggy Tanous, Gunvalson's husband, Donn, quickly becomes the lead topic of conversation. But when Tanous brings up how lively Donn was at the bash Gunvalson changes the subject.
"Every time someone would bring up Donn, I'd see Vicki get tighter and cringing," says Barney in a voiceover, as Tanous presses for more and her pal finally cracks.
"The reality is, my world is falling apart," the insurance executive -- who wed Donn in 1994 and filed for divorce in October -- laments. "My marriage is falling apart, my security is falling apart, and I'm miserable within my own mind and my body. I don't know where I belong anymore!"
As the couple's rocky romance crumbles on camera, Gunvalson admitted to Us Weekly in March that she and her estranged spouse were still living under the same roof.
"My love tank has truly been empty for many many years," Gunvalson said. "We stopped communicating. My happiness came from my work and my children," she explained of Michael and Brianna, her grown kids from her first marriage.
"I didn't go to Donn for friendship or companionship, and he didn't with me either," she told Us.
The mysterious ex-husband and father to Michael and Brianna, comes out and more than speaks his mind on his ex-wife:
Before I get into his claims, I should reveal that the things he says are on an embittered blog called “Conversations with Wolfy,” the sole purpose of which is to badmouth his ex-wife Vicki Gunvalson and expose her as a very unpleasant person. The blog consists of conversations between “Wolfy” (Michael) and “NiftyK” (His current wife Ellen) with links to anything and everything on the web that has something negative to say about Vicki. So, the source isn’t exactly The New York Times here. But, the things being said by Michael about Vicki are so defamatory that I would think Vicki would have unleashed the legal hounds by now if there wasn’t some truth to it. (Of course it could just mean Vicki doesn’t want to draw any attention to Michael or the blog.)
Anyways, here are some excerpts from Michael Wolfsmith’s blog which suggest Vicki had a long-term affair with Donn and that she was pregnant with Donn’s child prior to having a “procedure.”
From “Tramps and Stamps” on October 21, 2010 NK: She has a pic of Michael and Briana on facebook “MY Wonderful Kids!” Interesting, there’s just the two of them, didn’t Vicki make a trip to California after Briana was born? It was rumored she went to see Donn. W: Yezz NK: Didn’t she suddenly need a “Procedure” about 8 weeks later? W: Yezz
And next Michael suggests Donn and Vicki were having an affair for seven years! (Vicki married Donn a year after divorcing Wolfsmith so there is a bit of complicated math involved)
From “Happy Halloween to all the Zombies out there.” on October 31, 2010 NK: So Vicki is divorcing Donn after sixteen years. W: Don’t forget about the eight years she was seeing him on the side.
And here is more about “the procedure” from December:
From “Ho, Ho, Ho ! ! ! ! Donn!” on December 21, 2010 NK: Well he won’t have to pay CHILD SUPPORT! How old would their “Love Child” be now if she had not gotten rid of it? “Vicki the Christian“? W: Well she went to visit him in California after Briana was born so, what , 21 ? He would be off the hook. NK: You paid for that procedure, huh? W: Oh yeah! She begged me not to tell our parents.
Of course, she does. Is anything ever Droopy's fault? Can't wait till she reveals to the world who exactly kidnapped and forced her to stay on a show that was supposedly causing so much drama to her marriage:
Bravo's hit reality franchise focuses on the lives of "Real Housewives," but is it ending their marriages in the process?
"Orange County" star Vicki Gunvalson filed for divorce from her husband Donn last year, and claims the reality program had something to do with it.
"Six years ago when Donn and I started, we didn't have 90 percent of the problems that we have now and I truly believe it is the show," she tells CNN.
"[W]e had a good foundation. We really felt like we could battle it and the reality was I got too busy for him. My business in itself - I have 400 agents and 12 employees and I'm at the office a lot because I was trying to film TV in there and then he felt deflated… the center of my universe was not my husband," she says. "I didn't have anything left for him and we grew distant. If I didn't have the show I would have had more time for him. That's the reality."
Real Housewives of Orange County veteran Vicki Gunvalson (the only cast member left from the show's very first season) is still keeping it real with UsMagazine.com.
During a recent visit to Us' offices in NYC, Gunvalson, 49, admitted to Us, "I'm going through a midlife crisis."
The evidence? "I've got a convertible, a belly button ring, and I'm getting a divorce!" (Gunvalson and hubby Donn filed for divorce last year after 16 years of marriage.)
Actually, she had a belly button ring -- find out what happened to Gunvalson's piercing (ouch!) at an airport in this video, where she's joined by costars Alexis Bellino, Tamra Barney, and Gretchen Rossi.
n this exclusive chat, the Bravo stars also fess up about what plastic surgery they've had done -- and what they need! "Everybody seems to think i've had so much work done," Bellino tells Us before detailing what procedures she's undergone.
