Monday, January 11, 2016

The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 8 Episode 10 Recap: Family Feuds

On The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 8 Episode 10, family drama dominated as a series of feuds came to a head in the ATL.


Mama Joyce confronted Phaedra Parks, Porsha Williams confronted her sister, and Kenya Moore debated taking on her own mother …



When The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 8 Episode 10 kicked off, it looked as if Mama Joyce had finally accepted Todd Tucker.


Has a result, she’s been largely absent this season.


Well, if you watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta online, you know Kandi Burruss is beefing with Phaedra, and that calls for Mama J.


Following a “surprise” visit by her adversary’s maternal unit at work, Phaedra tried to downplay the entire feud as a big “misunderstanding.”


Mama Joyce, it turns out, actually came in peace – pot stirring peace as it might be – and even asked for Parks’ help party planning.


Kandi’s having baby shower, after all, and her mother’s primary concern is her health, not Phaedra or Todd or some exercise video.


Speaking of which, that was finally put to bed as well.


Putting her relationship with Kandi first, and for the sake of moving on, she pays Todd the $ 8,425 even though she hates doing it on principle.


Meanwhile, Kenya put together a family reunion with her dad in Detroit, and tried to connect with her mother as well. After 40 years.


After much buildup, her mom did not answer, literally.


“This is the last time I will extend myself,” Kenya said.


It’s truly sad. Finally, Porsha Williams was upset that her sister Lauren isn’t as involved with all her companies now that she’s pregnant.


Porsha, in typical Porsha fashion, went way overboard with her treatment of this issue and admitted later she was resentful. Ya think?


Her sister apparently keeping the pregnancy from her so long was the real trigger for Williams’ resentment, not her business ventures.


“It wasn’t that I didn’t feel the need,” Lauren told her sibling. “Given your situation, I felt like if I told you, you’d feel some kind of way.”


What kind of way? Porsha told the cameras herself:


“It’s like watching someone else live your dream.”


One can’t deny this about Porsha Williams: Bravo will never again think about knocking her down a peg to “friend” status at this rate.

Ricky Gervais Said WHAT to Mel Gibson at the Golden Globes?!?

Following his controversial monologue to open the 2016 Golden Globe Awards, we asked whether or not Ricky Gervais went too far.


And we can think of one person who would most definitely answer in the affirmative.



In his most awkward (and funniest!) moment as host of the Golden Globes on Sunday evening, Gervais was tasked with introducing Mel Gibson, an outcast in Hollywood after past drunken tirades against Jews and women.


He was making an appearance at the ceremony, however, to present a trailer for best drama nominee Mad Max: Fury Road because he starred in the original version of that film franchise.


Gervais, of course, tackled these famous Gibson scandals head-on, referencing the star’s wasted behavior, along with jokes he made at the actor’s expense at host in 2010.


“I wasn’t judging him, but now I find myself in the awkward position of having to introduce him,” Gervais said. “I blame NBC for this terrible situation.”


In his best quip of the night, Gervais added:


“Mel blames, we know who Mel blames.”



As for Gibson?


“Mel has forgotten all about it, that’s what drinking does,” continued Gervais, who then searched for something nice to say about the alleged woman beater and concluded:


“I’d rather have a drink with him than Bill Cosby.”


Once Gibson arrived on stage (to tepid applause), he got in a shot of his own, saying immediately of Gervais:


“I love seeing Ricky every three years because it reminds me to get a colonoscopy.”


But it’s safe to say the comedian had the last laugh.


Beer in hand, he returned to the stage, sidled up to Gibson and asked:


What the f-ck is sugar tits?


That would be a reference to what Gibson supposedly screamed at a female police officer after getting arrested for drunk driving in 2006.


And this would be how Alan Cumming reacted upon Gervais bringing this topic up in front of millions of people:



Simply amazing all around.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 11 Episode 8 Recap: Failure to Launch

On Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 11 Episode 8, the famous gals jetted to New York City to launch their respective websites.


What surprises awaited them on the East Coast?



Picking up where we left off last week, Keeping Up with the Kardashians Season 11 Episode 8 found Tyga stirring up drama … again.


No, we didn’t see Kylie Jenner confront Tyga’s side piece, but you know how these reality shows go – they lag real life by months. Patience.


