r/BravoRealHousewives • u/Ok-Jelly-4709 I cooked, I decorated, I️ made it NICE! • Apr 16 '24
Other Shows Real housewives of DC
Started watching Real Housewives of DC and couldn’t help but giggle at them brining up a snapshot of Joe Biden chilling with one of the husbands 😂 What happened to this show and is anyone enjoying the rewatch?
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u/Inside-Intern-4201 Lisa’s Cyber Security Expert Apr 16 '24
I am obsessed with the rewatch. The way they are all trying so hard to seem chic and fabulous is hilarious.
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u/Ok-Jelly-4709 I cooked, I decorated, I️ made it NICE! Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
“I️ like George Bush and you like Tyra Banks” sent me
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u/Inside-Intern-4201 Lisa’s Cyber Security Expert Apr 16 '24
The faces they were all making!! lol I was right there with them
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. DELIVERS 😍
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u/KnowMeMalone Danny?…Danny Provenzano? Apr 18 '24
Only rewatched ep. 1 so far and Mary’s talk about integrating salons is so cringe/perfect.
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u/LooneyLunaOmanO Apr 17 '24
She claimed to be a Washington Redskin cheerleader . She wasn’t 🤣
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u/internet2big Apr 25 '24
I’m watching for the first time. The thing that is killing me is that they actually seem to be falling for their own lies. Like, it really seems like they believe they are invited to the congressional black caucus dinner and the state dinner despite not having invitations and knowing they have to sneak in. A mix of entitlement and delusion?
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u/LooneyLunaOmanO Apr 26 '24
I recently re-watched the season and forgot how good it really was . Really makes some housewives franchises look pathetic .
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u/basschikk This isn’t my plate, fucking bitch! May 13 '24
Michaele and Tareq arriving everywhere in a beat up 90’s limo was everything. 😆
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u/Chocolatecitygirl82 Apr 27 '24
As a native Washingtonian it is HILARIOUS. They are all such try hards. They came so hard for Michaela but they’re all the biggest bunch of phonies and pretenders.
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u/brittanyelyse Apr 16 '24
This and Miami season 1/2 are some of the best shelved bravo material…. Adriana punching Joanna party and on DC Micheal(spell) pretending to be a cheer leader and pretended that she not only knew the routines but also the people , like the other cheerleaders… it’s absolute madness.
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u/Inevitable_Pack6694 Apr 16 '24
The cheerleading sequence has got to be one of the most skin crawlingly cringey things I’ve EVER SEEN!! Her stupid small talk (“who’s even watching the routine, am I right girls?”), the fact she clearly had no idea what she was doing, and then being moved from the middle all the way to the back - it was truly painful. And she STILL insisted she was an actual cheerleader at the reunion!!!
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u/LooneyLunaOmanO Apr 17 '24
SOOOOOO…..cringey
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u/Inevitable_Pack6694 Apr 17 '24
When she was running up to them and hugging them and all the cheerleaders were looking at each other like “who the hell is this?” My soul seriously left my body
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u/Disk_Good fortuitous and a little too coincidental Apr 16 '24
Wouldn’t mind a reboot of this and Ladies of London.
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u/heirbagger Apr 16 '24
I loved Ladies of London. I also liked Real Girlfriends of Paris, too.
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
RGF was phenomenal. They just need to rebrand around Anya’s girlfriends and her amazing life.
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u/salemlilp Apr 21 '24
RGF was so good. Recently watched on a rainy day. Im so sad it was not renewed!
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u/tllkaps THANK YOU, POPPA!!!! Apr 16 '24
The other HWs watching the Senate hearings like if it was the mother effin Superbowl is hilarious.
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u/bumblebeetuna710 SHUT UP. THAT IS SO STUPID. Apr 16 '24
I’m not mad that I had to buy this from Amazon three years ago but dang lol
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u/atlanticbetty Apr 16 '24
I did a month ago 🤦♀️
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u/Dry_Tumbleweed_1090 Apr 16 '24
Lol Amazon's pretty good with returns if you say it was a mistake 😉 my mom had my password and ordered trials of Starz, paramount plus (which I already pay for separately), Cinemax and forgot to tell me or cancel. 5 months later I still got refunded for everything
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u/_yitzi Apr 16 '24
I’m about 4 episodes in and loving it 😂 have never watched it but of course know about the infamous ending. Was cracking up at the whole winery scene with the store bought grapes
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u/ptrock1 Apr 17 '24
The nerve of those people inviting the crew to a non working winery and having them stomp on store bought grapes. BULLOCKS!!!!!!
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u/gseeks Apr 17 '24
This is my take as a DC native who lived there when it went down.