Hard to believe there was once a gentler time in Bravo's sordid "Real Housewives" era - before such women were yanking out one another's hair extensions, sneaking into the White House and inflating tiny grudges into ceaselessly overblown animosities punctuated by overturning tables in one-star restaurants.
Five years ago, in what was supposed to be a larky, reality-TV retort to ABC's fictional hit "Desperate Housewives," Bravo bought into a show in which camera crews hunkered down with five women living in (or very near) a pricey, gated Orange County community called Coto de Caza.
"Really, it's been seven years since they first started following us around," says Vicki Gunvalson. Her son had responded to a producer's search for subjects willing to participate in a documentary-ish look at the privileged lives of Coto teenagers. Instead, the show ended up being about their moms.
"The Real Housewives of Orange County" returns Sunday night for a sixth season, and it doesn't look to be a good one for poor Vicki.
She's on the phone, speaking to us from another sunny Coto day. She's busy at the office, doing Vicki things, between business appointments; keeping herself in the (here it comes) "top 1 percent" of insurance sales agents in the country, whatever that means.
In all, 13 women have rotated through the show, and at one time or another, they've all had something bad to say about Vicki, and vice versa. Since the show began, many of the women on it have split with their husbands. One lost her rich boyfriend to cancer. One left the show to give her family more privacy, including a son who had a drug problem; another left because she was fed up with it. One left under the shadow of eviction and recessionary comeuppance; a current cast member is staving off foreclosure.
Some of these Lost Housewives of Orange County still visit the show in cameo appearances, but only Vicki, who will turn 49 this month, has endured the whole way. This makes her the longest-lasting Housewife on Bravo, an honor of dubious distinction.
Over the years, viewers have watched Vicki cut loose on her party boat at her vacation home in Lake Havasu, Ariz., emitting her trademark cries of "woo-hoo" wherever a margarita could be found. They listened to her talk endlessly about her 12-hour workdays. They watched her needle her layabout son, Michael, into joining the insurance business. They watched her claw and be clawed in the show's usual she said/she said warfare. They watched her complain that her long-suffering husband, Donn Gunvalson, was not "filling up my love tank"; and then they watched her renew her wedding vows with him at a Turks and Caicos beach resort.
It's no secret to gossip-blog readers that Vicki and Donn separated last fall - which looks to provide one of the bigger OMGs of the new season. Vicki won't elaborate on it. "You'll have to watch," she says, ever the good promoter.
Of course, there is some irony that Vicki is the "longest-lasting Housewife" considering how many people (including myself) who can't stand her. But give credit where it's due as she certainly has shared a lot of ups and downs with audiences over the years and yet she's still here...despite what we think. Then too, like I always say in order for a show like 'Housewives' to be successful you need a villain and Vicki has certainly mastered that role to a tee.
Most moms with something to say to their grown children would pick up a phone.
But when your mom is Vicki Gunvalson, one of the “Real Housewives of Orange County,” you get used to having those heart-to-hearts under the glare of TV lights.
Which is why daughter Briana Gunvalson, exhausted though she is from an all-night nursing shift, is coming over for breakfast.
She steers her Mercedes SUV along streets named Polo and Shire en route to her parents’ 5,500-square-foot McMansion inside Orange County’s largest gated community.
She walks into the kitchen, and there is Vicki — along with four people in black shirts who are capturing the scene on video. Episode after episode, Vicki has come to be known as a somewhat bossy, slightly daffy mother and businesswoman whose insurance firm has swelled since she was cast as one of the original “housewives” six years ago.
Right now Vicki is asking 25-year-old Briana why she hasn’t brought over her new boyfriend.
“Mom, you’re a little intense!” says Briana.
“I’ll be low-key,” says Vicki. Pause. “I’ll just check him for tattoos.”
As much as I can't the old scrooge, hears hoping she pulls through ok:
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson has been hospitalized for internal bleeding -- just over a week after filing for divorce from her husband of 16 years, TMZ reported Thursday.
Gunvalson, 47, is in a hospital for observation of upper gastrointestinal problems, according to the entertainment website.
The development comes after the reality TV star filed for dissolution of marriage from her husband, Donn Gunvalson, in Orange County Superior Court last Monday.
It was Vicki Gunvalson’s second marriage. She has a son, Michael, and a daughter, Brianna, from a previous marriage.
The couple’s marital problems had been on display throughout “The Real Housewives,” a reality series which follows the lavish lifestyles of socialite housewives in the gated community of Coto de Caza, Calif.
In one episode, she was seen telling Donn Gunvalson, “My love tank is empty,” and on a cast reunion show last season, she said, “I just don’t feel real happy right now.”
Despite their issues, Vicki and Donn Gunvalson renewed their wedding vows on camera in 2009.