If you watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians online, you know how T-Raww has been causing some tension with Kylizzle’s famizzle.


This week, he kept that pattern alive and well by rolling to Kylie’s Galore party in NYC … and demanding that they hit a different club.


“Kylie, that’s f–ked up,” Khloe said, while Kim came at Kylie personally: “I’ve heard from a couple people that you’re kinda a diva on set.”


“People love working with me, because I’m on time, I’m so professional, I get it done,” Kim added, implying Kylie is … not those things.


To her credit – and perhaps Kim’s, for getting her teenage ass in gear – Kylie ended up crushing it during Kanye West’s NYFW show.


Kylie wasn’t the only sister taking friendly fire for slacking; Kourtney Kardashian’s app, as you may recall, launched after her sisters’.


Kourt, we’re told, flaked on some important meetings, and “trying to shift the blame as to why her app is late is delusional,” Khloe opined.


“The truth is, Kourtney dropped the ball.”


The 36-year-old mother of three tried to play the kid card, but Kim retorted, “Everyone in life has a baby and they work, like, 10 jobs.”


Kourtney, you’re not special. Sorry.”



Ouch. To be fair, Kim’s own behavior while pregnant been rubbing people the wrong way lately, as Jonathan Cheban knows all too well.


She asked him to drop off a urine sample at her doctor’s office, which he ended up doing – what a guy – but not without calling her out.


Jonathan will be appearing on Celebrity Big Brother (UK) thanks in part (entirely) to his friendship with Kim, so he can’t stay too mad.


Even if he has to fetch the occasional cronut. #blessed


It wouldn’t be an episode of Keeping Up without an update on The Lord, and it looks like we’re at the point where relations are thawing.


Scott Disick is slowly but surely making his way back into Kourtney’s life, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be “back” on like they once were.


He’s great with the kids. But to Kourt, that’s good enough:


“Like, I just don’t know if there’s a day when Scott would get it together, and be changed, be a partner … someone I can depend on.”


“He’s none of those things right now. I’m not waiting.”


On a lighter note, Kris and her boyfriend, Corey Gamble, got into a heated debate over films, and boy was she taken to task over cinema.


“You’ve never seen Boyz n the Hood. You never seen Friday,” Corey said. “You didn’t have the right African-American man in your life.”


Kris’ response? That Corey hadn’t seen Mary Poppins. And that “your movies are all, like, they star Eddie Murphy.” Alright then, Kris.


Speaking of the KUWTK matriarch, she had the line of the night after we learned that Kim Kardashian uses a body double (!) while pregnant.


This caused her enterprising Momager to interject: “Is the body double gonna start eating beignets, because she needs a bigger ass.”


Kris Jenner, everyone. We’re not worthy …


Ricky Gervais Monologue: Did He Go Too Far?

You know what you get when you hire Ricky Gervais as an awards show host.


And the Golden Globes especially knows what it is going to get, considering it has hired Ricky Gervais as host four times now.


You"re going to get a host who has no problem taking aim at pretty much anyone at Hollywood, along with someone who sometimes focuses on very easy targets with supposedly "edgy" shots and insults.


And that"s exactly what he did to open the 2016 Golden Globe Awards.


"It"s only right that NBC hosts this awards show," Gervais said early on in his monologue.


"They’re the only network that’s truly fair and impartial, and that’s because they’re the only network with zero nominations. So … nothing in it for "em tonight. They don’t care, obviously."


That was pretty funny.


But Gervais later made multiple jokes at the expense of women in Hollywood and how they are paid less than their male counterparts.


Most controversially of all, he used a woman"s death as a source of humor.


"I"ve changed," he says in the following video.


"Not as much as Bruce Jenner, obviously. Now Caitlyn Jenner, of course. What a year she"s had. She became a role model for trans people everywhere, showing great bravery in breaking down barriers and destroying stereotypes.


"She didn"t do a lot for women drivers, but you can"t have everything, can ya?"


That final quip is a reference to a fatal car accident that took place in February, when Bruce was behind the wheel in a crash that actually took a woman"s life.


Did Gervais go too far by making light of this tragedy? Or is anything fair game when you"re a comedian?


Watch the monologue below and give Gervais an overall grade now:


Ricky gervais monologue did he go too far