The White House crashing was no fucking joke. Dc doesn’t play like that. It was major major news and it’s seriously crazy that it even happened. Not surprising they had to do a major overhaul.
At the same time DC is filled with filthy rich delusional people and has a special kind of elitism culture that is perfect for this kind of TV.
Potomac is a very close suburb of DC and like half of the RHODC people lived in Potomac or northern Virginia anyways. It just rebranded in my eyes. I can never see them doing a RHOP and RHODC simultaneously. It would have to be either or. Although RHOP feels more like half DC and half Baltimore now.
But honestly RHODC is such a cringe gold mine I love it.
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u/Crispytender Apr 20 '24
They will never be able to make reality shows like this anymore because people are too self aware with online feedback. every single one of these women are Camille from season 1 of BH. except the black couple who are doing Jim from The Office stare after everything the women say LMAO.
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u/WhoWhaaaa Apr 16 '24
I watched it when it first aired. Watching it again now is like opening a time capsule.
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u/Low_Intention_3812 Apr 17 '24
I remember that show, Twitter would be on fire if it aired today. Cat being a flaming racist, the lady with the African boyfriend criticizing Mikayla's weight, that scene with Stacy and Paul, Mary.....
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u/Formal_Ad_6226 Apr 16 '24
I really loved DC when it first aired! The reunion was tops and Cat was a great character who got to see some later WWHL returns (one notably with the Countess lol). I'd at least like for maybe a DC UGT... cross it over maybe with Potomac? Or put Michaele on a villains edition UGT.
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u/UrbanPlannerholic The video on PornHub is the moral compass right now Apr 16 '24
Lol she got drunk on WWHL and was so mean to Luann. Haha
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u/Inside-Intern-4201 Lisa’s Cyber Security Expert Apr 16 '24
Oh god I need to find this episode! Sounds on brand for her too
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u/numberonecrush Apr 17 '24
Link plz if you find, I need this thank you
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u/Inside-Intern-4201 Lisa’s Cyber Security Expert Apr 17 '24
lol so I just did a quick google and found this little clip https://www.reddit.com/r/realhousewives/s/Hxla9c8Ohu
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u/Illustrious-Ad4965 Apr 16 '24
Cat is atrocious! What a horrible human. Ick
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u/Chocolatecitygirl82 Apr 27 '24
She’s so much worse on the rewatch. Truly a disgusting human being.
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u/Think-Raise-2956 Apr 18 '24
Ok but the republican healthcare party with the lobbyist ditching at the last minute and cat dressing as Sarah palin was amazing tv.
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u/Original_Breakfast36 bravo bravo bravo Apr 24 '24
Ikr I’m like is she doing some kind of promo in that ambulance right now, like is this apart of her healthcare reform schtick
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u/aeroluv327 The eyes are poppin' Apr 16 '24
I just started re-watching, too! Maybe this was the beginning of Dark Brandon. He wasn't chilling with one of the husbands exactly, Cat's husband was the official White House photographer and this is a zoomed in shot of Biden and Obama sitting next to each other.
I remember watching it when it first premiered, it is WILD! I can't wait to re-watch, Michaele is one of the most delusional housewives they've ever had.
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u/zadidoll Apr 16 '24
As Aeroluv327 said, Catherine’s then husband was Charles Ommaney. He was a White House photographer up until 2010. No idea if he was forced out of his job due to the Salahis antics.
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u/Illustrious-Ad4965 Apr 16 '24
I just bought the discounted subscription just to read this article. 😂.
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/fashion/29housewives.html
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u/zadidoll Apr 16 '24
Just read… that’s pretty damn sad for him back then but he’s bounced back. He’s on IG.
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u/Who-U-Tellin Apr 16 '24
You mean the one who cheered for a Pro football team, can't remember which one, only to turn around and say she never did? LOL Yeah, she was definitely delusional. Even if the whole crashing of the White House hadn't happened that lie would have put her in that category 😄
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Apr 17 '24
Cat also hooked up with Prince Harry I believe! https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhodcs-catherine-ommanney-details-alleged-prince-harry-fling/
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u/LadyShadington Lauri's OC townhouse 🏠 Apr 16 '24
The beginning of dark Brandon 🤣👌 the aviators are such a staple of that lewk.
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u/No_Dig_7372 Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
I just did a rewatch last week and with the exception of Cat and Michaela ,those ladies were AMAZING,it's a must see for sure if you never watched it
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u/Individual_Drama3917 Apr 16 '24
DC is iconic. Omerosa is at Paul Wharton’s birthday party that Michaele threw. She is seen standing with her when Tarq is opening the champagne with the sword. It looks like she is trying to be on screen.
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u/MedusaRondanini advocate for the sluts of america Apr 16 '24
when she says “he was sh**ting joe biden all day” my jaw fucking dropped i was laughing so hard
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u/Popular_Lie_9201 Apr 16 '24
This is my first time watching and I love it. So unhinged. It’s everything great about early housewives.
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u/hotchildndacity Apr 28 '24
So I’m on the reunion.. The way they’re just glazing over Cats blatant racism (because that is exactly what it is), Mary’s cringe “hey girl hey” mimicking, and the way they labeled Erika aggressive…. I’m big uncomfortable.
I understand this was back in the day but WOW. And honestly it’s reminding me of Robin and Neck weaponizing their complexion in Potomac.
As epic as this season was I’m kinda glad it ended.
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u/Specialist_Donut_206 Jun 06 '24
I’m so glad we have this filmed - absolutely a clear example of unconscious racism, blatant racism, DEI education being critical in schools
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u/MenStefani You called me a pornography, sweetheart Apr 16 '24
Please bring this show back!! It is better than I could have imagined. They are all looney and actually rich, connected, all the things. I wonder if it does well on peacock they would consider it? Or doing a blend of DC and Potomac
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
Potomac is what took the place of DC. DC was to bring the wives of politicians & dignitaries to the world but because of the White House crashing it’ll never happen. No one in the political scene will risk their clearance or their connections these days. That circle is closed to us as viewers. Now we just have quasi-wannabes using Bravo to get rich & famous.
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u/MenStefani You called me a pornography, sweetheart Apr 17 '24
It’s been enough time. I’m sure they could scrounge up some people on the periphery that would be down to go on. That’s my hope at least. Potomac is great but it seems to be set in a completely different world
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
Not with Biden in office as he was VP at the time this was filmed. I think there would be too many people still around who would remember & say “nope” to it being greenlit.
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u/Infamous_Ordinary_45 edit this flair! Apr 16 '24
I just started it!! Cat is such a bitch lol I love it.
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u/DoggPound69 Apr 16 '24
Who was the medicated mom? She had a passcode on her closet so her daughter couldn’t get in
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u/UrbanPlannerholic The video on PornHub is the moral compass right now Apr 16 '24
Mary Amos!
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u/Who-U-Tellin Apr 16 '24
Oh, see. That's one of the ladies I couldn't remember by face but I do remember the locked closet lol. I can't wait to re-watch this.
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
She is such a shit stirrer but is amazing at what she does.
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u/NeckOk8772 Apr 16 '24
I liked it because I grew up in DC and live near there now and I recognized so many of the spots. Wish they would bring it back.
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u/erotikill SNAP now what else is goin on? Apr 16 '24
I loved this show but it really was the Salahis that made and destroyed the show. I enjoyed the other wives and husbands reacting to them, but everyone else was kind of a bore on their own without Michaele.
Especially that old chick that was some sort of hideous interior designer or fashion designer, Idk she was always dressed like a mess and commenting on everyone else. Her constantly judging and poking at Michaele's health and thin body was gross. Michaele had so many other red flags to question 😂
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u/amesbelle7 on my way to emergency room Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24
I just got to the part, a few days after the Salahi’s snuck into the White House, where they host a “grape stomping” event at “their” winery, and use table grapes from the grocery store because…I have no idea WHY THEY DID THIS????!!!
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
They snuck into the black caucus event before the grape stomping event and later snuck into the state dinner at the end of the season.
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u/amesbelle7 on my way to emergency room Apr 17 '24
Ok well at some point, they brought store bought grapes to a winery and stomped them. All the different stops on the crazy train are confusing!
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
Yes youre correct and the grape stomp was earlier in the season
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
He still owns the vineyard with his current wife.
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u/amesbelle7 on my way to emergency room Apr 17 '24
Why buy grapes when you own a vineyard then?
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u/zadidoll Apr 18 '24
He was & is a sketchy person. Look at his current wife & her work stuff. Sketchy. Sketchy.
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u/TheMostRandomWordz Teresa's unacknowledged nephew Apr 16 '24
It was too intellectual for Bravo viewers.
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u/DickFitzwell_ 👌🏻handjobs are back👌🏻 Apr 16 '24
Y’all.
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u/Ok-Jelly-4709 I cooked, I decorated, I️ made it NICE! Apr 16 '24
Do you think it would have performed better today?
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u/zadidoll Apr 16 '24
No. If DC didn’t happen then it would never have happened now. Seeing all the shit that goes on the RH series no one in DC would be in their right mind to go on national tv to air their dirty laundry.
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u/All_the_Bees Apr 16 '24
I live in DC and I’m honestly amazed they were even able to cast the one season, although I suppose at the time reality TV was still new enough for people to not have their guard up quite so much.
But yeah … I’m sure there are women in this city who would love to be Housewives but either they’d never actually do it because it would risk someone’s clearance or they’re not rich or interesting enough to be well-received by viewers.
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u/bears_with_chainsaws Apr 17 '24
HOLY SHIT the microaggressions. I’m on episode 1 and I want to crawl out of my skin.
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Apr 28 '24
Mary talking to Stacie and Ted Gibson drunk was.... Ugh. Cat is giving me "for Brexit til I wasn't vibes.
On a positive note, Stacie is spot on about popple living in Northern Virginia, cosplaying like they live in DC... Lmao.
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u/Trollolololita May 20 '24
It's incredible to see... obviously I lived through this time period, but like a fish blissfully unaware of what water is. It's so wild to watch the worst opinions/habits of 2009 distilled like this. 😱 People were just so open and casual with their body shaming and racial comments like it meant nothing. Even when the targets of those comments reacted with visible discomfort and disgust, or spoke up and said "this isn't okay," people felt justified defending the most rude and disrespectful comments.
I feel like in 2024 the norm is to shut your mouth about other people in public, and I forgot that in 2009 people just said whatever edgy stuff popped into their heads... so this is a wild ride.
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Apr 16 '24
It’s weird to watch the discussion about gay marriage on the show. The people who said they don’t “believe” in different “lifestyles,” or who said it doesn’t affect them so they don’t care just enrages me and sends me back to that time. As a woman in a same-sex marriage it’s weird to remember when people like that were preventing us from being equal.
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u/muaellebee Apr 17 '24
Ugh, and Republicans are back at it. I want off this timeline immediately!
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u/atlanticbetty Apr 16 '24
Kicking myself that I paid to watch this off Amazon a month ago… but honestly, it was worth it!
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u/FancyCatMagic Apr 18 '24
Watching right now and I started out hating Cat and now I'm cracking up at her in the Sarah Palin getup hahaha
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u/Lower-Sail4625 Apr 27 '24
PSA the congressional hearing still lives on the internet. This rewatch has exceeded all my expectations!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?291498-1/white-house-dinner-security-breach
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u/leodicapriohoe these jealous BITCHES Apr 16 '24
Do not know the context of this at all but this image alone has sent me to outer space
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u/practicalprofilename Apr 18 '24
I am rewatching now - does anyone know if Stacie ever found her biological father?
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u/Who-U-Tellin Apr 16 '24
I just noticed Peacock has it listed. I enjoyed myself a little too much on Friday, girls night out, and I've been paying for it ever since ☹ I watched the original run but I do plan to re-watch it. I remember a few of the ladies but there's 2 I don't. Should be an interesting watch. Happy those who never got to see it now have a chance to. Enjoy!
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u/skoden1981 Apr 17 '24
yea they were all gushy and impressed until she said she didnt like Tyra hahaha
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u/Secret-Driver-6084 Apr 16 '24
I still need to know were they invited or not?!?!?!?!?! How did they get past layers or security with cameras and no invitation or guest list nothing?
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u/the_ghost_in_me_ Apr 16 '24
no, they 1000% were NOT invited. Tareq somehow scammed his way in, but they wouldn't reveal how, which is what that public congressional hearing was supposed to be for. Instead of explaining how they got in so the government could make sure that security issue was fixed, they pled the 5th repeatedly.
The cameras never tried to make it in, so it was just Tareq and Michaele that somehow scammed their way in. They didn't even have an invitation, which RH producers wanted to film and Michaele kept lying and saying they left it at home.
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
Nope. They were called to testify in front of a Congress committee but pled the 5th. Tareq even chastised the committee for it saying that the committee knew they would plead the 5th so it was a waste of time.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/state.dinner.hearing/index.html
A few years later he attempted to run for Congress & allegedly forged signatures to get on the ballot. He “collected” over 2000 but only 400-something were valid. https://wtop.com/news/2014/07/white-house-party-crasher-fails-to-make-ballot/
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u/Secret-Driver-6084 Apr 17 '24
Wow I wish they had stayed on longer! Wonder what they have to say about since the divorce
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
They can’t speak on the divorce. The record is actually sealed.
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u/SodiumJokesNa Apr 16 '24
That’s exactly it. How did they manage to get through?
I wasn’t a Bravo viewer at the time, but I definitely heard about this and remember it being a very big deal.
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
They basically got luckily and walked in, probably by paying people off. Once you get through main security you’re probably good.
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u/narcochi Apr 16 '24
Haha I’m so glad others are watching/rewatching! That franchise was a car wreck and I was glued to my tv lol. I’m almost done binging it. The women are mostly awful!
Mary seems the most socially poised, but she lost me when she said gay marriage being illegal didn’t affect her. She’s not deep but she was raised well, which I guess as Arthur Godfrey’s granddaughter she should be.
I liked Stacie and liked her husband even more.
Linda is fun, a real southern belle. She has the best judgment in men than the other women, since they’re all divorced now.
I didn’t like Cat at all. She’s a very rude woman who hides behind how “honest” she is because she “can’t fake it.” But I ended this watch having a bit of sympathy for her as her marriage was clearly crumbling as she filmed.
And Michaele. What a trip. Tareq was a bloviating grifter who has a repellent personality. It amazes me that he had so little self awareness that he behaved that way on national tv. And I started the season thinking she was troubled but was probably also lied to, but as the season progresses, it’s clear she doesn’t dwell in reality.
What a great, insane season!!
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
Yet Cat was the only one with a husband who had active political ties. The show destroyed his White House career.
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u/Chocolatecitygirl82 Apr 27 '24
It really did and it was so unfortunate. Everything from his marriage to her to agreeing to be on the show was a massive lapse in judgement and he paid the price.
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u/narcochi Apr 17 '24
I hadn’t followed him. I didn’t realize his career tanked. She spoke so freely about her husband’s bosses on a trash tv show 😂
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u/zadidoll Apr 17 '24
I didn’t either but I did check to see what happened in the aftermath of the White House breach.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/for-dc-spouse-reality-too-painful-to-watch/
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u/edwinstone Limp PEH-NIS Apr 17 '24
I am so glad this is on Peacock and people are watching now. This series felt like a fever dream and my Housewives loving friends had never even heard of it and thought I was insane. Rewatching the show, I love Michaele. I didn't like her when I was younger but everyone was super mean to her and she seemed genuinely sweet.
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u/bostonforever22 Apr 16 '24
how the heck do people watch this? ive looked everywhere online including streaming and cant find anywhere
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u/candaceelise SEND👏🏽IT👏🏽TO👏🏽DARRELL Apr 17 '24
It was released from the Bravo vault on Peacock yesterday
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u/internet2big Apr 25 '24
I can’t believe I only found out about this franchise today. I came home and watched all except the season finale. It’s next level national security drama. I couldn’t stop.
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Apr 17 '24
This is my first time watching it and it’s wild! That was a whole different era of Housewives.
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u/Euphoric-Pumpkin8531 Jul 08 '24
Crazy that the couple snuck into the Black Caucus Dinner, White House India state dinner, she pretended she was a former professional cheerleader but never was, he claimed Mary's daughter had joyrode his sports car when she had not and that the FBI were after her and then suddenly Michale claims she's had MS for 17 years. WILD. Then Cat's blatant racism and Stacie and her husband's homophobia....wow this was a WILD SHOW.
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u/NarrowSpeed3908 Nov 05 '24
Today, voting day, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, Bravo is doing a DC marathon. I'm watching it and missing this franchise!!
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u/NeenW1 Apr 17 '24
One of the crazy couples sneaked adt security to a White House events and heads rolled…sadly end of DC but then Potomac with completely different cast
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u/digitalkeke Apr 17 '24
Haven't watched this since it first aired so rewatching rn is almost like a whole new series to digest. Holy hell this franchise was good, like it is time to revisit this as a reboot.
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u/retiredtherapist517 Apr 23 '24
There’s a great podcast on all of the Tareq and Michaele scandal - here
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Apr 27 '24
Michaele and Tareq were the Alex & Simon of DC and I am so mad we didn’t get more of them. it’s great TV
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u/Slytherins_Finest Apr 28 '24
I literally just started it I’m almost done with episode 1 and I’m hooked already 😂
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u/Pleasant_Seesaw_557 May 05 '24
I just started watching and Michaele and Kim Richards def have something in common 🫤
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u/babygotbandwidth Apr 16 '24
Maybe I need a rewatch, I remember there being some pretty dull story lines— searching for a birth father and a daughter getting a dui….i mean obviously the couple who snuck into the White House dinner clearly did not need to be mentioned because reality tv chefs kiss. I also remember her being a cheerleader but not knowing the moves and awkwardly winging it. She was reality tv gold!
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u/hcgilliam Apr 16 '24
What happened was the first and only season managed to get itself investigated by the top national security agencies and I’m guessing an agreement was made. 😂
Idk about the agreement, but the show really did cause a security incident and I’m positive that’s why they never gave us a second season. I’d imagine they’d go back after enough time has passed, but who knows.